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  1. Good for them on Japan's Population Falls At Fastest Rate Since 1968 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They seem to be the only country that's adapting to mineral and energy depletion. Other countries will have a rude awakening in a couple of years.

  2. Re:Then what's to stop scammers? on Cable Lobby Tries To Stop State Investigations Into Slow Broadband (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    "Up to" == "lower than or equal"

  3. Re:Please explain "level shifting" on Intel Quietly Discontinues Galileo, Joule, and Edison Development Boards (intel.com) · · Score: 1

    I noticed several times in discussions on social media that people who designed boards and systems didn't understand basic EE and how transistors work. Maybe they should leave that to people who know what they're doing? I shudder thinking about how they'll do with harder subjects like transmission lines.

  4. Re:No. on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling they wouldn't appreciate terabytes from everybody. Since this would only be acceptable with encryption on the client side they couldn't even deduplicate.

  5. ... for the person who designed this single point of failure in.

  6. Pfft. Put a hard steel frame with sufficient thickness around them, done.

  7. Re:So I was right... how about an apology? on Hackers Have Targeted Both the Trump Organization And Democrat Election Data (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Lalala I can't hear you! MAGA! MAGA! MAGA!

    (/s in case that wasn't obvious)

  8. TIL that people are selling stuff on Facebook on Facebook Bans Sale of Piracy-Enabling Set-Top Boxes · · Score: 2

    Why?

  9. Re:Feature that screams NSA tampering.. on EFF Warns Most Of Intel's Chipsets Contain 'A Security Hazard' (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    It's not for you to manage your system, it's for the system to manage you.

  10. Clearly you need a VM to experience the full goodness of Microsoft's SMB implementation..

  11. I don't code at work on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    I do meetings, work on HW in the lab, do other routine stuff or browse the net. Coding happens strictly at home. My warm-up time is even longer than the cited 15 minutes because it's often somebody else's code that I need to figure out first, or something I haven't looked at in months. It's very rare these days that I actually write some piece of code that takes significant time. Just last week a three day troubleshooting expedition resulted in a one-byte change in somebody else's code. It was in a regex :(

  12. I hope.

  13. Re:Commodore PET on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    +1. I added hand-made 16KB of SRAM (wiring pen technique) and a homebrew second cassette recorder. My attempts at a file system on tape never led to anything, alas. The Assembler I wrote was workable but soon superseded by one in an extension ROM.

  14. But it has Mali. That's a big fail unless you want to use it as a little server, for which you'd want SATA or USB3. Which it doesn't have.

  15. In KVM you can define what type of CPU the guest sees. virt-manager can edit that nicely.

  16. I think I speak for the vast majority of open source developers and users when I say 'what is a Mir'?

    A former Russian space station that was de-orbited in the late '90s.

  17. Re:And... on Is Microsoft Building A Foldable 'Surface' Phone? (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    And it has to open with a flip of the wrist of course. None of this two-handed BS.

  18. Re:Yes those emails on New Bill Would Allow Employers To Demand Genetic Testing From Workers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not everybody is as rational as you. If you bought the propaganda hook, line and sinker then you're emotionally invested and the current government can do nothing wrong.

  19. Re:Stone tablet and chisel on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    But you need a lot of slaves for a decent data rate. And some of them need to be good at math to do the error correction.

  20. I thought Razer only makes gaming mice.

  21. Naples looks incredibly yummy. Hopefully it'll be launched soon too. If the prices are halfway reasonable I might build with that. Dual socket 32C64T?

  22. And you'll hit your data cap in seconds.

  23. Re:Fast food on Report Finds PFAS Chemicals In One-Third of Fast Food Packaging (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing wrong with grains but there's everything wrong with the highly processed stuff that the American consumer usually buys.

    Humans can easily survive without meat. You can easily get proper amino acid intake from vegetable sources alone although you have to balance them. With just a little bit of dairy or fish it's trivial (and a lot healthier than meat.)

  24. +1, Funny.

  25. Re:Wait who's computer is it again? on Microsoft Targets Chrome Users With Windows 10 Pop-up Ad (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    The OS and applications define what it does. Hint, hint.