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  1. All the time on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I got a gmail address early on that uses a unique character name from a popular movie so I get these all the time. Either someone selecting a variant of the name and mistyping it, or just using it as BS e-mail. At the moment, I'm getting the Bank of America notifications from some guys business account this is always on the verge of being overdrawn, and a group e-mail discussion about some sort of reunion. A couple of years ago I got an angry e-mail for some Swedish actress after someone using my e-mail address posted something bad on her web site. I assured her that wasn't me and exchanged a few pleasant e-mails. A few months later I think she accidentally added me as a LinkedIn connection since it probably prompted her from recent e-mails.

  2. Eh, all I really want from Valve is a filter that blocks all "Early Access" games from ever appearing, as I'm browsing for games on their web site.

  3. Re: Was there a reason to add the 'finally' on The Silk Road's Alleged Right-Hand Man Will Finally Face a US Court (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Please donâ(TM)t lump LSD in with heroin and cocaine. Psychedelics are non addictive and some of the safest drugs you can put in your body. With the right set and setting psychedelics can in fact be a good for an individual and society as a whole. The general public conception of psychedelics is literally the same level as âoereefer madnessâ was about marijuana. It comes from the exact same kind of moral panic. How many drugs do you know of that turn most people that use them in the correct context into evangelists for their use?

  4. Re: Venice on 'Bird Scooters Are Ruining Venice' (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well in his defense, when using the word "Venice" in connection to anything but Venice, Italy, it should have a qualifier. Like when I say "I went to Paris" people assume Paris, France and not Paris, Texas. Hell my first thought when reading the headline was "how would they use scooters in Venice".

  5. I pretty sure the brain disorder is wanting to put that shit in your mouth in the first place.

  6. Re:And do what exactly? on Despite Having Unprecedented Access To Technology, Generation Z Is Already Bored (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This exactly. I'm always amused by the sci-fi trope of an immortal being eventually getting tired of life, or people needing jobs, no matter how pointless, to "give them purpose". There is so much to see, do and learn to last countless lifetimes. Anyone that would get bored of life has no intellectual curiosity.

  7. Known about this for years on Fitness-Tracking App Reveals Locations of Secret Army Bases (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A friend of my has a free app that soldiers find useful in their missions and was telling me how he would notice location requests coming from odd out of the way places and then would here about some military operation happening there.

  8. This month you mean? on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't that be amended to "Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular this month?"

  9. Re:Is this really an issue? on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3

    I use my parents' cable account password to access streaming apps on my Apple TV for the providers that require a cable password after we cut the cord. I'd gladly *pay* individual providers for streaming instead if they provided it rather this stupid cable password requirement.

  10. Since this is the government on What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a series of tubes OK, that's all you need to know.

  11. Reminds me of that Simpsons episode on Former Uber Employees Have Gone Into Debt To Hang Onto Shares They Can't Sell (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Where the stock options for the startup are printed on toilet paper rolls.

  12. Re:Imagine on Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, S-Corp all the way. I'll be saving about 10K this year on Medicare and SS payroll taxes.

    Hopefully this time next year I'll be writing off a big *Mac* Pro expense.

  13. Psychological effect on Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think this has already been shown this is purely a psychological effect, i.e. the type of alcohol affects your mood in precisely the way you expect it to. A scientific study of the actual "real" effects would have done a proper double blind test and given the participants alcohol (or not) without being told what it was exactly instead of filling out a survey form.

  14. A self-diagnosed developmental disorder contracted by reading the Wikipedia page about the condition. Having Asperger's means that you are smarter than everyone else and it totally forgives all of the lazy anti-social choices you make in life.

  15. Obligatory on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So how many posts until someone makes a harakiri joke?

  16. Well that's easy on Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? · · Score: 1

    That you've made a terrible mistake.

  17. Who the hell checks their laptops anyway? Maybe if it were in a military grade ruggedized container.

  18. Re:Bad Advice from Stackoverflow? on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 2

    Eh I should have preview my posted, tags got eaten:
    Answer: Why in the world would you want to do that? Here do this (unhelpful thing that doesn't answer this question)

    Answer: (Complete wrong buggy implementation)

    #1 upvote: (Answer that technically works but completely pedestrian, not generalized, etc)

    #2 upvote: (mostly the same as #1, but with an added glaring bug)

    #4 or #5 most upvoted: (probably the right answer)

    further down: (a number of technically correct but a completely stupid ways to solve the problem)

    Stackoverflow is the best for people that sort of know what the answer should be and can separate the wheat from the chaff.

    I often point to this on as a good canonical example. https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

  19. Bad Advice from Stackoverflow? on Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Well I never!

    Canoncial example of a Stackoverflow exchange:

    Answer: Why in the world would you want to do that? Here do this

    Answer:

    #1 upvote:

    #2 upvote:

    #4 or #5 most upvoted:

    further down:

    Stackoverflow is the best for people that sort of know what the answer should be and can separate the wheat from the chaff.

    I often point to this on as a good canonical example. https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

  20. Now more relevant than ever.

    http://www.nbc.com/saturday-ni...

  21. No on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    Significate whitespace makes me avoid Python.

  22. Re:Anyone who suggests you could do without x spec on Climate Change Could Wipe Out a Third of Parasite Species, Study Finds (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree completely...except for mosquitos and cockroaches, fuck those guys.

  23. They're doing it wrong on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    When we cut the cord we stopped just laying around browsing for random things to watch on random channels and watch less TV overall. Netflix + Hulu + Amazon Prime + iTunes. Just watch things we want to watch when we want to watch them.

  24. Re:I have three words for you. on Developers Explain Why iOS Apps Are Getting Bulkier (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    That hasn't been true for several years now. The real issue are the Swift runtime libs that have to be included because the ABI isn't stable.

  25. I know right on 'Elon Musk's Hyperloop Is Doomed For the Worst Reason' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    God forbid there should be some oversight in building a ground level supersonic transport system.