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  1. Re: Two separate topics? on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I long for the old days where all summaries had a last sentence using the phrase "it will be interesting" to inject bias

  2. Re:It has on Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This would only tell us if it's been wiretapped LEGALLY.

  3. The above "experience" is dumb and probably not experience at all.

    Management types decide based on what meets the specs, how expensive the solution is overall, and how easy it is to manage at scale. They may not understand much, but they understand TCO.

  4. Re:Pokemon GO distraction story again. on A Google Maps Glitch Turned This Korean Fishing Town Into a 'Pokemon Go' Haven (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically, this could tell me where to find pikachu? TAKE MY MONEY

  5. Don't we have enough apparatchiks in high positions already?

  6. I didn't think turkeys could fly the coup?

  7. Makes you wonder if the old guard auto makers are going to go the way of the Dodo -

    Making a box with motorized wheels is comparatively easy to developing the self-driving technology, the mapping and intelligence of the software. Currently the tech companies are on this, not the auto companies.

    Perhaps Ford and Chevrolet will one day be limited to work trucks and purpose-built vehicles, and most people will be riding around in Samsungs and Apples

  8. Re:Windows Phone? on Microsoft: Windows 10 Won't Hit 1 Billion Devices By Mid-2018 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We're pleased with our progress to date, but due to the focusing of our phone hardware business

    They're "focusing" on their dozens of customers.

  9. Re:Translation on 145 Tech Leaders Say 'Trump Would Be A Disaster For Innovation' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't Jimmy Wales be off panhandling visitors to his site with his picture?

    (Wait - Maybe Hillary learned her Wall Street/Clinton Foundation act from him...)

  10. If the truth is stranger than fiction, maybe Trump is here to play the part of the Washington Generals for his good friend on the other side during this campaign.

  11. Reaction from conservatives and Republicans on this will be little to zero excitement.

    Pence shriveled up in the face of the challenges in his state when the religious freedom act came under assault, and he really bears no marks of being a person who could be sold as a moderating influence to Trump.

    However, I suspect that Trump has left himself with few friends and fewer qualified choices, so this is what the Trumpsters get. Mike the Generic Guy.

  12. Re: How to improve Slashdot: eliminate moderators on Google Gets Land For Its Futuristic Headquarters, Thanks To LinkedIn Deal (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia, whining moderates YOU!

  13. Re:Amazon has a good thing going on Why So Much Coverage Of Amazon Prime Day? The Incentives, Of Course (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It has to be better than last year, which was a complete and utter fraud. Microscopic discounts, quantities so limited that you had to be at a server terminal releasing the discount yourself in order to get them, useless items... better than black friday - only in the sense that nobody was getting punched in the face...

  14. Re:Perhaps it's a ruse? on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    He'd be in his 70s or 80s now, even if he were still living

  15. Re:Arguing over the subjective on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd remind him from the real world that he should be glad there are comments at all.

  16. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you support Hillary, you're supporting Hillary. It's obvious. If you give your approval to candidates like that, you're going to get candidates like that.

    Both sides have a job to do this fall, which is to rise up and say that we will not just accept the most corrupt and reprehensible people imaginable for leadership in high offices, because that's what the party tells us to accept.

    The question is whether a voter has principles, or whether they don't. It's simple.

  17. Re:The DNC overlords always get their way on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sure - but all this "principled opposition" that Sanders supposedly brought turned out to be no so principled as we thought.

    Clinton and Trump both epitomize everything that is horrible and deporable about American politics. People like to pretend that they wouldn't vote for someone just for wearing a (D) or (R), but this election is the test. Will you vote for one of the worst two candidates ever, just because of their party affiliation?

    If so, you can't complain about your choices ever again, because you put your stamp of approval on this.

  18. Not to worry, citizen! Your OS and Tablet will be automatically upgraded by Microsoft to a subscription model, for your convenience!

  19. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's also amusing that like most on the American Left, Clinton thinks there should be no meaningful restrictions on immigration, neither should it be fettered by any sort of enforcement...

    But because it plays well in the press, she'll make noises about H1B on occasion.

    The only sort of immigration she's concerned about is *legal* immigration.

  20. Re:It's Heartbreaking you're not in Jail on Clinton: It's 'Heartbreaking' When IT Workers Must Train H-1B Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Since this actually is an IT story, maybe we should focus on the H1B program and outsourcing, et al.

    I obviously believe she should be in jail or at least have to retire in disgrace just like most thinking people do over her many scandals and lawlessness, but this is not what TFA is about, and TFA deserves an intelligent treatment.

  21. Re:Gotta catch'em all on Infected Pokemon GO APK Carries Dangerous Android Backdoor · · Score: 1

    Blinky FTW!

  22. Re:Shocker! on Infected Pokemon GO APK Carries Dangerous Android Backdoor · · Score: 4, Funny

    My first capture as MaliciousAPK, which I evolved into BotnetDevice and IdentityTheft! It's -10 defense, but gives me 16 additional WalledGardenTaunt per turn when facing an iOS opponent!

  23. Re:Sorry but on Amazon Wants People to Pay for Podcasts (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Most podcasts either are already ad-free, or the ads are equivalent to a commercial break... which people already deal with on television and every other form of media.

    Nobody is going to pay for this.

  24. Re:As Always on Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue Past July 29 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Let us know how often your android phone is getting updates 2-3 years later

  25. Re:Not sure about the "as always" bit on Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Mobile Will Continue Past July 29 (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    About 2% of mobile users... almost all of whom are stuck with it due to their employer, no one actually chooses it.