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  1. And bring an end to the concept of a dynamic internet. Goodbye Slashdot.

    Now back in reality there's a legitimate reason to allow popups and notifications. But preventing spam is a problem.

  2. Not sure where you read that, but that is completely wrong.

    Got a source? Because a general google search shows up as endurance falling short of traditional SSDs.

  3. Who the hell wants water cooling in the data center!?

    This is not only common in the past but there are several current data centre products on the market for water cooling.

  4. Re:so let me get this straight... on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    Last thing I need when getting on an airplane is to be questioned about medical insurance and to get a random and insanely high bill after I land.

  5. Re:You pay nothing but a little time on Laptops To Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology To Airports (bgov.com) · · Score: 1

    I get what you are saying here but what are you really paying?

    Cash. In exchange for *not* getting a service.

  6. Add a magnitude more if you're able to shape the charge to damage structure rather than start a small incipient fire in the cabin.

  7. Re:Like sitting beside a first-time teen driver on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I'm different from most people.

    Probably because you have senseless distrust in electronics. If you're nervous about a computer steering your car, I can't imagine what a wreak you must be on the road with all those other variables you can't control.

  8. Re:Misleading headline on Researchers Trick Tesla Autopilot Into Steering Into Oncoming Traffic (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then there were all those cases where the AoA sensor was right and the pilot let the plane drop out of the sky yanking back on their stick with the stall alarm blaring at high volumes as they died.

    Thanks but no thanks. I'll take predictable, programmable, and above all fixable computers over fallible squashy blobs of barely thinking water sacks behind the wheel any day.

    There's a reason the generally excepted error rate for humans is 10% on demand and for a well designed machine it's several orders of magnitude lower. There however is no reason behind the anti machine hysteria.

  9. Re:An American Car Company is Winning. on Over Half of Norway Car Sales Are Now Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If it did the oil industry would never have started. Don't pretend that any of the things you take for granted came entirely from the "free market".

  10. Re:Proof of viability on Over Half of Norway Car Sales Are Now Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Not a lot of point in electric cars, unless you have excess clean electricity

    Except that garbage has been proven wrong time and time again and there are both financial and environmental reasons to go all electric even if your power is 100% coal fired.

  11. How many of the things in the grave yard broke other parts of the internet. Did you guess zero? The answer is zero. Google have a perfect track record here.

  12. Why would they replace the CEO producing record profits and who has grown the company to record size?

    Is that like saying hopefully Trump will decide he isn't fit to be president and will just quit next week?

  13. Re:First sentence? Editors? on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that sentence needs work

    No it doesn't. People just need to know how commas work.

  14. Re:First sentence? Editors? on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you understand how commas work? The editors do. If you think you understand commas then why would you proceed to ask a question about only a fragment of the sentence?
    The only question to ask is: "Was it the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Australia", to which the answer is, yes.

  15. Re:They let someone else use our account one time on Blockbuster Video Now Has Just One Store Left On Earth (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. This is the kind of dickish behaviour I normally see associated with ACs. Did you forget to check the little box before posting?

    Now go fuck yourself you worthless shame of a human being.

  16. Re:"more private and secure" on Cloudflare Says Its New VPN Service Won't Slow You Down (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Your traffic is running through Cloudflare anyway. It may as well do so in a way that your ISP doesn't also see it.

  17. Re:Burgers don't bleed on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe

    You must be an American. In much of the rest of the world we cook our hamburgers medium rare. That's on those occasions where we actually bother cooking the meat.

    Otherwise we just make: https://www.chefsteps.com/acti...
    Or just spread it on bread without cooking it: https://kokrobin.wordpress.com...
    Also why bother cooking the steak when you can just cut it and eat it with some Rucola: https://thecookful.com/make-be...

    How do you handle your meat that makes you so afraid to eat it?

  18. Re:Seems pretty smart on Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    These were better than the mass-produced fast food beef hamburgers I've eaten.

    Is that like saying drinking pee tastes better than drinking purified vinegar? The bar is set low.

  19. Re:Their still blaming the pot smoker. on LA County Is Using An Algorithm To Clear 50,000 Pot Convictions Faster (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not at all. Laws being retrospective doesn't mean that anyone other than the person who broke the laws made a "mistake". That is of course you are assuming that people are "law abiding citizens", I mean if you willfully break the law it's not a mistake.

    Times change.

  20. Errr no. I don't know how many times this bullshit statement has to get torn down from Slashdot, but no there is absolutely zero legal requirement for a corporation to maximise profits. There is an element of not lying to shareholders, so saying something and doing something else opens you to legal liability, but not maximising profits is not one of those things.

    The only thing that is remotely correct in your post is that shareholders could legitimately sue. But then that has nothing to do with profit. I could legitimately sue you now for wasting my time. I could seek class action status for it too on behalf of all the poor readers who wasted a minute reading your horridly incorrect post. Just like the shareholder's claims any such lawsuit will legitimately be laughed out of court.

    Now if your comment to this point wasn't enough evidence that you have no idea how the legal system works, you finally remove all doubt by saying directors would be "prosecuted". No. Just no. Not only is there no implied requirement to maximise profits there sure as heck isn't a law requiring it.

  21. Re:"What have you got to hide?"= Inspect my asshol on Tenants Outraged Over New York Landlord's Plan To Install Facial Recognition Technology (gothamist.com) · · Score: 1

    Guns are nothing like cars when it comes to defining thema tool. Actually the biggest tools are those making this argument in the first place.

  22. Re:Looking for good gopher client on Devuan.org Now Points To 'Pwned' Page With Gopher URLs (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    Just wait a while for systemd-gopher to be included in the next release. Unfortunately you won't find it in the Devuan repo.

  23. Well your entire country is below sea level. Your height is nothing more than evolution of a doing mechanism in case the dikes break. ;-)

  24. I see you've not used Tinder. I've had my fair share of Tinder hookups. I can't remember coming across a fake profile. A few taking poetic license on their descriptions yes, and plenty of fake... Well synthetically and surgically augmented people, but no fake profiles.

      Though I didn't meet my wife on their a good portion of my friends did.

  25. Re:Just like most other holidays, feature creep. on Devuan.org Now Points To 'Pwned' Page With Gopher URLs (devuan.org) · · Score: 1

    Now April Fools day is on March 31st.....

    Posted by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:44AM