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  1. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering that you didn't dare post that non-anonymously, I take that as a compliment :)

  2. Re:Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    By US standards of "social", pretty much every democratic country in the world except the US is social.

  3. Re:Computer literacy is at all times low on Windows 10 Updates Are Now Ruining Pro-Gaming Streams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Being a "professional" streamer apparently doesn't pay enough to upgrade to the Pro version of Windows 10, in which you can easily disable automatic updates and even the downloading of updates.

  4. Re:Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, as a European, the whole cold war just seems to have increasingly polarized the former USSR to the extreme left and the USA to the extreme right.
    In the US, any mention of the word "social" seems to be interpreted as "communist" to the point where "anti-social" has become a positive.

  5. Re:Hillary vs Trump on Ted Cruz Drops Out Of The Republican Presidential Race (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So I guess the time has finally come that the US might admit their two-party political system isn't such a great democracy after all?

  6. Re:Stop with the lab grown meat already. on Lab-Grown Meat Is In Your Future, and It May Be Healthier Than the Real Stuff (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Your perfect meat seems to basically be deep fried fat, with extra layers of fat, fat bits on top and all drenched in fat.

    Let's just say that tastes differ.

  7. Re:Why Limit This Contrived Gimmick to Just SF? on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that you can't really state your preference.
    If they offered a choice to say "thanks for the recommendation, but I won't be buying this. Ever", the recommendations could be improved.
    On a site like Goodreads, you can state which books you like, and it uses that information to recommend others; worked quite well for me in the past.

  8. Re:You can't on Ask Slashdot: How Could You Statistically Identify The Best Sci-Fi Books? · · Score: 2

    Bullshit.

    You can most certainly rank literature by the number of pages, art by the size of the canvas or weight of the sculpture and music by the duration.
    Whether these rankings are useful is debatable, but they can definitely be ranked.

  9. Re:dont know on Ask Slashdot: Should This Photographer Sue A Hotel For $2M? (google.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Law != moral

    We might not be able to pass judgement on whether the photographer WILL get the money, but we can very well pass judgement on whether he SHOULD get the money. After all, as voters, us citizens are responsible for making sure judges get to judge on laws that represent our moral values.

    Regardless of what a judge might say, I think the price of 2 million euro per usage is way too much.
    Standing up for your legal rights is one thing, trying to abuse them to get rich is quite another.
    The only thing this photographer is doing, is making sure nobody will ever hire him for anything ever again; too much of a legal risk.

  10. Re:Global Warming season on One US Oil Field a Key Culprit In Global Ethane Gas Increase · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to 4 sigma and 5 sigma in your story and why not go beyond 6 sigma?

  11. Flak? on Cisco Finds Backdoor Installed On 12 Million PCs (securityweek.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tuto4PC has received flak from many over the years

    Seriously, aren't we overreacting a bit? Flak? Couldn't we just have sued and sent them to prison? Flak is a bit much, isn't it. Flak really, really hurts and I fact that many people are giving them flak is just horrible. It's the stuff censorred in straight-to-video horror movies. It's unhuman, the sheer amount of flak they had to take. Even waterboarding would be preferable to flak.

  12. Re: Surely a fundamental human rights breach? on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What if the drive does NOT contain child porn but DOES contain information incriminating him of something completely unrelated?
    Would the government be allowed to use that other information?

  13. Re:Subversion of the West on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Free market != Capitalism.

    I wouldn't call the current unchecked, government-supported oligopoly anywhere close to "free".
    Just like traffic laws exist to make sure the sociopaths don't have free reign, the equivalent of economic "traffic" laws need to exist.

  14. Bug how will the NSA be able to monitor all the potential terrorists (= civilians)?

  15. Re:Sounds like a bad idea to me... on Amazon Won't Sell Non-Prime Members Certain Popular Movies and Video Games (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The assumptions seems to be that people make purchasing decisions based on the store they want to buy at rather than the product they want to buy.

  16. Re:Medical Devices?!? on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 2

    Odd; medication for mental patients is usually more expensive.

  17. Re:Great on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    which increases the demand for sex trafficking, prostitution, child sexual abuse images, and child pornography

    When I look at porn, I don't feel a need to abuse children. And I think most people don't either.
    If this governor feels the need to abuse children when watching porn, then by all means he SHOULD stop watching porn.
    In fact I strongly believe that anybody who feels watching adult sex leads to wanting sex with children should seek help and should absolutely stop watching porn.
    But please governor, stop projecting your own feelings on the rest of humanity.

  18. Re:some questions on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 1

    It's less accurate because a lot of stupid people misinterpreted it as "warmer everywhere, all the time, and an exception proofs the opposite of that rule".

  19. Re:type on Slashdot Asks: Do You Prefer To Handwrite or Type Notes? (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    ...unless your note includes drawings.

    As always; it depends. Not all note taking is equal.

    Sometimes I write, sometimes I type and sometimes, when I need to take a verbatim copy, I photograph.
    I'm assuming most people do likewise.

  20. What changes between 2.6.4 and 2.7.2 do you think are so important that they warrant the risk of potentially breaking Xcode's SCM system that sits above it?

    Apparently not security fixes; those aren't important enough for Apple.

  21. Re:what Trump is, and isn't on IT Employees At EmblemHealth Fight To Save Jobs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically you've never voted in your entire live and never will? ;)

  22. Re:Streisand effect in 3...2...1 on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Either the lawyers stop this without it hitting the press (not this time) or Bernie gets to publically slap lawyers on the wrist. It's win-win.
    In the real world though, the lawfirm either broke their contract or were allowed to go after anything they deemed infringements within the instructions and with consent.

  23. This.

    It's basically a very expensive phone case printing service with very limited choice.

  24. Re:Three words on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You do know constant plugging and unplugging of storage will wear out the connectors, right?

  25. Re:Three words on Man Deletes His Entire Company With One Line of Bad Code (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why would you ever need or even want to mount your backup storage?