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  1. For those who can't touch type I guess. Is this a feature now? I'll take "Things that suck battery power for 100 Alex".

  2. Re:Can I get it as an APK? on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    Look up DNS66

  3. Re: Steven B. Krivit is paid by big oil on Scientific American Column: 'It's Not Cold Fusion...But It's Something' (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's a secret, how do you know about it? Let me guess. You're a plasma universe person aren't you?

  4. Re:Beware people carrying buckets of water... on The 'USB Killer' Has Been Mass Produced -- Available Online For About $50 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How did you come by this information?

  5. Actually, that's not net neutrality. Net Neutrality can be summed up in 5 words: A packet is a packet. I don't know what is so hard about this. Some people will say stuff like: you have to prioritize VOIP for 911, or real time emergency alerts, or whatever. Bullshit. A packet is a packet. If you throttle or prioritize, you're not neutral. Period.

  6. Re:File under Bullsh*t on Scientists Believe There's Finally A Cure For The Common Cold (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Careful. Homeopathic medicine can kill you if you don't take it.

  7. Re:Professional astroturf on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ahh, yes, get all upset when someone else uses the USA's playbook against it.

  8. Re:Fat chance o'dat on New York's District Attorney: Roll Back Apple's iPhone Encryption (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
    And a round thing in your face
    You get sprung, want to pull up tough
    'Cause you notice that butt was stuffed

    Public indecency, sexual harassment, "girl" implies underage.

  9. To answer the question. on Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem (backchannel.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What do Slashdot readers think is causing what this article describes as "our epidemic of misinformation"?

    Gullible Idiots and confirmation bias.

  10. Re: Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    10 to one delusion (misspelled on purpose) isn't what you seem to think it is. Take 100ml of pure water and drop 10ml of the "active" ingredient into it.
    Then, take 100ml of pure water and drop 10ml of the previous solution into it. Keep repeating 8 more times. The resulting solution is just pure water.

  11. Re:I still telnet for usurper on Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    TW2002

  12. Re:WRONG:My program gets 'em automatically on Opera Max Turns To Nagware, Now Prompts Users To Re-enable It Every 12 Hours (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? You say your host file is ~3Mb. So instead of blocking an entire tld with a wildcard, I should be downloading a 3Mb (and growing every day apparently) every day instead of performing a single query? You've been struck down many times before, by myself and others, and you still spew this crap. Ahh, good times.

  13. Might want to stop using public resources then and/or move out of the USA because there is more here that is socialist than you might care to admit.

  14. What you do is combine all the current benefit programs into the UBI. Get rid of medicare/aid, social security, welfare, etc... Reabsorb the budgets that are used to run those programs, and combine the resulting funds into the UBI stipend. Employers can also subtract the UBi amount from what they pay to their workers so that the cost is offset for the employers as well. Say the UBI is 1k/mo. I currently make 5k/mo. My salary would go down by 1k since I would be getting the UBI so when it's all said and done, it's even for people who are working. There is still an incentive to work since I can make above and beyond the UBI if so motivated, but it also gives me the freedom to quit my job and seek alternate work if I so desire since I wouldn't starve to death while looking for work. Also, if this is paid to every man, woman, and child, then a mandatory percentage of the child's UBI (say 50%) can be put into an interest bearing account until the child reaches adulthood and has something to use to pay for college, start a home, buy a car, etc.

    Not perfect, but I think this would help with implementation as people who are currently receiving various benefits would be able to transition almost immediately. As the transition progresses, the staff positions needed to run those programs could be cut back, and since those who would lose their jobs would also be receiving the UBI, they aren't impacted as much since they can still live while looking for other work.

    Now figuring out the amount that the UBI should be is going to be the tough part. The numbers I hear getting tossed around is to set it at whatever the federal minimum wage is set at. Not goign to live in luxury at that amount, but it's enough to survive while also encouraging people to look for extra employment.

  15. Re:Something I've wanted on A Spotify Ad Slipped Malware Onto PCs and Macs (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    There is another solution to sites that use CDNs. They could host their own content. If you're at the point where you need a CDN, you have the income to afford it. I ran a (I thought) rather popular site from a dynamic IP in my house. Received over 1 million unique users per day, plus forums, downloads, source code hosting, mail, etc. I also hosted my own ad network on the same system. This was direct advertising that I hosted and vetted myself, on my server. Bandwidth costs are cheap. If I can optimize a core 2 duo with 1Gb of ram to run that kind of traffic, using a CDN just seems lazy to me. Some months, I cleared around $5k. My cost, not counting my own time? About $50/mo. This was in 2004/5.

  16. Something I've wanted on A Spotify Ad Slipped Malware Onto PCs and Macs (techhive.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always wanted an option in my browser to only display items on a page if they are from *.domain.com of the site I'm looking at. Cross site anything would simply stop working. Then, if a site is hosting it's own ads, it would display. No ad blocker required. It would also stop third party cookies, javascript, etc..

  17. Re:War on Freedom on New York To Test Facial Recognition Cameras At 'Crossing Points' (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    No, if it was a war on freedom, we'll end up with more freedom as per the war on drugs, guns, terrorism, etc...

  18. Re:One thing makes this totally suspect on Apple Loses Patent Retrial To VirnetX, Owes $302.4 Million (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The judge who hears most of these cases is the same guy. And his son is a patent lawyer who takes the cases of the patent trolls. You wonder why they all file in East Texas? It's all about dad making money for his family.

  19. How do you know? on Ask Slashdot: Is My IoT Device Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it's connected to the internet directly, and it has no built in security apart from "admin" "password", it's part of a botnet or soon will be.

  20. Re:I hate this "a thing" bullshit on 'Transformer' BMW Turns Into A Giant Robot (vice.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's literally even worse than abuse of the word 'literal', which is a thing.

    FTFY

  21. Re:Covered in the past. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 4, Informative

    And here's another: http://hackaday.com/2014/11/21...

  22. Covered in the past. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a good one with links to more: http://hackaday.com/2016/05/04...

  23. Re:Finest IDE? on Will Oracle Surrender NetBeans to Apache? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    CVS, Subversion, Mercurial and ClearCase are supported out of the box, with Git requiring an addon but there is WIP to include it with the IDE itself.

  24. Re:Android phones manage this without sacking the on Apple Replaced the Headphone Jack On the iPhone 7 With a Fake Speaker Grill (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Casio G'zOne. I had one 5 years ago. The latest model comes with software to undistort images taken under water. How's that?

  25. Re:"That's the way we've always done it" is idioti on Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR (canonrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Then set up the MyMenu section and add what you want. Or, fire up MagicLantern and be done with it. My question is, will this finally drive some of the MK II prices down?