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  1. well..... on Ask Slashdot: What Is the 'Special Appeal' of Apple Products? · · Score: 1

    for one, the shitty OS you live with is not based on BSD Unix, or on any Unix for that matter.

    Some us like Macs because Windows is shit and Unix is awesome....

  2. Re:Giving parents more control on Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama-Era Nutrition Standards For School Lunches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Bullshit. My kids reported that the meals at school turned completely awful after these regulations were put in place. Tiny helping of whole grain crappy, super bland food. Lots ended up in the garbage.

  3. The meals they are serving at schools these days are tasteless garbage.

    These stupid restrictions have got to go.

  4. ..... this post brought to you by Microsoft.

    Wow, shill much?

  5. Re:La Niña is about to bite us in the arse on EPA Website Removes Climate Science Site From Public View After Two Decades (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'll bet that after hurricane Katrina, you said, "this is going to keep happening every year and we will see more and more hurricanes, it will be horrible".

    I'm absolutely certain you believed that. And you would have been Very wrong.

    So why is this prediction any better...?

  6. Yep. Is this the same UC that squirreled away $175 million into a secret account?....

  7. This is bullshit on Google Looks at People As it Pledges To Fight Fake News and 'Offensive' Content (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Either all speech is protected or none of it is.

  8. Re:DeadHat !! on Red Hat Suffers Massive Data Center Network Outage · · Score: 1

    Damn, I wish I had some mod points!!

    Mod this up!!!!

  9. Well the team and the evidence exist in the same state.

    i.e. they don't

  10. Well on Ubuntu Is Switching to Wayland (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ubuntu ditched the bad idea that was Unity. Time to ditch the bad idea that is systemd....

  11. Serves them right on Enemy Number One is Netflix: The Monster That's Eating Hollywood (business-standard.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would have loved for Netflix just to have become a place where I could watch recent and older hollywood movies, completely replacing video rentals. But I get to be frustrated that new movies aren't there to watch and old movies aren't there to be found.

    But hey, whats this, its a Netflix original show? Hey it isn't half bad. Well I could watch more of this.

    Hollywood, you had the chance to box Netflix in and have them just BE the rental market. You could have just banked fewer dollars from rentals but still retained a lot of control.

    But nooooo, you had to block the access to your catalogs of movies to try and cripple them. Now they're creating content that is very often better than what you are coming up with.

    Cry me a river, hollywood. You deserve to go down, hard. You've never really played fair with your customers and now we're buying entertainment elsewhere....

  12. Re:Law mandated technology on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're actually claiming that the Internet changes everything and we need to rethink what free speech means, then the founding fathers were far far wiser than you are....

  13. Law mandated technology on 'Moore's Law' For Carbon Would Defeat Global Warming (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    I love how political types think that we just need to mandate using less power, oh and this time at ever increasing rates because that worked for a few decades for transistors.

    Ironically, computers are one of the least regulated industries on the planet.

    If you want to see what mandated goals do, check out your health insurance bill, the government has been regulating that industry for 40 years.

  14. Add more fuel to .... on IBM, Remote-Work Pioneer, is Calling Thousands Of Employees Back To the Office (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Add more fuel to the concept that there is a "talent shortage". Companies are just completely unwilling to pay what workers are worth or offer them any training flexibility or even kindness.

    Modern employers feel completely entitled to perfect workers for dirt cheap pay and completely unfulfilling work.

    Then they whine "labor shortage".

  15. Re: If it's unzipping encryption it has to re-zip on Some HTTPS Inspection Tools Actually Weaken Security (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, the IT group continually sends employees emails telling us how much they don't trust us, THEN the decrypt our SSL sessions and expect our Complete trust in them... no dice, you made it completely clear that No One could be trusted. How does your newfound snooping power change that concept?

  16. Re: expose them to man-in-the-middle attacks on Some HTTPS Inspection Tools Actually Weaken Security (itworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Yep, that's always the logic IT security uses when we try to get software approved and they deny it.

    Any IT group who implements this is NOT serious about decreasing the attack space, they just want ton spy on employees.

  17. Feature? on Firefox Goes PulseAudio Only, Leaves ALSA Users With No Sound (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Note for people bothered by the incessant chattering of auto-play content in their browser, this could be a feature and not a bug!!

  18. they told you they were rebooting the Matrix and .... no one showed up.

  19. That depends on what you call a platform.

    Java is indeed capable of running the very same code on many of the OSes mentioned.

  20. Re: Only disputed when confirmed false? on Facebook Begins Marking 'Fake News' As 'Disputed' (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    They should have just labeled this whole effort the "Ministry of News Accuracy" or to hit this fucking nail exactly on the head, the "Ministry of Truth".

  21. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The interesting thing that I find in the gun control debate is that Progressives show great concern and compassion for gun victims and demand we "do something" because of all the deaths from guns.....

    From the site http://www.gunviolencearchive....

    Total number of gun deaths in 2014: 12,556

    That is a horrifying number and is alarming. However, those same Progressives literally shrug off this statistic:

    from the site https://www.guttmacher.org/fac...

    Total number of abortions in the US in 2014: 926,200

    Thats nearly TWO orders of magnitude more deaths.

    I know I know, "clump of cells" and all. But Progressive are incredibly blasé about life in one sense and incredibly dramatic about it in another.

    Another statistic:

    From the site: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topic...

    Car crash deaths: 35,092

    So I'll finish with this. I get that strengthening abortion restrictions is something that Progressives won't do because well "those aren't people". And the Right won't move on gun restrictions because of the right to bear arms.

    But you know what would be the best thing and save a lot of lives would be? How about we keep government from restricting our access to self driving cars because they can't figure out who will be liable. Because the longer we wait to get access to self driving capabilities the more people will be impacted by that last number. And thats one we can actually affect, although ironically by having the government not overly regulate.

  22. In truth all ISPs should be required to log NOTHING from their customers.

  23. If immigration laws don't matter than why would copyright laws matter.

    In the US it just happens that the same government department enforces both rules...

  24. I hope he's ready on Elon Musk Is Really Boring (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope he's ready for the protests he's going to encounter when he tries to bore under Lake Oahe....

  25. Well then.... on Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail As 'Unreliable' Source (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I will continue to support my Children's schools choice that Wikipedia is not an acceptable reference source.