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  1. Re:Firefox marketshare continues to decline on Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators · · Score: 1

    It still needs some way to show which tabs are killing the CPU. I constantly find Firefox at 100% of a cpu and can't find the tab/tabs causing the problem.

  2. Don't you want the world to immediately know what you are using your video card for....hmm, Big&Black&RoughAllOver.mp4 is currently fullscreen.

    OK, so maybe not everything.

  3. Re:Enough Already on Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    what number they come up with, it'll still be less than the losses of the 'content industry' will report due to IP theft, just for what has been stolen from them this week.

    So far, I think we are up to owing them 3 solar systems, each with a minimum of 3 solid-platinum planets.

  4. Re:They have no plan on Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares (digitaljournal.com) · · Score: 1

    The plan is the same as for nuclear war.

    Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.

  5. Re:Anything can be stable with enough drugs on Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    All of them is the solution to anything.

    FTFY

  6. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    except there isn't an increase in renters. there is an increase in the amount of money the poorest renters have. they generally live in run-down homes or motels, paying month to month, and the month after they get an increase in welfare, the rent goes up a commensurate amount. they don't get a nicer place, or better amenities, it winds up being just straightup profit for the landlord.

    and there is no 'competition' for these customers, other than competition for handouts directly from government for cheap rental units, which they rent to these welfare recipients.

    all it does is set the new bottom rental fee.

    And that is exactly what will happen with this 'universal income', it will set the bottom rental fee, in the range of 75%-90% or so of the amount.

    It's the free market taking advantage of the poor, because they don't have a choice. Same as always.

  7. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Watch rent prices anytime welfare rates go up. Rent goes up pretty much exactly how much the rate went up.

  8. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    He probably gets dogs to molest babies that he has taken candy from.

  9. Re:Excellent. on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 2

    Except this doesn't really help, because the lowest rent immediately jumps to 75-100% of this 'basic income'.

    So, you need to introduce rent controls to prevent this.

  10. Re:Securing your laptop? Only one way on Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? · · Score: 1

    Remember, this WON'T be "cops", ie, some drone poking around seeing what they can find. If it's at all interesting [as in, you are a journalist that is doing something that the government is interested in], your computer HD will be cloned and sent off to the NSA to be decrypted.

    You better have it encrypted using a very high-quality algorithm, with a very good password that they cannot confiscate from you [like on a usb stick or keyfob].

  11. Re: Multinationals have no country on US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies · · Score: 1

    So, you are advocating that we invade them and slaughter pretty much everybody and then set up a puppet government?

  12. Re:End the drug war on Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    yes, you have to be hit with the stupid stick to get on a jury

  13. Re:Do what? on Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Because NeXT didn't exist in the 90's.

  14. You mean like when one of AT&T's lines was cut maybe a month or so ago, and ALL the cell service for a pretty good region stopped working, because everyone was using AT&T for backhaul?

  15. Re:License to Private Server on DRM Circumvention Now Lawful For More Devices · · Score: 1

    Remember ALL these exemptions only last 3 years, and must be explicitly renewed by the Library of Congress. And so far, I believe they renew less than half of the exemptions from the previous 3 year period.

  16. Re:System not required on Australia Working On High-Tech Shark-Detection Systems (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The normal term for that storage space is NOT "pocket".

  17. Re:ARM32? ARM64? on ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? (edn.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy a MS Surface really cheap if you are interested in that.

  18. Re:Dump them as fast as you can on The Coming Tech Gig Economy (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All that stuff is valuable next quarter. We need to beat the numbers THIS QUARTER you idiot!

    Then I get my bonus, and I leave for another company.

  19. Re:Or perhaps... on SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment (sxsw.com) · · Score: 2

    Brilliant! If you have a meeting to discuss online bullying, I'll shoot up your meeting. Because it's too PC.

  20. Re:The reasons don't matter on Ask Slashdot: Open Tools For Logbooks and Note-taking? · · Score: 1

    But it's open source, so just jump in, fix the bugs and add the features you want. That's how it is supposed to work.

  21. Re:I would rather have a Cuban sandwich. on Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    I would imagine the meat would be tougher than an sandwich made with Americans.

  22. Re:You think it's bad now? on Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Too late, it already supercedes the Constitution.

  23. Re:People still don't know? on California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as taxes don't go up!

  24. Re:Eliminating traffic problems on New Algorithm Provides Huge Speedups For Optimization Problems (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    You have it upside down. If all the 'stuff' is elevated, the ground winds up being dead because it doesn't get enough sun.