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  1. liberals tend to be concerned with facts and evidence

    Until they start talking about guns. Then it's out the window.

  2. Re:Zuckerman suppresses evidence? on Mark Zuckerberg: 'No Evidence' Facebook Staff Suppressed Stories With Conservative Viewpoints (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The IRS targeted conservative groups, not liberal ones.
    IRS Targeting Controversy

  3. Slashdot could use a little human intervention in its news outfit, I believe.

  4. Re:Old news on Linux Mint 18 Will Ship Without Multimedia Support (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 1

    I think someone was whining about it randomly in the comments of an unrelated story.

  5. Re: Can Trump win over all? on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    He has a track record of failure and fraud.

  6. From the summary:

    Worth noting: most of the money from the severance package is composed of restricted stock units and options -- there's only $3 million in cold hard cash.

    $55M is more of an idea, a gesture. It is Yahoo! stock, I assume.

  7. I use Linux (var), and it has never alerted me with a popup. So no, at least not in such a tacky, intrusive manner.

  8. Re:Here's a good idea on Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This wasn't a system message, or an error. This was an advertisement/nagscreen.

  9. Re: Complete waste of time on Burr-Feinstein Anti-Encryption Bill Is Officially Released (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of these are pretty good, I must say. For a chuckle, anyway.

  10. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 2

    Part of 'making the US better' involves not buying into the cop-drama bullshit you seem to believe. Read the news sometime.

  11. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sooo grateful to live in a free society, where the authorities are only interested in protecting us. All of us, equally.

  12. Re:Could be, they just don't understand how TOR wo on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ohh, so that's why cops don't like TOR. Gotcha!

  13. Re:It gets updated like any other on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It was just way more information than was necessary. By owning a modem, a user would ostensibly know that they have to call the cable company to provision the device, what models are approved, and so on. The question I asked was simply if the cableco pushed out firmware. That's it, a simple 'yes or no' question.

    I do appreciate the answer, albeit long-winded. You, however, can eat shit.

  14. Re:Modem & Router on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    He said 'barely qualify', which means that they do, in fact, qualify as routers.

  15. Re:Write your senator on Senate Bill Draft Would Prohibit Unbreakable Encryption (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I love the exposure his show gives to big topics, but having to sit through his repeated attempts to be funny is grating. He desperately needs new writers (assuming the problem isn't Oliver himself).

  16. Re:It gets updated like any other on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    'Yes, the cableco will push firmware' would have been sufficient.

  17. Re:This is all kinds of inaccurate on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What about customer-owned equipment? Will they push out firmware updates to those, or is that the responsibility of the owner?

  18. Re:SJW lynch mobs and censorship campaigns on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    She's a PR exec, and was clearly in the wrong line of work.

  19. Re:Really? on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing. OP was pointing out a tendency for some of those that have eschewed television to become arrogant regarding their decision. People like this will not hesitate to interject this into a conversation, and can be quite condescending about it.

  20. Re:Really? on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Whoosh. See (closely) your previous comment.

  21. Re:Really? on Facebook Users Are Sharing Less and It's a Big Problem (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The volatility?

  22. Re:25 years and nothing to show for it on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm with you. XFCE here, but I still find the variety wonderful.
    I am perfectly content with Linux being the niche OS that it is. Having been a user in some form or another since 2001, I fully understand the perception of Linux being difficult to use for the novice. It has improved drastically in that time, however, and I am very grateful for its existence.

  23. Re:The problem is with hipsters/Millennials. on Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What does population size have to do with it?
    And if you're tying to imply that Gen-X'ers don't bubble-wrap their kids, you're wrong. As a Gen-X'er, I have noticed a sharp contrast with how we were raised (by Boomers), which could be a style best described as 'free-range', and how members of my generation now raises their kids. I don't like what I see, and I doubt I would 'succeed' as a modern parent.

  24. Re:The "bad guys" want to know too on Slashdot Asks: Should FBI Reveal to Apple How to Unlock Terrorist's iPhone? (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We know nothing of the sort. We can assume Apple can do so, but with no further evidence besides an official statement from the FBI, there is no reason to believe that any other organization has such capability.

  25. Re:Osborne effect on Oculus Rift Review: Virtual Reality is Almost Here · · Score: 1

    It's certainly going to be my strategy.