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  1. JarJar Binks? Jake Lloyd?

  2. Re:Why do marketers love to make things difficult? on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Mozilla has been a rudderless ship for years due to piss-poor management. Rearranging the deck chairs is all they can think of doing these days.

  3. Re:Mozilla Suite on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because Mozilla has been a rudderless ship for years due to piss-poor management.

  4. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    *yawn* Weak trolling is weak.

  5. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Just fuck off. None of those websites are making anything uo:

    Lifeway issued a statement saying stores will be pulling the remaining copies of the book from stores.

    “LifeWay was informed this week that Alex Malarkey has retracted his testimony about visiting heaven as told in the book “The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven.” Therefore, we are returning to the publisher the few copies we have in our stores.”

    https://wgntv.com/2015/01/16/b...

    Thursday evening, Todd Starowitz, public relations director of Tyndale House, told The Washington Post: “Tyndale has decided to take the book and related ancillary products out of print.”

    On Friday afternoon, Tyndale released this statement: “We are saddened to learn that Alex Malarkey, co-author of ‘The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven,’ is now saying that he made up the story of dying and going to heaven. Given this information, we are taking the book out of print.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com...

    And direct from the publisher's website:

    Since 2010, Tyndale House Publishers has been the publisher of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven—the story of Alex Malarkey, a six-year-old boy who was in a horrific auto accident that left him in a coma for two months. When he awoke from the coma, he related to his parents that angels had taken him to the gates of heaven. Tyndale has been saddened to hear that Alex is now saying that he made up the story of dying and going to heaven. This was the first time Tyndale had been told that Alex fabricated the story. We were alerted to his public statement on January 14, 2015, and have since confirmed Alex’s retraction with his father, Kevin Malarkey.

    https://www.tyndale.com/news/t...

    Now please tell me how quotes directly from the book's publisher are now fake, too.

  6. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, there are plenty of people who willfully lie about things like this. Prime example: The boy who claimed to see heaven and came back lied about it.

    I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention,” Malarkey admitted.

  8. Re:They pass on their jokes on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hey, son, pull my finger!"

  9. Re:I've often wondered about this on Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Those that claim to have lived past lives, I've often though those were memories coded in our genetic material, passed on to try to help the survival of the species.

    Or maybe they're just lying charlatans?

  10. Re:Finally! on Magic Leap Offers a First Look At Its Mixed Reality OS (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Please show me proof of anyone having a HoloLens in either 2013 or 2014. The pre-production dev kits didn’t start shipping until March of 2016.

  11. Re:Still shilling this con, slashdot? on Magic Leap Offers a First Look At Its Mixed Reality OS (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    SD will have made a literal small fortune from pushing this BS here.

    Yep, they've probably literally made pennies.

  12. Re:Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    BTW if patents licenses are compulsory, how do you explain Intel not being forced to license x86 patents? If they were, more than just AMd would have a license from Intel. Or how do you explain the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit over patents? If patent licensing were compulsory, there would be no case since Apple would have been forced by law to license the patwnts to Samsung.

  13. Re:Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, as I said the US has compulsory licensing of certain copyrighted works, but it does not work that way for patents. Did you even read the article?

  14. Re:Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Just as proof from the article:

    It’s entirely possible that AMD wants to use the building blocks of Zen or AMD’s SeaMicro fabric and combine them with its own homegrown capabilities in ways that wouldn’t infringe on patents held by Intel or other players in the industry.

    If patent licensing was compulsory why would they care about infringing Intel's patents? Intel would have to give them a license. Oh wait, except there is nothing requiring Intel to license its patents which is why they are working around that as backed up by the paragraph above this one:

    This suggests that the JV is structured to bypass restrictions in AMD’s x86 license agreement with Intel that would otherwise prevent the company from signing any such agreement.

  15. Re:Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in that article is there any proof of a law requiring compulsory licensing of patents.

  16. Re:Um... didn't AMD on Nvidia, Western Digital Turn to Open Source RISC-V Processors (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    but last I checked that was required by law (that's kind of the point of patents)

    No, it's not. You're conflating patents and copyrights.

  17. Re:Why did it take them so long? on For Better or Worse, YouTube Now Adapts to Multiple Aspect Ratios (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway I don't get why people would watch video in anything other than fullscreen.

    Because they are doing more than one thing at a time?

  18. Re:You always thought wrong on 364 Idaho Inmates Hacked Their Prison Tablets For Free Credits (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Cool story, neckbeard.

  19. Re:You always thought wrong on 364 Idaho Inmates Hacked Their Prison Tablets For Free Credits (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hacker has been used as a label for a criminal for multiple decades. Move on, neckbeard, no one cares that hacker meant something different to the 70s MIT AI lab programmers.

  20. Re:I've had so many people ask me about this on 'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Would never take that bet. Expecting the average American to find a foreign country on a map is a sucker's bet.

  21. Re:Must read on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    To add:

    Any pro-OSM thread on Reddit, Hacker News or elsewhere quickly descends into “but openstreetmap.org looks pig-ugly” / “but when I type my street address into openstreetmap.org it’s not found” / “but openstreetmap.org doesn’t have live traffic”. We know that’s missing the point, that osm.org is just a testbed for OpenStreetMap proper, the data that lets you solve these problems. We understand OSM’s direction of travel. Neophytes don’t. They see a single eccentric-looking (albeit lovely), purplish map they can edit. (That’s why everyone’s first edit is adding a footpath with name=Footpath or somesuch, thinking only about how it appears on osm.org.)

    Boohoo. People actually expect software that works. What "neophytes"!

  22. Re:Must read on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    But the submitted article then whines about that article and then handwaves away most of the complaints about OSM claiming they are made by "neophytes" who just don't "get it."

  23. Re:needs frontend/ui on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 2

    In the end, who would contribute to Google or Apple maps voluntarily when you could contribute to OSM and have your edits be part of an open dataset?

    More than a billion people?

  24. Re:I've had so many people ask me about this on 'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The summary is quite clear on where it's visible:

    At least part of the eclipse is visible from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, most of Asia and South America.

    That came straight from the BBC source article.

  25. Re:Easy.... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not really. Many more people died without them and had less than half the life expectancy. I'm pretty sure a person who, for example, needs a patented medical device like a pacemaker just to stay alive won't be very impressed by your statement.