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  1. Adblock for Messenger? on Facebook Messenger Globally Tests Injecting Display Ads Into Inbox (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's that or I just delete Messenger.

  2. Futile Effort on Oregon Raises the Smoking Age (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Teens have always had access to tobacco no mater what restrictions were. Unless they plan for incarcerations or large fines, this is just tilting at windmills.

  3. This is sad on Airport Security Fails 17 Times Out of 18 In Minneapolis (fox9.com) · · Score: 2

    The TSA is not security, it's security theater. It protect no one and only diverts scarce resources to their own brand of waste.

  4. Government Employees . . . on Afghan Girl Roboticists Denied US Visas (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever got fired for saying NO.

  5. Great News! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Now that they have solved the issues of crime and poverty, it's good to see them move on to something important.

  6. Re:Who would install Putin's "anti-virus" ? on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I e-mailed all my gay clown porn to vlad247@aol.com. He wrote me back a nice thank you letter. I now run Kaspersky on all my devices without fear!

    Links or STFU.

  7. Re:What to learn from this article on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. The CIA has developed its Open Source OS. Feel free to use it.

  8. It seems . . . on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    TFA: "A key Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee has told ABC that "a consensus in Congress and among administration officials that Kaspersky Lab cannot be trusted to protect critical infrastructure.""

    The same could be said by any foreign government or individual about Microsoft or Apple operating systems.

  9. Hey . . . on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's an app for that.

  10. Still True Today on China's All-Seeing Surveillance State Is Reading Its Citizens' Faces (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." benjamin Franklin

  11. "renowned" on Linux Kernel 4.14 Will Be An LTS Release (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Bahaha! Did he require them to call him that or are they just kissing ass?

  12. My new S8+ keeps prompting me to use Bixby. I just activated it and it seems to run just fine, so what's all the hubbub about?

  13. Microsoft to the rescue on Pentagon Cyberweapons 'Disappointing' Against ISIS (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    We just need to send ISIS some laptops with WindowsXP installed. Then they will be easy to cyber-attack.

  14. Emulate Hillary? on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Perhaps she should take a page from Hillary Clinton's book and blame it on a left-wing conspiracy and Russian meddling . . .

  15. Re:Look outside of Africa, too. on Oldest Fossils of Homo Sapiens Found in Morocco, Altering History of Our Species (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but what about Women?

    Women were here first but needed someone to get things from the top shelf and take out the trash, ergo men.

  16. Re:Chrome is an amazing piece of software on Google Releases Chrome 59 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't hold back.

  17. An unintentional act of treason . . .

  18. I'll miss on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Choose a News Source? (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll miss the hearing-aid ads.

  19. Tahoma on How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    I always use Tahoma on my computers.

  20. Simple Explanation on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Explain 'Don't Improve My Software Syndrome' Or DIMSS? · · Score: 1

    People can be cunts. That' about 100% of the problem.

  21. Correlation = Causation on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Correlation does not equal causation.

  22. Re:Commodore Vic20 on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I also had the VIC20, but I soldered the memory expansion to the motherboard guided by an article in 73 magazine. i would use is for transmit and receive of slow-scan television, and controlling my Yaesu FT-757 ham transceiver. It served me well,

  23. But . . . people fart in it.

  24. Did Gargarin actually orbit the earth in 108 minutes, or did his craft follow a ballistic profile, like Alan Shepard?

  25. When will Bing run on my Zune?