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  1. I applaud Microsoft for having the courage to move on and do something new that betters all of us.

  2. How can the official information channel of the POTUS be worthless?

  3. Re:eating less on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Here's an idea... on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Always good to see a right-thinking fellow. Pip-pip!

  5. Re:Fold a shirt in 10 minutes? on Panasonic Invests $60 Million In World's First Laundry-Folding Robot (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Forty-eight shirts could be folded in an eight hour overnight. Why spend money so that it can be done in an hour instead, especially if that means possible damage to the clothing? It is no additional drudgery to put those forty-eight pairs away whether done in an hour or eight, it's just decoupled from the time they were washed. Mostly, washed clothes are not put into service immediately.

  6. Visual Mondegreen FTW on Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I read the summary as referring to hyperrealistic bone until I reached the end.

  7. Re:In other words on Roller Coasters Could Help People Pass Kidney Stones, Says Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, during renal colic this would be crazy. But the stones are there a long time before they cause issues. Before a painful attack, or after the cramps are under control and perhaps your ureters are dilated with tamsulosin, maybe this is just the thing to shake em out.

  8. Re:im thinking about it... on Microsoft To Launch At Least One Surface All-In-One PC Next Month (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No worries, you already lost your soul just buying it!

  9. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I saw the proportion with regard to species in article that wasn't paywalled, but not the numbers or biomass, which was what I was going for there.

  10. Re:Might want to think about that... on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought when I saw the headline, as I know that mosquito larvae are irreplaceable aquatic foodstock for fish such as trout, but the clarification of human biting species makes that a little murkier. I wonder what proportion of all mosquitoes these twelve species comprise?

  11. One PC to Rule All (my stuff) on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    My computer sits in the original CoolerMaster Stacker case with the side cover off, in a 3x5 cabinet built into the attic of my 1/2 story second floor. 8" window fans (one now broken) ventilate it from the attic side on days when heat becomes an issue. The internals are a Skylake 6500K, 16 GB RAM, an EVGA 1080 FTW, a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 boot drive, a Samsung 850 EVO 512 GB SATA, and a Soundblaster Z. It runs Windows 10 Pro and occasionally other guest OSes to play with. I am looking forward to dinking around with Ubuntu desktop on it, but not enough to install the fast ring. I browse on Firefox with ABP, Media Player Classic for media, PDF X-change for PDFs, Office 2007 with macros etc disabled (only because my wife owns a Home and Student copy and I almost exclusively work with only basic files of my own creation, otherwise it would be Libre Office) Search Everything because I can't be arsed to do chores while waiting for searches. This feeds to my sit/stand/treadmill desk which I made out of a DIY Uplift motorized base and a recycled interior door as the table top, with leftover laminate flooring as the top surface. On the desk are an Acer XB270HU IPS 1440p G-Sync 27"' monitor as primary, and, for now, a BenQ XL2410TX in portrait mode. It was previously my main monitor and replaced a SOYO Topaz S that exhibited ever more frequent image corruption. I use a CM Storm Quickfire Rapid tenkeyless keyboard, a $15 gaming mouse that tracks exactly as I expect, and an Oculus Rift with a Razer Hydra that I bought years and years ago on Woot for around $80. Also, no money to buy VR games because I blew this year's discretionary funds on this system.

  12. The mutated DNA doesn't get passed along to descendants, unless it's in the gametes or their precursor cells.

  13. Re:If you are using IE, that's what you get on Patch Tuesday Brought Windows 10 Ad Generator · · Score: 2

    You do not recall correctly.

  14. The reason it is possible to spoof caller id is so that you can receive return calls to an incoming number when the outgoing is not that same number. I use it in my case because I have a Google Voice number, which has been my number, originally a landline, since the late 90s. I never have to tell friends what my new number is each time I change phone companies. With spoofing, they see that Google Voice number as the source of the call, and correctly call back "my" number instead of the number du jour.

  15. What a shame.

  16. Re:Noise Levels? on Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's my main concern. I do not want to step out into my backyard and be able to hear drone noises all day, not even barely.

  17. Wow... on Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days · · Score: 1

    bought out much?

  18. Re:W...T...F... on Advanced Civilizations Probably Don't Exist In Our Galactic Neighborhood · · Score: 1

    All they are saying is that this particular class of "advanced civilization" does not exist. Advanced in this case means far beyond us.

  19. Latin on The Most Important Obscure Languages? · · Score: 1

    SATISDICTVMEST

  20. Re:Memo to authors - put pre-prints in escrow abro on 'Banned' Article About Faulty Immobilizer Chip Published After Two Years · · Score: 1

    Funnier if you had said it was deprecated.

  21. Re:They aren't revolutionizing shit. on Soylent 2.0 Comes Bottled and Ready To Drink · · Score: 1

    I make mine with less water and it's like thick pancake batter. Chewing becomes involved; I find that more satisfying. I drink a lot of water through the day so I don't need it with my Soylent.

  22. Trivial Problem to Solve on NY Judge Rules Research Chimps Are Not 'Legal Persons' · · Score: 1

    All we have to do is pass laws declaring that chimpanzees are corporations, then all will be well.

  23. Poor Headline on The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other · · Score: 2

    Come on Slashdot! This article should be titled "Most Incestuous Majors".

  24. Just in time for you! on Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? · · Score: 1

    http://techreport.com/news/279... Maybe nail it to the floor beams.

  25. I wish I could.