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  1. Obligatory on Microsoft Starts Testing Windows 10's Next Major Update (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Microsoft? LOL it's bad becuz M$. I didn't read the summary but I'm sure it's about EEE and other things I won't want.

  2. Why spend money on a child's education? We should just give them the same amount of money once they reach 18. We're still spending the same amount per person, so therefore it'd had the same effect.

  3. When your 5kg of rice is distributed, it will be used to grow more rice, which ultimately helps everyone.

    Not if the amount of rice you get is less than the amount needed to grow more rice.

  4. Yeah, that dark area in the Southern tip of NY and that Long Island near it, nobody lives in that area of the country.

  5. Re:Lots of citites still run windows on London's Metropolitan Police Still Running 27,000 Windows XP Desktops (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    1. There is CentOS, with 10 year LTS releases.

    And Windows XP was supported for 13 years. So in 10+ years time we'd have the same story, but with an outdated version of CentOS rather than Windows.

    The problem isn't Windows vs Linux or Proprietary vs Open, it's entities being too cheap/lazy to update their software when something it relies on goes unsupported.

  6. Re:Dear all patents and patent holders. on UK Copyright Extension On Designed Objects Is 'Direct Assault' On 3D Printing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Corporations can not "create", it is done by people who work for the corporation, so corporations should not be able to hold copyright.

    BINGO!!!! Lets make copyright only applicable to physical persons that actually create. Immortal corporations do not deserve any of this.

    What if multiple people are involved?

  7. Re:Fashion Accessory? on Apple Should Stop Selling Four-Year-Old Computers (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's left? Macs.

    Such a glowing endorsement.

  8. Re:What would be considered diverse on Apple Makes Slight Progress On Diversity While Its Rivals Are Making Practically None (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but should a company strive to match the diversity of the population or of its customers?
    Either way people will complain that it isn't representative.

  9. Re:Metropolis issues on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... in the five boroughs of New York City ...

    Everyone knows Staten Island doesn't count.

  10. Re:Flux screen gamma correcting software... on Can Blocking Blue Light Help Bipolar Disorder As Well as Sleep Issues? (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Any solutions for television outside of manually adjusting the temperature?

  11. Re:A step back towards sanity on Mozilla To Remove Hello In Firefox 49 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    How is tabs not being on top somehow ergonomic?

    Baby Duck

  12. Re:This raises a good question on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess that means our next President will be . . . Bender!

    He wasn't born in the U.S.though nor is he 35 or older.

  13. Re:Still hasn't learned on Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you think they should be able to survive on releasing the same games that exist on two other consoles already. Why would anyone buy a Nintendo system at all?

    Because if you can only afford one, the number of good Nintendo games is far fewer than good non-Nintendo games

    Nintendo's salvation lies in strong third party support, but they won't be the same games as are on the PS4 and XBox.

    Yeah they'll just make different versions and/or entirely new games like they did for WiiU, oh wait.

    Game budgets for PS4 and XBone are enormous. The pipelines are huge, and hard to fill. When you've got that much horsepower, you need a lot more creative staff to make sure there's actually something worth rendering. If Nintendo produces a modestly equipped console that has decent graphics, it will be a much lower barrier to entry.

    Which is why $Publisher, rather than making $Game for all 3, will make it for only 2 and not go through the extra expense of an entirely different game for one system.

  14. "but once again we've heard Nintendo is not chasing graphical parity".

    Which means it won't reach library parity, and you'll see games on Xbox One and PS4 but not NX, like the current situation with WiiU.
    Nintendo cannot survive on first party alone.

  15. I agree that the DNC is corrupt and badly in need of change. This is not the way to do it.

    What is?

  16. Slashdot Commenter on Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't read the summary, but It's Microsoft, and therefore bad.
    Now everyone pat me on the pack because of my wit with +5 Insightful.

  17. Re:And this is why my primary browser isn't Firefo on Firefox To Block Non-Essential Flash Content In August 2016, Require Click-To-Activate In 2017 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Well by the very nature of Pale Moon (or any program) having any configurable preference set to any default value, I guess it already is 'thinking for you'.

  18. Re: yay more emojis on Google's New Emoji Aimed At Promoting Gender Equality Are Coming (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    ...because if we're going to have this crap in there, which we have to to fulfill the basic purpose of Unicode to support all text encodings from everywhere ever, then we may as well be fair and neutral about it all while we're at it.

    So then shouldn't the push be to make emoji genderless/raceless/etc that way there can be one 'dancer' instead of every single combination of sex/race/width/wealth?

  19. Re:WHY THAT CONTROLLER PORT on Nintendo Is Launching a New, Tiny NES For $60 With 30 Games (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It's still a kick in the nuts that you can't use your classic controllers if you have them lying around. Do not want. Will stick with emulation. I have yet to find a NES game that doesn't run at least as well on ye olde Xbox as the real thing, sometimes better.

    You can use the classic controllers on an Xbox?

  20. Re:The bullshit is fresh and steamy on Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So Microsoft is right, and that's all people will care about if they want 1080p.

    No, this is Slashdot, anything Microsoft does is bad. In the off chance it's something that is 'good', it's obviously an EEE conspiracy.

  21. Re:Who cares? GIMME on NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    ... show that I missed last night...because I have to work when they choose to air their show!

    If that's the case, why not just use the app or even website to watch it?

  22. Re:Erosion of meaning on Mozilla Will Ship Its First Rust Component In Firefox 48 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's the latter then Rust should be boycotted in an attempt to prevent stupidity from spreading.

    Fight fire with fire. Join the Rust community and complain that nearly every command is "triggering". It'll have to go through so many changes to the point of making the entire language unusable.

  23. Re:Why are we still scared of cookies? on Do We Need A Better Private Browsing Mode? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my point. Not everything a website uses comes from the same domain (even excluding ads), so that initial idea has issues.
    TheRaven64 did comment on that situation though.

  24. Re:Why are we still scared of cookies? on Do We Need A Better Private Browsing Mode? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What about 3rd parties that might be on a variety of URLs, such as disqus and social media?

  25. Re: I miss KDE pre 5 on KDE Plasma 5.7 Released (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Sure, and I could rewrite the whole thing, too! However, that doesn't change the fact that the defaults need to be reasonable.

    Whose reason?