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  1. Forget Woody Woodpecker, switch to Xenial Xerus — it's LTS.

  2. Holographic shell? on Microsoft Is Bringing WebVR To Microsoft Edge On Windows 10 (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how a holographic shell prompt would look like.

  3. Re:Discomfiting on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I like Facebook app more than the mobile version of the website. Or, more precisely, I dislike it much less, it sucks anyway. I find the mobile website unusable because of the friend feed jumping constantly on updates, making me lose my position in the feed.

  4. Re:The Latest Innovations on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they actually will, because this is very much comparable to maintenance which these instruments need anyway.

  5. Re:In a country far far away on Microsoft To Disable Policies In Windows 10 Pro With Anniversary Update (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, after all these years of Linux desktop, there still isn't anything comparable to ABBYY FineReader or PDF Transformer 2.0 (the latter went downhill after that version). No, gImageReader, OCRFeeder etc. don't cut it.

  6. To listen to Yandex.Music for free.

  7. Re: Not apples to apples on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh cool, where was it? A fellow Russian here.

  8. Immediately, when I saw those figures, I opened the comment page and searched the page for "white privilege". Thank you.

  9. Re:Horrible Summary: Some clarifications on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 2

    What ever happened to the Portable part of the Portable Document Format?

    Now it's Proprietary Document Format.

  10. Re:Adobe Acrobat on The US Government and Open Standards: a Tale of Personal Woe (thevarguy.com) · · Score: 1

    Infix. It's proprietary and Windows based, though the author says it also works on Linux under Wine (I didn't check it).

  11. Re:You gotta love this industry on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you give a list of companies who behave like that so that I avoid them? Or at least know in advance that there may be complications with them.

  12. Re:Law or morality? on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    But that's really how it is. As an ordinary citizen (not a policeman etc.), you're free to look the other way and nobody is going to prosecute you for that.

  13. Re:Searching in scanned books on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I now see you said "OSS", not specifically "Linux". But I still hope you have something for Linux, too.

  14. Re:Searching in scanned books on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Do your high-quality Linux OCR solutions include one that allows me to:
    1) select rectangular OCR areas of "image", "text", and "table" types for different OCR behavior;
    2) add or subtract rectangular sub-areas to or from these areas;
    3) OCR those areas while retaining basic character and paragraph formatting;
    - and all of that using a stable GUI-based software?

    I'm a professional technical translator who would like to be able to work on Linux. Being free as in speech/beer is not required, I'm prepared to pay the equivalent of FineReader price or slightly more. I did my own research recently, and none of the free or, bizarrely, proprietary stuff for Linux had all the required features. But I may have missed something.

  15. Re:Let the Public Decide on Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    How this is different from any non-car product? By that logic, we should ban direct sales of everything else.

    Oh, and local business is not entitled to my money. If your concern is "non-taxed multi-national corporations", fix that instead.

  16. not younger workers age-wise, but younger workers

    What is that supposed to mean?

  17. Re:Monopoly on what exactly on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    No, this is not psychology, and Erik Berne doesn't have anything to do with it.
    And yes, this is relevant to what tehcyder said, because that statement about libertarians etc. is simply wrong.

  18. Re:Monopoly on what exactly on London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups · · Score: 1

    Contrary to what the libertarians/extreme right wing free marketers think, not all human interaction is based on the cash nexus.

    Exchange in general, not cash. And yes, all human interaction, even with oneself, is based on it.

  19. Re:Excellent on East Texas Judge Throws Out 168 Patent Cases · · Score: 1

    Errr, I don't know — what is your experience in that respect? Does it feel good?

  20. Re:Install Linux on Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to. Still no OSS or proprietary GUI-based FineReader equivalent ready for serious work (with area selection). The CLI FineReader Engine doesn't cut it. This is the only thing that prevents me from fully switching to Linux for work needs.

  21. Re:What's the problem? on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 1

    I think I should have phrased this using the verb "suffer", not the noun "feelings". Anyway, I hope the point is clear.

  22. What's the problem? on The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains · · Score: 1

    "Thou shalt not kill/perform highly invasive experiments on people" etc. is not absolute, despite what many believe. It's only there as long as at least one of the below conditions is true:

    1) The individual in question, human by nature (not necessarily an actual "person"), has feelings, or can be reasonably hoped to have his/her feelings eventually restored in case he/she is in e.g. coma.
    2) Somebody is attached to this individual, whatever his/her condition is, so they have feelings about him/her that can be hurt.

    Neither is the case here.

  23. Cannot think of a subject on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    Did my first real work as a technical translator on a 486 with 8MB RAM. The OS was a late version of Windows 95 (smth. like OSR2?), and Word 97 was used for text processing. BTW, I don't remember it blue-screening much, the system was pretty stable if slow-ish. I have pretty fond memories of that time.

  24. Re:Come on, complete the mystery. on US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private · · Score: 1

    Without knowing the law, I wouldn't be sure about that, because the intent to call, obviously, wasn't there.

  25. Re:To teach kids to code you need an incentive on Larry Wall On Perl 6, Language Design, and Getting Kids To Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    You should give him an incentive to do it.