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  1. How about using that intelligence and on Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    figuring out where the real terrorists are coming from?

    Instead of making countries safer, they're going after internet trolls?

    Good grief. Way to distract from their own incompetence. Or is it collusion?

  2. Re: First Post? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 1

    Tizen was quite buggy and it looks practically the same as Android. Couldn't root it either unless you ponied up for a developer unit. I had the Z1, the entry level phone.

  3. Google: don't be evil on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    That's our job.

  4. A magnet link was posted on reddit last week in the /r/pwned subreddit.

  5. Just confirms what the guy said. on We've Toned Down the 'Destroying Society' Shtick, Facebook Insists (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    I don't have a Facebook account and I encourage everyone to delete theirs. I've succeeded maybe a dozen times.

    This response just confirms that the guy was right at that time. I also don't think that big corporations can change that quickly, if at all.

  6. You will need self control on Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    You will need to know self control.

    1. Don't download and install every update blindly. Not sure you can even do that anymore on Win 10.

    2. Don't download and install anything and everything because it sounds cool.

    3. Don't assume you can uninstall everything easily.

    4. Last and not least, you'll need self control not to throw it out the window when it runs amuck. And it will.

  7. iOS 11 is a little funky esp with the retarded wif on iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    But it hasn't slowed down my gold old 5s.

    For now. I hope to get another year out of it before looking for options.

    No headphone jack, no upgrade.

  8. Buzzwords of the day: iot, AI, ML, cloud on Farmers In India Are Using AI To Increase Crop Yields (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    They could have sprinkled In a few sensors and hit the IOT button as well.

  9. Re: No mention of AMD? on MINIX: Intel's Hidden In-chip Operating System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    AMD PSP

  10. Re: Three questions on MINIX: Intel's Hidden In-chip Operating System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Research AMD PSP.

  11. Re: and pro hardware (imac pro) you can't change d on High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks (tinyapps.org) · · Score: 0

    âoeProâ hardware for Apple now means âoeamateurs with even more money.â

  12. Re: But 725$ for a Samsung is OK! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 0

    Leave out the string and youâ(TM)re wireless!

  13. That's not what the ad is meant to do. The ad is meant to make you accept and even feel relieved that the doc prescribed something that you've heard of.

  14. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just str on Facebook Enabled Advertisers To Reach 'Jew Haters' (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not that Facebook is targeting any group; it's this "advertiser" putting in a string which matched.

    Much as I dislike Facebook for their intrusiveness, I wouldn't go so far to say that they would have this as a category.

  15. Flac player on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 0

    I ripped my collection of classical CDs to FLAC and have them on an SD card playing into a bookshelf stereo.

    Ubuntu Phone, but the same problem of support as Windows.

  16. Positive discrimination is still discrimination on Facebook Refuses To Share Employee Race and Gender Data · · Score: 1

    I'm not white, but I've worked in white dominated companies which have declined into obscurity thanks to their "progressive policies" of positive discrimination towards minorities.

    It's hard to prove bias, but when you work in a place where over the years the upper echelon is filled replaced with visibly incompetent people, correlated with a decline in the company's revenue, it makes you wonder why the best *person* for the job wasn't chosen.

    Oh wait, we lost a law suit in 1984 so we need to fix this right now by promoting any token candidate that we have. /rant

  17. Gee, thanks Carly on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 0

    Thanks to you, HP tries to make money from ink.
    Ink. And not by making decent printers and ink, but by
    playing games with the cartridge sizes (18ml vs 30ml, anyone, with a dash of DRM.)

    The real HP is called Agilent.

  18. This is true elsewhere as well on Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias · · Score: 0

    I first got laid off a few weeks before my 40th after shipping a huge product (successfully) for an east coast company. The excuse was that I had ruffled way too many feathers while delivering it on schedule (i.e. the software process monkeys.)

    Just got laid off again from a west coast company at the age of 45. This time my "job was relocated to East Europe."

    I'm in Bangalore, India now, BTW. Speaks for itself.

  19. Parallels Desktop made my ITG guy think on Apple iPhone - To Be, or Not to Be? · · Score: 0

    He was at my desk bitching and moaning about the imac I bought to "test." Saw Parallels Desktop running WinXP, and I could see him rethinking his "corporate standard" spiel.

    The fact that it has just three cables running out of it (power, USB keyboard, and network) makes a big difference as well.

    An imac makes a great office desktop.

  20. IAWTP on Life on the Other End of the Tech Support Line · · Score: 0

    I've ditched slashdot for digg.

    Came here after several weeks. Needn't have bothered.

  21. How is this a troll? on Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++? · · Score: 0

    The parent refers to Erlang, and is modded "Troll."

  22. If only Osama had hijacked a domain. on Sex.com Hijacker Captured in Mexico · · Score: -1

    He'd be doing time by now.

  23. MTS1 vs MTS scam on The H-1B Swindle · · Score: 0

    I used to work for a very large telecom company on the east coast. Several years ago, I think in the early 90s, they introduced an "entry" level position which they called MTS1. Most of the new hires in that grade where H1B holders. They had the same qualifications and did the same job as the MTS's. But they were definitely paid less.

  24. You missed this beauty. on A Review of the iPod nano · · Score: 0

    "In fact, during my tests, I dropped the nano several times, deliberately, from a height of about 3 feet, and it didn't miss a beat. I also wore it around my neck on the lanyard during a couple of hours of pounding treadmill exercise, and it never skipped or froze."

    Didn't miss a beat, eh? I wonder why.

  25. Screw Iraq, let's invade Colorado. on Practical Method for Getting Oil from Oil Shale? · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah, that's what the miserable failure is saying right now.