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  1. Re:news reader recommendations? on Why RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use Vienna on Mac OS X. It's a local application, not a website. To synchronize it on multiple computers, I made soft links from ~/Library/Application Support/Vienna to ~/Dropbox/Vienna (where the real support folder lives).

  2. It seems that there is no way to save bookmarks in this browser.

  3. Re:passport actually rocks on Facebook and Whatsapp Discontinue Support For Blackberry (canadajournal.net) · · Score: 1

    Why not ask him to install BBM?

  4. If you're still using a Blackberry... on Facebook and Whatsapp Discontinue Support For Blackberry (canadajournal.net) · · Score: 1

    If you're still using a Blackberry, it would be interesting to know why.

    Physical keyboard.

  5. Re:Lastpass TFA actually makes the hack easier on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Lastpass has now enabled the verification email for users with 2FA enabled. See https://lastpass.com/support.p...

  6. Re:Lastpass TFA actually makes the hack easier on LastPass Vulnerable To Extremely Simple Phishing Attack (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Care to explain?

  7. Yes. Blackberry 10 can run Android apps. But it doesn't have the Googe Services (Google doesn't allow that). So apps that rely on that have problems or don't work.

    I guess that's why Blackberry's latest phone is an actual Android phone.

  8. So is Swifkey logging everything their users type? How come they know these statistics? Disturbing.

  9. Language problem? on How American Students Can Get a University Degree For Free In Germany · · Score: 1

    "Keeping international students who have studied in the country is the ideal way of immigration," says Sebastian Fohrbeck."They have the needed certificates, they don't have a language problem at the end of their stay and they know the culture."

    I doubt it. As far as I can see, in my country (not Germany) international students live in an English-only expat bubble, don't learn a word of the language of their host country, and they usually leave after finishing their studies.

  10. Re:Forget about being dead... on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Save Wordpress site as static HTML:

    wget -k -K -E -r -l 10 -p -N -F -nH http://www.oldwebsite.tld/

    Remove Wordpress site and upload static HTML in its place.

  11. Tribalism on When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Tribalism a.k.a. "us" versus "them" is one of the oldest and deepest-seated human instincts (chimpanzees are also very tribal, which suggests that the instinct goes back to the common ancestor of humans and chimps).

    The overwhelming instinct is to choose a group to belong to and to want to see competing groups humiliated. Breaking out of this is very uncomfortable, as the effort will not be appreciated by your "tribe mates", who will consider you a traitor.

  12. Re:Blackberry. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 1

    Blackberry Blend also works on OS X.

  13. Saying that colonial organism like corals are tens of thousands years old is cheating IMO. The colony may be that old but the individual polyps are not.

    You might as well say that the city of Rome is a 2500 year old "organism".

  14. Re:Not Apple's first Yosemite-named Mac product on Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens · · Score: 1

    Also known as the "Smurf Tower".

  15. Re:Consumers are fickle on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    Smarter people don't really care about a watch looking "classy" since that's just a euphemism for an embarrassing show of wealth

    "Classy" only equals "expensive" for people who don't have class.

  16. Stephen Baxter on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    The plot of the SF novels "Flood" and "Ark" by Stephen Baxter is that huge water reservoirs beneath the earth's crust get released to the surface, which raises the ocean levels until all land is under water.

  17. Re: Land of the Free! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    we have kind of killed off most of the natural predators.

    A good thing that there is still one natural predator left: ourselves. PETA is unwilling to understand that humans are the current top predator.

  18. Re:Surprise on 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One · · Score: 1

    There's this great myth in science, perhaps promulgated by the likes of Popper, that science is a series of revolutions terminating periods of retrenchment and even inactivity.

    That's Kuhn, not Popper.

  19. Too late on The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Too late, I don't trust them anymore. I switched to Digg Reader and I'm not going back.

  20. Re:Wonderful game on Kick-started Remake of Leisure Suit Larry Now On Sale · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I feel the narrator is trying a bit too hard to be funny.

  21. Re:Yuck on Physicists Attempting To Test 'Time Crystals' · · Score: 1

    Score all "Funny" mods at -1 and Slashdot becomes a lot more interesting all of a sudden.

  22. Re:Why do they have comments on news sites? on Why Trolls Win With Toxic Comments · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Comment sections on news sites quickly become playgrounds for internet psychopaths. My solution is to put CSS rules in my userContent.css to set comment sections on news sites I visit often to { display: none !important; }.

  23. Re:Looking around me... on Walk or Run: Are We Built To Be Lazy? · · Score: 1

    There's actually a hunting technique that's been used called exhaustion hunting, where people chased a deer or whatever until it collapsed from exhaustion and then ran up to it and killed it.

    Still in use: Human mammal, human hunter.

  24. Re:Postgresql on Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB · · Score: 1

    You know what? These "just use Postgresql" posts in every MySQL-related story are about as interesting as GNAA or goatse. The mere mention of Postgresql is making me sick at this point. Is that the goal here? Are these posts actually part of an anti-Postgresql astroturfing campaign?

  25. Re:100 YSS project is more than just a spaceship on Bill Clinton Backs 100 Year Starship · · Score: 1

    They will have to breed, researchers looking into how many people did it take to originally populate north american continent (answer was about 70)

    If I remember correctly, there is a Stephen Baxter story about a multi-generation starship in which newer generations come to believe that there is not really dangerous empty space behind the walls, that is just fabricated mythology to keep the rulers in power (or something like that). Perhaps it was "Ark".