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  1. Birth control on Kanye West Is Reportedly Considering Legal Action Against the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    This all could've been prevented if his mom carried condoms.

  2. Re: Well, that's pretty much a textbook violation. on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not going to do a damn thing. Net neutrality had been little more than lip service. Applications can still be discriminated against and traffic is still favored (create your own speed test and compare against the popular ones to see what I mean).

  3. Get over your sense of ownership on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree the best episodes were 4-6. 1-3 were pretty bad. Bad story telling, bad acting (Ewan McGregor did ok). I didn't think episode 7 was bad. I enjoyed it. Where I differ from many people is I take the position that it is not my story. I just listen to it. If I didn't take that road, then I would've left during Wolverine when they claimed hydrochlorothiazide slows your heart rate. If they make episode 8 a film about Jesus, then fine, but I'm not buying it. I take no loss when it comes to my memories of the first films Lucas released. Actually, I'm pretty thrilled this gets my sons into Star Wars and I can watch them enjoy it and see it for the first time vicariously.

    I realize it may make your cereal taste better this morning, but get over yourselves. So you haters may have paid $100 for a night at the movies with the family and were disappointed. Guess what, you spent some time with the family. If you showed up with a sour-puss mentality "this better be fucking awesome and rock my world" then you deserved to get your feelings hurt. It isn't the first time you saw a bad flick at an exorbitant price.

  4. Re:Why not make & run a Windows VM? on Wine 1.8 Released (winehq.org) · · Score: 1

    You can easily access the host file system with Virtualbox. It basically sets up a Samba share on the linux host and adds the shared folder to your network which you access via Windows Explorer in the Windows VM. I've been using this with MS Office running in seamless mode and it works really well.

  5. Re:VPN on US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Use Private Internet Access and a server in a jurisdiction that doesn't log.

  6. Re:How many people were killed? on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    And New Orleans is emerging as a shooting gallery. No flags on Facebook pictures or outrage there. There is going to be more discussion about getting rid of guns to make us safer, I'm going to hold my breath waiting on the criminals to lay theirs down because really I don't want to live in such a world anyway. People are so myopic they can't see the bigger picture.

  7. Exactly. My own comment below: something will get you eventually. This does not ensure immortality.

  8. Re:For the love of god... on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    There were such people, but then there was denazification in the 1940s.

  9. Isn't immortality, may not help society on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I read something about 10-15 years ago about this and the author said, despite this type of medical technology, anti-aging doesn't mean immortality. He proposed even if you stopped or reversed aging, you could only live to be about 300 years old. At that point, something would get you: murder, plane crash, illness, etc.

    While I'm not an expert on the topic of society and the rise in violence, poverty, etc. I do believe overpopulation does not help the issues. The details, I speculate, could be desperation in the face of poverty, shortages of food/water/fuel, and yet we just keep breeding while we live longer. This would bring the death rate so low compared to today's standards I'm sure we would surely test the viability of our natural resources. We would either be living on top of each other as the population booms and be at a higher risk of disease outbreaks or we would invade the farm land and decrease the production of food which would only be in higher demand. Maybe the issues at hand are not as bad as I think they are since information of them spread so quickly in the information age. I'm not making changes however because I'm human and a clinician that promotes health and I have a son and another due any day.

  10. Two thoughts on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1. Sometimes I have to rename the bookmark to something more meaningful than what's in the tags.
    2. Use tags. Firefox has them and it makes my life so much easier. It beats sorting them into folders.

    I'm not sure what to do about dead links. It happens. If you really, really need to save something forever, I assume it is something for reference, then save it to PDF and upload it to a cloud service.

  11. Re:Dare I say that Windows 10 is good? on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Took me a little while to get it working the way I want (just like linux!) but now I'm content with it. I still use Ubuntu 90% of the time when I don't need Office or some weird browser plugin for my studies. I may try Shutup10 to ease my privacy concerns.

  12. Kinda useless right now on Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS · · Score: 1

    So I installed this iOS app, logged into sync, and nothing happens. It says "Last sync: just now" (without delay, which raises doubt) but there are no bookmarks, history, or anything else to prove it synced. Well shit.

  13. Re:The message in question: on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    While it I'm not the one to give you an in depth pro/con, I feel like systemd is more appropriate for the workstation/desktop/laptop. When it comes to the server, I really like the mantra "do one thing, do it well." Servers are multi-faceted machines in that sense. A service fails, just restart it -THAT- service. Systemd fails, restart the server. Silver lining: it should boot up faster.

  14. The message in question: on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: -1, Troll

    "systemd people are not willing to play nice with the rest of the world. Therefore there is no reason for the rest of the world to cooperate with them."

    Wonder why so many other devs are so eager to put the systemd dick in their mouths.

  15. This is how it works in hospitals on Do Not Call 911! The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In case of emergency, call (insert extension here) and specify the code. Hospitals don't call 911 even for visitors who collapse grabbing their chest. They are 911! My wife works for one of the largest employers in our town and they have a similar rule, AEDs everywhere, and a security force trained as first responders. In the presence of cardiovascular collapse, an arrhythmia that requires rapid defibrillation is really the only intervention that cannot wait. It's gotta be done ASAP, so AEDs are great in large companies. You can buy time with -good- CPR for just about everything else; training personnel to perform CPR is a good investment.

  16. Never trust the client on Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack (net-security.org) · · Score: 1

    That's one of the first lessons in secure programming I was taught.

  17. Upgraded Laptop to Win10 on Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Was smooth at first, but now I'm seeing that was a mistake. These update issues are a real headache when I'm trying to get work done. Plus, I imaged to a bigger HD, windows would refuse to let me login. I ended up having to "reset" windows, which removes all apps, preserves user data, and reinstalls Windows. Now I can't activate it for some fucking reason. And when I reboot after reinstalling an app uninstalled during the reset, it tries (and fails!) to update. I'm not sure what's more frustrating: the cluster fuck that it is or Microsoft isn't saying shit about it.

  18. Many of the controversial stories I can immediately recall where police use lethal force involve suspects resisting arrest or otherwise disobeying officers. Why test the police? If you didn't do anything wrong, in most cases cooperating will get you on your way albeit inconvenienced. It's better than being shot, maced, or tasered.

  19. SUV? on Tesla Unveils the Model X · · Score: 1

    That's a damn hatchback. Crossover at best.

  20. Re: On the other hand... on US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah. Other countries are just the tip with LTE. USA! USA! USA!

  21. iCloud on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    My wife got the 16gb iPhone 6, which she immediately filled up with pictures and videos of our son when she migrated her data to it. I eventually set her up on iCloud which moves the full resolution version of photos and videos off her phone while leaving a thumbnail on the phone itself and download the full version when needed. Of course, this costs about $2 a month.

  22. I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation on Mt. Gox CEO Charged With Stealing $2.7 Million · · Score: 2

    it's called a bonus.

  23. Re: Spoiler: every tenth word is "Guinness" on Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data · · Score: 1

    Every 11th word is BRILLIANT!

  24. Don't care on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 1

    Emojis are supposed to be fun, don't suck the fun out of them by taking them so seriously.

  25. Lose weight fast... on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    ...with just one weird trick that modifies your DNA.