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  1. CRISPeR, tastier, zestier, crunchier!

    I am just fishing for points, so sue me, or mod me

  2. The *BEST* News on US Drought Brings A Surprise Benefit: No Tornados (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Thanks to the drought, there have been *no* sharknadoes either!

  3. Re:This stuff drives me nuts on User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked (filezillasecure.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not arrogant asshats. Simply put, these guys are the SNL tech rejects. They go around, snickering, somebody doesn't know the Master Password, before breaking out into song, until our chief protagonist, the Trinity wannabe/lookalike hacks into the file and sees the password in plain text.

    The project's been forked; Good news, everyone!

  4. Please post the steps somewhere else on Here We Go Again: Microsoft's Popping Up Ads From the Windows 10 Toolbar (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    We are not interested in how to get rid of it. Simply post the news you know of; not how to get it out of the system.

    Or a disclaimer: How we became a slashvertiser business model instead of a legit news site.

  5. Isn't this the reason we have a backup? on Study Links Human Actions To Specific Arctic Ice Melt (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    So the Arctic ice will be gone, but this time we are prepared: This is precisely the reason we have a backup Gentlemen, we have the AntArctic.

    What?

  6. The headphones to the rescue! Before impact, the headphone saves my phone from that shattering blow. SAMSUNG (With headphone jacks, not bluetooth-my-arse) FTW.

    The cable is just long enough to about ankle height, so this phone-saving job is a caveat that has proven more effective than the toughest glass or case you can think of.

  7. Nearly bezel-less?

    From the same place that sold me a nice frame. The blank hemp-colored canvas indicated that it was a sketch of a knife that lost its grip/handle.

    So where's the knife?

    That's classified information

  8. if that $699 tablet can have $40 rough-and-tumble stunt doubles in the house or minivan or tent, only the Chinese who were shrewd enough to make these low-power bargain-bin placemablets will call step 4. PROFIT!

  9. Re:As an older programmer... on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Have you even tried to imagine what those discussions would be like?

    "Oh, yeah. This one, I think, is starting to get like, personal."

    "No, he has a point. He just came on too strong, to the point of being obnoxious. He strikes me as quite abrasive, had he not brought on his argument about the derivative."

    "What were we talking about? Who, the toxic boss, or his underling who logs in anonymously, not knowing that that's his boss."

  10. Re:Breaking news! on Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I call Bolshoi on this one, ls671! Your papers, please...

  11. No wonder Kim Jong B Illin' like a Villain, b Sext on Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Was North Korea messaging their government workers after office hours? That might explain a lot. Not a whole lot; still, quite a lot.

  12. Re:No pictures! on Harvard Researchers Print World's First Heart-On-A-Chip (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No cyborg brain? Check.

    His ex-wife? Let's try this again.

    No cyborg brain? Check.
    My ex-wife? Check.
    Pictures? Check; I burned them. Let's try this again

    No cyborg brain? Check.
    My ex-wife? No check.
    No pictures? Check. Two out of three ain't bad /Me checks e-bay for cyborg brains, even googles for images of one. In desperation, even checks newjersey.craigslist.org classifieds for used ones.

    Tiny cyborg brain gets easily distracted by the casual encounters section, titillated by the remote chance of a casual cyborg+human encounter. Is challenged by Must be 18 or older but floating point CPU allows cyborg to check any pictures out. The presence of pictures persuades him to preview the photographs of a transgender. At which point the tiny cyborg brain explodes

  13. Re:will they pay for that? even if there are high on Canadian Police Are Texting Potential Murder Witnesses (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are we still talking about Canada?

    --OR MUCH IMPROVED VERSION --

    Are we still talking aboot Canada, eh?

    --OR 2.0 VERSION ---

    England could mimic "backwards" Canada
    News from Wot could go bloody wrong department

  14. there is an *Evil* Torvaldis! on 'Most Serious' Linux Privilege-Escalation Bug Ever Is Under Active Exploit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably the most serious Linux local privilege escalation ever

    The evil twin of Mr. Torvalds has been known to use Please and Thank you, and actively, as well, to wit:

    "Now please, pretty please, with cherry on top, will you take your patch and take it out of my m*****ing kernel??"

    He is working on the anti-kernel, as well, but that has been kept under wraps, until a proper EULA has been prepared.

