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  1. Re: Brits, don't feel too bad... on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Not more Italian than Antonio da Lisboa, AKA da Padova!
    He was actually Spanish!

  2. Why not Roman Emperors' food taste? on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I really think that article is crap, just like my comment.

  3. It already did on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't It?

  4. Something useful? on Researchers Run Unsigned Code on Intel ME By Exploiting USB Ports (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no idea how powerful that engine is.

    I hope someone will come out with some neat idea to usefully exploit that ME in favour of the users.
    Maybe some femto-kernel or the likes...

  5. I wonder how qualified those "millennials" were.
    If they were not enough, the original question could turn to: do you prefer to own a pasta drainer or a smartphone?

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

    3) Intel doesn't need to recall anything. It is OFF by default.

    This means that you blindly trust their words.
    I DON'T!

  7. Sure they can! on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 1

    And very likely, they will.
    The point is: should they?
    My personal answer is "no, they shouldn't, unless the user agrees".

  8. It depends on Should Developers Do All Their Own QA? (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    On who's going to do QA.
    If she's a QA professional, then it's ok.
    Otherwise do it yourself to save resources.

  9. Not without proper network analysis stuff on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    I told it, you choose.

  10. It's 10x the amount we print in a 15 people company.

    There needs to be something wrong there: two reams of paper is a lot of paper and weight!

    Do they really really need to print on paper? No e-ink?

    Weird!

  11. At Dell they don't know anything about subdomain delegation. Do they?

  12. Isn't dead in his mind on Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    What the "market" will actually decide is something different.

  13. If he wasn't "former" at the disclosure, he surely will be shortly after.

  14. Yes, you can on Pirate Bay is Mining Cryptocurrency Again, No Opt Out (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Use of a good ad blocker and some JavaScript filtering out.
    You control your browser.
    Unless it's by a "rather big company". In this case it controls you.

  15. You need a whole lot of stupidity to have a printer (not a SERVER) visible on the internet.
    In the end, you assign to the printer either an unprotected public IP or a reverse-NAT private address.
    Both cases deserve the noose!

  16. Environmental costs? on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone taking into account those costs for both pv panels construction and disposal?

  17. Good programmers do on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    Not "good languages"

  18. Yes, of course on Would a T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Hurt Consumers? (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Fewer offers leads to either lower quality or to higher prices or both.

  19. Close releationships? on Microsoft and Canonical Make Custom Linux Kernel (neowin.net) · · Score: 2

    Microsoft and Canonical's relationship is getting closer besides Ubuntu for Windows.

    Microsoft to buy Canonical. The end of Ubuntu.

  20. In software? Are you kidding? on Developer Marco Arment Shares Thoughts On iPhone X's Notch (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    That’s why Apple has made no effort to hide the notch in software

    Please, Marco, elaborate more on this idea.
    I am really looking forward to eat you...

  21. Industry? on HTML5 DRM Standard Is a Go (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't it research?

  22. Re:And what'd be the point? on Linux Foundation President Used MacOS For Presentation at Open Source Summit (itsfoss.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to ask him!
    I am personally on Linux since 1999 and so far no distro satisfied me.
    At the moment I am on Kubuntu and Archlinux.
    For sure I won't go Windows. But if I had money I'd give OSX a try.

  23. And what'd be the point? on Linux Foundation President Used MacOS For Presentation at Open Source Summit (itsfoss.com) · · Score: 0

    What's wrong with that?
    Linux is a kernel, not an OS.
    But you need and OS for the presentation.
    If none of the distros matches your requirements what are you going to choose?
    Either something that doers or what you already have.

  24. You can decide how to dress, what to eat.
    Maybe you can struggle to find your cloths and food of choice.
    But yes, it's up to you.
    I don't answer to phone calls if I am busy.
    My family's messages have a different alarm sound so I only pay immediate attention to them.
    I check emails on my PC a few times in a day, when I think I can be interrupted.
    People expects to be readily available all the time because they fail to filter stuff out and want you to fail as well.