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  1. Can someone be useful on South Park's Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo (maxim.com) · · Score: 1

    Alexa: "How did South Park prank you?"

  2. Screw that, give me a demo bot on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    50 foot tall and takes a house out in 10 minutes. That's what I want.

  3. 9% market share on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, that is actually right around what I would have guessed.

    The only time I use Bing is when Firefox screws up and somehow changes the default from Google to Bing. Now someone tell me why this keeps happening so I can fix it and get that 9% down to 8.9% for the rest of world.

  4. Be cool like Fonzy on The Docx Games: Three Days At the Microsoft Office World Championship (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    PC gaming has officially jumped the shark!

  5. This basically means that tere needs to be a federal DB of all signage in the USA. Along with requirements that any removals, additions and modifications to such signs be made in real time. Then toss on a manual auditing system to inspect areas for correctness. You could even have cars report any conflicting data to authorities.

    This is fixable but it needs to be done governmentally.

    Now for hands free driving, please advance the development of robot sex workers.

  6. Does Wal-Mart allow you to connect to wi-fi? on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 1

    I ask because they are very kind to people with busses and truckers. They actually welcome them to sleep in their lot overnight and provide free coffee in the morning from what I understand.

    Why do they do this? Because these people then go get their short term needs at Wal-Mart. Need milk, bread, a small grill, etc, it's right there.

    See if Wal-Mart allows use of their Wi-Fi.

  7. DL the movies! on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 1

    FWIW: You can download a lot of the Netflix movies when connected to wifi. Just tell them to pick movies ahead of schedule.

    And what band?

  8. Powered by human feces to make it a green ship!

  9. And your source from Intel's R&D department saying they having started years ago is?

  10. Re:Now what about support for unsigned values for on Modularity Finally Approved For Java 9 (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean unassigned? I so read up on autoboxing.

    Autoboxing is the automatic conversion that the Java compiler makes between the primitive types and their corresponding object wrapper classes. For example, converting an int to an Integer, a double to a Double, and so on. If the conversion goes the other way, this is called unboxing.

    If you use Integer classes instead of int primitives, you can assign null. But mathematical operations on those classes are still written like primitives.

  11. This is their opportunity to do something drastically different. They don't need Hollywood script witers. They need video game script writers. And do some thing cool with this. Make an antagonist and protagonist that are both likable people. And let people choose to cheer on the bad guy!

    The other twist is to target people age 13-25 with this. Make it sci-fi based or involving technology. Bring back Sarah Connor!

  12. Sadly, the fridges will probably need to by connected In the future as the control systems will become OS driven, thus needing patches. #IHateTechnolgoy

  13. Re:Audible is my jam on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    Coldeagle with post of the year!

  14. Re:Audible is my jam on Ask Slashdot: Your Favorite Subscription Services? · · Score: 1

    Amazon Prime for music. OK, I know what I'm about to try out since I already have prime. Knew about movies but not the music thing.

  15. Re:Apple should bash trump and Republicans indirec on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That of course would mean that Apple nees to violate their mission statement:

    "Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices."

    "Apple is committed to bringing the best personal computing experience to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around the world through its innovative hardware, software and Internet offerings."

  16. Apple should bash trump and Republicans indirectly on Apple Issues $1 Billion Green Bond After Trump's Paris Climate Exit (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I would be more impressed if apple gave a portion of their profits to green initiatives and in each product sold provided a small factoid book about climate change and the environment by stating facts. Then all the people that don't believe that it is "real" that buy Apple products will be inundated with facts. What would be better is if all tech giants did this together. Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Dell, etc.

  17. Full Blown Windows on a phone? on Intel Fires Warning Shot At Qualcomm and Microsoft Over Windows 10 ARM Emulation (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    That's all I needed to hear. Kiss Android goodbye!

  18. Please impeech trump! on Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press (theoutline.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I honestly think this is what the Republicans were hoping for. VP becomes president and Republicans win the election without a moron running the country.

  19. Almost every business area has duopolies on With Essential, 'Already a Unicorn', Andy Rubin Wants To Disrupt the Apple-Samsung 'Duopoly' (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Take any business concept and there are duopolies. What happens is that two large companies take about 90% of the market share and the other 10% is split among a bunch of other smaller companies. Target/Walmart -> smaller versions like your corner store that sells movies, food and random electronics like USB chargers Lowes/Home Depot -> smaller versions exist all over the place and some are regional iOS/Android -> BB10, Windows and maybe a few others Even airlines are slowly consolidating. That's what happens when there are to many players. Consolidation happens till you have 1 or 2 major players and a few outliers. This guy is an idiot if he thinks that he can displace Samsung. He'll just get like 0.1% of the Android market if he is lucky.

  20. Re:TED talks on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 1

    These are awesome! My biggest issue is that some are 5 minutes and some are 20 minutes. I wish there were a minimum time for the speakers to present. But this is a great way to learn about a varies array of topics. I guess the good news is that even that bad ones are not that bad since they are not an hour long. The thing is, some of the good ones are too short.

  21. Bo Jackson, Banksey and Bill Hicks on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 1

    30 on 30 about Bo Jackson is incredible! Exit Through The Gift Shop is another and it might be a mocumentary about how people that pay a lot for art are idiots. But it is by Banksey so if it is a documentary, it is fantastic. And if it is a mocumetary it is also fantastic. This one is a fabulous piece on the art world any way you look at it. Aside: Banksey a few years ago was selling unsigned art that he did in NYC and only a few people bought the art pieces. If they knew it was Banksey he would have sold out at 10x the price of each piece. He did this basically to show the art world that they are all idiots. American Scream - Documentary about Bill Hicks that is awesome. One of the best comics ever and not a big name. But he is often on the top 20 of any list and sometimes I've seen him listed in the top 5.

  22. What about books on Moderate Drinking Can Damage the Brain, Claim Researchers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever wonder if those that tend to drink more tend to read less and do less strenuous mental activities?

  23. All hail Slashdot! .... on IBM Research Alliance Has Figured Out How To Make 5nm Chips (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    ... for suing the correct definition of Moore's law!

  24. Here's what you can do Hollywood. Start treating your high budgets for what they are when done correctly. Start making moving pictures .... ART! You know what, people will appreciate a well shot film with a good story whether it be a comedy, horror or drama movie. When you focus on the business risks and all that other crap you forget that you are artists. What you have become are dollar whores. I have very little respect for Hollywood in general and mostly respect movies that are shot with Art in mind. Start thinking about why some directors have a cult following like Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, The Coen Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, etc. Think about those classics from the 80s. They were innocent family movies that a FAMILY COULD GO TO! Who on earth is going to take their 13 year old to go see Baywatch? You are a bunch of idiots.

  25. Take Dumb and Dumber ..... on Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Distributers should stop distributing crap movies. God, stop focusing on special effects and tits and focus on story. It's not hard. Here's a shitty story but hilarious movie: Dumb and Dumber No one thinks it is an Oscar contender but you know what, it's 66% on rotten tomatoes. And you know what. If it were not funny it would probably be 10%. What movie at my local theater has me most excited? They play classic movies on weekends and I might go see The Holy Grail. Why? it's funny. Stop giving us Snakes on a Plane and other utter crap and start giving us good movies.