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  1. Rebut can also mean to prove false, and refute can also mean simply to deny (though it's not how I would read it).

    "But Air Force officials have always strongly denied that notion" would have been much simpler.

  2. Re:There are no comments on Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Err... no?

  3. Re:"...he wouldn't have reminded receiving..." on 39 Years Ago The World's First Spam Was Sent (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Member your own business.

  4. You may like to read:

    World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History

    Fuck's sake, Slashdot - don't leave year-old stories like this lying around.

  5. Re:But Google will get a free pass on Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome · · Score: 1

    Because no-one will notice.

  6. If you open an .htm file? haha on You Can't Change the Default Browser or Switch To Google Search In Windows 10 S (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    but Microsoft Edge will remain the default if, for example, you open an .htm file.

    What is this, the 90s? When was the last time anyone opened an .htm file?

    "When you open a link in another program" would have been a far more up-to-date example.

  7. Yes, and CSS too... on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and I also use CSS.

    But that seems to be screwed on Slashdot right now...

    a.fsdn.com uses an invalid security certificate.

    Related?

  8. Is someone forcing you to buy one? Blink twice if we should call the cops.

  9. Most of them aren't 117, either.

  10. Nails him for what? Innocent until proven guilty.. on Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband

    He's not been nailed for anything yet. Still got to get that pesky trial out of the way first.

  11. Confusion and conflation on Oregon Fines Man For Writing a Complaint Email Stating 'I Am An Engineer' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the engineering board in Oregon said Jarlstrom should not be free to publish or present his ideas about the fast-turning yellow traffic lights

    Really? They said he "should not be free to publish or present his ideas"? Who to?

    It's the "I'm an engineer" statement they're taking issue with, not any of his findings.

  12. Re:Cheating Husband on Murdered Woman's Fitbit Nails Cheating Husband (nydailynews.com) · · Score: 1

    He hasn't been convicted (yet).

    So really, it shouldn't really be saying he's been nailed for anything, not by the Fitbit anyway.

  13. I have read it, I guess I'm just thinking more of the stories where it's more or less taken as read and works perfectly, and just happens to be where the characters live.

  14. Aurora Enthusiasts Discover A Strange New Light In The Sky And Named It Steve

    Did they name it (named: past tense) before they discovered it (discover: present tense)?

  15. I'd rather have cash, but thanks.

  16. Additional: his other books which touch on digitisation are much more positive about the whole thing.

  17. It's to stop spoofing. You can read about it here:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I know, I could've made that so much worse.

  18. turns out to be a paean against digitisation

    More against half-arsed digitisation.

  19. Were they full of billowing hot gas, too?

  20. Re:San Junipero 0.1? on Startup Still Working On 'Immortal Avatars' That Will Live Forever (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Black Mirror got way closer to this before now:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:Obligatory on Startup Still Working On 'Immortal Avatars' That Will Live Forever (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  22. Re: We all know why on Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you figure that Rust will somehow be better?

    When did I say that?

  23. We all know why on Flawed Online Tutorials Led To Vulnerabilities In Software (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Researchers from several German universities have checked the PHP codebases of over 64,000 projects

    The researchers identified popular tutorials by inputting search terms such as "mysql tutorial"

    Ah, I see where they went wrong. They should have searched for "real mysql tutorial."

  24. Except it wasn't wanted

    It clearly is wanted, or no-one would have written and/or adopted it in the first place. Just not by all.

  25. Re:Quantum entanglement on Light Sail Propulsion Could Reach Sirius Sooner Than Alpha Centauri (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    If the X-ray photon is absorbed somewhere, the visible light photon disappears.

    That's not what happens. It would violate conservation of momentum, for a start.