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  1. Don't bite the hand on Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    that feeds you. A very old saying. You work at a google sponsored lobby firm, remember who pays your check.

  2. Why all the comments? on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there is a person under a rock running ia32 system still? Thousands of developers, using their free time need support them? Dump ia32. Don't even simile as you do it. Just dump it.

  3. omg; bernie want's to make money on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    off his image, first. Like this is a bad thing? You use my face, you ask me first. When you don't and I object, that is not bullying. So, to bad your ill gotten money stream is screwed.

  4. Use linux fool director on The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Remove the mic and video drivers on boot, install a script to keep them unloaded. Or use windows and put tape over the one and hope someone isn't listening.

  5. Robots have butts? on People Feel Weird About Touching Robot Butts, Researchers Find (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? What a stupid study. Machines don't have butts, backsides, genitals, faces, .... Don't get stupid. Machines are ... machines.

  6. Offered a sea change on China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    China's political party turns back from the sea, into the desert. They speak of corruption, but in reality, when faced with it, in their families, they do nothing. So much for 'communism'. Really, they are oligarchs.

  7. Quicken Loans Arena? Where else would the Republican party hold a convention.

  8. Re:Report + Judgment on Anonymous Goes After Miami Police Officer Who Doxed An Innocent Woman (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Not only accessing database without cause, but if they were federal databases or cost the county money (credit ratings), that could be malfeasance in office. Accessing a federal database illegally, cause for federal felony charges. It's about time this privacy issue come the front. Government officials have a too cavalry opinion of themselves. More need to be in jail. I wonder if their databases have access logs along with a case number the access was authorized by. If not that would be a good start to keeping police officer's noses clean.

  9. Earth Shattering news! on Released: First PC Based On Russia's Homegrown "Baikal" Processor (t-platforms.ru) · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Earth Shattering news! The Russians have caught up to 1990s technology. What's next? Home grown credit cards? Electric fans, toaster? Oh, yea, nothing to by in 3rd world nation.

  10. Cloud mount! on LibreOffice 5.1 Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Well, interface wise I don't see that much difference. I use a desktop with 1280x1080 and a laptop with what 13xx by what ever. The point is a little less bling with respect to toolbars is just great. I Never use a toolbar. I go right to the menus. So wasted space. There are, at least four ways to save a file. Really? four ways. File/Save, clt-s, a curious icon at the bottom of the application and in the toolbar. Four. Over fu*king kill. The ability to cloud mount! YES! I'm OK with Google's online editor. But that also means I have to be proficient in two editors. But this also means I can store my files on google drive and drop my git backup system, moving files from desktop to laptop and back. It's not difficult, but now, not needed as I always have a wifi or G3 connect. So for the first time, I'm donating to Libreoffice! $50 US. Easily the best money, besides contributing to Bernie Sanders, that I have spent this year.

  11. Cooling shouldn't be that hard on Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Really Microsoft can't you figure out a better way to cool a stack of servers? Also the waste heat could be used better, like warming a pond for fish to live in. A mile off shore? What's the point.

  12. Re:Affects about 1 000 000 viewers in Norway too on Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden (telecompaper.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. I dropped all TV support three years ago and haven't missed it. More, not spending $1400 a year for a few hours of programing I didn't feel much about ... what a wonder! Dropped the landline too in favor of a low cost cell carrier and local DSL. Verizon and Dish are now history. My bills are way down.

  13. Now I got to get one on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    For a historical footnote in the draw I have filled with failed tech.

  14. UK; this surprises you? on UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That country is working hard on becoming a toliet. The movie 'V' for Vendetta. Start thinking about Brits.

  15. that doesn't say much about tablet sales. I haven't seen a tablet in the hands of a human in months.

  16. Re:Bodes Really Well for a Fair Trial on Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Your comment is ... weird. Snowden is very upfront about his crimes. By any measure a 'fair trial' would certainly give him life in prison or the death penalty for treason, although that's not been handed down since the end of WW2. Don't get me wrong. I think his actions, exposing the abuses of liberty under the Bush and Obama administrations was a good thing, but he did what he did. Lots of congressmen should be charged, tried and hung for their efforts to make the United States into a police state. That 'Patriot Act' was quite the crime against America and give license to the Executive to do all sorts of stupid things. Bush might have been a better president without it. He might have had to think before doing. The tree of liberty needs the blood of patriots from generation to generation to keep it alive. Edward Snowden is certainly a patriot in my eyes.

