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

    "hundreds of years ago they were tiny and almost flavorless. Apples were the size of today's plums."

    Not so in this 1600's engraving of Isaac Newton. Nor in even older paintings. Even its wild progenitor, Malus sieversii is of similar size to modern apples.

  2. Sure, with no guide data, it won't know about what's on and be able to record it. But it will continue to work as a tuner, so you can still watch channels. Course, if Internet is down, cable probably is, too. You can also playback already recorded shows. It doesn't turn into a brick.

  3. You just don't understand the difference between an intranet and the Internet.

  4. OK. on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 0

    If it's all that and more, call it "D." (or E, because D is already taken.

  5. Re:When you read a story like this on Man Who Sent GIF of Laughing Mouse To Employer After DDoS Attack Is Now Arrested (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Heck, they should sack the submitter for acronym abuse. "A Minnesota-based PoS repair shop?" Who really cares what happens to some Piece of Shit repair shop?

  6. Hmmm. on Some iPhone X Displays Plagued By Mysterious 'Green Line of Death' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    So, 25 reports, out of how many (hundred thousands / millions)? It can be green or purple, on the left or right side. And, Apple is replacing those that exhibit the problem.

    Is a 25/100000+ failure rate really significant for a brand new device, for any product outside of life critical medical ones?

  7. Re:News? on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Troll
    Peer review? Even those who benefit from it point out its failure.

    "The skin healing and coming to an equilibrium would take months after that."

    ...January 2016 the boy, received a few more skin patches -- and in February he was released

    For future reference, plural is more than one.

    "This isn't some app some douche made that takes pictures and adds new filters, this is real science, and real science takes time."

    No, self-promotional publishing takes time. And , "douche" doesn't mean what you think it means in science.

  8. Re:News? on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    No. Publishing history isn't news.

  9. "October and November 2015, ...In January 2016"

    Not news.

  10. If there's no action which can be taken, there's no action to be taken.

  11. So what?

  12. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh, Roadrunner cartoons were from 50 years ago, so your drone operator conspiracy theories have to accommodate that. And, as Hobbes said, life is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Teaching children anything less doesn't prepare them for the real world, but only turns them into coddled SJWs.

    (Bring back Ren and Stimpy, Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.)

  13. Missing... on Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mysteriously (!?) missing are what IPs/DNS to block to keep MS from collecting info on you.

  14. Re:stupid on US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Even worse. Rather than direct action on the offending party, this ruling assumes to force the cost of enforcement onto innocent third parties.

    That should be, at a bare minimum, an unconstitutional 5th Amendment "taking."

    And F the application of "taking" to only real property. It's extremely disingenuous to try to apply that to a case involving intellectual property.

  15. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    And use Youtube as a babysitter.

  16. Re:What a terrible headline on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Heaven forbid those children ever see a Roadrunner or Tom and Jerry cartoon. From the article:

    "Mommy, the monster scares me!"

    When Ms. Burns walked over, Isaac was watching a video featuring crude renderings of the characters from "PAW Patrol," a Nickelodeon show that is popular among preschoolers, screaming in a car. The vehicle hurtled into a light pole and burst into flames.

    Perhaps the parent should explain that neither cartoons nor monsters are real.

  17. So? The only use for money is to spend it. And the world banks try to maintain a minimum level of inflation, for bad reasons. So whatever is stored in such counties is completely and utterly useless until it's moved to a first world country to be spent, diminished by the cost of inflation.

  18. "...multinational companies are shifting a growing share of profits offshore -- â600 billion in the last year alone..."

    So what, exactly, is "offshore" for a multinational? The moon? Another planet?

  19. Re:Firmware updates on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming nothing. I said "most", because, well, most of the firmware complexity is in the "smart" part. Whatever did we do with monitors which didn't have upgradeable firmware? Unless a user has a specific issue, there's no need for an update.

    And, WTF do you mean by HDMI CDC? ITYM "CEC." Finally, do you really think the EEs write the code?

  20. Re:Firmware updates on Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? · · Score: 1

    If it's not normally connected to the Internet, there's no advantage to fixing most of the broken things.

  21. Re:Make the entire year DST on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2, Informative
    But of course, only an idiot would think that DST actually saves any daylight.

    Which is better than a the author of the summary, who's straight out lying. Where they (EditorDavid?) claim "A special Massachusetts commission recommends the state stop observing Daylight Savings TIme", the actual article says

    Massachusetts should only consider moving to what in essence is year-round Daylight Saving Time

    ...which is exactly the opposite of what the summary says.

    It's also sheer idiocy. But that's not surprising, since they studied a bunch of idiots - "retailers liked the idea of more daylight late in the day for shoppers." Sorry, no, there is no "more daylight." A government law can't change astrophysics. If people want more light after working hours, push for a change from a 9-5 to a 8-4 working day. Clocks are based around solar noon. We're screwing it up half the year now, don't screw it up for the full year.

  22. Re:Are all the editors on Slashdot liberal SJW's? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "Hillary, Bush, and Soros are not "fascists". They don't become fascists just because you disagree with them. "

    They do if you use the same definition that Antifa does.

  23. Re:Are all the editors on Slashdot liberal SJW's? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    Ah, I see an Antifa fascist drove by and modded me down, proving my point.

  24. Re:Are all the editors on Slashdot liberal SJW's? on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: -1

    That may be what they _say_ they're against, but actions speak louder than words. Fact is, Antifa is against free speech and open dialog. They're a bunch of spoiled brats who, when things don't go their way, resort to violence.

  25. To eat. on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 2

    If I don't commute between the couch and the fridge, how will I eat?