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  1. Re:Clueless on Richard Stallman Demands Return Of Abortion Joke To libc Documentation (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who said GNU needs to be "professional"? It originated and is still maintained by hobbyists. Keep it weird.

  2. Re:They already are controlled by inaudible comman on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, that's what I meant, thanks.

  3. They already are controlled by inaudible commands on Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Can Be Controlled By Inaudible Commands (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    They're already controlled by inaudible commands. Ethernet packets are silent. Do people think they "control" these things? How fucking stupid do you have to be to think that? Am I living in Douglas Adams's reality, where white mice are really running experiments on humans?

  4. Uber cuts corners on Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Uber's entire business model is based on cutting corners (not paying employees as employees, not following local taxi laws/regulations, etc.). I wasn't at all surprised to hear that one of their self-driving test cars killed somebody. I immediately assumed that it was the result of yet another corner that they cut.

  5. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it didn't happen. I'm saying we didn't see it. We did see one person accidentally do the update on a machine that mistakenly had the user set up as an admin (we just rolled it back), but other than that, we didn't see it.

  6. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get refurbs with Windows 7 on them for next to nothing. The market is flooded with them. We won't be moving away from Windows 7 until this market dries up.

  7. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in charge of about 30 Windows 7 machines. I never saw that.

  8. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I'm guessing because some people weren't quite smart enough to avoid the upgrade, if they wanted to?

  9. Re:Sure sure sure on Microsoft Says 700M Devices Now Run Windows 10 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Our business still runs Windows 7. My personal machines still run Windows 7. Why do you say that you don't have a choice?

  10. Re:Game of the week on If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't have kids. Don't know anything about what they do.

    But, if it wasn't this game, wouldn't kids just be playing some other game on their gadgets? Is there anything unique or interesting about this game? It seems like it's just another average shoot-em up.

  11. Game of the week on If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never heard this game until the media started writing about it this past week. Sounds like a currently popular game. Neat?

  12. Tiny revenue. No profit on Pandora Stock Surges 25% After User Data-Based Marketing Push (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Who in their right mind would buy this stock? You've got to be an idiot to invest in this company.

  13. You are an idiot.

    I think you're confused. I don't spend thousand of dollars on crappy hardware.

  14. Apple consumers are some of the biggest suckers out there. They'll literally buy *anything* with an Apple logo on it. Apple consumers will remain Apple consumers for the foreseeable future, no matter the quality of their products and services. If anything, they should double the price of these machines.

  15. Retailers partnering with Amazon are dead, already on Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts To Adopt Payment System (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Any retailer that helps out Amazon in any way is dead, already. It's just a question of when. Relying on, or working with your largest competitor generally doesn't work out in business.

    Best Buy started selling some new Amazon gadget exclusively a few weeks ago. That's the end of them.

  16. What's the question? on Ask Slashdot: What Should I Study? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is a terrible submission. What the hell kind of question is "what should I study" with zero context? How fucking arbitrary is this?

  17. Re:Same problem as shopping malls on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    At some point they become de-facto monopolies or oligopolies

    That doesn't apply to this situation. Literally anybody on the world can post videos on the Internet. Actually, I think that people NOT on the world can also post videos to the Internet (ISS).

  18. Re:The golden age of youtube is over. on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    More than likely we need to move over to a torrent style video system and nas boxes with quick erase functions in case of raids.

    Are you wanting to host child porn on Youtube?

  19. Re:If only it were that easy on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I did it. It cost $20 to register the domain, and the hosting is $10.month. It's not that hard. Try godaddy.com. Super easy. Let me know if you need help!

  20. So to the anonymous prick who thinks the anti Common Core people are against education. You can suck my balls.

    ...says the AC troll...

  21. Re: It's absolutely ridiculous and dehumanizing on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care how they do it. I'm saying that your story about "stifling regulations" is simply untrue.

  22. Calendaring isn't part of email. That costs extra. You can pay a few bucks a month and use Exchange hosting, which is awesome, and has calendaring and tasks and a whole bunch of stuff.

    Anybody that you pay money to that has a privacy notice will be private. If you pay them, you can sue them. If it's free, you can't.

    In terms of integration with your phone, IMAP and SMTP have been standards for decades, now. If your phone can't deal with those things, then you probably have a shitty phone.

    Here's one that's $1/month: https://www.1and1.com/email-ho...

    As with most things in life, you get what you pay for.

  23. They claim to have stopped reading mail for ad purposes

    They did? Where and when? And if that's true, why does Gmail still exist?

  24. I find it ironic that so many people who may realize that what Facebook, etc are doing with data is generally not a positive thing for the "users", still use Gmail. Email is one of the simplest, cheapest parts of the Internet, and for some reason, everybody I know is willing to give all of their email to Google in exchange for about $1/month (the price of real email today). However, if I offer them $1/month to be able to read (not even store and sell) all of their email, that doesn't fly. People are weird and frequently dumb and irrational.

    If you care about privacy at all, or value your own privacy at all, you're dumb for using a free email service.

  25. Re: It's absolutely ridiculous and dehumanizing on Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    ... or the companies could just hire qualified people or train them to do interviews properly. It's not hard to come up with a list (on a piece of paper) that says:
    "Do not ask applicants these questions:"

    The legislation is fine. It's not the fault of the legislation that some companies are so poorly managed they cannot follow these admittedly very simple regulations.