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  1. Talented creative assholes... on Popular Mechanics Defends Elon Musk -- While He Tweets About Fortnite (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Talented creative assholes are still assholes.

  2. Panopticons for everyone!!!!!! on FBI Director: Without Compromise on Encryption, Legislation May Be the 'Remedy' (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    He claims opaque walls and doors keep law enforcement from gaining access to key evidence as it relates to active criminal investigations. "People are less safe as a result of it," he said.

    Panopticons for everyone!!!!!!

  3. Re:Next up: offensive language on Windows 10 syste on Microsoft To Ban 'Offensive Language' From Skype, Xbox, Office and Other Services (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course! Now that Windows is a "service", all our files belong to Micro$oft!

  4. Gee, I wonder why somebody suddenly wants to call attention to this outlandish story that alleges the FBI is riddled with corrupt yet devilishly competent conspirators who have been able to conceal the real identity of the most famous hijacker in history for over four decades?

  5. Tha movie you're referencing came out 31 years ago. Your age is showing.

    The only thing this reference is showing is that stupidity and ignorance, is timeless.

    "are timeless" Your verb number should agree with your subject.

  6. Re:"leverage the publicly available fiber backbone on To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    If there is, and its use starts to cut into corporate profits, look for the federal government to privatize it and sell it at a bargain-basement price to a huge company in the name of "smaller government". And people who cry "state's rights!" and "local control" and "That government is best which governs least" will shamelessly support this tragedy of the digital commons.

  7. Re:File under on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. Binge watching can highlight the faults in a show, faults that you might forget about if you have to wait a week between episodes and a year or more between seasons. For example, when I watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot as it aired originally, I didn't take the religious components seriously, and was pissed when they ended it the way they did. A few years later, I binge watched it over a week or so and realised that the religiosity that I had just considered part of the background culture of the society being portrayed in the show was actually the writers engaging in a long drawn out Deus ex machina.

  8. End LLCs and we won't need so many regulations on 'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If you can't run a business without immunity for the damage you do to other people and their property, maybe you shouldn't be in business?

  9. Re:stating the obvious,... on Ask Slashdot: Should Average Consumers Install More Than One Antivirus Program On Their System? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've got an old laptop, around five or six years old, that I refurbished and tried to load Linux on. No matter what distro's live iso I tried, the internal screen would go black after the initial text menu. An external monitor plugged into the laptop would work fine, but what's the friggin point of a laptop that only works when plugged into an external monitor? None of the dozens of suggestions I found on the web helped one bit. This is apparently a bug that goes back years. I gave up, installed Windows 10, and the damn thing works great. Linux is a long, LONG way from being acceptable for the casual user who just wants to use their computer and isn't interested in fidgeting with and tweaking an OS just to get it to load on their hardware, and calling them "obscenely lazy" for it is arrogant, elitist, and pointless.

  10. Why would anybody retire to Pittsburgh? I thought engineers made enough to retire to somewhere worth living.

  11. I was born in the late 50's and I'd have trouble telling you which networks air the programs I watch. Off the top of my head, the only ones I can match for certain are "Game Of Thrones=HBO" and "Orange Is The New Black=Netflix". Does that mean I'm a millennial or stupid, or that the concept of a programming network is outdated?

  12. Plugh! on ESR Announces The Open Sourcing Of The World's First Text Adventure (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Plugh!

  13. Re: Basic Income is Bananas on Amazon's 1.7 Million Free Bananas 'Disrupting' Local Fruit Economy (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny how people born wealthy seem to lead fulfilling lives without the need to scramble for a living to provide them with meaning and purpose.

  14. Re:Current rating on IMDb is 5 stars on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the sheep getting together and telling the wolves that mutton and lamb are off the menu.

  15. The Dickian "pre-crime" possibilities of knowing everything someone looks at or talks about on the net is so obvious that I assumed that everyone knew it was coming, so my only surprise in reading this story is that Zuckerberg slipped up, even momentarily, and admitted that's what he was working towards.

  16. All any media outlet needs to do to destroy Trump is to present what he says and does, un-edited, without any spin. The only way anyone could make what he says look good is to pretend that words mean something different when they come out of his mouth than when someone else says them, or, as Kellyanne said, judge him by "what's in his heart", not by what he says or does. I'm not sure I'd be willing to do that for anyone who wasn't a close friend or relative, and even then, I'd have a line I wouldn't cross.

  17. But didn't Einstein say light speed varies sorta? on Theory Challenging Einstein's View On Speed of Light Could Soon Be Tested (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1
    But didn't Einstein say light speed varies in his paper "On the Influence of Gravitation on the Propagation of Light "?

    From the proposition which has just been proved, that the velocity of light in the gravitational field is a function of the location, we may easily infer, by means of Huygens's principle, that light-rays propagated across a gravitational field undergo deflection.

    ? Is this like Snell's law of refraction, but with the refraction causing variation in the speed of light caused by a gravitational field instead of a change in the density of the media that the light wave is passing through? Could this mean that gravity is caused by a change in the density of space around a massive object, rather than its "warping" of space? Is it possible that the only actual physical substance in the universe is the media we know as space, with both energy and mass existing as transverse and longitudinal waves in that media?

  18. The only "regulation" whose elimination could... on Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only "regulation" whose elimination could possibly incentivize companies to build manufacturing plants in the U.S. is the 13th amendment.

  19. Re:Yeah, there's inaccurate news on Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed! Submarines and aquatic creatures surface, Google returns search results. Either whoever wrote this has a poor understanding of colloquial English as spoken in the U.S., or it's another example of what an out-of-touch old fogie I have become.

  20. Re:Raised bar will be bypassed on Cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, more and more sites are blocking ip addresses associated with vpn services.

  21. Re:You are wrong. Elon is right. on Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People who don't know when to use "past" instead of "passed" and "than" instead of "then" do harm to me on a daily basis, and the government does nothing about it! Where is the justice in that?

  22. Re:You are wrong. Elon is right. on Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The news told me it was going to rain today, and it did!
    The news told me it was going to be cold, and it is!
    The news told me the sun would rise at a certain time, and it did!
    If you see it on the news, it could happen to you!

  23. You enjoy frustration on OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I just refurbished a 7 year old laptop that originally had Windows 7 Home on it and thought I'd see how it ran with the latest Ubuntu LTS version. I made a live usb stick and booted from it. Everything looked good, until I pressed return at the "Try Ubuntu" menu item. The screen then went black and stayed that way. After some googling I discovered there was an old bug (allegedly fixed) that caused the backlight in some laptops to turn off. The instructions for getting around this were so convoluted, requiring you to first somehow install Ubuntu blind, that I gave up and installed Win 10, which has worked great for everything I want to do with the laptop. I even got it to record over-the-air digital tv using a cheap usb tuner stick connected to an old rooftop antenna. I doubt that I'd be able to do that in Linux, and certainly not as easily!

  24. Re: US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, I know many Democrats who say "We had them gerrymandered in our favor even worse when we were in power".

    If that were true, how did the Democrats lose power?

  25. Re:US Post Office always secure. on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.

    Which "freedom" do you miss the most; the freedom to own slaves, or the freedom to send your children to work in coal mines?