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  1. The suicide rate also coincides with the great recession, the increase in opioid use, the popularity of the Kardashians, and the Obama administration. Take your pick.

    Most likely answer highlighted. Makes one depressed to see how stupid people can get rich and famous without talent.

  2. Re:meanwhile on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Those people don't ride trains! They ride Greyhound!

  3. Re:I wish my wife... on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What did she do with the other eighteen seconds?

  4. Re:In other news... on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    *commit sudoku

    That's a rather puzzling self-punishment...

  5. Re:Here in Denver on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm surprised. I mean, how do you make out what the operator is saying over the static and the noise?

  6. Re:Firefox 57 is shaping up to be a disaster, I th on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    I think we'll soon be looking back on Firefox 57 as the release that finally ruined Firefox beyond salvation.

    Depends on if they are capable of acknowledging the failures in it and learning.

    There are a lot of 'failures', DOS 4 comes to mind, as do Windows Millennium and Vista.

  7. Re:Switching to Brave Browser on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    From my point of view, the only thing Mozilla seems to be actively challenging Google on is who can change version numbers the fastest.

  8. Re:Yes on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    It's because change under-the-hood is not recognized as such by nontechnical users. They change what the user sees because that's what the user can tell is new.

    It's a damn shame too. I don't think that in the Microsoft world much improvement was made beyond the original Windows 95 UI. Apple's first OSX UI was also good. Neither has made significant forward progress and if anything have made backward regress.

  9. Re:In other news on 37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    37% of Netflix subscribers abruptly cancelled their accounts citing sudden lack of employment.

    Having been acquainted with my share of people that fit this model, they're not exactly known for making good decisions, so no, they probably wouldn't cancel their netflix subscriptions if they were rendered unemployed.

  10. Re:They must have boring jobs on 37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Dammit Klaus

  11. Re: Sounds like... on 37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Must be an Alanis Morissette fan.

  12. Re:Sounds like... on 37% of Netflix Subscribers Say They Binge-Watch While at Work (netflix.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to mind their own business. They are not there to police other employees but to ensure service stability.

    This is a management issue or employee issue, not an IT issue.

    When the IT department is tasked with such responsibilities, as it's recognized that only the IT department has the technical capability to do the job properly, it can take two approaches. One approach is to filter, the other approach is to log and report. Given that companies are increasingly turning to fully centralized systems that allow one to drill-down from the Internet connection and DNS to the records of the user logged-in to a computer and the process they're running that has initiated that Internet connection. The company can set internal policies as to what behavior is and isn't acceptable, and then can enforce against employees that violate those policies. A defense by an employee claiming that they weren't stopped from said behavior would probably ring-hollow, if the employee acknowledged that the rules say they're not to use the Internet connection for such purposes then they effectively have no defense to being fired for it.

    So which looks better, a simple egress filter that blocks access to something that the employee shouldn't do while at work, or logging and then punishing for violating the rules?

  13. Re:There are non-organic Turkeys? on Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Silicon-based Turkey is the new name for my holiday party band...

  14. Re:Is this a story or an advertisement? on Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I believe the germane term is "press release".

  15. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Slabs and bricks are still improved surfaces, as opposed to something like loose gravel without a binding agent.

  16. Re:Fecal matter. on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    Yet we have numerous examples of masses of people getting violently ill with diseases of the bowel in individual incidents.

  17. Re:Like Everything Else on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually there's fairly strong evidence that the bland, almost flavorless chicken we now eat is a distinct change for the blandness compared to chickens of-old. As chickens have been selectively bred for a myriad of characteristics that benefit the farmer, the flavor of the meat has been lost. Chicken is the vodka of animals raised for their meat.

  18. Re:I arguably can't know what my neighbor's taste on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    so the neighbors' taste?

    Where I lived before my neighbors' taste was tacky. Should've seen their horrible lawn decorations...

  19. Re:Depends your status. on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew that something always nagged at me when dealing with electricity, and not simply because of being electrocuted...

  20. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    The terms film and cinema are used in the United States. The term movie is a shortened form of moving picture. The term film is less specific than movie as film is the medium on which still images, moving images, and condensed records (microform/microfilm/microfiche) is stored. the term cinema originates in French.

    Part of the reason for the generic trailer as the American equivalent of caravan is that when the term fell into wide use, that was by-far the most popular kind of trailer for people not using a trailer for any type of commerce to own dating to the postwar era when the popularity of driving around the United States really took off. If one personally owned a trailer, it was most likely a travel-trailer to be used as temporary habitation while on road trips. Boat-trailers and car-haulers existed, but one could refer to using the former as, "towing the boat," and towing cars on car-haulers was not especially common compared to using travel-trailers and generally limited to car or racing enthusiasts. Basically all other forms of trailer are for commerce, like flatbed trailers and vans towed behind heavy trucks (semi-truck or tractor-trailer as the equivalent of articulated lorry and simple truck for a medium-duty or heavy-duty truck for an open flatbed non-articulating truck equivalent to lorry, or a box-truck for those with a van-body behind the cab). The term caravan tends to stick closer to its roots, of a group of vehicles traveling together, as derived from the group of pack-animals traveling together. It probably helps that Duke Ellington's instrumental version of the song of the same name dating to the 1930s added a bit of intrigue to the term caravan, which might have helped it avoid becoming the term for a travel-trailer.

  21. Re: "That information carries over into all future on Forbes '30 Under 30' Conference Website Exposed Attendees' Personal Information (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Presumably every year that the researcher has tested the link subsequent to being initially recognized, such as years 2016, and 2017, the researcher has confirmed that the vulnerability still persists.

  22. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    And in the United States, basically any outdoor improved surface could be considered pavement. It is most commonly used for an asphalt-slurry mix road or street, but it can refer to a concrete sidewalk alongside a road or street, a concrete walking path not associated with a vehicle thoroughfare, an asphalt-slurry walking path irrespective of a roadway, an improved-surface parking lot of any kind, and even special-purpose improved surfaces like basketball courts or tennis courts in municipal parks where the courts are paved in asphalt or concrete.

    The result of anything where the verb to pave applies for how the surface is improved is pavement.

  23. Re:Adopt those words and expressions that make sen on Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? (scroll.in) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you avoid the slang, "put up," entirely in this case? Even though there's a space in, "put up," it's essentially two words for one meaning. Splitting them in a sentence breaks the meaning.

    "Indeed, ending a sentence in a preposition is something I will not tolerate," makes more sense.

  24. Re:Hope it's better than the last one... on Nintendo Is Making An Animated Super Mario Bros. Movie, Says Report (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I loved that line from Honest Trailers, something to the effect of, "Jump! It's like, the only thing you do!"

  25. Re:We are going to celebrate Festivus on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe they pooled resources and several kicked-in money to buy one gift.