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  1. partway there! on Google Display Ads Going All-HTML, Will Ban Flash In 2017 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    now they just need to ban javascript and images so that the internet advertising can be restored to it's former glory: text links!

  2. Re:What is the significance? on Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS Finally Ships With Open-Source OpenGL Support (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why is OpenGL support important to me as a user?

    OpenGL is used for much more than 3D, it's used for desktop compositing.

    I clearly all the stuff I was doing was working before. So evidently I didn't need this.

    it's an open source driver instead of a closed source driver. if you think close source is fine, continue enjoying the Microsoft Windows spy network!

  3. non-Forbes link on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 5, Informative
  4. Re:Price Is Still Just One of Two Sticking Points on NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    SSD tend to fail spectacularly

    actually, the SSD controller usually spots when an error occurs and when it does, it puts the entire drive into read-only mode. on the other side, HDDs that suffer from motor burnout become unreadable.

  5. Germany's newest fusion reactor is beginning to heat up, to temperatures of around 80 million degrees Celsius

    80 million Celsius? That's on par with a Hot Pocket that's been microwaved too long. I wonder if they are using Hot Pocket technology. ;)

  6. the only way to protect and "original idea" is to not share it with anyone. this seems like an idea that microsoft should be protecting/not sharing instead of spreading like a cancer.

  7. mixed signals on Everything You Need To Know About the Big New Data-Privacy Bill In Congress · · Score: 1

    "You have no rights. You lose. Bend over and take it. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Thank you for your compliance. Violators will be shot."

    well do you want me to pick up the $200 on the ground or not?!

    oh it's all so confusing!

  8. Re:I don't want a headband or visor pickup. on Low-Cost EEG Head-Sets Promise Virtual Reality Feedback Loops (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been bald since I was 30. I've got all this bare scalp just begging for transducers. Give me a full skullcap array.

    i've had a full head of hair for the past 30 years... and yet NOBODY FUCKING CARES.

  9. Re:How is Bitcoin different from Shell Companies? on EU Proposes End of Anonymity For Bitcoin and Prepaid Card Users (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell ya what, you make your public, and I'll make mine public...

    uh... well... ok. here goes! *drops pants* i'm fully public!

  10. Re:This cannot happen accidentally on Socat Weak Crypto Draws Suspicions Of a Backdoor (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A note in the commit indicates that Socat was not working in FIPS mode because it requires a 1024 Diffie-Hellman prime, and added that a developer named Zhiang Wang provided a patch with the new prime. The poster revealed that Wang works at Oracle and contributes to Socat.

    accidental or malicious, Mr. Wang is about to have a very bad day.

  11. will be used for automated takedowns on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 2

    they have only one reason to get these: automated takedown notices on youtube. what they are trying to do is not make money off the trademark but rather prevent anyone else from using them in their video title by using automated enforcement. the ideal result is that anyone searching youtube for a reactionary video will only get results of videos they have posted. they are in effect trademarking search terms.

  12. you missed the real news here! on Triple M.2 NVMe RAID-0 Testing Proves Latency Reductions · · Score: 2

    The gang over at PC Perspective...

    gangs, presumably roving, are taking over websites now! YOUR SITE COULD BE NEXT!

  13. impossibru! on Microsoft Edge's Private Browsing Mode Isn't Actually Private (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    you're telling me that a corporation that is notorious for their flawed software has made a flawed browser?! impossibru!

  14. Re:What is wrong with kde on Fedora? on Project Neon Will Bring Users Up-to-Date KDE Packages (cio.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is wrong with kde on Fedora?

    Fedora requires systemd.

  15. why didn't they know already? on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    here's what i'm gathering from all this: the government has not secured its email system. if you are sending sensitive information outside of intranets you control, you have lost control of the information. so the question is, why will their email system send any information anywhere if it handles highly sensitive information? why aren't they using an encrypted email system? why does their security rely on the users? why is their system so damn insecure?!

  16. Re:Assumes it ever lived on Microsoft's Windows Phone Platform Is Dead (windows10update.com) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 from a user experience might not be too bad, but it's the aggressive data collection that really has people hating Windows 10. Not only bad defaults, but often downright impossible to turn off even when you think you have. Combine that with extremely aggressive attempts to get Win 7/8 users to upgrade.

    I strongly disagree! Windows 10's built-in spyware and their Windows 7/8 upgrade nagging is the best thing to happen to Windows users in a long time! Before Windows 10, Windows users were being disserviced but they could easily ignore it and let Microsoft have their way with them. This new afront to Windows users makes it's painfully clear that Microsoft is raping them on a regular basis. Before people just shrugged and moved on but now people are upset than ever and leaving Windows behind for better pastures. How is knowing the truth a bad thing?!

  17. Re:Open to Questions on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Can we please stop getting stories about trying to convince more of protected group XYZ into IT/CS/coding. Forced diversity is discrimination. Dice loved to push that shit on us.

  18. Re:To all the idiots ... on Attackers Use Microsoft Office To Push BlackEnergy Malware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    I assume you meant https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libre Office rather than Linux

    you assumed incorrectly but it may have to do with your apparent illiteracy. :)

  19. Re:To all the idiots ... on Attackers Use Microsoft Office To Push BlackEnergy Malware (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Turning off Windows Update puts you are grave risk of malware infection. Turning it on makes it a certainty. The only winning move is not to play. Use Linux. :)

  20. I knew it! on The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real · · Score: 3, Funny

    It was created using MIT's App Inventor, a plug-and-play tool meant primarily for children.

    I've always said children were little terrors and people said was "exaggerating" but now I'VE BEEN VINDICATED! ;)

  21. Re:Here's something worth crowdfunding. on 12 Years Later, Warrantless Wiretaps Whistleblower Facing Misconduct Charges (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone chip in $10, we'll pay his legal bills and whatever is left over goes to him, regardless of how things turn out.

    quiet down! you're interrupting the circus! ;)

  22. Re:Some things are worth lives... on The Tragedy Of Apollo 1 And The Lessons That Brought Us To The Moon (forbes.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are some areas of exploration that are worth the risk of life and limb, space exploration is up there

    I agree... but visiting the Forbes site didn't make that list. ;)

  23. it's _NOT_ open source hardware on Top Telcos Join Facebook Open Source Hardware Project (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    don't let the name confuse you, the Open Compute Project is not open source hardware! the Open Compute Project is a set of specifications for form factors intended for use in data centers. it would be like declaring an "Open Desktop Project" and then publishing a spec for the ATX and ITX form factors. sure, you could make a case and people could make motherboards for it but it's not open source, it's just a physical specification.

  24. What a coincidence! on NSA Wants To Dump the Phone Records It Gathered Over 14 Years (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    this is quite serendipitous as I was just thinking about how I would like to dump the NSA... into a pit and then dump all of their data tapes/drives/etc on top of them... and fill the pit with molten steel. two birds with one stone! ;)

  25. Re:Mdsolar strikes again with unrealistic FUD on US Could Lower Carbon Emissions 78% With New National Transmission Network (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Construction equipment doesn't run on lithium batteries

    ... yet.