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  1. Re:s/cummulative/trichobezoar on Microsoft Fixes Windows 10 Anniversary Update Freezing Issues (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    s/cummulative/trichobezoar

    Anyone else?

    I'm sort of thinking about the kind of pachypatch trichobezoar that results when an anxious elephant plucks and nibbles too many of its own nose hairs.

    Of course, under the new model, a discerning elephant can't just selectively incisor the one long, black, thick nose hair that's spiralling out of control. No, now it has become a daring feat of all or nothing, certain to well up elephant tears.

    Here's another option:

    s/cummulative/wallop

    Fear wallop hell.

    Question... Acid, shrooms or salvia?

  2. ACAS responds with autopilot disengagement, meaning fucker you need to wake up and fly now cause I could bollocks this up. Tesla autopilot actually responds to encroaching vehicles, hence it is actually better in some aspects than flight autopilot.

  3. Re:Hurry up and get the fuck out of my country Kim on Judge Allows Kim Dotcom To Livestream Court Hearing (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for mod points, not just for the opposing view, but the wonderfully blue way in which it was presented.

  4. Re:Since we skipped Windows 9.... on Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Phase 2 testing on Isolated NASA Team Ends Year-Long Mars Simulation In Hawaii (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You should try prison. Social isolation, pressure, things can go REALLY wrong, limited resources and food....

  6. I will use it when you... on Ubuntu Linux 16.10 'Yakkety Yak' Beta 1 Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Take out the papers (Unity desktop) and the trash (systemd).

  7. Re:Forbes: (Warning paywalled) on Dyson Will Spend $1.4 Billion, Enlist 3,000 Engineers To Build a Better Battery (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I use ublock origin, and normally reloading formbe 2x gets me past the quote page. I have to really want it to read on Forbes though...

  8. Re:The famous post for those inclined.... on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At the time the lab computers I was using to test on were shiny new 486dx2 (66mhz). They did not have enough drive space for OS (win 3.11) and the floppy sets so I had to FTp direct to floppy, I think this slowed it down. Later when I needed updated floppies I took my existing box and found an open NFS mirror (probably spent 2 hours probing nfs servers) and downloaded direct to floppy again. I think this was faster, and the back of my brain says it was sunsite, but maybe it was UIUC that I was downloading from. I was at a little community college in VA. That box became our first webserver as a test and was quickly moved over to one of our neXt boxes with more drive space. Ahhh compiling mosaic on motorola.. how I miss thee..

  9. Hell I remember MFM/RLL drives. First drive I worked on a lot was the ST-225 AT. Great drive that one.

  10. The famous post for those inclined.... on Linus on Linux's 25th Birthday (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
    https://groups.google.com/foru...

    For me I didn't start in 1991. I hopped on NeXt in college in 1993, then threw slackware on a couple boxes in 1994/95. I hate being late to the party... almost as much as I hated downloading slack floppy sets of 56k ISDN

  11. Re:For those that didn't read TFA, esp in regards on Princeton Researchers Announce Open Source 25-Core Processor (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1
    So the NSF is not to be trusted? Are they the sister of the NSA?

    Tinfoil is apt in many circumstances, but geez keep it where it belongs.

  12. Re:Eat stupid food... on Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ....get stupid fat

  13. Play stupid games... on Driver Killed a Pedestrian in Japan While Playing Pokemon Go (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    win stupid prizes...

  14. He doesn't care that he speaks for all humanity. We know this already. He thinks his view -is- the world.

    The real question is if natural selection will gradually work that kind out of the gene pool, or all of us.

  15. You do realize that the largest storms are about 60,000 feet high and the edge of space is about 328,000 feet high. What bridges this heat further up?

  16. Re:Bill Nye is not a science guy. on Bill Nye Explains That the Flooding In Louisiana Is the Result of Climate Change (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    In all of slashdot's history (and I have been here under other guises for quite some time.. 98-99), there is a long precedent of leaving the submissions mostly alone, with whatever warts they have.

  17. Re:YouTube video showing BGA damage under microsco on A Design Defect Is Plaguing Many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Units (iphonehacks.com) · · Score: 2
    The price of these phones is 550 to 650 US. I love the video and this kind of work, but how economically feasible is it for an owner? A shop equipped like that probably charges 75 to 150 per hour. Full disassembly, reassembly and microsoldering I would assume is at least 3 hours. That is 1/4 to 1/2 the device price for a repair that may not last.

    I love performing electronic repairs, although I do not have practice (and wonder how good I would be) on devices this small. However I do not see the economic feasibility... someone enlighten me.

  18. Figures.... on Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I only use FB for communication with some hard headed family members that can't be bothered to understand email and a bit of business related stuff. The 3rd time an update set auto-play videos back to on on my mobile devices (wasting my data for their shit), I uninstalled. I check once every week or so from a desktop. FB can go fuck itself.

  19. I use the Laser 128 you insensitive clod. About 15% of bluetooth headsets are incompatible.

  20. Re:It's not really dead on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 1

    It's pining for the fjords...

  21. Re:Obligatory Fuck the DEA on Marijuana Provides More Pain Relief For Men Than Woman, Says Study (psypost.org) · · Score: 1

    Why? I've seen the lives it has destroyed, plus I now live across the street from a store in Seattle where it is legally sold, but the local cops have been ordered to not enforce the law and arrest the drug addicts.

    Plus, it's unfair that it doesn't help women as much with pain, so it needs to be banned for that reason alone.

    Birth Control pills are not nearly as effective for men as women. We should ban those too.

  22. Witty comment here... on The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm (theintercept.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The real interesting thing will be when detection tools for this malware are created. Then we will see how many people -without warrants- the NSA is using this on.

  23. The First Amendment guarantees that the government will not abridge your freedom of speech. (Certain limitations, among them threatening public officials, still apply.)

    It says nothing about private entities, such as corporations, being prohibited from abridging your speech.

    Look at it like this. Freedom of speech does not guarantee you a venue. It guarantees you a voice. No one has to listen, and no one is obligated to provide you a microphone.

    You can say what you want, but Twitter still has the option under their Terms of Service to ban you. You can still say the same things; you just can't say them on their service.

    I would add it also does not protect you from the consequences of speech. Yell fire in a theater is the mos quoted example, but walking into a biker bar and telling the biggest guy there his girl looks like a methhead skank and her crotch smells like the rotting cum from the last gangbang is well within your rights. No piece of paer is going to protect you from what happens next.

  24. Re:Yeah, but Broadwell-E 8-core procs run at 3.2GH on AMD Says Upcoming Zen CPU Will Outperform Intel Broadwell-E (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    The high end WS market is a small part of the market. If AMD pulls off 75-85% of the performance in a reasonable power envelope for 45-50% of the price, it is a win-win for a huge segment of the market.

  25. Re: DSL shouldn't be considered broadband any more on Cable Expands Broadband Domination as AT&T and Verizon Lose Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    This. Plus the fact that in many areas, especially urban ones. The infrastructure for telcos is shit. In my downtown, the cables running from the CO have at least 30% that are not good enough for DSL. The cost to gig up downtown to replace 1930s and 40s wiring is too great and left alone. Many more outlying areas have newer and better infrastructure, but long line lengths to the CO to deal with. DSL is lose lose all around, and the LECs will die from it.