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  1. Re:Golden (cynical) comment on Robots Replace Soldiers In First of Its Kind Obstacle-Breaching Exercise (military.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course weâ(TM)ll sell them to the Saudis for $2million and free to Israel.

    From that sale, $1million to Hollywood to make the movie, with no-name actors, stuntmen, and real explosives. With the obligatory No Humans were injured in this video, only robots.

  2. The analysts weren't raised right on 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Profits before the cures for smallpox, cancer, hepatitis-C, etc?

    Well, I guess blame the parents applies to those analysts. As well as those patients.

  3. not to forward the headers

    Damn

  4. And yet *I* get that strange look on YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced · · Score: 1

    And yet I get that strange look when I say You sound like a broken record

    Just get off my lawn.

  5. Welcome to the next generation. called DeMail on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    It was that historic moment when millions of Windows 10 users uninstalled Mail in unprecedented numbers, after one solitary anonymous coward posted on Slashdot how simple it was to uninstall

  6. Meanwhile, at the Trump Tower on Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF, whispered the Donald

  7. Re:Minor correction on Symantec May Violate Linux GPL in Norton Core Router (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a semantic thing, is it?

    But "Trump-level intellect," that's rich; mind if I use it?

  8. Comrade! Yes, you! on Russia Files Lawsuit To Block Telegram Messaging App (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, it's Roskomnadz,or nothing at all!

  9. Had to have an alternative --there must be balance on Animation Legend Isao Takahata, Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Dies at 82 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I am glad that they did not become Disney. There has to be a yin to that yang influence.

  10. The launch had a photo on Slashdot Asks: Should Android OEMs Adopt the iPhone's Notch? · · Score: 1

    Copy-paste the link to the iphone X news item with a photo that shows you the level of insanity known as the notch; prepare to look away

    https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

  11. Re:Just to be clear on Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, close that porn window, your boss just locked his screen and he's coming over to talk to you.

    Maximize that green-text-on-black terminal look-alike, so it appears that you're working. Good. Look more annoyed than--that's better!

    No, close that Slashdot window.

  12. Overheard after the crash on Russia Debuts Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into Wall (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    But Boss, the lab test was a success! The dummy's head did not get chopped off!
     
    That was no dummy!He was the guy holding the drone!

  13. Hopefully, we wil NOT get a dupe of this article!

  14. eanwhile, somewhere beyond Jupiter on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    Thousands of white slabs all measuring 1x4x9, have neen spotted floating in orbit
     
    Happy fiftieth to 2001: A Space Odyssey

  15. Re:Fee software award?? on The Prestigious Free Software Award Goes to Karen Sandler (sfconservancy.org) · · Score: 1

    I think "EditorDavid" is improperly named.
     
    EditorDavidAgainstSlashdotGoliath?

  16. H4X0rz plan backfires on Under Armour Says 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts Were Hacked (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Damn, said the hacker. She's gonna know about my intimate apparel, AND my heart rate/stamina.
     
    Next up:Victoria's Secret Mwahahahaha. The plot sickens; but you have to admire the equal-opportunity h4x0rz

  17. I thought I was being described on Forget Millennials, the Internet's Most Wanted Users Are Older -- and Poorer (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    But I only look Chinese, you insensitive clod!
     
    These aren't the chicken wings you're looking for. I'm not the delivery guy, either!

  18. It's an old Cold War tactic on More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello there, my capitalist pigs! Why are you watching this channel, when my own comrades are already watching me and Yuri, and U.S.A! There is nothingk of interest here, but maybe you want to save a Nigerian prince, so if you just send me the winning powerball ticket, we can split the winnings 50-50!

    But the best news is that I will no longer use the nick Guccifer. I think Keyser Soze has a better ring to it.

  19. Reminds me of the old slashdot sci-fi contest on Researchers Finally Solve Mystery of 'Alien' Skeleton (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot had a contest recently, to write a sci-fi short in seven words or less. The winner happened to be ,well, spoiler alert.

  20. Step forward and read the lines -- in English on Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Hand me the keys, you F**king c**ksucker

  21. Re:One word; One vision on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup. Halfway there.

  22. Like consumed by those nanobugs in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, the recent 'green' version not the original one.

  23. Re:One word; One vision on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the old meme, The only secure computer is one buried deep underground -- and turned off. But good point:if you need computer privacy, the internet is not the place to get it. In fact, those two words should never be seen together!

  24. One word; One vision on Are Google and Facebook Surveilling Their Own Employees? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3

    Unplug. Disconnect -- have you tried it?

  25. All your facebook are belong to us.