User: sucko

Re: 64-bit

On: Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com)

FoxPro developers where the angriest buch ever. They got all the object oriented features, and no one cared. Visual Basic was the RAD tool of the day, and it made the FoxPro guys insane.

real soon now

On: Valve Releases SteamVR For Linux (gamingonlinux.com)

HL3

remember

On: Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk)

when linus was a nice guy?

that's odd

On: Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com)

slashdot is awful no matter how fast your connection is.

you don't care

On: Pioneering Data Genius Hans Rosling Passes Away At Age 68 (bbc.com)

if you guys really cared, you'd start a gofundme to raise him from the dead.

but still

On: We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com)

could not survive shitty slashdot editors.

stealing our air

On: Oxygen From Earth's Atmosphere May Be Traveling To the Moon's Surface (theverge.com)

god damn it.

Re:Seems consistent with the Razer philosophy

On: Razer Buys Nextbit (betanews.com)

are you saying you have to create a account & login to get a mouse driver --or-- you have to login to use a mouse driver?

oh no!

On: Actor John Hurt Dies At Age 77 (hollywoodreporter.com)

Is he going to be ok?

Re:Vivaldi who?

On: Vivaldi CEO: Stop Your Anti-Competitive Practices With Edge, Microsoft! (betanews.com)

I had to google Vivaldi too.

reliable source

On: 5G Internet is the 'Beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution' (cnbc.com)

why are we listening to a chief executive from Turkey's leading telecom provider? It's not even the largest, just a leading one.

Hit 'em With the Hein

On: Sonos CEO John MacFarlene Steps Down From the Company He Helped Found (techcrunch.com)

Don't put your songs too close to your trampoline.

as a long time reader

On: Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!) (swift.org)

are you brain damaged?

it reads (in part)

On: White House Releases Strategy To Defend Against Killer Asteroids (vice.com)

DUCK!

and yet

On: Steam Is Down (steamstat.us)

slashdot is up. Life just isn't fair.

huh?

On: Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com)

I can't hear you.

Re:They're heroes

On: Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System (cbslocal.com)

They either die heros, or live long enough to see themselves become villains.

Re:Enough!

On: Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System (cbslocal.com)

first they came for the election, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't an election.
then they came for the busses, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't a bus.

etc.

Re:All the rides are not free.

On: Ransomware Compromises San Francisco's Mass Transit System (cbslocal.com)

worst hack evar.

no he isn't

On: Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com)

he's pining for the fjords.

Google Cast

On: Google Quietly Phases Out 'Google Cast' Branding for TVs, Speakers (variety.com)

lived it's life like a candle in the wind.

the editors

On: A New Process Turns Sewage Into Crude Oil (newatlas.com)

can turn raw sewage into slashdot stories, so big deal.

if you guys really cared

On: Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco (eff.org)

you'd raise him from the dead.

Hit 'em with the Hein

On: Adobe Is Working On 'Photoshop For Audio' That Will Let You Add Words Someone Never Said (theverge.com)

Richard and Sal's lives just got easier.

me too

On: FBI Launches Internal Investigation Into Its Own Twitter Account (thinkprogress.org)

first