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  1. "American Cheese" on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 1

    TFS Didn't say cheese. It said "American Cheese". That's the problem. No one wants to eat American Cheese.

    I've got some lovely French cheese in the fridge at home.

  2. Re:What I'd like to see is tech on AMD Announces Radeon VII, Its Next-Generation $699 Graphics Card (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Far Cry 5 dropped from $60 to $25 on steam. You just have to wait.

  3. Re: software developer tends not to be a stressful on Software Developer Tops List of U.S. News & World Report's Annual Best Jobs Rankings (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Junior devs might be able to render an ASCII apostrophe so it presents correctly on Slashdot.

  4. That explains why there's always been so much fertility problems and population decline in China where tofu and other soy products are so big: the soy is turning all the men into....oh wait, my mistake, that's the exact opposite of true.

    Fermenting soy mitigates the toxic components. Tofu and real soy sauce is legit.

  5. Truth be told, real burgers don't help much with the bitch tits either.

    I don't know about that man. I've been off dairy and meat since May of last year (except for Thanksgiving and Christmas) and no moobs yet. Kind of bogus that I haven't lost much weight though.

    I've been off plants for a year and I lost 70 pounds and the moobs.

  6. Not really necessary for audio for listening, but audio is small data these days and it's a wash between lossless and lossy audio provided your intenetz doesn't suck.

  7. Soy is a strong estrogen mimetic.

    All the vegan men can enjoy their expanding man boobs.

  8. Re:Gaming on laptop? on HP's Omen 15 is the First Gaming Laptop With a 240Hz Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    For home use, sure! But there are those of us who travel frequently and would like to knock out an hour or two gaming after work or in-flight. I would rather not fly with a pelican case for my desktop and monitor.

    Me neither. I would want to pack a pelican in a pelican case. A desktop computer is the wrong shape for that.

  9. On Christmas of 2016-17 my soon-to-leave-for-college daughter received a USB enabled turntable as a gift. All vinyl records in the house were promptly played into Audacity and captured to NAS.

  10. Re:Some data should be stored offline on Marriott Says Hackers Stole More Than 5 Million Passport Numbers (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My wife's business collects sensitive information - E.G. credit card info for billing customers, but there's quite a bit else. After going through the options, we decided that this stuff would get written in a book. If hackers got in, they wouldn't find much of value to them.

    The cost is you have to punch in the numbers into the card machine when fulfilling order. The saving is a reduction in PCI-DSS scam audits to pay for and peace of mind.

  11. Speaking of data loss though, how long is streaming service x going to be available and what happens when it shuts down?

    What happens when your cd player dies and it can't be fixed and nobody makes them any more? Pretty much the same thing.

    The CD is just a transmission medium between the vendor and one's personal storage devices.

  12. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Album Sales Are Dying as Fast as Streaming Services Are Rising (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    My NAS box is small. It holds all my music and the disc space has increased over time, faster than the increase in size of my music collection. Several gig used to be big. Now I can keep a copy of it all on each laptop and phone. For what I can't buy as an mp3 download (usually from a Russian mp3 store) I get the CD and rip.

    It doesn't help that my music tastes have drifted away from Western music so American streaming services typically have nothing of interest at all.

  13. Oh arse.

  14. They would have made one more sale if there was a headphone jack.

  15. Re:The ruling held that title laws are broadly res on Oregon Unconstitutionally Fined a Man $500 for Saying 'I am an Engineer,' Federal Judge Rules (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    >Though "professional engineer" and 'registered professional engineer" are still regulated

    Screw that. My job grade is "Principle Engineer", commonly called PE. Engineering is certainly my profession. I'm a professional engineer.
    If the state wants to make it illegal to claim a state certification that you don't actually have, then do that. So limit it to "Oregon state registered engineer". Anything more general is legit.

  16. Celery, arugular (aka rocket) and a number of other plants have far higher amounts of nitrite than bacon. If nitrites caused cancer, then celery should be banned before bacon. The fact that celery hasn't been associated with cancer completely undermines the hypothesis that nitrites in bacon cause cancer.
     

  17. People would pay to see that.

  18. I have yet to see a single physical retailer turn down cash.

    UHaul, Hillsboro, Oregon, across from the airport.
    Would not take cash for a strapping set.

  19. Re:It's still a fairly bad idea on Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.geany.org/

    You're right. I tried it a long time ago in geany and it wasn't there. It is now.
    If geany a text mode so I could use it in an ssh session, it would be perfect.

    VIM remains my goto linux editor, but I'll be giving Geany a go for when working in X and on the mac. BBedit ion the mac is nice but can't do columns right.

  20. Re:It's still a fairly bad idea on Canonical Shares Top 10 Linux Snaps of 2018 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    >Are there any really good GUI text editors with similar features to Notepad++ for Linux?

    The compelling feature of np++ for me is the column select, insert and edit. Select a column, type on multiple lines.
    I've not seen anything else on any platform with as good an interface as that.

  21. Re:I don't. on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I don't buy phones that don't have one.
    Genius, isn't it?

    Yes, easy to be smug if you are an Android user, and have real choice. But isn't "smug" what we accuse the Apple "sheeple" of ?
    Let's not be hypocrites.
    Many people, through no fault of their own, have become locked into the Apple ecosystem, and Apple killed their last phone with 3.5mm socket a few months ago.

    It is a serious annoyance, just just that. Apple is missing countless features that you may or may not want, but people only complain about the one that was there, and taken away.

    I was on the upgrade plan. The last iPhone I got was the first without the headphone jack. I won't be replacing it with a non headphone jack phone. I paid off the 'loan' and kept the phone. LG is likely to get my business when that time comes.

    The first batch of headphone jack victims haven't yet had time to act on their learnings. It will get worse for the no-jack vendors as most of the population loses the jack, learns it's bad, lives with it and a couple of years later makes a different purchasing decision. The dwell time is around two years.

  22. Re: But keep teaching them to return/tab... on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Scrivener looked nice when I tried it. No one wants to read any fiction that I would write though.

  23. Re: But keep teaching them to return/tab... on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It becomes a nightmare when you have large document with structures hierarchical numbering and mathematical equations. That's why I switched to writing my book in Latex after briefly fighting with word. I use word every day at work and it often makes life difficult one way or the other.

  24. Re:But keep teaching them to return/tab... on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It'd be much more reaosnable to teach them how a word processor works.

    That's why kids these days waste their time messing with word's settings, rather than learning to let LaTeX do the heavy lifting for them.

  25. Re:Wrong end of the "gun" on Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials · · Score: 2

    Alzheimer's is likely the result of the brain trapping infectious agents: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0.... It makes little sense to treat the symptom of an infection rather than its cause.

    I wouldn't call it likely. It's a recent observation. No path of causation has been shown.

    It looks like the smart money is on the Alzheimers == Type 3 diabetes hypothesis. There's lots of solid causation pathways there.