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  1. that's designed to explore the link between violent games [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled],

    The link between violent games may be paywalled?

  2. "significantly more resources now at its disposal" on McAfee Acquires VPN Provider TunnelBear (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    significantly more resources now at its disposal

    Since this is McAfee, this can be interpreted in multiple ways.
    Most likely, it means the TunnelBear app will soon bloat to an obtrusive adware monster, using only 2GB RAM (while inactive).

  3. Re: Will be another leftist multicultural SJW garb on Amazon Is Developing a TV Series Based On Iain M. Banks' Sci-Fi Novel 'Consider Phlebas' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 0

    In the eyes of the alt-right idiots, anybody who does not violently oppose compassionate behaviour is considered a "leftist SJW libtard".
    There are similar idiots on the left, but they are still mostly kept safely locked away in their echo chamber media.

  4. Re:That's pretty funny on Flight Sim Company Embeds Malware To Steal Pirates' Passwords (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft will probably still provide them with certification to allow installing with administrative privileges without warning, even though this company now has a proven track record of installing spyware.

  5. Not even had he sued Asus, which would have been the most logical choice.
    It's just another attenion whore.

  6. Yeah! So what if nobody would buy those computers without Windows; it just makes the computers even more free!

    Refurbished computers are typically sold to less digitally needy people; people who can barely use Windows as it is.

  7. Re:Plain text? on AMP For Email Is a Terrible Idea (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1

    Anonymous Coward; Proudly not received any email since the 90's.

    There are few e-mail clients even capable of sending plain text e-mail, let alone clients that do so by default.

  8. Re: 1930's responsible government on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you for demonstrating my point so skillfully.

  9. Re:1930's responsible government on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Weak.

    These kind of single word sentences amount to nothing more than cheap name calling and should be beneath any civilized discourse.
    They undermine any otherwise intelligable argument and, frankly, I can't be bothered reading the rest any more than I would listen to an argument containing curse words.

  10. Take away government and Comcast has the right to sell whatever they want. They would not have the right to put any cables under the ground outside their own property, though. So Comcast has gotten benefits from the government. Why should those benefits come without any cost?

  11. YouTube was all fine with him being an asshole when he was making them a ton of advertising money, but just a little bit of negative press and they drop him like a brick.

  12. Can you read the following Wikipedia article without falling into a frenzied rage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  13. Re:Liars, Damn Liars on Fake News Sharing In US Is a Rightwing Thing, Says Oxford Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen InfoWars; you may keep your "alpha" males.

  14. Anyone who actually needs Office gets it through work.

    Some people actually need an office suite at home too, because they do more interresting things in their free time rather than sit in front of the TV.

    LibreOffice Calc is much better at supporting CSV files than Excel, so it has that going for it.
    (though admittedly, anything in the world is better at supporting CSV files than Excel).

    p.s. the copyright-encumbered DOCX file format is still a problem for any group (commercial or otherwise) that wants to fully support it.

  15. No on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Build a Private TV Channel For My Kids? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mr Rogers then Sesame Street then grandparents' story-time, then two hand-picked cartoons

    I will not be complicit to this child abuse.

  16. Re:What it should have added... on The SCO Vs IBM Zombie Shambles On (uscourts.gov) · · Score: 1

    Considering what we've heard from them over the years, the gastrointestinal tract is also unusable; it seemed to work backwards.
    Perhaps the sphincter is still squeaky clean.

  17. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Considering it's a Trump thing, it's probably going to be a "only one carrier per region to lower government expenses" deal.

  18. [quote]Intel Plans To Release Chips That Have Built-in Meltdown and Spectre Protections Later This Year [/quote]
    Translation: Intel Plans To Releas Chips That Have Fixed The Meltdown and Spectre Bugs Later This Year.
    These are not added protection. This is not some feature. This is repairing a mistake in all chips released while continuing to sell broken products up to "Later This Year".

  19. It's the lack of semicolons. Kids think semicolons are geeky ;)

  20. Perspective on Study Links Decline In Teenagers' Happiness To Smartphones (pressherald.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My life is mostly going to work, feeding myself, doing household chores, busying myself with regular hobbies, watching some TV and sleeping.
    What I post on my facebook profile are the relatively few times something exceptionally cool happens.
    What other people see of my life is how only exceptionally cool things happen to me.
    The same goes for everybody else's social media profiles, even though their lives are also largely mundane and routine.
    Instant access to the world presents us with a fake image of how much more fun other peoples' lives are than our own.
    How can this result in anything else but lower self-esteem and less happiness?

  21. Re:In related news ... on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Just asking out of morbid curiosity... what part of the world do you consider Asia? Is Iraq part of Asia? Is Egypt part of Asia? What about Syria?

  22. Re:In related news ... on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The leader of Idiocracy atleast wanted to be a good leader. Trumpocracy is worse.

  23. Re:In related news ... on Trump Administration Wants To End NASA Funding For ISS By 2025 (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, Asian countries like Denmark, Israel and Switzerland.
    (3 of the top 10 are Asian, 6 are Western European and the 1 remaining is Israel).

    P.S. What would it say about the rest of the USA if tiny Rhode Island were more innovative than all of the rest of the USA?

  24. Re:Spectre cannot be even practically exploited. on Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    fast, but inferior in every other aspect products.

    Intel CPU's are fast in the same way that a car goes fast after you drive it off a cliff.

  25. Re:Spectre cannot be even practically exploited. on Dell and HP Advise All Their Customers To Not Install Spectre BIOS Updates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To me this sounds not so much like a PR efforts as much as Yet Another Intel Fuck-Up that would require additional PR efforts to spin.
    You'll note that the Dell advisory explicitely mentions that the advisory applies to the Intel patches. It doesn't mention problems with patches for other CPU's.
    As I read this story, Intel provided BIOS updates for their own CPU's, and those BIOS updates are causing problems.
    It just happens to be that this particular fuck-up involves the lesser of the two previous bugs, but doesn't really seem caused by that bug itself.
    So I guess this means that for Intel CPU's, both bugs are dangerous.

    AMD and ARM are still left with only a single reasonably harmless bug.