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  1. My wife did it.

  2. ... which thanks to satellites and pseudo-wires may not even be in the same area code as the user.

  3. Re:why are we cheering DRM? on Free Software Will Help Detect Faulty and Malicious USB-C Cables · · Score: 1

    We see thumb drives with firmware written to lie about their capacity and throw away data. Why would we expect this to not be spoofed? And how is software going to validate a cable without it being plugged in -- at which point the damage may have already been done?

  4. Re:$300 to read books? on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    There is also something for being able to last through a long plane trip, especially if you get delayed. I see seat power on perhaps 10% of flights, relying on it is folly. Even many gate areas lack outlets.

  5. Re:Excellent! on Amazon Kindle Oasis With 'Months' of Battery Life, Redesigned Body Launched · · Score: 1

    On the off chance that you can figure out all the bits to get Calibre to work, and if can cope the input files you happen to throw at it.

  6. Re: Danger Will Robinson! on Most Netflix Customers Don't Realize Prices Will Increase Next Month (time.com) · · Score: 1

    ^some^many. It's very annoying and increasingly we're not finding desired titles. I suspect the original content is the only thing keeping them afloat. I would otherwise cancel.

  7. Re:Here I was all excited! on Twitter To Give All New Parents 20 Weeks of Paid Leave (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    But, like unlimited vacation, would anyone actually dare to take it?

  8. Re: That's a lot of cash... on Tesla Receives 115,000 Model 3 Preorders Worth $115 Million In 24 Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Brake energy is captured, no? Vs eating brake pads? My question is as to how complete the 35k model is, or if most people option up significantly.

  9. Re: That's a lot of cash... on Tesla Receives 115,000 Model 3 Preorders Worth $115 Million In 24 Hours (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How could any Android user respect himself?

  10. Re:Meanwhile overall U.S. content is down 33.2% (2 on Netflix's Original Content Library Is Growing By 185% Each Year (cordcutting.com) · · Score: 1

    At least 50% of the time we go looking on Netflix for a certain non-obscure movie, it's not there. But what IS there is a surfeit of "straight to video" quality stuff that I'm sure appeals to them for the low licensing cost, it lets them say we have N thousand movies, few of which are what one wants.

  11. Re:we are not helpless, just unwilling on California's $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage May Spur Automation (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ... not to mention the chronic water shortage. One thing for sure is that housing in California, at least the greater SF / Silly Vally, rises in cost to reflect what the market will bear. I predict this will see the low end of the housing market, shitty apartments, rise in cost disproportionately to the higher tiers. Without control of spiraling housing costs, isolated increase of the minimum wage does not improve standard of living, it just fuels inflation.

  12. Clearly Bob is his uncle.

  13. Re:Apparently he can change his family tree! on Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    "African American" isn't a religion. Judaism is.

  14. Re: Easy. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Glare On Cellphones? · · Score: 1

    Or tilt 5 degrees.

  15. Re: People say "custom-made" like it's a bad thing on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    Truth. Clearly the poster has never traveled 101. Plus the absurd cost of living means that many cannot afford a car, and if the could there's nowhere to park.

  16. Congratulations. You aren't running Eunice. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Easter Egg? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    SSIA

  17. Re:I solved the problem with my long complicated n on Names That Break Computers (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A dismaying preponderance of software can't handle an apostrophe in a name, because nobody has ever heard of, eg. Europe. So one sees: o An airline FFM system that accepts it, but a reservation system that doesn't, preventing linkage o Snail mail with ' interpolated into one's name o Web forms that won't submit

  18. Ever price rack doors? Hard sell to bean counters. And then you end up with some gear including rails that prevents closing.

  19. Does anyone else remember when non other than Gates told businesses to replace their peecees every two years?

  20. Re:If it must be done Apple morally obliged to do on DOJ Threatens To Seize iOS Source Code (idownloadblog.com) · · Score: 1

    And to somehow install an OS update on a locked device?

  21. Codename: OBLIO

  22. Re:Outsource to IBM? on Hertz Had Sheriffs On Hand the Day It Cut IT (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    30k/year has meaning only in the context of local cost of living. $1k/year isn't poverty in a country / city where that buys you a big house and bare-breasted servants.

  23. Re: Form Factor not "Format" on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Will it? Or will the movement to NVMe render it moot for drives?

  24. Re: Form Factor not "Format" on Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Truly only douchbags ever used "vaxen".

  25. Re: We've heard this before... on Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Given the limited penetration of BD as it is, it's not like anyone will buy these.