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  1. Paid by the word? on There's a Logic To How Squirrels Bury Their Nuts (berkeley.edu) · · Score: 2

    ...male and female fox squirrels...

    Thanks. I'd been wondering how that worked.

  2. The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

  3. Millennials also have a 5 to 6 second attention span when remembering to included the article source in their Slashdot submissions, too.

    P.S. "Reader schwit1 writes..." ... is obviously the new way of expressing "copy and paste".

  4. "No known ransomware works against Windows 10 S."

    Read: "No one can compete with us on our home turf."

  5. I'd recommenced anything by Adam Curtis. on What Are Some Documentaries and TV Shows That You Recommend To Others? · · Score: 1

    I'd recommenced anything by Adam Curtis.

    I'd start with "The Century of the Self". A real eye-opener; quite scary in some ways. (Online http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

    Then watch "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace". (Online: http://www.youtube.com/playlis... )

    Then "HyperNormalisation". (Online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... )

    Then, be angry with yourself and the modern world.

    (Other people above have already mentioned James Burke many times, which is also my recommendation. Why Sid Meier hasn't had James rewrite and narrate all the tech tree/advances in a Civilization game yet, I don't know...)

  6. Ubuntu and downstream derivatives on Newly Discovered Vulnerability Raises Fears Of Another WannaCry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Patched in Ubuntu and downstream derivatives in Samba v2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.7 (This is the xenial one.)

    samba (2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.7) xenial-security; urgency=medium

    * SECURITY UPDATE: remote code execution from a writable share- debian/patches/CVE-2017-7494.patch: refuse to open pipe names with a slash inside in source3/rpc_server/srv_pipe.c.

    - CVE-2017-7494

    -- Marc Deslauriers Fri, 19 May 2017 14:18:13 -0400

    Source: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/s/samba/samba_4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.7/changelog

  7. Where I come from, we call that a website...

  8. Re:they are getting prepared FTFY on China is Recruiting 20,000 People To Write Its Own Wikipedia (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Drama is always played by the actors.

  9. It's not Google Maps, it's Google Fit on How To Delete Your Data From Google's 'My Activity' (vortex.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, it's not Google Maps that that's the most creepy when it comes to location tracking: it's Google Fit.

    After using the Google Takeout service the other day I noticed Fit does a LOT more fine-tuned location tracking than Maps, and I don't think there's an easy option to delete all of Fit's location data. Deleting all of Maps's location history does not affect Fit's location history.

    Yeah, I guess that's the whole point of fitness tracking, but it's still creepy.

  10. Re:Pink Floyd? on As Streaming Booms, Songs Are Getting Faster and Shorter (japantoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Applicable "Pearls before Swine" strip: http://imgur.com/a/uXPx4

  11. April Fool's on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 0

    April Fool's Day: looks like Slashdot has finally gone global.

  12. Seoul: $143 week rent + 40 minutes commute??

    Obviously that's living somewhere out in Suwon in a one-room closet. Makes sense.

  13. Oh, a "rule" ??

    Well, okay. Sure. That'll work.

    /insert Gene Wilder/Wonka meme here

  14. What a twist! on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Mathematician presents some "Math(s) is bwetiful auwsome" nonsense at a math(s) conference and gets a standing ovation from other mathematicians.

    I'm stunned, I tell you!

  15. Not clear enough...

    Me, too!

  16. Hol. ly. Sheeeeeit. on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What could possibly go wrong???

  17. A little less dramatic than that: on South Korea To Kill the Coin in Path Towards 'Cashless Society' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  18. "Reelelsed"? When? on Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/get/noto/updates

    Last entry: "September 29, 2015"

    Yeah... so it's the same thing I downloaded and installed last year.

    I'm so glad Slashdot is catching up...

  19. EoL for Lastest Nexus Devices? on Google Unveils Pixel and Pixel XL, the First Phones It 'Designed Inside and Out' (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 1

    So... the Nexus 5x and Nexus 6P are deleted? EoL? Just like that?? They're only *just* one year old, and even their cases and accessories have vanished from the Play Store along with the old Nexus devices...

  20. Also, more overtly, its store page: http://store.google.com/produc...

  21. So, how does this beat just simply saving "m.facebook.com" as a bookmark shortcut icon?

  22. Another 40% store them on Google docs.

  23. The actual Australian Transport Safety Bureau report

    The main take-away:

    When manually entering the coordinates of the aircraft's position using a data entry technique that was not recommended by the aircraft manufacturer, the longitude was incorrectly entered as 01519.8 east instead of 15109.8 east. This resulted in a positional error in excess of 11,000 km, which adversely affected the aircraft's navigation systems and some alerting systems.

  24. Re:Weird... on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 1

    (Meh, I meant "No mention of "TrueOS"... ". I need to get some sleep.)

  25. Weird... on PC-BSD Follows a Rolling Release Model, Gets Renamed To TrueOS · · Score: 1

    No mention of "TrueBSD" at the PC-BSD website. (Except for the blurb about the sever OS.)

    Is this a fork, a re-spin, or just a simple rename?