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  1. Re:So why would I keep paying for Youtube Red? on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting rid of those annoying ads are the only reason I have it.

    Maybe I'm not watching the right kind of videos, but if you use Firefox and uBlock... no ads. Ever.

  2. But it wor! I tell you it wor!

  3. Or you could use one of these.

  4. I thought they already did that.

    The IP block is presumably there now because people are just putting the IP addresses in to get around the DNS black hole.

  5. Re:I don't like the EHang 184 design on Big Week For Drones: Dubai Permits Passenger-Carrying Drone; Kenya Finally Approves Commercial Use (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, just having 4 motors where one failure is catastrophic.

    Not necessarily entirely catastrophic. If it has enough excess thrust it's theoretically possible for a drone to sustain controlled flight with three out of four props out of action.

    I mean, it's not pretty, and if it's scaled up to passenger size it would probably kill the occupants anyway even if it didn't fling itself apart, but still...

  6. Grieving father doesn't apply logic to reach a rational and objectice conclusion.

  7. Plain English is hard enough, apparently on Encrypted Email Is Still a Pain in 2017 (incoherency.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Bristol-based software developer James Stanley, who used to work at Netcraft, shares how encrypted emails, something which was first introduced over 25 years ago,

    Got enough commas in there?

    is still difficult

    Uh, what? Emails is still difficult?

    but not only things like GPG, PGP, OpenPGP were -- for no reason -- confusing

    "Not only were things like..." would've been easier to parse, though this is borderline cromulent.

    Enigmail continues to suffer from a bug that takes forever in generating keys.

    The bug takes forever "in generating" keys?

    Look, if English isn't the submitter's first language, that's no big deal. But somebody, somewhere, should be responsible for editing submissions if you want people to actually think you're a professional news aggregator.

  8. Re:Not saying it was Aliens on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Butt aliens?

  9. Hah. Because it sounds like the word for butthole!

  10. Re:900 is 90 times hotter than Earth? on We Finally Have a Computer That Can Survive the Surface of Venus (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Always quote the dumb summaries so you don't look a maroon when they fix 'em.

  11. Re:"private innovation"? on French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The techniques used in this case have nothing to do with holography. It's a reflection of a flat projection.

  12. There's nothing holographic about it. It's a reflection. The image is not 3D; it's flat.

  13. Please just say "and" on Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns?

    Perhaps they could focus on stopping people from needlessly replacing the word "and" with a comma in headlines.

    It's a pointless and archaic tradition, and copying it doesn't make Slashdot look any more legit.

  14. More than 16 players? No freakin' way on Pong's Inventor Unveils Three New VR Arcade Games - Including Pong (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    (More than 16 players can gather in the same virtual space.)

    Wow. 16? Like, one-six? Surely no machine in the world can handle that kind of data throughput!

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    Alternative snarky comment: why more than 16? Is 17 the minimum, for some reason? If there is an actual hard limit, why not quote that number instead of 16? Why not say "more than 8" or "more than 24"?

  15. Re:99.9% perfection X 14 million lines = 14,000 fl on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who has truly mastered their craft may perfection 99% of the time.

    May what perfection?

  16. And...? on The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Please try and write summaries that at least get somewhere close to the crux of the story, and don't just trail off mid-concept.

    In 2003, Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli, biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, proposed that synapses grew so exuberantly during the day that our brain circuits got “noisy.” When we sleep, the scientists argued, our brains pare back the connections to lift the signal over the noise.

  17. How about a link we can READ, numbnuts? on US Judge Rejects Suit Over Face Scanning for Video Game (newyorklawjournal.com) · · Score: 1

    To continue reading, become a free ALM digital reader.

    Eh... no.

    Are you allowed to copy/paste from a paywalled article? I guess we could ask ALM, they'd know.

    Two athletes

    Brother-and-sister video basketball players

    They're video basketball players? That's not very athletic.

  18. Re:Is it still the same server? on Server Runs Continuously For 24 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you change "Theseus" to "farmer" and "ship" to "axe," is it still the same philosophical problem?

  19. Re:Only 85%?! on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they just tweaked their definition of "corrupt" so the number was shockingly high, but not so high as to throw light on the arbitrary nature of said definition.

  20. Re:Voice assistants are another fad on More Than 8M People Own an Amazon Echo As Customer Awareness Increases 'Dramatically' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If echo was tied into Wikipedia (and with skills, it is) it would be used a lot more.

    You can say "Alexa, Wikipedia (subject)" out of the box.

  21. Re:Warning for websites collecting passwords? on Firefox 51 Arrives With HTTP Warning, WebGL 2 and FLAC Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed you sidestepped the question.

    The only question you asked was a) rhetorical and b) logically fallacious, so yes, I did "sidestep" it. I don't remember agreeing to be the one to answer it, anyway, so I'm not sure you're getting snippy with me.

    If you can't come up with a good reason for a change then the way we have done something in the past is in fact an excellent reason not to change something.

    You really can't think of a good reason not to submit passwords in the clear? Or that a warning about same won't help to alert a user that he's on a spoofed page?

  22. Re:Warning for websites collecting passwords? on Firefox 51 Arrives With HTTP Warning, WebGL 2 and FLAC Support (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is Mozilla to assume that every damn website is important enough to require encryption?

    They haven't. HTTPS-less are still going to work.

    Slashdot didn't support HTTPS for a good 18 years and we all survived.

    Yes, having done things one way in the past is an excellent reason for continuing to do them.

  23. Top left, bottom right, middle bottom, bottom left, middle, middle-right? That's the combination to my ah screw it.

  24. Can't say the same for Goo.. *CENSORSHIP* search engine.

    Really? It finds TPB fine for me.

  25. Re:Elephant sized? on Tiny New Robots Perform Eye Surgery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    What? I don't know th- AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH