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  1. Re:Switch to Libreoffice - V6 is Out - It's Free! on Microsoft Office 2019 Will Only Work on Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    protip: it works very well with older MS formats, e.g. Office 97 Excel/Word documents... docx and xlsx formats.... not so much. My experience has been that it tends to crash pretty often with those, so consider saving a working copy in either native or old-microsoft formats.

  2. Re:I want a $1,000,000,000 on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    $1,000,000,000 in new, fashionable ZuckBucks“ ... all yours!

  3. Woot on Facebook Really Wants You To Come Back (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they miss me because I'm just a really great guy and they want to know how my cats are doing... yep.

  4. Youtube next, please on Facebook Is Banning Cryptocurrency, ICO Ads (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    On devices that don't support adblockers easily, a current scourge is some 5+ minute cryptocurrency infomercial that seems to play ~1/5 of the time.

  5. Re:Truman Show on Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a work of fiction, after all.

  6. Re:Title adjustment on Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm with you there; it seems imprudent for a variety of reasons, cost being a big factor. Replacing smartphones can get expensive. Unfortunately, privacy concerns are hard to sell when you can't see any immediate effects from them.

  7. Fuck Ajit Pai.

    You are either braver than I, or totally lacking in standards of attractiveness. In this case, it's an ugliness of the inside, as he's far from the worst-looking individual in this admin.

  8. Re:Can't wait to see the conspiracy theories on th on New FCC Rules Will Require Wireless Companies To Deliver Emergency Alerts More Accurately (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    They'll claim a need for govt money to help refit their systems, you know, because of their suffering at the hands of Wheeler's NN, but they'll just wind up using to pad their earnings as usual.

  9. Yikes! I guess need to go back to PC-reeducation gulag.

  10. Re:Child "Experts" on Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck getting a society of folks who are too lazy to develop a means to remember their own password(s, hopefully) to follow suit...

  11. That's "elephantiasis".

  12. Re:I wants my $11 back on Ethereum Startup Vanishes After Seemingly Making $11, Leaves Message: 'Penis' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Make a Discharge-back with your bank?

  13. Title adjustment on Child Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook's Kids App (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Experts: Just Say 'No' To Facebook

  14. This is slashdot; no matter how pedantically you qualify your statements, there's always 'that guy'. Sometimes I'm that guy... but not today.

  15. Whatever they need it to mean.

  16. They should be happy enough with a Zilog. Just slip them a TI 83 or similar under the basement door and run away quickly.

  17. Re:Every ad-writing person, ever: on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually pretty hard not to beat most stuff in the < $400 market segment, with their barely-dual-core CPUs at 1.5GHz and pervasive application of 1366x768 screens...

  18. Re:Every ad-writing person, ever: on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    When your kids, or whoever, ask/beg for a 'tablet' for Christmas, consider getting them a finely polished piece of slice of rock, and a chisel...

  19. Re:Every ad-writing person, ever: on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Adblocker or not, all I see are empty holes in the page design -____- but they still get me from time to time...















    BOOM! AUTO-PLAY VIDEO AD!

  20. The probability of this poster not being a millenial/post-millenial themselves is vanishingly small.

  21. Re:Slashdot is a trap... on AT&T Calls For Net Neutrality Laws After Fighting To End FCC Rules (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, your proposal is what, bend over and take it without a peep?

  22. Re:Is it the tar or the nicotine that causes cance on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Flue-cured tobacco used in chewing products, dip, snuff, etc. (pretty much all of it sold in the US) contains tons of fun stuff, e.g. tobacco-specific nitrosamines (which seem to be one of the biggest chemical hazards of it). This also applies to *some* tobacco extract vape flavorings, where they haven't been specifically removed. I'm going to continue to work under the assumption that it's not likely that the nicotine is the primary cause of the cancer (though there's no reason not to assume it wouldn't have synergistic effects with other 'fun stuff'), unless, perhaps, someone can point me to some studies on its carcinogenicity not involving far-above-normal concentrations of it.

  23. Re:In other news... water is wet! on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Standing in line at the vape store, I'd anecdotally suggest that it's likely in the 5-15% range; most of the folks seem to be in for <10mg/ml stuff, whereas I started from 36mg/ml, and now go for 0% (though I do understand that it likely contains trace amounts).

  24. Re:In other news... water is wet! on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yum, MSG flavored vapes! It's GRAS, after all... (i say this in jest, of course, as one of my qualms with the state of the vape industry is the assumption that GRAS food additives are safe to put into your lungs)

  25. Re:In other news... water is wet! on Vaping Can Be Addictive and May Lure Teenagers to Smoking, Science Panel Concludes (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's one of my buttons that I need to disable, but using the verb 'to smoke' in reference to using vaporizers is misleading. Nothing is (or should be) being burned. Unless you're overheating the device, no significant 'smoke' (particulate matter vs droplets of liquid) should be generated... I suspect it's a bigger issue to the crazy sub-ohm cloud-breathers, though they also don't seem to have an affinity for inhaling and holding the vapor in for extended periods of time, and tend to inhale very large amounts of air at the same time.