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  1. Re:hot hOT HOT! on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't matter if the containment field doesn't hold - the company is based in Milton Keynes.

  2. Read between the lines on Italian Police Say Amazon Has Evaded $142 Million of Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    What the Italian police actually meant to say is, "Amazon have evaded $142m of taxes and failed to pay the necessary sweeteners, backhanders and protection money that is traditional in Italy."

  3. 101? on Computer Pioneer Harry Huskey Dies At Age 101 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    He only lived to the age of 5???

  4. Save us from prima donna surgeons on Surgeon Plans To 'Reawaken' Cryogenically Frozen Brains, Transplant Them Into Someone Else's Skull (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of all the outstanding medical problems in the world, affecting millions, perhaps billions of people, this is not one of them. This is simply a prima donna surgeon grandstanding with a medically-unlikely, ethically-dubious procedure of use to nearly no-one. Mind you, Italy seems to have a track record on ethically-dubious medical procedures and is unlikely to stop him.

  5. When I go to Amazon.co.uk, their front-page is one long advert, or rather a large number of small adverts. Every page I visit is full of adverts for other products. It's been like this for a long time, so I'm scratching my head to understand why people might think that Amazon displaying adverts might suddenly be a problem when it clearly hasn't been previously.

  6. A company's culture reflects the people at the top on Suicide of an Uber Engineer: Widow Blames Job Stress (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 0

    There should be no surprise that the workplace culture of a company run by a thoroughly bad egg like Travis Kalanick would be similarly malodorous.

  7. Re:I hate Kodi on OpenELEC 8.0 Linux Distro Released For PC, Raspberry Pi, WeTek Hub (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well the beauty of Kodi is that if you don't like the interface, you can change it. There are dozens of alternative ones out there. And if you are describing the Confluence skin then that's now been dropped in favour of a more modern looking skin.

    But if you are simply looking for a straight video player and don't need the addon or library functions in Kodi then you are probably better off using a straight video player app.

  8. Re:For once, I agree with the Bricker on IoT Garage Door Opener Maker Bricks Customer's Product After Bad Review (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You make some valid points. The one I would add is, it is perhaps understandable that people who have paid money for something feel that they have some right to be heard by the manufacturer when things go awry. But as someone who follows Kodi on Twitter, I have seen for myself that even when people pay precisely zero pounds/dollars/Euros for something they still demand the right to restitution, repair, and rant at the developers when things go wrong. Even when the problems are caused by third-party add-ons.

  9. Internet of Tantrums.

  10. Amber Rudd is dim on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She's simply the latest of a long line of British ministers who don't really understand the first thing about the Internet and its associated technologies.

    Hilariously, in the same interview she claimed that Google was at fault because it was far to easy to find ‘stabbing instructions’ online.

  11. I'll bet the Germans have bagged all the best (artificial) sunbeds as well.

  12. I'm sure that will be the case.

  13. As someone who tends to open new links in a new tab and who ends up with a dozen or so open, I've always found those options to be very useful, especially the 'Close Tabs to the Right' one. I'm not sure why Google would want to get rid of them - the options hardly seem like a security risk or a burden on processor or RAM resources. I'll miss them if they do disappear.

  14. Wrong units of measurement on Astronomers Find Star Orbiting a Black Hole At 1 Percent the Speed of Light (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here in the UK, our press uses the following units of measurement:

    Distance: buses parked end-to-end.
    Weight: elephants.
    Area: Wales.

    Please amend the article appropriately.

  15. Re:Celeron? on Litebook Launches A $249 Linux Laptop (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

  16. I love Slashdot on Astronomers Discover 60 New Planets Including 'Super Earth' (nypost.com) · · Score: 0

    It's the perfect website for catching up on all the news that was published elsewhere a few days ago.

  17. Perhaps you know the answer to this: is it a misconception to think that GERD is caused by excess stomach acid? Isn't the problem that certain foods (primarily acidic food and carminitives) cause the LES to fail to close properly? Therefore tackling GERD either by neutralising acid or reducing its production is tackling the problem from the wrong end, as it were?

  18. "Given their marching orders"??? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Giving someone their 'marching orders' basically means firing them. Therefore whoever wrote the headline has given a misleading spin to the story. As I read it, the headline says that Microsoft have sacked all their device makers. This is clearly not the case.

  19. Confession on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    It was me. I did it.

  20. Re:Practical Uses? on Scientist Investigate A Brand New Form of Matter: Time Crystals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The one I know, also likely to be apocryphal, is where William Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked the same question. Faraday's reputed reply was, "Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it."

  21. Of course Musk isn't going to start digging tunnels next month. I can scarcely begin to imagine how much work it involves to get permission, permits, acquire land, and the million-and-one other things you have to do before even breaking the sod.

    What's gone wrong with this website? Someone please fix it.

  22. The UK hasn't left the EU yet. Thus your point is... pointless.

  23. R2D2? on Tiny New Robots Perform Eye Surgery (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Personally I'd go with "I, Robot."

  24. I know, the standard of writing on this site seems to deteriorate on a daily basis. *sighs*

  25. Q. What's the Scottish definition of a salad?
    A. Cold chips.