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  1. Re:Long-term support until 2021? on Linux Mint 18 'Sarah' Released, Supports Generic GTK X-Apps (linuxmint.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Long-term support" only means 5 years now?!

    Linux Mint's long-term support cycle is tied to that of Ubuntu's. Maybe you should be complaining upstream?

  2. I remember... on Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com) · · Score: 1

    back when it was MacOS hovering around 2% market share.

  3. Re:My current laptop is Windows 8.0 on Linux Grabs More Than 2% of Desktop Market Share (w3counter.com) · · Score: 1

    I was just about to ask why people were still on 8.0. It's unsupported now and pretty buggy.
    Windows 8.1 + Classic Shell and you have as close to current Windows as you can get w/o the spyware.

  4. Re:Harry Potter my ass... on DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "How long was your wand again, Harry? 11 3/4?"

  5. C'mon editors! on Dell Stops Selling Android Tablets (pcworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    No joke about "Venue being closed"?

  6. Re:Nerds on Google Reveals What N In Android N Stands For -- Nougat · · Score: 1

    Android Nougat

    I guess Android Nerds was too obvious...

    [Insert joke about Android nerds creaming themselves over new OS release.]

  7. What area does spring cover?

    I hear their coverage is eternal, but there is a very low signal to noise ratio.

  8. nightmare!

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    You don't know how the concept effects him. I actually had a bad dream last night about my computer updating to Windows 10. I think the topic came up because of recent reading about that woman who won $10,000 for her business machine being borked. But anyway, yes. It was a literal nightmare about Microsoft.

  9. Re: No take backs!! on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I hope this serves as a warning for the ignorant Americans considering not voting, when faced with a vote for Donald or Hillery.

    That's more correct.

  10. Re:A rather slow data rate on Malware Can Use Fan Noise To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    That's okay. As the summary says, the attack "can be picked up by the human year", and even at that data rate they should get some juicy stuff over 12 months of transmitting.

  11. Re:...why? on Microsoft Launches NFC Payments For Windows 10 Phones (nfcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    MS never announced any such thing.

    Microsoft rarely announces they are abandoning a product line they have recently been promoting. They just stop releasing new products in the line, then the frequency of updates to existing released models slows (if applicable)... then three or so years later, when most people have changed off out of frustration, do they EOL of the product. That was what happened with Zune, too.

  12. Re:And a few bucks more for missing content on 74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Their Subscription Than See Ads (allflicks.net) · · Score: 1

    ...I could pretty much count on them having episodes of any older TV show I care about, and also lots of anime I hadn't yet seen (English-dubbed "Bleach", "Freezing", "M*A*S*H", etc.).

    Hulu has also recently dropped the vast majority of their anime catalog. As someone who had pre-paid for his subscription through November 2017, I'm a little miffed. Might put it "on-hold" to preserve the months and come back when something shows up there I want to watch.

    Seems lots of providers are trying to do more original content to avoid having to license things, but miss that the third-party content and older series freely available to see still is what drives lots of people to subscribe to their service to start with.

  13. Re:Threats from the future? on Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn (threatpost.com) · · Score: 2

    Oops. Misread that there. 22.0.0.192.
    LOL. Carry on, I'm an idiot.

  14. Threats from the future? on Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    [quote] The bug exists in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier versions -- running on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS...[/quote]

    According to Adobe the current version of Flash is only 21.0.0.192.
    I'd like to hear where this later version is that is already considered obsolete, and where the patched update is.

  15. Re:At this point , I just need to ask: on Those 100,000 Lost Air Force Files Have Been Found Again (govexec.com) · · Score: 2

    What the hell does "leverage" mean?

    In this case it means they actually tried to recover the files, instead of just claiming they couldn't because they're lazy, or because they would rather the files be lost anyway.

    You see this happen in private industry too, when files needed for legal proceedings are "lost" and the judge isn't going to let that get by. Miraculously, "unrecoverable files" are suddenly retrieved.

  16. Re:What a revolution on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    How bout Bones for President?

    The current political system? It's dead, Jim.

  17. Rolls-Royce has unveiled its first driverless vehicle dubbed The Vision Next 100. It is an autonomous vehicle aimed at "the most discerning and powerful patrons in the world." There's no steering wheel but there is a silk "throne" where passengers can sit and stare out the window.

    Second picture on the article shows a center-mounted front seat that look like some crap 1960's "space age" design, nothing royal, and a there most certainly is a steering wheel.

  18. Don't breathe a sigh of relief on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just biding it's time.
    Better deep freeze Robert Duvall to have him take care of it later.

  19. Daetwyler Holding AG has the biggest piece of the Pi now.

  20. Re:Are foreign devices fully secure? on Obama Finally Ditches BlackBerry, Switches To Samsung Galaxy S4 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You're right. They should have bought a commercial smartphone that is American made.
    Oh wait, there are none.

  21. Re:"infect art TVs" on Android Ransomware Hits Smart TVs (trendmicro.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they are referring to a large-screen version of those LCD picture frames that play a slideshow from off a SD card.

  22. Asking a question repeatedly isn't rude. on Parents Are Worried the Amazon Echo Is Conditioning Their Kids To Be Rude (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just annoying.
    Butthurt much, millennial parents? Not like you didn't do the same thing when you were young.

  23. In Soviet Russia... on NSA Releases New Snowden Documents (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Snowden releases NSA documents!

  24. Re:A dev is claiming responsibility on Apple Offers No Explanation for 7-Hour Outage (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft. Yeah, he wishes he had the power to bring down a milti-billion dollar company's cloud infrastructure.
    "I uploaded a couple app updates at once and look what I did! Hurr durr."

    Cause you know, Apple has so few developers they rarely get that kind of load. So it only takes a few simultaneous transfers to crash their system.

  25. Re:who did what, now? on Minecraft Tops 100 Million Sales (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe that's not such a bad idea. Rename the company Minecraft.
    Kinda like Philip Morris changing their name to the Altria Group, to help people forget about the horrible products [i]they[/i] made.