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  1. Obligatory on Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos (dailydot.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are ads on YouTube? Have never seen one unless you count a VEVO logo.

    In all honesty though if you're one of the alt right assholes pissed off by this vote with your feed, or make your own damn video platform. YouTube doesn't own you a platform to literally make money off your filth, as I'm sure you understand with your libertarian ideals.

  2. Re:Excel can kiss my 5" wide anus! on 20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report (winbeta.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The VisiCalc Song
     
    [ala' "Let's Get Physical", made popular by Olivia Newton-John]
     
    I'm savin' all of those back issues of "Byte"
    Making the micro conversion
    I gotta handle text just right
    Ya know what I mean?
     
    I took you to a local computer store
    Then to a compu-fair shopping spree
    There's nothing left to purchase now
    'less it's, programmability...
     
    [BEGIN Chorus (invoked later)]
    Let's get VisiCalc*, VisiCalc
    I wanna get Visi-Calc, let's invoke VisiCalc
    Let me hear your modem talk, your floppies squawk
    Let me hear your I/O rock...
    [END Chorus]
     
    I've used paper, I've used wood
    Tried to keep my pen on the table
    It's getting hard, this hardware stuff
    Ya know what I mean?
     
    I'm sure you understand what eleven's* do
    You know the software intimately
    You gotta know, you're bringing out
    the VisiPlot* for me...
     
    [Invoke Chorus]

  3. Re:Why the obsession? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm rapidly approaching middle age and I still enjoy music, video games, and porn.

    That said I also appreciate the importance of privacy, so they call this wisdom. :-)

  4. Console Interface? on No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's kind of funny, I picked this up for PS4 and immediately lamented that it was not a proper consolized interface.

    Why do either of us have to hold to confirm? Why am I dragging around a mouse cursor with an analog stick instead of being able to D-pad around the menus?

    Maybe it's just a 'bad' interface.

    Enjoying the game so far but I'm not so sure that the novelty isn't going to wear off soon. It feels like Minecraft which was equally pointless, but at least had group interaction and allowed me to make some impact on the cold infinite world around me.

  5. I wonder what percentage of the US population have the means to save 25K a year, regardless of their spending habits. I'm thinking median income after taxes and basic accommodation, used car, etc.

  6. Data caps on Next Generation of Wireless -- 5G -- Is All Hype (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    So are they going to raise the data caps 100x to compensate for this 100x increase in speed? Or will we see fiber speeds and low double-digit GB caps (if lucky)

  7. Re: Old news on Your Battery Status Is Being Used To Track You Online (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Step One: stop using a browser made by an advertising company.

  8. What is the appeal of these things? on Smartwatch Shipments Fall For the First Time; Apple Only Company In Top 5 To Decline (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These always struck me as a fad waiting to die, but I'm not trying to be the usual Slashdot curmudgeon, so I'll ask: what are the killer features of a smart watch?

    The best my buddy could come up with who bought an Android one was some mumbling about how its more socially acceptable to glance at texts on your wrist, than to take your phone out.

  9. Re:Unfettered capitalism on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    This took 2 seconds on Google:

    http://listado.mercadolibre.co...

  10. DEC Tag? on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the heck does this have to do with the Digital Equipment Corporation?

  11. Why don't they just call a taxi? on Austin Is Conducting Sting Operations Against Ride-Sharing Drivers (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    If people were drunk driving without calling a taxi, I'd throw the book at them too if I was a judge.

    If they want their Uber and Lyft back, maybe they should encourage those companies to buy proper taxi licenses.

  12. Re:Compared to Big Box and Fast Food on Leaked Docs Provide An Unprecedented Look At Income Of Uber Drivers (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Would it of been?

  13. YouTube has ads? I've seriously never seen one, unless you are counting annotations on top of the videos?

    It DOES seem to 'forget' my annotation settings like once a month, though.

  14. Denver is closed. on Is Denver The Next High-Tech Center? (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Denver is closed, thanks for inquiring. We'll let you know the next time there is an opening.

  15. Re:Sad to see Chrome so far ahead on Firefox Tops Microsoft Browser Market Share For First Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that it is literally a browser Made By An Advertising Corporation. That should be reason enough to never run it.

  16. Re:It's not a legal issue. You're misunderstanding on Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about legality. It's *newsworthy* because it's a radical shift from the perception of how FB operates. "Trending" doesn't mean "trending" at all. It means curated.

    I'm surprised anyone though otherwise. Can you believe the the news stories in the "News and buzz" section on CNN.com do not actually have any measurable 'buzz' about them?

    Can you believe that when a chain restaurant prints "CUSTOMER FAVORITE!" next to a random item on their menu, that it is not, in fact, the results of some rigorous study of their customer base, but instead what some marketing or executive type decided to print next to a more profitable menu item?

  17. Is there a company out there named -ify or -ly that I doesn't deserve an automatic javascript block in my NoScript rules? It seems to be a hallmark of shitty ad industry website bloat

  18. Re:It can't be said too many times on 'Apple Stole My Music. No, Seriously' (vellumatlanta.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you RTFA he recovered from backups. It's a non-story.

  19. Re:RT OS for Reatime tasks on Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because Of Antivirus Scan (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Doctors don't get the ability to mandate the equipment they use. They can insist - but that doen't mean the PTBs are listening.

    What's a PTB?

  20. Re:Good Riddance? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    What does MAC stand for?

  21. Re:Civ V on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Civ V was a full-on regression.

    I wouldn't even say that, just that by moving to 1-unit per tile (which is awesome, in theory), they made the problem an order of magnitude more complex for an AI to accomplish. Much easier to move a stack of doom to a rallying point ala Civ4, than to shuffle units all over a grid ala chess, but with 100 unit types and different terrain types to handle.

    From a UI perspective Civ V is a huge jump over the previous games.

  22. Civ V on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    How about they work on writing an AI that can play a competent game of Civ V without cheating.

    RTS is much less interesting since a big component of RTS is actions per minute/reflex based. Of course a computer is going to be better at that.

  23. Re:This is no different in the US on Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    meh. As I see it both groups lack empathy. There is your common thread.

  24. This is no different in the US on Jihadis Twice As Likely To Be Students of Science Than Of Sharia (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The STEM world is filled with sociopathic libertarians who would have people starve in the streets let alone pay another tax dollar.

  25. Disk Space on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    Maybe things are wildly better in the Android world (probably?), but as an iPhone user, I'd just like to see more disk space so I can carry around my whole mp3 collection and actually use the super high rez cameras they put on these things for video. 128GB seems really small for 2016.

    You could probably keep me on the upgrade treadmill for another decade (the every 2-3 year treadmill, I'm not interested in anything shorter), if you simply doubled the flash memory every 2-3 years.

    No, I'm not interested in some hacky subscription based cloud solution which means I can't actually access my music and files when I'm hiking in the mountains.