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  1. Re:R2D2 on Star Wars Actor Kenny Baker Dies at Age 81 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, AI was not that good at the time.

    Yes, although to be fair his career didn't really begin until his 1980 appearance on the Dr. Demento Show with Another One Rides the Bus.

  2. Re:Patch not needed quickly... on 900M Android Devices Vulnerable To New 'Quadrooter' Security Flaw (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I take it you've never heard of f-droid. Only one of the biggest FOSS repositories for a single platform.

    And since it's not an official Google product, funnily enough, it requires sideloading.

  3. Re:call an ambulance on Man Says Tesla Autopilot Saved His Life By Driving Him To the Hospital (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ambulance... company?
    Hospital... bill?

    Good Lord, man, what has happened to your country?

  4. Re:call an ambulance on Man Says Tesla Autopilot Saved His Life By Driving Him To the Hospital (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, expensive? You've already paid for it through taxes. Why would any ambulance service charge you twice?

  5. Almost in time on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Well, Doc did say that it would happen by 2015. Close.

  6. Re:Since neither is getting elected on Gary Johnson: I'd Consider Pardoning Snowden, Chelsea Manning (vocativ.com) · · Score: 2

    Court? Why are you talking about courts, when your Constitution is very clear on what you are supposed to do when your government gets like this.

  7. Expect more of this on Gary Johnson: I'd Consider Pardoning Snowden, Chelsea Manning (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that the current two candidates are basically unappointable [1], third party candidates should be looked at more seriously.

    The promise of pardoning heroic men like Snowden and Manning can be a major point for some voters.

    [1] Insofar as any US citizen would have to be batshit insane to vote for either of them.

  8. As in the video conferencing software that has pretty much replaced Skype in academia and business?

    Or another Zoom?

  9. Re:Lockouts have you heard of them? on Harrison Ford Could Have Died In Star Wars Set Incident, Court Hears (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    From the (one-sided) summary, this was a massive fuckup, on the order of having a real gun mixed in with prop guns, or carelessness with pyro.

    I hear that was a major problem when filming the X Men movies.

    I'll see myself out.

  10. How's that two-party system working out for you?

  11. Re:The bullshit is fresh and steamy on Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just more reason to avoid:

    1. Microsoft products, and
    2. Netflix

    Problem solved.

  12. That's just because you're used to watching movies at a horrible choppy 24 fps.

    Look up the Soap Opera effect; it's a real thing. And you'll be very happy once you've gotten over it. To me 24 fps movies look like poorly done stop-motion.

  13. Re:please just go all the way to the C++ mode on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with /*
      * A comment
      * block
      */
    for blocks and // for single or partial lines:
    int selection // Which menu option has been selected

  14. Re:Lost focus on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to know a lot of very wealthy people. Are you sure they *actually* want the AP functionality or are they just trading up because it's the latest fad?

    As another person has commented here, self driving is hard and Tesla is small. That means every R&D dollar put into these useless features is another dollar that doesn't get spent on making the car actually better.

  15. Lost focus on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, can't we just have a nice electric car without all this self-driving crap screwing it up?

  16. Re:Court motions are not news on Oracle Asks Judge To Throw Out Java/Google Verdict...Again (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Please look up the definition of derivative work.

  17. Re:tired of being second on Debian Founder's 2015 Death Ruled A Suicide (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I am embarrassed to be white. I feel ashamed.

    Don't. That makes you as much of a racist as those you so despise.

    Racism is a plague infecting the Earth, and is itself not limited to any one skin colour nor religion.

  18. Re:Aww, that's harsh on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, about that CAT scan you're booked in for next week...

  19. Re:Is it even possible to buy a new 32 bit chip? on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While 32-bit desktops are pretty much dead, there are plenty of laptops still running 32-bit processors. Not new ones, granted, but ones that came out in the last ten years.

  20. Windows hardware? on Dell Stops Selling Android Tablets (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, since from recent experience their current laptops have better hardware support under Linux than they do with Windows 10.

  21. Re:Priorities on Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, it's time to settle this silly debate once and for all. Slashdot poll time!

    Please?

  22. I'm sure there's a gaming joke somewhere in there.

  23. Meanwhile the rest of us just continue using Viber and get on with our lives.

  24. Apparently, a single zero-overwrite is entirely enough for modern disks (say, newer than 15 years or so), as these are used close enough to the surface data density limit that even magnetic force microscopy can recover a few scattered bits at best after a zero-wipe.

    Well, yes, but many modern disks don't have a surface to speak of. cf SSDs

  25. Pushed through apps? on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    I can't say I'm surprised by this.

    Since I'm not interested in being notified every time someone messages me, I only access FB from a browser, even on my phone, and my browser does not have access to my location. This worked fine up until a couple of weeks ago when their mobile website stopped supporting messaging, instead popping up with a helpful advertisement to install the Facebook Messenger app.

    I downloaded it for fun and looked at the list of permissions it asked for - it was taller than my screen. Much taller. Clearly they want access to everything.

    Now I just use the Desktop version of the website.