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  1. Re:Sure, and bears in the woods... on Apple: We Would Never Degrade the iPhone Experience To Get Users To Buy New Phones · · Score: 1

    ... use flushing toilets.

    Fancy-pants California Golden Bears do, apparently.

  2. Re:How to watch the superman lunar eclipse on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Good point!

    Also, don’t forget the sunscreen.

  3. How to watch the superman lunar eclipse on How To Watch the 'Super Blue Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse (livescience.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    1) Go outside
    2) Look up
    3) If you see the ceiling, you forgot to follow step #1
    4) Look at moon

    Remember, the solar eclipse was just a few months ago... so your eclipse glasses are still good, as long as they're not damaged.

  4. Re:Pricey vs privacy on Amazon's Push Into Healthcare Just Cost the Industry $30 Billion In Market Cap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Unclear whether this is a typo for less pricey or less privacy. Knowing Amazon it might be both...

    But think of the advantages of information sharing within Amazon...

    Let's say you have an impacted molar. When you get home, Amazon Video might recommend you watch the SpongeBob Squarepants episode where Patrick goes to the dentist.

  5. Re:âoeCryptoâ is not a synonym for on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    But we (geeks) still commonly use "crypto" as shorthand for cryptography, such as in the phrases "public key crypto" or "symmetric crypto" or "elliptic curve crypto".

    The title on this Slashdot submission is, to the best of my knowledge, actually the first time I've seen someone write "crypto" when they are referring to "cryptocurrency"... because people generally spell out "cryptocurrency".

    This isn't "hackers" versus "crackers"... this is just bad/lazy writing.

  6. “Crypto” is not a synonym for “C on US Regulators To Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    We’ve been talking about crypto here for longer than cryptocurrencies have been a thing.

    People submitting stories to Slashdot should know better.

  7. Facebook = Cigarette companies on Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They’re basically now at the point where they’ve mostly addicted the older generation, so to maintain long-term profits they need to invent ways to hook the younger generation before they get old enough to think for themselves and realize that Facebook is dumb (and mainly populated with old people nowadays).

  8. Re:Where are they getting the money to buy it? on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not a hotbed of economic progress. How are they affording to pay for it?

    They’re selling drugs on the streets.

  9. So apparently this is the business model on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org) · · Score: 1

    1) Produce standards having the best performance as a goal, irrespective of the IPR involved
    2) ?????
    3) Profit!

  10. Re:It's just metadata... on Pentagon Reviews GPS Policies After Fitness Trackers Reveal Locations (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Governments are keen to tell us that metadata doesn't need protecting etc.
    Cake and eat it?

    The government will want to protect the privacy of the metadata while providing easy access to the data by the government. ... but that won't be a back door, no sirree bob, since back doors are BAD. They don't want a back door - they just want a way to get at the data whenever they want.

  11. I am really looking forward to the robot version of "All Creatures Great and Small".

  12. Only one thing could make this story better on Lenovo's Fingerprint Scanner Can Be Bypassed via a Hardcoded Password (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the hard-coded password "hunter2"?

  13. Re:“He” is Ajit Pai on FCC Chairman Slams Trump Team's Proposal To Nationalize 5G (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Honestly, my comment was 100% about the badly-written summary. I don't currently hold a strong opinion on whether a nationalized 5G network makes sense... I haven't put much thought into it.

  14. Re:how do you figure out who's hot or not? on One in 50 of Us is Face Blind -- and Many Don't Even Realize (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, the summary mentions Brad Pitt - he's been with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, so he sees to be picking quite pretty gray blurs.

    Of course, what the article doesn't mention is this malady is claimed by 92% of married guys who've been caught having an affair. /rimshot

  15. Re:"He" is Ajit Pai on FCC Chairman Slams Trump Team's Proposal To Nationalize 5G (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Obama: "Mitch (McConnell), I am required to select a Republican to the FCC. Who do you want me to appoint?"

    McConnell: "My choice is Ajit Pai."

    Obama: "Okay, I appoint Ajit Pai to the FCC."

  16. “He” is Ajit Pai on FCC Chairman Slams Trump Team's Proposal To Nationalize 5G (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just thought I’d mention it since the editors didn’t...

  17. Re:We saw this coming awhile ago on Apple Deprecates More Services In OS X Server (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you used the latest versions of macOS or iOS? They are the buggiest versions in years. I'm tired of telling clients they need to wait until nine months after release before they should upgrade.

    Yup, I have used them. Unfortunately with iOS you pretty much have to keep up to date if you want security patches - and, given the banking and other apps people have on their phone, they really need to keep their phones patched. Fortunately Apple keeps OS X / macOS patched for the latest three versions - so I'm still running El Capitan wherever possible, which actually works pretty well.

  18. Re:Baked in paranoia on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Get the design from a trusted US, Germany, Japan, France, UK brand. All thats needed is the experts to show their design is 5G ready and secure to US standards.

    Under most administrations, Republican or Democrat, I wouldn't blink at this. But with this guy... all it's going to take is one wild rumor from Fox News and suddenly Trump's going to demand everything be completely changed.

  19. Most services on the list seem to be FOSS projects on Apple Deprecates More Services In OS X Server (apple.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It should be easy enough to install them on your own, if for some reason you want to use a macOS box as a server.

  20. Re:Binary or a spectrum? on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew you were going to say that.

  21. Re:Well, sure, but you have to remember on Dutch Intelligence Agents Watched Russia Hack the DNC (volkskrant.nl) · · Score: 1

    It's easy to prove they're very liberal, at least if you're a trustworthy resident of the Bible Belt.

    After you've said your morning prayers and are done with plowing your fields and planting your corn and soybeans, face south towards the sun. Now think about where that liberal bastion, New York City, lays... a thousand miles or so to your left. And the Netherlands are several thousand miles further left than that!

  22. Well, sure, but you have to remember on Dutch Intelligence Agents Watched Russia Hack the DNC (volkskrant.nl) · · Score: 1

    The Dutch are rather liberal so of course anything they say can't really be trusted.

  23. If you're the sort of person likely to "take your loved ones outside to look up and reflect"... wouldn't it be more appropriate to stare up at the multinational ISS rather than a glorified disco ball?

  24. Yup, those are two things I conflate all the time on Deanonymizing Tor: Your Bitcoin Transactions May Come Back To Haunt You (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Buying illegal narcotics on the Silk Road
    2) Giving money to Wikileaks

  25. Re: The thing about DuckDuckGo on DuckDuckGo App and Extension Upgrades Offer Privacy 'Beyond the Search Box' (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I do the same thing you’re describing.

    I will add that, in my experience, when DuckDuckGo doesn’t deliver what I want... generally Google also fails to do so nowadays. Frankly, I think Google’s search is not as good as it once was - people have finally figured out how to consistently game it.