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  1. Re:Paywalled on FCC Announces Plan To Repeal Net Neutrality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Net Neutrality != free content

  2. Re:Irony on FCC Announces Plan To Repeal Net Neutrality (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    must be the word "neutrality" you have a gross misunderstanding of then

  3. Re:I can't say I get it. on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Because, when he inevitably dies from this, the other Flat Earthers will claim he was killed off by some conspiracy to keep the "truth" a secret.

  4. Re:Trump will save the day on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    in PA, we get a 50% discount on our property taxes buy upgrading our heating to coal.

    It doesn't sound like Pennsylvania understands the meaning of "upgrade".

    Pennsylvania doesn't understand a lot of things.
    Source: I grew up there.

  5. Still Waiting on Slashdot Browser on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    The One True Flawless most perfect browser that makes everyone 100% happy that everyone here claims could exist.

  6. Re:Make more GAMES. Ship more CONSOLES. on Nintendo Is Making An Animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The people from Nintendo involved in this movie are the exact same people that are developers and also manufacturers?

  7. Re:Who are the voice actors? on Nintendo Is Making An Animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Mario: Charles Martinet
    Luigi: Charles Martinet
    Wario: Charles Martinet
    Waluigi: Charles Martinet

  8. Re:Dystopian Sci-Fi on US Scientists Try 1st Gene Editing in the Body (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    If it's that dystopian, they could just, you know, have the person killed.

  9. Re:XUL & Ideology go together on Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I mean, they could just ask people when they install the thing which search engine they wanted to use. Default to no search engine unless they explicitly select something.

    Because the people that care are in the minority, so why inconvenience everyone with an additional step?

  10. Still waiting on the Slashdot Browser on Firefox Quantum Arrives With Faster Browser Engine, Major Visual Overhaul (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    C'mon people. Everyone here seems to know what would make the most perfect flawless browser. Why has no one here done it?

  11. Re:Extensions, though :-( on Firefox Quantum Arrives With Faster Browser Engine, Major Visual Overhaul (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And... and... and... WTF WERE THEY THINKING??? Make it so addon authors need to update things and/or re-create is bad enough, but then remove the underlying functionality? That's insane! It shouldn't be LESS CAPABLE.

    It's almost as if to address the performance issues that people have been bitching about would require a major architecture change, but no that's not it, they, like any company, specifically asked YOU what would piss you off and did that instead.

  12. Re:It's unfortunate truth about accessibility feat on Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Do the text to speech directly on the pocket computer rather than relying on a service on the other side of the Internet that won't be available on an offline tablet anyway. Pocket computers nowadays are over a thousand times faster than the 8-bit MOS 6502 clocked at 1.02 MHz on which SAM (Software Automatic Mouth) ran. 2. Sync the settings only when the settings activity is frontmost. Open no sockets when the settings activity is not frontmost. 3. Seek Google's permission to whitelist the "remote assist feature" for your Google Play Store publishing account.

    Wouldn't #2 still require that the app needs network access?

  13. Re:What they're really doing... on Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perfect proof that you can twist *anything* to make it sound nefarious.

    This is slashdot, "$Company does $thing" is always met with anger, even, as the case here, when $Company does the opposite of $thing

  14. Re:Or Beany Babies on Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When they were kids, they were the generation that would rather own Beany Babies than stocks. Since the bottom dropped out of the Beany Baby bubble, they are looking for something else.

    1. They were kids
    2. The ones that "invested" in Beanie Babies were adults at the time and not Millennials

  15. iR (baboon)

  16. Re: onScroll not passive? on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    So no (mobile) websites should have drag and drop functionality?

  17. It should be hated on New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot, everything new is bad!

  18. Re: Apple? It's SHIT on Apple Watches Were Crashing When Asked About the Weather (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is dismissive by offering consumers no alternatives running on custom laser-sealed hardware. You call this "courage".

    Where did GP do this?

  19. Re:Don't force interaction on users who prefer sta on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Maybe web sites looked better and operated a hell of a lot faster in 2004 than the overloaded sites we have today.

    Yes I love having to constantly zoom in and out on my phone.

  20. Re:Don't force interaction on users who prefer sta on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 1

    Full page reloads for any action from the user.

    "It'd still end up loading less data than a half-dozen JS frameworks and ad exchanges' real-time bidding scripts."

    I'm sure that's the case on strawman.com

    Outdated information for dynamic values (as in something that often changes, like a sports score, or stocks)

    "When I want up-to-date information, I'll request it myself. My F5 key isn't broken, you know."

    "Full page reloads for any action from the user."

    Would you care to cite any websites that do what you claim that aren't just a list of articles?

    "I can, for example, get the weather on National Weather Service (weather.gov) without script.

    Thanks for the example. Weather.gov looks great on my phone (not). It's a perfect example of what curmudgeons would want. If web development just stopped around 2004.

    Not that I'm moving goalposts, but I'm wondering if there is an example of something like an e-commerce site (therefor few/little ads) and is something more complicated than a Google question.

    If I wanted something more interactive than an HTML form, I would download an application, compile it, and install it on my computer."

    We're sorry, the following website is not compatible with your operating system.

  21. Re:Don't force interaction on users who prefer sta on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 1

    Full page reloads for any action from the user.
    Outdated information for dynamic values (as in something that often changes, like a sports score, or stocks)

    Would you care to cite any websites that do what you claim that aren't just a list of articles?

  22. Re:If you really care for latency and performance on HTTP 103 - An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree! Everyone knows all websites have the static functionality of a Wikipedia article.

  23. AI writes comments on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    if (TFS.includes("microsoft")){
    return topic + " is a bad thing!!"
    }

  24. That implies that they are more similar than different. There cannot be any similarities.

    There are only two parties. Mine, which is true and good and flawless, and the other one, which is evil and stupid in everything.

  25. Democrats are more liberal than Republicans and as there are only two parties because every issue is black and white, they are the definition liberal.