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  1. Re: A name for that project on DARPA Wants To Make a Better, More Secure Version of WhatsApp (trustedreviews.com) · · Score: 2

    Or just Akbar


    But not as in "Allah hu" ;-)

  2. Re: How on Google Chrome Wants To Block Some HTTP File Downloads (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Same stupidity for .dmg files on the Mac. Unless you open it, double click on the app contained within and then enter your password on the following dialogue to grant the app admin rights, nothingâ(TM)s gonna happen with that file.

  3. Re: Google version of the web. on Google Chrome Wants To Block Some HTTP File Downloads (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's what the body craves.

  4. Re: They are SELF-proclaimed (un)"holy" JEWgle on Google Chrome Wants To Block Some HTTP File Downloads (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm Yiddish is actually 80% German. I am German and I can understand it. It sounds like a German dialect, and I only fail to understand some of the Hebrew and Polish words sprinkled in. This such a plain and well-known fact and even that you get wrong. Sheesh.

  5. Somethings missing on Are People Who Take Frequent Breaks More Productive? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    So if I'm supposed to work 52 minutes without being distracted, then have a 17-minute real break away from the computer, when is the time to post memes, read Facebook and be a slob?

  6. Re: Incredibly bad study on Listening To Music May Be Damaging Your Creativity (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    In a long standing tradition of Slashdot I didn't read the article, but how the hell did they measure "creativity"?

  7. Dance, magic dance... Wait that 'babe' is an actual baby. That would be child porn! Ha!

  8. Oh damn fuggedaboutit i haven't watched that movie for too long.

  9. No because then you end up 'Not in Kansas anymore'

  10. Re: They're not even bothering to deny it anymore on Google's Also Peddling a Data Collector Through Apple's Back Door (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Via a special browser plugin

    On the other hand 60% or more of internet users use Chrome, which does exactly the same. Odd, innit?

  11. Geez as if that was new on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Every Mac power user uses keyboard shortcuts excessively, that's why they always point out that having the same keyboard shortcuts for the same actions across apps and regardless of vendors is key and that's why Microsoft apps suck, because they mostly ignore that. Even when I design stuff, my left hand is usually on the keyboard all the time. Who closes windows with a mouse if you have command+W?

  12. Re: Yes, we can imagine on Former Edge Browser Intern Alleges Google Sabotaged Microsoft's Browser (ycombinator.com) · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what pisses me off about people so nonchalantly brushing this off as karma. I am (still holding on as) an Apple fan, and there is a lot of pleasure I find in seeing Microsoft being beaten at their own game. But I am also the first to acknowledge how much they have changed. Yes, their products still suck in my eyes, but all of their past sins do not make it OK for Google to go down the same path. Google are now just as evil and fucked up as MS was under Gates.

  13. So youâ(TM)re saying, just because Microsoft have been total assholes in the past, Google now gets carte blanche for being just as evil? Wut?

  14. Re:Google Translate didn't learn anything on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    If the programmers and/or the bosses who call the shot become "woke" (which is totally the case with Goolag) then they will end up programming either "woke" AI, or something akin to HAL9000 – the machine will fail to handle the cognitive dissonance between the lofty supposed goals and the horrible, horrible practises put in place under the label of "progress", "equality", and "diversity".

  15. Re:Pronouns are hard to translate on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Japanese has different words for older brother/younger brother and older sister/younger sister.

    It's really awkward when I have to refer to the sister of my son's violin teacher, because they're twins, and I really don't know which one popped out first.

  16. Re:Good! on Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    What about a neuter option? German has a neuter grammatical gender. TRIGGERED!!!!!

  17. Re: Give your device permission to install a VPN on Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You downloaded an VPN app that now has the gall to ask to install a VPN - inconceivable.

  18. Re: Regulatory capture intensifies on FCC Falsely Claims Community Broadband an 'Ominous Threat To First Amendment' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be raining.

  19. You call lasting four measly years longevity? My last mid 2011 pre retina MacBook Pro is still running great, I only replaced the HD with an SSD for better performance. Yes I got myself one of the first touchbar MacBook Pros, but my son is still playing Borderlands 2, Tomb Raider and ESO on my old machine, albeit on low settings.

  20. Don't be evil was changed on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google changed the "don't be evil" line a while ago, it's now:

    "Welcome to my underground lair."

  21. Inconceivable!

  22. In other words on What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Theyâ(TM)re turning the frogs gay! :-D

  23. Hey it's SF, legislation is not about problem solving here, it's all about virtue signalling.

  24. Re: Alternative explanation on Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure in a few years they'll admit it was some rich Roman's dildo collection.

  25. Rental desktops should be enough for everyone on Chromebooks Don't Suffer From Bad User Experiences Found on Windows and Mac Computers, Google Says (aboutchromebooks.com) · · Score: 1

    Said nobody ever.