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  1. Re:How much bandwidth are they thinking.... on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Both sides (Engadget and the ISP) are doing nothing but spreading the FUD thick and wide.

  2. Re:This is why we need bet neutrality on Don't Pirate Or We'll Mess With Your Connected Thermostats, Warns East Coast ISP (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Or... you could develop the skill of reading beyond the scare tactic hype (by both the ISP and Engadget) and understand that both sides are pumping out nothing but FUD.

  3. That's why we had a plain old non-intelligent thermostat installed in our house. K.I.S.S.

  4. Re: I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If only it were "just" plastic, and there was only one kind of plastic.

  5. Re: I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Like the YumEarth organic, vegan, dye free, non-GMO, kosher pareve, gluten free candy and nut free sweets that are individually wrapped in so much plastic it even shocks a Republican!!

  6. Re: I know how to fix this on UK 'Faces Build-up of Plastic Waste' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How much of the problem is wages, and how much is regulation (environmental impact studies, multitude of lawsuit by NIMBY "greens", how to store it, wash it, what to do with waste water, etc, etc)?

  7. Re:Copyright Extension on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    What impetus does Google have to prevent another copyright extension?

  8. "clinical professor of law" on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    What in the hell is that?

  9. Re:A jewish controlled industry... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe Jews are just smarter than you, and smart enough to use those smarts to enrich themselves.

    More power to smart people smart enough to use those smarts!!

  10. Re: And suddenly... on 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    His tax plan went through. What makes you think copyright "reform" can't go through?

  11. Re:uh, who cares? on How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes. Yes they did. And a baby milk factory, and the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.

  12. Re:uh, who cares? on How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Correct. Because civilians wouldn't get bombed by Americans if ISIS weren't the murderous assholes that they are.

  13. Re:Obvious Solution on How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the helicopter did not crash, they can obviously survive light shrapnel.

  14. Re:Americas bitter hatred on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    A hunk of meat sold by the 16 oz pound -- who's prime factorization is 2^5 -- is much easier to divide into smaller bits than one sold a measure of 10 units, who's prime factorization is 2 and 5.

  15. Re:Like someone else illustrated on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    Roller coasters are fun, and make life enjoyable. Driving across Kansas? Not so much...

  16. Re:Americas bitter hatred on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Be that as it may, we hate the Metric system because freedom isn't divisible by 10!!

  17. Re:Sure, sound energy causes vibrations... on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Then put a thumper somewhere outside the building...

  18. Re:Sure, sound energy causes vibrations... on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Insulated exterior walls would attenuate most of it. And a DIY LRAD (a car with ghetto blaster speakers in the trunk) wouldn't be too subtle.

  19. Sure, sound energy causes vibrations... on Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but how practical is this? If you're in close enough to blast the HDDs, you're in close enough to do a lot more than that.

  20. Re:"but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This is /., not a bug report.

  21. Re:"but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Our use-cases might be different, as might our definitions of "fine".

  22. Re:"but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Small things like table handling. (Paste a section of spreadsheet into T-bird, and all the fonts go tiny. Before around 51.0, you could type Ctrl-End, and they'd be restored.)

  23. Re:"but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    The option should be there for old-school mailing lists.

  24. Re:"but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Despite all the moans and bitches by text-mode purist (who need to accept the fact that the "we must use text to save bandwidth!" argument died a decade ago), I like Outlook because it handles tables (pasting spreadsheet segments) and text formatting (using RTF) really well. Much better than T-bird. I never use it's calendar for my own needs, but it's great for scheduling meetings.

    I don't know how it handles IMAP or multiple accounts (which T-bird does well), since I only use it on my work laptop, integrated with Exchange.

    Thus, I want a bottom-posting Outlook that cleanly handles multiple accounts.

  25. "but later decided to reinvigorate in 2016" on Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hah. Every point release in the past two years has reduced functionality. If there were a reasonable (Claws isn't) Linux substitute, then I'd switch in a minute.