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  1. Just in time for 1tb caps everywhere.

  2. Aspartame and Mice on Sugar-Free Products Might Actually Stop Us From Getting Slimmer (dw.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate these hit pieces about _all_ sugar free food when it is really about a specific calorie free sweetener in lab mice. I'd like to see other results using sugar alcohols, splenda, etc before saying they all do the same thing. I also would like to see it done in human trials. Not saying discount this test but it needs to be expanded and the frigging fake news (again!) headlines need to point out the specific substances involved and not label it everything. You suspect these are hit pieces because of this fact - but maybe it is just lazy journalism, who knows. Shills exist for every industry including both artificial and real sweeteners. My favorite for tea, Sweet'N Low caused cancer in rats' bladders but was shown not to in humans: http://www.health.com/health/g...

  3. Am I the only one that doesn't even know that Facebook had news? I assume everything on FB is just Ads. It's every single damn "news" paper out there that seems to be doing fake news or lets face it 99% opinions and 1% reports. You can't even read news.google.com anymore (now I'm guessing it is probably safe to assume you couldn't before either without heavy customization). Sigh. I almost think Facebook is a fall guy from the real fake news places so they could pin everything on anyone but them.

  4. Wait for it.. on Russian Banks Floored by Withering DDoS Attacks (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    CIA is going to announce that Russians were behind the attacks. In Soviet Russia.. yeah yeah.

  5. Even before the election night it has been up and down. This is grasping at straws and I really hope that this butterfly effect style news this early on does not continue. Imagine having news coverage like we did up to the end of the election but for the rest of Trump's term. Give it a rest people! More clearer is what happened to stocks thanks to Wall Street speculation so far which could be related to the fact that quite a few were caught off guard. Now if BTC continues to make huge movements then you can bring out your news article. I hope news can start to restrain themselves and stop spewing out garbage or you're going to get even less interested people going forward. Not to mention you play into what you consider the other team's hands. This is not written to support Trump.. I'd write a similar response if everything went the other way as well. Just tired of this crap.

  6. I like how on Donald Trump Wins US Presidency (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Google has already seemingly removed the election results link from their logo.. I don't believe that would've happened had it gone the other way around.

  7. It would be funny/sad on Samsung Galaxy J5 Catches Fire and Explodes in France, Says AP (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    If all of these problems did turn out to be software related. Too much bloatware? And they had to destroy all of that awesome hardware.

  8. If you want to be a slave to the government go ahead. That is all this is. A tax grab from pissed off gov employees that want more and more. My message was not a troll. I want more job opportunities for people not less.. that includes getting paid lower wages so you can work a side job if necessary to pay off debts. I work a regular 8 hour job but wouldn't mind extra cash if I needed to support my family or whatever.

  9. I love how people try to campaign against their own jobs. What's better.. employee rights without employment or working on your own hours and still making money? If it upsets you then go find somewhere else to work and let people who want to contract continue contracting.

  10. I wonder if a crowd funding solution would still be possible? Granted I doubt everyone would contribute but it might be enough to extend it even a few more months..

  11. This kind of makes no sense. You'd have to be living in a cave to not know that they throttle your service after a certain amount. I'd much prefer that than being cut off or forced to pay extra like Comcast is/will be doing for "unlimited service". *That is as long as the throttle was sufficient to use the Internet*. Some ISPs (not all) think a couple mbps is still good enough for an entire family. Fining Comcast for 2.3 million while they were actually stealing money from customers for services they did not ask for.. what the hell? This will just go towards eliminating unlimited tiers.

  12. Like the reason that most companies encrypted or "secured" their boot systems was to prevent dark hats from getting into phones... something done when nobody asked for such a feature or even cares about security in the first place.

  13. Re:Wow on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, last stable release for Xemacs was 7 years ago. Maybe you need to rediscover emacs?

  14. Wow on Emacs and Vim Combined In New 'Spacemacs' Distro (spacemacs.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All these posts and not a single positive? I've been using Spacemacs for several months now and its the best thing since sliced bread. It's got amazing defaults and great layering support. Everything is handled inside one .spacemacs file inside your home directory so you can just copy that around and get the same exact experience. I use holy mode which is just emacs bindings in the forefront. It's a great project and it continues to get better.. nothing negative and not at all useless like some very nice spammers here posted.

  15. Re:Mycroft, obviously. on Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? (upon2020.com) · · Score: 1

    That is funny this was posted - I was working on my mycroft enclosure all night. It has a long way to go still but I like the development community. The STT (speech to text) still uses some cloud providers that are not opensource but they plan on going to their own OSS platform once it is ready.

  16. Re:Stew on A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you use to work for Taco Bell?

  17. http://i.imgur.com/1kvpLb6.jpg Scifi seems to always come true

  18. Re:Honestly it's not bad on GNOME 3.22 Desktop Environment Officially Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree. I enjoy gnome on all of my desktop (arch/antergos) linux installations at work and at home. I can go weeks/months without needing to reboot and it is very keyboard friendly. Some of the extensions are awesome as well (dash to dock, shellshape, topicons plus, pixelsaver). I do agree it would be close to crappy without them but I do not believe that is really a bad thing since I have to customize other GUIs about the same if not more. I recently added that float youtube across workspace extension - actually pretty neat/useful. Dash to dock and pixelsaver should be default imo!

  19. Really not seeing why Pixel wouldn't be the name to stop using.

  20. Re:Mr. Robot! on Penetration-Testing Distro Kali Linux 2016.2 Released (kali.org) · · Score: 1

    I enjoy it. It's actually a nice feeling to see real commands (and parameters!) used and even one or two scenarios that don't have barf factors. It's more psychological than computer though. I'd give it 75%/25% psych/comp.

  21. In fact the opposite should happen. They should be removed from any level of access to anything that requires security to protect peoples data. And not to be harsh on them, so should any employee honestly. Usually it turns out the least secure people in the company have the most access to customer information. This is the system we have today because they are the people that directly interact with the customer and are typically new people hired freshly from the street since turnover rate in call centers/fast food is so high. We need a different process entirely to create a secure way to provide PCI / PII . It should never even have to be provided manually to another human getting paid minimal wage.

  22. For all your hard work thank you very much. I know the visual UI is brought up a lot but I wanted to mention that keyboard shortcuts are just as important and for that I believe VLC is pretty good at. Really admirable that you still choose to not package crapware.

  23. Look at that shift on Amazon To Experiment With Part-Time Tech Teams (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it eliminates the chance of working for a lot of other jobs being 10am to 2pm only. If they moved this to different shifts outside of normal work hours I think it'd have a lot more applicants that already work another "day" job.

  24. Re:No security through obscurity: We need source c on Cisco Patches 'ExtraBacon' Zero-day Exploit Leaked By NSA Hackers (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If we ever see large secure open systems it'll be by the time AI has developed them so the source code itself will not be even necessary unless you want to trust human audits of possibly constantly changing code. There's no way also to prove once something ships that the hardware doesn't have some embedded self modifying code forced by gov agencies on the company or random UPS guy delivering your package. I'm not arguing against open systems I am just stating pretty much where there is a will there is a way. You need to take away the will of government to hack its own people. Figuratively and literally heh.

  25. Re:Towns/Cities are to blame on Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't the cost for the trench, the problem is that it doesn't exist (or if it does isn't known where it is) in the first place. You give people a way out of something that has upfront costs and it might as well not even be an option. I agree and hate micro management as much as the next person but this would be an advantage to everyone as gas lines, water, plumbing, electrical, future wiring, would all be known where they exist and could easily be worked on.