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  1. I just don't understand how anyone in 2017 could use rsync without going through an SSH channel, preferably with keys if it's an automated process.

    Anyone care to explain?

  2. Re:As an American driver on London is Using Optical Illusions To Make Cars Slow Down (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you're describing a utility truck, or "ute" for short.

  3. Re:GPS causes brain damage /s on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the cloud so heavy where you live that you can't determine the approximate position of the sun by the differences in lightness across the sky?

    Genuinely curious, because it's never occurred to me that someone might not be able to determine where the sun is by looking at the sky during daylight hours.

  4. Re:I'm okay with it on In Less Than Five Years, 45 Billion Cameras Will Be Watching Us (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Remember to add TV sets, tablets, laptops, RC toys, and cars to that, given that home spyware and reversing cameras are now standard.

    Still nowhere near 14 trillion I'm sure, but could conceivably approach... 100 billion (cue Dr Evil music).

  5. Re:Good luck California! on North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I did mean for the US, but neglected to say it.

    Kim Jong-un isn't gonna do shit to the US.
    Why do you think that?

  6. Re:Good luck California! on North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    That's pretty funny, but I just want to check:

    Do you actually think that Donald Trump is a more dangerous leader than Kim Jong-un?

  7. AI is stupid.

    News at 11.

  8. And, as a bonus, they know all your passwords.

  9. So that's a "no" then?

  10. Exposure to glyphosate in massively high concentrations very likely does cause cancer, if the study on their factory workers is to be believed. The thing is, no one outside their factories is exposed at that level, and it doesn't accumulate in soil, since it breaks down completely.

    Vaccines work. They don't cause autism.

    Contrails exist. Chemtrails don't.

    Monsanto is still one of the most evil companies on the planet.

  11. Re:Other things that are probable carcinogens on Monsanto Leaks Suggest It Tried To Kill Cancer Research On Roundup Weed Killer (rt.com) · · Score: 2

    You forgot sunlight.

    Sunlight is a Group 1 carcinogen, the highest ranking there is.

  12. Re:iPhone module is made by Sony... on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    I often find myself taking photos with my middle-of-the-road phone because it's the camera I have with me at the time. The sensor in this phone is much better than the point and shoots I used to own (much better bit depth and low-light performance, for example), though of course modern point and shoots have updated their sensors too.

    The one feature I miss dearly from my point-and-shoot: optical zoom. It's useless trying to photograph far away objects with a wide-lens phone.

  13. iPhone loses. on Is the iPhone 'Years' Ahead of Android In Photography? (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, given that many SLR cameras are actually running Android...

    I'm not sure where I was going with this.

  14. Re:Falling for the 'backup tape' meme on IBM and Sony Cram Up To 330 Terabytes Into Tiny Tape Cartridge (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wow, I never had that problem even with 10 year old LTO tapes.

    You *threw* the tapes away? You never thought to borrow another compatible drive from someone?

  15. Although some of us seem content to live in the past.

  16. Where are all these people? The ones I know use Viber or plain SMS for IM.

  17. Re:Didn't we already have a post about training AI on Google Says AI Better Than Humans At Scrubbing Extremist YouTube Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And, incidentally, we now know neither heliocentrism nor geocentrism is scientifically "correct", since Einstein it's well established that reference frames are arbitrary, and the only scientific difference is the complexity of the drawing needed to equally-correctly describe the orbits.

    That's not how relativity works. Yes, you get to pick any reference frame you like, but the Earth still revolves around the Sun.

  18. Crap.

    Inline ads in news feeds (such as Slashdot), coloured differently and clearly marked as Sponsored Content, are not in the least obtrusive.

    I even occasionally look at them too.

  19. Re:Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Fraud on Bitcoin Splits in Two Amid Feud (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And thanks to Service Workers on my Progressive Web Application, your GPU did math for me too!

  20. True, but with one large, trumplet-blaring exception:

    Google lets uploaders insert video ads into YouTube videos, making playlists next to impossible with an ad-blocker.

  21. Re:Slashdot is facing some discouraging trends. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    1. The Electoral College exists. This is a good thing, because it prevents a very small number of heavily populated states from dictating an election.
    2. > half of the population is not a requirement in first-past-the-post, nor should it be. Imagine you get 40% of eligible voters voting for candidate A, 20% for candidate B, 10% for candidate C, 5% for candidate D and the other 25% not counted for whatever reason (eg abstaining or spoiled votes). By your logic there is no clear winner here and another election would need to be called.

  22. Re:Slashdot is facing some discouraging trends. on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also a complete misnomer - leftists aren't always liberals.

    Consequently, conservatives aren't always right-wing.

  23. Re:Cue the outrage! on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I'm curious. Do you actually believe that drivel, or is it just convenient for you to push it now to further some other agenda?

  24. Re:I have a similar problem on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: 1

    Just one more reason why RFC2822 is completely broken.

  25. Oh well, I'll give it a go on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    Web Browser: firefox
            Email Client: thunderbird
            Terminal: konsole, gnome-terminal
            IDE: n/a
            File manager: thunar, bash
            Basic Text Editor: vim, gvim, TeXStudio, bluefish
            IRC/Messaging Client: n/a
            PDF Reader: okular, evince
            Office Suite: libreoffice
            Calendar: lightning
            Video Player: mplayer, vlc
            Music Player: mplayer, audacious
            Photo Viewer: geeqie
            Screen recording: simplescreenrecorder

    Categories you missed:
            Desktop environment: xfce
            System monitoring: gkrellm
            Remote access: ssh+xpra
            Graphics editor: gimp, blender
            Sound editor: audacity
            Video editor: kdenlive, openshot
            Network filesystem protocol: sshfs