  17. Wizbangy; I don't need the hassel. on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 2

    I still haven't figured out why a consumer, with the price of USB/3 drives so low, I need offsite storage. My access time is slow, my upload limited. Back up to a usb drive is quick and cheap.

  18. it's a messaging app! on Univ. of New Haven Cyber Lab: WhatsApp Collects Phone Numbers, Call Duration, and More · · Score: 1

    Didn't my phone come with one preloaded? Why on earth would I need to get a new app to do what my phone already supports?

  19. History of Los Angeles Police on FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The first police department in LA was a gang. We've been fighting crime with paid criminals since then.

  20. Heading a project? on Ask Slashdot: Is it Practical To Replace C With Rust? · · Score: 1

    OK. The answer is very simple. Does Rust buy you something, timing, memory space, cheaper architecture, that C doesn't. What the language buys is critical.

    You are producing code for a business that must maintain it going forward, after you are gone and your young enthusiastic engineer has gone off to find a better job. He will.

    Realtime control has limits that must be observed. After that the choice of languages is all about long term support. So check the hire boards and see how easy it will be to replace your young enthusiastic engineer. If easy, make sure the next hire or two has Rust under their belt. Or go with C. The next hire will know that language.

    What I 'like' is not relevant. I liked bash for most system level scripting, but often python is a better choice. So I use python.

    Last. Talk your choice out with the young engineer. Let him know you took him seriously, did your homework. He's follow your lead easier with that example.

  21. Acer on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For a Reliable Linux Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Over the last five years I've had school designed Acer laptop, 2 core 1.1 g Hz that loaded Fedora over and over without issue.

    Then I got an HP laptop. I could never get the graphics to work with linux. I finally loaded virtualbox under windows and installed linux as a client.

    Fed up with that situation, I bought a nice 4 core 1.5 g Hz Acer that load Fedora after I partitioned the drive using Windows built in utility. It loaded Federa 22 without issue and now using Google-Chrome-beta, I can watch videos from Amazon and Netflix without an issue. It's been a month since I booted Windows.

    p.s. The best battery life I've had on the three is the latest Acer, an Aspire E 15 ( AMD Quad-Core E2-6110 ) and I think it was $349

  22. Re:I liked the cartoon that read: on Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events · · Score: 1

    Bad use of the word prank. He's a child using his brain to do something he couldn't do before. That's not a prank. He's a geek. We often don't see the world through christian/muslim terrorist eyes. We're still working on the concept of sex.

    A boy was trying to impress his female teacher. Really you guys can't see this as what it is. A boy bringing a shiny red apple to his female teacher hoping she will smile at him like he's a man, not a boy?

    WOW! A homemade clock to impress her and she thinks he made a bomb. Well, I suppose it was a bomb as he didn't get her approval.

  23. Re:Why is this surprising? on Wikipedia's Viewing Statistics Could Provide Better Web-Trends Data Than Google · · Score: 1

    I was going to write this same comment. I often read something via a google search, then look it up for more info on Wikipedia.

  24. Thinking about leaving any systemd linux behind on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am really tired of systemd. So really tired of the developers shoving that shit down the linux throat. It's not pretty, it seems to grow out of control, taking on more and more responsibility .... I don't even have an idea how to look at my logs anymore. Nor how to clear the damn things out! Adding toolkits should make the system as clear to understand as it was, not more complex. If it gets any worse it might as well be Windows 10! init was easy to understand, easy to use. syslog was easy read easy to understand and easy to clear. All this bull about "it's a faster startup" is just ... well bull. I'm using a computer 20 times faster than I was a decade ago. You think 20 seconds off a minute startup is an achievement? It's seconds on a couple of days uptime; big f*cking deal. Redhat, Fedora, turn away from the light and return to your roots!

  25. In for a penny, in for a pound on Ashley Madison Hack Claims First Victims · · Score: 1

    I don't have much sympathy for those persons whose names were exposed. Every time I sign up for a social media site I expect I have no privacy. I say what I want, but never expect privacy. I'm gay and have signed up for some pornographic site, but only after discussing it with my partner. I am spending our money after all. As to 'cheating' ... if you have to, shouldn't there be some full disclosure to your partner, straight or gay? If you need to there must be a reason, reasonable or not. If not ... I think your marriage is over already. Why wait? As to being a national in a overly sex involved government. That's was an upfront issue. You should know better than to put yourself at risk with your government. As to how this applies to Americans. It's time to get the equal rights and protections extended to all so that these private things don't affect day to day business of everyone else.