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  1. Re:64-bit? Sun Microsystems says "Hi!" on Apple Watch Apps Instantly Went 64-Bit Thanks To Obscure Bitcode Option (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Or IRIX. I had my first 64-bit desktop machine around 1996 (SGI Indigo).

  2. Re:do I just hang out on lefty sites on Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    And apostrophes aren't a warning: "Look out, here comes an 's' at the end of a word!"

  3. Re: Virtue signalling on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If we're going to pass laws like this then shouldn't we require an equal mix of POTUS?

    That would mean that the next election would require only women candidates.

    I find myself strangely attracted to that idea, not because they're women but because it would throw the status-quo into turmoil.

  4. Re:Virtue signalling on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Every board must have people of both genders.

    "Both" genders? Are you implying there's only two?

  5. Re: Funny new problems on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Odd-numbered days are reserved for being half Apache helicopter and half Abrams tank... a flying, tanking, confused, multipurpose paperweight the MIC doesn't actually need but built experimentally anyhow for the money.

    The Osprey?

  6. Re: Virtue signalling on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're not saying 50%.

    Yet.

    And why only women? Why not one black, one Asian, one Hispanic, all required by law?

    (and with a minimum mixture of gender identities among them, of course)

    I can see one immediate problem: If there's only three members on the board then which group gets priority? There's obviously no answer to that so we have to require a minimum number of board members, too. Make sure nobody is left out.

    The problem with left-wing politics is that there isn't a clear line which says "we went too far" when you cross it.

  7. Re:Virtue signalling on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That will soon be a requirement for boards of director, too.

    At least one homosexual and one trans-gender on the board.

  8. Re: Virtue signalling on California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we also have laws requiring firefighters to be 50% female? And construction workers, truck drivers and lumberjacks?

    How about sports teams? Shouldn't they be mixed, too?

    That would be affirmative action but I don't see many people campaigning for it. They only want to cherry pick the 'good' stuff for themselves.

    (although I'm not sure what's so great about working all the hours that a big company CEO works, maybe the reason there's not many female CEOs is that they're not psychopathic enough)

  9. Re:Shave the Hedgehogs on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm disappointed there's no link to the "famous poem".

  10. Re:They have to practice on something on Robot Lawnmowers Are Killing Hedgehogs (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the liability laws for something like that in the USA?

  11. How will you finance it?

    That's an awful lot of track to build before moon visits can begin.

  12. Re:What is the most devices.... on Windows 10 Passes 700 Million Devices (neowin.net) · · Score: 0

    First of all: What's a "device"?

    That sounds like a weasel-word if ever I heard one.

  13. Re: Like hitler but mosquitos instead of Jews on Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The whites are quite keen on those dogs, too.

  14. Re:US should nominate him for SCOTUS on Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who are you going to believe?

    The people who released him initially - before the USA went on a fishing expedition to find a way to get him to the USA no matter what.

    PS: An Interpol arrest warrant issued for a crime committed in a single country? That's corruption at the highest level.

  15. Re:US should nominate him for SCOTUS on Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Um, he isn't a rapist.

  16. Re: You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously they didn't go around arresting anybody on the street wearing a Casio (duh!). ...but In some cases the watch was the only hard "proof".

  17. Re: You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody makes it all the way to detention at Guantanimo Bay for merely wearing a watch.

    Casio watches were submitted as evidence in many arrests:

    eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  18. Re: You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    * And citations to secondary sources with background information. Do the homework.

  19. Re: You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The "unathoritative" page gives names and details. It should be easy to refute, right?

  20. Re: You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    That page wasn't particularly supposed to prove any points.

    You want more info? Search for "Casio" on this page:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Count how many times it says, "Detained for wearing a Casio F91W digital watch".

  21. Re:Nope on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get $20 Fitbits for that, and Fitbit clones for even less. No need to spend $1200.

  22. Re:You do realise... on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    There's actually people in Gitmo where the only evidence against them is wearing a Casio F-91W.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:No not really on Slashdot Asks: Anyone Considering an Apple Watch 4? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 0

    Yep.

    PS: All the talk about "fall protection" is a crock. This is a device that needs charging to even keep working. A LOT of charging.

  24. Re:They keep banking on infrastructure improvement on Game Streaming's Latency Problems Will Be Over in a Few Years, CEO Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Care to share some details? If for no other reason than for the rest of us who are getting screwed to be able to take this example to publicly shame our own ISP's who keep fucking us?

    Please, please, please....

    Simple: I live in Europe.

  25. Re:The long fall to Socialism on Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your family is pulling in $130,000 and you can't afford an education then the problem's in the Universities.

    Maybe those $100 million sports facilities and plasma TVs in every bedroom aren't really needed.