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  1. Re:Site improvement idea on Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited By Magnitude Exploit Kit (securityweek.com) · · Score: 2

    "SAFETY IS OUR GOAL: It has been [ 2 ] days since our last Adobe Flash 0-day exploit."

  2. Re:Armor old new armor! on Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited By Magnitude Exploit Kit (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing "astandard" here is the site that only handles US-ASCII characters in 2016. It's not defensible.

  3. Re:IF harassment = anything offensive on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting analogy. But, restaurants have to serve everyone

    This is only true in states with public accommodation laws. Under federal law, a private secular institution may discriminate on the basis of race, creed, or color (or anything at all, for that matter). But under Colorado law (of the famous gay wedding cake), they may not. So it depends on your state.

  4. Re:Ban the Block on Reddit Launches New Block Tools To Help Temper Harassment (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Pointing out bad grammer and spelling aggresses me.

  5. Well, Slashdot doesn't have an "edit" button, so them's the breaks.

  6. Not so fast! on New Windows 10 Preview For PCs With Bash, Cross-Device Cortana Released · · Score: 1

    There are a number of things Cygwin does that don't quite work on Windows 10 + Bash, such as setting up GCC and C libraries and environment variables for building OSS projects out of the box. But this is a good start.

  7. Re:Now We Know Why Drivers Suck on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh God, okay, I suppose you're right, and they had software engineers design this new chip instead of actual chip designers, thus stealing the precious resources you're bitching about.

  8. Re:Now We Know Why Drivers Suck on NVIDIA Creates a 15B-Transistor Chip With 16GB Bandwidth Memory For Deep Learning (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, let's have the chip designers drop everything and help write the device drivers. Brilliant. I should have the network engineers come upstairs and help me with my Excel spreadsheets.

  9. Re:It looks like XBox One Streaming is Win 10 Only on Tomorrow's PS4 Update To Add Game Streaming for PC and Mac, Privacy Features (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    I would love to get a Steam box for streaming to my TV, but the controller is total crap. I can't wait for Windows-to-XBox streaming.

  10. It's been almost twenty friggin' years. Where have you been?

  11. Re:stupid april 1st crap on Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    whiplash, sometimes the best response to criticism is no response at all. Besides, bitching about April Fool's stories is every bit as much of a Slashdot tradition as the April Fool's stories themselves. It just isn't the same without them. I come just for the schadenfreude.

  12. Re:No joke, should be banned everywhere. on No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You should put a sign on your yard to keep the kids off while you enjoy your Metamucil.

  13. Re:Microsoft is Dead. So is Skype, Windows, ... on Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting? · · Score: 1

    I'll believe it when NetCraft confirms it.

  14. Re:This /. summary the most carefully proofread ev on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 2

    The first comma was unnecessary. I wrote a sternly-worded letter to the president.

  15. Re: Not trying to be a wiseass, just asking on Microsoft Makes Xamarin Free In Visual Studio, Will Open Source Core Xamarin Tech (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    There was a cheap license for indie devs, but unfortunately the assembly size limitation precluded the use of MonoGame. By just a few KB, to boot. :(

  16. That exact file you mention is part of the OpenServer LKP, and contained Linux code SCO/Caldera had no right to distribute outside the GPL.

  17. Other way around. Caldera/SCO was copying Linux code into Unix for their Linux Kernel Personality project. This was their "smoking gun" that got dropped like a hot potato.

  18. Re:As an AT&T customer let me say this on AT&T Looks To Sell Cyanogen-Powered ZTE Phone To Snub Google (droid-life.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny, I have an AT&T "sponsored" iPhone, and I don't think it has a single byte of AT&T bloatware on it.

    Boo iOS! I demand that my carrier have the right to add bloatware to my phone so I can bitch about it on Slashdot!

  19. Re:DAFUQ with summaries? on Former Bush Official Lawrence Wilkerson Says Snowden Has Done a 'Service' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's better this way. This summary made sense.

  20. Re: It is not a justification for more surveillanc on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Also, Baader Meinhof.

  21. Re:sure, the ultra-rich don't care on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 0

    Luckily for you, your local votes are far more effective in your local government than your federal election votes are for federal elections. Hell, you can run, yourself, if you don't like how things are handled.

  22. Re:Lol, this site is so 1998 angery on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    That's completely orthogonal to the fact that MS failed to kill open source, which is now thriving in all quarters (not just Linux).

  23. Re: Total BS on Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    These are (1) Apple (2) tech workers in (3) California. Which one of those three leads you to believe "modern conservatives" have anything to do with anything in this argument?

  24. Re:can someone explian on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant don't Linux UEFI boot partitions require fat. They can't have NTFS, and I didn't think they worked with ext2?

  25. Re:Lol, this site is so 1998 angery on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    FOSS is no longer contested, legally, and all major computing firms (including Microsoft) are now neck-deep in it. MS's bid to kill Linux in the crib failed.