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  1. Facebook and Twitter are not News sites, or even aggregators, in the first place.

  2. Disconnect. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Seriously. Hike. Bike. Paddle a Kayak. Snowboard. Camp. Get on an elliptic trainer and stare at the girls in yoga pants at the gym. It's hard maybe to start doing it, but once you find something that you like, it will be hard to stay away from that thing. My biggest addiction is whitewater kayaking. Playboats. Class IV-V creeking. Waterfalls, whatever! You can't really be distracted by facespace drama and world politics when you're in the gnar!

    The thing that really rocks about individual sports like snowboards, mountainbikes, and kayaks is that there is always a progression and you look forward to working hard to get to that next level.

  3. Re:We've already got PuTTY on Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 (servethehome.com) · · Score: 1

    I use a linux workstation at work. Having an SSH Server on windows would make life a lot easier for the rare occasion that I have to do something on a windows server.

  4. Re:Thunderbird needs very little improvement on Email Client Thunderbird To Stay With The Mozilla Foundation, Sort Of (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    I used to use K-9, but I think Aqua is even better: http://www.aqua-mail.com/?page...

  5. Re:Ah, no lessons learned from Windows 8 on What's New In GNOME 3.18 · · Score: 1

    Cinnamon.

  6. ITT HAES obeasts with condishuns. on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    Yup. Already seeing them.

    I'm overweight. There are reasons for it. The biggest one, though, is simply eating too much. I'm making no excuses, and am not going to call myself beautiful or healthy. I'm not. I know what healthy feels like, and I am not there right now.

    Push your fat ass away from the table. People on slashdot should know better.

    Here, check this out from one of our own: https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackd...

  7. Re:Start of th End on Firefox To Mandate Extension Signing · · Score: 1

    I migrated to chrome when firefox started to perform really poorly on Linux. I don't know what they did or why they never fixed it, but it's damned near unusable to me.

  8. Bad title. on Science By Democracy Doesn't Work · · Score: 2

    Science by democracy isn't science.

  9. Re:Put away your pitch forks on SystemD Gains New Networking Features · · Score: 1

    IPTables is always 'up'. It is not a daemon. There is nothing to test. You just add/flush rulesets.

    And I really don't want some other process deciding to wipe out the iptables configuration that I specify, thanks.

  10. Meh... on PHP vs. Node.js: the Battle For Developer Mind Share · · Score: 1

    I still use Mason.

  11. Re:My wife hates the L interface changes on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    Try chomp sms for a SMS app.

    To fix everything else, I ended up just installing CM11. I didn't really want to, but Lollipop was just too painful. I couldn't deal with it.

  12. Re:Lollipop = Windows Vista on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    You can.

    Install CM11. That's what I did after suffering through a few days of lollipop.

  13. So when they get out... on Time Dilation Drug Could Let Heinous Criminals Serve 1,000 Year Sentences · · Score: 1

    .. they are even more psychotic?

    Also, torture is uncool, and this would be torture.

    There was a scifi short story about this very thing dealing with teleportation. I forget the title and author...

  14. So... on Speedier Screening May Be Coming To an Airport Near You · · Score: 1

    They are going back to letting us leave our shoes on, our laptops in our bags, and using simple metal detectors?

  15. Dear U.S. Military on DARPA Training Cadets and Midshipmen As Cyber Warriors · · Score: 1

    Please stop with the 'cyber' shit. It's already difficult enough to take you seriously without your use of this nonsensical prefix for all things computer and network related.

  16. Re:Open Source is better. on Dear Asus Router User: All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us · · Score: 1

    I prefer PFSense on a netgate appliance.

  17. Re:Celsius on How Russia Transformed a Subtropical Beach Resort To Host the Winter Olympics · · Score: -1, Troll

    For length, at least, our system is more natural. You can easily divide a foot, for example, into thirds, halves, quarters. Not so much with base 10.

    Temperature, mass, etc came about in the same way.

    Nature isn't base 10, other than the number of fingers and toes we have.

  18. Airport wifi on Canadian Spy Agency Snooped Travelers With Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    If you are using an Airport's WiFi without connecting to your trusted VPN, you'll get what you deserve. Airports are a wonderful place to play "Yes, I am that AP" and other fun games while bored hackers wait for their flights.

  19. I miss Loki on Ask Slashdot: Is Linux Set To Be PC Gaming's Number Two Platform? · · Score: 1

    And of course Quake being released on Linux ahead of windows.

  20. Oh great. on Adobe Adds 3D Printer Support To Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Now 'designers' will believe even more that they can be engineers.

  21. Don't understand the premise on The Internet's Network Efficiencies Are Destroying the Middle Class · · Score: 1

    Those same technologies were freely available to anybody to use. If you didn't take advantage of it and, worse, didn't analyze your business processes and make them better, how can you blame those who did? Also, I now see smaller companies leveraging tech a lot more efficiently, and using open source a whole lot more than the big guys, so they are ahead of them, mainly out of necessity.

  22. Even stuff not controlling the car... on Google Launches Android Automotive Consortium · · Score: 1

    ...would be a nice start.

    I'd be happy if they could get kenwood, alpine, and other aftermarket head unit manufacturers on board. But these guys hate open systems. Friggin' pioneer wants around $300+ just for a navigation add on, last I checked.

  23. What? on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    I thought those things were just a fancy replacement for clay pigeons.

  24. Re:Seriously? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    I'd feel sorry for your not getting /. right, but I'm not dyslexic!

  25. What if she hates what is going on there? on Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob · · Score: 1

    Devil's advocate:

    What if that were a sarcastic comment aimed at the lack of help people in Africa get?

    One can spin this however they want...