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  1. Re: Fuck China. on China Orders Internet Comments Linked To Real Identities (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Gotta be honest, Mexico is pretty handy if you don't mind paying bribes and massive violence that the Federales/policia are willing to ignore. La drugas es no mucho dinero y la pequenas es muy caliente.

    Err... I'm unable to spell in Spanish.

  2. Re: If you push this to its logical conclusion on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Most folks probably don't know what a road train is, and most of them are much smaller than what you have in your country. In much of the US, tandem trailer hauling is illegal, for example. Canada uses them but they aren't that frequent, nor as long.

  3. Re: Effect on global warming on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nah, we got ourselves a convoy, everything's alright.

  4. Re: Does anyone know on A Platoon Of Networked Self-Driving Trucks Will Be Tested in the UK (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    They probably won't be using them inside cities... That'd just be dumb.

  5. Re: Kentucky? on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    You need to penis your neighbor. Always, and I mean always, stick your dick in crazy.

  6. Re: Obvious response on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    Obvious lies. You didn't go outside. You fool nobody.

  7. Re: No, it's not on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That's well and good, but I'm not sure what that has to do with today?

  8. Re: Forked twice in three years? on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    That's the one. And, well, it's pretty much doing as I expected. Thanks for the update. I kinda suspect they've not merged any code back into the master.

  9. Re: Not a problem on Another Crowdfunded Startup Takes Customers' Money, Then Shuts Downs (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some actual numbers, old and incomplete:

    https://www.crowdfundinsider.c...

    That's the best I could find.

  10. Re: Seems obvious. on Who's Responsible For IoT Security? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No. Not the ISP. The ISP should be just a dumb pipe.

  11. Re: Full stack security is needed. Use OpenBSD. on Who's Responsible For IoT Security? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly, people have installed it in stranger places.

    Alternatively, you could have it connect to your *BSD box and manage it from there, without needing to allow it to connect to the Internet at large.

  12. Re: Ahhh... Linux and Open Source on How Open Source Advocates Celebrated The 26th Anniversary of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd also add that calling Android "Linux" is like saying you have a Ferrari because you taped fake paddle shifters to the steering wheel of your 1983 Toyota Carolla.

  13. Re: How they celebrated? on How Open Source Advocates Celebrated The 26th Anniversary of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    My laugh for the day was an image macro that had all the ingredients for a cake. It said, "Happy birthday! I got you a cake, but you have to compile it yourself."

  14. Re: A better first step? on Alaska's Permafrost Is Thawing (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really, no. The plants didn't magic their way into your mouth.

  15. Re: Observations on Ancient Tablet Reveals Babylonians Discovered Trigonometry (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I'd call math 'invented.' I'd prefer to call it discovered. I didn't invent the maths to model traffic. I discovered it. Well, technically I built off prior work. It existed before I made it known, however.

  16. Re: Your individual worth... on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    In the past year, I've tried to do more browsing on a tablet. I also have no apps installed and block no ads. I mostly want to see what others see, and try this mobile revolution out. I also don't buy much online.

    In this entire time, I've seen very few ads that make sense. I see ads for cars, some of those kinda make sense but I'm definitely not in the market for a new Toyota - I drive a bespoke BMW as my daily driver.

    I do see ads for a company that sells barn doors. That's kinda appropriate but the barns already have doors and I'm more a gentleman farmer. I have chickens, not cows.

    I see ads for nice leather saddlebags and messenger bags. I already own some from that company and have just recommended them. I've never bought any online. I doubt I will.

    I did see an ad, just once, for a green and yellow tractor company. My tractor is orange. My skidder is green and yellow. I'm not going to buy a green and yellow tractor. The site had no wood harvesting equipment.

    In this period, I've not seen an ad for fishing supplies. I'd probably check that out. I've not seen any ads for outdoors gear, snowmobiles, ATVs, or quality musical instruments. I have seen ads to finance at a guitar store. I'm pretty sure I don't need to finance anything.

    The point I'm reaching for is that for all the tracking, profiling, and data aggregation they do - they seem to suck at it. I'm retired. I don't need B2B, SaaS, or productivity apps and customer retention tools. I sure as hell don't need a bra, free for a month oddly enough, but I have seen that ad a dozen times. I am not even blocking anything at the router. I'm completely unblocked. I log into my accounts and stay logged in. Yet, they think I need a bra.

  17. Re: No, it's not on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Yet, here you are on a site supported by ads. Perhaps you should leave in order to be morally consistent.

  18. Re: No, it's not on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No. It was not better that way.

    Things that were not better in the past:

    Porn.
    Computers.
    Internet.
    Cars.
    Food.
    Shopping.
    Clothing.
    Jobs.
    Travel.
    Government.
    People.
    Health.
    Communication.
    Weed.
    Beer.
    Wine.
    Bicycles.

    I can go on, but that should be enough.

  19. Re: They can still be shut down on Your Personal Information Is Now the World's Most Valuable Commodity (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    I'm not so sure that won't change. Look at the divisions caused by brand loyalty. Now, push us an arbitrary number of generations into the future. We've already got people being shot defending their convenience store in an armed robbery.

  20. Re: conspiracies in conspiracies! on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Gravity.

  21. Re: between irony and trolling [Re:Facebook is cre on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The only country that has asked for my social media accounts is Canada. They are also the only one to have searched my phone. They believed I had no accounts, by the way. Curiously, I'm a citizen of both countries.

  22. Re: Ugh. Seriously... learn to deal with people.. on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    It's your story, you can tell it any way you want to. ;-)

    (I fully admit that I've gotten emotional and tried to reason with idiots in an attempt to change their thinking. It's seldom successful.)

  23. Trump got more fat women out walking, in just six months, than Michelle Obama managed in eight whole years.

  24. Re: Ugh. Seriously... learn to deal with people.. on Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Right... Because you've never argued with some asshole on the Internet.

    I guess you could say you weren't arguing with them in an attempt to change their views, but that'd seem a bit sillier than doing so. I'm pretty sure nobody argued without hope of changing views, pretty much never.

  25. LOL You've never been to Africa, have you?