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  1. Buried the lede on Apple Patent Filing Points To a Keyboard With No Keys (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even more amazingly, the mockup shows that the new Macbooks will come with Windows keys! http://s3.amazonaws.com/digita...

    Finally, Apple has done away with the last advantage Microsoft had left.

  2. Re: This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe it depends on the climate? I know my rhymes-with-sock always gets chilly unless I'm wearing one.

  3. Re: This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, though it feels a little weird to put those in the same category - tucking takes less time than putting on your socks.

  4. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Yeah; but I got more than enough karma.

  5. Re:This will be fun on All-Female Ridesharing To Debut In Boston (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    They explicitly say that they're inclusive of anyone who identifies as a woman, including trans women.

    As a trans woman, I'd really appreciate if dudes stopped trying to fuck stuff up for us.

  6. Re: SJW crap on Research Suggests 'CS For All' May Mean Lower Pay For All · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Welcome to Slashdot.

  7. And you know what that enables?

    I sure do. A bunch of 20-something white dudes circlejerking about they're brave enough to say "Hitler did nothing wrong!" on an anonymous imageboard, where only the edgiest opinion wins.

  8. Not all fingerprints/watermarks are in header data. There are many papers on transformation-resistant watermarking - which survive the "analog hole" by embedding the watermark into the visual or audio signal: https://scholar.google.com/sch...

  9. Only 19 million? on Home Depot Will Pay Up To $19.5 Million For Massive 2014 Data Breach (csoonline.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sorry we let criminals get your card info. Here's thirty cents.

  10. Re:Final Interface on U.S. Military Spending Millions To Make Cyborgs A Reality (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Reality is, for any longevity it would require the bioengineering of a living organisation planted within the brain that could act as the connection between the human mind and any digital interface. Something that could squirm into the brain, say between the two halves of the brain and wrap itself around the corpus collosum with it's tail attached to the skull providing the digital connection.

    Somebody's been reading a little too much Animorphs.

  11. Re:Yawn on Bitcoin's Nightmare Scenario Has Come To Pass · · Score: 1

    It's human nature to desire infinite homes.

  12. Re: IOC is Corrupt on Rio Has Given Up On Clean Water For Olympics (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Who hasn't been called an SJW, in this day and age?

  13. Re: YAA (Yet Another Anomaly) on Last January Was the Hottest Global Temperature Anomaly In Recorded History · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Global temperature isn't weather. Regional temperature is.

  14. Re: What should happen but won't on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Ah yes, his brave defense of violent video games outweighs all the other vile rulings he penned.

    Even a stopped clock...

  15. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    What "really stripped-down server" were you working on that you needed to launch graphical applications to administer it?

    A "really stripped-down server" is, to me, a server without vi or nano.

  16. Re:Why not just call the entire Internet illegal? on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    That's just, like, your opinion, man.

  17. Re:RFTA - this has not been peer reviewed on China Just Made a Major Breakthrough In Nuclear Fusion Research (techienews.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Not sure you know much about physics.

  18. Re:Why not just call the entire Internet illegal? on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    And?

  19. Re:Why not just call the entire Internet illegal? on Anti-Piracy Group BREIN Demands Torrents Time Cease and Desist · · Score: 2

    Because your premise is flawed, both in your gun analogy and about this software.

    Much as handguns are made for shooting people, Torrents Time is built to enable piracy. The fact that you can use your gun at the shooting range, or Torrents Time to stream Big Buck Bunny, doesn't change their intended usage.

    Contrary to your belief, not all murders are premeditated, and not all killers are undetered by difficulty. Having a gun on-hand greatly increases your chance of killing someone in a fit of passion - consider the cliche of a man who comes home to find his wife cheating on him.

    Similarly, piracy increases when piracy is easier (and decreases when legal options are easier, like Netflix). I remember how much work it was to teach my dad how to pirate movies back in the early 2000's - when I wasn't around, he'd often give up and go to Blockbuster. But with something like Torrents Time or Stream All The Sources, even non-technical users will choose to pirate something over a less convenient route.

    While it's incorrect in the general case to blame a tool-maker for the mis-usage of that tool, Torrents Time is built to enable copyright infringement, and everyone involved knows that. Saying "oh yes, I only wrote this tool to stream Big Buck Bunny *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*" fools nobody.

    BREIN is, like the MPAA & RIAA, a rather heavy-handed and odious group. But why on earth *wouldn't* you expect them to try to shut down this software? You assume they don't understand the tech - but, surprise surprise, even goons like them can differentiate between "this tool is built for piracy" and "this tool is capable of facilitating piracy." That you are unable to is your own failing.

    Also, A++ edgy signature.

  20. Re:Github, a bastion for libtard SJWs on GitHub Open Sources Their Internal Testing Tool (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    Why is that surprising? White women aren't magically exempt from being racist, just like black men aren't exempt from being sexist.

  21. Re:The technical problems with this are immense. on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, cars stay on the ground. Weight isn't nearly as big of a deal for cars as it is for planes.

  22. Re: Well then... on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 2

    GP asked "who wants to stream media?" There are plenty of people for whom streaming is a very good option.

    I'm not saying "Fuck you; you dialup clods" - just explaining why streaming works for me.

  23. Re:Well then... on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 1

    Cool, I live in Seattle too, and I get about 75Mbps up & down (measured), and could get gigabit for like $20 more.

  24. Re:Well then... on The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A lot of people do have good internet, and streaming is all about removing that barrier between "Hey, let's watch X" and actually watching it.

    If you need to download it first, you're waiting for a half hour or more to get a good copy. Streaming, it might be rabbit-ear quality, but at least you get start to watching it immediately.

    (Time & quality figures are obviously subject to change based on the streaming/download service and your bandwidth).

  25. Re:Shit on Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday (twitter.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shitty guy, really.