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  1. Re:Who? on Vidme To Shut Down On Dec 15th 2017 · · Score: 1

    It will be interesting to see what happens next when content creators that have sufficiently large enough followings will be able to wean themselves and their followers off youtube. ultimately it's the content that is more important than the platform.

  2. Re:His intent was pretty clear on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe he had to sign it again every time after he showered.

  3. Re:Tippecanoe County Indiana representative of USA on Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, now I see how you guys do it; To simulate traffic in Canada we just tape a bunch of cats together.

  4. Tippecanoe County Indiana representative of USA? on Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I get the paper has data (based on police reports) from 2015-2016 in Tippecanoe County, but how does the researcher apply this to the rest of the USA? Is Tippecanoe County somehow perfectly representative of the USA, as is Tippecanoe County typically used to study federal trends in traffic safety and fatality?

  5. Re:2016 MacBook Pro! on Ask Slashdot: Which Laptop Has The Best Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    aent from my iphone

  6. sorry

  7. Re:WTF is a "fusion drive?" on Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    fucking idiots.

    i love how you consider other users "idiots" but can't even find a way to shoehorn a 'fusion drive' pun without being awkward and unfunny as hell.

    Fuck Apple

    Perhaps go back working on your "fusion drive" joke? that was the closest thing approaching "underrated" in your bizzare, non-sequitor rant.

  8. Re:IDE drive? on Terry Pratchett's Hard Drive Destroyed By Steamroller (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a time on /. this comment would have been modded 5: insightful

  9. Did they close the loophole? on Bug In Lowe's Site Sold Goods For Free. Couple Arrested For Exploiting It (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I needed a circular saw; mine broke today.

    Lowes, you just 'lost' a 'customer'.

  10. Re:Predict Malfunctions on Japan To Launch Self-Navigating Cargo Ships 'By 2025' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    big deal - i already know i'll be sick next friday for work.

  11. the other shoe drops on No Known Ransomware Works Against Windows 10 S, Says Microsoft (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Windows 10S is the ransomware.

  12. Re:Woz - the ultimate Concern Troll on Apple Co-founder Thinks Apple Is Now Too Big a Company To Come Up With the Next Big Thing (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a lot of respect for Woz. But ever since he left the company it seems like he's been overly down on Apple - from downplaying the iPhone through multiple iterations, to now claiming Apple cannot possibly do anything new or big.

    That sums up the fundamental problems with apple: they're into iterative change to hold hegemony over their phone.

    10 years ago, apple computers were some of the most thoughtful designs and easy to upgrade and replace parts. today, they're glued together and the ram is soldered on the logic board. What do you expect the OG Hacker to think about the direction apple is taking?

    when Apple developed the music store, it was one of the first business models to reach detente with the music industry and sell digital downloads for music. The appleTV/iTV/aborted apple television in contrast has been languishing for years and is a pale also-ran against an amazon or google set top boxes. Apple Original content is lagging far behind Netflix or Amazon making a apple value-for-money currently for subscription services

    Apple's cloud solution was terrible as MobileMe, and can't offer the services or support google drive or AWS does. This applies to both individual users as well as corporate: Apple in general has abandoned the server segement and their contribution and commitment to enterprise has dwindled an OSX server download on the appstore, and a mac mini.

    Apple's auto drive car seems to be going on the same production schedule as the Apple Television: repeated false starts and reboots, resulting in being left behind by more mature competitors (tesla, google), and outpositioned for dash space on legacy car companies (Windows Embedded, Android Automotive).

    There are still good reasons to choose OSX and apple products for some, but i completely understand why Woz has slowly given up waiting for Apple to product products that interest him, and people like him.

  13. Re:A new mobile OS on 'Sony Needs a Fresh Hit' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    never bought a single sony product since. there have always been alternatives.

  14. [Job 38:4]

  15. Re:I wonder if there will be a rise in truck robbe on Self-Driving Cars Could Cost America's Professional Drivers Up To 25,000 Jobs a Month (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter how many cameras you put on it: that Dominos Pizza delivery robot is still going to get kicked on a daily basis.

  16. . Since we don't have a way to explain the generalized algorithm and information set pilots use, we could, at best, use complex flight recorders and bayesian analysis to generate statistical models which attempt to use only the specific situations encountered plus a limited degree of extrapolation on variables we've identified as relevant.

