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  1. It was the We Break Your Legs and Shoot You in an Alley provision.

  2. Re:Wouldn't be an issue if Firefox was relevant. on HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared To Flash, Experts Say (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    The current Firefox UI is great and significantly better than it was prior to Chrome, though I'd rather they didn't include things like Pocket.

    Firefox's market share fell because Chrome generally makes sense for people who aren't interested in technology. With automatic updating and bundling flash & pdf reader the biggest attack vectors were mitigated.

  3. Turd Anyway on Apple Discontinues Thunderbolt Display (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a thunderbolt display @ work and they have a ton of problems.

    • its absurdly hot
    • if you plug in while suspended/hibernated the display will work but nothing else.
    • if you plug in while the pc is on, nothing works
  4. Re:How Far, How Fast Without Pedaling? on Xiaomi Launches Foldable Electric Bike QiCycle At a Price Of $450 (indianexpress.com) · · Score: 1

    In Canada at least you generally cannot ride any bike on the sidewalk unless you are a child.

  5. No Buttons on Amazon's New Kindle Is Only $80, Comes In White, and With More Storage · · Score: 1

    No thanks.

  6. Re:Flight over people is prohibited on New FAA Rules Allow US Companies To Fly Drones Without a Pilot's License (faa.gov) · · Score: 1

    So pretty much limited to a farmers field then without overshooting the property boundaries.

  7. Re:We want more on 180 Artists, Labels Including Taylor Swift Take On YouTube, Join Copyright Plea (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    They want a magic universe where someone reviews every Youtube video by hand and magically knows whether something included in the video has a copyright that the uploader does not have a license for and can isn't fair use. (OK, so they probably don't want fair use allowed either...)

  8. Re: Billionaires Gotta Stick Together on Mark Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Peter Thiel On Facebook Board (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a pretty common belief that the hogan lawsuit would be overturned but the absurd requirement to post the money before being able to appeal makes it difficult.

  9. Committing Fraud on Twitch Brings CFAA and Trademark Claim Against Bot Operators (techdirt.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At first I assumed these were chatbots, but it sounds like the complaint is really about bots acting as fake viewers? If so, that does sound like conspiracy to commit fraud as opposed to something innocuous.

  10. Billionaires Gotta Stick Together on Mark Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Peter Thiel On Facebook Board (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can't have them being accountable to the plebs.

  11. Re: Unification on Fedora QA Lead Pans Canonical 'Propaganda' On Snap Apps (happyassassin.net) · · Score: 1

    I think even if there were only a couple we'd still be in the same polish state. The real issue is that devs only want to work on the shiny new feature, not fix/maintain those that someone else wrote.

  12. Re:Better idea on LG Sells Mosquito-Repelling TV In India (technobuffalo.com) · · Score: 1

    There are some interesting DIY traps based on spare tires which are pretty effective at killing mosquito eggs which reduces the population. From my understanding one of the bigger problems in most of these areas is that there is generally a lot of places with sitting water for them to nest.

  13. Seems low for large scale hacking & organized crime.

  14. Thats funny, because its not what reviews say.

  15. Your attitude is both complacent and wrong. I have a Xiaomi phone, and the build quality is superb. These companies have a huge domestic market, but they are also selling well in SE Asia, Africa, and India. That is most of the world's population, and where most future growth will be.

    Those markets are still a very very long way from being anything more than low margin markets, hence junk phones. In the higher margin markets (NA / EU) the smartphone market would need a very large revolutionary change to unseat the incumbents (much like the iphone launch did to Nokia, Palm & Blackberry).

  16. Lenovo on Eight Of the World's Top 12 Smartphone Vendors Are Based In China (digidip.net) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    is just Motorola. And the rest largely only manufacture domestically and/or produce junk phones. The exception is what, Huawei with the Nexus 6P?

  17. Re:/. EDITORS HATE GAY PEOPLE on Symantec Will Acquire Controversial Surveillance Firm Blue Coat Systems For $4.65 Billion (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Precisely what was the technology angle? This isn't a general news site, GTFO

  18. Re:Another one bites the dust on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, have you worked for LinkedIn long?

  19. Re:Oh great on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    LinkedIn was already the sleaziest company on the internet, why would you be worried now that Microsoft owns them

  20. Negative Terms Blocked on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought that they started blocking suggesting negative terms as it was too easy to google bomb names?

  21. opened the calendar to Friday and ordered some french fries.

  22. Re: Ever since Google has that Indian CEO ... on Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Hmm, guess racists are too dumb to understand that alphabet Inc owns nest, not Google.

  23. Irony of the first on Xiaomi's Mi Band 2 Fitness Tracker Featuring OLED Display Launched at $23 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Was that you could never really be sure whether you were ordering a knock-off.

  24. Re:Price Jump? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Want a 'Smart TV'? · · Score: 1

    3-5 years ago it was, though the 'smarttv' SKUs also have/had better screens also.

  25. guess the republicans have mod points today and don't like it when people point out flaws with their paragon of virtue...