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  1. Re:Nuked because of Taylor Swift piracy? on Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought about adding an ‘s but then it wouldn’t have quite matched the story title.

  2. Nuked because of Taylor Swift piracy? on Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    She’s already got hundreds of millions of dollars - why is she so greedy that she turns to piracy? How much money does the girl need?

  3. I’m surprised on There's Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The best option would be for Wikipedia itself to offer a connection directly via an .onion address - I’m a bit surprised Wikipedia doesn’t already do this, really.

    On a side note... I still find it hilariously ironic that Facebook offers an .onion address.

  4. Over the board it used to be (before wired digital clocks) that the black player decides which side of the board the clock goes.

    Was that part of some weird affirmative action program?

  5. Re:Very slim edge case on Devs Working To Stop Go Math Error Bugging Crypto Software (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I remember, years ago, hearing pretty much that same argument (excepting the Trump reference) when the first jpeg executable exploit was discovered.

    Once a flaw is known, it is a mistake to assume clever people won’t find a clever way to practically leverage it - no matter how obscure it seems at first glance.

  6. Re:Russian? on Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Only if the hacker is a Mensch.

  7. Re:Blame Russia once again on Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putin not need Uber. Putin capture bear for ride to work.

  8. Re:The evidence on Uber Hackers May Have Been Russian (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    But... that could mean Idaho and Florida! :-P

  9. Re:Extensive documentation? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? · · Score: 0

    That sentence does not qualify as documentation. It’s not even accurate, except as a fantasy movie line.

  10. Extensive documentation? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? · · Score: 1

    "They had me write extensive documentation on the process. It was only two or three paragraphs, ..."

    Perhaps something is missing here - but, in most contexts, "two or three paragraphs" is nowhere near "extensive" documentation. That's more along the lines of "better than nothing".

  11. Hey Siri on Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Please avoid that truck.

    "I'm sorry, but I don't understand 'a droid aruck.'"

  12. Re:Save a life, or comply with rules and regulatio on The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The main problem with this is that for every smart genius with good connections to genetic experts, there's thousands of deluded parents who pump their kids full of bleach because some unscrupulous assholes want to make a quick buck pretending to be medical experts.

    In my mind, the main problem is treating an unattributed, totally anonymous post as factual.

  13. Re:I'm a foreigner, so I have to ask on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    In my state, there's an additional fee to get the MBA Endorsement added to your hunting license.

  14. It’d been quiet on the Uber front for a couple months... I was getting really worried.

    Thank heavens things are back to normal!

  15. That's just the FCC's switchboard. However if enough people call it, perhaps the minimum-wage drone who's responsible for answering the phone will give you his direct number.

  16. Re:Stewards Folly 2 - the Returnering on Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you mean Seward's Folly?

  17. Re:Copies all the way down on New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Quicksilver was/is nice if you have a bunch of custom actions you want to set up. I tended to just use it as a simple launcher. So once Spotlight got fast and accurate enough at that (which did take a few years), I stopped installing Quicksilver.

    It's pretty much the only way I open apps and documents now - so on those rare occasions it doesn't work, it's incredibly vexing.

  18. "JARVIS, send an SMS to Dr. Strange confirming lunch... and do it as a 3-D talking poop emoji"

  19. Re:A possible weapon on Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    All I've seen are somewhat vague artists' renderings. From the description, it could be shaped like a giant Bugles snack.

  20. A couple dozen comments in, and no one has pointed out the silliness of touting "Hey Siri" as a defining feature for a supposed pro workstation.

  21. Spam "is back"? on Spam Is Back (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    It never left... at least, if my email is at all representative.

    Really the only thing CAN-SPAM changed is that, now, the spam I get mostly contains "unsubscribe" links which take you to a non-functional web form (on those rare occasions I even bother to check).

  22. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You’re aware that this discussion isn’t about an American reactor... right?

  23. Re:droids with even higher radiation tolerances on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    As long as there’s a smelter nearby, so if necessary we can trick the robots into falling into big vats of molten metal, we’ll be fine.

  24. Re:Fukushima was older than Chernobyl on Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Which is another good example of why we need effective government oversight, and regulatory agencies with actual enforcement power - despite it being trendy in some circles to claim things would be better if only the government would get out of the way.

  25. Re:Bad Microsoft? on Cringely: Amazon Is Starting To Act Like 'Bad Microsoft' (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense - Grossberg had far too much hair to be a foreshadowing of Jeff Bezos.