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  1. Re:... creates two gaps in evolution on Oldest Human Fossil Fills In 2.8-Million-Year-Old Gap In Evolution · · Score: 1

    You say that, but the faithheads won't be happy even with that. They'll probably just continue the "testing our faith" line, perhaps suggesting the devil put them there or something. Of course, they won't offer any proof for this but.. you know....look at my robes, hat.. come on...you can trust me.

  2. Narrative on Technology's Legacy: the 'Loser Edit' Awaits Us All · · Score: 2

    This is just the "narrative", isn't it? You can see the same events being given different narratives depending on the race, political persuasion etc of the victim. Nothing at all new here if you're even remotely interested in how event get described in any medium.

  3. Re: H1-b on Microsoft Closing Two Phone Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sniffing and snorting like animals. Seriously what's that about?

  4. Re: The GUI is so monumentally fucked up on Ask Slashdot: Old PC File Transfer Problem · · Score: 0, Troll

    I left when they ran a "story" about Indian food delivery. Has it improved yet? I see they've not changed the stupid name. For all its faults, I see no reason to drop Slashdot for a site that looks worse than slashbdot did 15 years ago, fewer stories and less than 1000 readers.

  5. Re:New design on 3D Printers Making Inroads In Kitchens · · Score: 1

    I can't read sig-files - the text is superimposed on the line of text below that.

  6. Re:*beta* program on Apple Will Let Users Test iOS Beta Versions For the First Time · · Score: 1

    > As a result, during Yosemite's open beta last year, people we're complaining that the software
    > "wasn't ready for prime time". No kidding!

    Well, in an old school beta program, that would have been an alpha-release, at best!

  7. Re: What it really reveals on TrueCrypt Audit Back On Track After Silence and Uncertainty · · Score: 1

    No different to trusting Microsoft to not send your data to them when they do virus checks. You're already trusting the food chain, doctors etc.

  8. Re: TrueCrypt is not open source software. on TrueCrypt Audit Back On Track After Silence and Uncertainty · · Score: 1

    You're confusing open source and free. It's open source. You can see the source, use it, change it, and fork it, subject to certain restrictions, such as not calling it Truecrypt. Seems fair to me. Whether this or that distro has decided to include it or not tells us very little.

  9. Re: TrueCrypt is not open source software. on TrueCrypt Audit Back On Track After Silence and Uncertainty · · Score: 1

    How can they prove that I am not a member?

  10. Re:Heh. on Australian ISPs To Introduce '3-Strike' Style Anti-piracy Scheme · · Score: 2

    What "VPN industry"? To the extent it exists at all it's just tiny. And they're going to get legislated out of existence around the world in the next few years. No government - driven by the twin demands of the US government (ok, and their own security services) - and a reactionary, right wing media (following the rules of its wealthy, right wing proprieters, who've invested in and therefore benefit from large corporations who are all in bed with most western governments because they don't need to pay tax that way) - will allow people to communicate in private because "that's what terrorists do" (and people who want to challenge/change the above)

  11. Obliterated on Crystal Pattern Matching Recovers Obliterated Serial Numbers From Metal · · Score: 0

    Wrong choice of word, surely?

    "destroy utterly; wipe out."

    If you did obliterate it then they've have zero chance of recovering the information.

  12. Re: Upside Down? on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    Uh..you might not know it's upside down, smart arse. So you'd have to try it in both rotations. These people are probably smarter than even you; why not sit down, shut up and learn something?

  13. Re: IE once again kills innovation on HTTP/2 Finalized · · Score: 1

    Windows 10? IE? Did you miss the email?

  14. Re:Doxxing is an act of intimidation on Notorious 8chan Board Has History Wiped After Federal Judge's Doxing · · Score: 1

    At the point a judge sentences someone, the criminal has already done a bunch of bad things knowing full well they're going to get a long punishment. Very few of them will want to take it out on the judge, unless they believe the case was handled unfairly. It's much more likely the they'll want to get back at the police who - even if the criminal WAS a criminal and did most of the things they were accused of - possibly threatened the criminals family (girlfriend/wife usually) if they didn't confess to their and/or other people's crimes.

  15. Ditching Samsung, not Google apps. on Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 · · Score: 1

    They're ditching Samsung - not Google - apps for Microsoft ones. So it's just a different sort of crapware. It'll get uninstalled before too long, or not used. It does nothing to bridge the gap between Android and Windows Mobile or whatever its called (I don't even care any more). Nothing to see here.

  16. Re:To me the Microsoft comparison can't be more cl on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    > but you can buy a perfectly capable Android tablet for half the price of an iPad right now if you
    > don't mind a clunkier UI.

    I've got the (now retired) Nexus 10, running lollipop. Before that, kitkat. What's clunky about either of them. I find it much easier to use than an iPad.

