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  1. but they're a normal part of everyone's body on Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You're Not Alone. (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Likewise, there are mites that live on our skin, especially the face, but they're a normal part of everyone's body"

    Exactly what I would tell myself to cope with a rare and horrifying face infestation.

  2. I always get a first name email. on The One-Name Email, a Silicon Valley Status Symbol, Is Wreaking Havoc (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sincerely,

    Zz!zyx Smith

  3. to Meg economy?

  4. Hey it's just business, suckers... on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 1

    I mean, my fellow Americans.

  5. 12 billion years old.

  6. Patients are generally easy to catch. Many are pre-fattened for flavor...what? 'ON' patients?

    Never mind.

  7. until the subsidies dry up or the cost and complexity of implementing at scale slap the project back into reality. Then Musk will get 'bored' and move onto the next distraction. Musk is not a visionary, he just has the internet jackpot fortune to kickstart his adolescent fantasies far enough to get press adulation.

    "A subterranean commuter expressway. I'll call it a 'Sub-Way'. Why didn't anyone think of this before? I'm brilliant!"

    All of his ventures operate at loss or through subsidy or in unique markets with no competitor (SpaceX)

  8. Re:I wonder... on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It will be priced so that most people with at least mullet over.

  9. WhatsApp Raises Minimum Age In Europe To 16 on WhatsApp Raises Minimum Age In Europe To 16 Ahead of Data Law Change (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    That's some serious spacetime manipulation IP they got there.

  10. Already? on Lycos Finally Discontinues Its Free Email Service (lycos.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just finished migrating all my email from Prodigy to Lycos.

  11. Every successful commercial social network on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    will turn into Facebook eventually. Only non-profit, decentralized social networks will prioritize privacy and security. However these will be likely gain market share on par with linux desktop.

  12. "exactly 40 years to the day from first broadcast" on The Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy Returns With the Original Cast (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The BBC couldn't wait two more years?

  13. What happened Igmar? on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You used to be so enlightened.

  14. Re:"[Girls] are measurably better at maths than bo on Labor Board Says Google Could Fire James Damore For Anti-Diversity Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    girls have lead since 2000, way before the change came in

    Um, that is exactly when the change came in. From the article:

    major changes to A-levels back in 2000 – had benefited girls. Now this has been reversed, it may advantage boys, particularly in terms of top grades (A*-A).

    Boys have consistently outperformed girls for top grades when the test measured accrued competency, despite herculean efforts to improve girls performance to the disadvantage of boys.

    And the new test is 100% exam based

    O.o

  15. "[Girls] are measurably better at maths than boys" on Labor Board Says Google Could Fire James Damore For Anti-Diversity Memo (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the UK girls overtook boys in maths at school over a decade ago.

    Exactly when they stopped testing accrued competence in 2000. When they returned to an objective competency test in 2017:

    A-level results 2017: Boys overtake girls in top grades for first time in years

    Some 43 per cent of male maths candidates scored an A or higher, compared with 41.1 per cent of girls.

  16. The whole point of the interwebs is I consume what I want (pull) not what an ad exec wants me to watch (push.)

  17. Re:Stones from glass houses on YouTube CEO: Facebook Should 'Get Back To Baby Pictures' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Users and content producers should stop donating their personal resources to private, centrally controlled, for-profit distribution platforms.

    The dream of internet video is complete freedom (as in speech) of distribution and consumption with all profit being received by the creator. No middleman taking the money, no gatekeeper controlling speech, no advertiser polluting the medium.

  18. Nothing a few free loot boxes under the on German Authorities Are Considering a Ban On Loot Boxes (heise.de) · · Score: 1

    table can't fix. Danke.

  19. A virtual machine by any other name on Windows 10 Will Soon Get Progressive Web Apps To Boost the Microsoft Store (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    is still write once, debug everywhere.

    Also, are these based on open web standards or is MS just trying to reduce the maintenance on their lock-in?

  20. To demonstrate, this plane's autopilot runs on Windows Vista. Pay no attention to that planet approaching at terminal velocity.

  21. their customer service is still rate better than Comcast.

  22. "We didn't double delay times, we extended your Apple Anticipation Subscription for free."

  23. Should have thought of that before you voluntarily gave all your personal information to a random company to do with as they please.

    They will give you a 'start over' button if it advantages their shareholders. Pray they don't alter the terms further.

  24. Jeff saw Gabe Newell live streaming in front of a yule log and, well, Blizzard.

  25. Re:alternative medicine on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It works?!