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

    If that story is true, that is kick-ass.

  2. Re:Piece of paper on HP Announces All-Metal Chromebook 13: Thinner Than MacBook Pro, Costs $800 Less · · Score: 3, Funny

    And it has two sides! It dual-boots!

  3. Piece of paper on HP Announces All-Metal Chromebook 13: Thinner Than MacBook Pro, Costs $800 Less · · Score: 5, Funny

    Much MUCH thinner than the HP all-metal chromebook, and costs $500 less.

  4. Yep. Sounds about right! :3

  5. It's doing me a frighten!

  6. What? on Surveillance Cameras Sold On Amazon Found Infected With Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An editorial comment that actually LESSENS the alarmism in the submission, rather than adding to it?

    This is... nearly unheard of on slashdot! What is happening???

  7. Re:Not an Apple customer, but... on 9.7-Inch iPad Pro Is Apple's Last Chance To Save the iPad Line (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    My iPhone does exactly what I need, nothing more, nothing less. I don't want, nor need, your pity.

  8. Not "well over two years". Exactly two years. on 9.7-Inch iPad Pro Is Apple's Last Chance To Save the iPad Line (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Article states "Hardly an aberration, iPad sales have been dropping for well over two years at this point." No, not "Well over" two years. Just "two years". Maybe two and a quarter years, but that's not what comes to mind (and probably intentionally so) when you hear "well over two years".

    http://www.macrumors.com/2016/...

  9. Well, at least on the iphone you get the little arrow thing when there's an app using location services.

  10. Except Waze... Waze is a battery hog. I always quit that as soon as I'm done with its navigation features.

  11. Re:Essentially a "device museum" on E-book Museum At the Library of Congress? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're confusing the Library of Congress with the Smithsonian!

  12. Essentially a "device museum" on E-book Museum At the Library of Congress? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    So... this is intended to be a museum of devices that can read e-books.

    That means it'll need to have a collection of phones, tablets and computers along with e-book readers.

    Yeah... I don't see how that's relevant to the Library of Congress.

  13. Re:Oh UTF8, where art thou? on Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    "Very warm", like a nuclear explosion is "quite loud".

  14. Re:Oh UTF8, where art thou? on Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage (phys.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Unicode is a virus

    Yes. It is. But it is a virus with several cat faces in it (and possibly one cat feces in it) so all is forgiven!

  15. Oh UTF8, where art thou? on Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage (phys.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    190AC! That's .... either very warm, or reasonly high voltage. Now if there were only a character set that could help us distinguish an A from a degree circle symbol

  16. Re:Django killed Ruby on Rails and Node.js. on DjangoCon 2016 To Be Held In Philadelphia In July (defna.org) · · Score: 2

    Django's upgrade/deprecation policies are pretty well documented, but if a project is going to be unmaintained for a long time, and you're trying to, say, upgrade a Django 1.6 app to 1.9, you're going to be in for some pain, as in three versions a feature will go from supported, to quiet-deprecation to noisy-deprecation to absent. If a project is not going to be maintained to track the "latest" Django, it should target one of the LTS releases - 1.8 currently - which will have support till 2018.

    That will give you security and data-loss-bug updates, but won't give you new features. If you wan't those, then you need to track the current version. If you really are stepping through 3 or more versions (or fewer, if it was already using a deprecated feature) then the best bet is to go through the deprecation documents and convert things over... or just re-write. Sometimes that IS simpler. And, of course, target a LTS if that's appropriate.

  17. Hide Forbes Option? on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can I have an option to just hide any articles with links to forbes.com ? That'd be really handy, thanks.

  18. Re:Do the math- on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    What the? 1000 square feet is TINY. It's about the size of a 2 BR apartment.

  19. Re:I'm surprised they actually pulled this off! on Arnnon Geshuri, Newest Wikimedia Trustee, Forced To Resign · · Score: 1

    Oh but Whhhhhy? Haven't _you_ always wanted your name to be a trademark?

  20. Re:BIZX is destroying Slashdot!!! on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Bizx LLC is an advertising and marketing company. So... I don't really hold out much hope of improvement.

  21. Morphing on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember when image morphing was cool? (Like Animorphs or those cheesy effects from automan (I think)).

    And then remember when it was horrible?

  22. Re:Its only SuperFish-like on Dell Accused of Installing 'Superfish-Like' Rogue Certificates On Laptops (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Reading the FA: yes, the private key is on the machine.

  23. Re:The MDM server is in Austria! on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh dammit. Ignore. I typo'd the host name :(

  24. The MDM server is in Austria! on Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a good point:

    $ host leon.webaw.net
    leon.webaw.net has address 62.99.250.53

    $ whois 62.99.250.53 ... snip...
    netname: Schneid-GmbH
    descr:
    descr: Schneid GmbH
    descr: Herbert Schneid
    descr: PIRKA
    descr: IPs statically assigned
    country: AT

    maxmind corroborates the information.

    So... Sprint are putting control of your phone into the hands of someone in Austria. Nice going, guys!

  25. Re:What about gluten? on Genetically Modified Rice Makes More Food, Less Greenhouse Gas · · Score: 1

    Yep. Celiac here. Really need to know if this new rice contains gluten