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  1. What do we think? on Should Plex Stop Allowing Users To Opt Out of Data Collection? (www.plex.tv) · · Score: 2

    That something else will appear to take up its place. In this environment, that is what happens when people start getting heavy handed.

  2. Really, Microsoft? on Bing is 'Bigger Than You Think', Says Microsoft (onmsft.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, after all these years, Bing remains so irrelevant that you have to resort to proclaiming that it is not irrelevant?

  3. That can't be true! on Trump Adviser Steve Bannon is Leaving White House Post (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Give alternative facts instead.

  4. Getting help from the brainless? on Chatbot Helps Students Choose Courses (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The state-of-the-art in the chatbox world still remains pretty pathetic. Chatbots these days are better than the venerable, 50-year-old Eliza - but only somewhat better. These idiots are going to help students choose courses? Maybe students who require help from such totally stupid systems do not belong in college.

  5. Quality of life in the Silicon Valley on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    One can have a great quality of life in the Silicon Valley, provided one brings in $300K+ a year, or one is independently wealthy. For the rest, it is a rather miserable existence. The weather tends to be nice though - except during the rainy season.

  6. A battery breakthrough announced in this forum almost guarantees that said breakthrough will fizzle and will become completely forgotten within a few months.

  7. Old news on Deadly Drug-Resistant Fungus Sparks Outbreaks In UK (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This started happening over a year ago, affecting the brains of a significant percentage of the British population, including most of its politicians.

  8. This is par for the course for Samsung, well-known for coming up with the hottest, most explosive handsets in the market.

  9. Keeping the name? on Google Allo For Chrome Finally Arrives, But Only For Android Users (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I am surprised that Google is using the same name for this under Chrome. Google has an extensive history of changing names so as to maximize confusion and doubt. It is probably the only company that seems to be keen on promoting FUD about themselves.

  10. If you want to transition from Unity to anything other than Gnome or KDE, count me in. If you want to transition to non-systemd, count me in twice. Otherwise, get stuffed.

  11. Microsoft pushing crappy products? on Consumer Reports Pulls Microsoft Laptop Recommendation (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Say it ain't so! Microsoft has never, ever done such a thing.

  12. Is there anything the UK won't try to criminalize? on UK Wants To Criminalize Re-Identification of Anonymized User Data (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That country seems to be in the hands of yahoos, nitwits and tinpot despots wannabees these days.

  13. Re:"True"? Not possible on Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Everything in the universe is predictable, including so called "chaos". There is no such thing as truly random.

    Those who do not know quantum mechanics are condemned to carry on ignoring it.

  14. A global investment firm? on Global Investment Firm Warns 7.8 Degrees of Global Warming Is Possible (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    What are they going to issue authorized opinions on next? The finer points of string theory? Devote your time to investment and leave climate science to climate scientists.

  15. You want to bet? on Mass Market Hopes For Battery-free Cell Phone Technology (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How many "battery breakthroughs" announced in Slashdot over the years have ever made it to the masses? One in fifty? One in a hundred? None/

  16. Re:Voice has a time and place. on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure with time voice recognition will eventually be acceptable, but it's still in it's infancy.

    Like the rest of AI disciplines, it has been in its infancy for over 50 years now. Some infancy.

  17. The dinosaurs must first die, in order to allow new concepts to flourish. By the middle of the century most dinosaurs will be gone.

  18. Because there is a shameful dearth of text editors under Linux.

  19. Re:It's not Microsoft or SCO who hurt Linux. on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Hear, hear. The main Linux are becoming more and more like Windows wannabees. Fortunately, we still have alternatives. The day I have no choice but to use Gnome (or KDE) and systemd will be the day I'll ditch Linux.

  20. Bravo, Lenovo on Lenovo Switches To Stock Android For All Future Smartphones (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    My next phone might end up being a Lenovo.

  21. Shuttleworth's decision on Ubuntu Will Revert Window Controls To the Right-Hand Side in Next Release (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Typical: a guy who has succeeded on something beyond reasonable expectation believes that he is an expert on just about everything. Reality, as usual, straightening things up.

  22. Wow! What a breakthrough! on Microsoft Is Updating the Windows Console Colors For the First Time In 20 Years (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I will forever remember where I was when I learned about such momentous news. There is no gainsaying that the world will be an utterly different place after this epoch-making development.

  23. Re:The Same People Who LOOOOVE Evolution on In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation From Genes in Human Embryos (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    I hope that you are joking, for it would be difficult to reveal more ignorance and prejudice in just two lines.

  24. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

    Or close the door in your bathroom when you go to do your business. After all these years, these nitwits have yet to grasp the concept of privacy.

  25. Another stupid and ignorant politician on 'Real People' Don't Need End-To-End Encryption In Their Messaging Apps, UK Home Secretary Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Of which there seem be a lot these days in the UK. It is scary that such ignoramuses are making decisions that will be affecting our lives for years to come.