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  1. You assume Apple and Google will allow software decoding of AV1, which is extremely bad for battery life.

  2. Re:Most of my friends work Seattle Hundreds... on MoviePass Wants To Gather a Whole Lot of Data About Its Users (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn stupid Slashdot... nerd site can't even handle unicode in 2018.

    "Enjoy your Karoshi"

  3. Re:Most of my friends work Seattle Hundreds... on MoviePass Wants To Gather a Whole Lot of Data About Its Users (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Enjoy your Karshi.

  4. How many people will actually be using AV1?

    A few days ago, Netflix said that 70%+ of viewing happens on a TV, which implies a smart TV or a set top box and almost all of them use H.264.

  5. Re:Most of my friends work Seattle Hundreds... on MoviePass Wants To Gather a Whole Lot of Data About Its Users (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You work 16 hours a day? You think other people "only" work 12 hours a day? Do you live in a third-world country?

    Most people in Canada with normal jobs work between 35 and 40 hours per week.

  6. Well, Canada Post regulates Santa's postal code (H0H 0H0) so it's proof that he's real.

  7. And you seem to be under the impression that AI needs to be what you think constitutes intelligence before it becomes a risk.

  8. Re:A comparison on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 2

    Except that JFK and Obama's projects were by the government.
    Trump has nothing to do with that private enterprises do.

  9. Re:Impressive on Elon Musk: SpaceX's Mars Rocket Could Fly Short Flights By Next Year · · Score: 1

    He will be the one to get us off this rock stuck in a gravity well!

    Wait, is that what we're been saying? No wonder the aliens won't contact us, they think it's a prank!

  10. Re:Do you hate OCD people? on Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones To Sinaloa Drug Cartel (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The "two spaces" thing has been dead since the birth of HTML.

  11. Bad title indeed on Report Says Radioactive Monitors Failed at Nuclear Plant (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    If your monitors are radioactive, safely dispose of them and buy new ones!

  12. Do you hate OCD people? on Feds Bust CEO Allegedly Selling Custom BlackBerry Phones To Sinaloa Drug Cartel (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    organizations.Now

    You're missing a space after the period!

  13. Re:You're not programming hard enough. on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe you should broaden your definitions of "computer platforms" and "programmable" a little bit.

  14. Open Hardware/Open Source UPS?! on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't we be working on an open hardware/open source FedEx instead?!

  15. Think smaller on ESR's Newest Project: An Open Hardware/Open Source UPS (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    There's hundreds of programmable computers platforms out there, you're just not looking hard enough.

  16. Appropriate punishment on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Is Now Also Wanted in Florida (kansas.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The victims will see an appropriate punishment.

    So he's going to be locked in a cell and SWAT teams will randomly terrorize him for years, day and night, without warning, at random hours?

  17. Re:For those Readers who are not retarded on Google Maps Apps Add 'Mario Kart' Feature (wlwt.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see you want "dumb speak". Type "theonion.com" in your browser address bar for news better suited to your I.Q.

  18. Re:design flaw on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    My old Apple full-size aluminium keyboard goes up to F19.

  19. Re:design flaw on Apple Files Patent For a Crumb-Resistant MacBook Keyboard (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Your 2014 probably doesn't have the new "butterfly" keyboard.

  20. Thel hell? on Documents Prove Local Cops Have Bought Cheap iPhone Cracking Tech (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Documents prove local cops have bought cheap iPhone cracking technology.

    That's a totally irresponsible waste of the taxpayers money! I cracked mine THREE TIMES already without even trying! Just drop it on a concrete floor!

  21. Re:This is stupid... on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 1

    No we're not.

    We're in bed by 21:00.

  22. Re:Cluster fuck coming on Florida Lawmakers Approve Year-Round Daylight Saving Time (tampabay.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
  23. Re:How was it sealed? on 132-Year-Old Science Experiment Washes Ashore In Australia (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they used an aluminium-carbon-nanofiber composite?

    Oh wait, it's from 132 years in the past. Never mind, I thought we were in 2023. Wrong bottle.

  24. Re:Again? on 132-Year-Old Science Experiment Washes Ashore In Australia (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, compared to the bottle Slashdot is still extremely fast.

  25. Re:Another backdoor? on Hardcoded Password Found in Cisco Software (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's Dr. Alphonse Mephesto, the eccentric geneticist and stereotypical mad scientist from South Park, there's going to be four backdoors.