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  1. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I should clarify: big screens that are a composite of several smaller screens. Resolution used to be really expensive!

  2. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're using Linux/Unix, there are X extensions to add a monitor over ethernet. This was required in the olden days for big screens, when the processing of that much video required multiple machines. If you don't care about dragging it directly over and just being able to launch between them, simple ssh (and thus X forwarding) is all you need, and that's about as out-of-the-box as you can get.

  3. Re:Makes sense on 42% of Americans Under 8 Have Their Own Tablet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    More like 18 than 8. At least when I was 8, I didn't yet know that my third leg dragging everywhere wasn't a problem everyone had! HA CHA CHA CHA CHA *twirls cartooney late-1800s moustache*

  4. What would Unity do?

    Cash-in on a bunch of Wall-Street folk investing without a clue, then ride their golden parachute until it hits pool water. In my response, I assume you meant to type "Ubuntu" and not "Unity." If you're really asking what a program would do when a company goes public well.... it will compute?

  5. Re:I was an Ubuntu user back in the day on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Isn't Mint built on top of Ubuntu?

    Isn't every distro just a collection of the same base packages, some specific tools, a repo, and an installer?

  6. Re:Redhat with apt on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    archlinux.org

  7. Re:Even with what remains, profitability a challen on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    According to http://distrowatch.com/ Mint is already way more popular than ubuntu on the desktop. They are struggling hard to try to find some way to monetize and make proprietary an already free eco system. In my experience, an Ubuntu user is synonymous with someone not understanding anything about Linux but they "heard it was good/easy." What they really need is a backroom deal with some OEM to start pushing their specific repackaging onto machines first-sale. Ubuntu as a server is a joke, and Red Hat already dominates that space. Even though Red Hat's product is mirrored with a free-as-in-beer alternative (CentOS), folks still pay out the ass for support (meaning instead of hiring in-house folks to work on the already open-source software to make it work correctly or troubleshoot your system, you pay Red Hat to care about your problems. ) And they do a pretty good job at that. But for the desktop? Without some shitty not-free (in spirit or otherwise) backroom deal they got nada.

  8. Also, save the children of Uganda.

  9. I'll match your VI and raise you an Mproved.

  10. Re:It's a shame on Why Did Ubuntu Drop Unity? Mark Shuttleworth Explains (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Bad news, this person was using Ubuntu so probably was not aware that Linux was anything but an alternate desktop environment for "the cpu."

  11. Re:Russia is a menace to all free people. on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Queue the "bengazi" and "but email" flamebait to follow. Seriously, can we talk about TECH on a TECH SITE and POLITICS maybe you can spam reddit with your animated Trump-The-Frog and Hilary-stroke gifs? The election has been long over.

  12. Re:what if they accessed customer data on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
    Mr. Robot? Maybe he was referencing the story that Mr. Robot ripped off and "techified" for season 1 -- Fight Club.

    You met me at a very strange time in my life.

  13. Strict mode? on New Cyber Attacks Hit Airport, Metro in Ukraine (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Operating in a stricter mode

    So what? The airports put "use strict;" at the top of their perl scripts? Is this some sort of loose-syntax exploit?

  14. Re:Discovered Orville on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that the original Enterprise goes to both the center of the galaxy and the edge of it. Maybe Kirk was secretly using the mushroom drive when he shouldn't have been, just like the crew of Picard's enterprise always had that illegal romulan ale on hand. Maybe the art of fermentation was lost on humanity.... maybe just calling it a different name checked all the right boxes and let them continue to do as they pleased.

  15. Re:Highest in history... Trust me. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe by "sign-ups" they are referring to NEW customers signing up, not total number of people who signed up in the history of the service.

  16. Re: It kinda sucks. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You die every time you transport. And a new organism is born in your image!

  17. Great Gig! on Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Scientists paid to look at great tits all day? Where do I sign up???

  18. Re:What is the "Red-hot co-working space business" on WeWork Employees Caught Spying on Competition (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think they are in the business of finding space to cram a bunch of temp-workers in for an overnight call center, which will go out of business before it is time to pay taxes and then it will lease that same space to a small start-up which believes strongly that work can't be done remote, and requires space-holders to sit in cubes to function. Basically short-term landlords targeting business.

  19. Re: Strange days indeed.... on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad #2 in your hypothetical doesn't apply to Mr. Kim ( and I'm not talking about Kim Dotcom)

  20. Re: Strange days indeed.... on US Preparing to Put Nuclear Bombers On 24-Hour Alert (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump is a perfect candidate for the Fletcher Memorial Home. "I'm gonna bomb the shit out of them."

    The one for incurable tyrants and kings?

  21. Re:3D-printed baby? on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had a "black hole" propose several things to me. I usually try to explain why it's a bad idea, there's a much simpler way, or why it won't work altogether, before I bow my head, say "yes boss...." and get to work.

  22. Re:April Fools' Day on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    How can a man create a machine which is smarter than the man? At its basics, everything is just AND, OR, XOR, MOV, and SHIFT. To put it another way, if you passed all the knowledge of the universe over a wire it would only be as useful as the other side's ability to decode and interpret/apply that knowledge.

  23. Re:Meh on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    It did go to show just how bullshit all this "AI" is... which does go against the tone of half the slashdot articles it seems.

    • Neural Net being trained to help boy find lost dog
    • Is AI going to replace your local barista?
    • Google testing AI which will push the bounds of human achievement

    Oddly enough, it does suggest that AI is "good" at humor, at least in the field of comedy with which both mad libs and screaming homeless folk practice.

  24. Re: It *IS* fun! Finally... on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    Likely it's the "curly quote"... which only brings up more questions. Did this user type their response into Word and copy-paste it into slashdot? Before you say "Nobody would ever do that"..... walk a few years in my life. Observe others... The doc says so long as I stop asking "Why?" the anyurisms will likely stay away.

  25. Re:It's easy to forget on Companies Overlook Risks in Open Source Software, Survey Finds (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    And what about proprietary software that also bundles? You'd have no way of even tracking this if you had a policy. Think how many things were affected by some RSA library that was bought by many companies for use on smart codes recently. If you read the article, they even discovered a company with keys generated in a different weak way, but couldn't guess as to the lib version or what one-off patches were applied to it.