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  1. So, what is an "inappropriate question" when you're asking a fucking COMPUTER?

    "That one's called anger. Ever simulate anger before?"

  2. Re:Firehose stories on front page on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    He means that the color of the Erlenmeyer flask icon in firehose does not indicate the level that the submission achieved. Is green better or worse than red? Also once filtering is applied, you can't easily revert.

  3. Re:Firehose stories on front page on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Isn't this what Firehose Slashbox does?

  4. Re:Firehose stories on front page on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Right. Some time ago I was unsuccessfully searching for Firehose on the frontpage. The word itself was not there. Eventually I resorted to manually adding "firehose.pl" to the URL bar. Which seems to lead to the same as "recent". The word "Firehose" that I see now at the top of the page is not link - unlike all other words in that box. Confusing.

  5. Re:Not enough content on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    What I'd like is an option in preferences to have the highest firehose voted stories included on the front page.

    Isn't this what Firehose Slashbox does?

  6. Explanations in firehose on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    When looking at the firehose - it would be helpful to see what the rating colors means. I'm talking about the icons that look like Erlenmeyer flask. Is green better then red? Also what do the tags(?) mean. What does firehose tag "maybe" mean?

    When looking at the mobile version - the link to the comment itself (the cid link) and link to the parent post are missing. The slider for adjusting the mod threshold was never working.

    When writing a comment - add a button that encloses the selected text into <blockquote> . If the post does not contain any other html elements automatically wrap paragraphs separated by double newline into <p>.

  7. Re:Take back Slashdot on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If slashdot would not mangle characters such as pound, euro, quotes, copyright sign and few others, then it would be more than enough for me.

  8. Re:And stupidly enforced mandatory extension signi on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This version is also the first to require signed extensions

    I'm confused. We are delaying the removal of this preference to Firefox 46

  9. Re:What was the subject line in the email? on Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I know who RMS is. I know who GKH or PJ is. I can decipher NYCL too. But who the f*ck is APK? (Apart from Android Package Kit.) Did I miss a memo?

  10. Re:no modification? on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

  11. no modification? on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 2

    From the article: "Output is absolutely clear â" no differences! No authors, no changed files, no trademarks, just copy-paste development." Is this a blatant disregard for the GPL and Apache licenses

    In true /. tradition I did not read TFA. However based on the quoted part ... isn't GPL requiring to publish source code only if they publish a modification of GPL-ed software?

  12. Re:Integration on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Excuse me but it seems to me, that you are saying: "if the integration works - because the immigrants have the same hierarchy of values - then it may work". Duh.

    However what we see in reality is, that the hierarchy of values is different. So if you say it "it does work", then I say "citation needed". I'm willing to believe that it is possible to show working integration of an particular individual/family. But on a large scale, the things are different.

  13. #4: Leave yourself an out, i.e. travel in the middle lane if possible since that gives you the option of your out being on the left or right or even both.

    This topic came up recently at some news site over here. I argued in the same manner - traveling in the middle lane gives more options and thus is more safe. I got many responses that despised me, because it is actually against the the law here.

  14. Re:Lack of development? on Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? · · Score: 1

    I don't see any lack of development in Thunderbird (38.4 came out not that long ago), and I don't see any indication of it going EOL either.

    I think that the claim about "lack of development and going EOL" is based on this

  15. Re:Will somebody think of the children! on Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    And they will change the 1st Amendment to allow passing a law that makes your book illegal. You think that can't happen? Just look around you.

  16. Re:Wait a minute on Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    The micro-particles can be water droplets. Harmless int he bloodstream.

  17. Re:This is going to be a nice discussion on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Perl, isn't the answer. Perl is the problem.

  18. ... strongest material ever made. on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 2

    At some point in time also a spider silk was the strongest material - stronger than steel. But I have yet to see a crane that uses spider silk to lift containers.

    Wake me up when we can create a 1km long and 1cm thick rope from these diamond nanothreads.

  19. Re:This is how it begins on France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This isn't the first time France has declared state of emergency, an the previous times it was removed when it expired.

    Wasn't the previous time in 1961? Do you expect us to believe that politicians are no worse than 50 years ago?

  20. Re:or -effective- against the infidel imperialists on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    I'm just skimming the discussion but I have to make a stop at this:

    Terrorism has been effective in what ways, exactly?

    It is effective at sucking us dry economically. I heard a news report that the Paris attack required investment of about 7k euro. The response is unfolding and is going to cost tens of billions. If that's not effective, then I don't know what is.

  21. Color me surprised on Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users (ghacks.net) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Windows 10 is an unfolding disaster in slow motion. I make a living writing code that is used mostly on Windows and I had a bad feeling since the first Technical Preview. Decided to hold off the upgrade until the end of the free upgrade period hoping that the problems will be hammered out and the control will be (at least for most part) returned to the user. But instead it started bad and goes downhill from there.

  22. Re:Go Work for the Competition on Ask Slashdot: Convincing a Team To Undertake UX Enhancements On a Large Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Your customers hate your product because of the bad UI. The business is at extreme risk.

    I work in a company that has products based on code that is twice so old as the one in TFA. The products started on HP-UX in '90-ties and was ported to run on current Windows. This brings a ton of legacy including things such as our own implementation of menus and buttons, arcane shortcuts and outright illogical and counter-intuitive behavior. I, as a developer, can't comprehend how this survives and I would love to bring in such progressive technologies such as context menu or a toolbar.

    The problem is, that there is unbelievably huge inertia in the industry. We, the developers, are not the problem. We suggest a change and everybody, who talks to customer, from support, through training to sales screams: "you can't change this, the customers are used to this shitty way for decades and they would reject the change".

  23. Re:Reading between the lines here... on Value of University Degree Continues To Decline (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    A fresh engineer gets a job in a factory. On first day the foreman hands him a broomstick and asks him: "Sweep the floor, from here to the other side of the hall." "But, ... but, ... I'm an engineer!" says the young man. The foreman sighs, and says: "Ok, give it here. I'll show you."

    That's is what "overqualified" means.

  24. Re:SHILLS MOD DOWN FACTS EH on Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    If you buy a motherboard with SecureBoot, you can check to see whether it will allow it to be turned off or not, and not purchase it. This means you can still dual boot to Mint.

    If I'm reading your post correctly, then it can happen in future that the choice of motherboards, where you can dual-boot, may be severely limited. Sort of like currently choice of notebooks with some Linux pre-installed is severely limited (mostly to low-end models). Did I understand you correctly? If yes, then it isn't really comforting.

  25. Re:Catastrophic man-made global warming... on Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Here are your sources, ignorant.