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  1. Micro Trends, Trend Micro, same thing, right? on Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall

    However, Trend Micro released a security advisory today describing two zero-day vulnerabilities for Quicktime for Windows

    Is Slashdot now running on one of those "not always right" chips? Micro Trends, Trend Micro, close enough.

    Fasttime for Windoes deprecated by Pear.

  2. Re:what I can't understand on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The solution I've seen is a 15ft hallway with an abrupt 180 degree turn into the bathroom.

    I'm guessing someone did a study on how far the sound of a heavy splash carries.

  3. Re:what I can't understand on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    is that after you have dried your hands (or not) you have to pull on the contaminated handle to open the exit door.

    It shouldn't be contaminated if everyone washes their hands like a normal person. If anything, it should (in theory) be cleaner than the handle or plate on the other side.

    WHY DON'T THESE DOORS OPEN OUTWARDS THEN YOU COULD PUSH IT WITH SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR HANDS.

    Same reason most doors open into the room rather into the corridor. You're more likely to clobber someone walking past. Nobody approaches the door from inside the room without already having their attention on it (usually).

  4. Re:On the other hand... on Dyson Airblades 'Spread Germs 1,300 Times More Than Paper Towels' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  5. You can't tell a 22-year-old to turn off their cellphone. That's not how they live their life.

    Ah yes, treat everyone in the same vague demographic as if they were an amorphous mob of clones who act and think the same way.

    What could possibly go wrong?

  6. Oetaxicab? What? on Golden State and the Mathematical Magic of Seventy-Three (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    This was the first of what came to be known as 'oetaxicab numbers.'

    A what number?

    "It is the sixth 'emirp.' An emirp, he explained, is a prime number that remains prime when its digits are reversed. (Emirp, of course, is 'prime spelled backward.)

    You've got something weird going on with your quotes there.

  7. Err, what? on FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FBI Tried To Defeat Encryption 10 Years Ago, Files Show

    They're probably trying to defeat encryption of some kind or another every single day.

  8. Woo! BFAEB! on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill

    I heard they're opening for Aerosmith next month.

  9. Re:And Vindicated.... on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 1

    On the plus side any sane person would connect the print to a socket for the proper chip type and just switch the chip in the socket.

    Couldn't they even switch the chip between the board and the flasher electronically?

  10. Re:Juts a bit condescending on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    Also:

    First of all, the 6-inch screen is close to square.

    No it isn't. The device is close to square.

  11. Juts a bit condescending on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 2

    And thirdly, the screen is now an insane 3.4-mm thick. Yes, that is as thin as you think it is.

    Err, yes. I think it's 3.4mm thick. You just told me.

    That's the beauty of standardised units of measurement.

  12. Re:And Vindicated.... on FBI Paid Professional Hackers One-Time Fee To Crack San Bernardino iPhone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That would take a while even with 10000 number combinations.

    I hear they have computers that can count up to 10000 now.

  13. Not really a "cable" any more, is it? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1

    If "cables" are going to have authentication chips and whatnot inside them, they're not really just cables any more, are they? They're more like a third device to put between two other devices.

    Do they really have to be so much more than just a certain number of pins in a certain pattern connected to the same at the other end by conductive material?

  14. That's just using three photons instead of two. You still can't transmit information with it.

  15. Re:Quantum entanglement on Hawking Backs $100 Million Interstellar Travel Project to Send 'Nano-Craft' To Nearest Star · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I mean, how hard can it be?

    It can be, and is, impossible.

  16. Medium, Twitter Founder

    He talks to dead people?

    Or does he just like people to know he's average-sized?

  17. Re:Who cares if it ain't yours? on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 2

    Your DNA cares. You serve largely to pass it on, and if the kid isn't yours, and you pick up on the clues, you're probably hardwired to reject the little mite.

    There is more to it, of course, but that would all seem to make sense from a DNA/evolution point of view.

  18. Re:why mega sync and not torrent? on Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Err, or went offline, I mean. I think they've automated overnight seeding by now, right?

  19. Re:why mega sync and not torrent? on Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not?

    Gotta start somewhere. I'm guessing the first guy to have it didn't want to be a) traced too easily or b) pestered with "Please seed!!!11!" when he went sleep.

  20. Oh, great, as if I don't have enough to do on Syrian Government Hacked, 43GB of Data Spilled Online By Hacktivists (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    43GB of Data Spilled Online

    Ugh, thanks a bunch. Now I've got to find someone to clean up the mess!

  21. 13 Doctors? on Now Streaming: How To Do a Kidney Transplant (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Taught by 13 doctors

    A grumpy old geezer, a shabby-looking chap with a recorder, a dandy, a Bohemian...

  22. Next to the headline, in green-on-slightly-different-green.

    It's the hip new way to link to stories.

  23. Re: This is why calling them emoji is wrong on Variation in Depiction of Same Emoji on Different Platforms Can Lead To Miscommunication · · Score: 1

    YPYMATYC

    What was that about my mother? Take that back!

  24. [ brackets - brackets - close brackets ] on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    [More than 135 million modems are said to be vulnerable to a flaw that can leave users cut-off from the internet -- just by someone clicking on a trick link.]

    [ ( { What is this bizarre thing Slashdot has lately for chucking in brackets } for no good ) reason? ]