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  1. Re:Pay your fucking taxes instead on Microsoft Co-founder Pledges $30 Million To House Seattle's Homeless (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    He's paid more taxes in a year than you will your entire life.

  2. Re:Literally Hitler on Hollywood Is Losing the Battle Against Online Trolls (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    There's more to this too. People should really read up on Turkey and it's history. I often point people here first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Erdogan is a monster in the making and people are just standing by as it happens. History repeating itself.

  3. Re:Amazingly Still Doesn't Get It on Canonical Founder Criticizes Free Software Developers Who 'Hate On Whatever's Mainstream' (google.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Its worse than that. Canonical scrubbed all references to Linux from ubuntu.com. They want to own Linux by way of Ubuntu. Go to ubuntu.com and try to find the word Linux anywhere, it's not there.

    Mark is an asshole. He thinks he owns Linux and when he got called on it, he took his toys and went home.

  4. Re:It's likely the PRICE, not the cost on The Cost of Drugs For Rare Diseases Is Threatening the US Health Care System (hbr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You sound like a sociopath

  5. I think the word superior is fitting. Technically speaking GNOME is superior in every single way, which is why Unity ultimately used it under neath for most of its technology. Wonderful, I will grant that word is used here subjectively but I really don't think superior is another other than an objective statement of fact.

  6. Re:NHS Doctor shortages on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The US has an artificial shortage because the medical schools wont graduate more of them. They do this to artificially inflate wages. We could pack three times as many schools with quality students but they refuse to.

  7. Re:Twitters "liberal bias" is hardly a perception on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And no, I'm not an alt-right nutter.

    Don't worry, you'll get there. You're already seeing how evil the SJW's are. You'll get red pilled like the rest in no time.

    It's funny, I run into a lot of people that make statements just like yours. You're still on the fence because you've been told for so long that "right" is bad and "left" is good. Once you get over that it's like breathing fresh air for the first time. You can give both "sides" the middle finger equally and start operating on whats right and wrong rather than whats right and left.

  8. Re:Sabotaging old versions on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    I swear Microsoft always seems to not only not support old versions but actively creates issues to force you to upgrade. On windows 7 just on March 15th they pushed a "security update" to 2010 Microsoft office that basically makes any file with macros in it crash unexpectedly many times a day. I had to roll back the updates on every computer in our office and disable windows updates because we rely heavily on macros. It's so frustrating that things can work fine and they break it. Now we have to think about upgrading to the lastest operating system and Microsoft office which both already changed the way VBA works so transitioning and keeping our existing macros running is going to take many months of work.

    Right I mean most Linux distros are supported for a full 9 months (Fedora) and others for a full 18! How dare Microsoft not support their 7 year old products!

  9. Re:All this Glitz but it's still posessed... on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    The average Windows user will have no idea how to disable updates. What's the point in taking away that possibility from above (should I say "below", given that they know better yet bend over for the clusterfuck windows is?) average windows users?

    Sure they can and will. And if they don't the malware they install will do it for them.

  10. Re:Thanks, I'll pass on all of them on The Best and Worst Cities To Live in For Tech Workers, Based on Rent and Commute (qz.com) · · Score: 3

    Yep. I moved to Idaho and can relate. I grew up in Silly Con Valley and will never go back. I won't even visit I hate that place so much. I earn more here, I have a cost of living thats 60% less than it was there and the people are chill. My commute is about 26 minutes though but thats by choice as I chose to move further out of town than most.

  11. Re:Yes those emails on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    The emails were a felony only in your imagination. If the Republicans keep pulling shit like this they will become even more irrelevant in reality than you imagine the other party is.

    More irrelevant? Oh you mean having both houses, the presidency and almost 2/3rds of the governorships is irrelevant? Idiots like you are why the democratic party is dead. You live in fucking la la land. If you had an honest bone in your body we wouldn't be stuck with a one party system but no, you have to be a lying partisan pile of shit and ruin a once great republic with your severe lack of integrity.

