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Comment Suicide or Accident? (Score 1) 220

by Slashdot on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:44PM (#63874233) Attached to: Privately-Owned High-Speed Rail Opens New Line in Florida, Kills Pedestrian

TFS called the death a suicide and, in the next sentence, an accident. If it was a suicide then it was deliberate, intentional, and not an accident.

Comment Gives Microsoft Access to All Your Mail (Score 3, Informative) 47

by Slashdot on Monday March 06, 2023 @02:25PM (#63347769) Attached to: Microsoft Makes Outlook for Mac Free To Use

I've never used the Mac version but I know that the iOS version doesn't read mail directly. It passes your login credentials to Microsoft and they read the mail on your behalf and supply it to the Outlook client.

In other words, if you use Outlook then Microsoft has all your email.

Comment Model M (Score 1) 363

by Slashdot on Thursday November 22, 2018 @02:04PM (#57685310) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Keyboard Do You Use With Your Computer and Why?

IBM Model M; The One True keyboard. Though I don't know why you don't already know this.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhardware.slashdot.org%2F...

If you prefer USB, the design was bought by Unicomp and they make new USB keyboards based on the same design: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pckeyboard.com%2F

Comment Slashdot? (Score 0) 39

by Slashdot on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:25PM (#57428584) Attached to: BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution

Hm. Your .sig claims that you are Slashdot. That's interesting.

Submission + - Prenda Allums are Suing People Again (startribune.com)

Submitted by Hokan on Monday May 18, 2015 @08:57AM

Hokan writes: Paul Hansmeier and John Steele, formerly of Prenda, are suing again. Each have started nonprofits, in Minnesota and Illinois, claiming to defend disabled people and are suing small businesses for ADA violations.

Comment U of MN did this in the '70s (Score 1) 259

by Slashdot on Thursday February 05, 2015 @12:29PM (#48990233) Attached to: Washington May Count CS As Foreign Language For College Admission

When I started at the University of Minnesota in the late '70s I was permitted to choose between a "natural language" or an "artificial language", that is, a programming language. That's not currently an option at the University and I don't know when it changed.

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