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  1. Re: Physical buttons on Android Q May Change the Back Button To a Gesture (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Gestures are non-inclusive.

    Well, I dunno, I think this gesture pretty much sums up everything I need to say about Google's constant fscking with the Android UI.

  2. Call him Buddy Christ, that'd work.

  3. Re:It sounds like... on Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Silicon Valley's Most Famous Blunder (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought it was getting involved in a land war in Asia.

  4. Re: From the 'No sh*t, Sherlock' department on Middle-Age Men Who Can Do 40+ Push-Ups Have Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    In other squeeze-the-numbers-any-way-you-can news, the University of Northern South but not that far South Dakota reports that a new study on the health habits of left-handed vegan Jewish cardinals who placed either first or second in their school spelling bees and have a mother whose name begins with B live on average two years longer than one-legged elevator repairmen born in New Jersey between 1960 and 1962 and whose favourite colour is yellow.

  5. Sorry, there was a typo in that headline, please replace:

    Linux Subsystem Files To Become Accessible via Windows File Explorer

    with:

    Windows Malware Now Gets Access to Linux Files as Well

  6. Re:Anti China Propoganda on China Has Abandoned a Cybersecurity Truce With the US, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Internal enemies work best, because then you can demonize your opposition and suppress them. For example "the media" (meaning "the media when they say things I don't want to hear") was one example. Look up "stochastic terrorism".

  7. Re:Too long to read on 'Samsung's One UI Is the Best Software It's Ever Put On a Smartphone' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I can tell you without needing to read it: Tons of non-removable bloatware, Samsung-proprietary ways of doing things that you can just as easily do in a standard way, and the obligatory flat-tard interface that we've all grown to love so much.

  8. Re:Microsoft : You must update to have updates on Windows 7 Users: You Need SHA-2 Support or No Windows Updates After July 2019 (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fast-forward to July 17, 2019, where Slashdot will run a story about Windows 7 systems breaking because they can't download the SHA-2 code signing update to allow them to download SHA-2 signed updates.

  9. Re:Well.. on Goldman Sachs Asks: 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The great vampire squid wants to be able to jam its blood funnel into anything that smells like money for as long as possible, not just as a one-off while they're cured. So keeping patients non-cured (sick) for as long as possible is the optimal path for them.

  10. Re:Blame Facebook and Google on India, the World's Second Largest Internet Market, Is Turning Its Back on Silicon Valley (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lobby groups that represent U.S. companies and industry watchers say they see an extreme shift from the "warm, welcoming, collaborative" approach the government exhibited in 2014. "In the past year or so, the engagement has been combative, with abrupt, disruptive policy changes that are being held without consultation, and, unusually, with absolutely no room for negotiation or even deadline extensions

    Translation: India went from bent over and ready to take any size phallus that foreign corporates wanted to shove up its arse to actually trying to protect its own people's interests. I wish more companies were "combative, abrupt, and disruptive" to the likes of Google, Facebook, and others.

  11. Re:Totally not collusion on Visa, Mastercard Mull Increasing Fees For Processing Transactions: Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the standard here (which is not the US) in many places for smaller transactions where the card fees kill any profit by the merchant, pay by credit card and you pay an x% surcharge. Not sure how much difference it makes in practice though.

  12. Re: I'm changing mine on 8-Character Windows NTLM Passwords Can Be Cracked In Under 2.5 Hours (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Mine is "ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArseIfYouDontGiveMeAccessnowâ.

  13. Re:Hitler reacts to slashdot on Star of Film 'Downfall' and Widespread 'Hitler Finds Out...' Meme, Dead At 77 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hitler reacts to news of Bruno Ganz dying" in 5... 4... 3... 2...

  14. "It would take extra time and money to develop and test it, and it's years away, why bother investing the effort, we, or the product, or both, won't be around long enough for it to be a problem".

  15. ... which adopted the flat-tard interface long before Opera did. So it's actually worse than Opera.

  16. The headline should really read "flat-tard zombies eat Opera developer's brains". I guess it just took them a bit longer to swim (or walk) to Norway from the spawning grounds in Silicon Valley and Redmond.

  17. Re:It is the applications on Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems? · · Score: 1

    Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems?

    No.

    Anything else, or was that all?

  18. Re:Starforce for the win on Researchers Use Intel SGX To Put Malware Beyond the Reach of Antivirus Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This confirming Rule 37 for DRM, if a vendor implements consumer-hostile technology for Hollywood, it'll be used as consumer-hostile technology by everyone else.

  19. Re:KDE Neon on KDE Plasma 5.15 Released (kde.org) · · Score: 2

    For this release the Plasma team has focused on hunting down and removing all the paper cuts that slow you down.

    How about hunting down and removing, with extreme prejudice, the flat-tard UI they copied from Windows 8 because, you know, it worked so well for Microsoft? That's something that's newsworthy, not a bump of the minor version number.

  20. Re:Radical? solution on Microsoft: 70 Percent of All Security Bugs Are Memory Safety Issues (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Get off these 50 year old languages?

    Onto what? If it's Java then 70% of your issues will be JVM exploits. If it's SQL then 70% of your issues will be SQLI. If it's HTML then 70% of your issues will be XSS. If its $X then 70% of your issues will be $Y, for any value of X in combination with whateer Y goes with it.

  21. Re:Holes? on Scientists Discover a New Kind of Magnet (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    in the new "singlet-based" magnet

    They're hardly new, singlets have been around for years.

  22. Re:What a Family on AI Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    a previously unknown and long-extinct group of hominins interbred with Homo sapiens in Asia and Oceania somewhere

    If it was Scotland or Wales I'd say the unknown gene was sheep, but Asia/Oceania? Futanari perhaps?

  23. Re:Darwin Challenge: on Eight People Suffer Burns After Attempting Viral 'Boiling Water Challenge' (abc13.com) · · Score: 2

    Anyone want to start the Holding a Lit Stick of Dynamite Challenge? I'm sure I saw some coyote do it once, let's see if you can do it too!

  24. Re:Hard to take that seriously on Google Fiber Abandoning Louisville Residents With Two Months Notice (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    The article text actually cropped out a few words, originally it read:

    Surprising exactly nobody, the issue apparently has to do with "shallow trenching," a process that involves laying fiber cable two inches beneath the sides of roads

    Well, OK, surprising nobody but Google.

  25. Re:Why should we believe Google? on Google Warns News Sites May Lose 45 Percent of Traffic If EU Passes Its Copyright Reform (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In other news, Eastern European drug lords warn that drug dealers may loose 45 percent of revenue if EU passes anti-drug legislation. This could have could have catastrophic effects on the drug economy in Europe by hampering user access to cocaine and heroin.

    Wording straight from Google, just applied to a slightly different product.