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  1. You offer them free boats. They just need to come down to the station to collect it.

    But seriously, if the NYPD can get away with suppressing simple statements of fact (ie. "There is a police checkpoint here"), then that will be a pretty frightening precedent for the populace of the USA.

  2. Re:Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You can ask for a paper receipt, just like the article states.

  3. Re:Law needs some privacy protections ... on California Lawmaker Wants to Ban Paper Receipts, Require Digital Ones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Electronic receipts shouldn't even touch the internet. They should be beamed via NFC, Bluetooth, Wifi Direct, etc. from the register to your phone.

  4. Re:More love for... on Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018? · · Score: 2

    Cobra Kai is fucking awesome. I'm looking forward to the new season next year.

  5. Re:Good to know for job interviews. on People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com) · · Score: 2

    Also wear glasses and a wedding band. People associate glasses with knowledge ("his eyes went bad because he read a lot") and the wedding band may help you to negotiate a higher salary (don't point it out, just use hand gestures while speaking so that they will see it).

    Again, reverse that if you are applying for law enforcement.

  6. You clearly need to go back to school. A bullet accelerates and travels a lot faster than your piece of shit car. You'd be dead before you even reached the intersection.

  7. Re:Dismiss the telecom suit with prejudice on FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The FCC only repealed net neutrality, they didn't have a law put in place to make net neutrality illegal. The states are free to make up their own net neutrality laws because it's not illegal according to federal law (and even if it were, it still might be OK as in the case of legalised cannabis).

  8. That depends on which side of the mushroom you eat from.

  9. Re:"Return" to "not being evil"? on Creator of Opera Says Google Deliberately Undermined His New Vivaldi Web Browser (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Vivaldi is based on Chromium, but it certainly is not just another skin job. Vivaldi actually makes huge improvements to the base Chromium to the point that it nearly rivals the feature set of old Opera.

    You should try it out if you haven't or haven't recently. It's become my default browser under Windows.

  10. Re:Foobar2000 on What Happened To Winamp? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I still need to polish it up a bit, but this is my own custom fb2k theme. Note that it not only has album art for the currently playing tune, but smaller thumbs for albums in the main list and a coverflow-like selector at the bottom.

    I'm still deciding whether I want to keep the coverflow part around, integrate it differently or remove it altogether. The top control bar (to the left of the progress bar, which is also the actual waveform of the playing tune) has a few placeholder stop symbols because I haven't created the art for them yet, but overall I'm nearly done with it.

    If you don't want to bother learning fb2k's scripting language, you can download a lot of nice, premade themes from DeviantArt. You can make fb2k look and work just like any other player or make it work the exact way that you want it to.

  11. And the access code can be "12345"?

  12. Re:Surveillance data on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the question should be "Why does Microsoft still offer a spyware (and malware and adware and crippleware) OS?"

  13. Re: Proud of their work..but does it matter? on New OS/2 Warp Operating System 'ArcaOS' 5.0 Released (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to freak people out, install Temple OS.

  14. Buying a prepaid SIM with a prepaid Mastercard is likely to land you on a FinCEN watchlist.

    Cool. I'm not sure how, since they don't have any information on me, but whatever you say.

    Seriously though, how many kids do you know that would be able to figure out and navigate this process to get their own cellphone, let alone have the cash?

    You know I could have easily activated my plan with cash when I purchased the SIM card at the T-Mobile store. The only reason I did it over the phone was because I wanted some time to research all of their plans to find the best one for me.

    In the real world, minors are thousands of times more likely to borrow a parent's phone whose account is owned and managed by the parent.

    Not from what I've seen. Most of the kids around here have their own phones.

  15. I activated the SIM with a prepaid Mastercard (which are generally available to anyone of any age) and I pay my monthly charge with cash at a T-Mobile store or authorized T-Mobile reseller store.

    So at what point are they requiring my identification and proof that I am over 18? That's what you claimed:

    You have to be 18 and show ID, before they allow you to buy a cell phone, even a burner phone.

    I think it's safe for everyone else to disregard your comment as being a fabrication.

  16. You have to be 18 and show ID, before they allow you to buy a cell phone, even a burner phone.

    Where? When I bought my SIM card and activated it (over the phone with a live person), I wasn't required to even give them my name, let alone any identification. All that they asked me is "What area code do you want?"

  17. You have no chance to survive make your time.

  18. Perhaps not, but what about the Nazis?

  19. Re:A homemade 6809 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Mine was a Commodore VIC-20 with 4K RAM, 16K RAM expansion cartridge and a cassette tape drive. My father bought it for me in 1981.

  20. Re:iOS + Chrome + Slashdot = Page jump on Chrome Now Uses Scroll Anchoring To Prevent Those Annoying Page Jumps (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Every web browser (Pale Moon, Firefox, Chromium, Opera, Vivaldi) I use does that here. It's a bug in Slashdot's scripting, not in the browsers.

  21. Re:Elementary OS on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    I like elementary OS, but it has problems. The last time I tried it, everything worked great until my PC went into sleep mode from which it could not be awakened without performing a hard reset. I replaced elementary OS with Linux Mint on the same PC and had no problems.

    For that reason, I would recommend Mint over elementary. I'm also quite fond of KDE neon.

  22. Re:Music makes no sense on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Or a heart that is moved by other types of music. That twangy stuff doesn't work for me. Very little rock music is moving to me either, although I do enjoy some specific rock bands.

    In general, my most listened to genres are classical, ambient, downtempo/chillwave, lounge, jazz noir, new age, trip-hop and trance.

  23. Re:Music makes no sense on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So do I. I listen to and enjoy most genres of music, but rap and country are just horrible.

  24. Re:What's an end-user application to you? on AMD Ryzen 7 Series Processor Reviews Go Live, Zen Looks Strong Vs Intel (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    But they might buy a much lower cost Ryzen expecting it to work as well as a 6900K for gaming due to the misleading video encoding and rendering benchmarks.

  25. Re:What's an end-user application to you? on AMD Ryzen 7 Series Processor Reviews Go Live, Zen Looks Strong Vs Intel (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If that's the case, then think about how few do things like video encoding or rendering. It would be a fraction of a fraction of users.