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  1. X also has stuff! on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Do all my X commands work in Wayland?
    xwd? xidle?
    Can I automate a Wayland GUI input using simple command lines like xwinifo, xte, etc?
    And, of course, most importantly, xroach and xdaliclock. :)

    X has years of development behind it, solid, works well, many features.

  2. Hey GM, how about that EV1? on Tesla Tops GM by Market Value as Investors See Musk as Future (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Large American car companies have been a cluster fuck since the 70s. GM could have dominated this market starting with the EV1 years ago. Idiots.

  3. We know where this is going on Indiana's Inmates Could Soon Have Access To Tablets (abc57.com) · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Community reference:
    http://community-sitcom.wikia....

  4. Gloves off! on Blinking Cursor Devours CPU Cycles in Visual Studio Code Editor (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK, buddy, vi vs. emacs flame wars were funny, and perhaps justifiable.
    But comparing VS to emacs?? No freaking way! Emacs totally kicks VS ass.
    And it never used 13% of my cpu to flash a cursor.

  5. Who wrote this summary? on The Compulsive Patent Hoarding Disorder (thehindu.com) · · Score: 2

    This summary reads as if written by an "objectivist" patent troll.

  6. Did you RTFA? on A Norwegian Website Is Making Readers Pass a Quiz Before Commenting (niemanlab.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you read the article before posting that?

  7. Is the moon orbiting the earth? Or are the two orbiting each other as they orbit the sun?
    In the case of the earth, the barycenter is within the earth. But the barycenter for Pluto and Charon is outside of Pluto...

  8. Ha! Do you remember 2 years ago? on Shamed In Super Bowl Ads, Verizon Introduces Unlimited Data Plans (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Two years ago AT&T tried to buy out T-mobile for way more than the market value of the company. Why? To get rid of the competition of course! Who stopped them? THE GOVERNMENT.
    Thanks to government we have competition!

  9. Moderation on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Aggressive Forum Users? · · Score: 1

    Yes, either you will have to moderate, or get the readers to moderate for you, like on slashdot or stackoverflow.

  10. For the Windows experience in Linux on CNET Editor Rails Against Non-Consensual Windows Updates (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Put the following script in your /etc/cron.hourly directory.

    #!/bin/sh
    sleep $RANDOM
    test $RANDOM -lt 200 && reboot

  11. Always use OpenVPN on Viruses, Spyware Found in 'Alarming' Number of Android VPN Apps (abc.net.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your VPN service provider does not support OpenVPN, GET ANOTHER SERVICE PROVIDER.
    There is no excuse for not supporting OpenVPN in this day and age.

  12. + cheap + well supported in 3rd party ROMs on LG Continues To Bleed Money, Thanks To Smartphones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You did a great job listing the good features of LGs. Two more:
    1. They are inexpensive (compared to similar Samsung phones)
    2. They are well supported by 3rd party ROMs. I have an older LG phablet, but am running the latest Android/Cyanogenmod on it. Awesome!

  13. States can restrict trade too. on Three States Propose DMCA-Countering 'Right To Repair' Laws (ifixit.org) · · Score: 1

    The states just have to ban sales of products that do not allow people to fix them. This does not overrule federal copyright law, it just restricts sales. You can be damn sure that if the car companies are only allowed to sell repairable cars in the state of California, car companies will make repairable cars.

  14. How about the link directly to Krebs? on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Julian Assange pledged to surrender himself to U.S. authorities if Manning was pardoned. Roughly 24 hours have passed since the news broke and it appears that Assange will not hand himself in to the Department of Justice.

    Great. Has the US asked for extradition? Is there a warrant for his arrest? I have not seen that.
    How has what he has done any different than any other journalistic source?

  16. OMG! I hope the government and corporations can save us all from the threat that is exploding cell phones!

    Seriously though, we are all going to die. But none of us from a cell phone exploding.

  17. Benefits of the free market on China Smog: Millions Start New Year Shrouded By Health Alerts and Travel Chaos (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That nasty EPA has us all breathing clean air. Bastards! We could be more like China. Bring back the smog and acid rain!

  18. Yeah, no shit! Do we think he has a choice? on Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    When Russian intelligence says, "You will meet with us on Tuesday at 11 AM", Snowden says, "No, I have to get my pedicure then."

  19. The transition team did not respond to a request for comment.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  20. Pricipal Skinner quote on Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy (drupalcamp.de) · · Score: 2

    "The shapely female form has no place in Art!"

  21. Just use the browser for everything on Newest Skype For Linux Enables SMS Text Messages From The Desktop (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    With webrtc now well supported in Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, Opera, I have completely ditched Skype, and I just send my relatives a simple web link to click on when I want to chat with them.
    I think it is more reliable than Skype too.

  22. Training or running an neural net? on Facebook Puts Deep Learning in the Palm of Your Hand (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "a real neural net running on a phone in real time."

    Running a neural net does not take much processing power, It is a mostly just a series of adds and multiplies.

    Training a neural net takes lots of computing power. I doubt they are doing that on a cell phone.

  23. Re:This guy should order his meds from Amazon... on Where Does Jeff Bezos Foresee Putting Space Colonists? Inside O'Neill Cylinders (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future you will be able to order an O'Neill cylinder from Amazon. Just don't get the cheap Chinese knock-off version.

  24. And the best part is on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    The best part of all those free apps is all the crap-ware which gets installed with them. I swear every time I get a free app for M$ windows, it tries to hi-jack my browser with some POS add-on.
    Everytime some friend/relative asks me to help him with his MS windows computer I feel like poking myself in the eye. I feel so dirty.

  25. I was going to make a joke post where my font was barely visible or just a blank response that could not be read. But /. posts do not support color, and the lameness filter kicks in when the body is empty.
    How can one make a barely or unreadable post?