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  1. I would love to buy to equivalent machine, not from HP, Lenovo. IBM, Dell and probably not from Samsung. The cherry on the cake would be not a non-Intel architecture.

  2. Re:Whose fault is it on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    The customers of "consultancy" gigs are the dumber part here of paying good money for "consultants" out of college...

  3. Re: Wrong question on Ask Slashdot: What Training Helps Older Programmers Most? · · Score: 1

    Damn dictionaries.

  4. Re:Obtained through court order on Police Used Cell Tower Logs To Text 7,500 Possible Crime Witnesses (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Change your number, problem solved.

  5. Re:So, trash then? on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Because windows Is not trash?

  6. Re: The year of the Linux Laptop? on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the hardware is shoddy to start with, like Realtek wifi chipsets.

  7. Re:The year of the Linux Laptop? on How Linux Saved A School's Failing Windows Laptop Program (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Hardware whitelisting, certificates mishandling, malware on the bios....friends do not let friends buy Lenovo.

  8. Re:Discourage, don't ban on Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Being on call, means being paid because of said restrictions. Receiving a call means receiving at least 3 hours pay on top of that, to discourage pointless or rushed calls (where can I find x or y, where can i find the keys for z). If there are no fair rules, it sucks.

  9. This raises privacy concerns on Canadian Police Are Texting Potential Murder Witnesses (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    So you receive an SMS to visit a site "from the police". If visit the site, and your Windows computer *might* get infected with a malware to spy on you. The police also asks your name, and correlates your name *with* your phone, and with your IP address of the next few days or weeks. Seem a pretty wise idea...

  10. Re:Will it work as a subscription model? on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People are leaving it in droves with a free model, what would you think a subscription model would do to it? It just would be the final nail in the coffin.

  11. Re:Give me Twitter, I can fix it on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If it is not worth using it for free as it is now, imagine it after some "smart" changes.

  12. Re:Fuck it. on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Which Russia trolls? We Europeans just do not believe in the boogieman, or that communists eat children, or that north korea and Russia are the devil incarnate. Give us a break.

  13. Fuck it. on CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since when is slashdot a propaganda tool?

  14. Re:Well... he has a point on all fronts. on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And that is exactly I have not bought a Clear Fog/Omnia Router. I also bough a Lamobo R1, that nowadays compiles a generic kernel, and I ended up cutting physically the wifi chip because realtek sucks bigtime, and use it as my home server. For Wifi, an archer C2 with OpenWRT is doing a great job for much, much less than a ClearFog Pro.

  15. Re:Well... he has a point on all fronts. on Why Linus Torvalds Prefers x86 Over ARM (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Your first point is spot on. x86 has been always backward idiocy has a big part of the chip is dedicated to compatibility with the past. Similarly a big part of the ARM processors is dedicated to video instructions.
    The Intel architecture has a horrific trend in what touches security. You cannot do away with firmware signed by Intel. Similarly in some ARM architectures, namely raspberry PI, you are suffering from the same exact problem.
    It is virtually impossible at the moment to design a product based in an Intel chip that respects your privacy.
    You also have problems in lot of ARM boards where the code is sloppy hacked by the vendors, and you are limited to the kernel version they hacked, having a dead-end product.
    MIPS has had always had an interesting architecture design, pity it has lot a lot of traction, and the Chinese seems to have abandoned the Longsoon project, at least for selling abroad.
    At the moment, you have too spectrums of the market gaining momentum, ARM machines for low cost servers and private computing, and Intel for virtualization farms. So pick up your poison carefully...

  16. Or move to the USA. Sheep that does believe in political fear mongering. North Koreans eat kids too?

  17. paid is the key...plenty of people wanting you to work for free or for peanuts.

  18. Re:I didn't know they still printed... on 12-Year-Old Boy Gets $100K Bill From Google After Confusing Adwords With Adsense (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There are 500 euro bills. They are quite rare, and not minted in a couple of countries of the European Union. Which does not prevent them arriving from other countries. I have heard they will disappear "because of money laundering"....(the war on money)

  19. Re:Please file a bug report on Apple To Make macOS Sierra Available As Automatic Download Beginning Today (loopinsight.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been a long time Mac user, and Apple Mac/OSX/iOS/rainbow OS or whatever they call it today is getting shittier as time goes by.

  20. Re:The way to do it on French Banks Offer Credit Card Numbers That Change Every Hour (thememo.com) · · Score: 1

    Not ideia why the parent post was modded down. Here in Portugal MB.net really does work. The weak point of the solution is that the access to the MB.Net itself, is rather weak. I understand targeting the lower common denominator, however not having a 2FA at this point of the game, and having a user *and* a pin does not make any sense.

  21. Re:RTL network chips on Ask Slashdot: Should An Open Source Hardware Project Support Clones? · · Score: 1

    All as shittier than the original apparently. The network cards are nothing stellar, their wifi chips are pure garbage.

  22. Re:Devuan: a fork of Debian without systemd. on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    I have done it from day 1; I do not believe neither in the systemd agenda nor in a framework that even forces its presence in a mere update of my systems.

  23. Re:FreeBSD 11... on Multiple Linux Distributions Affected By Crippling Bug In Systemd (agwa.name) · · Score: 1

    Do you really need to ask?

  24. Re:universal clipboard wtf on macOS Sierra Is Now Available For Download (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife uses my apps, and it works ok.

  25. I do not care a shit about this... on Anti-Defamation League Declares Pepe the Frog a Hate Symbol (time.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Has slashdot become the outlet of political correctness gone wrong and pussies of the world united?