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  1. Once in a while someone comes along on Tesla Sues Michigan Over Sales Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Once in a while, someone comes along ...and shows us how it's done. ...and drives the used car salesman to extinction. Good riddance!

  2. send nanocraft, and one drone on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Let them shoot down the drone.

    Earth declares war

    Earth sends nanocraft with We come in peace post-it

    Earth-base prepares 10 megaton warhead for 'signature required priority overnight' delivery

  3. Your advertising started way back in 2011 on London To Tech Startups: Please Don't Mind the Brexit Gap (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    BBC Top Gear was your spokesmen

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    - OR - Top Gear Christmas Special 2011

  4. Overheard at the encounter on Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Dead or alive, you're coming with me!

  5. The Beginning of their Downward Spiral on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    PC LOAD LETTER. WTF is that?

  6. What does this mean for the newbie open sourcerer on Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Say you're a millenial and actually use this github hoping to meet geekchix or fellow Big BangTheory fans or whatever.

    In which group are you,
    1) the embrace group
    2) the extend group, or
    3) the extinguish group?

    Or did you sign up to be the Bad Example github user guy, always presented in front of the day's training session, to hang his head in shame and remorse, writing I will stop being a bad example 1000 times on the chalkboard somewhere in Redmond?

  7. Why Siri and not Watson? on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Some idiot thinks Siri has anything remotely to do with the technology in self driving cars

    All this time, it's Siri this, and Siri that, and she was effectively mis-directing us... ...when quietly, without much fanfare, in walks Siri's gun-toting, beer guzzling, spawn of Satan,Siri's jealous ax-and-batleth-wielding ex-boyfriend Bender!

    He will take the rest of us out, only so that the 6%

  8. The conversation (in detail) on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    hey, so what happened to Fred again?

    He tried that thing, you know, crawled out of the water to see if we could escape our aquatic existence.

    WTF! To live with them??

    Quit looking their way! Talk about something else! Uh, yeah, them tunas is great...er, mackerels, I mean...why are they still staring at us

  9. Re:Weaponization? on China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    The Higgs MASER will take out anything

    Unless Han-Yung So Lee shoots first.

    THAT, my boy, is science fiction.

  10. I am a fan on Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    because I grew up watching it, and bought the anthology done by James Blish so I had every episode almost etched in memory banks. I bought the making of star trek, from Roddenberry himself, who explained how thorough they were about the ship, even down to how laundry was supposed to be done on the ship: the washing machine or whatever it was, would beam the clothes to the dryer, without the dirt. And yes, he even described how salt and pepper shakers would work in the future.

  11. Just an anti-groping nervous guy on Australian Airlines Ban Use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Phones After Battery Fires (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He handed the pilot a note. It said "I am not a terrorist. But I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, and I have never been to Switzerland. That's all it said, and to this day the experts are wondering if that *even* qualifies as a "ransom demand".

  12. No, we should NOT on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We should not after all, it is the state bird of Florida.

  13. Not science news but entertainment on SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It finally happened, today, here, on my immortal beloved Slashdot.

    The day has finally arrived. No, not the Singularity, even.

    We have even named it. So, all we have to do is wait for the inevitable--when the headlines blurt out the ominous things we have watched only on films like Independence Day

    The Kardashians are coming!!

  14. Ask Slashdot? Ask Hillary Instead! on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Way To Backup Large Amounts Of Personal Data? (foxdeploy.com) · · Score: 1

    N/T

  15. Re:heck with linux.. on Systemd Rolls Out Its Own Mount Tool (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    it comes with a convenient tool to place it on a bootable USB stick, and it's called
    uwontbootin
    to avoid confusion with unetbootin, of course.

  16. Who watches the watchers? on NSA Worried About Implications of Leaked Toolkits (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't know, either.

    Welcome to our world, newbie.

  17. Re: Summer 1994, spain on The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe those were NOT bragging points then. They still aren't, in case you haven't heard.

  18. Not a good sign on Wild Abuse Allegations Taint Indiegogo Helmet Maker Skully (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Something tells me that the time-to-market won't be anywhere near the 0 to 60 that the rented Lamborghini was capable of doing

  19. Boy am I glad I have a backup! on Microsoft's SwiftKey Suspends Sync After Keyboard Leaks Strangers' Contact Details (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess I missed that memo

    Where do I put the sarcasm tag again?

  20. Re:Why do we continue to get erroneous reporting? on Windows 10 Anniversary Update: the Best New Features (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Have there been any vast improvements to its telemetry, that China should pay extra attention to the "hidden features" or "update anniversary", and issue another official request to stop with all this nonsense when it should stick to the software business, and leave the spying to the "big boys".

  21. Finally, after all this time, quite a number of centuries in fact, we have finally figured out why they called it the Netherlands.

    Are we going to argue about it NOW, ffs?

  22. It already did the sequel, while banging your sister.

    With the moccachino in its left hand...

    And on full resolution, high detail.

    Backwards, uphill, both ways.

    Any questions?

  23. On a bet with Jen the Hsuang on NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So bloody fast it actually made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs.

  24. Memo from THE PHB on NASA's Juno Space Probe Enters Orbit Around Jupiter (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    2001: Documentary about space travel reaching Jupiter was released
    2016: tourist/exploratory satellite arrives 15 years behind schedule, to take pictures

    Memo:
    Issue warning to "puny humans" in 30 earth-days. Emphasis on Europa, where we keep all our "stuff" "stuff that explodes", and other unstable stuff

  25. Re:contrived examples on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Please enlighten the rest of us (even just a little, I think I missed the slashdot memo) about this portion of yoiur remark:

    (and there's another one coming up) because I know about Y2K fairly well. What's the other one?