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  1. Re:off topic Berlin on Uber Says App Doesn't Keep Track of Location; iOS Maps Extension to Blame (ndtv.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because it is in no way tech related and every other news outlet has covered it extensively?

  2. They aren't selling you a seat.

    They are selling you a LICENSE to sit in a specific spot on THEIR airplane at a specific time.

    Just like the weasel words "on a computer" and "on the internet", "license" is the new get-out-of-jail-free card.

  3. Re:Oh yeah, just what I need. on Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    My family and I have often joked about, "If someone only has the audio of what's going on ..." when we're getting really sarcastic against each other.

    This kind of surveillance would be troublesome, and reminds me a bit of a joke from a decade ago about the FBI, NSA or whoever it was monitoring WoW voice chats and freaking out over lines such as, "We're going to need a few more priests if we're going to raid the citadel." and so on.

  4. Re:What consists of "online presence?" on US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    IRC channels? That ICQ login you had back in the 90s? Various handles used on BBS servers in the 80s?

    What happens if you only divulge some information? What happens if you divulge information they don't want? What happens when you start having to do this online, they don't salt and encrypt your password, and start brute-forcing all supplied information with the password you used there in a moment of not thinking ahead?

  5. Re:Together on Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    What, by deleting it for lack of relevance or notoriety?

  6. Pretty sure it isn't enforced the moment the driver actually, you know, DRIVES.

  7. Re:It supposedly has no exhaust, a closed system on China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful (popsci.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh hey, random Youtuber dismissed the claims because they don't match what he learned in high school physics or something, so screw empirical testing from NASA and CAST.

  8. Re:Annnnd on day 1 on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Well that escalated quickly. Which lives are we threatening here by not starting a dangerous construction and drilling job in an inhospitable climate?

  9. Re:Annnnd on day 1 on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Protecting nature is stupid?

    Gotcha. You sound like a nice person to know.

  10. Re:So... on Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas (npr.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Perhaps he was sitting ready to veto any attempt at getting started, but wanted to believe that the good of human beings would do the job.

    Then Trump got elected. .

  11. Re:Browsers are NOT slow on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    My own add-on list is pretty small too.

    AdBlock Plus
    Ghostery
    GMail Notifier
    Backspace to go Back
    And the collection of stuff from Google Docs, apparently. Didn't realize those loaded as extensions until now.

    Nothing in there seems to explain to me why it would take so long, unless the new tab insists on doing lookups to all the listed sites to see if they're currently up or whatever. Given my crappy connection that COULD be the culprit, but it also raises the question of why it would do that. It will slow down bad connections and won't be noticed on fast ones whether it does the check when you go to the site.

  12. Re:Browsers are NOT slow on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 2

    Opening the tab is also more or less instant for me.

    Then a couple of seconds later the search bar appears.

    Three to five seconds later the snapshots of the most commonly visited websites.

    I have no idea how displaying one large image, a text input field and eight (presumably locally saved) thumbnails can take upwards of ten seconds.

  13. "Here we GO!"

  14. Re:Browsers are NOT slow on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am trying to figure out what part of what you wrote (which is all true, mind you) explains why opening a new tab in Chrome or Firefox has to take as long as it does.

  15. Re:Microsoft Combat Systems technical support on Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Failure to complete the survey will result in a $100k administrative fee being sent to your next of kin.

  16. Conflict of interest? on Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support (petri.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesn't this make it in Microsoft's interest to introduce obscure, random (but ultimately harmless) annoyances into the DoD version of Win10 so they will maintain their tech support contract?

  17. So you wouldn't be playing an RPG where the Tyrannosaur is the heavy melee tank class, the Velociraptor is the speedy rogue equivalent, that spitting dinosaur I can't recall the name of from the first Jurassic Park movie as the ranger and so on?

    Holy crap I'd pledge the hell out of that on Kickstarter.

  18. Law is also far too important to leave in the hands of corporations.

  19. Re:Kind of consistent, isn't it? on Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    ... said a random anonymous coward while providing zero examples.

    Great post, would read again.

  20. Re:Got nothing to hide? on Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that since Erdogan is showing a lot of fear he has a lot to hide?

  21. Re:Got nothing to hide? on Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Miracles: If they actually happened, they'd be called events.

  22. Re:It's an US problem only? on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Most other countries leave the seller or courier liable until they get a signature, meaning they don't just leave boxes out in the open like they seem to do in the US.

  23. Re:I dont know what all the hate is for on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Sonic is known for running really fast. I mean come on, even his Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) says so: ... has the ability to run at supersonic speeds ... Sonic most commonly has to race through levels ... his iconic personality was the epitome of speed ...

    Mario, on the other hand, in Super Mario RPG identifies himself not by running, but by jumping. I'm not kidding. That may also be why his racing series contains gokarts rather the F1 racers (although the relatively recent addition of dirtbikes is a grey area, I'll admit).

    So no, running really fast REALLY is more Sonic than Mario.

  24. Re:I dont know what all the hate is for on Bad Reviews For Super Mario Run Are Sending Nintendo's Stock Tumbling (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    The ultimate in quick-time-event gaming: The entire game is a quick-time-event.

  25. Got nothing to hide? on Turkey Blocks Tor's Anonymity Network (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have nothing to hide you should have nothing to fear.

    Wait. Oh, I'm sorry.

    If you have nothing to hide you should hope the leader of your country doesn't suffer from delusional paranoia and sees enemies everywhere.