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  1. Re:Though wrong in this case... good model? on Popular Chrome Extension Embedded A CPU-Draining Cryptocurrency Miner (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Companies don't hire people because they're making a profit. They hire people when, despite the threats & floggings, the existing workforce can't do the work needed.

  2. Re:Though wrong in this case... good model? on Popular Chrome Extension Embedded A CPU-Draining Cryptocurrency Miner (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the same thing as paying for the extension, except instead of paying for it directly, you're paying for it indirectly via a higher electric bill.

    I'm running it on my machine at the office.

    What? If the company made bigger profits it would pay me more?

    Of course they would!

  3. Re:Vue is still what web deveopment shoud be on Facebook Relents, Switches React, Flow, Immuable.js and Jest To MIT License (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You mean separating the "internal" gibletty stuff from the "external" pretty stuff? What next, splitting the "external" stuff into "inny things" and "outy things"? And then deciding that the last two are sort-of-nearly-almost the same and sticking them partially back together?

    You're absolutely barmy. No way could that catch on.

  4. This just in: the next release of Firefox will have an extension that contains an embedded JavaScript library in the extension's code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users' computers and without getting their consent.

  5. I almost put "nearly" in italics. Probably should have done.

    Incompatibility per se[1] isn't the issue. It's this #smegma or whatever it is that doesn't work for the *minority* of code. In what way does it not work? Compiler warning[1]? Compiler error? Just do random shit?

    [1] Who takes notice of those?

  6. Comprehend Python? I can't even see it!

  7. Re: Poor thought process on More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    the large principle of their loans

    Yeah, I'd totally take financial advice from you.

  8. The *majority* of code on Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code (infoworld.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you just love things that nearly always work?

  9. It just works ... for the moment on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How many years of support do you expect from Apple

    One. After that the hardware will break anyway.

  10. Re: What about ... on Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Think about it, if people don't have time to get food then they don't have time to eat it either.

    That's absolute fucking rubbish.

  11. Re:What about ... on Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    All slashdotters have a maid. She lives right upstairs!

  12. Re:Like letting an Uber driver in your home on Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    Source? Other than yourass.com or thinair.org

  13. Re:Terror in coffeeshops across the land! on Hackers Using iCloud's Find My iPhone Feature To Remotely Lock Macs, Demand Ransom Payments (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Us, at Special Education for the Santa Clara County Office of Education, couldn't agree more with you!

    I guess that explains it.

  14. People called Romanes they go the house? on Oracle Announces Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 (oracle.com) · · Score: 1

    Not that for each speak? WTF is that supposed to mean?

    This is a Java thread, don't go bringing Python into it.

  15. Re:original story was not totally off base on Anatomy of a Moral Panic: Reports About Amazon Suggesting 'Bomb-Making Items' Were Highly Misleading (idlewords.com) · · Score: 1

    You using for cleaning your fingernails. No shame in that, sweetie.

  16. Re:This was what my school chemistry society was f on Anatomy of a Moral Panic: Reports About Amazon Suggesting 'Bomb-Making Items' Were Highly Misleading (idlewords.com) · · Score: 1

    They might not now, where you are.

    They did when - and where - I went to school. And it wasn't the only dangerous thing. We were taught evolution too.

  17. Boil down 8 bottles of Hydrogen Peroxide in a pyrex pot to one bottle and you'll have 25% Hydrogen Peroxide.

    No, you'll have 100% water.

  18. I thought that was Werner von Braun?

    Hang on, he parabolised them. My bad. As you were.

  19. Re:The Grocery delivery game again? on Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    The key word was "fresh".

  20. Re:Like letting an Uber driver in your home on Walmart Wants To Deliver Groceries Straight To Your Fridge (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    a completely irrational paranoia, which, incidentally, is one of the things that does make it more likely that you will be the victim of a crime.

    Why?

  21. Re:This will be buried and never heard of again on New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dating myself a bit

    That's pretty common round here.

    Good thing too - you're unlikely to catch anything that way.

  22. Is this for real? on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Strip off the i and they won't be complex any more. Do I have to do all the thinking round here?

  23. Re:Obvious BS detected... on Apple: iPhones Are Too 'Complex' To Allow Unauthorized Repair (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Three, there may be ways which third party repair places can make claims of "OEM Approved Service Vendor" under these laws.

    If a garage even displays a BMW logo they'll get hammered for trademark infringement unless they're actually a BMW approved dealer.

    So yes, they can do it. Once.

  24. Prarie shit! Everybody! on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ... but we don't want the Irish.

  25. Re:#MAGA = kill solar to support clean coal on Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Whatever the level is, almost half of American voters have it, with slightly more than half in certain key states.