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  1. ...a lot of gun owners don't like the NRA. They seem to think the R stands for Republican.

  2. Guns don't kill people... on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...IMAGINARY guns kill people.

  3. The Problem with Brick and Mortar Bookstores on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's so many books that they can only possibly stock a tiny percentage of them in the store. Unless I'm going to by some just out best-seller, it's unlikely the book I want is going to be there.

    Sure I could order it, but then why not just order from Amazon? It takes the same amount of time to arrive at that point and I saved myself two trips to the mall.

    If brick and mortar book stars were going to survive, the needed to switch over to some sort of print on demand system like the Espresso Book Machine that could spit out any book a customer might want in an hour.

  4. If I had the power to force Microsoft to do things, do you think I'd be hanging out here?

  5. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Could Linux Ever Become Fully Compatible With Windows and Mac Software? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it could be another form of Windows that's not recording everything I do, installing applications without permission, deleting files without permission, etc.

  6. Re:Looks like Intel made two mistakes on Intel Hit With More Than 30 Lawsuits Over Security Flaws (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't have helped. Don't forget that Intel found out about this at least seven months before it was revealed, which means for seven months it continued selling processors it knew were defective without disclosing that face.

    Any agreement it reached with people who bought chips during those seven months would be invalid, because withholding material information means there was no "meeting of the minds".

  7. Re:Alpine on Best Linux Distribution (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    systemd moves various services that were previously provided by applications instead of the OS into the OS itself. This has various advantages and disadvantages vs. more traditional unix OS design.

    In addition to people who don't like it for rational reasons, there is also a bunch of more militant OSS types are convinced this is part of a giant "flouride is turning us into commies" style global conspiracy, which is where most of the constant arguing comes from.

  8. Re: Defamation??? on Lawyers Faced With Emojis and Emoticons Are All \_("/)_/ (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    So if Junta called the cops right now and they figured out who you were and arrested you for assault, you'd feel that was a valid charge?

    Or is Junta right that providing context to suggest you statement was not meant to be taken seriously thereby eliminates the criminal act?

  9. Hodgman has had guest character rolls in a bunch of things since then, has written several best selling books, and randomly appears all over Comedy Central and NPR. To the extent his career is "limited" at this point, I think it's more he reached the point where he can do whatever he wants and what he wants to do is mostly niche stuff rather than mass market stuff.

  10. Obviously the viewers were holding the ad wrong.

  11. Re:"What's A Computer?" on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    My point is that for any realized computer, there will be turing computable functions that it can't actually compute because it would require more memory than it actually has access too.

  12. Re:"What's A Computer?" on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Except physical computers technically aren't turing complete, because they don't have infinite memory.

  13. I'm remind of... on Apple's 'What's a Computer?' Ad is Annoying People: Business Insider (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...how Apple had to cancel the "I'm a Mac. I'm a PC" ads because everyone thought Mac guy was an insufferable douche and liked PC guy better.

  14. "Two Twin Long-Tailed Macaque Monkeys Are the First Primates Cloned Using the Dolly Method"

    My first attempt to parse this resulted in me thinking there was some sort of monkey with two tails, and now I am sad that there is not.

  15. The same way I'd explain it to anyone on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Explain Einstein's Theories To a Nine-Year-Old? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein

  16. Re:why don't we thank ATMs? on Apparently, People Say 'Thank You' To Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    The ATM is merely returning something that already belongs to you, whereas the pizza car is giving you something that didn't not become yours until you took possession of it.

  17. Re:NVIDIA GPUs are not susceptible on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, but the code running on a GPU memory has access to video memory, which means Spectre style flaws could be exploited to expose sensitive data stored in video memory that the code would not normally have access to.

  18. Re:NVIDIA GPUs are not susceptible on NVIDIA GPUs Weren't Immune To Spectre Security Flaws Either (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They do not have access to kernel memory.

    Spectre has nothing to do with kernel memory. You're confusing the Spectre flaw with the Meltdown flaw.

  19. Re:So you're saying on When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It should be noted that while AMD is safe from Meltdown, they're still vulnerable to Spectre.

  20. Re:Same syndrome as VW on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It found out about the bug in June and continued to sell defective processors for the last seven months.

    So yes, Intel knowingly did this, for at least the last seven months.

  21. Re:Same syndrome as VW on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What you are suggesting is that Intel willingly incorporated a security violating bug

    It found out about the bug in June and continued to sell defective processors for the last seven months.

    So yes, Intel willingly incorporated a security violating bug, for at least the last seven months.

  22. Re:Lawsuits on what grounds? on Nope, No Intel Chip Recall After Spectre and Meltdown, CEO Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel new about this defect in June. In the seven months since then, it's sold hundreds of millions of CPU it knew were defective, but chose not to disclose that fact. "Caveat Emptor" is not a defense to fraud.

  23. Re: Yes, but that's not the issue. on The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds · · Score: 1

    Well you live in a society based off Christian law

    Or not, since the US, like the UK, is a common law country, which originated from Norse (That is, pagan) legal traditions and explicitly rejected the more Biblical Civil law used in most of the rest of Europe. There is a reason there is a book in the old testament called Judges, but not one called Juries.

  24. Re: And the hardware? on Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I guess they're technically threads, rather processes due to the shared memory space, but Windows 3.0 and earlier could run fully in real mode and allowed multitasking.

  25. Re:What sort of places do you people work for? on Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? · · Score: 1

    There are more significant ages. At 59.5, you can start withdrawing from IRS and 401(k) savings without penalty.

    Actually, you can start withdrawing from an IRA or 401k penalty free at any age, as long as you can demonstrate that the withdrawals are expected to last until your actuarial life expectancy. IRS rules covering how to make that calculation:

    https://www.irs.gov/retirement...

    The only significance of 59.5 is that you can now take all the money at once without penalty, although you normally would not want to do that unless forced to do so.