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  1. Re:This is intels problem on Linux 4.20 is Running Slower Than 4.19 On Intel CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    There is room for two versions of microcode / kernel: default (slow) and root (fast) mode. In root mode there can be only one (root) user, but everything runs much faster.

    Let's see here. We'll give people a choice between an immediate, measurable advantage and an advantage they won't see until the failure hits. Gee, I wonder which one everyone will choose, and then get hacked for.

  2. Re: Everything is problematic. on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Harrassing local wildlife is not "minding your own business."

  3. Re:Why not on Should Alexa Be Your Child's Friend? (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Should Alexa by your child's friend? I would say "Why not?

    Because, of course, it's not your child's friend. It is machine designed by Amazon to get you (or your child) to buy more Amazon stuff. That is its only purpose. Not to actually care about your child in any way, but only to get its "friend" to spend money on Amazon.

  4. But only... on Tetris May Help Sooth Your Worried Mind, Study Says (theweek.in) · · Score: 1

    ...if you can get that damn straight four piece.

  5. The only trans movement I can't agree with is trans-fats.

    You're prejudiced against the overweight transgender community? Shame on you!

  6. Male, Female and other, given that other for the moment is a fairly small percentage of the population? Not guaranteed to stay that way though.

    And get sued for insulting the special snowflake's unqiue gender identity.

  7. Re:It's 1st of November, not April on Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember, remember the 1st of November...

  8. Re:what the web look in 2018 without Javascript? on Google Won't Let You Sign In If You Disabled JavaScript In Your Browser (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not what the web look in 2018 without Javascript but I hope you enjoy your private and secure experience.

    Care to try again in English?

  9. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Twitter Now Lets You Report Accounts That You Suspect Are Bots (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, the bots report you.

    Not really a joke. I foresee trolls abusing the hell outta this.

  10. Good lord, man! on Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You've invented the mass-market paperback!

  11. Re:And if the article was actually false... on In an Unprecedented Move, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my opinion, assuming Tim Cook is in the right, it's reasonable to ask for a retraction first, and then sue if that's denied. You don't have to (and to my mind shouldn't) always dial your lawyers first.

  12. This isn't the contract we're looking for on In an Open Letter, Microsoft Employees Urge the Company To Not Bid on the US Military's Project JEDI (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We can go about our business. Move along.

  13. Re:There are faster solutions. on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    A tiny physical keyboard which is more or less thumbs only. Nothing like a proper keyboard.

    True. But it's leaps and bounds ahead of a touch screen keyboard.

  14. Re:There are faster solutions. on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    50 shades of Gray was written on a Blackberry.

    Which is not a smartphone or a tablet. It has a physical keyboard. The OP's point is that you don't try to write a novel on a touchscreen keyboard.

  15. Re:No,,, well, not another keyboard on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Chorded keyboards have been around since the 1800s

    And still almost nobody uses them. That should tell you something.

  16. Re:Impersonation is a crime on Facebook Is 'Teeming' With Fake Accounts Created By Undercover Cops (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    When did the discussion become about entrapment? I thought it was about impersonation.

    Ah, yes, when you're losing the argument, change the subject.

  17. Re:Move it to SQL on The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If they can't get it to work in Excel, do you really think that their database design and any associated code will be any better?

    Of course not. The OP's point was that if they can't get it to work in Excel, it needs to be done by a professional using a professional's tools, not by them.

  18. Re:Won't eat their own dog food on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    you will forever remember that time you lost an argument on the Internet.

    I would've thought we'd all learned by now that nobody ever loses an argument on the Internet--just ask them.

  19. Re:My New Font Is Called Ophidian Lubrica on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    at least the limit is only around 1800 glyphs for South Koreans.

    It's not much more in modern Japanese--about 2200. Post World War II, the Japanese did massive simplification of kanji, cutting it back to 2000. While it's not generally illegal to use the older characters, it is illegal to use them in official documents, and publishers can only be assured that their readers will know the official characters (you're supposed to know them all by the end of elementary school).

  20. Won't eat their own dog food on Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I noticed that their site doesn't use the font except when it shows you examples. The site content text doesn't use it.

  21. Customers want their problems solved immediately. on Average Time To Resolve Problems is Three Times Higher Than Customers Want (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So three times nothing is...nothing?

  22. I'm reminded of the 1961 film "Mr. Sardonicus", where the producer William Castle promised two endings. Supposedly, the audience could vote to punish the villain at the end or spare him. Of course, the audience always voted to punish him. Good thing too, because Mr. Castle, being an astute observer of human nature, only actually made the "punish the villain" ending.

  23. "Twitch plays Pokemon" comes to TV.

  24. Re:And this is why I am for public transportation. on Most Drivers Don't Understand Limitations of Car Safety Systems, AAA Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No matter how you look at it, having a human in the loop is a setup for failure. Public transportation yet again solves this problem in addition to just about every other problem you can think of..

    I can think of a problem it doesn't solve right off the bat: people loathe it. A car takes you where you want to go when you want to go there. Public transportation takes you only where it goes when the schedule says it will. People hate that.