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  1. Re:Your headphones are spying on you. on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people's religious beliefs include "I should kill anyone who disagrees with me." Some people act on their beliefs.

    So it's the killing you object to then, and not the beliefs. Have I got that right? Good, because I agree with you completely. Religious doctrine, the xtian bible for example, is full of dangerous ideas that no sane person would believe enough to actually act on. That doesn't mean the whole religion is bad or it's followers inherently evil. Right?

  2. Would you have Rosie get my suit out of the ultrasonic dryer for me? And tell Elroy to pick up his room. I'm going to walk the dog.

  3. Zardoz on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    Because nobody else has mentioned it. And besides, I usually resort to "top five" because no one film in a given genre really captures it all. So, in no particular order...
    2001 A Space Odyssey
    Forbidden Planet
    Aliens
    Silent Running
    Avatar

  4. Re:Outbreaks of "Genital Retraction Syndrome". on The Woman Whose Phone 'Misdiagnosed HIV' (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Interesting. Kind of explains the popularity of jacked-to-the-sky pickemup trucks.

  5. Re:Invasive bastards... on A Huge Trove of Patient Data Leaks, Thanks To Telemarketers' Bad Security (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe in tainting data - swap your grocery rewards card with someone else. Become a monk for income purposes, or turn vegan for health surveys :)

    This. The entire Internet still thinks I was born on December 7, 1941. You know, "A day that will live in infamy."

  6. Keep looking. Maybe grade school is the place to start. Whatever you do, don't think about hiring, you know, old people with lots of experience.

  7. Industry Shill on FCC's Ajit Pai Says Broadband Market Too Competitive For Strict Privacy Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pai is nothing more than a shill for the telecom industry. Another gator added to the swamp by the Hustler in Chief.

  8. It will go something like this on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Boss: You are required to have a chip implanted in your body. Me: Go fuck yourself. Boss: You're fired. Me: I'll remember you said that when I own the company after the lawsuit.

  9. Re:Slackware on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    and if you want the best user experience, install it from floppies.

    Been there, done that. Now get off my lawn, user number 622387. LOL.

  10. Re:I am curious if people think this is good or ba on Indiana Considers Prohibiting Cities From Banning Airbnb (usnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're constituency is the entrenched hospitality industry, it's hardly and overreach. If your constituency is actually the people who voted for you and you actually give a rats ass about their interests, its most egregious overreach. Gee, I wonder where the party lines will be on this one.

  11. Yet another example of how science can't prove anything. No, wait. This is another example of how the science lobby is trying to protect their jobs by, you know, doing experiments and shit, and trying to understand how stuff works.

  12. Re:And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Begins? This sounds exactly like the sort of issue from that start of the industrial revolution, where people were routinely mauled by machinery with inadequate safety standards. About 200 years too late for 'and so it begins'.

    No shit. "Man killed by industrial machinery when a safety feature failed." That may be news, but not outside the local community.

  13. Happy... and Sad on University Offers Course To Help Sniff Out and Refute 'Bullshit' (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Happy that someone has stepped up and offered something meet an obvious need.
    Sad because the need exists. When did basic critical thinking stop being something that even freshmen university students came already equipped with?

  14. In this day and age, sexism is any action done by the opposite sex that bothers, annoys, insults, or troubles you in any conceivable way.

    No. It's not. That you don't know the fucking difference is ample evidence of the problem here. Grow up. Educate yourself. Stop blaming others who highlight your willful ignorance.

  15. Re:"Truth" on Apple CEO Tim Cook Tackles Truth in the Digital Age (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Truth" is when someone tells you a thing is so, and then invites you to verify it for yourself, using sources of your own choosing. Refusing to believe the truth is when you are told something is so, and you reject it out of hand or use sources you know will tell you what you want to hear. In other words, truth cannot be handed down. If you really want it, you will have to go out and find it for yourself.

  16. If only there were someone with business leadership skills like that. We could get him elected President and make American bankrupt, erm.... great again.

  17. Re:I've seen this in action on Google Translate Is About To Get a Lot Better, Thanks To Its Machine Learning Push (cnbc.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You might want to work on that impulse control. You know, so you don't blurt out racist shit like that and embarrass yourself again.

  18. Re:Gov't data on Ask Slashdot: Can US Citizens Trust Government Data? (msn.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Have you ever been able to trust it? I doubt it, so nothing has really changed in this regard and the timing of this question seems partisan.

    Oh, fucking please... Have you ever heard such juvenile falsehoods uttered by official Whitehouse representatives before? Unless you're Kellyanne Conway, you have to admit that this is different. The good news is, if they don't get this silly bullshit under control, they're going to drag the entire GOP down with them.

  19. Re: Not a single time traveler? on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Because conservatives aren't as hateful and violent as liberals?

    [citation needed]
    Take your time. We'll wait...

  20. Called it on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that that's saying much. This was an entirely predictable happening.

  21. And this is the year of desktop Linux. Oh, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
    Seriously though, even assuming there is something brought about by 5G magic that we could remotely call "revolutionary" (as not, something way more than just "faster") what will that be?

  22. protip: thousands < millions yeah, I know that wrecks your quote. This is slashdot, where technically correct is the best kind of correct.

    What part of "as if" escaped your attention, young padawan? You see, the phrase "as if" implies an hypothetical scenario and should not be confused with a declarative statement like, "Millions of voices dialed out...". I know that wrecks your attempt at pendantry. Maybe you should stick with the blaster.

  23. If you work at Verizon customer service on Thousands of Note 7 Phones Still in Use On Verizon, All Non-911 Calls To Be Rerouted To Customer Service (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...sucks to be you. I can feel the waves of hate already. It's as if millions of voices suddenly dialed out, and were silenced.

  24. So... Moller sold his designs to Airbus? on Flying Car Prototype Ready By End of 2017, Says Airbus CEO (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I didn't read that, but it's the same, held-aloft-by-four-fans design that Moller has been hawking for decades, which means that just like Moller's "Skycar", it's going to fly just slightly better than a grand piano if even one of those engines goes out. Not over my neighborhood, thank you.

  25. I'd say it depends more on how you define "get it done". I can perform any of my regular chores on my laptop, but not as quickly nor as easily. My desktop has more grunt per dollar spent on the basic platform, and has three displays and a much friendlier mouse and keyboard. For my workload, looking from one monitor to another is a lot more effective than alt-tab, repeat.