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  1. > master -> Hard Working American
    > slave -> Parasite

    Don't you mean:

    master -> Parasite
    slave -> Hard Working American

  2. Re:It would need to be grounded in the real world on New Zealand Government Spends $150K To Create Video Game To Teach People How To Run a Business (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work on the C64 (AFAIK), instead you have to borrow money, go to the backalley casino and win, pay back the money you borrowed from Wu and then buy ships with the 300000 or so money you have left.

    Of course, none of these methods would work in the real world. To start a sucessful business, you have to borrow money, sign up to an online casino, win millions, pay back the money and then ....? do some stuff and profit or be happy with the profit you made gambling. Also shanghai somebody in the street just because.

  3. Re:just as monkeys evolve to humans, humans evolve on Stanley Kubrick Explains The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    Apes, not monkeys.

    Not trying to be a besserwisser, it's a very important distinction when talking about evolution.

  4. Re:Why is this news? on New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released · · Score: 1

    Actually I can only find one commercial game released this year: https://www.protovision.games/games/sams_journey.php?language=en

    was also thinking about Planet X2, but that one (and several others) was relased in 2017:

    http://www.the8bitguy.com/product/planet-x2-commodore-64/

    Not as impressive as I imagined, but 2018 isn't over yet.

  5. Why is this news? on New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are still commercial games being released for the C64 every year (+ smaller free games). I don't follow the Amiga-scene as closely as the C64, but surely it's the same there?

    Not complaining about the Amiga getting some attention on slashdot, I just don't see why it's news.

  6. Re:Theocracy rules on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    If you're not a "religious" environmentalist, you are ignorant and/or suicidal.

    Most people, at least in the western world (apart from the US, where some people seems to think nature is a communist plot), are environmentalists no matter where they are are on the political spectrum. It's a matter of survival.

  7. From an 80's computer magazine on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 2

    ? Who is the hackers least favorite actor?
    ! Error Flynn

    (there were some other equally bad jokes that I unfortunately can't remember right now)

  8. You've never seen Star Trek before? It usually takes at least 2 seasons for the series to get any good.

  9. Re:Just say no to FaceBook. on Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "The joke went over my head so now I have to pretend it's the previous AC that's retarded" - AC2

  10. Re:How about telling it like it is? on GoDaddy Expels Neo-Nazi Site Over Article On Charlottesville Victim (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Oh, thanks for the information. This also means that the North Koreans are actually democrats. Because, you know, "Democratic People's Republic" of Korea. Right?

    Or maybe you should pick up a book. Any history book would do, but one that explains the whole thing with national "socialism" + Otto and Gregor Strasser would be especially helpful.

  11. Re:Smith & Wesson 29 on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prepare For The Theft Of Your PC? · · Score: 2

    So you're prepared to kill people just because they want to steal your laptop? That's quite sad, even if you happen to live in a place like Somalia.

  12. The AmigaOne X-series has been available for years now (and it has been more or less dead for years outside the hardcore AmigaOS circles due to the price). This is just the latest version.

    I've been an Amiga user for almost 30 years now and I'd love to have one, but not at that lolprice.

  13. Re:Al Gore says it's so and therefore it is? on National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    Yes, there are lot of of morons expressing their beliefs on IMDB for some reason.

    This was especially funny:

    "In reality 66% of scientists have no opinion about AGW"

    ...In reality 95% of scientists have no opinion about gravity. So?

  14. Re:Cheaper to get hacked than do security maintena on Yahoo Sued For Gross Negligence Over Huge Hacking (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    > Lesson was simple: it is much easier to maintain old versions that keep things working AND DO NOTHING than
    > to do any proactive security maintenance. This works in a number of ways.

    Uh, that's not the right lesson to draw from this. If customers gets hacked because they are running out of date CMSes, it's their fault. It's also their fault if it's not working because they have outdated crap that's incompatible with modern php-versions. But if you neglected to update php, and the customers gets hacked because of that, it's your fault. You might be able to talk your way out of it in some cases by pointing out that (this kind of) hacking is bad, but if the customer is a company or a person who cares, they will demand to know exactly how this could happen. Having a logfile that shows them exactly what exploit in their outdated CMS or plugin or theme was used is very satisfying.

    I see this in every major php release. The answer to customers who complain is "too bad, update your old outdated Joomla 1.5.x/WP 3.5.x-crap. Or if you don't want to do that, good luck finding a reliable host that still has php 5.eol".

  15. Never heard of this site, but there's a great alternative:

    https://google.com/

    (filetype:torrent)

  16. Re:Pound is in the toliet on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > Seriously, A weak pound will help the UK. It is a plus when selling your goods

    The problem is, the UK doesn't produce any goods. I don't think I have anything that's made in the UK, but lots of stuff made in Germany/USA/China/Taiwan/France etc.

  17. Re:Blast From The Past on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    > Seriously, anyone uses MySpace anymore?

    2005 called and wanted it's question back.

    (2005 then called again and wanted that stupid joke back)

  18. Come on slashdot on Phishing Email That Knows Your Address (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Clicking on the email apparently installs malware"

    Stuff like this is common in dead tree media, but here, on Slashdot? What email client? Allright:

    What do you mean by "clicking" the email? Selecting it, opening it in a separate window or allowing html crap in it to be rendered?

  19. Re:Headline bias much? on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If you think any of those are left wing, I'm guessing you live in Italy 1936.

    Anyway:

    Terrorist Attacks Kill Dozens in Brussels
    New York Times

    Terror in Brussels: At Least 26 Die in Airport, Subway Blasts
    NBCNews.com

    Belgium has now raised its terrorism threat to its highest level, "terrorists in the service of hatred and violence", ..."a functioning terrorist network", "The terrorists have struck Belgium"
    BBC News

  20. Re:It is not a justification for more surveillance on Terrorist Attack In Brussels Airport and Metro Station: At Least 34 Dead (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    > vast majority of history

    No, we've had border controls for a very short time, since the WW1.

    It's not 1950 anymore, people move around and the economy depends on it. Hundreds of thousands of Europeans (including me) live in one country and work in another. The temporary border controls between Denmark and Sweden causes huge problems, and does not solve any anything. All these terrorists have valid passports.

  21. Re:GOD FUCKING DAMN IT, MOZILLA! on Mozilla Jumps On IoT Bandwagon (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's wrong with modding up posts one agrees with? FF was once a great browser, but started going downhill with the introduction of the "awesome bar", and is by now almost useless. If Mozilla fixes Firefox and makes it usable again, perhaps people will stop modding up rants about hos much it sucks, which it does. Not that complicated?

  22. Re:Offline, single player ... on Video Game Cheaters Outed By Logic Bombs · · Score: 1

    > Cheat codes used to be part of the fun of one-player games.

    For me, finding cheat "codes" was (and is) part of the fun. Figuring out that Pirates! on the Amiga stored money x10 in the save file (for example, 20 gold = $C8) was the first kind of hacking (in a very broad sense) I did, or can remember.

    And I still enjoy figuring out stuff like that in modern single player games, even if it makes actually playing the game less rewarding.

  23. Re:Simple. on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I missed that (but, 1st post...). Still, that's just a problem with a bad router. The packets should be blocked (dropped) right away, otherwise there's no point in blocking.

  24. Simple. on Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Report it once, to their abuse address. If it continues (it did), block their IP-range. Problem solved (unless you have a lot of spare time and really WANT to waste time on this instead of reading a book or play computer games).

  25. Re:wine on Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org) · · Score: 1

    Woosh.

    The post you're replying to was a joke.