    The autonomous US Air Force X-37B is an autonomous space plane designed to spend up to 270 days in orbit at a time. It has completed four missions including autonomous landings for 225 days, 469 days, 674 days, and 718 days. Stop buying into your own hype.

  17. link to actual report mentioned in news article: "Rethinking Transportation 2020-2030 The Disruption of Transportation and the Collapse of the Internal-Combustion Vehicle and Oil Industries"

    https://static1.squarespace.co...

  18. some bodybuilder

    for slashdot visitors, this term refers to: "an individual of average strength"

  19. Re:LOL. 1/3 to 1/2 of the emissions comes from chi on French President-Elect Macron Urges Action On Climate Change (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point. By the way, where was the device you used to post this comment made?

  20. Re:Probably unrelated on Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    also completely unrelated, but competing for air time today, is the other Apple story about a dip in shares and phone sales. this airpod story is a good distraction from the iphone sales drop because it has a big percent for satisfaction or something. On the other hand, Apple is probably worried that people are going to start selling stock off faster with any sign of weakness in iPhone sales too, so there is also this astroturfed story to reassure investors about how apple stock prices are up 20000% since their IPO.

    Well played, Apple; that is how the richest company in the world polishes their turds.

  21. Re:Get better customers on Apple AirPods Customers 'Satisfied' With the Product (techpinions.com) · · Score: 1

    92% satisfaction with the iPhone? It's a pile of shit

    8%er spotted

  22. running hackintoshes for 7 years now on Modern 'Hackintoshes' Show That Apple Should Probably Just Build a Mac Tower (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I was dissapointed by incremental updates of the cheese grater, and I got sick of waiting for the update on the garbage can, so I ended up running hackintoshes since 2010 or so. have been running on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge i7's on z68 and z97 chipsets, and new haswells have been easy to move over to. When i started i was running Snow Leopard, Lion, ad they were airgapped video production computers that let us move through a few legacy FCP7 projects, and transitioned to FCPx.

    Game changer was the new EFI tools which streamlined the install process greatly. biggest PITA for me was support of USB3 in the sandy/ivy bridge chipsets, and getting a smooth initial install with various video cards, as apple has shitty, inconsistent support for AMD and nVidia. for me, currently everything runs stable on sierra which autoupdates. (i always pucker up a bit for each update though)

    built a media server for video editng and digital assets, and all the hard drives, hotswap sleds, multiple boot drive configs all fits into a 4u rackmount form factor. I have mulitiple workstations where i can variously collaborate on sequencing, audio mix, photo editing, video compositing, and i would go fucking insane if i had to conform everything for the current, anemic, limited imacs for sale right now.

    otoh until apple closes the hackintosh loophole with some trusted computing model in the near, dystopian future, i will be building, running, and maintaining hackintoshes. OSX install and feeding is still less of a hassle than windows, and osx still is a better workflow for us than linux.

  23. Re:Still missing obligatory comments on Backdoor Could Allow Company To Shut Down 70% of All Bitcoin Mining Operations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    >It doesn't look like a pump, so why would anyone call it that? It's a vulnerability with apparently a lot of mining rigs.

    most people don't actually read the article, or the summary, and they talk about whatever they want. it's slashdot, dontcha know

    Slashdot just isn't a great place for discussing bitcoin in anything but the most general terms. Looking through the comments about 5 hours later and there are still people that have first principle discussions about fiat currency, dated comparisons with a physical bank, and the most informative post has been an AC so far.

  24. Still missing obligatory comments on Backdoor Could Allow Company To Shut Down 70% of All Bitcoin Mining Operations (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a Bitcoin article on Slashdot, but as of yet nobody has complained that this is some sort of guerilla BUY BTC marketing. Also the only reference so far to Chinese miners tripped over itself in a clumsy "wild west/colonizing mars" analogy.

    will check in a few hours later to see if the predictable /. comments surface. Hope i'm not forced to read at (-1) to find them though.

  25. Re:They should be "frying" bigger fish... on US Navy Bans Vaping On Ships (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The bigger fish they should be frying

    This story is about banning a persistent fire/explosion hazard on a warship housing high explosives. The Navy is addressing a safety issue to prevent frying fish.