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  1. Re:Clicking and Surfing in 2020 on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    To log in you have to successfully debate the AI about the merits of capitalism.

    And it's so easy to slowly brainwash someone by having that same conversation every day...

  2. Re:What happened after win7?? on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a couple settings you can toggle to make the Win7 taskbar behave pretty much like the classic one, though.

    Namely,
    [X] Use small icons
    Taskbar buttons>Never combine

  3. To be whooshed there had to have been a joke.

  4. Re:know every file, every byte on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A real crazy Jedi downloads LFS and spends the next several light years trying

    How many parsecs is that?

    Lightyear is not a unit of time.

  5. Re:Classic Shell on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    >dehumanization

    We're just eyeballs in the pursuit of ad impressions and vendor lock-in if they're giving away W10 for free

    >totalitarian governments

    Microsoft uploading tracking data even when you turn it off

    >environmental disaster

    *cough mumble mumble*

  6. Re:Classic Shell on Microsoft Adding More Ads To Windows 10 Start Menu (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft doesn't just ban things. They instead keep changing it slightly so that your tools keep breaking in an effort to frustrate you into giving up.

    Usually when they try to outright ban something they get taken to court.

  7. Gizmodo reports that McAfee tried to do so by sending journalists with compromised smartphones -- riddled with malicious tools such as keylogger. From the report:

    "to a different couple of news organizations" is in a completely different sentence. Either the sentence as written is missing a direct object, or we got an extraneous "with" lodged in there somehow.

  8. Re:Point of Sale. on Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    No media play in the store = no sale.

    Because god forbid they have a salesdrone just click the big damn button that says "get codecs."

  9. Re:Warlocks need not apply on Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    I find the name 'Ultimate' a little distasteful, too

    No kidding. Maybe for version 2.0 he could rename it Orgasmix or something. How arrogant.

  10. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    That we had to have this entire conversation still demonstrates that it was a terrible example to use.

  11. Re:reality is: on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary was just badly worded.

    But this is Slashdot; you assume that, right? ;)

  12. Re:Religion and determinism? on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    "All-powerful" implies being able to chose not to know something

    Er...isn't this just another form of that "can God make a boulder so big he can't move it" nonsense?

    Choosing to ignore information and choosing to not know it are different. Unless your point is that choosing to not know it props up omnibenevolence?

  13. Re:Religion and determinism? on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you get into the whole argument about whether one can choose to believe.

  14. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop posting this all over the thread.

  15. Re:A non-issue on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    No, if you seed it with exactly the same time the run will be exactly the same; it's just that the clock has microsecond resolution or something so in practice you won't get collisions.

    Just because it's difficult to do so does in no way negate the fact that it will be identical.

  16. Re: Yeah, right on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess what I'm saying is, religion doesn't need to be disproven.

    In fact, I would say that any religion that *can* be scientifically proven stops being one.

  17. Re:Easier to prove conclusion wrong on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    Does anybody seriously think computers are anthropomorphic? Sounds like a guy who can't take a joke.

    But I guess what do you expect from a guy who thinks his language is the platonic ideal of programming.

  18. Re:Mandatory military or civil service in the US? on Taking a 'Gap Year' Before College Is a British Tradition That's Becoming a Big Trend In The US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    maybe we should get free graffiti removal from prospective college students

    People graffiti college students now? ;)

  19. Re:Other old saying also applies here on 20-Yr-Old Compaq Laptop Is Still Crucial to Maintaining McLaren's Multi-Million Dollar Cars (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    After 20 years I'm betting on the bridge being sooner rather than later.

  20. ...until it breaks and it's impossible to find a replacement which is the only hardware that will work with your car, then you have to create a new one from scratch.

  21. And then there's the odd choice of quotation.

    up to "80MB" of RAM

    If anything I would have quoted "up to." Or is there some DOS legacy code that would keep 80MB from all being addressed at once or something?

  22. Re:Drove me to this on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Not built in, but as I just said the Fuze and Clips have an SD card slot. A thread on the Rockbox forums suggest they should handle SDXC fine as long as you format is at FAT32.

    Who the hell needs a touchscreen? The Fuze+ has a capacitive cross-shaped area thingy. The rest are analog controls like God intended ;)

    Sansa with a Rockbox is Ford Fiesta. My Zune HD 64 is a Cadillac V-series.

    If you're talking price, maybe. Can you get radio on your Zune? Play games? Edit text files?

  23. Re:Drove me to this on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you meant battery life...in which case your Zune gets you 220 hours of music play one on charge?

    Rockbox benchmarks (Fuze v2)

  24. Re:Drove me to this on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So you have an 80-year-old Zune?

  25. Re:Updates are just as bad on Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    No, a lot of people just leave their computers on all the time.