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  1. ...you mean like Firefox's nagging about updating?

  2. Re:high gloss on How Streaming Music Could Be Harming the Planet (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    More to the point, if they were listening to streaming music on that nice sound system, they would probably be listening to cds on it too, so it's irrelevant.

  3. Re:How to safeguard on UltraViolet Digital Movie Locker is Shutting Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is exactly why I never do uncrackable drm'd media to start with. If I can't archive my own portable copy, I'm just renting it, not buying it.

  4. Be careful what you ask for... on Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong? · · Score: 1

    ...you may just find out what else could go wrong...

  5. Another reason for pausing is to examine a freeze frame (e.g. stopping to read the text messages people get on phones in shows), not to mention that ads are the reason I haven't watched live tv since DVRs came out, and even before that I muted them. So I suppose this wouldn't affect me as I wouldn't be signed up for a service that had ads in the first place.

  6. if they were stiff, they'd be uncomfortable. That's what I like about the Breeze - the supply tube runs over the top of the head over a metal/plastic frame, and just has velcro straps around the side of the head to keep it in place. I suspect it's not so popular because most people sleep on their back and in that case, the head would be resting on the back of the frame and it's not so comfortable that way.

  7. I tried a dreamwear, but I sleep on my side and that squishes one of the supply tubes closed, and I could hear the air rushing through them.

    My mask of choice, really the only one I've found I like, was the Puritan-Bennett Breeze (I use the pillow version, but they had mask ones as well), but they stopped making them a year or so ago. Fortunately, I would buy a new one once or twice a year and have a few old ones that are still functional, but I would really like to find an alternative that works as well at securely routing the supply over the top of my head.

  8. Junk Science on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's junk science like this that helps fuel the anti-science sentiment that's all too popular these days...

  9. Re:End of time on How NASA Will Use Robots To Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... says January 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT fwiw...

  10. End of time on How NASA Will Use Robots To Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least until the clock gets confused at January 19, 2038 03:14:07 GMT

  11. I was able to get in on Red Hat's IPO because I made a small contribution to net-snmp a couple years before. I didn't get rich, but it was a nice bonus that year.

  12. "orginal specifications" on Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Limiting to "original specifications" is a major loophole and could be used to block performance improvements (in both vehicles and electronics) or ability to work with new formats of content or peripherals (the latter also applies to vehicles [I'm thinking of attachments to tractors, but it applies more generally as well] as well as electronics).

  13. Grad students on Automation is Democratizing Experimental Science (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What will grad students do if experiments are automated?

  14. "per capita" on Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Annual per capita transit trips in the U.S. plummeted from 115.8 in 1950 to 36.1 in 1970, where they have roughly remained since, even as population has grown.

    per capita is inherently independent of the population, so one wouldn't expect it to change with the population.

  15. With friends like mine... on Only a Small Percentage of Users Buy Stuff Through Alexa, Report Claims (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The very first thing I did was disable the ability to buy things with my echo. Who knows *what* I'd have ended up with!

  16. Mentioning mainframes is appropriate, as this is the way mainframes used to be "sold": you didn't buy them, they were leased, and to some varying extent, managed by the vendor.

  17. Why do marketers love to make things difficult? on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla is the brand for the family of products, and Firefox is the brand for the browser product. Nice and simple. Why overload it and confuse people? This makes no sense at all. Other products should have other brands so you can tell them apart.

  18. Demonstrating a technology is a long ways from perfecting a technology...

  19. That's one of the main reasons I don't use whatsapp - it's model depends on grabbing your contact book and making a worldwide graph of connections. I'm in it whether I want to be or not simply because some of my friends use it.

  20. ...I don't care what you do under the covers if it improves things somehow, but don't gratuitously change the user interface.

  21. Re:Thunderbird... on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're probably on Linux; I'm on OSX, and

    * it frequently deadlocks on a mailbox so when you try to move a message into it, it simply does nothing. When you exit Thunderbird in this state, it hangs and you have to force kill it.

    * It occasionally goes into a mode where it's using 100% of the cpu and the user interface goes completely unresponsive (spinning color wheel) for 30seconds to a minute with no indication what it's doing. At other times, rather than being completely unresponsive, typing is echoed out at about 1 character every few seconds.

    Those are the main issues I have; the rest are more in line of "would be nice" features

  22. Thunderbird... on Slashdot Asks: Which Is Your Favorite Email Client? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...is the worst one out there, except for all the rest.

  23. Steering wheel feedback annoying on Tesla Rejected More Advanced Driver Monitoring Features On Its Cars, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I test drove a Nissan Leaf with ProDrive, which is a lane following assist tech. It uses steering wheel feedback to make sure you're paying attention, and it felt like I was constantly fighting the car to drive.

  24. Re:King Kong vs Godzilla on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Sci-Fi Books, Movies, and TV Shows You're Looking Forward To? · · Score: 1

    You forgot Bambi vs Godzilla - how could Hollywood pass up making a remake of yet another classic...

  25. Stop trying to decide what I should see on Facebook Will Prioritize Local Stories In Your News Feed (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I explicitly don't use the News Feed because of crap like this - I just want to see *all* posts from friends and pages I follow in chronological order. Although facebook still fiddles with things a bit, I use a list and follow it to avoid the majority of the News Feed filters and nonsense.