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  1. Unless they're female children. Then it's "Gendercide." If they're male, then they're not children, they are parasitic blobs.

  2. Obligatory ST reference on 'I Stopped Using a Computer Mouse For a Week and It Was Amazing' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "A keyboard ... how quaint."

  3. But who was his former employer? on Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Having not RTFA, I'm wondering where this guy used to work years ago. Seems like that'd be relevant and they could repeat it over and over to get a ton of mileage out of it.

  4. Re:Wow is there nothing Samsung... on Samsung's Galaxy S10 To Come In Three Sizes, With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They are so good at copying Apple, that they copy them before Apple invents the technology. Apple will invent the in-display fingerprint reader in about two years, and Samsung has already copied them. It's shameless!

  5. Re:good luck on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd consider keeping me away from Dollywood a feature, not a bug.

  6. Re:I-140 around Wilmington, NC on Apple is Rebuilding Maps From the Ground Up (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't just add it yourself? I've added stuff to Google maps. This isn't crowd sourced? I guess all Apple users will just have to move to Northern California to be inside the walled garden.

  7. This! I thought they'd determined that the cause in cuba was likely some interaction of anti-eavesdropping tech that the US was using. They were doing it to themselves: https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/...

  8. Same Plumbing? on Your Future Home Might Be Powered By Car Batteries (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Like through a series of tubes?

  9. Re:"protecting the integrity of civil discussions on Zuckerberg On Facebook's Role In Ethnic Cleansing In Myanmar: 'It's a Real Issue' (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    By their new standards, it seems like the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, or the Lincoln - Douglas debates would need to be censored for our protection.

  10. Strange Brew on New Ingestible Pill Can Track Your Farts In Real Time (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't the McKenzie brothers have prior art: "It wasn't me, eh. It was the chair"; "Check the machine, he's lying, eh?"; "He's lying alright!"

  11. No word if Bixby is dead? on Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If they also remove the Bixby button, I might go back to Samsung. I went with an LG V30 (which I'm very happy with) primarily to avoid the extra button that only does something that I don't want (and I liked the wide-angle second camera).

  12. Re: Hype words on 'Infarm' Startup Wants To Put a Farm In Every Grocery Store (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I would have completed a row an my buzzword-bingo card if only they'd added 'Artificial intelligence.' I had 'IoT', 'as-a-service', 'big-data', and 'cloud'.

  13. I've done it and it worked OK but not worth it. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If You Were To Put a Computer Inside a Fridge? · · Score: 1

    I think the big mistake that Linus Tech Tips made was that they put the computer power supply inside the fridge. When I did it, I cut a hole for the power supply and drive cables and mounted those on the outside so that the only thing inside the fridge were the motherboard and video card. Condensation was not a problem. I mounted my motherboard on the ceiling of the fridge so that any condensation could drip down, but none ever accumulated. The computer components are warmer than the rest of the interior of the fridge, so any condensation will happen on the condenser coil of the fridge and not the electronics. I did have to increase the capacity of the fridge though. I used a cheap "beverage center" with a glass door that wasn't really designed to get to very cold temperatures, so to increase it's capacity, I bought two of them and pulled all the condenser, evaporator, compressor equipment from one and added it to the other. My goal was to be able to overclock the computer and also keep ice-cold beverages in there simultaneously. It turned out that I could do one or the other, but not both. If I overclocked, then I couldn't consistently keep the temperature near freezing. It was a fun project and was arguably successful, but ultimately, there are better ways to overclock and better ways to chill your beverages.

  14. Probe Droids disguised as postage stamps? on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Lord Hawking should send his probe droids to Hoth. Rumor is that there's a detectable signal from a shield generator.

  15. Similar experiments at the LHC on NIF Compresses Diamonds With 50 Million Atmospheres of Pressure · · Score: 2

    Apparently, they're doing experiments like this at the LHC too: http://www.theonion.com/video/...

  16. Re:Give it to newborns on New Linux-Based Laptop For Computer Newbies · · Score: 1

    This is the way it is in our house. My three kids have grown up with Ubuntu for at least 4 years. My wife's laptop has Windows on it, and so does the computer connected to our TV. My oldest just bought a laptop for her first year of college this year, and it came with Vista on it, so that's what she uses now. We all use OpenOffice. I offered to put MS Office on my wife's computer when my employer offered a discounted version, but she didn't want it. The public schools here use Macs, so the kids see those too. They just don't really care what operating system they use. Oh how wonderful to grow up with freedom and without prejudice!

  17. Re:The solution.. on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    Ditto. I just bought a DNS-321 with mirrored drives to replace my old one. I'm going to move the old one to my parents basement (yes, that's off-site) and set up rsync to back them up to each other periodically. There's lots of fun stuff you can do with these, and they just run and run without any intervention.

  18. On /. on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anonymous is a coward, so I don't think they have anything to worry about.