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  1. Open Letter To Florida School Board on Now Any Florida Resident Can Challenge What Is Taught In Public Florida Schools (orlandosentinel.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Can I do this in Facebook or Instagram yet?

  3. Re:We're on a break on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Has Resigned Due To Investor Pressure (recode.net) · · Score: 1
  4. Re: Apple sitting on billions and tax evader on Apple CEO Tim Cook Shares His Experience Of Working With President Donald Trump (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Be brave

    I think you mean: have courage!

  5. ... and how would you use an external battery pack?

    Why would you use an external battery pack when you can just carry a second phone?

  6. Re:Throwing them under the bus on Putin Hints At US Election Meddling By 'Patriotically Minded' Russians (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course when Putin gave his cyberwarfare people their marching orders, they all knew that if caught they'd be disavowed by the State.

    And we could prove it if the tape hadn't self destructed five seconds after concluding.

  7. The thing about gerrymandering is that it only works for a while and you start to get diminishing returns.

    Once you've gerrymandered yourself into place, what can displace you?

  8. Creativity at Snapchat on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is Not Afraid of Facebook (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Spiegel laughed. Then talked about how important it is to be creative.

    Does that include Reggie Brown's creativity? http://www.businessinsider.com...

  9. The Internet keeps leaking documents, somebody should fix those pipes!

    Tubes. It's a series of tubes.

  10. Re:How does a company like Uber lose $$? on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    why exactly are they paying drivers more than they charge the customer?

    Try: why are they charging customers less than they're paying drivers. Answer: So they'll have passengers and not have competition.

  11. So when a later iPhone is released with the same design is released people can say Samsung copied Apple again.

    That's because Apple markets through a tear in the fabric of time.

  12. Then rich people want to move in, build a ... Outback Steakhouse

    Patton Oswalt, Steak (NSFW)

  13. Re:The Absurdity of Atheism on Chrome 56 Quietly Added Bluetooth Snitch API (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The real question is, why is such a wall of text, posted by an AC and with a score of -1, auto-expanded to full view while some real comments are not?

    The power of God.

  14. Team or Cordon? on Facebook Has a Team That Handles Mark Zuckerberg's Page (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it a team that manages his page, or a wall of meat to cordon off trespassers from his compound?

  15. Re:Price has other factors on Low-Cost Android One Phones Coming To The US, Says Report (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they get updates or not? I couldn't parse the awful headline:

    "The phones are attractive because they contain no bloatware, competing services, and a lack of software and security updates"

    You have to parse it as "The phones are attractive because they contain no ... lack of software and security updates," suggesting that as part of the program, Google dictates that there will be software and security updates.

  16. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try citing the actual case.

    The relevant case is Ex parte Garland (1867), in which Justice Stephen J. Field, writing for the court in a 5-4 decision, wrote that a president's pardon power ''extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.'' This precedent was reaffirmed in Murphy v. Ford (1975).

  17. Anyone who's been stuck in the bumper-to-bumper tractor traffic on CA 43 into Shafter knows that the Bullet Train is going to be awesome!

  18. Re:you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Mylan has four patents on their particular instance of the autoinjector, that run into 2025. Anyone who can build an autoinjector that does not run afoul of Mylan's patents is welcome to enter the market.

  19. Re: you mean capitalism works? on CVS Announces Super Cheap Generic Alternative To EpiPen (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Which has also been out of patent for a long time.

    Mylan's four patents related to the EpiPen do not expire until 2025.

  20. One more thing to charge on Wireless Headphone Sales Soared After Apple Dropped Headphone Jack (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No thanks. The wire on wired headphones has never been a problem, and adding one more thing to my kit that needs recharging is undesirable. As is a dongle. As are earphones that aren't plug-compatible with airline entertainment and other phone-jack systems.

  21. Token add-on packs on Monopoly May Replace Iconic Pieces With Emoji Faces and Hashtags (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why doesn't Monopoly come with a starter set of four classic tokens, and then offer add-on token sets? There could be themed sets (co-marketed with McDonald's!), memorial sets, holiday sets, and rare Beanie Baby-like individual tokens that sell for hundreds of dollars in secondary markets. Has the owner of Monopoly missed the last 20 years of marketing innovation?

  22. Re:New Slavery on Supreme Court Will Not Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't those doing the advertising still breaking the law?

  23. Re:Challenge to him a battle of wits on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Deal With A 'Gaslighting' Colleague? · · Score: 1

    And if they've spent the last few years building up an immunity to Iocaine powder?

  24. Android didn't explode - only one of hundreds of phones that use Android exploded. Those who like Android (or dislike iOS or Apple) can easily pick another phone. One hardware problem with a Samsung phone isn't going to send customers scurrying to Apple.

  25. Re: How dumb you have to be to work at Uber? on Uber Lawsuit Alleges Employees Were Misled On Equity Compensation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The lottery is also a gamble that can pay off bigly. But I wouldn't recommend it as a career.

    I can't influence the outcome of the lottery; but I and my fellow equity-holding colleagues can influence the outcome of our equity, and we are strongly incentivized to do so. Which is a large part of equity's value. It's a calculated risk, and characterizing equity as "the biggest scam there is" is shortsighted and ahistorical.