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  1. This sounds like just the kind of content a private company would love to host. Lots of influential, wealthy eyeballs on it each day. Hell, they could probably sell a backup of the site to someone to get them a quick start.

  2. Re:referees are players too on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If the ARs offer little help then that's a problem that the Referee should address, they are there for a purpose. I also doubt that "million dollar a leg" players (or their insurance companies) will put up with being deliberately injured on or off the field - I can see it resulting in litigation (and the courts are free to pick any camera angle they like in evidence)

  3. referees are players too on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    The sport is an exercise in humanity, fallibility in anyone on the field is a part of it.

    It is not the point to eradicate judgement failures and create the "perfect" game. The Referees can have good or bad games, it's part of the sport because they are participants too, we should not relegate them to being robots or defer to an off-pitch panel of judges. It's the officials' job to be engaged on the field and not simply wait for an outcry and rush to a monitor to see what happened.

  4. out of the loop on Python Language Founder Steps Down (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stepping down is no good, to truly be out of the loop you have to un-indent.

  5. Hacker Steals Military Docs Because Someone Didn't Change a Default FTP Password

    Should read Hacker Steals military docs because she's a sleazeball

    The lack of a proper password helped her commit the crime, it didn't compel it, she could of instead just told the authorities about the screwup

  6. I would have thought that a robot would find it easier to fuse the suture with heat or maybe bond it with glue or otherwise fasten it without using a knot.

  7. Anti-darwinism on Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    good - now they'll have to deny electricity exists. That should be fun...

  8. Re:How about SCUBA and a winch? on Elon Musk's Team Is Talking With Thai Officials for Cave Rescue (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't they be sedated ? Really it sounds like a horror story though. I had read somewhere that the kids had heard children playing and livestock, so it would be nice to think there is a way up and out.

  9. Re: Easy solution: AI on Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    I would be resistant to making my jar of peanut butter 100% from recyclable materials, I prefer it when it has a peanut butter filling.

  10. he should throw out all the employees and close the factory until he can re-staff it with oompa-lumpas.

  11. The no-air force, I love it. But to keep with past tradition the Air force should be the only branch able to use rockets. The new space force should be restricted to rotary winged craft, like skylab

  12. Or just the straw alone...

    But watch out for the big, bad, wolf. This is turning into a classic story after all

  13. time to patent making bricks with straw

  14. if all the children grow a pair we'll die out as a species.

  15. Re:One problem: no normative definition of "Agile" on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    First you have to define your enemy before he can define himself after all.

    And besides, the process of agreeing a spec, meeting it in a cynical way and then arguing for more funds is the art of the deal.

    Finally, Agile is fine, but is it vulnerable to someone high up saying "when will it be done to which the reply is "when will what be done" to which the reply is "whatever I was thinking about, I need a hard number now".

  16. There are any number of solutions to that. For example:

    • your credit card could act as your ticket, or for that matter any other kind of ID or even facial recognition.
    • As someone else said the ticket can be printed at the station.
    • They could give you a reference number over the phone that you could write down (it only need a few characters to be valid on a given route and date for a given name, airline booking references are not very long.).
    • Not all rail purchases are spur of the moment, pick up a rail travel gift card at the supermarket or the rail station.

    It's not like the golden age of rail never happened because of the lack of an internet.

  17. Since when was the internet the only means of long-distance communication ? For the purpose of purchasing a ticket, a phone is a perfectly reasonable thing to use.

    What makes the senator think that availability of the internet will suddenly address W. Virginians' apparent aversity to using credit cards ?

  18. unsupportable on Can Washington State Finally Put a Price On Carbon? (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    It's introduction of the metric system by the back door. The use of metric units will not stand. Instead of $15 per tonne they should charge a proper rate: €14 per long ton.

  19. QC on How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, in a few years they will be able to use quantum computing to crack their own wallet and recover their money.

  20. Re:You need the lesson on Ask Slashdot: Did Baby Boomers Break America? (time.com) · · Score: 2
  21. CNN was wrong on Judge Backs Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the guy has some mental challenges, CNN was wrong to make this into an attack on a generation and Infowars was wrong to (well, wrong about everything). The family does not deserve to have its problems dredged over by the press and used to for reduction to whatever stereotype they support.

  22. I wonder if any of the affected people have any metal tooth fillings.

  23. Re:This is what happens when you decolonize! on Personal Records of Nearly 1 Million South Africans Leaked Online (iafrikan.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be more satisfying than whatever system Equifax was using.

  24. network == console on Next PlayStation Is Three Years Off, Sony Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We're no longer in a time when you can think just about the console or just about the network like they're two different things.

    So... if I buy a PS5 I can ditch my ISP