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  1. The porn must flow......

  2. Re:I feel sorry for you streaming-media people on Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like a good excuse to cut Hulu lose.

  3. Re:If nothing else, Biodiversity recordings on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    We could drain the damn thing. Tag and categorize every fish and weed in the loch, and some fruit would still believe in a monster. Humans have an amazing capacity for self deception.

  4. Re:Then don't arm them on UK Military Fears Robots Learning War From Video Games (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You do understand that a drone with a machine gun isn't supposed to be safe, don't you?

    I sit here shaking my head wondering what kind of world we live in when we even have to contemplate a line like this.

  5. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Calm down. Take some deep breaths. in, out, in, out. There feel better.? You where trolled. It happens to everyone at some point. It's not really that big of a deal.

  6. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh the "deep state." wooo wooo. I remember hearing talk of the deep state and the shadow government on fox news one night. I had to put my hand over my eyes to keep them from rolling out of my head.

    Deep state is just the right wing version of lefty loons Trumps concentration camps. Complete an utter non-sense. Right loons would have us believe that Obama is running some secret government out of some spider hole in Nebraska.

  7. Re:Now take Silverlight out of Windows Server. on Microsoft To Block Flash In Office 365 Starting January 2019 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Netflix used to use that silver light crap. I remember every few months I would have to pull it out by the roots because it would go off the rails. Giving some drm error.

    Good riddance to bad rubbish.

  8. I should know this but I thought ogg was the audio format and vorbis was the container is was wrapped in. Much like h.265 is the video stream, AC-3 is the audio stream, and mkv is the wrapper they are all muxed together in.

  9. Correct me if I'm wrong, and someone will, but I think Spoify uses it.

  10. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    An there class is a classic case of TDS meltdown. Now unless there are any questions, I believe we can wrap it up here.

    Class dismissed.

  11. I see where you are going with this. Basically, we have been sold a flawed product that isn't performing as advertised.

  12. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    The fictional name for this is called TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome. It's supposed to be a sarcastic response to point out how silly peoples negative obsession with Trump is. But with some of the comments I keep seeing I wonder if we might have a real physiological disorder here.

    I kept trolling here hoping at some point he would see how silly he was getting but I guess not.

  13. This is most unfortunate. It would have been nice if we had a "magic" reacitonless drive. I guess when Mother Nature means no free lunch, she means, No Free Lunch.

    But now that I think about it. If it works with the Earth's magnetic field, that would explain a test I read where they said the trust doesn't change with the direction the drive is pointing.

  14. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Well first, lay off with the bold. It doesn't help your case and actually makes you come across as some what deranged. An looking deranged is actually the last thing you need to look like now.

    Now then, we need to put to rest your fantasy and replace them with some facts. Lets get started.

    We have balance. There are democrats and republicans in congress that keep the president in check. Notice, he is a president and not a king. So many people keep forgetting that. With that said neither party has free reign to do anything. Most likely after Trumps second term there will be a democrat elected and things will swing back the other way. So, things are pretty normal there.

    Yes, he is qualified. He is qualified because he is president, yours and mine. Nothing you can say will change that so we might as well end that line of conversation before it starts. But for some reason he was to become unqualified then good ol Mike Pence steps in, and god help us all. So you better pray that Trump says qualified till the is out of office.

    Now then, lets shine some facts on ego clams. Trump seems to do a good job of decoupling this ego with his decision making process. If you will notice that when he is being "presidential" he is more than happy to give and take. That is actually how politics work. So, once again you are wrong about that too.

    Well then I think that covers everything. Again Trump is president and we are doing just fine. Lets move on to more important issues.

  15. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean me, and you, and our society as a whole. The economy hasn't collapsed. There hasn't been a nuclear war. All the Hispanics haven't been rounded up and tossed out of the country. In fact none of what liberals have been whining about for the last year has come true.

    Sure we have some problems. Gun control is a big one. There are some environmental policies that are of some concern. That screeching fool Maxine Waters is still in office. But even with all that on a whole we are doing just fine. An that simply is a fact.

    I'm really going to hate to see the melt down people with TDS have in 2020 when Trump is re-elected.

  16. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    An yet, we are doing just fine.

  17. Re:I can only hear Trump whining on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be better if we could have a discussion about something not related to politics with out some idiot bringing Trump into it?

  18. Re:Not everyone wants to be obsolete or broken soo on Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Sees the Light of Day (anandtech.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like the desktop I'm running right now. I was briefly fishing around to replace it but the performance way outclasses what I need. I imagine that I will be keeping this desktop for another 2 years, at least.

    Sitting behind me is my linux server. It's running a FX-8350 from 2012. Every year for the past 3 years I've been thinking about replacing it. The only excuse I have to replace it is because its over six years old. Other than that I don't have any. In it's role its performance also exceeds what I need it to do. So I have put off replacing it for another year.

    Well actually with the linux server I compromised this year. I'm going to move it to a better case with more disk slots. This case only has 10 and they are filled up.

  19. I just read an article where some glass in the right conditions can last a million years. That condition being a landfill. That is actually pretty cool. I had no ideal that glass could last that long before breaking down.

    But those where perfectly stable conditions. I still think that glass in the environment will break down a lot faster.

    On another note. Does anyone else feel that in the future we will be mining our current landfills for valuable resources? So much shit we have tossed into landfills, steel, glass, gold, and other precious metals. Maybe in a few hundred years there will be a gold rush to the local dump.

  20. On the other hand, I've seen plastic bags of trash almost completely disappear from rot and other stuff tearing it apart.

    Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean its gone. Plastic molecules don't degrade so easy. They are finding molecules of plastic in soil bacteria. The longevity of some of the most dense plastics is measured in thousands of years. Glass exposed to the environment will eventually get broken down. Even glass on beaches will eventually be taken care of over time.

    Some plastics are also poisonous, pure glass isn't.

  21. Re:Another one bites the dust... on Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling (espn.com) · · Score: 2

    Why is it that people expect to be taken as knowledgeable about anything when they can't handle sixth grade spelling reliably.

    Seriously, why is it important for someone to point out every little spelling and grammar mistake someone makes? It is not important in an informal discussion, which slashdot is. You don't even know if English is a 1st, 3rd or even 4th language of the original poster. Hell you don't even know if the original poster is human. He could be a incredibly talented gibbon.

    In days of Usenet it was actually considered very rude to point out grammar and spelling mistakes.

  22. Re:Another one bites the dust... on Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling (espn.com) · · Score: 2

    Well yes, it is my cherry picked subjects because there would be to many to list. It was actually the list I pulled off the top of my head.

    But the point is still valid. Government shouldn't try to legislate these issue.

  23. Re:Another one bites the dust... on Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling (espn.com) · · Score: 2

    Look up studies on the war on drugs and tell me if that was successful? How about laws against prostitution? Have they made the problem, that was never a problem to begin with, better or worse? What is your feelings on the past about laws banning homosexuality? Was that a good thing?

    No the state can't and shouldn't try to legislate moral issues into and out of existence. Regulate and moderate for public safety, yes, but not into and out of existence.

  24. Re:Trump wasn't going to prison for this though on Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Law Prohibiting Sports Gambling (espn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't follow his tweets and I don't see why any else would. I actually have better things to do with my time. But I did a search and there are none on the issue. The only thing that came up is where the Supreme court asked the Trump administration to weigh in on the issue. Which is common practice.

  25. Oh this is just fucking awesome. I really can't think of any way for it to get better than this!! I thought having the video chase me down the page was the greatest thing since paper cuts and hang nails. But was so fucking WRONG!!!