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  1. Re: Disable Edge and IE on Microsoft Disables RC4 In Internet Explorer 11 and Edge (winbeta.org) · · Score: -1

    Modern app appers use apps not luddite open source. Apps!

  2. Re:commentsubjectsaredumb on Being Lazy Is a Sign of High Intelligence, Study Suggests (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Well, in my case the messy presentation made me lose interest in whatever was going on, so I didn't misunderstand the result because in order to misunderstand something you first have to think you do in fact understand something, and in this case me and understanding whatever was going on was extremely far removed. I don't even know if the original researchers posed a hypothesis that even made any sense, but considering it seems to be from the "soft" sciences, the answer is more likely to be, "No, no, they did not!"

  3. Re:Maybe, maybe not on Being Lazy Is a Sign of High Intelligence, Study Suggests (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wall-E never gave us a full picture of the inner lives of those people, nor did it illustrate conclusively that these were the only people around, or that their lifestyles, whatever they may be were particularly harmful to them. They just played into things that are physically, not necessarily mentally detrimental to us and modern attitudes. As far as we could tell, by their biological profile, they may as well been all supergeniuses who are usually underfed as measured by their dietary requirements causing their bodies to hoard whatever nutrition they get and they just had a run of very good days. And communicate with each other by cyberimplant.

  4. And what kind of statement is "I only think as hard as I need to"? I do a lot of thinking but I don't really think in terms of hard or easy thinking, so do I only think as hard as I need to or not?

  5. Re: Hack WIndows, then Linux to access Windows? on Linux on Windows Exposes a New Attack Surface (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And there is no DOS in their DOS subsystem and it only supports a subset of the DOS API.

  6. Re: Hack WIndows, then Linux to access Windows? on Linux on Windows Exposes a New Attack Surface (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You are clearly using a different definition of subsystem than I am, but then I seem to be using a definition of subsystem that has more to do with the line between it and the rest of the system as opposed to what it is actually doing under the hood. In fact, the way I use subsystem 32-bit builds of Windows still have a DOS subsystem, as they can run DOS programs without a separate program, like DOSBOX but if 64-bit Windows had a 16-bit emulator and ran the stuff from 32-bit Windows transparently, it would have a DOS subsystem.

  7. Re: Jesus fucking lord christ!!! on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    I meal natively on Linux. Curses!

  8. Re: Jesus fucking lord christ!!! on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    Linux has its good points but a lot of us are more familiar with Windows and it is more likely to run all our games, WINE aside. Microsoft finally implemented the Windows Insider program for people who actually want to be involved in the Windows development process. In the most recent Windows Insider builds, Windows has a subsystem to actually run programs built to run natively on Windows.

  9. Re: Comes and goes on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Experiences With Windows 10 · · Score: 2

    I'm doubly so as I am in the fast ring of Windows Insider builds. I waited until after the drivers situation settled some. Cortana on my Android device and on my computer is great. I can use it to find my device or get text messages sent to me on the computer.
    People keep requesting tabs on file explorer and Microsoft still hasn't come through. I keep requesting that instead of a dialog when you attempt to go back to a directory that no longer exists and a dialog and closing the window when a device isn't found, display a resource not currently available message in the file view pane. Also, there should be an option for folder windows to all run in separate processes from each other and not just from the taskbar and every attempt should be made to let the user decide what folder views to restore afte r a crash.

  10. Re: Imagine Dragons parodies and other things on Steam VR Tracking Technology Now Available To Third Parties (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    GameStop was offering free tryouts of the Vive, I tried to fire at some virtual ship and the aim was off. Pretty soon all the devices will be like the turret in Harry101UK's Defective song: "Noooo! I'm not defective." Other turrets: He is defective! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  11. And there is a simple method of disproving it. on Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Back when the kat issue came up, there was a post with links. I bookmarked it. https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... Looks like it is still there links intact.

  12. Re:nothing more government employees can't fix on Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    It was a bad idea to make voting just one day a year, but I've gotten used to downright despicable actions from the Federalists. They resorted to using really dirty tactics to get us saddled with the Constitution and a federal form of government. Apparently back then it was the Jeffersonions versus the Hamiltonians and evil won because good was naive.

