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  1. Handshaking on The Flu and Airports (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Handshaking. We MUST get rid of this stupid form of greeting. I'm what's commonly referred to as a germaphobe -- I hate touching the hand rails at Disneyland, or the TV remote in a hotel room. (EXTRA CREDIT: The sponge in the sink at work) And, just as loathsome is touching the hand of someone that I haven't just witnessed washing his or her hands.

    If we stopped shaking hands, this would go a long way toward stemming the spread of sickness. Hey, Mythbusters confirmed it.

  2. You mean this?. You call that a debunking? It's a DC-based reporter playing the part of Twitter apologist, and is nothing more than his opinion on the published video. Yeah, watch this... I just debunked the debunking.

  3. Re:Intels updates also slow down AMD chips that do on By Next Week, Intel Expects To Issue Updates To More Than 90% of Processor Products Introduced Within Past Five Years (intel.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have control over the firmware (whether while(1) or RTOS) and, especially if you have cryptographic verification or authentication (if you're a slave to a host), you have nothing to worry about. If you're running apps/hosting processes that are installed by outside entities, that's where you'd have concern.

  4. Re:Do you know what science isn't? on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    None of what you just said supports the argument that climate change (specifically, AGW) is a valid blanket, causal boogeyman for all bad weather events.

  5. Re:Linux branding is terrible on Linux Mint 19 Named 'Tara' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    So what? Apple just named their new OS after a stoner chic. My cousin Sierra is always high, too.

  6. Re:Do you know what science isn't? on Scientists Can Now Blame Individual Natural Disasters On Climate Change (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Damn, son! You ARE an apologist, aren't you. TLDR. But, I would like to comment on one single statement you made:

    but it's pretty clear at this point that the continued warming of the atmosphere is bound to make heat waves and droughts both more common and more severe.

    How about severe cold temperatures and floods? Yep, I know -- we ALL know. Those too. You see, this is what makes you alarmists sound so ridiculous. Absolutely EVERY undesirable weather phenomenon is blamed on climate change.

  7. So, if you're homeless, you get free reign of everything in the city? You get to loiter, sleep and poop anywhere you want? Now, who needs to check their privilege?

  8. Khan Con

  9. Re:This caused massive environmental damage on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This seems like a silly argument

    No, it's a counter to a silly bleeding heart who's calling for the death penalty. I know it's en vogue to hate anyone who would harm mother Gaia so, but calling for his death is asinine.

  10. Re:This caused massive environmental damage on Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    How much environmental damage did this cause? Quantify it. If you're going to assert that he should be killed for his crime, you should be able to identify exactly what his crime was.

  11. Re:The typic of the one true house. on Health Risks To Farmworkers Increase As Workforce Ages (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not seeing what the fuss is about.

    ...Or, more to the point,

    *clears throat*

    Why the FUCK THIS IS ON SLASHDOT.

  12. Re:Every time a massive corporation speaks out for on PSA: Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    You kind-of just made his point for him. goodjob.

  13. Re:I'd pay extra to not compete with Netflix binge on PSA: Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everything you said can and does happen under current "net neutrality" regulation. Yeah, I wish there were laws that prohibited ISPs from oversubscribing a neighborhood -- I hate that my available bandwidth takes a nose dive every night at 6 when all the neighbors start Netflixing.

  14. Adobe Audition 1.0 on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? · · Score: 1

    Works flawlessly in Wine, and is still better than Audacity. Hell, Cool Edit from 1998 is better than Audacity.

    Other Wine wins:
    Half Life 1 (pre Steam)
    UltraVNC viewer (better than remmina)
    Keil uVision, except for debugging.

  15. They give the news outlets something to talk about, and lend credence to their narrative.
     
    I just hope that, as the Soros-funded buses transport these protesters into place, they make some effort to educate the protestors on what "net neutrality" means. It's always embarrassing when my fellow beanie wearers can't properly evangelize the cause.

  16. Maybe he was referring to War Games (ok, likely). Or, maybe he was just a hungry lil' AC. Because, it's always a good time for flame-broiled, 80's goodness.

  17. I have an X, and I love it. The first thing I did after taking it out of the box was install TWRP and Cyanogen. Currently running LineageOS 14.1. Aside from the so-so camera, this is a great phone.

  18. Re: Doesn't this continutally come up for Munich? on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ja, you are right. But, in Germany, vee coll it ze Schtart but'n.

  19. Re:And when you cut your finger... on New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    .. Or gain weight, lose weight, ...

  20. Re:The universe is not infinitely old on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    And you're too dense to understand proper use, or lack of an apostrophe in the word "its".

  21. Re:The universe is not infinitely old on CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist (ign.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he's recognized that "a finite and insignificant perturbation in the infinity of existence" is simple hand waving nonsense, and doesn't say or answer anything.

  22. Re:FTFY? on Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player (betanews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you turn it into Windows 7.

  23. So, does the new Bluetooth standards fix latency problems? Specifically, when watching video (hooked up to a monitor via HDMI) and listening to a bluetooth headset, the audio sync is *always* off.

    Welp, If you limit your watching to anime there'll be no problem.

  24. Re:Stopped reading after the first line. on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Brains aren't machines.

    Machine: a living organism or one of its functional systems

    It's not the most complex thing we know because it's part of a larger system which adds more complexity.

    Pedantic. Admittedly, so is this entire thread.

  25. Re:Stopped reading after the first line. on When You Split the Brain, Do You Split the Person? (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Jimmy may only be one person out of one million people named Jimmy. So makes up one millionth of all Jimmys.

    Right. And with Kimmel, Fallon, Carter, and John (mmm, just had a JJ sandwich for lunch: #11 on wheat with cucumbers and sauce.), you have reason to believe that your Jimmy is not the only one. This would make the statement of your Jimmy being the tallest an absurd one.

    The life on our planet is the only life known to us. It's reasonable to suspect there is other life and, possibly, more complex brains as well, simply because the universe is BIG. But, we have no information available to us that provides for anything more than mere speculation. So, until we do, the human brain is perhaps the most complex machine in the universe ... a very reasonable statement, and no reason for the OP to whine.