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  1. Not Quite . . . on After 6-Year Beta Test, All Gmail Users Get 'Undo Send' · · Score: 1

    Not if you prefer the basic HTML interface over their fancy-schmancy "Standard View"; UNDO SEND is not available for me.

  2. Why not Share? on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    My tax dollars are paying for the updates. Why can't the government share them?

  3. GMail on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    Create a GMail account and POP from your ISP's crappy system.

    GMail's SPAM filter is not perfect, but it's very easy to live with.

    ISP email is pretty crappy.

  4. VirtualBox Display Adpater Not Supported on The Unintended Consequences of Free Windows 10 For Everyone · · Score: 1

    So . . . no upgrade for me

  5. 4G x 5G = 20Gbps on 5G Network Speed Defined As 20 Gbps By the International Telecommunication Union · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simple maths, really.

  6. Re:Nutrious school lunches on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 2

    Providing a lunch for students regardless of need is fine (notwithstanding the biometric tracking issues), but is the food still crap? Last I heard, schools were offering really non-nutritious fast food type lunches because it was cheaper than hiring cooks and servers to provide regular meals.

    No. They offer unappealing "healthy" food that mostly is thrown away.

  7. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? on School Lunch Program Scans Student Thumbprints For 'Tracking Purposes' · · Score: 0

    I don't have thumbs, you insenstive clod!

  8. Never on The Death of Aibo, the Birth of Softbank's Child-Robot · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I feel like I died a little reading crap like this on Slashdot.

  9. Power Grab? on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a grab on the part of law enforcement for more power and control. It's the boogie-man of the day.

  10. Re:Amen brother! on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying if I log in, I CAN get what I want, which is pron of Taylor Swift but not Kim Kardashian?

    Googe can provide you with pron of Miley Cyrus in response to those equeries.

  11. Of course not on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 2

    Why would you even ask that question?

    They will do what's best for them, not "the right thing". That what Steve Jobs did.

  12. Well . . . on Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files · · Score: 2

    That's what they would like you to believe. Snowden makes a very convenient scapegoat for all manner of government fumbles.

  13. IMGUR? on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 1

    IMGUR.com has begun aggressively enforcing heretofore unenforced content bans (the non-enforcement of which has grown them into the community they now are). It's apparent this change is motivated by advertisers, as ads-as-content have begun appearing that are immune from the same moderation that regular content is subject to.

    IMGUR also hosts the images from Reddit, so there's lots of porn on their servers making it very ironic that they now ban any NSFW content.

    FARK.com went through a similar "cleansing" a while back, again motivated by the desire for advertising revenue. I moved to IMGUR as an alternative to FARK.

    So if Voat is an alternative to Reddit, what is an IMGUR-like alternative to IMGUR?

  14. Hunt's Cat? on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 0

    You can be both brilliant and stupid until you are observed.

  15. Looking Forward to More Bloat on Mozilla Plans To Build Virtual Reality APIs Into Firefox By the End of 2015 · · Score: 2

    Maybe now they can include about:kitchensink

  16. Cousins? on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 1

    Is this ADA-helpful new company related to Paul Hansmeier and John Steele? That would make sense.

  17. Hack to disable DRM in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... on Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix · · Score: 1

    You know someone will do it. DRM is just stupid.

  18. No RPM or DEB packages? on Microsoft Releases PowerShell DSC For Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't see any D/L links of the pages that are referenced, only an MSI installer.

  19. Photos need banana . . . on Submersible Photographs WW2 Japanese Sub's Long-Lost Airplane Hangar · · Score: 1, Funny

    . . . for scale.

  20. From Shatner's Scotch on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 1

    All that water that Shatner won't use to dilute his Scotch . . .

  21. Religious Freedom Means . . . on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    "Religious Freedom" means that you can believe as you wish free of government control or mandate, not that you can force others to believe what you believe or others can be forced to act in ways contrary to their beliefs, but consistent with yours.

    The Bible is full of stories of real-world penalties that are to be paid for following your beliefs, including death. These modern believers want their outward expression of their beliefs to be free of any real-world consequences from people who do not share those beliefs. That's not how any of this works.

  22. Hey, NASA! on One Astronomer's Quest To Reinstate Pluto As a Planet · · Score: 0

    "I was big enough for your mom!" -- Pluto

  23. Use a Small Head on Surgeon: First Human Head Transplant May Be Just Two Years Away · · Score: 1

    Because a little head never hurt anyone.

  24. Share Your Life Lessons on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    Share anecdotes from your past where you learned a life lesson, especially where you made a mistake or bad choice and learned from it. That way it comes across as not so much a morality lecture and more the loving, caring advice you want to share. It provides context. It humanizes you. It makes a bigger impact on her. And it makes a connection from you to her that will endure as she lives her life and raises her children.

  25. Mr. Obvious . . . on New Map Shows USA's Quietest Places · · Score: 1

    Your map is ready.