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  1. Re:Keep renting! on Easier Streaming Services Put Dent in Illegal Downloading (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This. Unless your musical taste is extremely limited, a $10/month subscription is actually a LOT cheaper than buying all the records/CD's you want to listen to.

  2. Re:Keep renting! on Easier Streaming Services Put Dent in Illegal Downloading (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah! I bought one Milli Vanilli gramaphone record back in the 90's and I've been listening to it ever since,
    You and me, Zontar, WE are the REAL cool kids!

  3. Re:Chromefox on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about the name, it's about the icons.
    Do you want icons styled like the current version of Android or do you want icons styled even more like the current version of Android.
    Neon-gradient vectors all the way!

  4. Re:Easy Fix on Shareholder Sues Facebook After Stock Plunge (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would Facebook stop censoring Russians?

  5. Re:What Individual Privacy Rights? on A Student Was Rejected By A College Because Of China's 'Social Credit System' (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fun thing about microaggresions is that you can do about a million of them before they start counting as aggression.

  6. Re:Redefining 'plethora' on Apple's New iPhones Will Come In a Plethora of New Colors, Says Report (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    I have a plethora of fingers on my left hand. Add my right hand and... how could I even possibly count them all?

  7. Re:So, can we say "I told you so" now? on AT&T Removes HBO From an Unlimited Data Plan After Buying Time Warner (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Corporations will always act as anti-competitive as they can legally get away with, because it improves profits.
    Corporations will make the net as anti-competitive as a lack of net neutrality allows them to do, regardless of any "pledges" or "promises" they make now.

  8. This.

    The purpose of Swift is to make it more expensive to support multiple platforms.

  9. Re:What? on AI Can't Reason Why (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The entire article is based on a fundamental lack of understanding of AI systems.

  10. Re:How you know Nvidia is lying on Nvidia Shuts Down Its GeForce Partner Program, Citing Misinformation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They're marketeers; they are ALWAYS lying.
    The computer marketeer is just lying to himself as well.

  11. How you know Nvidia is lying on Nvidia Shuts Down Its GeForce Partner Program, Citing Misinformation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    PC gamers are generally intelligent shoppers that don't need any clarification

  12. Facial recognition on Facebook Sued Over Fake Ads (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so harsh on Facebook, it's not like they have some ready-made solution for recognizing ads using his image and name. /sarcasm

  13. Re:Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Shiny screens look really cool when powered off in the store.

  14. Re:Too much whining on Are Widescreen Laptops Dumb? (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't want it. I don't really have the option not to get it.
    Same with the screens which are so glossy they cannot be used outdoors. It's very hard (if not impossible) to find a laptop with a usable mat screen.

  15. Congratulations for pointing out that you could kill somebody with something that grows on trees or is carved from a rock.
    You could probably kill somebody with a printout of this comment.

    To cause real mass carnage though, you'll either need to spend about a year learning, get a license (with background check) and purchase a really, really expensive machine first ...or you just buy a gun and bullets for $50 at Walmart (next-day shipping when ordering online!).

  16. What makes you think greed, no self-control and a lack of empathy aren't incurable pathologies?

  17. Re:Let me answer those four questions on EFF: Google Should Not Help the US Military Build Unaccountable AI Systems (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Nukes still exist and recently Trump has been making it very clear that they are still easily within reach should some crazy nutjob get (re-)ellected.
    He may not have acted on his threats yet, but it's clear that he could and is stupid enough he might actually do so.
    So... no... mutual restrictions even on these kinds of weapons have not worked.

  18. Success! on Valve Removes Steam Machines From Its Home Page (extremetech.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think it was ever intended to sell well. It was intended to stop the Windows Store in it's tracks.
    In that it was quite succesful.

  19. Re:"in order to target advertisements"? on It's Possible that the Facebook App is Listening To You, Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Political advertisements?
    How much more evil do you need it to be?

  20. Re:Wrong. Signal is the gold standard on Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, all those socalled "hops" are just a hoax put forth by conspiring internet providers.

  21. Amazon in 2018 on How Amazon Became Corporate America's Nightmare (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amazon these days is AWS and a bunch of side projects paid for by AWS profits.

  22. Re:Let Google tell us about the other side too... on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    There's always somebody at the top of each pyramid scheme. Plenty of benefits there.

  23. I guess the only thing more whiny than whining is whining about other people whining.
    You win!

  24. Clickbait on Could This Bold New Technique Boost Gravitational-Wave Detection? (space.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dear slashdot editor,

    Fuck you and your fucking clickbait-style headline.
    I have read neither the fucking summary nor the fucking article because fuck you.

    kind regards,
    Go fuck yourself.

  25. Re:Hashtag sorry-not-sorry on The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You might want to have somebody LOOK into that random caps-lock KEY of yours.