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  1. Projection on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have never produced anything of value, any rights claim seems invalid.

  2. Alternative Theory: Only way to get CEO applicant on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer In Line For $55M Severance If Fired Within A Year Of Sale (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone looking at the Yahoo CEO position knows that sooner or later the major shareholders are going to demand something irrational or impossible. The only way they'd take to job if the were guaranteed to get paid for honestly trying to run the company up to the point that they were asked to produce a unicorn.

  3. Re:The actual numbers don't matter on Yahoo's Marissa Mayer In Line For $55M Severance If Fired Within A Year Of Sale (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Used to be only failed male CEOs could run for governor or president.

  4. Re:Anything wrong? on Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Sells Entire Stake In Apple (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Carl Icahn has a point in saying Apple's over reliance on China"

    Except that's always been true for everyone. There no new information, and nothing specific to Apple.

    As I have said elsewhere, if Icahn is out then I know Apple is okay. He's proof that it is smarter to be lucky than it is lucky to be smart.

  5. Be carefule of sccope of SoC name on Intel Cuts Atom Chips, Basically Giving Up On Smartphone and Tablet Market (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    As usual, people see the name of a specific flavor of an SoC and think that the entire line is being spoken about.

    An SoC has a number of process cores of a given types and then a bunch of other units that are specific to the application. A different application may call for a different set of units which will have a different product name.

    The older example of this when people mention the sale of StrongARM as if that were the entirety of ARM development, when in reality is was just a specific ARM-based part that today no one talks about. There are plenty of other ARM products being sold.

    Today we have word-salad about some x86 SOC parts being discontinued/not discontinued. Cherry Trail is being discontinued... because it is old and crappy and its replacement is now ready. The replacement is "Pentium and Celeron chips code-named Apollo Lake"... except the "Pentium and Celeron" cores are actually Atom-based. Pentium and Celeron are currently just brand names that carry no technical detail about the core they are applied to.

  6. Re:You trust MS over IFTTT? on Microsoft Flow -- An IFTTT Alternative -- Aims To Connect Your Online Apps (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I trust MS to have MS's interests at heart, which I can then account for when I decide to do business wiht them or not.

    IFTTT just seems to flop around like a landed fish.

  7. Re: So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    " if YOU were accused of having child porn I tend to think you would do everything in your power to show that wasn't the case."

    How can I prove that I never had a password that you are asking for?

  8. Re:I'm just not seeing the point on Intel Wants To Eliminate The Headphone Jack And Replace It With USB-C (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep asking why USB-C power adapters are not also USB hubs but I haven't gotten any answers yet. That would completely eliminate this whole line of arguement.

  9. Re:Campaign against a perceived bias... on 2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "When they vote "No Award" so to not give an award to someone based on their views, that is text book bias."

    "No Award" was in response to two explicit conspiracies to manipulate the nomination process. In addition the conspiracy pushed a lot of objectively poor writing which previously would not get nominated so it would never get a change to be placed below "No Award".

  10. Re:Write-up is exactly right. It's a good thing. on Slashdot Asks: Does It Matter That We've Reached Peak Smartphone? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I'm struggling to hit 10GB "

    Switch back to Firefox

  11. Re: How about a new Rosetta Stone on Wikipedia May Get Delivered To The Moon (wikimedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Clearly, it must have an eighth side where the joke is explained.

  12. Re:Anonymously?! Haha on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    For some people the CIA is not the organization most likely to kill them.

  13. Re:Why use Tor at all? on Over 1 Million People Use Tor To Check Facebook Anonymously Each Month (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    In some places, using Facebook is itself illegal.

  14. Re:USA really needs to rethink healthcare! on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    "once I took the upper division EE courses, I could not understand the professor's thick accent."

    Your hearing wasn't the problem.

  15. Re:I can't understand the sheer hatred for White M on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't understand why not going with a white man 100% of the time is considered hatred of white men.

  16. Awesome upgrade potential on Lian-Li's Adjustable Motorized Standing Desk Is Also a High-End PC Chassis (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Now every 3 years they can sell an entire new desk PLUS the labor to move it in.

  17. Nowhere in Europe have I even entered a tip on a piece of paper, even using my stupid US Chip and Sign card.

  18. Re:I'm more impressed on EMV Technology In Credit and Debit Cards Reducing Counterfeit Fraud, Says Visa (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "because you can't tip Chip & Pin unless they bring the mobile POS to the table and you enter the tip directly in it."

    Bringing the POS to you is the point. It works perfectly fine for damned dirty communists in Europe.

  19. Re:Divisive and offensive on US Treasury To Feature Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Andrew Jackson was primarily an asshole, who coincidentally owned slaves.

  20. If you are just tuning in... on Stephen Fry Urges Young To Flee 'Dystopian' Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Stephen Fry has *always* been a pompous jackass. For example, the entire premise of QI is "Stephen Fry gets to demonstrate how much smarter he is than you".

    He is quite entertaining, but that does not mean he is not also a jerk.

  21. Re:Hypotheticals on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 1

    Since there was no pause, not being able to predict it means the model is correctly predicting reality.

  22. Re:more ports, please on Apple Launches MacBook 2016 With Intel Skylake Processor, Longer Battery Life · · Score: 1

    I keep wondering why USB-C power bricks aren't built as USB hubs.

  23. Re:can someone explain this to me? on Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats (gsmarena.com) · · Score: 1

    Users have correctly determined that most casual conversation is not worth the effort of configuring a complicated client,

  24. Re:Junkies, their handlers, and their dealers on Popular Dark Web Market Disappears, Users Migrate In Panic (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    The poor have no estates to sue to recover the costs of disposing of their bodies when they die in the gutters. The public pays one way or another.

  25. Re:Not a big deal on Netherlands Looks To Ban All Non-Electric Cars By 2025 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Of the five trips you specifically mention, they all have at lest one end *not in Holland*. So you have not refuted the original claim.