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  1. Re:I'll miss it if it closes on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Twitter is my main source of news.

    Yeah, me too: they publish really well researched, in-depth and balanced articles.

  2. Re:GPU acceleration on When Blind People Do Algebra, the Brain's Visual Areas Light Up (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    More importantly, can you stick a bunch of blind people in a room and get them to mine bitcoins?

  3. Re:Into a few hands, like cloudflare? on Web Security CEO Warns About Control Of Internet Falling Into Few Hands (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing: that's rich coming from Cloudflare - the company that single-handedly decides you can't access vast swathes of the internet if you're connecting from a TOR exit node.

    That company does more than all the others put together to make my internet browsing experience completely miserable...

  4. Re: You gotta love yellow journalism on New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree. Open source and Linux should never be criticized. Any criticism is false and, therefore, is yellow journalism. I find any criticism of Linux to be highly offensive and indicative of spamming from paid Microsoft trolls.

    Way to mix issues here.

    1/ Should open source or Linux be criticized? Hell yes, if there are reasons to.

    2/ You conflate Linux and open-source. They aren't the same issues - they aren't even the same thing. Open-source is a development and business model and Linux is a fucking kernel.

    3/ Drupal is to be critized here. Not Linux. Linux as a kernel is doing what the flawed middleware on top of it tells it to. No more, no less. Show me a Linux kernel exploit and I'll be the first to criticize Linux. But in this case, it ain't the culprit.

    I can sort of understand people mixing up GNU things and the Linux kernel, because it's been done for years, and people grew tired of hearing Stallman repeat "it's not Linux, it's GNU/Linux" a long time ago. But Drupal has never been remotely connected to Linux. What next? Run Drupal on FreeBSD and claim FreeBSD has been owned by a trojan?

  5. You gotta love yellow journalism on New Linux Trojan Is A DDoS Tool, a Bitcoin Miner, and Web Ransomware (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux has nothing to do with this. It's a Drupal security issue.

    I expected better reporting of an issue like this from Slashdot. Then again, maybe not...

  6. Re:1995 on The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    less free-form.

    www was not intrinsically better than gopher. It won out because there was more free porn accessible with it.

  7. Re:just goes to show... on Japanese Olympic Champion Racks Up $5,000 Bill Playing Pokemon Go in Brazil (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Athletes aren't usually renown for their brains and wits. Pokemon Go players aren't either oftentimes...

  8. Re:permission to go to the moon? on Moon Express Gets FAA Approval For Lunar Mission In 2017 (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This.

    Since when does the United States have jurisdiction over the Moon?

  9. Re:Every Built?!? on ULA Interns Launch Record-Breaking 50-Foot Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually they meant Avery. A guy called Avery made it, and it's the largest Avery built.

  10. "Model rocket" eh on ULA Interns Launch Record-Breaking 50-Foot Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The German V-2 rocket was smaller than this thing, and it's been accurately described as the first successful ballistic missile.

    It just goes to show, depending on who builds it, something may be an enlightened amateur rocket or a dangerous enemy weapon.

  11. Well, given that the UK hasn't formally requested to leave the EU yet, wouldn't it be funny if Brussels launched an antitrust investigation into the Mastercard deal, as a parting gift?

  12. that cash exists (still).

  13. In plain English on First Open Source-Based Database Completes U.S. Security Review · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Avoid EDB Postgres Advanced Server like the plague: it officially shares your data with the US Gest^H^H^H^HNSA.

  14. Dupe? on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 4, Informative

    If this story leaves you a feeling of dejavu, don't worry, it's just Hugh Pickens cross-posting on /. and SN again to attract more traffic to his site

  15. How pathetic on And the Lord Said, 'Let There Be Free Wi-Fi' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The church tries to attract people by offering free wifi? What next? Free parking and 15% off every item at any store on the local high street if they attend service regularly?

    Looks like faith is cheap these days...

  16. The problem with car autopilots on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    isn't that they're limited, it's that the user can't know exactly where the limitations are. When you know where the limits of a system are exactly, you subconsciously plan its usage to stay within its perimeter of competences. When you can't fully rely on a system to perform in certain conditions, and not to perform in other conditions, 100% of the time, you have to stay alert all the time to take over in case it craps out.

    That's precisely what's self-defeating in today's fledgling autopilot systems. A real autopilot should let you sleep in the back, read the paper of drink a coffee while it drives. Or at least, it should reliably tell you when and in what conditions it won't be able to let you do that. Joshua Brown's mistake is that he failed to realize today's systems - Tesla's or others' - aren't remotely that predictable.

  17. It raises an important question, if it does anything. #thatisntbeggingthequestion

    Actually, for once, it can really be construed as a proper begging of the question in this blurb - although I suspect it is purely accidental on the part of the author.

  18. It'll teach an excellent lesson on New 'Civilization' Game Will Be Sold To Schools As An Educational Tool (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try your hardest and grind for many hours to improve things, advance civilization, bring about peace after war, build a nation. What a grand and exhilarating endeavour!

    Then, when it gets too hard, enter a cheat code. Congratulation, you've now learned how to be a successful politician.

  19. Yes. But let me introduce you to a revolutionary concept: if you connect several 18650 cells in parallel, you get multiples of a single cell's capacity. And if you connect several groups of 18650 cells in series, you get multiples of a single cell's voltage.

    And if you connect a metric shitload of 18650 batteries together with a BMS and a car around it, you get a Tesla.

    Amazing isn't it?

  20. 7 kg with e-assist? on Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    I say bullshit. Even the lightest Brompton without e-assist is heavier than that. Drastic weight reduction methods required to bring a purely muscle-powered bike down to 7 kg - let alone a folder, and especially let alone an *electric* folder - would bring it into multi-thousand dollar price tag territories.

    So... Bullshit.

  21. Re:Forget about Edge. It's Firefox that's interest on Opera Denies Microsoft Edge Battery-Saving Claims (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read what I wrote? I care about not running a program made by an evil company first, and about efficiency a distant second.

  22. That's assuming your no1 metric is battery life on Opera Denies Microsoft Edge Battery-Saving Claims (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Me, I'd rather sacrifice some runtime so long as I don't use a Microsoft or a Google product.

  23. Re:The question you shlould ask is... on Mark Zuckerberg Tapes Over His Webcam. Should You? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You should care because Fuckerberg knows a thing or two about invading people's privacy. If he himself is worried about his, you should be about yours.

  24. And that's exactly why you need to offer Google as little information about you as possible, and go see a doctor.

    Besides, Google's privacy invasion schemes notwithstanding, real doctors don't like it when you self-diagnose. So, since you can't really tell them Google told you you have a life-threatening ass tumor, you're better off not searching anything and going straight to the doctor.

  25. I'm not sure why you were modded funny. This is actually very insightful - as well as a perfectly apropos use of this line from the movie.