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  1. Re:Another reason why bitcoin is garbage on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried buying anything at a store with gold?

  2. Re: The strategy is obvious on Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a rhetorical question: Why do all the Trump apologists assume that the Congressional committees and the intelligence committees will provide them with the proof they have? Why exactly do you think you are privy to what they've found out?

  3. Re: The strategy is obvious on Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Please show us a conservative campaign that the Russians exploited for purposes of divisiveness"

    Trump-Pence 2016.

  4. meh on Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I like WMP better than Groove, because it doesn't have the obnoxious marketing thing going, though I've switched mostly to musicbee.

    Though as bad as Groove is, it's better than the pinnacle of incompetent design that is iTunes.

  5. Re:Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Oh, not coincidentally at all, my bad, the reason you mentioned friend/foe was because of that fact. Nevermind, I'm old and absent-minded.

  6. "The internal combustion engine has proven its value as a technology for more than a century."

    So maybe it's time to develop a new way of doing things?

  7. Re: Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong on YouTube Alters Algorithm To Promote News, Penalize Vegas Shooting Conspiracy Theories (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Not believing in idiotic right-wing conspiracy theories would be a good start to a definition.

  8. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Did the Bones character turn towards the camera, hold up a Coke, and say buy coke?

  9. Re:No way to win. on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Well played, my friend, well played...

  10. Re:Compared to inflation on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I have little problem getting past nudity. Gratuitous violence might turn me off to a show, but I haven't noticed much of that in the shows I like.

  11. Re:Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 1

    Coincidentally, slashdot designates you a friend of a friend. I actually haven't looked at the friend/foe stuff in probably 10+ years, kind of forgot about it.

  12. Re:Compared to inflation on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    They added a lot more original shows, which on average are better than the network shows.

  13. Re:No way to win. on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew we should have pinned her into the coffin with a stake through the heart.

  14. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    In the early TV days the NEWS ANCHORS WOULD SHILL PRODUCTS DIRECTLY. There is no way that ANYTHING done on TV now even comes to close to that.

  15. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhhh...citation?

  16. Re:Still better than cable on Netflix is Raising Its Prices, Again (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny!

  17. Re:Slashdot Died when CmdrTaco Left on 20 Years of Stuff That Matters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been on slashdot since 2000 or so, and I did not notice much of a difference between CmdrTaco here and CmdrTaco gone.

  18. I try to avoid late-era Heinlein. His stuff got so bad.

  19. Re:An easy solution on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Fame is not the same thing as social status. If you wanted to just save lives and help people and didn't care about status or money, you should have become a paramedic in a dangerous area. You'd save a lot more lives than a doctor.

  20. Re:An easy solution on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    "Doctors don't become doctors in order to win awards, they want to help people."

    Doctors become doctors largely because of the social status and money.

  21. Re:Blue Screen of Antimatter containment failure on According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not really Star Trek unless those consoles blow up constantly, killing their operators.

  22. Re:Discovery Disputes on Judge Blasts Waymo V. Uber Lawyers, Delays Trial Until December (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Depending on the case discovery disputes ARE the case. I worked for a plaintiffs'-side law firm that got into epic discovery battles (as in more than once they made the national legal news media) and we really did go after documents intensely because a single document or two could have made the difference between winning and losing a multimillion dollar case. It wasn't about trying to pressure the other side or punish them.

    On the other hand I totally agree that judges tend not to care about them.

  23. That's just wrong. Denying a cert petition is a ruling. The decision to do so is entered and published as Supreme Court order.
     

  24. I like how so many of the comments are complaining that he didn't get any due process rights. On a story about his lawyers submitting an appeal to a court that then ruled on it.

  25. Re:OT: slashdot numbers on Supreme Court Won't Hear Kim Dotcom's Civil Forfeiture Case (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The bad parts of Slashdot have always been bad. The difference is now there are a lot more forums that cater to the same audience, with less clunky interfaces, so it gets less traffic.