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  1. It would make sense if it's for watching over your senile granny.

  2. It makes sense to give discounts to non-profit organizations, and it usually improves your karma.

  3. Re: It's still double-digit processor speeds, keep on Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Win 10 and any post 7 is an inferior experience.

  4. Re: The irony... on Linux 4.17 Kernel Offers Better Intel Power-Savings While Dropping Old CPUs (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 68k is kind of baseline for that tree, and relatively simple even for people without specialized knowledge, so it may stick around for a while. It's harder to maintain more complex architectures where you need instruction order and cache management to think about as well.

  5. Re: Um... on Is It Time To Stop Using Social Media? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    Asocial media then.

  6. Re:Agile takes a rare group on Survey Finds 'Agile' Competency Is Rare In Organizations (sdtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with "Agile" is that it's not.

    I'm working in an organization that now tries to go the "Agile" way - by doing a lot of things backwards and throwing away process parts that do work at the same time. And the organization starts to work with "Sprints" so nothing gets done until it's put into a "Sprint" instead of starting to work on issues one piece at a time. Every "Sprint" is started with a gigantic meeting with no concern for being optimal wasting man-hours on talk that only concerns 10% of the participants.

  7. You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    But will it be useful and does it make sense?

    Indoor farms would require artificial light and production costs would be higher than for ordinary farming.

  8. I want them to enter a menu system maze or get sent to the Lenny telemarketer bot.

  9. Only works in prison cells because it's a cell phone and not a mobile phone.

  10. Anyone losing want to have new regulation in place, everyone winning don't want the regulation to change.

    But it seems to me that they forgot Oracle, Microsoft and IBM as well.

  11. Re: Good. Kids should stay in their cribs. on Firefox Follows Chrome and Blocks the Loading of Most FTP Resources (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever tried to do a tenex setting from a web browser for a ftp session?

  12. Re: So just don't use it? on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I did use Eudora before, but for various reasons I ended up with Thunderbird, and one reason why I'm holding on to it is the junk mail filter.

    But for old mail programs there's also Elm.

  13. Re:Thunderbird on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand the junk mail filter is way better than the Outlook filter.

  14. Re:Zuckerberg for President in 2020 on Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (bgr.com) · · Score: 0

    And he may be able to get it considering the amount of people paid off one way or another by Facebook.

    Is Facebook "Too big to fail" on the internet?

  15. Re: So just don't use it? on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For me I'm using Thunderbird. It's good enough. And it's not like mail is going to change radically as it is now.

    You may think that Thunderbird is a bit old, but it's working pretty well and don't cause any trouble.

  16. Re:I miss WP - much better than Android on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think Android is the Ford Pinto, then Windows Phone is a Trabant in the car scale.

    And iPhone is a Citroen. Perfect solutions of non-existing problems.

  17. Re:No, I'm glad it's dead because it killed Nokia. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately Ericsson went the same way. I'm still keeping an old R250s Pro alive. Battery cells in the battery pack are plain R6 cells (AA for you americans).

  18. Re: Interesting test on Facebook Donated To 46 of 55 Members On Committee That Will Question Zuckerberg (usatoday.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Here it would mean that 46 of the members would be automatically disqualified for the task.

  19. T-Mobile is now a prime hacker target.

  20. If you get bored you aren't trying to take on more challenging tasks than games.

  21. Re:Everything old is new again on No More Intel Inside, Apple Plans To Use Its Own Custom-Built Chips in Mac (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ARM is more likely today.

    But they could as well be reviving the 68K line.

  22. And the Bloomberg article is from second of April, is this a late April Fools on Bloomberg?

  23. Re:They should all be sacked. on Atlanta Still Struggles To Recover From Ransomware Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

    Anyway - this also highlights the need to really segment your data nets so that an intrusion don't propagate easily.

    And backups are also important of course. CD-ROMs are decent for short term archiving, but for long term archiving we need something better. SD cards also have a little "lock" switch, but it's in reality telling the computer that the device is read only so it's not proof against extreme hacks.

  24. Re:Disingenuous and Sensationalist on EPA Prepares To Roll Back Rules Requiring Cars To Be Cleaner and More Efficient (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    A lot simpler way to solve the demand for more fuel efficient vehicles would be to scrap the regulations and instead tax the fuel. A tax would be painful for the population but will also be beneficial in the long run - maybe that could help paying off the debt?

  25. Re: Need an alternitive to YouTube too. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, can someone mod this one up as "Informative" since I lack mod points.

    Anyway - overall there's no thing as "too big to fail" on the internet. One major mistake and people leave a service like outrunning an avalanche.

    Either you have a specialized service that has the edge or you have a general service that just works because "everyone" uses it until something sour happens.