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  1. Re:Register drones, but guns? on Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government (thehill.com) · · Score: 2

    Your AR-15 isn't an assault rifle because it doesn't have selective fire. If it somehow does, then you'd be required to have a federal stamp, so it would be registered with the government.

  2. Re:/. offline on The World's First Blockchain Smartphone Is In Development (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
  3. Re:This won't end well. on Firefox To Mandate Extension Signing · · Score: 1

    The Forecastfox (fix version) on Firefox actually brought me back to using the browser because that extension is just so much better than every other weather extension. I'll keep using Firefox, even though it's noticeably slower then Chrome in some areas and tends to lock up for a couple seconds at times, just for the extensions it offers. That's how much those extensions mean to some users. If those disappear I don't see any reason to keep using Firefox, unfortunately.

  4. Re:Which password manager by the way? on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    KeePassX

  5. Re:what was the excuse for 90nm again? on Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? · · Score: 1

    I remember that and still think about it from time to time. It was a story on the news that said 1GHz was the limit and they didn't know how they were going to progress past that. Obviously they figured it out, but I can still see the TV in my mind's eye.

  6. Re:"Enough protein" on You Are What You're Tricked Into Eating · · Score: 1

    The CDC is whey off...

    I see what you did there...

  7. Re:Listen to Woz on Cisco Plans $1B Investment In Cloud · · Score: 1

    Limited shared data? Now I start wandering into the cloud and Dropbox seems pretty good to me so far. Never actually leaves my hard drive but is available for others I choose to play with. Am hoping no one ever hacks that account but I knew the risks when I put it there.

    Except that at that point it truly is in The Cloud on Dropbox's servers, you just still have a copy on your local drive.

  8. Re:OK, it's moderately amusing, but... on Pastafarian Wins Battle To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    I can't believe nobody's pointed out that it's actually the Sistine Chapel.

  9. Re:Good on Ubuntu Edge Draws Nearly $13M, But Falls Short of Indiegogo Goal · · Score: 2

    It's gotten to the point where it's almost odd for me to see a desktop now. At my office only a few people still have desktops because they're not up for a replacement yet. Those that are get a laptop. I've got a laptop now that sits docked most of the time, connected to my external mouse/keyboard and dual monitors. Same thing at home - my laptop replaced my desktop, but when it's time to do Real Work it gets connected to my external mouse/keyboard and dual monitors. Aside from serious gaming I don't see anyone buying desktops anymore, and I can't wait until the day when my phone can be docked just like my laptop and run real apps like Photoshop, Lightroom, and even a full browser rather than the mobile touch-friendly version.

  10. Re:The third link on Twitter-Based Study Figures Out Saddest Spots In New York City · · Score: 1

    That article was actually very popular when it came out because it's entirely built of questions. If he had just slammed Fieri it wouldn't have gotten near as many views as it did, but because of the way it was written it appeared on sites that it never would have otherwise. It's marketing, not an English journal.

  11. Re:makes sense on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 1

    ).

  12. Re:Eat me, Euroskeptics! on European Court Finds Copyright Doesn't Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression · · Score: 1

    Just remember that the apostrophe ALWAYS represents one or more letters having between removed.

    Except for when it doesn't.
    Chris has a cat. It's Chris's cat.

  13. Re:Thread hijack - New Indexing Sites on UK Court: MPAA Not Entitled To Profits From Piracy · · Score: 2

    I'm tempted to provide a list, but also conflicted, given the first rule of usenet. On an completely unrelated note, reddit sure seems to have subreddits for absolutely everything these days, don't they?

  14. Re:Sounds good until.. on Smartphones: Life's Remote Control · · Score: 1

    192.168.0.31 won't work my device from wherever they try to get on.

    Unless they're standing at your back door.

  15. Re:Answered in reverse order on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    Outlook has the ability to Archive messages.

  16. Re:Note to copper thieves - gloves won't work on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    consider this - an electric fence is designed to drop a 2,000 bull.

    False. Have you ever actually been around a bull? Almost nothing will drop them. Electric fences are meant to be a deterrent - a 2,000lb bull will walk through one if he wants to.

  17. Re:Whew, I'm safe on Counterfeit Air Bag Racket Blows Up · · Score: 1

    50k miles, not kilometers.

  18. Re:DuckDuckGo on Microsoft Urging Safari Users To Use Bing · · Score: 1

    Your S3 has TouchWiz on top of Android 4.x - therefore, not stock Android, which is what the gp was referring to.

  19. Re:"Ice Arctic, it Fuck", Engineer said Russian on Russia Builds World's Largest Nuclear Powered Ice-Breaker · · Score: 1

    wtf?

  20. Re:It's okay on The Mathematics of 'Legitimate Rape' and Pregnancy · · Score: 1

    I have... hurt my back a little.

  21. Re:And nothing of value was lost... on Google Killing Off Mini, Video, and iGoogle · · Score: 2

    https://reader.google.com/ sounds like it would work well for you.

  22. Re:fwiw on Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't You Running KDE? · · Score: 2

    There is a lot more in the comment and if I could figure it out I'd link directly to it - but if there is a way to do it, I couldn't figure it out. Scrolling through this thread made me think there is room for lots of improvement in g+

    Click the date on the top of the post. It's not obvious and there's definitely room for improvement, but now you know.

  23. Re:Tim Larkin was never an US Navy SEAL on UK Home Secretary Bans US Martial Arts Expert · · Score: 1

    It didn't say he was a SEAL - it said he *trained* as a SEAL. Which is correct.

  24. Re:I for one welcome our new rodent overlords on Scientists 'Switch Off' Brain Cell Death In Mice · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because if they make a movie, that's Slashdot's fault. Makes complete sense.

  25. Re:So much for the traditional 5-year lifespan on Why Microsoft's Keeping the Next Xbox Under Wraps · · Score: 1

    >>I don't have any friends.
    FTFY.