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  1. Re:Boring on Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Next they'll take the player out of Hockey saying it was too dangerous.
    Robotic hockey might be amusing, but it's just not the same.

  2. Re:In Korea ... on Is The C Programming Language Declining In Popularity? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, I remember thinking the same thing about Assembly and Machine code, but my dad made a living at it for decades.
    In university(in the 1980's) one of my advisors told me not to take C.
    He said it was a fad and would never catch on.

  3. Re:I can do that right now, on Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S8 Smartphone Could Run a PC - Report (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been using OTGs for year and love them. Mouse, Keyboard, DSLRs
    I don't understand why they aren't more widely used.

  4. I don't like either of the other two, but yes, they are both significant improvements.

  5. Re:Incomplete title... on Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    and how is this different than Slashdot?
    the same people post the same one sided political material.
    the same people try to dominate political "conversations" by insult, profiling and stereotype. ,,, ,,
    ,
    just feeling nostalgic for news for nerds.

  6. Re:Windows As A Service? on Microsoft To Release Two Major Windows 10 Updates Next Year (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it has everything you need but,,,

      http://www.freecadweb.org/

    https://www.youtube.com/result...

  7. Re:Catching up to Apple on Microsoft To Release Two Major Windows 10 Updates Next Year (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    +1

  8. tired of being second on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    The story I had heard was that they had an argument and she said she was tired was always coming second.
    so he put her name first.

  9. Re:Nothing new on Apple To Encourage Organ Donation With Health App (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    News?
    this should be a stephen king movie!

    organ iphone app gets hacked and one by one users having "accidents".
    their bodies end up in an under-ground disassembly plant.

  10. Re:78% of Crapdot stories are worse now on Study: 78% of Resold Drives Still Contain Readable Personal or Business Data (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    The source is bias, but using a second hand drive is as bad for the buyer as it is for the seller.
    old data could be exploited.
    back doors/exploits could be pre-installed.

    it isn't worth it.
    storage is cheap, buy new from a reputable source.

  11. Re:Pre-installed apps on $4 Android Smartphone From India To Begin Shipping Next Week (ndtv.com) · · Score: 2

    let me know when it's supported by cyanogenmod

  12. This is desperately needed every where.

  13. it was a joke.

    I'm more of a debian guy myself, but fedora is good too.

  14. Re:WinXP Patch? on BadTunnel Bug Hijacks Network Traffic, Affects All Windows Versions (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    just upgrade to Win 10 and everything will be ok.
    let go of your old OS and let MS set you free.

    for a limited time only.

  15. Re:Can we stop indulging the special kid please? on WHO: Drinking Extremely Hot Coffee, Tea 'Probably' Causes Cancer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Celsius' original scale had 100 as freezing and zero as boiling.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  16. i was wondering if hot food was a problem too then.

  17. Re:Tom Corbet Space Cadet on What Star Trek Owes To Robert Heinlein · · Score: 1

    Sooner or later someone will post this so,,,.

    Space Command (1953)
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...

  18. GBSD on Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    does this mean they will replace GWX with a Get FreeBSD button?
    I might give that a try.

    I have run a bsd in a while.

  19. He's not the first to bring this up.
    I think last time it was neil degrasse tyson.

    I consider it an interesting thought experiment.

    what I wonder is, does that make us the players or the npc's?
    how could we tell?

  20. Re:Escape? on Microsoft Removes the 'X' From Windows 10 Update Leaving No Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    there is always a choice. there is always a path to escape.

    one of many.
    http://cdimage.debian.org/debi...

  21. Re:in soviet russia we overprice you! on Windows Zero-Day Affecting All OS Versions On Sale For $90,000 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    But GWX is free until July

  22. Re:This is why the diesel scandal is a joke on The World's Largest Cruise Ship and Its Supersized Pollution Problem (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    you would think that they could apply some form of modern sailing tech like the Maltese Falcon.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    it won't completely remove the need for engines, but it would reduce power requirements.

  23. Re:FM radio's last gasp? on Campaign Demands Telecoms Unlock the FM Radio Found in Many Smartphones (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    my current phone is not a carrier branded phone.
    I bought it on amazon.
    it has a number of features that would have been blocked or deleted on a branded phone.
    it also is lacking the bloat that the carriers install on top android.

    it's definitely the way to go.

  24. Re:Luxury! on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 1

    my first computer games were on a PDP-11.
    you could do a lot with ascii.

  25. Re:Another solution on 'Recommended' Windows 7 Update Is Breaking PCs With ASUS Motherboards (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    apt-get install imagemagick