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  1. The abortions = nazis judge... on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:They didn't buy it on RIP Xbox Fitness: Users Will Soon Lose Access To Workout Videos They Bought (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Expect those laws to disappear when those countries ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership...

  3. Is it going to be more or less effective than TSA searches?
    If i remember correctly, they failed to find potentially dangerous objects in 92% of test cases...

  4. I abandon most "Apps" when i see the ridiculous permissions they want (and don't need to function).

  5. Business rates? on Terrorists No Longer Welcome On OneDrive, Outlook, Xbox Live (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So, they're going to have to pay business rates for hosting "terrorist" content now.
    After all, money and power are all that matters to microsoft.

  6. aka Facebook wants more subjects to datamine on Connecting Everyone To Internet 'Would Add $6.7 Trillion To Global Economy' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't see how anyone apart from facebook is going to get financially better from this.
    Companies make statements like this, without actually backing it up with facts.

  7. Philips isn't even BetaMax. It's Video 2000, just like they were before...

  8. webfonts on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    Not disabling webfonts using the "--disable-remote-fonts" commandline parameter with Chrome under Windows XP will get you random Chrome crashes and even BSODs while visiting Google sites like Youtube.
    Seems like an old win32k.sys vulnerability that was supposedly patched in 2009.

  9. Power Surges on Man Arrested After Charging iPhone On London Overground Train · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    On a forum dedicated to the London Underground, members have pointed out that plug sockets on the trains are for cleaning equipment deployed when trains are in depots. They recommend not charging electronic equipment as there is a risk of power surge: âoeIf something was directly plugged into it (for example a standard computer, or a laptop without a battery in) the equipment would probably be damaged at any section gaps where the power supply changes from one substation to another!â

    It's basically to avoid getting sued if a power surge breaks your device.

  10. Re:tropical thailand on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: 1

    A quick google for "thailand obesity" brings up another story...

    Here's one.

  11. Eurogeul on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1
  12. Followup: Possible Infected Shellfish on GlaxoSmithKline Released 45 Liters of Live Polio Virus · · Score: 2

    Since this happened a month ago, you should have included the followup story about possible infected shellfish...

  13. Re:"He's really not an expert" on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 1

    Mao thought he was improving the world and so were a lot of other people...

  14. Re:It's always amazed me... on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    If you were the one posting the off-topic "3D printers suck" rant in every single irrelevant thread; you deserved it.

  15. Re:Almost there on Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives · · Score: 1
  16. Hard drives & Scooters on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    "Made in China" has been a warning label for Hard Drives for a long time now. Abyssmal quality control/High failure rate.
    Scooters coming out of China have been literally falling apart after about 1200km of driving them and dying after a few thousand more. Repairmen aren't even touching them anymore.
    Chinese cars (Landwind) have been on the European market for a while now. In 2010, the CV9 model went through a crash test and failed pretty miserably.
    Maybe they've learned from their mistakes, but probably not.

  17. Re:Windows XP on Microsoft Issues Advisory For Internet Explorer Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, people will be wondering if this vulnerability has been known for at least a month, possibly much longer, because those Windows 8 licenses haven't been selling as well as expected...

  18. ATMs are running XP Embedded on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For Windows XP EOL? · · Score: 1

    XP Embedded's support doesn't end when XP does.

    Windows XP Embedded (Toolkit and Runtime), all versions - January 12, 2016

    From https://www.microsoft.com/wind...

  19. Opera is dead. on Former Dev Gives Gloomy Outlook On Linux Support For the Opera Browser · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's just a disfunctional Chrome with Opera branding now.
    It died when they abandoned their own codebase.

  20. Magnets on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 2

    Does that mean that if i put a bunch of Molybdenum magnets under the sidewalk, i could get the dogs confused enough to stop pooping there?

    Or maybe the opposite effect...

  21. Rumours that Microsoft is in talks with AOL on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 1
  22. A warning to other companies... on Nokia's Elop Set To Receive $25 Million Bonus After Acquisition · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft offers to "Partner" with you, run and don't look back.

  23. Re:Heh on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Spinrite crashing on big disks is supposedly because of a bug in freedos (which it boots from) and should be fixable by replacing it with ms-dos...

  24. Microsoft image problems on Microsoft-Built Smartphone Could Irritate Hardware Partners, Harm Nokia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't imagine anyone bragging about having a Microsoft branded phone.

    They're just not cool.

  25. Re:Breakfast form once and for all on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1