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  1. Re: Why install any? on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I have never had an antivirus program on my personal computer and I've never had problems.

    How do you know? Were you expecting popups and silly effects? Were you expecting the virus to inform you of it's wrongdoings in some way?

  2. Re:The City Of Munich Knows What It... on Munich Plans New Vote on Dumping Linux For Windows 10 (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then they were also very smart people when they decided to switch to Linux.
    Or does that notion conflict with your bias?

  3. Re:Why install any? on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 2

    If you want to visit a site that might contain malware, just start a VM or boot a CD-based OS that doesn't use your drives.

    You do realize that includes literally every single website, right? Including this one.

  4. Go peddle your trolling nonsense on infowars.

  5. Re:Share the backend code? on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Apply For A Job When Your Code Samples Suck? · · Score: 1

    More importantly, you're not trying to walk the edges of copyright law here; you're trying to impress the next guy who's going to give you access to their codebase.

  6. Re:Easy answer on Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dutch law isn't quite so... "corporate friendly" with regards to EULA's as the US.

  7. Re:I don't care about WordArt on Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book (intoday.in) · · Score: 1

    No, you don't. Use PDF.

  8. Re:Stack ranking was the problem on Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book (intoday.in) · · Score: 2

    Remind me; stack ranking was the process where you only got paid more if your collegues fucked-up, right?

  9. Re:Nadella's greatest trick on Microsoft 'Was Sick', CEO Satya Nadella Says In New Book (intoday.in) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are viable alternatives. For 99% of users (which includes me), Google Apps will do as well as MS Word. Especially since Docs learned to do TOC with page numbers. I have Libre Office to work with the occasional docx file sent by customers.
    I used to do all of my documents on MS Office, nowadays I no longer even install the Word viewer.

    YMMV, but I think viable alternatives already exists and have existed for a long time.
    The problem is people insisting on needing a specific WordArt effect or other feature which would take slightly more effort to do in the alternatives.
    Few people actually require all the power features, they're just used to them.

  10. Re: Why? Which features? on Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    All they need to do is not make any mistakes; that's easy.

    cant

    So what's your excuse?

  11. Re-open the bidding on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    [quote]The notice describes the contract as a "sole source order," meaning Equifax is the only company deemed capable of providing the service[/quote]
    While that may have been true at the time of posting the order, pretty much every company has access to the same data as Equifax now.

  12. Re:How about they explain why... on Microsoft Explains Why Edge Has So Few Extensions (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Does Edge support drag & drop already? It didn't when last I cared to check about a year ago.
    All other browsers support it... including older versions of Internet Explorer!

  13. Failure to provide service? on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Equifax; where ONLY criminals get access to your credit data.

  14. Re:Binge watched anyone ? on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Episode 3 was preachy (but so were plenty of ST episodes), but it did bring up an interresting topic.
    The biggest problem with it, IMHO, is that it didn't dare to resolve the issue. Even if it would not have been resolved to my own moral choices, it would have been better than this "out of our hands; undecided" state.

  15. Re:Binge watched anyone ? on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.

    The lead characters are all thoroughly unlikeable. All for different reasons; a ridiculously stereotypical scaredy-chicken science officer, non-descript (quite literally) secondary officers, an arrogant, egocentric and irresponsible first officer and gullible, emotional and passive captain. All thoroughly unlikeable nonetheless. The main protagonist especially.

    The camera work also doesn't add; all dark, cold and gloomy. Will human spaceships really be more depressing than the inside of a WW2 submarine?

    Orville gets the "feel" of the original ST shows a lot more even though it has it's own problems.

  16. Re:We'll never run out of douchebag futurists on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, so the first few generations of sexbots will generate a massive job increase in the medical professions, but how about when they get sexbots to operate reliably?
    I guess there will always be jobs in energy generation, though.

  17. While I agree that lost jobs will likely be replaced by new jobs, the question is whether they will be better jobs?

    It seems most new jobs created are what I would consider morally bankrupts jobs such as marketing, advertising, sales or for companies whose primary business is such.

  18. Only Barracuda customers on Ransomware Hack Targeting 2 Million an Hour (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as it's only for Barracuda customers, then it's a good thing!
    Would be nice to get rid of those blackmailing, lying bastards.

  19. So what? on HTML5 DRM Standard Is a Go (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    So what?
    I don't mean I don't care about the issue, I mean that this decission was never in the hands of W3C in the first place.
    It is, has been and will always be in the hands of the browser developers.
    Google, Microsoft and Netflix are behind this (among others) so if W3C would not have approved, it would have happened anyway.

  20. Re:Does Trump do everything? on Trump Blocks China-Backed Takeover of US Chip Maker 'Lattice Semi' (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Might be he had to sign off on the ban.

  21. Finally a way to target those vaginal douches to the most deserving audience.

  22. Re:Most people aren't that interested on Disney Is Lone Holdout From Apple's Plan to Sell 4K Movies for $20 (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Take the movie Dogville as an example. The brain is incredibly forgiving as long as the story and acting is sufficiently engaging to keep it occupied.

  23. Re:Most can't tell the difference between DVD and on Disney Is Lone Holdout From Apple's Plan to Sell 4K Movies for $20 (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I can only really notice the difference between 720 and 1080 when I'm explicitely looking for it, but while actually paying attention to the events on screen, I don't.
    I dare bet this goes for most people except for the type of people who can also see the difference of $500 HDMI cables.

  24. Let's face it on Virginia Scraps Electronic Voting Machines Hackers Destroyed At DefCon (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Despite the ongoing efforts of all political parties; democracy is too important to entrust to for-profit organizations.

  25. Re:Early education more important on The Washington Post Pans Apple-Sponsored School Reform TV Special (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Slavery was there long before such a thing as "white men" even existed.
    But they certainly did NOT end it; slavery never really stopped in central Africa.