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  1. how they can turn off your digital life at the flip of a finger.

    WTF? One Google account is now your digital life?

  2. Re:Protect users from eavesdropping? on More Than 50 Percent of All Pages In Chrome Are Loaded Over HTTPS Now (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Google? Privacy for the product(s)? You must be joking.

  3. Re: Good, then we can scrap that stupid f-35 on Air Force Says F-35 Glitches Mean the A-10 Will Keep Flying 'Indefinitely' (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    I could certainly see us fighting Russia or China in a proxy fight in my lifetime, much like Vietnam was

    Were you born yesterday? All major powers have been fighting proxy wars since the end of WW2.

  4. Re:Make up your mind on US Police Consider Flying Drones Armed With Stun Guns (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    To serve and protect doesn't mean what you think it does. Since the formation of the first police force its goal was to protect the law and serve those in power.
    Police protects the community as a whole, not the individual citizen. And the only way to protect the community is to uphold the law. Of course the law says what those in power want to say so...

  5. Re:Hold down power button and ... on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy? More like plutocracy with the less fortunates allowed to choose from the selected few.

  6. Re:A variation on Betteridge's Law? on Google Chrome 55 May Use Less Memory (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, so not like the graphic card manufacturers and more like VW? Optimize against a specific banechmark and fuck the rest, right?

  7. Re:A variation on Betteridge's Law? on Google Chrome 55 May Use Less Memory (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    YOU are reading it wrong: "analyzed and significantly reduced the memory footprint of several websites that were identified as representative..."
    So basically it's the same shit as with gaming the tests for graphic cards.
    Google: See? Our browser loads site x, y and z 10 times faster! Never mind the other sites, we've decided these are the sites that count.

  8. Ah, much better now. thank you. My 'grammer' nazi sense is satisfied.

  9. According to Usage (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/usage/its-or-it-s):
    The word it’s is always short for ‘it is’ (as in it's raining), or in informal speech, for ‘it has’ (as in it's got six legs).
    The word its means ‘belonging to it’ (as in hold its head still while I jump on its back). It is a possessive pronoun like his.
    A little sign like ’ can make a lot of difference, you know.
    But English is not my first language so maybe I'm wrong.
    Anyway, let's get back to bashing MS and Apple, ignore the OP and TFA, insult each other and have a good time.

  10. Who reads anymore? Its so passé.

    Who spells anymore? It's so passé.

  11. Re:Why does anyone update? on Microsoft Bungles This Week's Windows 10 Anniversary Update (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Protip: You DON'T....

    Protip: I do
    I'm running Mint on my desktop and my daughter's laptop but I MUST use Windows on my laptop and so does my wife.
    I'm a lawyer (non US) and the best law database program only runs under Windows. My wife (MD) has to use some kind of program which connects to the government databases and you guessed it, the best program only runs under Windows.
    Of course we can go for the third or fourth best programs which (mostly) run under Wine, but that would mean loss of functionality for both of us, so why bother?
    So it's Windows 7 for both of us until we retire.

  12. Re:akin to.... on Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to have to look for a waiter to call over so I can have my glass refilled

    Why the fuck is so hard to pick up the bottle and pour yourself a drink? I hate it when the slave comes to top up my glass, whether I want it or not.
    But you're spot on with the bill.

  13. Re:herd immunity is lame on The Americas Are Now Officially 'Measles-Free' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Where's a fucking modpoint when you need one?
    BTW, you owe me a new keyboard.

  14. Re:Most rich people's houses aren't in very... on Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 0

    Shirley you mean submarine. Any other kind of boat could capsize in bad weather.

  15. Re:Too many useless managers on Google Rebrands 'Apps for Work' To 'G Suite,' Adds New Features (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Because marketing decrees you have to do something stupid to your product every year so people won't forget about it.

  16. Re:don't get your hope up on No Man's Sky Under Investigation For False Advertising (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but no. There's a shitload of videos and text which show without a shadow of doubt that promises were made and left unfulfilled. people bought the game based on the information at hand which was more than misleading. Misleading is when you hint something, which proves to be less that was was alluded to.

    And this is different from marketing how?

  17. Aha, so here's the problem: on YouTube-MP3 Ripping Site Sued By IFPI, RIAA and BPI (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Through the promise of illicit delivery of free music, Defendants have attracted millions of users to the YTMP3 website, which in turn generates advertising revenues for Defendants," the labels add.
    So it's not about copyright infringement, it's about getting money from ads.

  18. Re: Who's gonna pay "THEIR FAIR SHARE"?!?!?! on From Bicycles To Washing Machines: Sweden To Give Tax Breaks For Repairs (mnn.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...
    http://www.iflscience.com/heal...
    http://www.livescience.com/547...

    Propylene glycol, a chemical found in e-liquids, can irritate the eyes and airways, Siegel said. Early studies have also revealed that when propylene glycol or glycerin are heated and vaporized, they can degrade into formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, he said. Both of these chemicals are considered carcinogens, although it's not yet clear how repeated exposure to them may cause cancer, he said.

    does not require much looking..

    Does not require much looking...

    Does not require much comprehension, either.
    I know English is hard, but try and look up the difference between will and can and will and may.

  19. And the combination is... on Our Atmosphere Is Leaking Oxygen and Scientists Don't Know Why (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    1,2,3,4,5

  20. Cyanogenmod is not Cyanogen OS.
    The OS comes with gapps but you have to install gapps yourself on Cyanogenmod.

  21. As long as you don't bundle Googe crapware with it. Then you must comply with their rules.
    Why do you think Cyanogenmod comes without Google crapware?

  22. Re:Which problems? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    This is actually an enormously important change that's taken place over the past 10-20 years. In the past, you'd need permission from "the powers that be" to get your voice (or creative works) out there into the public eye.

    Of course now you need permission from the SJWs and the companies running those services but WTF, it's not the gubermint, right?

  23. Re:like what? on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Riding (horses or human powered bikes) would get the same result, you know?

  24. Re:Techies ARE improving the world on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? · · Score: 1

    We have gone 70 years without a major war. Why?

    Because we've split them into minor wars, police actions, border clashes and war by proxies.

  25. Re:I just wonder on Alleged Hacker Lauri Love To Be Extradited To US (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    POTUS: What do you mean extradite? Do you want to run out of CEOs?