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  1. Free Market, RIGHT? on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Here comes the flood of free market conservatives mad at private companies for making private decisions. LOL.

  2. This site could use a cleanup as well on President Trump Accuses Twitter of Political Bias (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the hell has happened to the /. comments section over the past 10 years? This place has gone fucking crazy with right wing crybabies. Used to come back here to see reasoned and thoughtful discussion even while the trolls were prevalent, but now it's just some bot-esque echo chamber of crazy people. It's like the bots and crazies that infested local newspaper comments section added this site to their target lists for propaganda.

  3. Re:Content waning, incompetence rising on Netflix Is 12x As Popular As Its Streaming Competitors Among Younger Viewers, Says Survey (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Netflix is getting hammered with PR and backroom dealings by the media companies that don't really want it to succeed. If they raise prices or simply don't negotiate to allow Netflix to even have their shows, they reduce Netflix influence. Luckily, Netflix has started creating their own shows and they are ALL killing everyone else as far as quality. Stranger Things, Luke Cage, Daredevil, House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, they are actually making content that is worth watching. Everyone else is trying to set up their own streaming service, but in the end, none of those services will survive past life support against superior capabilities by players like Netflix and Amazon.

    Your issue with Netflix sounds like an ISP issue or a device issue, not a Netflix issue.

  4. Re:Like suing McDonald's for hot coffee on Florida Man Sues Samsung, Says Galaxy Note 7 Exploded (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung has not responded well to this problem

    They recalled ALL Note 7 devices. Are you intentionally feigning ignorance? (hint: yes, you are)

  5. Re:GPS imperative on Tech Firms Have An Obsession With 'Female' Digital Servants (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Quiet, peasant, and serve me that last 3oz strip of steak immediately.

    *waves hand around in reverance of the power wielded among the servants at the Golden Corral buffet*

  6. Re:After reading discussion in the pfsense forums. on FreeBSD-Powered Firewall Distro OPNsense 16.1 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    TThey also took over the m0nowall domains from it's creator and instead of maintaining them as-is, they redirect to their own domain and crown themselves as successors to the legacy of that project, when really, pfSense is that.

    If that m0n0wall piece is true, these guys are obviously looking more at $ and not community.

  7. Re:Why they forked on FreeBSD-Powered Firewall Distro OPNsense 16.1 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The OPNsense project wants to partner with business and make a success of it together. This is why we have a partner program where businesses get project benefits while supporting the project financially.

    To get listed as partner of the OPNsense project means an annual investment of € 2500.
    Special partners are assigned the Platinum Partner status. These are the partners that made an exceptional contribution to the project.

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    These guys just want their version to be the go to version so they can cash in on OSS on their chosen terms instead of ESF's, all while riding others works...

  8. Re:I am sure on FBI "Took Over World's Biggest Child Porn Website" (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    In fairness, CSI:Miami had Horatio going his ass down to Brazil to shoot some motherfuckers to death extrajudicially. NCIS has Jethro Gibbs that sniped the cartel leader that had his wife and child killed, extrajudicially. Every show like that does the take the law into your own hands sooner or later. Its entertainment, but its also unusually accurate b/c all these agencies do in fact skirt the law, all the time. We only accept it because we don't actually know about it.

  9. Re:Which BYOD are we talking about? on Do the Risks of BYOD Outweigh the Benefits? (Video) · · Score: 1

    Bite Your Own Dick, obviously.

  10. Re:In other words... on Dropbox Obtains Peer-To-Peer File Sharing Patent (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    The only troll here is you, AC.

    Patents are blatantly not-good and it has been long demonstrated as a detriment to 'innovation' and progress in the threads of this very site. At what point is enough enough?

  11. Facebook is the new AOL, just worldwide.

  12. Re:Hyberbole much? on TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed (slashgear.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry that's now how it works. The TSA is a government agency, not a private organization, they don't get to ignore your rights, regardless of any conditions your sign or agree too with a "private" airline. You literally cannot sign away your rights like this.

    Even in criminal plea deals you still have to declare guilt to a crime in court in front of a judge.

  13. Re:So, in other words on Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? · · Score: 1

    It's always amusing when someone tries to supplant a definition with the slang of it. Sorry, but VPN is already well known in 'modern times' regardless of what the new generation of kids try to appropriate slang as while not understanding any of the underlying technology. The VPN slang is still the same exact thing, you must not understand that it just routes traffic out to the internet differently based on different use cases.

  14. Re:US News is at least full of shit on this on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fuck kind of typo was repeating there. Plans. What.

    *Planes.

  15. US News is at least full of shit on this on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I watched a few minutes of CNN last night, they were bringing on any asshole to try to talk up the idea of a bomb on the plan. Plans can actually have internal explosions not related to a bomb. The speed at which the British trotted this bullshit out was suspect. Either they had intelligence and didn't do anything with it, or it's just a propaganda game being run by intelligence services. Either way, it's just spitting in the face of reality that people died and an investigation is required without a predisposition for the conclusion to be a bomb.

  16. Re:drones on How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    What safeguards? Owning a gun? Did that keep any of that shit from happening? Freedom of speech? Freedom of the Press? Freedom of Religion? It all means nothing if we don't stand up to the bullshit when someone tries to normalize some fucked up behavior like that. Where the fuck were all these freedom loving libertarians when the towers fell and Bush invaded Iraq after already hitting Afghanistan?

  17. Re:Open source & locked down... on FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary (fcc.gov) · · Score: 1

    This is all just a DRM mandate, nothing more, and it should be scrapped entirely.

  18. How about we get behind a removal of the proposal entirely instead? It's all bullshit. Every bit of it.

  19. Not one bit reasonable, the justification " wants to be sure that WiFi drivers don't cause interference with airport weather radars" is complete and total bullshit for offering any rule changes.

  20. TIL the CEO of CloudFlare is into Dinosaur sex stories.

  21. Re:No Theora? on Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor · · Score: 1

    Because they don't hold a bunch of patents that let them keep control and charge for commercial use 10 years down the line.

  22. Re:Never butt-dialed anyone. on US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private · · Score: 1

    I have a Note 3 and on both stock and custom roms have had this same issue.

    Intent is of utmost importance with the law, I'd argue that this judge made a serious error in ruling, likely related to confusion with technical terms overshadowing common sense and precedent.

  23. Re:Still don't trust SSDs on OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That sounds like a vendor issue using cheap SSD components, not a fault of SSDs in general.

    Samsung 840 EVOs are certainly a nightmare, everyone one I deployed has needed be replaced. Samsung 830 Pro and 840 Pros I have deployed are still running. Enterprise SSDs are the real place you should be looking for reliable performance over time.

  24. What the hell? on Hacking Team Breach Leaks Zero-Days, Renews Fight To Regulate Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    What fight to regulate cyberweapons? What cyberweapons? Jesus are people really that nuts now?

  25. Re:Exclusives and ease of use on Microsoft Edge, HTML5, and DRM · · Score: 1

    Lifelong gamer here, with kids and wife who also game. Nobody actually cares about consoles anymore, the world has moved on, Tablet/phone games and pc games are where the safe money will be. Xbone and PS4 are just computers that are locked in to their titles. Once the xbox360 goes out, we'll never go back to consoles.