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  1. Which Religion?? on Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Why isn't there more mention of whatever religion this person might be practicing?

    Is he a Quaker, or perhaps an Episcopalian??

  2. Re:Actually he died of smoke inhalation... on Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Snopes actually says 'undetermined' as to the Ambassador's cause of death. There is an amount of varying information out there, but As of this writing, the U.S. government has still not released any post-mortem information documenting the nature of Ambassador Stevens' death.

  3. Re:Public Serpants in Brussels and D.C. on UK Tech Sector Reacts To Brexit: Some Anticipate Slow Down, Some Contemplate Relocation · · Score: 1

    the repercussions will be more severe on the EU than on the UK.

    More severe on the member countries of the EU, which could lead to further pressure for said countries to also withdraw from the Union.

  4. Right now you're experiencing a Slashdot thread dominated by the European time zones. Most regular USian Slashdotters are still sleeping in on Sunday morning.

  5. Re: I had problems with State's spam filter, too on Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ambassador Stevens was a known homosexual. There is nothing wrong with that, in my opinion. However, the people in Benghazi who captured and killed him thought it was wrong, and that's why they tortured and sodomized him (with an artificial object) before they killed him.

    That was the fate that Hillary abandoned him to.

  6. Re: My number one feature in an Android phone... on Huawei Is Working On Its Own Mobile OS In Case Things Sour With Google (theinformation.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind a Nexus phone with a microSD slot in it. Unfortunately Google wants all our files in their cloud where they can be sifted through.

  7. Re: Have to give it to Apple..... on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    The main downside of BT headphones in my opinion is they are yet another gadget to have to worry about plugging into a charger.

  8. Re: Lawyers get millions on Sony Agrees To Pay Millions To Gamers To Settle PS3 Linux Debacle (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I got my copy of "Hacking the XBox" off the clearance shelf at HalfPrice Books for only $2. It is a really interesting book with a lot of good ideas that goes beyond just hacking an XBox.

  9. Re: Cutting the cord. on Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I would think like, that, but actually my Bluetooth headphone is now another gadget that I have to make sure I plug into the charger often enough for it to have battery power when I want to use it. It's a headphone that can no longer just be taken for granted it will always work.

    And you tossed out the term "wireless" like a fad word.

  10. Re: No Headphone Jack? No Sale. on Apple Unlikely to Make Big Changes for Next iPhone · · Score: 1

    Headphone jacks are an "analog hole" and Apple is getting further involved as a streaming music provider. They could next switch to a more "secured" form of bluetooth connection.

  11. Re: Am I the only one? on Mark Zuckerberg Votes To Keep Peter Thiel On Facebook Board (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way it could be financially advantageous for Facebook to associate with Gawker would be if Facebook would die and be shut down. But we can't have a perfect world . It will have to do for Gawker alone to die and be shut down.

  12. Re:fvck Apple, Samsung et all, ad naseum... on Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The 'nice' keyboards are new enough that they probably came from computers with Core2Duo or newer.

    What exactly do you know about the computers that are currently being destroyed? Most of them are new enough to be power efficient. We're not talking about Pentium Pro machines.

    But save a few watts of power, and use ten times that much replacing the hardware every other year.

  13. Re: Well, that sounded extremely patronizing. on Bill Gates' Donation of Thousands of Chickens Rejected by Bolivia (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The current chicken farmers probably don't want an outsider to come in and 'crash' their market by widely distributing breeding stock to the entire populace. That would be a game changer if it gave the whole population a respite in the form of enough chickens to start breeding them on their own, instead of only having enough of them to eat.

    Just my conjecture, not anything known for certain.

    But the President of Bolivia is just being a politician and grandstanding against the Big Bad Westerner.

  14. Re:fvck Apple, Samsung et all, ad naseum... on Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    In the area of desktop PCs, the mantra of 'recycling' is already being used to rather aggressively transfer all 'used' computers out of local communities and into operations that dismantle and destroy them.

    My local Goodwill sells a lot of nice keyboards and mice. All the CPU boxes get scrapped by Dell. All that nice hardware, a lot of which would live a second life very well running Linux or a BSD operating system.

  15. Re: Too Bad He's Shown His True Colors on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Curbing the growing abuse of Executive Powers is one of the more compelling reasons to support Trump. If he gets elected, decades, even centuries of encroaching executive power will be wiped away. A whole new precedent clipping away at executive powers will begin the day he is inagurated.

  16. Perhaps they are 3D Printing an IBM Watson to run each of these vehicles.

    If not, how does the attached IBM Watson peripheral scale? Can 10 vehicles operate at once controlled by the Watson? 1000?

  17. A Lollipop Under My Pillow on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Every morning, there would be a lollipop under my pillow, if President Gary Johnson can just be elected.

  18. Re:Huh... on Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No one can send a regular text message to a non-cellular iPad or an iPod Touch.

  19. What? No Vibrating Butt Plug Emoji? on Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess the "designers" at Apple felt it would be redundant on their product.

  20. What guarantee do you have that the firmware in your DVD rom drive or even the firmware in your hard drive hasn't been reflashed to inject something into the datastream? Thise are undocumented auxilluary processors, too.

  21. Sure, right.

    As long as you don't look at anything beyond final assembly, you're completely correct.

    But the fabs that the chips are made in, the facilities where the LCD displays are made, all the way down to the mining of the ores used for the metal components... It's understandable that you brush that part off.

  22. Takeoffs More Important on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More important than a successful landing is a successful second takeoff of the recovered Falcon 9 stage. Without that this is just scrap metal recovery.

    So we will need to wait and see.

  23. Re: Some guy hates competiting with 'free' on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Now, sometimes I whistle when I am alone, and run songs through my head silently, but music is for the most part a social action. We all hum the tunes we've heard, then augment and rearrange the notes. It is ALWAYS a matter of copying.

    Business people insert themselves into the process and try to meter and measure everything. Ostensibly this is to facilitate a distribution network, because those darn expensive vaccum tubes in the recording studio don't make themselves, ya know.

    The distribution cost and the barrier to enter the distribution network has flattened tremendously. Since everybody can make music, it's time to jettison a whole lot of the rent seekers trying to block our access to the infrastructure.

  24. Re:Stick to making garbage music on Trent Reznor: YouTube Is Built On the Back Of Stolen Content (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Trent has been purchased by Apple, and they are just realizing value out of owning him.

    Apple has declared war on 'free content on the internet' and are striving to make everything of significance cost money. They can't do this without tearing down every other business model, and as always at Apple (going all the way back to the Apple II clone/compatible makers who they ran out of business, and the multiple 'Windowing System' makers who they ran out of business, handing the platform ownership to deep-pockets Microsoft in the process) lawyers will be wielded against anybody who doesn't do things 'The Apple Way.'

    People act like there isn't a reason some of us fucking hate Apple.

  25. The Accountants have been running things at Apple for decades now. Any entity as successful as Apple has been draws in 'business' types like a picnic attracts ants.

    "We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"