  12. Re:So... on T-Mobile Raises Deprioritization Threshold To 30GB (tmonews.com) · · Score: 1

    I may not have all the facts, but I certainly have a clue. Something you don't realize when your world comes to consist of what is contained in a single article.

    I'm a TMO customer. Nice try troll.

  13. Re:What does this matter. on T-Mobile Raises Deprioritization Threshold To 30GB (tmonews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most plans lower you to 2G speeds well below that.

    T-Mobile lowers you to 4G speeds. I know reading is hard but FFS why comment if you don't have a fucking clue?

  14. Where I work the average IT person stays 5 to 8 years. Most of my co-workers are 15 year vets. I can't imagine how crappy these places must be if the average is only two years. Hell it can take a year just to get someone comfortable int he environment.

  15. Re:News? on Google Confirms Small Number of Pixel Phones Have Broken Microphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why is this news. Manufacturers have defects all of the time. It's a small number of phones. Who cares!

    It's not like they randomly bust into flames or anything.

    The Pixel phones have been plagued by issue after issue. For a "premium" device the QA has been pretty terrible.

  16. Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.

    You mean like Apple Music constantly asking me to subscribe when I just want to play a local music file on my phone? Or the constant nagging to enable icloud services?

    When you're given an OS or OS update for free, expect upselling.

  17. Re:Go to the police! on Facebook Reports BBC To Police Following Publication's 'Sexualized Images' Investigation (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been on the net for a very long time. Over a quarter century. I have never "come across" kiddie images. I have no idea how people seem to do this, or expect people to believe they just randomly came across child porn.

    That said, if I did, I wouldn't report. I would format my system and disappear for a few years. If a teenage boy can go to prison and be labeled a sex offender because his teenage girlfriend sent him a boob shot then there is no way I could expect a fair trial should they decide to charge me with something.

  18. Slashdot is now a gossip site on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF is this "article"? Are we going to start seeing Kardashian news now too?

  19. Edge is a disgrace on Microsoft Browser Usage Drops 50% As Chrome Soars (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since MS replaced IE with Edge and Edge isn't even remotely feature complete, buggy and extremely crash prone, it's no wonder people are rushing to alternatives.

    Firefox has all but given up trying to improve. That leaves Chrome and a plethora of browsers that use the Chrome rendering engine. We're going to see a one browser internet here pretty soon.

  20. Re: Let me count the problems... on Google Open Sources Encrypted Email Extension For Chrome (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Thats not PKI. PKI is Public Key Infrastructure, as in certificate managers and issuers. You're point is juvenile and underlays your ignorance on the topic.

  21. Re:This is actually not difficult, just blame Trum on US Suspends 'Expedited' H-1B Visas (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    The default position since Trump got elected has been to blame him.

    And the default position since Trump got elected has to been to hail him for the rise of the stock market, rising corporate profits, and better than expected GDP.

    Stock markets are bets on the future, not reflections on the past. Educate yourself and stop whining like a baby.

  22. Re:Let me count the problems... on Google Open Sources Encrypted Email Extension For Chrome (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Having a plugin is nice, but it doesn't solve the PKI (key distribution and reputation) problem, and I am not very inclined to trust a plugin made by a company whose primary line of business is advertising by building user profiles.

    What does PKI have to do with OpenPGP? Its fucking open source, why do you care who makes it if its open and you can see whether its spying on you?

  23. Elon is all out of ideas, begs 5th grader to do his job for him

  24. Re:Shakespeare for the rescue! on Apple Is Expanding Its War With Qualcomm (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ... stealing a cade of herrings?

    Shh, lest the Herrings hear you

  25. Why do they need help? on Razer Wants To Build the Best Linux Laptop, And It Needs Your Help (facebook.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Are they going to pay me? What on Earth is so hard about putting together a Linux laptop? Thinkpads have been doing it for a decade.

    All Razer does is put together over priced crap that breaks the day after the warranty expires. Fuck them