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  1. VPN is nice to have... on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 0

    I normally don't work from home but I have VPN access for those rare days when I do have to work from home. Every 90 days I must carry my luggable laptop (Dell Precesion M4800) home, remote into VPN to reset the 90 day clock, and carry my luggable laptop back. Which was what I did this past Labor Day weekend. If I don't, the VPN account gets deleted and the paperwork to get it back again is a PITA. I only work from home two or three times a year.

  2. Re:But that's not the issue on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    In reality, you're full of shit, reminiscing about a time that never existed.

    You're citing the national average. A lot people in Silicon Valley had a lot of TVs in the 1970's. My family had six TVs. One neighbor ran a TV repair shop out of his garage and had several hundred older TVs available for sale.

  3. Re:But that's not the issue on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Err...pretty much every room still has a TV??

    This isn't the 1970's anymore. Hardly anyone has a TV for the toilet, bathroom, bedrooms, living room, family room, kitchen and garage. If you lived out in the country, one for the outhouse as well.

    Don't most people...?

    A lot of my friends in Silicon Valley have a giant TV in the living room. If they have kids, a smaller TV in the family room.

  4. Royalty free music... on Facebook Offers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Music Rights (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    Or the person creating the video for upload could use royalty free music, give credit where credit is due, and sidestep the whole copyright issue.

  5. Re:When a flat design falls flat... on It's Official: Users Navigate Flat UI Designs 22 Percent Slower (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My bank shows the transaction gone from the source account and grayed out and marked "pending' in the receiving account.

    I'm not seeing that behavior with the new design.

  6. Re:But that's not the issue on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was kid growing up on the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC), dinner was done at 6PM because the evening news started at that time. My mother would stay up to watch the late news at 11PM. I would sneak downstairs to watch The Benny Hill Show on Friday nights and Creature Features on Saturday nights. Back then, TV was religion and every room had a TV.

  7. Re:When a flat design falls flat... on It's Official: Users Navigate Flat UI Designs 22 Percent Slower (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That is not a UI issue. It is a DB issue. They are waiting for confirmation that the transaction has been replicated. Replication is often done in batches with a minute or more of granularity.

    Never had this problem with the old design.

  8. When a flat design falls flat... on It's Official: Users Navigate Flat UI Designs 22 Percent Slower (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My credit union recently switched to a flat design. The most glaring issue is not the flatness but the refresh rate of certain pages. If I transfer money between accounts, and return to the balance page, nothing has changed. Refreshing the page won't update the balances. It takes five minutes for the balance page to update.

  9. Re:No Hardware Audit Too? on Lenovo Won't Pay a Fine For Preinstalling Superfish Adware (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be suspicious of any firmware on a Lenovo laptop. Ironically, firmware hackers love Lenovo laptops.

  10. Re:Go fish... on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So, why would fish be any different?

    As a tropical fish owner, fish refers to one specie and fishes refer to many species.

  11. Re:Don't do that with your work account on European Court Rules Companies Must Tell Employees of Email Checks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If you mixed personal emails with your U.S. government emails, Congress can subpoena your personal email account. Something as innocent as a sending an email to inform your boss that you're running late for work can make your personal email account fair game to congressional investigators. Make sure that your personal email account is "clean" unless you want to read about your messy relationship emails in The Washington Post after being leaked by a congressional staffer.

  12. Re: Is "The C Programming Language" next? on One of the World's Most Influential Math Texts is Getting a Beautiful, Minimalist Edition (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    And why should I give a shit?

    I'm apparently the first person on Slashdot who figured out how to monetize his trolls. My trolls find it unbearable that I'm laughing all the way to the coffee shop.

  13. Re: Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please stop posting affiliate links, it's ruining Slashdot, you're no better than a bot.

    I can't ruin what's already been ruined. What I'm doing isn't against the Slashdot TOS. Complain to management. Bitching in the comments won't change anything.

