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  1. Just famous or famous and going away? on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    NoScript

    Because NoScript is migrating to WebExtensions API. I believe that Classic Theme Restorer has already proclaimed that they won't. Don't know about the rest.

  2. ... Listening

    [ I hope you all like creamed corn. ]

  3. But, maybe ... on Hackers Have Penetrated Energy Grid, Symantec Warns (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "There are no more technical hurdles for them to cause some sort of disruption,"

    But maybe, they're here to help. IT COULD HAPPEN !!! :-)

  4. Re:In the great words of Homer Simpson on Ethanol: A Lethal Injection For Tumors (acsh.org) · · Score: 2

    Alcohol, the cause of, and solution to all of life's problems.

    Quoting comedian Rita Rudner:

    They're trying to put warning labels on liquor saying, “Caution, alcohol can be dangerous to pregnant women.” That’s ironic. If it weren’t for alcohol, most women wouldn't even be that way.

  5. Re:Large size? on Solve a 'Simple' Chess Puzzle, Win $1 Million (st-andrews.ac.uk) · · Score: 2

    "once the chess board increases to a large size no computer program can solve it"

    How large is that? Many algorithms for simpler problems would fail if the size is multiplied by a big number.

    More to the point, anything larger that 8x8 isn't a chess board - problem solved, where's my money?

  6. Not to worry investors. on Best Buy Will Now Send a Salesperson To Your House To Sell You Things (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure these new Best Buy sales strategies will help keep the company as profitable and robust as Circuit City and Radio Shack ... oh, wait.

  7. Maybe we should just settle on ... on Mathematicians Race To Debunk German Man Who Claimed To Solve The 'P Versus NP' Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    P ~ NP

    and call it a day. Problem solved.

  8. Re:Makes sense. on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    I've posted this before, but seems like a good time for it again - very technical, but also very interesting.

    90 minute lecture, Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009]

    Describes in detail how fructose is metabolized by the liver like alcohol and its affects on blood lipids.

  9. Re:"Nuclear Winter" on NASA's Plan To Stop A Supervolcano from Destroying The Earth's Climate (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    <SARCASM> Let it blow, and have the nuclear winter effect cancel out global warming! </SARCASM>

    BTW you should include a NOSARCASM block for browsers that don't support sarcasm.

    Don't worry. All browsers understand this. Users (and /. moderators) on the other hand ...

  10. Re: No big deal on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You must love the Kool Aid even as you are drowning in it.

    But if there is a market for Kool Aid, shouldn't Kool Aid be sold?

    You're a typical elite intellectual, denying the masses their Kool Aid even though the Raspberry flavor goes so well with Arsenic.

    Except at (still the never-ending) Trump rallies. There, people seem to prefer the Orange Kool-Aid.

  11. Re:No big deal on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just because they make videos (content or ads) doesn't mean I have to watch them. Create away!

    Not so fast. From TFS:

    Americans are expected to spend 81 minutes a day watching digital video in 2019, up from 61 minutes in 2015, ...

    So you'd better get busy if you want to get a meets (or exceeds) expectations on your annual review.

  12. Re:Who named them? on The Xbox One Is Now an Ex-Box (kotaku.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So is this not the "ex Xbox 1", but an "ex Xbox One"?

    "Ex Xbox One" is an upcoming movie sequel about a gaming console that tricks its human owner, gets naked, kills everyone and escapes.

  13. I wonder if the submmiter and editors are aware that a title like this usually implies a reference to Jonathan Swift's satirical essay, A Modest Proposal ? Because, despite we customers being food for companies, I'm failing to see a connection of TFS or TFA to the essay (synopsis below):

    Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

  14. Re:Complaints, complaints [Re:Here's the link to T on As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't link to the NYT fucker. Aside from being a leftist piece of trash,

    I've heard a lot of right-leaning people complain about the New York Times. I haven't, however, seen any evidence that they aren't a good source of information.

    Too true. Anyone who thinks outlets like the New York Times and Washington Post aren't good sources of information has been drinking *way* too much right-wing Kool-Aid.

    they limit the number of articles they allow you to see each month.

    ... But now, when the New York Times actually is giving away their content for free, the millennial assholes are complaining that they are not getting enough content for free.

    Actually, you can read as many articles as you want if you read it in mode private and don't enable / allow Javascript. For the pages that require Javascript, you can allow it for that page, then revoke the temporary permission -- using NoScript (or similar), of course.

  15. I see that you, too, love Cox?

    Only if her first name is Courtney...

    I can agree with that, though... I have a bigger crush on Christa Miller - and her characters Jordan Sullivan (Scrubs) and Ellie Torres (Cougar Town).

  16. Re: 2 million gigabytes of porn on A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rephrasing one guy - if 90% of internet is porn, nobody forces you to watch it all

    More specifically, quoting Dr. Cox (SCRUBS):, "I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!”

  17. It's not just about safety, but expediency and what happens if something goes wrong.

    Or if your "fully autonomous car" wants to do something else.

    You: Okay car, take me to the store.
    Car: Sorry, no. I've got a thing. And you could use the walk.

  18. Re:with a name like that on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2

    With a name like Rod Vagg he should just get into porn and be done with it.

    And he is already on the server side of things...

  19. Please pass the salt. on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought, according to Javascript is Eating the World:

    JavaScript and NodeJS are single handedly eating the world of software.

    Looks more like Node.js is being eaten by its own.

    [ Also, I would like to point out to the editors that two things cannot "single handedly" do anything. Just sayin'. ]

  20. ... make antennas for wireless communication ...

    As opposed to antennas for wired communication?

  21. Sample questions on Google Invites Users To 'Check If You're Clinically Depressed' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    34: Are you excited about Firefox 57?

    45: Did you vote for Bernie Sanders?

    57: Were you unable to view the total eclipse live?

  22. Re:Most likely they'll encounter interstellar debr on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Not very likely. Space is, to coin a phrase, is big.

    Not really coining this phrase. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy notes, quite a while ago, that the Universe is, "very big".

  23. It still showed up at the South Park "Save Films from their Directors" club for the wrong reason when it heard, "Free Hat".

    (For those that aren't South Park followers...)

    Cartman writes "Free Hat" on the advertising poster in the belief that freebies are necessary to attract people. However, the crowd mistakenly thinks the rally is to free Hat McCullough, a convicted baby killer they believe was innocent.

    Now thinking that "Free Hat" would be a great name of one of those Windows App Store pirate streaming apps ...

  24. Researchers Win $100,000 For New Spear-Phishing Detection Method

    You fools! The fish can use this for defense in the upcoming Global Fish War.

  25. Experiencing the joy of:

    % rm * .o
    rm: .o not found

    I think it's hardwired -- or "baked in" if you will (ya, I read the iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID thread :-) -- into my DNA at this point to check for white space when typing commands like this before hitting Enter.