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  1. I wonder why the water shortage is expected to last 25 years? What is going to happen in 25 years to ameliorate this problem?

    The UAE will be inundated by rising sea levels, and then they will no longer have a shortage of water.

  2. Re:"Neural signal diversity" on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 1

    More diversity does not mean more activity.

    More diversity could simply mean more entropy, but it also could mean more than one simultaneous mode of function. It's the latter that the authors are hypothesizing.

    It really did not take much effort to RTFA.

  3. Re:More accurately: dark matter/energy is gone. on Simulation Suggests 68 Percent of the Universe May Not Actually Exist (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Replying to myself is bad style, I know, but I just want to add:

    They'll figure it out eventually. Those people are NOT idiots.

  4. Re:More accurately: dark matter/energy is gone. on Simulation Suggests 68 Percent of the Universe May Not Actually Exist (newatlas.com) · · Score: 2

    I was at a Carnegie Institute open house a year ago and was chatting with the lead scientist, and I asked him to describe Dark Energy in terms that my 10 year old son could grasp. He said "it's a correction to our equations so that our math agrees with our observations."

    That's when I stopped believing in dark energy. They just haven't made enough observations.

  5. Re:Why shop at Walmart on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Oh shiat. That's Sean McAfee I'm thinking of. My error.

  6. Re:Why shop at Walmart on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Your sig quotes an a.t legend. Hats off to him.

  7. There's actually a theatre in my town that charges only $2 per head for matinee's, but it's a second run venue, so you have to wait a few weeks to see a title.

    Great for taking the kids, though... no metaphor. And $1 hot dogs. But you gotta put up with the other kids.

    You get what you pay for. Including the hot dogs.

  8. When I can sit in a theater naked, with a glass of vodak in my hand and porn on my 'puter, I'll pay for a ticket that costs as much as a monthly subscription to Netflix.

    The hollywood profiteers can go to hell.

  9. Amazing Horse? on Scientists Discover Way To Transmit Taste of Lemonade Over Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I better not show you where the lemonade is made. /sweet, sweet lemonade

  10. Nahh. I think it's the NSA trolling Trump into tweeting more insane shit at 5am.

    Just wait...

    Oh, look at the time.

  11. Re:I'm shocked!! on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Here's your winnings sir.

  12. Re:Heisenberg uncertainty? on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking, is there any way we can turn this into a non-reactionary-mass thruster? Because that's what we need to go from monkeys throwing shit to real spacefarers.

  13. Re:The US government on CBS Reports 'Suspicious' Cell Phone Tower Activity In Washington DC (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    And people still use Kaspersky. LOL

  14. Re:now we know why tech is protected on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Is there any exploit sharing between CIA and NSA?

    Can you say 'no' with confidence?

    If those exploits are out there, then they'll be used. Domestic or foreign. Like in the San Bernadino case.

  15. Re:Two options immediately suggest themselves: on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Best Protect Client Files From Wireless Hacking? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You cant trust any software solutions or any hardware on-off switches installed by the manufacturer.

    Especially if today's Wikileaks dump is true.

  16. Never pack the dildo. Never.

  17. Re:FM is dead on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    James Ladd did the last FM radio program in Los Angeles that was produced by the DJ. I mourned when he left for Sirius. /his anagram is Saddle Jam

  18. Blast from the past... on Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorta reminds me of Core War... which I haven't even thought of in decades, much less programmed.

    Writing Redcode taught me a lot about assembly language at an age where most other kids thought 'assembly language' was what was spoken when everybody was packed into the auditorium.

  19. Re: Coke on Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When I drink a 4 pack of Guinness or Boddingtons (with Nitrogen widgets) I've swallowed so much N2 that the next morning I can toot Reveille out my ass.

  20. Re:The Debian developers kept getting confused on Mozilla Thunderbird Finally Makes Its Way Back Into Debian's Repos (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Too sweet. We used to add a sleeve of grape Kool Aid to the bottle. /good times

  21. Re:200 Million Yahoo "Users" on Yahoo Confirms Massive Data Breach, 500 Million Users Impacted [Updated] (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Lately, Yahoo has been nagging me to not use anything but their official apps and web interface to access my email. I guess this news is why.

    Screw that. I pay $20/yr for SMS/IMAP access to my email there. That means I get to use Thunderbird and iOS Mail, and they get to keep their servers secure.

    I use Yahoo mail regularly, mostly for job search and other official biz. I joined years ago and was able to get [firstname].[lastname]@yahoo.com for each member of my family when they started allowing the dot to be used left of the 'at.'

    (For personal email and website registrations I use my earthlink address.)

  22. Re: Not invented here.. on iOS 10 Is Surfacing Hardcore Porn GIFs in iMessage (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bing seems to be MADE for searching for porn images.

    Whoever designed its UI did it one handed.

  23. Re:Have to give it to Apple..... on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Wait. Are we talking hot schoolgirl panties or babushka bloomers?

    It's important.

  24. Re:To put it into perspective on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful. Spent all my mod points yesterday, so have a virtual one.

  25. Re:To put it into perspective on Small Asteroid Discovered Orbiting Earth (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Umm... this is just a SWAG, but I estimate that the cost of recovering gold from an asteroid is orders of magnitude than recovering it from the Earth's core. Heck, we haven't even reached the mantle with the most ambitious drilling program.