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  1. This level of incompetence should be criminal on After Wells Fargo Outage, Customers Say Direct Deposits Aren't Showing Up (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How the hell does a multi-billion dollar company not have geographically redundant data centers?

  2. I wasn't aware that Japan was part of China now.

  3. Re:Kemp on Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Voting histories absolutely are kept. You can view them online. Not who you voted for but the fact that you voted. I call foul play because he removed people from the voter rolls in an election that he himself was competing in. If you cannot see the inherent conflict of interest in that then you are a fool.

    Trump won because of an outdated and racist electoral college system, not because of independents.

  4. Kemp on Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp Doxes Thousands of Absentee Voters · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bad enough that he stole the election by purging hundreds of thousands of legitimate voters from the voter rolls (like the 92 year old grandmother whose entire registration and history had been disappeared) but now he has to dox people as well.

    Guess I shouldn't be surprised. Hell isn't big enough for the Republicans.

  5. Re:Screw Trump on US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    We also can't trust the American government with ownership of mission critical components. And government and corporations are just as entangled here as they are in China, the US government simply does a better job of obfuscating it.

    Literally almost everything Trump accuses China of doing, the American government is equally guilty of doing. There are no good guys here.

  6. Screw Trump on US Bans Exports To Chinese DRAM Maker Citing National Security Risk (zdnet.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Of course, once again, Trump is doing the bidding of his corporate masters. When he isn't busy holding his neo-nazi fascist white supremacist rallies, he is busy enabling them to gouge the American public.

    Never mind the fact that Micron et. al have repeatedly engaged in price fixing. Never mind the fact that Chinese DRAM could provide much needed relief for the ridiculous DRAM prices and help computers. Somehow, the fact that the Chinese are threatening the profits of a billion dollar corporation is a matter of national security while the fact that we have people in synagogues being massacred by AR-15 welding far-right terrorists isn't.

  7. American law requires malice, not intent to kill.

    Malice can be generally satisfied in one of four ways (with variations between states) :

    1.Intent to kill.
    2.Intent to inflict serious bodily injury.
    3.Felony murder rule (which states that deaths that occur as the result of the commission of some or all felonies such as arson are counted as murder).
    4.Depraved heart murder (e.g. engaging in an action, the natural tendency of which is to produce serious injury or death and doing such in a manner evincing a wanton and willful disregard for the consequences).

  8. Re:Is this a late April Fool's joke? on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    KDE, Xfce, Mate, Cinnamon. Basically anything but GNOME.

  9. Is this a late April Fool's joke? on Canonical Killing Unity For Ubuntu Linux, Will Switch To the Superior GNOME (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Outside of Redhat's bubble, GNOME hasn't been relevant in years. The developers of GNOME went full Apple in trying to control how users use their computer.

  10. Save money on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Save money by firing all the "drivers" since they absolutely aren't necessary (the trains are automated; the only reason they keep the driver around is to push the "start" button as a concession to unions). Then reinvest that money in actual maintenance costs.

  11. No it is not the same thing.

    If you are banned by a moderator, you are banned from that specific subreddit.

    If you are banned by a Reddit employee, you lose access to your entire account.

  12. Um on Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers (softpedia.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reddit isn't banning anyone. The moderators of that particular subreddit are and they are not Reddit employees. Someone doesn't seem to understand how Reddit works.

  13. Doesn't fit the SJW agenda on Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not surprised. The fact that the vast majority of the winners were Asians and Whites doesn't fit the SJW agenda so the program had to be cancelled. Intel is more interested in hiring based on skin color rather than merit. Funny how Asians never seem to count as a minority as far as SJWs are concerned despite making up an even lesser amount of the US population than most other minorities.

  14. Dear Germany on Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial · · Score: 0

    The US invented the internet. We set the rules, not you.

    This is precisely why the UN should never be able to get anywhere near the internet. For all the faults of the US, it has the strongest free speech protections of any country in the world by leaps and bounds. In Europe, free speech doesn't exist because it is illegal to hurt someone's feelings.

  15. Re:Moronic on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It doesn't require you to jam the pen in. It requires no force at all to mess it up.

  16. Moronic on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a perfect example of over-engineering; designing something for flash rather than functionality. It reminds me of the Tesla and people getting locked out of their cars because someone thought it would be a good idea to have retracting door handles (complete with all the moving parts that can break down).

    What is wrong with a simple slot for the pen? Why do you need an ejection mechanism? All that does is add unnecessary parts and over complicate the design.

  17. Re:Fucking morons on Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    And rules can be made to go away when you have enough money to hire lawyers and accountants that know all the loopholes and people to bribe.

  18. Fucking morons on Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The sole advantage of Firefox over Chrome these days is the fact that it's add-on SDK allows addons to modify just about any part of the browser. Chrome extensions are extremely limited in what they do. How will things like FileZilla work with this new API?

    I'm convinced that either the Mozilla Foundation is run by complete mental midgets or plants by Google who are determined to sabotage the browser until the whole foundation shuts down.

  19. Slashdot has gone downhill on Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ever since Dice bought it. This is just another shilling piece.

  20. Re:Open source is not always the best option on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 1

    In Excel, I use ODBC to connect to our ERP system and collate thousands of sales records to produce KPIs and other metrics in real time. LibreOffice does not have anything even close to that functionality.

  21. Re:Open source is not always the best option on Italian City To Dump OpenOffice For Microsoft After Four Years · · Score: 2

    What is the LibreOffice equivalent to PowerPivot?

    Just because you don't use anything but the most basic of features in Office doesn't mean that LibreOffice is equivalent.

  22. Re: Is systemd involved at all? on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention Windows 10. I can't get hibernate to work for the life of me (just shuts down when trying to resume).

    ACPI is a shitty standard that is hard to implement. Has nothing to do with Linux.

  23. Re:Silly Person on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    And since the average person can't afford a lawyer to file the necessary paperwork to motion for Rule 11 Sanctions, it is moot.

    What we have is not a justice system, it is a legal system in which rules and technicalities matter more than right or wrong.

  24. Police chief should be fired on Lawsuit Over Two-Word Tweet Moves Forward · · Score: 4, Informative

    As should the entire school district.

    Defamation is never a felony. In a handful of states, it *might* be a misdemeanor under very specific circumstances.

    In the US, in order to win a defamation case, with the exception of defamation per se (allegations of unchastity, allegations of a loathsome disease, allegations of a crime of moral turpitude, allegations injurious to trade, profession, or business), one has to prove actual damages. Even under the most strict of interpretations, the comment that Reid Sagehorn made could not be construed as defamation.

  25. Hypocrisy, thy name is Microsoft on Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Bridge For iOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it funny that Microsoft basically just "stole" Apple's APIs, especially since Microsoft themselves were arguing that API's should be copyrightable in the Google v. Oracle case.