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  1. Re:Very effective on Robot Babies Not Effective Birth Control, Australian Study Finds (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    I find robots very effective at birth control. I've not managed to get one pregnant yet.

    Is it an iSexRobot? Maybe you're holding it wrong.

  2. Re:That can't possibly go wrong on Amazon, NVIDIA and The CIA Want To Teach AI To Watch Us From Space (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Watching us from orbit is the first step needed for the AIs to eventually nuke us from orbit -- you know... only way to be sure.

  3. In related news... on Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Movie studios are guilty of enabling pirates by actually making movies that get pirated; DVD and camcorder makers are guilty for making things that can be used by pirates; network providers are guilty for providing the bandwidth used by pirates, etc...

    "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!" -- or so I heard somewhere.

  4. and global warming makes flooding more frequent

    No, it does not. However, it makes it a lot worse when it does happen.

    Flooding in low-to-mid lying areas could be more frequent if it is "worse". Meaning that worse could cause areas that might have otherwise just missed being flooded to be flooded - i.e.: more frequently.

  5. Confused. on NASA Reconnects With 'Lost' STEREO-B Satellite (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't they just switch it to "Stereo A"? I mean even my A/V receiver at home has that switch.

  6. Re:Defective by Design on A Design Defect Is Plaguing Many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Units (iphonehacks.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only reason - Apple Pay, and also, I want a storage upgrade to 64GB. ... FaceTime is the only reason I use an iPhone

    I'm not sure you understand what "only" means.

  7. That's the dumbest thing I've heard all week. on Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    As The New York Times explained, if you like Ben and Jerry's Facebook page and most of the other people that like that page identify as liberal, Facebook might assume you too are liberal.

    Perhaps you all should just assume we all like ice cream.

  8. Re:Would they believe on US Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know Who You Are On Twitter (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    What are you trying to hide, citizen?

    No more than what's constitutionally protected, employee of the citizens.

    While I think your sentiment is spot-on and would personally be inclined to reply similarly, I'll also say, "enjoy your cavity search". Sure, perhaps, you can sue *someone* later, but someone else will still have put their arm and a flashlight up your ass - and not in a good way.

  9. The liability verdict has come as a shock to the Internet provider industry, as it suggests that providers have to actively disconnect repeat alleged infringers. At the moment, many ISPs don't have a solid policy in place where repeat alleged copyright infringers lose their subscription.

    FTFY. Who says they've infringed - BMG Rights Management? Why should anyone believe them?

  10. Alternate source. on FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't the FBI just get copies of *all* Clinton's email from the NSA? :-)

  11. Re:Linux is far worse than Microsoft on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    There are systemd-free distros of Linux, you know. I can pretty confidently state that it will remain that way unless systemd should start to integrate itself into the kernel.

    FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD ...

  12. Re:Wrapper, not replacement on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    we're just not embracing THIS change because we believe it's badly designed. Having this many basic tools in a common code-base with massive interdependency that makes it near impossible to swap tools out with other tools or run any of them without running all of them... THAT Is a terrible design.

    But really good job security for Lennart and his crew over there at Red Hat and that employer's position in the Linux food chain.

  13. Re: Confused on Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Words like "neocon", "fascist", "SJW", and "neo-liberal" all have very little meaning, ...

    I'm pretty sure the people of 1939-1945 Italy and Germany understood a pretty serious meaning of the word "fascist".

  14. Just do what they've been doing for the product: see what Google is doing for Chrome and copy that.

    More seriously, why?

    Also, I imagine they're paying someone to do this, along with paying developers to shoehorn in features (basically) no one is asking for, wants, uses and have to figure out how to disable with each new release. How about channeling that money to useful, productive product development - and some of it for Thunderbird -- instead of looking to ditch it.

  15. Re:When the only tool you have is a hammer... on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Lennart argued it will greatly improve the handling of removable media like USB sticks.

    ... everything starts looking like a nail.

    When you hear hoof-beats, you think systemd, not zebras - wait... "horses". Whatever. It's *something* people will still want to beat after it's dead. Maybe I'm thinking about Lennart...

  16. Re:SystemD? on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    I think it is like Emacs without the editor part.

    Emacs has been around since 1976 -- I've used it almost daily since 1985. Let's see if systemd is still here and useful in 40 years.

  17. Re:Technical solution on India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents (intoday.in) · · Score: 1

    People still use eMule?

    Sure. People have tried going organic, but emules are better, cheaper, faster and cleaner than regular mules.

    [ Also, the youngsters love things that have an "e" or "i" in front of the name. ]

  18. Re:It better not be. on Ask Slashdot: Is KDE Dying? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that's said can we please comment on how emacs is better then vi or vice versa.

    As a desktop environment? Probably Emacs.

  19. Re:It Literally Does *WHAT*?? on Wikiverse Turns Wikipedia Into a Marvelous Galaxy of Knowledge (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    I was thinking, "This is what you get when someone who watched 'Jurassic Park' years ago and thought the ridiculous 'UNIX interface' was fascinating winds up with too much time on his or her hands."

    You realize that fsn was a real file system viewer from SGI - right?
    Clone available.

  20. Re:So glad I don't work with her on 'Only Voice Memos Can Save Us From the Scourge of Email' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds bloody annoying.

    Yes and it's linear and not searchable/skimmable, etc... Really far less useful than email (or just something written). I can't tell you the number of times I've had to replay a voice mail message to hear a phone number correctly - either they speak too fast or it's garbled. Grrrr...

  21. Hey look! More features no one asked for!! Is Mozilla now in "throw a ton of shit at the wall and see what sticks" mode?

    From TFA: https://pageshot.net/

    Softpedia: What's Page Shot's origin story?
    Ian Bicking: We think a lot about sharing, linking and saving information on the web.

    Perhaps they should spend more time thinking about displaying information from the web...

  22. Re:Good news for their stock on Cisco Systems To Lay Off About 14,000 Employees, Representing 20% of Global Workforce (crn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem I have is when the MBAs, who have absolutely no idea how the business they're running works, look at spreadsheets and say, "Oh, we don't need these people. ... without ... a good look at what those "expensive" workers are actually doing.

    I almost got laid off last year simply because I was the most expensive person on the team -- even *after* my project manager even told the program manager that I had written 80% of the code. The only thing that saved me was the realization that I also charged time to another project - so was actually less expensive to the first project.

    • Most expendable: The people in the spreadsheets.
    • Less expendable: The people creating the spreadsheets.
    • Not expendable: The people reading the spreadsheets.
  23. Re:Never trust Greenpeace on Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey (livemint.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse than the French (foreign intelligence services) - who sunk the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985?

  24. Re:When I don't want to change my phone on Too Many New Smartphone Models Released Each Year: Survey (livemint.com) · · Score: 1

    I used a Qualcomm QCP-1900 from the spring of 1998 until the summer of 2015 -- at $10/month $.10/min, which I only used very occasionally -- until nTelos (originally PrimeCo) sold their spectrum in our area to Sprint and they didn't support my phone. I got a Kyocera Hydro Vibe with Ting and imagine this combination will be fine for my use cases for the foreseeable future.

    I still have my (and my wife's) QCP-1900 phones if anyone wants them :-) Or, let me know if there's somewhere I can donate them.

  25. Re:Goto on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goto. I use that (in C) for error handling all the time, and frankly, it is about the cleanest way to do it I have seen.

    One little goto. How bad can it be?