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  1. I don't care... on The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I want magsafe so my toddler won't destroy my mac while crawling around, a few usb ports I can use without a dongle, my F-keys, and a sane keyboard.

  2. Sell it like a piece of closed source software on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Business Model for An Open Source Developer? · · Score: 1

    An often looked over option is that you can sell the software. There's no provision whatsoever in any of MIT, BSD, GPL, and numerous other licenses against selling the software.

    In the event you're selling to consumers rather than developers, it doesn't matter the slightest if you make the source code available. The bulk of your clients either won't know how to install from source, or won't bother if you're asking for a reasonable amount to keep the lights on.

  3. What about iMessage? (Or equivalent) on These Are the 10 Most Popular Mobile Apps in America (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or for that matter, Phone? Music? Photo?

    The built-in apps seem pretty popular. I can't fathom key built-in apps being less popular than installed apps.

  4. Have they ever enforced it? on E-Commerce To Evolve Next Month As Amazon Loses the 1-Click Patent (thirtybees.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't seem to recall any cases where Amazon actively sued over this specific patent.

  5. Re:Freedom of speech? Devil's advocate on Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    In what intoxicated world are you living to think there's fucking more hate speech coming from the left than from the right?

  6. Re:Cloud equivalent on Hundreds Of Smart Locks Get Bricked By A Buggy Firmware Update (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    However big a QA screwup this is, at least give this company credit for actually trying to upgrade their firmware.

  7. For fuck's sake! on Apple Employees Rebelling Against Apple Park's Open Floor Plan, Report Says (neowin.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the era of "suck his own cock" coming straight out of the White House, can we please stop trying to disguise fuck as f___?

  8. Come to Europe... on Silicon Valley Says Trump Plan To Reduce Immigration Will Hurt Economy (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Plenty of opportunities here. And no Trump.

    We do have crazies too, mind you, so maybe avoid post-Brexit UK. Ireland is next door, and there are many beautiful places on the continent.

  9. Re:Study is dead wrong - waste on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    As much as I agree the study is moronic, you can't just wish the notion that pets contribute to producing extra meat out of existence.

    Do pets eat leftovers after you're done eating yourself? Certainly. Are pets open for ickier bits of meat than you are? Also yes. But what constitutes the latter depends on culture and development levels (e.g. there are people who eat pig tail and chicken feet), and other times ickier bits just aren't so edible (e.g. bowels) or turn out to be downright unhealthy (remember Bovine spongiform encephalopathy).

    Best I'm aware, a lot of industrial pet food is made with less "presentable" but still perfectly digest meat or carcass, as well as stuff that's deemed too fat by consumers, all of which would have ended up in stews or as grease in the past. Moreover, let's not forget that numerous pet owners treat their pets - because they're hipsters or better informed or both - with human consumption grade meat. Either way, pets have an impact on meat production.

  10. "cyber related issues" on White House Officials Tricked By Email Prankster (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Poor kid is going to get swatted in 3... 2... 1...

  11. Re:Of course on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need an account to see or hear about his tweets, so why would I sign up?

    To answer him with an aviation hangar loads of insults just because you can? It's like, come on, the guy is so thin skinned that he's blocking users he doesn't like - and getting sued for it. Hopefully a gazillion more of the same will lead him to question what he's doing at some point.

  12. Rolling Coal on New Diesel and Petrol Vehicles To Be Banned From 2040 In UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, rolling coal is alive and well in the US.

  13. Now, if the many sites that still assume it's present and default to it over HTML5 could finally start working properly when Flash isn't available, the Internet will be a much better place. I'm looking at you [crappy TV news channel websites of your choice goes here].

  14. The data breach exposed the names, photos and home addresses of millions of Swedish citizen, including fighter pilots of Swedish air force, members of the military's most secretive units, police suspects, people under the witness relocation program, the weight capacity of all roads and bridges, and much more.

    Oh yeah, and it also reveals the names of catholic priests, pedophiles, skull-fuckers, rapists, and community leaders. Which, as anyone knows, are all the same people. And fuck, they also reveal who knows about Area 51, alien invaders, and [enter your tinfoil here].

    In all seriousness though, wtf is the spin in TFS. It reads as if it was a national security issue, whereas TFS holds that it's about names, photos and home addresses. Not activity.

    Fuck you Slashdot editors. You're worthless.

  15. Seems a lot better than annoying Alexas and Siris.

  16. Per the other reply that you got they actually did.

    What they didn't use was nerve gas, chiefly out of fear of the allies reciprocating:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  17. Finally.

    Seriously... Biggest crowd ever on day one? "It's not a travel ban" when Trump was calling it just that on Twitter? “Not even Hitler” employed the use of chemical weapons? Has there ever been a US press secretary so ill informed and/or prone to lying?

  18. Re:Ask Slashdot: on EU Court to Rule On 'Right to Be Forgotten' Outside Europe (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you been living under a rock? They have been doing so ever since LICRA vs Yahoo.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...!

  19. Re:I'm skeptical on Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Possibly because, often being poorer, their typical diet doesn't match the diet of a typical white.

  20. Nothing new under the sun on Long Working Days Can Cause Heart Problems, Study Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    They could have asked Japan (or Korea, or China) to learn about documented death by overwork:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:The war on freedom and privacy. on Visa Considers Extending 'War on Cash' Business Incentives Outside US (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to be implying that the transaction data isn't routinely sold to 3rd parties. Can you sincerely say that with a straight face?

  22. TL;DR version straight from TFA on Tech Boss Attacks 'Whiners' in Angry Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "If you were teaching PR 101 this guy has just done everything possible wrong. He has insulted clients, he has insulted investors, he has insulted employees and he has insulted the media.

  23. Re:So just increase the bounty... on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They might, but someone at Apple might also be thinking "no, they're actually full of shit and haven't found critical issues yet" until a zero day rears its ugly head. It's not like Apple could buy the stuff at an auction or something - or could they?

  24. Re:Nuclear power is the best option... on NASA Seeks Nuclear Power For Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    You need to enrich the stuff for it to be useful in a reactor (or for that matter, a weapon). You can't just shove the result back into the ground and expect it to be as benign as the naturally occurring stuff. Not to mention Plutonium and other nuclear waste, which you don't want anywhere near a water supply.

  25. Re:Nuclear power is the best option... on NASA Seeks Nuclear Power For Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2

    The bigger issue isn't the possibility of and potential costs of nuclear incidents. Rather, it is nuclear waste management.

    As a power source it's competitive if you only factor in power production and rudimentary waste management like we're doing now. But that completely falls apart if you consider the future costs of storing the nuclear waste over hundreds of thousands or millions of years.