  15. Parallels to *our civilization were strikingly sim on Venus May Have Been the First Habitable Planet In Our Solar System, Study Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Except for a technological achievement that led to their utter and total extinction: the development of the Galaxy Note 7. If it weren't for the recall that is in effect today, we would have hurtled on toward our self-destruction. A disaster of Bibilical proportions.

  16. The solution is simple, really on Smartphones Are 'Contaminating' Family Life, Study Suggests (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya just gotta unplug Doctor's advice, after watching a hospital video on hypertension and heart disease, the so-called "Silent Killer"

    And tell your friends to leave you voice mail or messages, like in the old days, remember?

    Let 911 take care of real emergencies. Enjoy the unplugged life, or stay off-grid and under the radar

  17. I saw what you did there on AVTECH Shuns Security Firm and Leaves All Products Vulnerable Without a Patch (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    After all this is about popular security cameras. And you wrote:
     
    IoT is still just computers when you get to the root of it.

    Well said. Bravo! And well played!

  18. HOWTO pronounce "spacemacs" on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just ditch vim or ditch emacs and watch the video that will tell you what you don't know! Let actress Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan and the whole 30Rock crew show you how to pronounce Dr Leo Spaceman's name.

    90% after watching the video, will BEGIN TO GUESS how spacemacs is pronounced. The other 5% will guess correctly. 5% will just fire up their ridiculous GUI editor like Gedit or Kwrite to try and steer clear of a religious war, but you know what is happening in the Middle East is not over, because no one has any f***ing clue what :wq does, they think finding WMDs matters the most. So gtuess who's not there, it's BIG DUBYA.

    Watch the video, then draw your own pronunciation. Then ditch emacs, because you just lost 22 seconds watching that stupid clip, and that's the time it took me to fire up my GUI editor, Slashdot, as long as there are no Unicode characters in this rant.

    Video is actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?... jlBQqJh46_M

  19. Re:Already claims its first victim (READ TFA) on Poland Builds a Solar-Powered Bike Path That Glows Blue At Night (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Normal police procedure is to draw a chalk outline where the homicide victim was found, and the chalk outline more or less depicts the position the victim was found (sprawled with arms outstretched, or dead when reaching for something, and they proceed to mark the position of bullet casings or whatever evidence is found near the body.

    The evidence found near the body was his bicycle. You have to watch enough police shows or crime thrillers or Police Squad! movie marathons to know these things, to understand

  20. Already claims its first victim (READ TFA) on Poland Builds a Solar-Powered Bike Path That Glows Blue At Night (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have to read the linked article; the same kewl blue was used to make the first chalk outline where the body was found by homicide cops.

    If there will ever be that rare instance when you actually read a slashdot article, NOW is the time.

  21. Re:Battery size doesn't matter on iPhone 7 Finishes Last In New Test of Battery Life (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on, it took courage to say what he said, except what you read was not what he meant. It takes batteries, too.

  22. Put the Kardashians into space for less than $1B on Cable TV Companies Could Lose Nearly $1 Billion in the Next Year From People Ditching Their Subscriptions (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an election year, and I guess people are voting with their wallets, or voting against the lack of choices or against bundling up/overcharging or going with Netflix or Redbox.

    Those billions are going to be spent elsewhere, maybe less on this luxury, and there isn't any person going to be affected by my lack of sympathy. Corporations are out there to make money; I'm here still waiting for my 24x7 cindy crawford channel (apologies to Denis Leary)

  23. The perks of being a Russian dictator on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello, my name is Vladimir Putin. You may have seen my face, usually on the evening news, but not to worry; most of what you hear is true. Especially from that Snowden. I was shocked when I found out that your government does a lot of --how you say it, "dirty work" or "dirty laundry"? -- without asking for any of our help in these matters; your government firmly believes they are experts in these matters. Personally I have this to say: In Soviet Russia, Snowden is welcome to stay and ski. And here in Soviet Russia we tell Clippy to take a fucking hike, back to Redmond on that Microsoft horse it rode in on. Would you believe I asked to be their spokesman? Can you hear me now?

  24. Idiot could have used his name as password on Revealed: How One Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions of Dollars (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's all consonants.

    There is ONE vowel. And no, "y" is not a Russian vowel.

    It has one special character. It wears pants.

    Seriously, he couldn't think of a password?

  25. So if there is a leak or a hole, shouldn't it be plugged then?

    Being aware that the problem exists isn't enough. What's the next step, an RFC of some kind? So that our leading technologists can find a solution?