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  1. Re:Hmm on US Interceptor Missile Successfully Intercepts Test ICBM, Says Pentagon (go.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In practice (at least theoretically) multiple interceptors could be deployed versus a single target, greatly increasing the success rate (as only a single interceptor needs to find its mark to make a successful intercept). I'll take this strategy versus a 100% chance of a bad outcome with no such defense deployed, thanks.

  2. Closed stores??! on More Than 35,000 AT&T Workers Threaten Weekend Strike (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you mean it? Every time I've ever had to go into a cell phone store it's been filled with slack-jawed morons wasting oxygen playing with their phones. So yeah, I think civilization might survive.

  3. Re:When leaking national secrets was cool on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You're such a sad little douche. I really feel sorry for you. :-(

  4. Re:When leaking national secrets was cool on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    could you post AC so I don't have to see it?

    Big surprise -- another liberal who can't handle hearing viewpoints different than their own.

  5. Re:When leaking national secrets was cool on Chelsea Manning Set To Be Released From Prison, 28 Years Early (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    Most progressives that I know want to nail all of the above to the wall (with the exception of Lord Obama, of course). Dissent against The State is never something to be tolerated.

  6. in the USA, the land of the free, where electricity is dirt cheap, on average 1500 people freeze to death every bloody year

    And I'm sure this has everything to do with electricity costs and not that the US doesn't institutionalize its homeless population anymore, right?

  7. This is the disc -- NOT a compressed .mkv or .mp4 on 'First Pirated Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disk' Appears Online (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    This torrent appears to be the actual disc itself -- .m2ts files and BDMV\STREAM directory etc. It looks like the full 72.5 Mb/s source movie at the identical quality as the retail UHD disc, minus the DRM -- you could burn this puppy back to a UHD disc and play it on your player (assuming the player will play these UHD discs without DRM), or, more likely, use your favorite software player. Or, you could use Handbrake and compress it to the bitrate and container of your choice. But it looks like the real deal.

  8. Windows Subsystem for Linux on Surface Laptop Can Be Switched To Windows 10 Pro For Free Until 2018 (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, as of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Ask, and you shall receive.

  9. And you do understand that Kennedy wanted to put Americans on the moon not for scientific reasons, but to beat the Russians in the Space Race, right?

  10. Re: Positive on American Farmers Are Still Fighting Tractor Software Locks (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That was my point, that both sides were to blame, but you made it personal. Fuck you.

  11. Re: Positive on American Farmers Are Still Fighting Tractor Software Locks (npr.org) · · Score: 0, Troll

    And the DMCA, which of course was signed into law by Bill Clinton.

  12. Re:Farmers usually vote Republican on American Farmers Are Still Fighting Tractor Software Locks (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The section of the article to which I linked cites numbers provided by Obama's Dept. of Agriculture -- they're right at the bottom of the page if you'd cared to look. Where are the numbers to back up your claims?

  13. Re:Farmers usually vote Republican on American Farmers Are Still Fighting Tractor Software Locks (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only real farming left in the US are large industrial farms.

    Quit parroting that left wing lie. It's total bullshit that one 5 second Google query absolutely disproves.

  14. Part time, not full time on Amazon Looks to Hire 30,000 Part-Time Employees in US (fortune.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are doing this to cut their expenses. I understand why small businesses might need to do it, but close this loophole for big ultraprofitable megacorps like Amazon. Also quit allowing them to stash their profits overseas and avoid paying tax. This should be a bipartisan effort, and any politician opposed to it should be voted out of office.

  15. Why not microfilm? on Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you're encoding data on film, but you still need a digital camera or computer to read it, you still might be screwed and the data might be inaccessible. By microfilming the source docs, all you need is a light source and a magnifying glass -- both of which are decidedly analog and low-tech compared to the method being used for this project. Plus sliver halide microfilm lasts at least 500 years if properly stored. Either you're taking the digital component out of it, or you're not. Having a digital requirement in there might make the data inaccessible in a post-electricity, post-digital world post-apocalypse.

  16. CEO != humanitarian on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    SV CEOs aren't hired to shoot SJW rainbows out of their assholes and hit everyone in the feels, or even to be nice people. They're hired first and foremost to MAXIMIZE SHAREHOLDER VALUE as quickly and efficiently as possible, and secondarily to achieve various strategic objectives (e.g., dominate their market) which are generally set by the shareholders and usually directly related to the achievement of MAXIMIZING SHAREHOLDER VALUE. Everything else in their worldview is generally irrelevant. Look back throughout the history of wealth -- this is how great fortunes have been accumulated again and again. There's time enough for charitable works and good deeds later on (through the shareholder's own tax-exempt foundation, of course).

  17. Re:This pretty much explains 45. on Psychopathic CEOs Are Rife In Silicon Valley, Experts Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Still butthurt, huh? Do you really believe that Hillary -- Hillary ***Clinton*** -- is any different in that regard? If the Trump voters got "conned" by your estimation, they're no different than anyone who pulled the lever for HRC.

  18. Bull fucking shit on Women Still Underrepresented in Information Security (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If women were really cheaper, companies would be hiring them in droves to reduce cost.

  19. It's a RENTAL, not a purchase on Big Tech Lobbying Is On the Verge of Killing Right To Repair Legislation In Minnesota (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Call it what it actually is with these ridiculous anti-consumer rules. If I can't do what I please with hardware I *bought*, I didn't really buy it, did I?

  20. Here's a chart that matters (more) on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Music makes no sense on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Country is rap for white people.

  22. Sorry, the business world runs 9-5 on How To Close the Gender Pay Gap By 2044 (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want to be part of it, then choose to be part of it like the rest of us business world men and women do. You aren't so special that the whole world is gonna rearrange itself for your schedule.

  23. Says one of the guys leading the creation . . . on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    . . . of the shittiest, dumbest, least original music the world has ever seen. Seriously, fuck this guy. Why is this on Slashdot?

  24. This is like when we put old 80s rap cassettes in a Teddy Ruxpin.

  25. "discovering great music" on One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of this is uploads of copyrighted RIAA music? It seems to be a 50-50 split to me of bootleg concert footage and illicit rips. Not that I care, but YouTube is one of the main platforms that millennials use to consume their content, including music, so it's interesting to see where this is going or if / when the RIAA will start screaming for everything to be taken down as they continue to become less relevant.