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  1. Yes. The iMac "pro", which they showed yesterday, will appease a reasonable portion of the people waiting (and waiting) on a new Mac Pro. But not all, of course.

  2. Apple promised a refresh of Mac Pros in 2018

    What they actually said was "not this year." And while it may well be in 2018, they didn't say that.

  3. Re:I dont get it. on Sony Ships Its Last Ever PlayStation 3 In Japan (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Borderlands: The Handsome Collection...can be played split-screen on PS4

    Is it only cooperative or does it offer competitive play?

  4. Some manufactures claim that the 1/8" headphones jack is making their phone thick.

    Citation needed, as "zero" is not included in "some".

  5. Bet you've been waiting for years to use antepenultimate in a sentence.

    Ha! Actually I use it from time to time, almost always greeted by eyerolls :-)

  6. The last place you take someone having a bad reaction to psychedelics is the ER. About the only places worse would be jail or the loony bin.

    So then the ER wouldn't be the last place. At best it would be the antepenultimate place you'd take someone.

  7. I once got arrested for attempted robbery for driving with a paper bag on my head after watching The Unknown comic.

    All the more ironic considering that the Unknown Comic himself couldn't get arrested.

  8. Re:Is this related to the rewards surveys? on Google Following Your Offline Credit Card Spending To Tell Advertisers If Their Ads Work (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess is that it's from the retailers themselves.

    All the more reason to use services such as ApplePay. The retailer gets no information. They just get paid. They don't know your card number, they don't know your name.

  9. This isn't any different in theory or practice

    I know Slashdot isn't what it used to be, but I think you're reading the wrong site.

  10. Re:Vint, your vanity is comical. on Vint Cerf Reflects On The Last 60 Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Most people are not going to have even the slightest interest in such stuff. The sad truth is that when you die, life will go on without you.

    Yes they will. Do you think if we had the equivalent of emails from the 1500s they wouldn't be studied and written about? How about video of early man? Those would be precious, not ignored.

  11. Re:Wow. You da man. Accessing a public network! on Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago (alternet.org) · · Score: 2

    So the President of the US is fucking idiot who takes sensitive material to a public golf resort and you are worried about open wifi.

    "Worry" is not exactly a resource with a fixed quantity. It's possible to be worried about more than one thing at a time, even when one of those things is not as important as some of the other things.

  12. I just think that the patent application process should include the question "could a 3 year old come up with the idea?"

    And maybe after that Slashdot could add the question "Did you actually read the article or are you drawing your conclusions from the headline?" If the answer is the latter, throw out your comment on principle.

  13. Re:Why won't Qualcomm stop selling chips to Apple? on Qualcomm Sues Apple Contract Manufacturers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Why can't Qualcomm simply refuse to sell to Apple until the lawsuit is done?

    They don't sell them anything now. They just take a slice of the pie.

  14. Re: His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I am smart enough to spot logical fallacies.

    I don't think you are. I think your biases cloud your judgment. And you resort to silliness in your very first paragraph. "Yet, I don't see you insisting we accept that risk." Seriously? Did you somehow expect to see me comment on that in this thread? And yet you imply you already know what I think about it. Your logic is not so logical. And yes, of course you may now do the "smart guy" dance and condescendingly explain how you didn't, but you did. Instead of making a good argument you trot out a cheap rhetorical trick.

  15. Re:Reasons not to. on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Apple has already said they will stop selling music on iTunes within the next 5 years.

    They have? I don't think so. Perhaps you read some rumor somewhere. Sales will likely dwindle as streaming continues to grow, but that's not the same thing as stopping sales.

  16. Re: Usually I'm a pacifist..... on WannaCry Ransomware Shares Code With North Korean Malware, Says Researchers (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Your evidence for this is where? Cite your resources

    Wouldn't that be the simplest and default explanation? Anything more conspiratorial would be where the evidence would be required.

  17. Re:His name gives it away on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most terrorism in today's world is *Muslim* terrorism, so yes, it makes sense to place heightened scrutiny on this group.

    What percentage of that group are terrorists? How many leading zeroes?

  18. Re:Data ain't free. on How One Little Cable Company Exposed Telecom's Achilles' Heel (backchannel.com) · · Score: 2

    That's EXACTLY what he said and meant.

    This word "all". Does it confuse you? Does that make you ignore it? Or, come to think of it, maybe it's the word "EXACTLY" that troubles you.

  19. Re:Warning: most CEOs are backstabbing assholes on Waymo: Uber Plotted With Former Exec Before He Left Google (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Sitation needed.

  20. Re:'sock puppet' in scare quotes? on Lawsuit: Fox News Group Hacked, Surveilled, and Stalked Ex-Host Andrea Tantaros (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't "normal quotation marks" used to show that they are the actual spoken or written words? That doesn't seem to apply in this case, as the original complaint also uses quotation marks in the manner of scare quotes.

  21. Re:DRONE ON on Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Wishful thinking is not an answer.

  22. Re:Email tie-in on Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who still has their original 1996 hotmail account.

    I know of two. And there's no convincing them to consider anything else.

  23. Surely you can't be serious?

    Shirley that joke doesn't quite as well when writt...the hospital! What is it?

  24. Re:Re :: My first? on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    Atari 400 here, with 8K of RAM and a membrane keyboard. I bought it on a whim. I was just out of high school and had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I took it home that afternoon and read the manual to figure out how to write programs. Next thing I know it's three o'clock in the morning, and in that moment I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life. And so I did. I'm retired now, but that little computer started me on a path that led to a wonderful life.

  25. Re:How long on American Farmers Are Still Fighting Tractor Software Locks (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    adding that after Massachusetts passed a similar lar [sic]

    The summary has lar instead of law.