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  1. Re:Less Trolling on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 1

    This is sad news. I was starting to miss the GNAA and goatse.

  2. Re:NSA backup on A Note On Thursday's Downtime · · Score: 1

    Adjectives are words though.

  3. Re:Screw the ATF on Gun-Firing Drone Raises Some Eyebrows · · Score: 1

    They're not perfectly legal, they have all kinds of laws restricting the where and the who and the when and the why. Not that what's legal and what's right are the same thing, in the first place.

  4. "We don't have any obligation to support them" on Reddit CEO: Site Is 'Not a Bastion of Free Speech,' Change Coming · · Score: 1

    "We don't have any obligation to support them" - but do you have an obligation to remove them? How about this: don't fuck with the content unless it's a legal liability, something like child porn. (Providing it, not just discussing it.)

  5. Re: How about 2015 July 15 0000UTC? on Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash · · Score: 1

    I had honestly forgot ActiveX existed. I don't know where it went, but I'm glad it's not here anymore.

  6. The biggest problem with Flash is really that people try using it for stuff that it really shouldn't be used for - like web design. It's actually nice software for animating things, in fact a lot of cartoons on TV these days are drawn in Flash. What it's not nice for is web design. Similarly, HTML5 is not nice for animation. But you don't need animation on a web site. It's about using the right tool for the job. Expecting HTML5 to have feature parity with Flash is like expecting a TV set to have feature parity with a GPS navigation system.

  7. Re:Aussie freedoms are inferior on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of asymmetrical warfare? US drones couldn't keep a bunch of countries in the Middle East from losing territory to ISIS - and that's just one example from the past year. I'm sure you can think of more. When insurgents are basically indistinguishable from the general population, and living in the same areas... well, somehow I can't see the US government dropping a nuke on Chicago or Houston.

  8. Re:Aussie freedoms are inferior on Rich and American? Australia Wants You · · Score: 1

    That's all well and good in theory... but the practice is that the majority of amendments comprising the bill of rights have been ripped up and used as toilet paper in the government's bathrooms for at least the past 70 years.

  9. Re: Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. The point I was making is that it's not a Democrat thing, or a Republican thing, it's a politician thing.

  10. Re: Well, she was an interim. on Ellen Pao Leaves Reddit; Site Founder Steve Huffman Makes a Triumphant Return · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ever heard of the Clintons? Better yet, the Kennedys?

  11. Re:Fahrenheit? on Is NASA Planning To "Terraform" Part of the Moon? Not Quite · · Score: 1

    12 inches to a foot is a great idea. Imagine the confusion if suddenly a foot became 10 inches.

  12. Re:Citizen of Belgium here on Greece Rejects EU Terms · · Score: 1

    "Things have recovered"? Let me guess, you're looking at the official "unemployment" figures, which actually measure how many people have recently lost their jobs, not how many aren't working... not to mention people who can't find enough work, or work that pays fairly.

  13. Re:I speak for all slashdotters when I say... on Glitch Halts New Horizons Operations As It Nears Pluto · · Score: 2

    heeHAWWW

  14. Re:Why is a robot different from any other machine on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Safe: Turned off
    Unsafe: Any state where it might possibly begin operating
    Seems predictable enough to me.

  15. Re:I wonder why they keep making these movies on "Jobs" vs. "Steve Jobs": Hollywood Takes Another Stab At Telling the Steve Jobs Story · · Score: 1

    Apparently there is, they made that Facebook movie too. Could be the beginning of a new genre. Or maybe a continuation of an old genre but with tech-oriented characters... I don't watch many movies so I have few points of reference.
    These movies are really just one manifestation of the general public all having iPhones and Facebook accounts now.

  16. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 1

    Purposes better served by birth control pills.

  17. Re:Celebrate Pride on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    There's actually a decent chance Facebook will remove your profile (or the picture) if it is of a non-person.

  18. Re:Depends on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 1

    What about MyCleanPC? MyCleanPC!

  19. Re:fully half baked on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 2

    The idea is great. Currently someone has to go to a clinic, have a test administered, then wait a couple of weeks for the results. With this condom, you can get an early indication of... issues. For me, if it changed color, that would be a good indication that I will never have unprotected sex with this person and would know to disconsider them as a long-term partner.

    Really, your post gives the impression that you don't know much about how sexual relations work. Using a condom with someone who potentially has an STD does not "defeat the purpose", it is the purpose. It allows you to have sex with someone whose infection status you're unsure of, without getting the infection. If you know someone is clean, you don't need to be dealing with condoms in the first place.

    I won't pretend to be some kind of playboy, but it should be apparent that most relationships start out more like 1-night-stands than arranged marriages. There's usually not a formal interview process including STD test before the first sexual encounter. Hell, there's barely time to even get a condom on. This product would be a godsend for slowing the proliferation of STDs. Regardless of your strategy for obtaining sex, that's going to benefit you.

  20. Re:Whatever means necessary? on Google, Apple, and Others Remove Content Related To the Confederate Flag · · Score: 1

    Brittan, huh.

  21. Re:personality test? on Average Duration of Hiring Process For Software Engineers: 35 Days · · Score: 1

    We have made great progress in creating a color-blind slavery system, they come in all colors across all industries. The H1B issue - specifically the subset of H1Bs that are Indians working in low-wage IT jobs - is comparatively minor in scale.

  22. Re:Ithought on Unicode Consortium Releases Unicode 8.0.0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your post... has a Facebook icon next to it.
    I knew Slashdot was going in a different direction, but... Facebook? The alt-text says "From Facebook". I'm not even completely sure what that means, but I don't want anything "from Facebook" in here. I hope you know your post has fucked up my world. I'm going to have a hard time sleeping now. Bro... your post has a Facebook icon on it! However you managed to get that to appear, don't do it ever again! And tell all your friends not to. Together, we can make Slashdot sane again...

  23. Re:Is this your brain on drugs? on Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much exactly what people have been saying they do for the past 40-50 years, if not longer. I've tripped on several different psychedelics and these pictures are uncannily close to the effect... so ridiculously close that my jaw just kinda dropped when I saw it.

  24. Better pictures? on Turning Neural Networks Upside Down Produces Psychedelic Visuals · · Score: 1

    Are there any higher resolution pictures available? I'm sitting on a crappy 1024x600 monitor now, and these pictures don't even max it out. Seriously, why are these pictures in such shitty resolution?

  25. Re:I'm poor and I'm against this on FCC Votes To Subsidize Broadband Connections For Low-Income Households · · Score: 1

    I've been getting calls and texts on my cell just fine, and I've never had a "100 MB phone update". Come to think of it, none of my phones have even had 100 MB of storage, without expanding it with an SD card. I have heard of people being able to travel to far-flung locations where their phones won't work - and I imagine they'd also have the resources to buy a phone that works in that country.

    Fast internet access is becoming a necessity for several reasons, and a good idea for many more. Firmware updates for your toys isn't one of them. I don't think you have an idea of what "the poor experience" is. You're sounding a bit like a fool.