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  1. Illegal. on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Discriminating on the grounds of gender is entirely illegal.

  2. Already exists. on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 1

    It's called a ... wait for it... a network firewall!

    You would then whitelist the routes you want to allow.

    And whatever you do, you would not let your IoT device update the firewall's ruleset!

  3. Re:Ideally a manifest/profile from IoT makers... on Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So your solution to securing incredibly insecure IoT devices is to allow those incredibly insecure IoT devices privileged access to the security device that polices access to your network.

    This is why you don't let novices come up with security solutions.

  4. timothy is a synonym for low quality "news" on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 1

    It was posted by timothy: he's always been a provider of shit content.

    The precipitous fall in the quality of user-posts is more recent and the main reason I rarely bother even visiting /. any more.

  5. Re:I have a Lenovo Miix 2 on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 1

    It weighs more, you can't leave the keyboard behind making it very heavy and large for a table.

    And it completely lacks a digitiser: so no handwritten note taking, drawing etc etc.

    But yeah, apart from all of that it's exactly the same ^^

  6. sigh... on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 5, Informative

    The SP3 doesn't use a Wacom digitiser... it uses one from N-Trig.

  7. Try reading the article.... on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is about the SP3 not the SP2 and the article addresses the question of display scaling.

  8. Low quality posts as usual. on Forbes Revisits the Surface Pro 3, Which May Face LG Competition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The quality of posts on Slashdot has really crashed in recent years but those on this story really are the very bottom of the barrel.

    Not so much news for nerds any more, more like the ramblings of the under-educated and over-opinionated.

    I could feel the loss of IQ points from just reading their drivel

  9. Re:I exited the discussion on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    And yet you keep responding.

    Twice.

    To that single message you claim to not be reading...

  10. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    So don't.

    DUH!

  11. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    So I take it back to Apple and have them replace the battery.

    Or I sell it to someone like you on eBay.

  12. Re: How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    No: it's just another cable,

  13. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    > Even with some self-winding watches, they require a funky gyroscope case on a nightstand to get and stay powered up.

    Rubbish.

    We need a purge on Slashdot to get rid of all the non-nerds and non-geeks who can't seem to string two coherent thoughts together before posting.

  14. Re:cell phones and notepads on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 2

    Err no. Early mobile 'phones had poor battery life and were like bricks: I had one.

    That didn't improve until the generation of 'phones that included the Nokia 2110. But those were not 'early mobile phones' by any stretch.

  15. Re:You're an idiot. on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    > I'm the idiot

    That's the first correct thing you've posted.

  16. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 2

    A single cable and plug it into any USB charger, or even your computer.

    You didn't actually think much before posting your comment.

  17. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    > Anecdotes are, as usual, worthless I'm afraid.

    That's a very unscientific comment.

    His sample size is small but it's still valid, I'm afraid.

  18. Re:Hungry in Italics, Fuck Kickstarter on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 1

    Not if the content of the traffic gives that away anyway.

    And Tor concentrates all your traffic which makes some types of attack easier.

  19. Stop trolling and learn to use Google. on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 0

    Slashdot isn't an academic discussion board where precision is required.

    Stop being such an obvious troll; or at least try to troll with finesse.

  20. A question for the 'climate change' fraudsters.. on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: -1, Troll

    What ever happened to the previous environmental scares used to try and drum up funding for your pseudo-science?

    - We were told acid rain would destroy European forests. Hmm doesn't seem to have happened.

    - We were told CFCs were destroying the ozone layer and causing wild animals to go blind. We banned CFCs and it has had no effect on the hole in the ozone layer and the claims of blindness have been proven to be lies.

    - We were told that the Sahara desert was growing south: what actually happened was the area got greener!

    Environmental scare stories, of which the impact of Climate Change is just the latest incarnation, has a long and dishonourable history of dishonesty.

  21. Your post is a non-sequitur. on Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't · · Score: 0

    That Objective-C "came as a package" does not mean Apple "didn't adopt Objective-C".

    Nor does your statement that "Objective-C is an attempt to graft SmallTalk style... blah blah blah"

  22. Article shows fundamental lack of understanding on Why Apple Should Open-Source Swift -- But Won't · · Score: 0

    Agreed.

    And I think Swift is rather disappointing.

    Given the opportunity to make a clean sweep and introduce a modern language for OSX and iOS Apple decided to make one that is so fatally flawed in so many ways.

    Type-casting -oh my lord type casting- is so astoundingly bad in Swift it really beggars belief that in the 21st century anyone could design something that bad!

  23. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    A few thousand years is no time at all in evolutionary terms.

    So I assume you're arguing that bread is something we haven't yet evolved to safely digest?

    I agree: I'd go as far as to say that gluten intolerance and diabetes could be considered part of the evolutionary process, weeding out those of us who lack the genes to safely digest high carb, cereal based, diets.

  24. Re:You're an idiot. on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    It is TEDx, shit for brains.

    Try watching the video before you share your inane ramblings that would embarrass an amoeba: it's right on the splash screen at the start and the end.

    Or perhaps you were too busy drooling to notice.

  25. Re:Practical problems with a hard line stance on Stallman Does Slides -- and Brevity -- For TEDx · · Score: 1

    Have you been asleep for the last 2 years?

    Cell 'phones can be, and are, used to track your location all the time they are on whether making a call or not. And not just by the NSA et al but by your 'phone company.