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  1. Re:Almost as stupid as Skype on Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When it's misbehaving, most of the time TASKKILL /F is intentionally ignored by Microsoft and they refuse to stop their garbage.

    Wow, really? The Three-Fingered Salute should be the end-all nuclear option of "don't argue with me, just fucking do it."

  2. Just sleazy and unethical.

  3. Re:Has anybody... on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a Slashdot article a few years back about some company applying for a patent on a method to find patentable ideas and apply for patents on them, actually.

    Ah, here it is: https://yro.slashdot.org/story...

  4. Re:Trivial patents on Apple Sued Over iPhones Making Calls, Sending Email (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We're just using irony ironically. The best way to deflate a sarcast is to take their sarcasm literally and show how it works that way.

  5. What do you mean by "TFA"? The Fucking Article? The Force A-something?

    And the early EU novels were quite good. If you're judging the whole sphere on what they released in the last 5-10 years, don't. Anything by Timothy Zahn ('91-'98), Children of the Jedi trilogy (1995), Black Fleet Crisis (1996), for example.

  6. So you relax by watching a show of complicated political intrigue?

  7. Google explains that an "adhesive layer" would be placed on the hood, front bumper and front side panels of a car. A thin coating would protect it until an impact occurred.

    Can't even be bothered to read the whole summary, eh? Proper sensitivity calibration eliminates your first 4 and a half points.

  8. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They had to put the Stop functionality *somewhere* after they made the window button context-sensitive.

  9. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Solving the wrong problem, but okay.

  10. Re: Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    That silly Backspace thing is not in Firefox by the way

    browser.backspace_action

  11. Re: Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's called about:config.

  12. Re:Give the option on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    4. Ensure that anything that could not be undone was guarded with a "confirm" and with a timeout

    FTFY?

    And how about

    8. Don't override standard windowing controls to do something else.

    Skype is so frustrating in that regard. The Close and Minimize window buttons both minimize, as well as File>Close. The only way to actually exit the damn thing is through the system tray menu.

  13. Re:Maybe they just don't like the shows? on Men Are Sabotaging The Online Reviews Of TV Shows Aimed At Women (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 2

    The tough part is stretching out one episode of stalking Hugh Laurie into an entire season

  14. When the target demographic refers to themselves with the term in question, how can there possibly be a problem with it?

    Other than "reclaiming" slurs I guess

  15. Re:Slashdot in twenty sixteen on Filmmakers Ask 'Pirate' to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    google "alternate web browsers on ios"

    The very first link: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feat...

    7 best iPhone web browser apps
            - Dolphin
            - Chrome
            - Opera Mini
            - Opera Coast
            - Ghostery
            - Atomic Browser

    None of those have adblockers? Not even Opera?

    Additionally, surely you're not implying that Apple doesn't know what's best for you in your walled garden? ;)

  16. Re:Slashdot in twenty sixteen on Filmmakers Ask 'Pirate' to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have ad-block plugins for my phone's browser

    Because...? Don't Firefox and Chrome both have adblockers you can install in mobile versions?

    So let me get this straight, you're semi-boycotting Slashdot because they removed a redundant feature, that you could easily have but are too lazy to install?

    FT

  17. Re:Slashdot in twenty sixteen on Filmmakers Ask 'Pirate' to Take Polygraph, Backtrack When He Agrees (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    So let me get this straight, you're semi-boycotting Slashdot because they removed a feature that didn't work, that you don't need anyway?

  18. Re:Religion is what's 'immoral' on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we could get some other word such that "Jewish" doesn't have 3 or 4 separate meanings that you can usually use to trip up people...

  19. Radio stations let you listen to a random sampling of music you probably don't own, without a subscription fee.

  20. Re:Where's the beef? on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, "on a computer" doesn't cover this. It would be equally dumb if they had cops out on patrol, specifically looking for topless people to arrest.

  21. Re:snap-hijab on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It depends which branch you ask. According to Catholics, the set size is 2 for { Christ, Mary }. Presumably Narcocide has questions of the definition of "being born" and the nature of Christ in mind for his count.

    Other branches that note the lack of evidence* for this whatsoever other than "church leaders say so" limit it to just { Christ }.

    * Okay "evidence" in this discussion is a bit...overloaded. I mean the Bible.

  22. Re:Religion is what's 'immoral' on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pragmatically speaking the language of the U.S. is English, but we don't have an official language.

    Does Israel really have to officially declare themselves a Jewish state?

  23. Re:Trump is the future on Iran Is Arresting Models Who Pose Without Headscarves On Instagram (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AC
    Refuse to compromise. Call everyone a bigot who doesn't agree with you. Insist it is your radical SJW bullshit way or the highway.

    silentcoder
    long list of liberal platform requirements
    You will NEVER escape that accusation unless you change on ALL those things.

    So basically the point of your post is that you agree with the AC's caricature.

  24. Wow, 3 whole posts and already #31 on his foe list. I never knew it was so easy.

  25. Don't you ever wonder why your friends are laughing and you just don't understand?

    Not really.

    It's true, Aspies don't recognize sarcasm

    Ah, the good old Internet standby of calling anyone who disagrees with you illiteral/mentally ill. So what mental disorder causes you to be rude to everyone you meet online?

    have poor social skills.

    Not projecting at all...