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  1. Re:Related: on White House Seeks 72 Percent Cut To Clean Energy Research (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make America a Shit-hole Again. :)

  2. Re:I would bet not an ARM emulator on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    They already did - the Touch Bar.

    (Like I said in another comment,,,)

  3. Re:My Mac already does this.... on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you see the reason for the Touch Bar. There's an ARM chip built into the keyboard.

    No emulating anything.

  4. One might expect to be detained at LAX for carrying a Huawei phone.

  5. Re:Smart on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    The way Americans here rant about the cartels delivering shoddy overpriced mobile phone and cable services, one might have thought that government intervention to drain the swamp would be a good thing. (Not a commentary on Republicans and Trump, if that's what you're angling for)

    Just don't follow the Australian NBN scenario where one side introduced a policy and the next government completely FUBARed it for political gain and because Uncle Rupert. And they then promoted the turd bowl to Prime Minister...

  6. Re: Just. Fuck. Off. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Well I'm not one of those people who insist on coding in eMacs on a bus, if that's what you mean. I do own a laptop and always use it on a flat surface such as a table or desk. But I've programmed on a 12" laptop and I would never go back to such a cramped keyboard.

    So yeah, next time you see me at a hipster coffee shop where all the 23yos are coding on 15" Macbook Pros, I'll be the old fart in the corner pulling a full-size keyboard out of his backpack, to plug into an 11" Surface-clone running KDE mounted on a tripod with a VESA mount.

  7. Re: Just. Fuck. Off. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Not currently but I did use the generic term 'tablet', rather than fruity-walled-garden Pad (TM)

    My hardware, my OS. If I buy a tablet it'll run whichever version of GNU/Linux I insist, or at a pinch, Windows 10 or Chrome OS.

  8. Re:GNOME is done. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Phoronix regularly summarizes the kwin developer's blog, complete with humourous rants about all the dumb shit the Gnome team in Red Hat want to foist on his KDE/Wayland implementation.
    Gimp, Firefox, gnome system monitor and synaptic are the only GTK programs I use regularly or I'd purge the toolkit entirely.

  9. Re: Just. Fuck. Off. on Should Apps Replace Title Bars with Header Bars? (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    Which is why I'll never buy another conventional laptop with its tired 1990s form factor.
    Tablets that change orientation via a rotatable kickstand would make far more sense than a fixed hinge.

  10. Re:Honestly... I'm sure why... on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Will Default To The X.Org Stack, Not Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    The blackjack and hookers was Ubuntu's Mir and Unity - Half a decade wasted on that.

  11. Re:Apple compatibility is a joke on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean Apple will release an iPad Pro running OS X,
    As us Apple-haters have been demanding all along?! ;-)

  12. Re:She's not a meme on 'Memes Have Rights Too': Grumpy Cat Wins $710,000 In Copyright Lawsuit (thewrap.com) · · Score: 1

    And?

    You're using a person's likeness. That the law would draw a distinction because that person is a cat just smacks of human chauvinism.

  13. She's a cat.

    Trademarking a likeness is no different to producing a human-celebrity endorsed cologne.

  14. I admire the patriotism of you west coast USA citizens but why not support eastern Pacific economies for a third of the price, where any conversations are personally monitored by Xi Jinping?

  15. Re:Where did it all begin on Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon uses AOSP for their OS. They don't include the proprietary Android services that provide Google with a revenue stream.

  16. Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey... stuff on Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Did Zuckerberg just invent time travel?

  17. Re:Windows 10 works on Ask Slashdot: What's the Fastest Linux Distro for an Old Macbook 7,1? · · Score: 1

    Windows works on a Core 2 Duo; source me.

    The main caveat would be the on die GPU, for which Intel refuses to provide updates (not sure whether that model of Macbook came with nvidia).

  18. Re:Fuchsia on Google Moves To Debian For In-house Linux Desktop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Firefox hasn't been ported to Fuchsia. Users would complain they were forced to use an inhouse Chromium-based browser.

  19. Re:wordy on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    'cellular telephone' is mainly a north american thing?

    Hence the continental French are incorporating the term 'mobile'. But "le mobile multifonction" is so intentionally vague one might have thought they were talking about a swiss army knife!

  20. Re:All french everywhere on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    septante, huitante (octante), nonante - sounds perfectly logical.

  21. Re:Whatever on France Says 'Au Revoir' to the Word 'Smartphone' (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they still calling it PFK?

    (KFC to the rest of us)

  22. Re:I wish they were still trying on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple *did* innovate in the netbook space. With a touchscreen, pencil and detachable keyboard - the iPad Pro.

    Something running OS X, you say? Dunno, ask Tim.

  23. The surprise is they're running Windows and not some hardened Linux or an OS written by Canadian hacker Theo de RaaBSD

  24. Re:Oh damn - they used his MIDDLE name too! on Canadian Charged With Running LeakedSource.com, Selling Stolen Info (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I was confused. The headline said he was Canadian but the summary said he was from Jordan, on the other side of the globe.

  25. Vanilla-JS.com on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful