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  1. What android VPN client would people recommend? on Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Free would be nice, open source even nicer.

  2. piss on scribd on Scribd To Change Its 'Unlimited' E-book Subscription Plan To Semi-Unlimited · · Score: 2

    They take public domain documents then put them behind a wall where you can't download or print them unless you sign up or subscribe.

    Its complete bullshit.

  3. Best described as a "Burning Platform" on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Or as Nokia would have called it, out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  4. And tere are men being really shitty to other men on The Empathy Gap and Why Women Are Treated So Badly In Open Source Projects (perens.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    But as men we have to deal with it. If this is a feminist issue, then a logical consequence might be that women need protecting from men because they are too weak to protect themselves, i.e. men and women aren't equal... but this exactly the opposite of most lines of feminist thinking. Smells like a proof by contradiction.

  5. Re:Something is very fishy on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 1

    Ian Murdock, of course, being different to Ian Jackson,

  6. absurd on Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program · · Score: 1

    Its absurd that police forces should even get a commission for seizing assets.

  7. Re:won't work as well on Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am eagerly awaiting reviews and specifications.

  8. won't work as well on Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Oculus aren't focusing on room-scale VR so it won't work as well as Vive's. If you don't test it in a particular scenario, you don't find out and fix what doesn't work in a particular scenario. The CEO trying it late in the game and "it's fine" doesn't really count as testing...

  9. Re:Increase productivity?? on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 1

    > No, and I never will. Only an idiot would sacrifice their mental health for a few hours of tripping.

    So you won't ever know if its actually idiotic or not.

  10. Re:What is the point of Devuan? on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    Yeah my argument is that the Devuan maintainers should be maintaining patches for upower that continue to support pm-utils - within Debian.

  11. What is the point of Devuan? on Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? · · Score: 1

    I have never understood why the Devuan fork needed to be made to address the issue of systemd dependence in Debian. All that group of people needed to do was commit to maintain non-systemd packages in Debian then they'd have the best of both worlds.

  12. Commercial colony on the moon first on How Close Are We To a Mars Mission? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    Sending people to Mars is aspirational, but ridiculous. We need to find a commercial basis for a self-sustaining colony on the moon first. Once we have a self-sustaining colony on the moon, that is somehow able to support itself commercially, sending people to Mars will be more achievable.

  13. Interesting take on liability on Volvo Unveils Autonomous Concept Car, WIth Retracting Wheel, 25" Display (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What's interesting about robotic cars is they will probably be vastly safer than human drivers overall. Say 15,000 human cause accidents a year, versus 100 automation caused accidents a year. So going with my made up numbers, even if a robotic car causes an accident it would have prevented 150 accidents. Morally, it seems like they should *almost* get a free pass for the limited number of accidents they cause (as every human driver they replace will save lives).

  14. constant sales pitches on Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Mozilla want to focus on user needs instead of advertising. However a big user need for me is not to be the target of constant sales pitches. This means for me that the problem is advertising full stop, not the way that the advertising is carried out.

  15. Re:Waiting for it to update without prompting on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    home premium!

  16. Re:Do the users have the license for this? on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 3, Informative

    As I understand it you get a free licence locked to 1 machine. But the windows 7 licence I bought is for any machine (but I can only install/run one copy). So that would be a retrograde step.

  17. Re:Waiting for it to update without prompting on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 1

    I've never been offered windows 10, curiously (or maybe fortunately).

  18. Re:TDP? on NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 · · Score: 1

    Remember the bit about not having the sound loud cos its late at night?

  19. Re:amusing effects in mint update manager on AT&T Hotspots Now Injecting Ads · · Score: 1

    Well why does any HTTP request not go over HTTPS? In the long run every request will. But for now, equipment that assumes (reasonably) that people won't corrupt their HTTP responses will fail in various ways.

  20. amusing effects in mint update manager on AT&T Hotspots Now Injecting Ads · · Score: 2

    mint update manager seems to query for descriptions of package updates via http. So wifi that interferes with http somtimes causes mint to give nonsonse descriptions for updates.

    breaking end-to-end connections is really really really bad.

  21. Re:TDP? on NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 · · Score: 1

    Prefer speakers, better bass response, no wire to trip over and means I can talk to my gf as well

  22. Re:TDP? on NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 · · Score: 1

    And invariably what fan manufacturers describe as "barely audible" is anything but... I've been burnt too many times by misleading descriptions.

  23. Re:TDP? on NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 · · Score: 1

    0 rpm idle's no good for me. Games have quiet bits and the fan is there. Also if you don't have the sound that loud cos its late at night then the fan is there as well.

  24. TDP? on NVIDIA Launches $159 Mainstream Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 950 · · Score: 1

    Can you run it fanlessly like the 750 ti?

  25. apache foundation? on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Why did apache foundation agree to take on responsibility for openoffice? It was kind of a poisoned chalice.