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  1. Re:Hodor. A novel by Hodor. on Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Buffalo!

  2. Re:Made in Egypt? on Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    If that were so, why is the device engraved in Greek rather than Egyptian Hieroglyphics?

  3. Re:Really? Quicktime? Seriously? on Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security · · Score: 1

    There's an important distinction in English between "is used by" and "is in use by".

    "Is used by" means that a program which might not currently be running requires the use of that software, whereas "is in use by" means that that program is running.

    You can detect the former, but without some kind of well-designed central registry (!) you can't detect the latter.

  4. Hand-held? on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    For values of "hand-held", obviously.

    I'd like to see the holster for that.

  5. Re:What the frack on Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the middle of the North Atlantic what is there to hit?

    That's exactly what the captain of the Titanic said!

  6. Re:Okay, So Why Should I Be Paranoid? on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    What part of Alcoholics Anonymous did you overlook?

  7. Re:Why should? on Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    For the same reason the military does not use (at at least doesn't admit to using) fully autonomous armed drones: software can't make judgement calls.

    Yes, it does. They are called cruise missiles.

  8. Re:What the fuck is with the login system on University of Cape Town Team Breaks World Water Rocketry Record (uct.ac.za) · · Score: 1

    Try logging in before you read the articles.

  9. Re:Hmmm on Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back · · Score: 2

    Most American corporations seem to think you can.

  10. Re:Passwords are for cows. on New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste · · Score: 1

    Hey! That's the combination to my luggage!

  11. That's not a sensible argument.

    You could just as well say, don't make [something] if it won't fit on a luxury yacht, since the people who own luxury yachts have the most disposable income.

  12. Re:Ignorance? on The Case For Teaching Ignorance · · Score: 1

    But hot can be boring too. A diffuse plasma doesn't really have a lot of stuff going on in it either.

    Oh, I dunno. Been to the Sun's corona lately?

  13. Re:Relativity is for lorentz transformed cows. on Some Observers Perceive the Universe To Be Much Younger Than We Do · · Score: 1

    A post of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  14. Re:First impressions..... on Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C · · Score: 1

    Raspberry Pi TWO.

    USB and Ethernet no longer associated.

  15. Re:Dig deeper on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 1

    So, how do you actually set the camera up when the configuration page requires the use of ActiveX....

  16. Re: Doesn't matter, so why do it? on June 30th Leap Second Could Trigger Unexpected Issues · · Score: 1

    People can't deal with leap seconds when they know they have to ... postponing it into one huge clusterfuck isn't going to improve matters.

    Well, I don't know... we manage with a whole leap day every four years or so.

  17. Re:Reddit.... on Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond · · Score: 3, Informative

    The reason I post as AC (despite having an account) is that Slashdot is a pain in the ass to login to.

    Huh?

    I bookmark the login page and when I click on it I get the login page with my username and password already filled in, courtesy of the password save function in Firefox.

    Another click and I'm in. What's so hard about that? It even works when I'm traveling and just dipping in to Slashdot using a tablet.

  18. I burned my emails to a .pst and took a copy with me when I left an employer in the 2001 dot.com bust.

    Unfortunately, since then my work is all Linux and I have never found a program which will properly read that .pst file.

    You might want to find some other way of exporting the info.

  19. Re:Please stop on Does a Black Hole Have a Shape? · · Score: 1

    No. Too many medium.com links.

  20. Re:Another failure on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    Who the hell has monitors with audio in them?

    Well, perhaps everybody who wants to connect their laptop to a TV.

    You know, to watch a video in a hotel room or stream video from the internet.

  21. Re:"reatlowing beacons"??? on NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Becomes First To Orbit a Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    Chance collisions with debris have eroded the camouflage covering, exposing the battle steel underneath.

  22. Not over the phone on If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I wouldn't give out my email address over the phone.

    This is because it is fairly long and easy to miss-spell.

    Instead, I send an email to the bank, using their email address, and of course my correct addy is then available as Sender.

    This step ensures we both know we are talking to each other.

    This can only help if you are talking to a financial institution.

  23. Re:Huh? on The Current State of Linux Video Editing · · Score: 2

    What exactly other 2D and 3D tools are "entrenched in the Linux environment" exactly?

    There's always Emacs...

  24. Re:Perhaps at last an affordable mini PC? on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 2

    Agree. Why can't they say "a third the volume?"

    Slack thinking like "three times smaller" probably accounts for many bugs in software. Precision is important.

  25. Re:FFS just keep the Warthog on Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have to wonder why we're trying to get three services, each with historical antagonism towards the other, to work together rather than simply have a force with ships, planes and armoured cars.

    We do!

    They are called the Marines...

    Ta Da!