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  1. Hopefully more and more people will buy IoT devices that will be converted in perma-DDoS devices, let it all burn.

  2. Re:They had MP3 players in Europe long before the on Why Steve Jobs Loved the IPod Shuffle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I do remember ATRAC cds working quite well on my sony CD player.

  3. Re:Welding helmet on Solar-Eclipse Glasses On Amazon May Not Meet NASA's Safety Requirements (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Just use the spare glass instead of the full mask

  4. Re:CD burning? on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 3, Informative

    I suggest Xfburn, not many dependencies, runs fine on early 2000 hardware and I've never had issues with it, unlike brasero.

  5. There are parts of Europe which haven't switched to DAB+

    Oh, boy I can't wait for another finicky all-or-nothing digital broadcasting system and hundreds of radio sets at the recycling bin.

  6. Re:REALITY CHECK on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Getting funding so they can build their own for "research".

  7. Re:That's depressing, it's such old news on Britain's Newest Warship Runs Windows XP, Raising Cyber Attack Fears (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You mean coreboot? It's still there, and is also used by chromebooks

  8. Re:Russian Engineers on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    How about actually investing in decent security instead of complaining about the terrible costs of the aftermath?

  9. Re:Android buttons are hardly better on Steve Jobs Wanted the First iPhone To Have a Permanent Back Button Like Android (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Back, menu, home was better, long press the home button to open tasks, just like symbian, why dedicate an entire key to it.

  10. Re:Anti-Apple Bias on The Right To Repair Movement Is Forcing Apple To Change (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    At least apple products are easier to clean than that fabric covered surface.

  11. Re:A/C not favorable to many generators on Louisville's Fiber Internet Expansion Opposed By Koch Brothers Group (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Not an issue because the cheapest inverters blow themselves open while the better ones should be able to manage themselves.

  12. Whoa on Debian 9 (Stretch) Will Be Released Today (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    I just recently upgraded to Jessie

  13. So what? As long as you can dumpster dive a bunch of them it shouldn't be an issue.

  14. Re:Notice that they also bought Schaft. on Google Has Finally Found a Buyer For Its Scary Robot Companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Wrong, bigdog and other Boston Dynamics robots are hydraulic Air makes a lot more noise and being compressible makes it pretty useless outside of industrial machines moving stuff around or compressed air tools.

  15. Re:Need to get cooler looking electric cars on Electric Vehicles Have Another Record Year, Reaching 2 Million Cars In 2016 (iea.org) · · Score: 1

    In Europe most poeple consider the Prius rear to be really ugly, only topped by some ssayong cars.

  16. Re:What does this have to do with Sun Microsystems on Astronomers Discover Alien World Hotter Than Most Stars (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    Just there as a cool logo

  17. f looked after well they can last three decades.

    I only see either very old ones with no electronics or the latest fancy models, with a noticeable gap. Don't know if that's because old ones are more reliable or because they relegated to light work while modern ones are pushed to the limits

  18. You don't even need to go that back, I have a small siemens TV which came with full schematic and service manual in the early 90's

  19. Re:Someone could start a new one. on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I see smaller groups signing up on both, the big ones are pushing for .si because they made it.

  20. Re:We pirates must unite on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Must get everything fastttt!!!!!!1!11111
    Queues are for communists!1!!11

  21. Re:Distributed index on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    I used to use shareaza, which combined results from many P2P networks and it had a nice way to distribute antifake filters, which worked quite well.

  22. Re:We pirates must unite on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Limewire(Gnutella) seems pretty dead, last time I tried searching on it there weren't many results, eMule meanwhile still has some 200k+ users and the botnet spamming fake results seems to be dying down.

  23. Re:Distributed index on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Indexers and DHT scrapers are a kind of decentralization.

  24. Re:Sucks but predictable on Popular Torrent Site ExtraTorrent Permanently Shuts Down (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would tech-minded people support the inferior "cripple the protocol to make it centralized" instead of "make an improved protocol"

  25. Re:Non-Free Repositories on MP3 Is Not Dead, It's Finally Free (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    But codecs have available on debian's main repository for years, I tought at least Mint had them preinstalled.