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  1. Re:Ubuntu 18.01 Margarita Manterola on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed, neither of those are first nor last names of a person.

  2. Wait a minute on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Why did he put his computers and bicycle in the bathroom?

  3. Re:Ubuntu vs. Mint, Cinnamon vs. Mate on Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've tried all four, and personally find that Mint is slightly more geared towards traditional desktop users that want a stable system. Aside from the interface there's mostly just tweaks to the default applications that Ubuntu otherwise offers, typically with additional configuration options.

    Some of the major application improvements I find in Mint is a file manager that's more customizable, informative and friendly towards keyboard navigation. There's also an update manager that will give more details about package origins, version numbers, changelogs with CVEs resolved, and their level of stability, e.g.: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-c.... This as opposed to Ubuntu which wants you to install everything immediately.

    As for Cinnamon or MATE I would recommend Cinnamon as it is a fork of GNOME 3 rather than MATE being a GNOME 2 fork, making modern application compatibility issues much less likely. It requires additional system resources tough.

  4. Shut it down on Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? · · Score: 1

    They should've shut the company down, open-sourced their codebase and donated their blood-money to the EFF.

    Though I might be biased.

  5. Breaks my workflow on Belgium Ends 19th-Century Telegram Service (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I still use it to connect to my IRC gateway

  6. Hey, that's a half-truth!

  7. Re:The simplest answer is often the correct one. on Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Completely agree with you - Occam's Razor Wins Again...

    That's a butchering of Occam's Razor. The law is about preferring the most parsimonious hypothesis, i.e. the one that makes the fewest assumptions.

    Dark matter being composed of a diffuse gas of standard baryonic matter could be the simplest hypothesis, but it makes many assumptions by implicitly refuting consolidating evidence against it. Wikipedia lists a few of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re: Time to add encryption to civilian GPS? on Russia Suspected In GPS-Spoofing Attacks On Ships (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The capability doesn't seem to be beyond the Russians either, as they seem to have been rolling out this kind of electronic warfare tech in recent years:
    Borisoglebsk 2
    Drone and UAV defense in Ukraine

  9. Re:Cultural values? on PewDiePie Is Inexcusable But DMCA Takedowns Are Not the Way To Fight Him (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In Sweden, the name of a traditional pastry even translates to "Nîgger balls." It's seems that it's just not as much of a taboo for us, now mostly heard as a jocular word from old-timey speak.

    But of course, the word is also used in a derogatory maner by assholes. I'm guessing pewdiepie isn't actually a racist, but just mimicking what he hears from edgy American TV shows.

  10. Now there's a man outstanding in his field on Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I just came here to leave a MST3K reference. Thank you.

  11. Re: No-reply@ is a valid address here on Modest Proposal To Companies: Let Your Customers Respond To Your Emails - Kill no-reply@ (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Why would anyone want to purposely select to only provide support to the idiots?

    Maybe they're in the lottery or alternative medicine business?

  12. I think the world is large enough to fit discussions on both 9/11 conspiracy theories and e-mail netiquette.

    Today my coworker configured a no-reply@ account, though I failed him in the code review for using a mail template with an XHTML doctype and HTML5 syntax. First thing Monday I'll also check whether we're leaving a reasonable way of getting in touch with the company.

  13. Re:Your browser is not supported... on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The code is on GitHub, so a quick glance tells me that this is the only place where that error occurs: https://github.com/mozilla/sen...

    So the browser must support the Web Cryptography API along with the modern GCM cipher for encrypting/decrypting the file. I don't see enforcing high-grade end-to-end cryptography as "marketing bullshit."

  14. Re:My first thought wasn't terrorism (for once).. on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    One reason does seem to be to convert. As per https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/master/docs/metrics.md

    Are non-Firefox users converted to Firefox users?

  15. Oblig. xkcd on Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://xkcd.com/949/

    I know my parents want something like this.

  16. It's a word kids and young adults think is a synonym for "great" or "extraordinary," diluting the impact of its original meaning.

    The professional author used the word correctly in the quote, referring to a war epic (i.e. a series of events involving heroism, tragedy and history), as opposed to the hack fraud Slashdot story submitter.

  17. Re:What's so special about analog video? on Nolan's Cinematic Vision in 'Dunkirk' is Hollywood's Best Defense Against Netflix (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    70 mm film allows for a perceived resolution of around 11520x4900 pixels with an IMAX projector. I'm guessing theaters want to sell more seats with the high resolution experience, and some are willing to pay for it.

    Personally I don't think that's what was missing from the theater experience.

  18. It's always a trade-off on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 2

    Allowing the password to be revealed is an unwanted security risks to some parano- er... cautious folk and corporations. For one, it means that the password could be picked up by a larger portion of malware, e.g. screen grabbers and rogue browser extensions that are allowed to read the DOM.

    Second, it means that the password isn't hashed, but either encrypted or stored in plain text somewhere on disk. A hashed password (with a random salt, to thwart rainbow tables) is generally harder to reverse than an encrypted password.

    In an enterprise setting, when important passwords can't be revealed it makes more sense to keep them in a safe or a password manager, access to which could be easier to manage.

    But when you can't remember your Wi-Fi password for your guests, maybe convenience outweighs security.

  19. Re:4k doesn't fix bad focus on SpaceX Releases Ultra-HD 4K Footage Of Falcon 9 Landing (4k.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see it. Though I can see the rocket passing through the air it's heating, akin to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Probably a boatload of swastikas on Nutella Used An Algorithm To Design 7 Million Unique Labels (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravatar early on seemed to generate plenty of swastikas. I hope at least one ends up rotated 45 degrees over, say, a white circle with a red background.

  21. Re:Remind me again... on Scientists Are Using Gene Editing To Create the Perfect Tomato For Your Salad (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The stories about Monsanto suing innocent farmers are myths or more complicated than some narratives portray them. Popular Monsanto myths have been debunked over and over, yet they keep being brought up:

    http://theness.com/neurologica...
    http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
    https://geneticliteracyproject...
    https://skeptics.stackexchange...

    I would at least recommend an excerpt from The Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast about Monsanto myths:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  22. Re:Slashdot is broken on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the heads-up. A quick search indicates that Stylish now bundles some garbage analytics. One seemingly good-hearted Stylish fork for Chrome I found is Stylus.

  23. Re:Slashdot is broken on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The CSS can be overridden to get rid of the empty space. I use an extension called Stylish with these rules for Slashdot:

    div#comments.a2commentwrap {
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    }

    #comments {
    padding-right: 0;
    }

  24. And after the people at marketing have sent those .png files to us devs I'll run them through pngcrush to trim them to ~70% of the original size. Then they're ready for the web.

  25. Re:Star Wars on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    I think that the ring explosion you're talking about was added in one of the terrible Special Edition releases. See a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Unless you own a VHS or Laserdisc release, the easiest way you're going to see Han shooting Greedo unprovoked is by torrenting either a the fan made Despecialized Edition (cobbled together from different sources) or the Silver Screen release (based on a recently-discovered 35mm print).