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  1. Re:How expensive is Comcast's home internet? on Americans Abandoning Wired Home Internet, Shows Study (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Here in California it's $50/mo for the cheapest 6mbps comcast offering.

  2. Re:Micro Trends, Trend Micro, same thing, right? on Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    The single biggest issue I have is that Slashdot's CMS should be open source like it used to be. I firmly believe the new management could do that right now if they desired it. As a show of good faith, release the source and put it back on Sourceforge. That's the one thing that really irks me.

    Quite possibly it's full of crufty security flaws they'd rather not make easier to find.

  3. Re: People still use Quicktime? on Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 2

    You're not really testing Safari if you're testing the deceased Windows version of it. It's not the version that any users are using.

  4. Re:Jolla Sailfish imitation? on Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    There may be some prior art on the concept of buttons.

  5. Re:Related stories on Google Launches Customizable 'Live Cases' For Nexus Devices (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    At least the two articles about low wages plus "Why I defaulted on my student loans" make sense -- wasting money on fancy phone covers is the true cause of many a bankruptcy.

  6. Re:What a stupid bitch on Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 1

    If you live in a big city, t-mobile is great. If you live in a smaller town... well, I lose signal when I go for a walk in the wrong direction. Still better than coverage than sprint though.

  7. Re:Interesting, but.. how can it survive dust... on Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project to Send 'Nano-Craft' To Nearest Star · · Score: 1

    On the plus side, the smaller your spacecraft is the lower your odds of being hit are.

  8. The probes accelerates up, then separates part of its sail. The laser then bounces off the sail back to the probe, slowing it down.

    That's not going to be very useful since the laser beam will be millions of times more powerful when close to Earth than it'll be at the deceleration point.

  9. The laser propulsion won't be shining at Alpha Centauri because it'll be far too diffuse to be of any use long before then. The acceleration will happen in our own solar system.

  10. That's no probe, it's a relativistic kill vehicle.

  11. Re:Steely Eyed Missile Men on Kepler Recovered from Emergency and Stable (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    a historical one, like "all men are created equal," so you just have to picture a mixed gender group

    Well, "all men are created equal" clearly didn't intend to include women or negros. If it had, the authors would've been lynched for the radical thought.

  12. Like most people, you're the problem. The people who tortured your family to death likely felt the same -- they'd been wronged by Americans and they know torturing your family doesn't really help, but it feels good to act out their vengeance.

  13. Kurdistan is the least democratic part of Iraq other than the Islamic State areas. Most stable, most tolerant, best place to live, but it's practically a Barzani family business.

  14. Re:A Very Stupid Question - on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Car analogy: instead of hitting the brakes to stop before you crash into the brick wall, why not inflate an air bag and swerve into the nearby lake instead? Because the air bag doesn't really protect very sensitive parts and once you get water in the engine you can't trust it ever again.

  15. Re:Economics of that stunt are dodgy on SpaceX Successfully Lands Its Rocket On A Floating Drone Ship For The First Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only accurate point in your post is that second stage landings may not prove practical, which is why there are no current plans to attempt that. Fortunately the second stage is a lot cheaper than the first stage, in this case the second stage is just one engine compared to 9 in the first stage.

  16. Re:Let's do the math on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Enthusiastic early pre-order fans who stand in line are unlikely to be bargain shoppers and more likely to go for premium options.

  17. Re:And this despite lower gasoline prices on Tesla Says Model 3 Had 'Biggest One-Week Launch of Any Product Ever' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You're just thinking of people who drive 10,000+ miles a year -- those of us who do less driving naturally have cars that last a lot longer. My current car is 18, my previous car was 17 when it died, both below 100K miles.

  18. Re:Quality was never the problem on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the complaints the grandparent mentioned boil down to using the wrong hardware. The thing is, people expect Linux to work with random Windows or Mac hardware (which it often but inconsistently does) but never hold Windows or Mac to those same standards because they bought computers certified for those OSes.

  19. It may surprise you to learn that there's nothing that keeps men from going into women's restrooms to attack women in North Carolina either, whether dressed as women or not. The attack is against the law anywhere, and someone wishing to attack is not going to be stopped by a sign that says "do not enter" because what they're planning to do is already far, far more illegal than going into the wrong restroom is.

    The only safety issue involved is for the transwoman who is in mortal danger (have a look at the stats) if forced to go into the men's restroom where they stick out like a sore thumb to every opportunistic violent bigot.

  20. And if he doesn't have any convictions and doesn't do anything demonstrably wrong, a pedophile is free to change in a room full of little boys -- as always.

    I don't see how any reasonable non-evil person can argue that the safety advantage of preventing the hundreds of actual violent attacks on transgender people forced to use their legal gender restroom is negated by one perv in Seattle changing in the women's room. Come back when you have a long list of women assaulted or murdered and we can have a reasonable debate about which way is safer.

  21. Re:What happens when he sells out? on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    It would be somewhat easier for a malware author to buy out one of the hundreds of revenueless linux distros than to purchase Microsoft.

  22. Re:Great summary on Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that is what Linux needs to really take off, not a better Windows translation layer

    You're surprised that linux users and developers are more interested in linux software than in windows software? Most of us never use Wine and have no interest in it. Linux development is not generally done as a marketing tactic to try to win over windows users.

  23. Re:We don't need no stinkin' suit on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    You could be decrepit in one year, as far as you know. Most people aren't decrepit until the day the injury/illness hits. Age just means recovery is much longer or nonexistent.

  24. Re:$7500 federal income tax credit on Tesla Receives 115,000 Model 3 Preorders Worth $115 Million In 24 Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The rebate doesn't immediately disappear when the 200K number is hit, it gets phased out.

  25. Re:Don't use Gmail for your work. on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Google's april fools joke should've been discontinuing their search engine in order to refocus on exciting new cutting edge markets.