  14. Re:Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're still in "Special Ed," Chris, your case inspired Martin Scorsese for the movie "Shutter Island":

    FTFY — The movie was based on the book by Dennis Lehane.

    On that note, "Patrick" (1978) was a better nut house movie. I've always liked the part where he throws a space heater into the bathtub with his mother and her lover. Electrifying!

  15. Re:Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Larry is probably not into golden showers.

    Don't drag your private life into the discussion, creimer.

    The discussion was about Larry Eliison and Donald Trump. According to the Russians, Trump has a fondness for hookers and golden showers.

    http://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-hookers-golden-showers-622604

  16. Re:Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Santa Clara County Office of Education on Wednesday agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by parents who alleged their special-needs child was abused for months by his teacher — even after classroom aides complained to the principal about the treatment. Among other things, the aides alleged that the then 11-year-old nonverbal student was enclosed in a "cell block" of bookshelves, belted onto a chair, induced to vomit, shoved and violently jerked around by his clothing, according to a letter they sent to school administrators and parents. The letter — which was included in the lawsuit — pleaded with administrators to act in the 2013 case at Bertha Taylor School.

    http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/08/2-million-settlement-in-alleged-abuse-by-santa-clara-county-schools/

    After all these decades, Special Ed haven't changed that much from when I was a student.

  17. Re:Rule #1 on Oracle Staff Report Big Layoffs Across Solaris, SPARC Teams (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The Difference Between God And Larry Ellison*: Inside Oracle Corporation" by Mike Wilson (* "God doesn't think He's Larry Ellison.").

    Was this book that had the handyman turning off the water and Larry Ellison screaming that he was in the shower with two women?

    Larry is basically a smarter Trump.

    Larry is probably not into golden showers.

  18. Re: That's nothing... on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The information and the help is out here - you just have to be willing to take it.

    The same information that I'm already using to lose 13 pounds. I'm already down two pant sizes and my newest pants is starting to feel loose. But because I'm not doing it your way, I must be doing it wrong.

  19. Re:I have a solution on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1

    rule 34?

    I don't think so.

    34. If you're leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlock_Mercenary#The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries

  20. Re:I have a solution on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A fish will eat whatever can fit into its mouth.

  21. Re:Go fish... on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Look at you jiggling in your overstressed office chair because you thought you found an error in someone else's grammar, askance.

    Grow up, asshole.

    The plural of fish is usually fish, but fishes has a few uses. In biology, for instance, fishes is used to refer to multiple species of fish. For example, if you say you saw four fish when scuba diving, that means you saw four individual fish, but if you say you saw four fishes, we might infer that you saw an undetermined number of fish of four different species.

    http://grammarist.com/usage/fish-fishes/

    Since the TFA refers to "50 species of fish" in the second sentence, the correct word is "fishes."

  22. Go fish... on Fish Are Eating Lots of Plastic (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Which fish (singular) is eating plastic? Or should it be, which fishes (plural) are eating plastic?

  23. Re: That's nothing... on Near Earth Asteroid 'Florence' Makes a Close Pass (space.com) · · Score: 1

    You lost 13 pounds to get to 357, then gained 3 pounds back because your bullshit wasn't working. That's a total loss of ten pounds, creimer.

    I'm back at 357 pounds. A total loss of 13 pounds.

  24. Re:Is "The C Programming Language" next? on One of the World's Most Influential Math Texts is Getting a Beautiful, Minimalist Edition (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "sweet tits" is your go-to phrase to defending yourself as an AC.

    I don't think "sweet tits" is defending me, but she is mocking you! Yes, "sweet tits" is a she. ;)

    You should use your Slashdot scraper to confirm it!

    My scraper script works on user accounts. It doesn't work for ACs.

  25. Re:Stole the plot of WARGAMES on AI Could Lead To Third World War, Elon Musk Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1

    Can slashdot ban affiliate links already?

    If they do, they will have ban goatse links.