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  1. Who cares now? on What's The Correct Way to Pronounce 'GIF'? (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Outside of being the best format to store a 1x1 pixel image (usually for spacing in websites, although now better to use CSS), there's no benefits that GIF has these days over PNG. This was a discussion for eons ago, not 2019.

  2. If you're referring to the body, you can blame the editor for that. See my original submission for a grammatically correct version.

  3. Agreed, but I figured putting director in body would imply he had directed it, so I neglected it.

  4. Impressed on James Cameron's Alita: Battle Angel Released After Sixteen Years (rottentomatoes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just got back from watching it, submitting the story before I did.

    Overall, I was very impressed with it. When seeing the first teaser, I’ve got to say, the eyes of the lead was a bit much, but coming back from seeing the entire film, they ended up blending in very well, not at all being the distraction I thought they could be.

    From the current review score, expected a generic Sci-Fi movie, but it surpassed my expectations, having good characters, story, setting, and action. Due to the nature of the story, had a good deal more heart to it as well.

    Been a while since I’ve read it but diverts from the source material a bit, but overall, it's a faithful adaptation of the first few volumes.

    I’d recommend it for any Sci-Fi fan.

  5. Can this help with setting the BIOS as UTC time, much like all other operating systems? I know you could enable it in the past using the registry, however from what I remember, this caused further problems.

  6. received a severity score of 9.8 out of 10

    What would be a ten? No authentication at all?

  7. Call me crazy... on George Lucas's Terrible Idea for Star Wars Episodes 7-9 (indiewire.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Call me crazy, but I have a (morbid?) fascination of giving George Lucas a budget, isolating him from the fan community and press, and simply leaving him to his own devices to produce the Star Wars movies he visions.

    Judging by the changes he's made to them already, I wouldn't expect them to be good, but nonetheless, it would certainly be interesting to see.

  8. Let's Stop SMTP on Forty Years of Spam Email (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel that the real problem that allows spam to thrive is due to the horrible protocol that's used. Sure, with improvements like SPF, DKIM, and the like, it's a lot better, however I feel we need to move to a more modern protocol.

    Anything with a form of proof of work should cut down spam drastically. After users have confirmed legitimate mail from that MTA, allow an exception to be made, preventing the proof of work, or at least a more intensive version.

  9. I honestly can't see this fight being all that great as both robots require local pilots, two of them at least on the American robot. I'm no lawyer but suspect due to safety measures, this will be a very dull dual.

    These two bots should be controlled remotely, much like BattleBots. Now that should be a sight to see.

  10. Re:Yes, it's possible on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 2

    Always thought it would be an amusing joke if someone who produced a new image file format wrote the following in the spec.

    Inputs with the total size of 0 bytes should return an image of Lenna in the highest possible quality.

  11. Cheating at Tournaments on 'Counter-Strike' Gets Invaded By An Unblockable Chat-Bot (kotaku.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Although I don't play CS:GO, I have heard it has a major cheating problem. The worst part about this is that it doesn't only occur on random online servers, this occurs at major tournaments with prize pools of thousands.

    As the hacker mentions, Valve makes some major cash from CS:GO, being one of their most popular games. They should be doing a lot more to prevent it.

  12. 222-megabyte archive of all 58 games

    Something tells me that this won't entirely be text adventures. I suspect there has got be some within there that contain some form of graphics.

  13. Re:Gimp... We're still waiting for something, righ on After New GIMP Release, Core Developer Discusses Future of GIMP and GEGL (girinstud.io) · · Score: 2

    I wish the GIMP team will produce a stable release of the new branch, as CYMK has been in it for multiple years now.

  14. Steam Machines on PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    This is where I think Steam machines can really shine. Console gamers don't want to deal with the sort of stuff in the article, a vast majority of them may be intimidated by it as well. Also with setup, there's dealing with viruses, corruption, and backups. Although not much of a problem in reality, these aren't the sort of things that console gamers want to put up with, rather just turning on their systems and playing right away.

    I think Steam machines could really take off here, being a hybrid of both a console and a PC. I believe some models of Steam machines allow the user to upgrade its components as well. However, at the moment Steam OS is limited mostly due horrible pricing on what seems to be the majority of models. It could be said that games are a limiting factor as well but that's improving rapidly.

  15. Re:Text Chat was standard IPX on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 1

    From what I recall, every packet that the original Doom sent was a broadcast packet. Some large networks like universities blocked it because it was causing havoc to their networks.

  16. Re:And nothing of value was created on New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    That wouldn't stop anything. Have we stopped playing Chess since any human can be beaten by an AI?

  17. I don't think Xfce is the best example of customization. Several people have requested that the trash bin to be disabled but the developers have stated that any patches never be accepted, instead recommend users use hacks to clear it such as a cron or inotify script.

    Bit frustrating as this is something that's found on every version of Windows since the Recycle Bin was introduced.

  18. Re:Minecraft is Sexist on Microsoft To Release Educational Version of Minecraft (thestack.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Not Balanced on John Romero Creates New Doom Level (gamasutra.com) · · Score: 1

    Got to say, the map isn't balanced correctly compared to the other levels in the episode with this placed in. Pretty difficult, primary due to the lack of health littered through it. Fun map though.

  20. Re:Something is very fishy on Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died (docker.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:What in the fuck? on Computer Beats Humans At Arimaa · · Score: 1

    It's news as the game was designed to be difficult for an AI to play and win.

  22. Re:Bittorrent on Indian Gov't Wants Worldwide Ban On Rape Documentary, Including Online · · Score: 1

    Same file, different torrent. If you've already downloaded the previous one, just rename it to resume where it was left off.

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:a39dbfc5b2981e4cac5d09d3632d6bbe9a5c1b2b&dn=BBC%20Storyville%20India%27s%20Daughter.mp4&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80%2Fannounce

  23. White Noise/Static on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    I suspect once (if?) I ever have kids, I doubt that they'll ever come across white noise unless hearing it at school.

    Back in the day, you would run into it by simply by changing the TV channel or radio station. Nowadays devices scan for a list of channels, preventing you from running into it, and even if you tuned it manually, modern TVs can detect it and simply block it out.

  24. Re:Moms are playing just now? on Is the Xbox 360 Really Mom Friendly? · · Score: 1

    It was the same here when I was kid. Strange since both parents don't play anything other then Solitaire these days.

  25. Bluetooth on JetBlue to Offer WiFi · · Score: 4, Funny