  17. Re:To me the Microsoft comparison can't be more cl on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    LOL! You're 100% right, except in the eyes of the shareholders, and consumers. They're (almost) literally printing money:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busi...

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    US technology giant Apple has reported the biggest quarterly profit ever made by a public company.

    Apple reported a net profit of $18bn (£11.8bn) in its fiscal first quarter, which tops the $15.9bn made by ExxonMobil in the second quarter of 2012, according to Standard and Poor's.
    ------------

    You're saying that they were making more money before 1999, and that's when they started going downhill? Perhaps you're just talking about your own opinion?

  18. Re:To me the Microsoft comparison can't be more cl on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 1

    People don't want Microsoft stuff at home. It's a toxic brand. It's Office..it's white and upper case..it's "please reboot now"...it's "your hard drive light never stops flashing"...internet explorer needs an update....pay to update your virus checker....we've removed the start button...enter your password...change your password....your password is incorrect.

    Fuck that.

    Pick up tablet. Press power button. Use device. Install software from a single place. Receive updates immediately from the same place.

    You're confused. "I don't know....I can't see...Just pay a bit more...Couple more iterations...jam tomorrow.". You're going about it all wrong. Couple more iterations and Apple/Android will be that much further ahead. Microsoft needs to produce something cheaper and better than Apple, not hack together a half tablet, half laptop, heavy, poor battery life thing and hope people buy it. Look at the surface. Look at the iPad or Android tablet (Nexus 10, Samsung tab pro 8.4).

    "But for people who actually want to get work done, or create something, it's a useless device." Apple's just made more money in a quarter than any other company in history. People must love useless devices. Microsoft has entered that arena now, in a manner of speaking, with the surface, but they've sort of missed the point, which is why it's selling so very badly.

  19. Re:To me the Microsoft comparison can't be more cl on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 2

    > spent a lot on R

    I actually typed something like "R and D and" with the ampersand, but clearly that's asking too much.

  20. To me the Microsoft comparison can't be more clear on Peak Google: The Company's Time At the Top May Be Nearing Its End · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uh.. Microsoft essentially had a couple of products they thought (the monopoly on which) would last forever. Google (and the other large modern internet companies) are much more aware of the current state of what's going on (because they're responsible for it). Microsoft just panics and throws money at stuff no-one wants. Crappy phone OS, nokia, Zune, silly compromise-heavy tabtops (see what I did there?) etc. They produced an awful OS, held a straight face when everyone else said "meh, no thanks" which cost them a lot. If they've learnt anything it's at the expense of a lot of missed profit. Google have always spent a lot on R doesn't come across as panicking to stay relevant like Microsoft. Now Microsoft is giving away their new OS, open sourcing their dev tools, suffering increasingly against Google Docs (and other free office apps). If I had stock in Microsoft I'd be concerned that they don't have a plan. I don't see Google as being in the same boat as they have a more much stable history in profiting from innovation, even if not every project they attempted turned out 100% positive.

  21. Re:Useless on Starting This Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    This is - or at least was - a tech site. I'm not alone in wanting a reasonably recent phone with a reasonably recent version of Android, and which is amongst the highest performing models, so that I have a sensible development target. A 5 year old Android phone would be a joke. You can're replace phone/tablet batteries (without taking it somewhere, paying, hoping they don't break it) on all models. Some companies ensure that older devices run newer versions of the software - if they run them at all - much more slowly than the old OS ran. I'd agree with you if you're spoken about TVs or cars or whatever, but phones are things which aren't that expensive in the grand scheme of things (ie something people often use for hours a day, every day for years). My Nexus 10 tablet cost the same amount as if I'd gone to the movies, by myself, just over once a month.

  22. Re:What it means: on What Intel's $300 Million Diversity Pledge Really Means · · Score: 1

    > this will do more to harm the industry than it will do to help it.

    Will this statement still be true once they achieve parity, or just while we get there?

    The point of this sort of rule is so you don't exclude people who are talented enough for the job, right? The idea that you just pick the right person for the job regardless of race, sex etc clearly isn't working,as you can see by the current figures.

  23. Re:Good way to lose business... on LinkedIn Restricts API Usage · · Score: 1

    > No, that's no typical at all. More typical would be to start charging for a previously free service.
    > Cutting off access to a service which attracts people to your business is hardly a good way to
    > "monetize the audience [you] have gained". It's more of a good way to lose business.

    No, it's typical, in that that's what typically happens. Twitter didn't start charging, for instance; they just make it a pain for developers and users so you end up forced onto the inferior official client.

    It happens enough that it deserves its own term.

  24. Re:Would French not have worked? on Paramedics Use Google Translate While Delivering Baby · · Score: 1

    Dude, they're in Cork.

  25. Re: He should have seen that coming. on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 2

    Do it once, the police keep a recording of the call. When they arrest anyone, take a voice recording of them and run it against all the recordings you have.