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  1. Re:Aww, that's harsh on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Banned From Owning a Lab (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially if it's done through a shell corporation based in the Vanuauauauauauauauatua Islands.

  2. I think that's an optimistic estimate.

  3. Privatise praise, socialise blame on Mozilla Could Walk Away and Still Get More Than $1 Billion If It Doesn't Like Yahoo's Buyer (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you lose market share for reasons entirely outside your control.

    Of course you do.

    The C-suite's actions are only responsible when it improves.

  4. Re:loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    the minimum amount it's possible to care

    Let x-subscript-m be the minimum amount it's possible to care. Let x-subscript-n be the maximum amount it's possible to care...

    I've never needed anything more than that, the other person's walked away by this point.

  5. It's more likely that he thinks "if 99% of your users loudly declaim that your latest change is an utter bucket of septic arsedribble" then it may be worth at least considering that it might be, to a degree, a bit suboptimal round the edges.

  6. For me, videos are good for tasks involving motion - especially where it's you or part of you that's moving - like using tools or sports/martial arts moves.

    They're worst for showing you how to do something on a computer. You invariably miss a bit, try to go back but go back too far, try to jump forward a bit to save time but jump forward too far, jump back too far again and just run it from there. Of course because you're going through stuff you already did your attention wanders and then you miss it again and you try to go back a bit but you go too far...

    It ends up taking three times the length of the video, which is twenty times as long as it would reading screenshots or even a decent textual explanation.

  7. It's not like the concept is new on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not vastly different to the Sikorsky Skycrane concept, except with rounded corners.

  8. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of them occur at zero altitude, that's true. But mid-air collisions happen, and overstressing the airframe until it falls to bits is also possible.

  9. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    MORON, their have been [...] learn the fucking English language.

    You owe me a new irony meter.

  10. Re:Likely won't eventuate on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    a smaller plane that I feel I will have to help with "peddling"

    Smaller planes don't have room for a trolley, so that would be impossible anyway.

  11. Re:On the contrary on Second Tesla Autopilot Crash Under Review By US Regulators (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't see any advantage to what you're suggesting. You have a driver there who's paid to drive. Let him drive, rather than building a system where he has to switch in an instant from passive supervisor to active driver. That instant won't be long enough.

  12. My Aunt Gertie died 12 weeks ago, you insensitive clod!

  13. Re:No need on Pod Planes Could Change Travel Forever (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I thought an apostrophe was there to warn you that an s was coming, not notify you that you just missed one.

  14. Re:New Desktop - Same Work on KDE Plasma 5.7 Released (neowin.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When they say "new workflows" it means they've moved/hidden something you use all the time.

    Unless we're talking about Gnome or Firefox. Then it means they've deleted it completely.

  15. Re: That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    CentOS 6 is supported till 2020.

    By then hopefully someone else will have made systemd secure and reliable or bitten the bullet and chucked it.

  16. Re:This isn't about new hardware on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    CERN still have plenty of crusty old hardware. They produce a 32-bit version of Scientific Linux for that reason. With a bit of faffing, you can even get it to run on non-PAE processors.

  17. Re:GEEK POLICE RAID on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I haven't compiled a kernel since the 1990's.

    Is that when you started or when it finished? I'm asking because it might have been Gentoo.

  18. Re:That's just great... on Linux Letting Go: 32-bit Builds On the Way Out (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet he's a systemd fan too, the bastard.

  19. Re:Free Will is restored on MRI Software Bugs Could Upend Years Of Research (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Was it researchers, journalists or slashdot editors?

  20. Re:Switch tasks to get Frosty psots on Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    we don't actually do more than one activity at once, but quickly switch between them.

    Were you doing something else while you were reading TFA?

  21. Re:Safety Threat on Canadian Man Invented a Wheel That Can Make Cars Move Sideways (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to have a Citroen 2CV that was so slow you could easily avoid accidents by jumping out.

    And if there was any chance of it hitting someone you could warn them to move out of the way. By post.

  22. Re:Not a new idea on Canadian Man Invented a Wheel That Can Make Cars Move Sideways (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There's no need to be crabby!

  23. Re:Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? on Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    I thought he moved to Shpain becaush the taxesh in Shcotland were too high?

  24. Re: Assholes on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Wild guess: he means the one close to "poison".

  25. Switch tasks to get Frosty psots on Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    I find it depends on who's driving the switching. If I'm doing it at my own pace it's much less annoying than when some asshat is wittering or interrupting.

    Maybe because I switch as I'm coming out of "the zone" anyway?