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  1. Re:Video schmideo on FOSS Force is a FOSS News and Commentary Site (Video) · · Score: 1

    Did not auto-play for me on Chrome.

  2. Re:Gave up on it long ago... on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    "an", not "a". I don't want to keep you up at night.

  3. Re:Gave up on it long ago... on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 1

    I think your time is better spent picking up a dictionary and reading it, rather than hypocritical pedantry. Based on your spelling of 'grammar', you actually thought it was spelled with an 'e'. And that's fine, as long as your aren't being a English-purity troll on the internet.

  4. Re:Gave up on it long ago... on Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? · · Score: 3, Funny

    gammer.

    Irony abounds.

  5. Re:God I hate to say this, but on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    But if you look back at the originals, that's how they were, too. They crammed a lot of epic arc into very small movies. I like the sprawling 4-hour epic as much as the next guy, but I still thought it was a breath of fresh air after the Hobbit movies.

  6. Re:I agree with Mr Lucas. on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Ruin" is very subjective, and in this case and others (Marvel, for instance) the majority of consumers do not share your tastes.

  7. Re:God I hate to say this, but on George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather have a retro movie I can enjoy watching than a movie I can only appreciate for its artistic merits. Which, FWIW, episodes 1-3 had none.

  8. In other words on Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 (dice.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bullshit and buzzword titles rise to the top. It has always been thus.

  9. Re:Facebook is NOT a Hospital on Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education (indiatimes.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the analogy is at least somewhat apt; having a public profile is like wearing an assless gown.

  10. Re:Not a movie on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Wars is not a movie anymore. It is a heavily marketed brand.

    Huh? My childhood's Star Wars-themed bedroom seems to indicate that you simply didn't notice that Star Wars has always been a heavily marketed brand.

  11. Re:After July 2016, upgrades will be paid on Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    If folks go that whole month without knowing SHA-1 is dead, then it really didn't affect them much and they don't need to upgrade. If they do need to upgrade, they will know very quickly.

  12. Post execution plans with wait stats somewhere the devs can see. Call it the "Wall of Shame".

  13. Re:Dear Microsoft, err, I mean Google on Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    So they make phones, tablets, consoles, their own laptop, fitness bands and keyboards and mice but they aren't in the hardware business?

    Loss leaders to generate service revenue. Direct revenue from hardware sales is a drop in the bucket. That bucket is growing quarter over quarter, but so too is cost of revenue. Profit margins are low in hardware. But more importantly, and far more relevant to the "forced upgrade" argument: they do not sell PC's or server hardware that would be affected by killing SHA-1.

    Windows 10 was free,

    For one year and only for consumers.

    When MS shuts off SHA-1 on July 1st, Windows 10 will still be free.

    and MS is betting its future revenue on cloud services instead of Windows Server licenses.

    And yet those licenses are still a big portion of their revenue and revenue from that grew 6% just their last quarter.

    But with $15 billion invested in PaaS, there is nowhere to expand except by cannibalizing existing Windows Server revenue.

  14. Re:Dear Microsoft, err, I mean Google on Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering MS is not in the hardware business, Windows 10 was free, and MS is betting its future revenue on cloud services instead of Windows Server licenses.

  15. Re:Dear Microsoft, err, I mean Google on Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, as it turns out, sells something called "Office" that provides more revenue than any other division. Then there's cloud services, which is cannibalizing Windows licenses and contributing to an ever decreasing year-over-year revenue percentage for Windows itself. The last version of the desktop OS was given away for free.

  16. Re:Dear Microsoft, err, I mean Google on Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    Down-mod on the parent is ridiculous. "Using security as an excuse for forced upgrades" is indeed irrational. None of the three players makes money on hardware or OS upgrades, so the conjectured conspiracy theory is pure tinfoil-hattery.

    SHA-1 is broken and needs to die. We aren't doing the developing world any favors by keeping it.

  17. Re:Can somebody explain to me on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It says guns exactly 0 times. What it says is Arms.

    Yes, you are correct.

    during an organized revolt, while part of a militia, while fighting against a tyrannical government

    And then you say all this other stuff that is not in the document at all.

    You know what else was under "arms"? Cannons. Lots of shippers owned them, too. Make no mistake, any pro-gun-control interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is, no matter how well-meaning, historical revisionism and rationalization.

  18. Re:Can somebody explain to me on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Many of the people against one are also against the other. How is it hypocritical to oppose both registries?

  19. Re:The Power of Disney on Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Gah, unavailable! You lucked out, phantomfive!

  20. Re:The Power of Disney on Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    Here you go! Thank me later. Or maybe not at all; I've done you no favors here.

  21. Re:Forget computers on Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? · · Score: 1

    If you want to "forget computers" then there are a myriad of other, non-tech focused communities with online discussion available for you. Go join one.

  22. Re:Boiling the Lead Out on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    My guess is that you are supposed boil your water that came out of the tap cold, rather than using hot water from the tap. As per the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm), hot water contains more lead, and boiling THAT water does not remove the lead. But if you do need hot water, you will need to boil cold tap water instead.

  23. It's not really a blacklist then, is it? on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's graceful degradation.

  24. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    The GP is correct, and you're correct. So WTF are you arguing about? It's based on NeXTSTEP and BSD, as is plainly stated in the article. Besides, the entire web of core components that Mac OSX is built on: NeXSTEP, Mach, OpenBSD; all of them are tied somehow to BSD. It's in all of it.

  25. Re:Year of the Linux desktop! on Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. (dice.com) · · Score: 2