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  1. Re:Stone tablet and chisel on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    I prefer water-jet cutting 1/2" thick plates of titanium.

  2. Re:Interesting story on Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he just wrote it in Scala.

  3. Reading your post on a 15"MBP Retina display with the display running at full rez (>>what stock OSX will let you run it at) and the amount of screen real estate is awesome. More than on the 27" Dell sitting next to it. Yes people I work with complain they have trouble reading it, but I do fine with it. I wouldn't need that if @#$@# app & web devs didn't waste so much space these days, but what can I do...

  4. Re:I feel that lone sysadmin's pain on GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Your manager and company had already paid the cost of "training" you, why would they then fire you and have to hire someone who might not be as careful as you would then be?

  5. Maybe, but apparently not at BackBlaze's scale. The higher failure rate of the Seagates is offset by the lower price.

  6. I want to be able to call it Zorg. I almost never say Zorg. And I can't imagine that Zorg sounds like anything else. Alexa on the other hand seems to get triggered inadvertently fairly often.

  7. Re:Just what the world needed most urgently... on Meet Lux, A New Lisp-like Language (javaworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting, given that micro plugs are rated for more insertions than minis:
    "The newer Micro-USB receptacles are designed for a minimum rated lifetime of 10,000 cycles of insertion and removal between the receptacle and plug, compared to 1,500 for the standard USB and 5,000 for the Mini-USB receptacle." [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ]

  8. Yeah, but it (2FA) is not ready for gullible grandmothers (yet).

  9. They still need to make it easier to restrict logins to being just from that chromebook, or require 2FA. My GF's mom is super gullible (lost $40K to phone scammers) and more than once has been convinced to type her Google account password into some other site.

  10. My Acer C720 and my ChromeBoxes don't nag me, but then I flashed new firmware on them.

  11. Re:I can hear crying on Twitter Is 'Toast' and the Stock Is Not Even Worth $10, Says Analyst (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I just go into my iPhone's settings and turn those alerts off with a simple slider.

  12. Re:I can hear crying on Twitter Is 'Toast' and the Stock Is Not Even Worth $10, Says Analyst (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse, be a US citizen of Japanese descent.

  13. "as Obama has never done"

    Wat?

  14. Just have the list conclude of every current and former employee/contractor of the agency. They all worked on it, peripherally or not.

  15. 'black balled'

    McCarthy, is that you?

  16. Re: Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny how (seemingly from a brief scan) most of the 'lefties' here are signed in, and the 'righties' are Anonymous Coward...

  17. Re:Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd cancel their accounts and wouldn't refund a fucking dime, because they'd have violated the terms of service, and the agreement they agreed to would allow me to cancel their account at any time for that and keep all their money. Hell, I'd have a clause in there which allowed me to sue them for 10x their fees to recover the losses from losing other paying customers when they were being assholes on my site.

  18. Re:Not very smart on Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dance like there's no one watching.
    Email like it'll be read on the national news.

  19. Re:Not very smart analysis on Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    And then of course there's the Assassination Market which, if I recall correctly, the CIA had one going at some point...

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

  20. Re:Is this from The Onion? on 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:Is this from The Onion? on 2016 Will Be the Hottest Year On Record, UN Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Informative
  22. Re:Apple is primarily a jewlery company on Design For the Present (marco.org) · · Score: 1

    Steve didn't start Pixar, he bought it from Lucas. See the recent "How Steve Jobs became a billionaire" for how feared/hated Steve was at Pixar.

  23. Cheaper than a Sun?

  24. The SSD is at least expandable to 2TB, if you still have that extra kidney to sell...

  25. Sure, and that's probably an argument to keep my stock, but not one to buy a new MBP to replace my ancient (mid 2010) MBP-17". Instead I'll probably go with the Dell with the mobile Xeon, 32GB ECC RAM, etc. Of course I still want MacOS, so that's the main requirement: whatever hardware I get has to be able to run as a hackintosh.