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  1. ... or received [ethics] from a lobbyist as a bribe.

    How deliciously ironic.

  2. Re:Hmm... familiar on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I gave up wishing for an edit feature here before Twitter was even founded.

    It's called "Preview" and if you don't use that opportunity to review and edit, then that's on you. Perhaps it would be easier for Twitter to support previewing than post-submit editing and make it an optional feature controlled by a profile setting.

  3. Re:Hmm... familiar on Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    What other platform do we know of that needs an odit feature? Let me think... let me think...

    Twitter supports Unicode, what are they complaining about?

    Ya, but you should see their "beta" interface.

  4. Re:"Congress shall make no law..." on Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    they could've stopped right there

    Given how unproductive the House and Senate have been over the past few years (putting petty politics over most everything else), I'd say the subject and your comment are both pretty accurate.

  5. ... House Speaker Paul Ryan has proposed new fines and ethics violations for House members ...

    I find it very hard to imagine how this could be an ethics violation, unless one considers the possibility that members of the House don't understand what the word "ethics" means -- or "violation" for that matter, given some members beliefs on rape.

  6. Re:You switched to Android on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 1

    Because of Windows spying?

    LMAO.

    He was just sad that he wasn't bad-ass enough to have the NSA spying on him, just Microsoft. Wait. Now I'm sad too.

  7. Re:Meanwhile, the bus speed... on Overclocker Pushes Intel Core i7-7700K Past 7GHz Using Liquid Nitrogen (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    well, then we need another kind of connector with much tighter tolerances/mroe expensive manufacturing processes

    Cray (reportedly) did this with their systems. For example, they would measure individual chip speed when building their memory boards and put faster chips farther from the connector and slower chips closer. Of, course the Cray 2 cost about $17 million back in the day -- I was one of the admins on voyager at NASA LaRC in the late 1980s. '88 Cray Too Old For Nasa

  8. Re:Most depressing thing I've read all week on Overclocker Pushes Intel Core i7-7700K Past 7GHz Using Liquid Nitrogen (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a big reason why virtual memory doesn't really work right anymore.

    Virtual memory wasn't/isn't to provide increased (or even sustained) speed, but rather increased overall system capacity. So it still works fine as intended.

  9. Re:not a rejection, a redirection on Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV, Company 'Refuses' To Help (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    but after the factory guys pull the lithium cell, or hook it to a tesla coil, or replace a module, or whatever to hard-reset the set, it's still vulnerable.

    The circuit to pull/replace is the flux-capacitor and the TV will be fine once you get it up to 88 mph.

  10. Amusingly, while Goldstar sold electronics, Lucky was more commonly associated with detergents and hygiene products.

    I hope the implied irony is how the company is now refusing to help sanitize their electronic devices. :-)

  11. Re:Still profit-neutral on Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Sooner or later Amazon has to start paying dividends...

    No, they don't. They just need to keep their share price afloat. Dividends are not a requirement of any company, and there are plenty out there that don't pay them. They are a nice perk, for sure, but not some sort of "you must do this or go out of business".

    Coming soon: Amazon Shareholder Prime -- "now with dividends"

  12. Re:Amazon Lockers are always full... on Amazon Starts Flexing Muscle in New Space (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried to order something from Amazon to deliver to a local Amazon Locker. No can do. It's full. As are the half-dozen Amazon Lockers in the surrounding area. No space, no delivery. Oh, well. I'll my business elsewhere.

    Sorry, that was me. I ordered an Amazon Locker and accidentally had it delivered to an Amazon Locker.

  13. Not to worry. on White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Marvel will figure out how to slip this incident into their timeline and monetize it. I can't guess which movie post-credit teaser it will be in though.

  14. Re:Does this invalidate such clauses in contracts? on Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Dates? Every time I try to meet a woman from the internet it turns out to be a man and/or an FBI agent...

    Well... If you're looking to date a man and/or FBI agent you're all set!

    Maybe the Internet is trying to tell you something. :-)

  15. Re:Keep your MUFFIN out of my face on LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI (documentfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen this new UI, but it is safe to assume "usability experts" were hard at work at making trendy and user un-friendly changes to it.

    No... I'm sure it's "really important stuff", like rounded tabs (that display slightly less information, but look trendy) rather than square tabs -- I'm looking at you Firefox (thank God for Classic Theme Restorer)

  16. Re:Microsoft Combat Systems technical support on Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support (petri.com) · · Score: 1

    Similar tech support interaction: Houston

  17. Re:Far-future Expires: header on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 1

    What you are missing is that even if the browser has the library cached, it still much reach out to the server to see if it has the latest version

    Not if the version number is in the URL. Then the CDN can serve the library with an Expires: header with a value years in the future.

    What would any of that matter if the browser would simply restart showing the page from cache -- everything needed to display from the cache should be current with respect to the cache.

  18. Well duh. on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Researchers ... trained an ultraviolet laser on antihydrogen, ... and found no discrepancy with the corresponding energy transition in ordinary hydrogen.

    Everyone knows you need to use an anti-laser to get the appropriate results.

  19. Re:It's Come to This on Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Automatically pausing the DVR when the doorbell rings is the kind of useful I'd want.

    Why? You can't push a button on a remote?

    Attention shift happens as soon as the doorbell rings. If you don't want to miss anything, the response time should be immediate.

    Yes. It's not like DVRs have a rewind button - geesh.

  20. Re:Imagine the reverse on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    My only hope is that he will do something that can get him impeached relatively quickly, ...

    By a Republican controlled House of Representatives *and* Senate? Don't hold your breath.

    From: Impeachment in the United States:

    The House of Representatives has the sole power of impeaching, while the United States Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments. The removal of impeached officials is automatic upon conviction in the Senate.

  21. Re:Now it begins on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    ... Trump isn't going to destroy the planet. We are going to be just fine.

    On the other hand, "the planet" and "we" are not one in the same.

  22. Get a TARDIS on Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? · · Score: 1

    From what I've seen, they're very secure, portable and have lots of internal space that's easily re-configurable.

  23. Sign up now ... on The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training (linuxfoundation.org) · · Score: 1

    ... on Lynda.com

  24. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Better to burn all the research to the ground and call it a day.

    Although, that would be a man-made contribution to global warming...

  25. Just great. on U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    V2V-equipped vehicles can identify risks and provide warnings to drivers to avoid imminent crashes. Self-driving cars (and human drivers) could be informed when it's safe to enter the passing lane (or when cars move into a vehicle's blind spot), ...

    Then we can be fined if we ignore the safety advise/warnings from our cars.