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  1. How dare they! on How Facebook's WhatsApp Destroyed A Village (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zuckerberg and his team of Silicon Valley-based executives failed to foresee its malignant applications: misinformation, propaganda, rumor, hate.

    That's the New York Times' job.

  2. It will be hijacked ... on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... by Somali pirates. Who will hold it until the owners pay up.

  3. Re:I use this trick to disassociate pain on 'Mindful People' Feel Less Pain, Study Finds (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    Some of our ancestors tried that. Observe the lion chewing on your extremities as a detached analytical observer. The survivors ran like hell, thereby reinforcing that particular genetic branch.

  4. Less pain ... on 'Mindful People' Feel Less Pain, Study Finds (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 1

    ... from my cancer. Because this f*king Yoga pose hurts like hell.

  5. Re:stupid on Sony To Source All Its Energy From Renewables By 2040 (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1
  6. INB4 a link to Goatse Guy.

  7. Re:Really? How?? on Two Lawmakers Urge FTC, CFPB To Keep Pressure On Equifax (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, you can unfreeze for a window

    The idea is to block Equifax at all times. To encourage lenders to use the alternate services.

  8. Re:STILL not using Linux? on Windows 7 Will Get Updates for Four More Years -- If You Pay (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Thank you sir. May I have another?"

  9. Re:Really? How?? on Two Lawmakers Urge FTC, CFPB To Keep Pressure On Equifax (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could put a credit freeze on your records through Equifax. But leave them available through Experian and TransUnion. If your bank or landlord uses Equifax, they'd just turn you down for credit or a lease. But then that rejection would go on your record and be available through the other agencies. Pretty soon your credit score would go in the shitter and you'd have to pay cash for everything.

  10. I tried entering www.slashdot.org and ended up at some strange site with endlessly repeating stories.

  11. And the law won.

  12. TFS: It's good style to use the complete name of the subject of an article at least once. But yeah, this is Slashdot, so carry on editors.

  13. Saving the environment on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about saving that particular ecosystem. How am I supposed to enjoy sightseeing if there are no corpses of moron hikers with broken thighbones laying about for me to mock?

  14. Re: Yeah it's real annoying on Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, you sent me 1000 messages? Well, turns out I was on vacation.

    FTFY.

  15. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A mistake was made.

    Are you certain it was a mistake? It could have been sabotage.

    From TFS:

    We can see the mark where the drill bit slid along the surface of the hull

    That doesn't sound like an accurately located hole. Which would most likely have been made with a jig or started with a punch. Someone just walked up with a drill and it skidded across the surface. A failing grade on a Metal Shop 101 project in high school.

  16. Hello on Ask Slashdot: Should We Hang Up on Conference Calls? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    This is Lenny.

  17. Re:Hopefully someone keeps dialup DVRs around on TiVo Says It Will Discontinue Support For Dial-up Service Later This Month (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    if you still use antenna / analog cable, you probably can't or won't get broadband in that place

    Wrong. 1 Gb FiOS at my house. And I have an OTA antenna for my TV.

  18. Re:Dmitry still doesn't get it. Rogozin is at faul on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you think this kind of behavior is specific to Russia? I've seen the same attitudes at American companies.

  19. Re:A drill bit?? IT MUST BE CHINA !! on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    China !

    Chinesium drill bit would never have made it through the aluminum.

  20. I bet Depends sells more than this.

  21. Re:So I guess Twitter is more powerful than the Fe on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    How can a service like Twitter be a "designated public forum" and be safe from unilateral blocking when the networks it is carried on are the private property of the telecoms on which they can carry whatever traffic that they please?

  22. It would basically be impossible to run a site like Slashdot under that requirement.

    I was thinking more along the lines of Stackoverflow. There goes our software industry.

  23. For sale? How could this be a problem when this is actually built into Windows?*

    *As anyone who has ever received a bogus tech support call and then dutifully executed the commands dictated to them by 'Microsoft support'. And then had their system pwned.

  24. Well, there goes the fishing expedition.

    If they have me in custody and reasonable cause, then a warrant shouldn't be a problem. But that spoils their ability to go sniffing around undetected.

  25. Re:Citizens argue that power of government... on Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Argues 'Privacy is Not Absolute' in Push For Encryption Backdoors (itnews.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Or at least King Charles I wishes they were.