  13. Re: FB should did it on Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff (abc7.com) · · Score: 1

    You are not just as guilty, but you can be guilty. Encouraging somone to commit a crime may be protected when the threat of committing the crime isn't imminent, but in this case, I'd say it was imminent. There may be a situation where some of the posters may not have believed that she was checking Facebook, and that may be a defense, but these are all maybes and not certainties as your anonymous coward detractors seem to indicate

  14. Re: "some users have lost their money" on Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They keep all the Bitcoin they have in one wallet and record transactions between members separately to save on the calculations necessary to commit them to the blockchain

  15. Re:if you think Hitlary will be any different... on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    But look at the mess that they inherited; fourteen ineffectual Presidents starting with Hancock, a bankrupt Government, worthless regional currencies, and every State utterly self-absorbed.

    I don't know where you are getting this, but according to Articles_of_Confederation#The_United_States_of_America_under_the_Articles there was essentially no president of the type under the Constitution, so your statement makes no sense. That wasn't supposed to be the role of the person who presided over congressional goings ons.

    If things had gone on as they were, the US would then have ended up like the contemporary Italian peninsula or the tottering remains of the Holy Roman Empire.

    Can't say for one way or another how things would have turned out, but would it really have been all that bad if the United States, the contemporary Italian peninsula or the remains of the so-called Holy Roman Empire had stayed the way they were
    You can call virtually any group the establishment and not be completely wrong. There is the world ruling class and that is the establishment of which I speak.

  16. Re:Remember, it's because people aren't marrying on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of this is due to a fellow called Hobbes who was a religious nut who believed that the people could not learn to govern themselves, the state must have absolute power, and any attempt to learn to govern themselves must be stopped. Locke toned it down a little bit, but the founders that prevailed, among them the infamous James Madison who said, "If men were angels, we wouldn't need government," believed the general message. Sure there were the Articles of Confederation, but the Hobbes believers quickly and seemingly tirelessly worked to promote the idea that they were completely unworkable, and that they were the only possible alternative.

  17. Re:But the internet is for porn on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What did Khan Noonien Singh ever do to you? People should think about how the fictional characters never harmed a hair on their head before using them in comparisons to real monsters.

  18. Re:if you think Hitlary will be any different... on Donald Trump Signs Pledge To Crack Down On Internet Porn (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In actuality they are both establishment candidates, and so is Johnson. The world ruling class have the deck so heavily stacked, you need not bother dealing with politics as usual. Instead get educated about Hobbes and his underling Locke and how Locke doesn't fall as far from the tree as people claim. Learn about how The Federalist Papers tried to manipulate the people and how they stacked the deck for the passage of the Constitution.

  19. Re:Assistive technology on PSA: Windows 10 Is Still Free For Those Who Use Assistive Technologies (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my "assistive technology" consists of a 32 inch, 1080 TV and a cell phone running VNC viewer, both not commonly considered assistive technology.

  20. Emojis, speech on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Emojis are meant to be speech. They are to this era what katakana was legendarily for women, a simplified, easier to read, glyph, because apparently, non-Asians can't handle Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters creeping into their language use. Or shorthand anymore. Just did a search for "shorthand keyboard", and found results for how to use a variant of Gregg shorthand on your keyboard, but no keyboard or tools containing actual shorthand symbols.

  21. Re: How about on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    And I think you are both undereducated when it comes to the matter of how the world ruling class works. Both Hillary and Trump are part of a world ruling class that believes that the people are completely incapable of learning to rule themselves and furthermore that any attempt must be undermined.

  22. Re:what else gets replaced? on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the Autons are going to have a field day with this and replace all Apple employees with plastic soldiers with real guns built into their hands.

  23. Re:Mars on Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Does everything have to be his bailiwick?

  24. Re:wait what on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Here, a link to a search. Bare minimum. https://www.bing.com/search?q=... I'll have to look over the results. Going over a few of them, it seems that representatives of the ratifying conventions were representative of the people about as much as the people who said "Kill Jesus" was representative of the average Jew.

  25. Re:wait what on New York Governor Bars Sex Offenders From Playing Pokemon Go (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    The Articles of confederation that were tried before creating the constitution.
    A quick glance to get me a little up to speed indicates they were the purvey of Benjamin Franklin, the more advanced of the founders. The work of Locke was based on the works of Hobbes, and gave the added leeway for the founders to justify their civil war, but the main principle of Hobbes prevailed in the authors of the Federalist Papers, among them being James Madison who infamously said,

    If men were angels, there would be no need for government.

    When I said, "Men can learn to be angels", I was asked "Man's definition of angels or God's definition of angels?" and I said, "A definition of angel sufficient for self-governance."