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  1. Definitely laser printer on Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? · · Score: 1

    Definitely laser printer - similar to what everyone else said about the advantages (lasts, doesn't dry, etc).

    In addition, you can find cheaper toners, and depending on where you are, refill existing ones at a fraction of a cost.

    It used to cost me ~$5 to refill mine that prints up to 4,000 pages. Yes slight less in quality but who cares... It turned out cheaper to do that and print my PDFs than to buy the soft/hardback books.

    My advice, search for second hand ones on the trading sites (gumtree, trademe, or whatever).. I managed to get mine for free from someone who donated his on one of those sites.

    Alternatively, if you hardly print anything and just need a few pages, just print at a mate's house, or at work..

  2. A joke.. on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    Why can't Bill Gates get dates?

            Because he's microsoft! XD

  3. Alternatives on France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Switch to an iPod like device with apps like Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, iMessage, etc.. Problem solved.

  4. 16 giga-tera-phaps per second. Nearing my average too.

  5. Won't this leave all Windows machines vulnerable to any other exploit that would gain access to the device, potentially turn it on again, and allow the ransomware to do its damage?

    It would be better to remove SMB1 support entirely, or patch it if that's too difficult for MS.

  6. Will this add any security against NSA / Immigration trying to steal your data?

  7. What about In App Purchases. Will those rise too?

  8. And phones / laptops / etc will need 10 times the power, bring it down to the same situation we're in right now, and were 2, 5, 10 years ago... Big whoop..

  9. "And want to live" on Elon Musk: First Humans Who Journey To Mars Must 'Be Prepared To Die' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Life needs to be more than just solving problems every day. You need to wake up and be excited about the future, and be inspired, and want to live."

    Which is exactly why I wouldn't want to go on a suicidal mission like that seeing as you'll most certainly die! There are 1000 ways to be excited and inspired here.

  10. Here's a solution instead on Yelp Launches Public Bug Bounty Program (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Have your website done entirely in JPEG.

  11. IAPs on Slashdot Asks: Is the App Boom Over? · · Score: 1

    Coincidently, that's around the same time they started pushing really shitty unplayable/unusable apps, with In App Purchases down our throats... Bring back the old full-on apps and I'll gladly pay and use them.

  12. ........ and would also cost $86.2 Trillion dollars due to online theft, scams, piracy and infrastructure upgrades.

  13. For those who don't speak the language on France Launches Second Salvo Against Facebook (liberation.fr) · · Score: 1

    not speaking is not the same as not reading...

  14. What if they were arrested and needed to be photographed, would the law require to wait until a strainer is available else face religious backlashes? Would the culprits be required to have strainers available at all time? And if there are non available, would the culprits get away with the crime?

  15. Re:But they say adblock is bad on Ad Networks Using Inaudible Sound To Link Phones, Tablets and Other Devices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They're half right.

    *Adblock* is evil ("acceptable" ads, the sale of Adblock, etc).

    I've uninstalled it from any/all browsers for the whole family, and replaced that with uBlock (and uMatrix / Ghostery / Privacy Badger)

  16. In other news, the related stories shown for this article are

    Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ

    10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College

    Nice algorithms you have here...

  17. "Getting Over Getting Over Uber" on Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math · · Score: 0

    "Getting Over Getting Over Uber"

    Seriously? Who the fuck writes these articles on Slashdot? And "Paeons" ?!?!

    This site is going down the shithole.

  18. None of them on Ask Slashdot: An Accurate Broadband Speed Test? · · Score: 1

    Stick to old fashioned measures...

    Just get a copy of httpwatch/fiddler, (wireshark too if you know what you're looking at), and test several hits with a few random sites. Preferably the big sites that tend to have more capacity (news sites, apple, etc..).

    Not only will you get the big picture of how long it took to load, but you can also focus on what took too long to load - if it's a network or site issue, name resolution, etc..

    ICMP is also your friend (latency test).

  19. Re:What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    Them: 69 ?
    Me: Well I never...!

  20. Re: What's so hard about using the time-honored on At CIA Starbucks, Even the Baristas Are Covert · · Score: 1

    Agree.. it's not for an interview, just for a cup of coffee.. you can give them the name Homer for all they care, as long as a few minutes later you know when your order is ready..

    But that said, now I really want to know what your name is (that comment of it spelled in 3 different ways) :) ..

  21. Re:Webmail on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seriously.. It's called the Enter/Return key. Read up about it..

  22. Re:First on Underwater Landslide May Have Doubled 2011 Japanese Tsunami · · Score: 1

    I don't see how.. The Manhattan theatre holds only 581 seats with a single screen. I fail to see how a landslide that `big` would register anywhere!

    I wonder what else Tim was trying to relate to... hmm...

  23. Re:power consumption? on Early iPhone 6 Benchmark Results Show Only Modest Gains For A8 · · Score: 2

    iPhone 5s is also 64 bit, so weren't they comparing x64 x64 with that ~5% increase?

  24. Surround sound speakers and sub on Ask Slashdot: What Old Technology Can't You Give Up? · · Score: 1

    My ancient sub and 5.1 point surround sound speakers.. ~20+ years old and still beats any crap they make lately. They just don't make things as good as they used to.

  25. Re:Same old... on PHP 5.6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    ... until one day someone gets food poisoned and the restaurant shuts down.