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  1. Re:FAKE NEWS! on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    England and Australia have been tapping American citizens (and vice versa) phones since WWII. That is how it's always been done.

    The question you should ask is: How did the information make it into the hands of a Clinton press operative at the NYTimes?

  2. Re:Politics invading education on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Good to know the Boston school system is so rolling in money they can afford to waste whatever they pay Colin Rose. Freeze their budget or cut it.

  3. Re:The guy who cleared clinton ? on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It was new information that had been subpoenaed, the Clinton camp had hidden it incompetently. It was going to come out. He saved his own ass by releasing it himself. Simple self preservation.

  4. Right about one thing. There should be a trial for Hillary. Still can be.

  5. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on FBI Director Comey Confirms Investigation Into Trump Campaign (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wikileaks disagreed with the MSM narrative. So they blame it on Russia and try to ignore the information. Hillary supporters eat it up...

    The biggest losers in the last election were CNN and The NYTimes. They will never regain credibility. The plan was for Hillary to give them first question and all interviews for until she dropped dead, then give them exclusive access to that circus. Ha Ha.

  6. Never had a globe? on Boston Public Schools Map Switch Aims To Amend 500 Years of Distortion (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This PC crap is bullshit.

    We learned about maps and their inherent distortions in fucking _middle_ school, again in high school. Referenced the globes sitting in every classroom.

    Granting the dim bulbs didn't get it, but they won't get it now.

  7. Re:Community college is a great deal on In 18 Years, A College Degree Could Cost About $500,000 (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    A fair number of the Ivys _suck_ as schools. Lisa Simpson knows.

  8. I've long held that the participants in the Manhattan project deserve the Nobel peace prize. If one is alive it's still possible to pull off.

    I'd hand out a second Nobel for the H bomb.

    Perhaps a third for the Neutron bomb, just to stick a thumb in the peaceniks eye.

  9. Ask your kids, they're at least half American. It spreads via TV.

  10. Pointless on Your Hotel Room Photos Could Help Catch Sex Traffickers (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The pimps will just use old pictures. Behavior will change in a second and all that will be left is a useless service.

    Stupid 'whack a mole'.

  11. Re:Nonsense (it's a vexed problem) on Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Has the 'twit'/'twat' debate finally been settled?

  12. Re: The best one... on Ask Slashdot: Best Virtual Reality Headsets? · · Score: 1

    I so wanted Alien isolation to work OK in VR. The head motion tracking kills it.

  13. Re:None, except possibly PSVR on Ask Slashdot: Best Virtual Reality Headsets? · · Score: 1

    Go away, shit somewhere else. I bought the second generation hardware, in 1998. As it was dying, knowing there were 20 games that worked. I got it at half price, it was still seven bucks.

    Well made VR pron works, doesn't make you sick (unless you get a female POV one). Games will work or not on their own strengths.

    The end.

  14. Re: The best one... on Ask Slashdot: Best Virtual Reality Headsets? · · Score: 1

    It really comes down to rate. Switchbacky race courses (Assetto Corsa-Hill Climb) are a lot more pukey than high speed sweepers (old Monza), everything else being equal.

    Which is the killer for most 3d shooters, the spin, run, spin and shoot is fundamental. Will have to be rethought, levels changed.

    The worst game I ever played in VR was Descent 2. No cockpit, no artificial horizon. Granting that was on a whole previous generation of VR hardware. There were games back then that were less puke inducing than games out today. It all comes down to content. Nobody (almost nobody) pukes watching a virtual widescreen movie playing normal content. Almost nobody wants to rind virtual roller coaster after virtual roller coaster etc.

    Vive room scale forces content to keep up up, which is the best plan, at least until players build tolerance to VR sickness, it comes. Driving is good to start, if you've already got a wheel and pedals. Helicopter is generally better than fixed wing which is generally better than space (get 3 axis stick and throttle, having something to hold onto make games less pukey). Keyboard and game controllers both suck for VR.

  15. Re:The US government on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    What happens when two 'stingrays' or similar try to intercept the same channel, in the same cellular space, at the same time?

    Could this be two, half competent bunch of clowns, running around DC trying to drown each other out with fake cell towers?

  16. Re:The US government on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of competent players. This sounds like cowboys...stingrays work, buy LOTS of stingrays. Look to the local or state police, political party, large corporation etc.

    Also look to someone smarter, tripping 'them' up so they show on RF power bills at the towers.

    I hope there is someway to fuck with a stingray and make it go 10kW until it melts on 'them'. Not likely, experts at such remote RF fuckery work for the stingray guys.

  17. Re:I'm not your drinking buddy... on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    After work...I agree completely.

  18. Re:Short Man Syndrome on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    Unix guys 'jut beards' at each other to determine dominance in the pack. Your 'rack' was big enough to threaten him.

  19. Re:"Best" on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    You can use point one to your advantage. He approves your raise, if you get one so will he (assuming the place is that rigid). Devil is in the details. Clueless middle managers who annoy techies often end up very overpaid.

    The highest paid is often also the one that gets the biggest raise. Could be many reasons.

  20. Re: Too smart for his own good on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Horrible IT Boss Story? · · Score: 1

    The phrase you are looking for is 'man hours' ('person hours' if your afraid.). '24 hours' does mean tomorrow at this time.

  21. Re:Protip: if you won't ride in one, don't walk on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I own a 6000lb vehicle. It's a 1960. Not many survived as they were very popular demolition derby cars until they were banned (they were tanks).

    6000lbs is an F-350.

  22. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 0

    About the only parts that were verbatim were rent boys rants.

    The book is much much darker. No sympathetic characters at all. Tommy starts as a scully tweaker, ends as a junkie, Dianne is just a little slag. Renton is twice a rapist and a serial animal abuser. Spud was the most sympathetic/pathetic. Swaney was just disgusting. Begbie was the only character that stayed very similar. Even sickboy was toned down for the movie. To say nothing of the other dirtbag characters that didn't make the movie (or were combined). How about the Italian fag? Ewww.

    I'd say the book can summarized by one line: 'I don't hate the English, I hate the Scots.'

  23. As a counter example I put up my German Aunt. Took her more than two years and five figures to get her license, but she still can't drive for shit. She will stop in the middle of an intersection to argue about the route with her passenger.

  24. Re:Berkley didn't do this to be jerks on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 1

    If someone can figure out the words in 'Finnegans Wake' or 'Trainspotting' (the book), they can figure out auto closed captions.

    I had some TAs in college that should have been closed captioned.

  25. Re:and China robo factory may make acid rain to in on America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I think we are seeing genuinely new things happening. Sure you look to history for similarities, but they aren't _that_ similar. The problem in China is the robber barons are children of central committe members. America's robber barons never had such open and direct influence.

    American political dynasties need to end (coming along nicely). Chelsea will help, being an obvious boss's kid (not Bill's though, Web and Hillary's), as clueless and entitled as can be. I hope she gets elected and screws the pooch in a very public way, then melts down into a puddle.

    The press, more or less, committed sepaku last election cycle. New press on the net needs to come forward. It's a once in a century opportunity for the right people.