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  1. Re:Why purge? on Library Creates Fake Patron Records To Avoid Book-Purging (heraldnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because libraries became places relatively devoid of books in the late 1980's-2000 when their stock of actual reading material was replaced by books on tape, videos, and computer screens. Libraries have been sort of fucked up except for a place to get children's books ever since.

    Get with the times - if you actually want to read, you can attempt to download their limited online books onto your e-reader of phone through their lousy e-borrowing software (which requires a special client to read - you wouldn't want to be a pirate, would you?). Or do what I do - avoid the place entirely and order stuff I actually want to read to be downloaded to my Kindle.

  2. Re:What the hell is a "Pixel"? on Some Pixels Have Problems (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow. Like you couldn't discern from the first sentence that a device having a camera, audio, and LTE Band 4 capabilities, sharing the name of one of the most-hyped phones of the year, was a phone? You must either be an idiot or a troll. Although I did like the spittle-flecked shouting of your faux outrage.

  3. That's so 2016... on Pokemon Go Arrives On the Apple Watch (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice to see people don't forget history these days.

  4. Re:what is this mysterious data? on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody should be able to reproduce climate models on a modern desktop computer with a GPU and check for themselves.

    Do you know how much computational power it takes to run climate models? Anyone with a desktop and GPU is not going to be able to replicate many of these models' results. You need supercomputers on the scale of the Top 500 to do that sort of thing, you idiot.

  5. Re:Tesla and Uber? on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Because even Tesla says the autopilot isn't. The driver is supposed to be in control in all circumstances. Dumbass.

  6. TPP, to quote Monte Python... on Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? (businesstimes.com.sg) · · Score: 1

    ... is not dead yet. Trump is not sworn in, there are plenty of D's and R's still supporting this legislation, and Obama would sign it if it came to his desk. It's not dead until it's actually dead in Congress for this lame duck session. And then who knows? Trump could change his mind.

    Thanks for electing us an inconsistent buffoon R's. Because you don't actually know what he's going to do.

  7. Re:All the fun users on Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like that's fine with Reddit. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

  8. Re:And us too - soon on The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    There will be a lot less Trump and Brexit cheerleaders on here in 4 years.

    Don't count on it. Kansas is still red after the past dozen+ years of disastrous economic performance due to governance based on conservative economic principles. It never changes the idiots minds - there's always someone else to blame their problems on rather than facing the reality: Their economic principles shrink rather than grow economies.

  9. This is one of the most concrete, attainable, and consistent things he's said.

    And I'll believe it's happening when Apple starts building the plants.

    For what it's worth, companies don't build domestic plants if foreign ones are cheaper to utilize. And there aren't enough regulations to remove to make the cost differential work out. Maybe with a tariff on all foreign constructed phones, but you'll need a steep tariff.

    Somehow, I don't think the Donald can get all that done. Especially with half the R's in the House and Senate still yelling about free trade now that the TPP is dead.

  10. I think he meant "basket of deplorables".

  11. As an engineer, I want to know... on Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Were the stats adjusted for racial and income makeup of the counties examined? Clinton underperformed among poor white voters. The reason for this "discrepency" is probably a correlation between poor counties and use of electronic voting machines. The D's (who I normally vote with) need no excuse for losing other than the shitty campaign their candidate ran. #itshillarysfault.

  12. If you keep in touch with the early developer releases Microsoft puts out (which most AV companies do), you'll have months to develop your product to work with the OS. The only people who had "10 days to make their software work with Windows 10" weren't paying attention earlier.

  13. Re:Do not store songs locally on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're using XML to solve a problem, you actually have two problems.

  14. Bitcoin to bypass unfavorable exchange rates? on Bitcoin Can Be Bought With Cash At Swiss Railway Ticket Machines (techweekeurope.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whatever you save in the currency exchange rate is going to be more than made up for by the losses from Bitcoin's volatility.

  15. There's probably old switches/routers/lab equipment/etc. still using that kernel (not to mention 4.7). Much of it probably isn't regularly upgraded (if it is upgradable at all).

  16. Mascots was insanely funny... on Netflix's Big Bet on Original Shows Finally Seen Paying Off (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am glad that Netflix is funding the creation of this stuff. They are giving the cable channels a run for their money, if not yet the main-line studios. On the other hand, they've had some shows that were definitely "acquired taste" sorts of things, too (Pompidou, I'm looking at you). I guess they're still at the "throw stuff against the wall and see what sticks" stage. But at least a good deal of it is watchable and a few things are quite good.

  17. Why would they want to escape the ghetto? on Why Is Science Fiction Snubbed By Literary Awards? (galacticbrain.com) · · Score: 1

    They make a lot more money churning out series than they ever would with a single "literary" novel. The critics in their Sci-Fi ghetto are a lot more sympathetic than any literary critic would be. They look better off constrained by their genre.

  18. What a fucking douche... on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Emacs or vi, you excrement-coated human enema nozzle?

  19. Yeah, I know...

  20. Easier solution... on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't put so much crap into the air in the first place.

    Not to mention that you solve pollution issues at their most concentrated source (or as close as you can get to it). It's easier dealing with a small, contained issue than a huge, diffused one.

  21. Re:Why not use the source article? on Facebook at Work To Report For Duty Next Month (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably because the Forbes article is better written, has more information than that found in the original article, or is visually more appealing. Tracing back to source material would lead to worse (and probably fewer) articles. Besides, no one RTFAs.

  22. We've all hit the wall with our current deep learning approaches and we're hoping one of you other guys can figure out how to bail us out.

  23. Simple solutions... on Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    (a) Sniff your network traffic, looking for anything unusual coming from the device.

    (b) Don't use IoT stuff.

  24. Re: How is this different from any university? on How ITT Tech Screwed Students and Made Millions (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    So if you get shitty candidates when looking for Python programmers, why not use a language that doesn't encourage shitty programmers using it? There are languages, after all, that select for a higher caliber of programmer.

    Somehow, I think you want mediocre programmers at bargain prices, so you use a bargain language. So you have to weed through a lot of crap. You get what you pay for.

  25. Re:So basically... on VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so's anyone who tries to crapflood channels. Speech is free. Consequences leading from the same are to be expected when you act like an asshat.