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  1. There's nothing NYSE on Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading · · Score: 1

    about the New York Stock Exchange

  2. Re:Amazon Data Services on Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading · · Score: 1

    There's an outage? Just blame it on Canada

  3. As long as they're not forced on Even the "Idea Person" Should Learn How To Code · · Score: 2

    Great idea but not everyone is cut out for programming. Also if they're going to learn programming it's worth them learning comprehensivley not just doing a bit of Java script as the more they know the better they'll understand what the pitfalls are.

  4. Re:David Cameron is actually a genuine idiot on Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications · · Score: 1

    Funny the people I know in the US usually come off as arrogant jerks. Of course this isn't true really I know a lot of people in the US who are perfectly nice people. But if you're going to take the views of a few people and tarnish us all with them then you individulally are a bigotted twat.

    Thanks

  5. Re:Fee Fees Hurt? on Trolls No Longer Welcome In New Zealand · · Score: 1

    Is there any compensation for "serious emotional distress"? Because I have a phobia of fluffy kittens :)

  6. To be honnest I just use a second monitor at th3e destination I'm using my craptop at. This looks like it will add a lot of bulk and weight. Thanks

  7. Damn you Uber on How Uber Takes Over a City · · Score: 1

    Coming over here taking our illegal immigrants jobs!!

  8. Re:Aww hell. on Disney Bans Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    Remember Selfie Sticks make perfectly good lightening conductors surely Disney should just let natural selection take its course

  9. Re:That's not what a concert conductor does on Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he was thinking of a lightening conductor

  10. Re:What is this "Nude" you speak of? on Detecting Nudity With AI and OpenCV · · Score: 1

    Victorian: Check out the ankles on her!!

  11. Re:Lot of test. on Students Win Prize For Color-Changing Condoms That Detect STDs · · Score: 2

    I just hope theyre not thinking of doing automation tests :) Performance and Penetration testing should be interesting though!

  12. Very effective on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter?

    So effective I didn't see this

  13. Government on Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count · · Score: 1

    Whatever you do don't donate to the Government they are a big con who will take your donation and use it to suppress your legal rights

  14. Re:XP? OK. But, Office? on The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind the recently decomissioned Space Shuttle still used DOS 3.1 for many systems

  15. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    ... but considering the type of people they're going up against, I hope they don't end up wearing concrete boots.

    3D printed concrete boots of course :D

  16. Re:It's not just a matter of taste, there's rent t on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Define reasonable? Even cheap bedsits are over £500 a month. If you want a flat you need to be earning well over £30K if you're single just to keep up with the rent and the bills

  17. Re:great place for the right people on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Its a local shop for local people!

  18. Re:submitter should not worry. on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    Nope. Same as with spam. They need gullible idiots.

    You do realise theres an electorate out there

  19. Re:asterisk, if you are up for it. on 86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US · · Score: 1

    Have you considered wrapping it up in a box with a simple UI and kickstartering it?

  20. The real irony is that if it carries on like this the exit charge will be less than the legal costs

  21. Yes of course they faked fucking it up

  22. Re:TL;DR on The Future of AI: a Non-Alarmist Viewpoint · · Score: 1

    I believe that we will not be able to invent a truly sentient AI until we can teach it how to skive. If you're truely worried about AI's taking your jobs can I suggest we teach the AI's about Unions :D then you can just whinge about all the smart robots that never do any work because they have a better union than you do :)

  23. Re:4000 on SpaceX Wants Permission To Test Satellite Internet · · Score: 1

    It will have to be Low orbit which is already full of space debris from over 50 years of us jerking around out there. He could go higher but he'll be hit with latency issues if he wants to avoid the bulk of the junk.

  24. How do you steal a self driving car? on Self-Driving Cars To Transform Insurance and Other Industries · · Score: 1

    I mean will you need hacking skills to hotwire one. Also will it be like my mobile? Will I be able to install a speeding/drag racing app?

  25. Re:Melodrama on EasyJet Turning To Drones For Aircraft Inspections · · Score: 1

    I think it's really no different from using a 20 meter selfie stick to take the pictures.

    And I thought the only legitimate use for a selfie stick was as a lightening conductor!