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  1. Re:Low information voters are a scourge of democra on Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    At the same time Europeans are facing fines for disparaging remarks about the massive amounts of refugees we've been getting for the past six months or so, under racism laws. The courts have declared in no uncertain terms that it is racist to spit at these refugees as they're marching up the highway.

    Racism in America started with 'your' slaves, yes. That is your original definition of racism. But like many things the meaning has evolved and shifted to now encompass "People coming from different cultural backgrounds than myself" - and let's face it, that includes muslims. Or moslems, or whatever the proper spelling is in English.

  2. What does someone like me that never jumped on the Bitcoin hype do? Just write the computer off as a lost cause?

  3. Re:How about something more useful? on Microsoft's BSOD Is Getting More Descriptive With QR Codes (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Devil's Advocate: This is a proof-of-concept without the backend being finished just yet.

    That said, a lot of error messages should make an experienced helper go, "Oh, just close out of that program, wait ten seconds, start it back up." anyway. A QR code will force him to go to Microsoft's knowledge base (does that show ads?) only to facepalm at realizing which error it is. Again.

    At the very least this will make the knowledge base see a sudden surge in use, and department leads just love that for their quarterly reports.

  4. Re:Vote with your feet on Music Streaming Service Exclusives Make Pirating Tempting Again (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, the confusion will get worse if the US gets Donald Trump for president while the EU has Donald Tusk for chairman.

  5. Re:No evidence on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So if evidence points to the public wifi at the local McDonalds, does the police go do a raid there as well?

  6. Standard tactics on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is pretty much standard operating procedure. They can't outlaw anonymizing services, but they can make running them so much hassle that very, VERY few people want to get involved.

  7. Re:Danger Will Robinson! on Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Current price is 8 dollars rounded.
    New price is 10 dollars rounded.

    Your 20% is if you look back; for the people currently paying 8 dollars they now have to pay 2 dollars more, and 2 dollars is 25% of 8 dollars.

  8. Re:Well, they're not wrong on Newspapers Try To Stop Ad-blocking Browser Brave From 'Stealing Content' · · Score: 1

    It would be worse than copying it, actually, since the newspapers' own servers would be used to serve the content, with associated maintenance costs.

  9. Re:Is this still true? on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty probable, actually. Both connected to a USB hub on your desk, hub loses connection for whatever reason (minor short circuit, dog walks under the table, crap like that) and bam, you lose both keyboard and mouse.

    This leads to storing unique IDs from your peripherals to recognize them if they get plugged back in etc. all in a desperate attempt to safeguard against a very rare kind of attack while inconveniencing lots of legit uses.

    Like DRM and TSA.

  10. Re:Is this still true? on A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    On the bright side, I am pretty sure they haven't made USB memory sticks yet that can read and parse the post-it on the monitor!

  11. Re:No, it didn't. on Computer Created A 'New Rembrandt' After Analyzing Paintings (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    But can the AI itself then be considered art, as it has been made to make people observing it in action feel awe and astonishment at what it is doing?

  12. Re:Don't Care - Fuck Sony on Tomorrow's PS4 Update To Add Game Streaming for PC and Mac, Privacy Features (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Please tell us how you really feel and how you will finance fiber connections for everyone that buys a console ever.

  13. Re:There already exists a device for this... on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 2

    To be fair, can you imagine flipping a coin and flawlessly catching it thousands of times per day?

  14. Re:Training? on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That was surprising? Have you seen a TSA agent recently?

  15. Re:The airplane on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    That was only because it had already been revealed and he didn't see a way of stealing the patent.

  16. Re:your hobby is childish; mine is super-serious! on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly boy, they're called mods. Sometimes expansion packs.

  17. Re:This. on Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, this proves that my phone provider's ridiculous cap of 200 MB per month truly is ridiculous!

  18. Re:Pretty standard boilerplate... on There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually modern law: Because claiming "fair use" can see the case tied up in court for years.

  19. Re:Pretty standard boilerplate... on There Are Some Super Shady Things In Oculus Rift's Terms of Service (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    By sending or transmitting to us Content, or by posting such Content to any area of the Sites, you grant us and our designees a worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), assignable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to link to, reproduce, distribute (through multiple tiers), adapt, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform or otherwise use such Content in any media now known or hereafter developed.

    From http://slashdotmedia.com/terms...

  20. Re:Odd bedfellows. on MPAA Opposes Proposed Minnesota Revenge Porn Law, Saying It Limits Speech (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then the law should say that instead of blanket statements that are open to interpretation as required.

  21. Re:Totaly agree on Study Says People Who Continually Point Out Typos Are 'Jerks' · · Score: 1

    That's "double", mr. Olsoc. ... ;-)

  22. Re:It is inevitable on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    A mechanical lock on your car that is normally unlocked by your phone is necessary because sometimes PHONE batteries go dead. Happens far more often than car batteries going dead, too.

  23. Re: How is this not win/win on 33,000 Sign Online Petition Promoting Guns At Republican Convention (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "I firmly believe that if $candidate had won the election it would have spelled the end of the world! Killing him/her was self defense! I stood my ground!"

    Done and done.

  24. The Future of Gaming on How To Solve VR Simulation Sickness: Strap People Into Rollercoasters · · Score: 2

    This has got to be the next natural step of On-Rails gameplay.

  25. Re:Printable instant tickets? on Six Charged For Hacking Lottery Terminals To Spew Only Winning Tickets (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, the obvious strategy is having one machine that prints the numbers, and another machine that can check which numbers have won. NOT the same machine.