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  1. Clippy will help you through this difficult transition.

  2. Re: Queue Outrage...But why? on Japan Passes Controversial 'Anti-Conspiracy' Bill (privateinternetaccess.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. We must immediately harmonize these copyright infringement laws around the world, just to there is a level playing field for copyright holders. People have been getting away with remembering words from books, songs, movies for far too long!

  3. They are now (or already have) begun legally forcing companies to redesign their software to permit the company to be able to decode the communication. Yay, freedom.

  4. Re:NRA will have something to say about this! on CRTC Bans Locked Phones and Carrier Unlocking Fees (mobilesyrup.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, they will limit themselves to just shouting across the US-Canada border.

  5. Re:Ham on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    TV was not 'in the nature of convenience or luxury' in the 40's?

  6. Re:A data center is a big fridge on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    many fridges have a dehumidifier (in particular, for the freezer compartment), just for this purpose (water condensation).

    But what's the point of this?

    So you don't have to buy a separate cooling system for your computer?

    The fridges power consumption will go up significantly, and it's possible the fridge isn't able to keep up with the heat output of the computer (ie, the interior of the fridge gets warm, so the food goes bad).

  7. Re:eh? on SpaceX Releases Ultra-HD 4K Footage Of Falcon 9 Landing (4k.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. Just bundle Trump in a sealed metal box, put it in the nose cone of a Falcon 9, and launch.

    I don't care where it winds up.

  8. HR is responsible for what? Hiring someone who makes a mistake? Geez, might as well not have a HR department at all...

    But the CTO and other people in charge of IT should be fired or demoted for failing to handle the most basic issue, how to handle the production data being lost. This isn't the only way, perhaps a significant electrical spike takes the data out, or a hacker breaks in and deletes or corrupts it all.

    Once you actually have a "production" setup, you MUST have a backup (well, backups over time) that must be periodically checked and tested. Even just having a very expensive backup setup, but never testing that you can actually get back everything you need from it, is worthless.

  9. Re:In Communist Europe... on It's Been So Windy in Europe That Electricity Prices Have Turned Negative (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. This is exactly the reasoning behind why Trump is working to get rid of renewable energy and go back to coal for all our energy needs.

    All money must flow from the little people to big corporations. It must never to allowed to flow back.

  10. Re:Still not as yuge as Trump's Johnson on New Details On Sergey Brin's Plan For The World's Largest Aircraft (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, there's a reason why his nickname is "Tiny Hands". It's because that's all he needs to complete the job...

  11. Re:BS on Security Analyst Concludes Windows 10 Enterprise 'Tracks Too Much' (xato.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the guy might not be a world-class IT specialist, he does report the truth. Window 10 does track too much, and you can't even opt out of it.

    Unfortunately, the last sentence of the summary is delusional. There is only one company that can "fix" it, and they refuse to.

  12. Re:Google doesn't know how to get data efficiently on Accused of Underpaying Women, Google Says It's Too Expensive To Get Wage Data (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    No, they can gather the data really quickly. What takes time is after they gather the data, they need to manually fudge it so it doesn't look like they are blatantly underpaying women.

  13. You just need to press the "Deploy Cupholder" button harder!

  14. Re:Not an error. A lie. on President Trump's Budget Includes a $2 Trillion Math Error (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump has NO idea what's in this budget. Just like all through his campaign, where he talked about having "plans" for health care, the war on isis, on and on.

    Health Care: banged together in a few weeks, after the election
    War on ISIS (the one that he said that would definitely do the job, but he couldn't tell anybody unless he was elected: Tell the Generals to come up with a plan for defeating ISIS. They have 30 days.

    Hell, he demands his info on everything to be boiled down to a single page of bullet points. And if you want him to actually read through the whole page, you have to use his name multiple times in the bullet points.

    He was strong-arming Congressmen the way a bad used-car dealer tries to sell you a car: I have no idea what's in the deal, but you have to vote for it now or it's off the table and I'll slash the tires on your current car.

  15. Re:$900 payout! WooophooooWoooopp on Uber Plans Millions In Back Pay After Shorting NYC Drivers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Mouth is only $5. The other ports are more.

  16. Well, if you are going to just stand like that in the privacy of your own bedroom, you really should expect Google to drop a load in you... You should be pleased that they didn't also fill your mouth.

  17. Re:A Corny but Lovely Series on Resident Evil Getting Rebooted Into a Six-Film Franchise (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have seen the last R.E. movie, but they decided to just show it in 3D, just to boost revenues. This has become a common tactic now.

  18. Yes. The ad is intentionally misleading, in that it is the drivers who are being hustled by Uber.

  19. Re:I feel so much safer on BlackBerry Working With Automakers On Antivirus Tool For Your Car (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    who the F*CK is going to pay more than $10/month (as somebody else is getting a cut as well) just for antivirus protection for your car?

  20. Yes, it's much better for all your citizens, as well as all the other businesses of your state to pay a company, for years and years, to do business in your state.

    This is the Republican Parties idea of "capitalism".

  21. Re:Low fat whole grain? on Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Nutrition Standards For School Lunches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, my parents knew a family with a dairy farm, and we would regularly drive out there and get a big pail of milk, fresh out of their cows (well, from a large holding tank). Between that and lawn darts, we barely made it out of adolescence.

  22. Re:So AT&T's 5G is to real 5G... on AT&T To Roll Out 5G Network That's Not Actually 5G (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    More like an old guy without viagra to a porn star with viagra.

    There are supposed to be "rules" that have to followed to use 5G, after the 3G AND 4G debacles, but no, if you are a big corporation, why bother.

    Expect all the other big carriers to announce their brand new 5G networks next week.

  23. Well, Big T is working on both ends of the problem.

    1) He's working on increasing the number of people who don't make it to 65
    2) He's working on decreasing the number of people who have any hope of retiring at any age.

  24. Re:And these breakers are connected to the network on GE Fixing Bug in Software After Warning About Power Grid Hacks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    that will definitely slow down the hackers. all of a whole 10 seconds or so.

  25. it's been done, like, a million times already.