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  1. Steam? on Xbox Chief: We Need To Create a Netflix of Video Games (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Isn't this just describing Steam?

  2. Re:I hope he wins his suit on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Doctor is a title, that means you have earned a doctorate. It doesn't mean you are a medical professional. The "doctor" you see when you are sick is a physician. If you have a heart attack, you are treated by a surgeon. If you have a tooth ache, you are treated by a dentist. They all have doctorates, so they are Doctors. So are university professors who have earned a PhD. In the US, lawyers are also technically doctors, but they don't use the title. Yes, medical professionals need to be board certified. But don't confuse that with doctors.

  3. Companies deploy hardware without any upgrade plan on US ISP Goes Down As Two Malware Families Go To War Over Its Modems (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Companies rent you hardware, and they give no thought to upgrades. Not only ISPs, but cable boxes and other such devices. As long as it works when installed, that's good enough. To be properly secure, you need to keep up with security updates.

  4. For those who don't get the reference on Aurora Enthusiasts Discover A Strange New Light In The Sky And Named It Steve (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  5. I will name him George on Aurora Enthusiasts Discover A Strange New Light In The Sky And Named It Steve (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him

  6. Fortran on Slashdot Asks: What Was Your First Programming Language? (stanforddaily.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Needed it for an engineering course. My first actual programming course used PL/I

  7. The Village People will be upset on Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    No reason now to be "in the Navy"

  8. Re:Make America Great on Trump To Overhaul H-1B Visa Program To Encourage Hiring Americans (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "To form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Of the items you list, only equity of the nations citizenry is part of his job goals.

  9. that I should have used Aurora.

  10. Re:Will someone make a new service pack? on Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Vista; Begins To Roll Out Windows 10 Creators Update · · Score: 1

    Someone else took all the released patches after Service Pack 3 and created an unofficial service pack 4 for XP. I was wondering if someone planned on doing the same thing for Vista.

  11. Will someone make a new service pack? on Microsoft Ends Support For Windows Vista; Begins To Roll Out Windows 10 Creators Update · · Score: 1

    Service pack 4 for Windows XP was a big hit. I hope someone provides all the available updates for Vista, too.

  12. Re:Unlike Apple maps on Thousands of Fake Google Maps Listings Redirect Users To Fraudulent Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    A man using Apple maps walked into a bar, or maybe a hotel, or possibly a church...

  13. With Google maps, at least you will get there, even if it is fake. With Apple maps, you never know.

  14. I'll take France! on NASA Puts the Earth Up For Adoption (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I'm sure no one else will want it.

  15. The metric system is the tool of the devil on Earth-Sized Telescope Set To Snap First Picture of a Black Hole (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

  16. They are working as designed on Apple Taken To Court For Refusing To Fix Devices (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They aren't broke. They are designed to work that way, so we can't fix them.

  17. Windows 10 Destroyer's Update on The Windows 10 Creators Update Is Now Available (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So when are they releasing the Destroyer's update, the update for the rest of us?

  18. Re:Google is just following the rules of acquisiti on Google X Worked An Older Employee Until He Was Hospitalized, Then Laid Him Off (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1
    1. Collect underpants
    2. ?
    3. Profit
  19. Re:Reality check on aisle 3! on Netflix Now Lets You Download Videos Onto Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Much easier than ripping a DVD, obviously.

  20. So, DDR5 will make DDR4...Faster?? on Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018" I think they need to learn to write better. I don't think the headline means what they think it means.

  21. Re:How much is re-used vs. how much is replaced? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost all of it is reused. All the engines are the same ones that flew before. They did check all the parts out, since the point was to learn what does wear out and what can be reused. Learn from that and make manufacturing improvements in the next version.

  22. Don't sell the rights to Netflix on Christopher Nolan and Sofia Coppola Urge Fans To Watch Films in Cinemas, Not On Netflix (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    If you don't want people to watch it on Netflix, don't sell it to them. But, I bet you would make a lot less money if you didn't.

  23. Flash killed Quicktime on What Killed Adobe Flash? (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs was mad because Flash killed Quicktime. Tit for tat retaliation.

  24. HP bought EDS during their greatest failure on Oracle Hires Global Specialists To Explore Feasibility of Buying Accenture · · Score: 2

    EDS was building the Navy-Marine Corps Internet, and woefully underestimated the scale of the project. They low bid thinking they would do so well they would earn all the contract incentive awards later to make up for it. Well, they didn't. It almost killed the company. Made them ripe picking for HP. Only thing was, now HP had to deal with EDS's problem. It didn't turn out as well as they thought. As long as Oracle understands Accenture's issues and problems right now, they should end up with a better deal than HP did.

  25. Build a wall around it on No One Knows What To Do With the International Space Station (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    to keep aliens out.