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  1. Re:So basically on Sitting Too Much Ages You By 8 Years (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Menopause is not normal

    OTOH, this experiment shows how menopause could be adaptive.

  2. Now all we need... on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is for someone to port Ruby 2.4.0 to FreeDOS 1.2!

  3. Re:Thunking on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    Alt+Enter switches DOSBox into full-screen mode.

  4. Californium.

  5. Re:Oh great. on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    they changed their name to that "to appeal to women".

    I'm surprised they didn't change their name to "OMG Ponies".

  6. Re:Foxfire on Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Also the Foxfire Books.

  7. Re:the sun is round how is it tilted on Curious Tilt of the Sun Traced To Undiscovered Planet (spacedaily.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, neither one is perfectly round; both are oblate spheroids, though this is trickier to measure in the case of the Sun.

  8. Re:Giant Meteor 2016 on President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wish "being hit by a giant meteor in 2016" were actually on the ballot. It would be somewhat better than our other choices.

  9. So is this a relative of J. B. S. Haldane?

  10. Re:Why not use irradiated sterile mosquito on Florida District Considers Releasing GMO Mosquitos After Cayman Islands Experiment (accuweather.com) · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, what would happen to a superhero who had been bitten by a radioactive mosquito?

  11. Re:It was to half-assed to have a future on How (And Why) FreeDOS Keeps DOS Alive (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, that wasn't a compiler; it was interpreted BASIC.

  12. Re:Environmental impacts? on A Medical Mystery of the Best Kind: Major Diseases Are In Decline (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, food may not have had additives in the modern sense; but it was all too often adulterated with substances which shouldn't ever have been in food. That was why Upton Sinclair made such a stir with The Jungle a bit over a hundred years ago (unintentionally, since he was trying to arouse sympathy for maltreated workers instead).

  13. Strange sensation on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    It feels strange to hear a pessimistic assessment of SETI from Cornell astronomers. Carl Sagan, we miss you...

  14. Re:Scientists have no sense of humor. . . on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Why are Mars oceans blue and not green? on There Were Mega-Tsunamis On Mars (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Not thinking big picture. on Will Self-Driving Cars Clog Our Highways? (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Imagine a fleet of hundreds of self driving buses, vans, et cetera.

    You know, you just missed a perfectly good opportunity for a "Beowulf cluster" joke.

  17. Re:I don't understand on Google Encrypts All Blogspot Domains With HTTPS · · Score: 1

    There is one possible cost: people with slow Internet connections may find it almost impossible to finish loading a page on your site. (This has happened to me more often than not since Slashdot switched to https.)

  18. Re:I think I wait for Zippy Zebra. on Canonical To Release Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS 'Xenial Xerus' Tomorrow (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    They'll just have to read their Dr. Seuss to take things any farther.

  19. Zowie! on Flying Jet-Powered Hoverboard Now a Reality (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This may revolutionize everyday life as much as the Segway did!! Uh, wait a minute—

  20. Shakespeare's epitaph on Researchers Prove Shakespeare's Skull Probably Isn't In His Grave (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Shakespeare's epitaph reads:

    Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
    To dig the dust enclosed here.
    Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
    And cursed be he that moves my bones.

    A shame that it wasn't respected.

  21. The Three Laws on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heck, the Three Laws could reduce firearms deaths by 100%! (I'm assuming that the First Law states "no firearm shall harm a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.")

  22. Re:This is impressive, but... on Alpha Go Takes the Match, 3-0 (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    Aren't there, in fact, different rulesets for Go involving things like methods of scoring?

  23. Soylent News did not link to Forbes on Hubble Shatters the Cosmic Distance Record · · Score: 1

    in their coverage of this story. Just sayin'.

  24. Re:Does anyone even still use FF? on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, they could constantly change the name the way they did in the early days of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.