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  1. Re:When DNC loses vote, legal action follows on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 1

    Because she would rather Clinton were in charge than the tangerine fuckwit that currently thinks he's moving in to the Whitehouse.

    Anyway more knowledgeable people than me think there was no voter fraud, so the probability is that we are still all doomed.

  2. Re:Odd name for a supermarket on Iceland is Suing a Supermarket That's Using Its Name (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    So the three main Icelandic banks had debts between them of around ten times the size of Iceland's GDP and it's supposed to be the fault of the UK.

    Yeah, right.

  3. Re:can we please stop this 'fake news' bullshit on Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The Turboencabulator thing dates to the 1940's btw, at least that's what Google tells me so it must be true.

  4. Re:can we please stop this 'fake news' bullshit on Russian Propaganda Effort Helped Spread 'Fake News' During Election, Experts Say (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    No, the difference is that now, a lot of people get their "news" off the Internet. It doesn't really matter where it came from there was a lot of outright lies posted, mostly about Clinton (but some about Trump too) and a lot of people bought them.

  5. Re:How easy is it to fix something yourself? on Apple Releases macOS 10.12 Sierra Open Source Darwin Code (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Well if it's in a bit that Apple open sourced, it's as easy as you would expect, although, obviously, building and installing kernels is not a game for beginners.

    Getting Apple to accept your patches might be a whole other story.

  6. In Britain, "trump" is a euphemism for "fart", so Trump Tower is definitely the right place.

  7. Probably not as much as beef cattle.

  8. Also, he lives at the top of a big tower.

  9. Not incorrect. The ruling was that the Irish government was breaking EU rules, not that Apple was breaking Irish rules.

  10. Ha ha.

    I like the way people assume that taking work away from workers in the Third World is doing them a favour.

  11. Re:Also, no solar-powered iOS devices on iOS Devices Failed More Often Than Android Units During Q3, Says Report (phonearena.com) · · Score: 2

    Rubbish. Except in low level embedded applications, all computer programs use existing libraries in the OS.

  12. Re:Spending nothing, value even less. on Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to eat expensively in Paris to get good French food.

  13. Your knowledge is out of date. FileVault is now whole disk encryption or not at all.

  14. How is it Apple's fault that Google Drive on the iPad (written by Google not Apple) won't let you upload a document?

  15. Here's the problem: if your Mac with 2Tb is out of warranty and the logic board fails, you'll need a replacement logic board/SSD combo and that is going to be very expensive.

  16. You should set up an autoreply with a goatse link... they'll find a way to remove you in a day. Guaranteed.

    He only wants to be removed from the list, not the company.

  17. Re:yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    "Page not found".

    I think your post symbolises exactly the problem: an accusation against Clinton that looks plausible and even has a link to an authority, however, when examined, the evidence isn't there.

    Any way, there is a difference between legally violating a law (which is an oxymoron - if it's legal you're not violating the law) and illegally violating the law (a tautology) and the enforcement authorities letting it go because it is too trivial to be bothered about.

  18. Re: yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I disagree. Nate Silver's model was as wrong as everybody else's. It went from 70% on Clinton to 70% on Trump in a very short space of time. I would say there was some systematic error in the way in which it evaluated the opinion polls that was exposed as the election results came in.

  19. Re:yes they should on Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? · · Score: 1

    The point of the electoral system is to make sure that candidates spread their effort around the country rather than doing a massive get out the vote effort in the handful of places where they are already popular.

    It doesn't work then, does it. Both candidates spent most of their time in states that could swing the election. How many times did either candidate bother to go to California which has the most voters in it?

  20. No point. The carriers don't have catapults.

    At one point, they were going to put catapults on the ships but the cost was later deemed too high. It didn't seem to occur to anybody that ships with catapults could deploy any kind of naval aircraft, not just the F35B.

  21. Re:Does anyone have comparitive stats on Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    What you mean is that it shouldn't be big news. But because of the Note 7, it will be big news.

  22. Re:Dear Samsung: on Samsung To Launch AI Digital Assistant Service For Galaxy S8 (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not going to work. Most of the people buying smartphones really don't care about any of that. They aren't going to retain market leadership by appealing only to a part of the Slashdot readership.

  23. Re:And I left out #spiritcooking which is just cre on FBI: Review of New Emails Doesn't Change Conclusion on Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has been bankrupt four times, cheated on at least two wives, is a self confessed sexual abuser, bullies sub contractors to avoid paying them their due and refuses to accept the principles of democracy. Throughout this campaign he has shown himself as lacking the stature and intellect required to president.

    Clinton has had lots of accusations thrown at her, non of which have stuck. Trump is by far the worse of the two of them. You'd have to be a fucking moron to vote for Trump.

  24. Re:That will probably work on Microsoft Promises To Defend World Chess Champion From Russian Hackers (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Woosh!

  25. Re: Phill Schill on Phil Schiller Says the MacBook Pro Doesn't Need an SD Card Slot (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There will be an escape key when you need it. What kind of unprofessional idiot thinks that a touch enabled display designed to replace a row of keys can't display an escape key.

    Also, I'm an IT professional with a 2013 MBP and I can tell you that the retina MBP has never had an ethernet jack. I have a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter which I rarely use due to the modern ubiquity of wireless ethernet.