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  1. Well yeah, why do you think it is being reported as a "transformer explosion"? Do you not remember the documentaries? First you neuralize, then you invent an alternate explanation for whatever disaster is being cleaned up.

  2. Re:Forget the iPads... on Apple To Announce New iPads on October 30 (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    While not quite as long, I personally would like to see a new iPod Touch.

  3. Re:Let's get to the important part... on Telltale Games Hit With Major Layoffs As Part of a 'Majority Studio Closure' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This matches with the statement issued by Telltale games where the company promised to "fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners." Our sources say The Walking Dead Final Season is set to end after the second episode launches next week.

    Though I'm not sure that makes any sense, I mean they've already sold the full season and it's not a bankruptcy (yet). So if they don't deliver, I expect massive refund demands that will undoubtedly kill it

    Well now, I guess the question then becomes, what makes an episode? Could they simply say that whatever they release is a combination episode 2-4? If not, could they simply add arbitrary break points in whatever they plan to release?

  4. I'm worried that Animal Crossing (which I genuinely love) will get the same treatment.

    I'm sure that it will. I kinda skipped City Folk so I don't know how it handled saves, but New Leaf (at least the digital release) you effectively could not back up your save. I mean, nothing stopped you from copying the file, and as long as you never ever opened New Leaf again it was fine. But the moment you did that backup became useless. I don't know how it worked exactly, I guess there was some system value that got compared, and if the value on the save file did not match it was considered corrupt. And after a successful comparison, the save would be updated with a new value before you even did anything.

    But that said, is that really any different from not being able to backup a save because it is on the cartridge?

  5. This is slashdot, so it's actually more like owning a Rolls Royce Sweptail and calling it a Ford Fiesta.

  6. Not enough information. How fast was the plane going? At what angle to the border did it crash? Into what kind of terrain did it crash? It's possible that the crash did not cause the plane to get lodged underground, meaning the survivors aren't buried at all. ;)

  7. Re:Not in the UK on iOS 11 Has a Feature To Temporarily Disable Touch ID (cultofmac.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you better hope your jurisdiction is one which recognizes the fallibility of human memory.

    I know you put it in quotes to indicate lying about forgetting it, but since it cannot be proven that you are lying about forgetting it, it doesn't really matter.

  8. Re:NO! on Microsoft Paint To Be Killed Off After 32 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you don`t like Windows 10, Don`t buy it.

    Sorry, my time machine is in the shop. Can I borrow yours?

  9. Googling Something == Racist? on Google Searches Show That America Is Full of Racist and Selfish People (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Searches containing racist epithets and jokes were spiking across the country during Trump's primary run

    And searches for "covfefe" probably spiked after that infamous tweet. Doesn't mean everyone searching for it knew what the fuck they were searching for.

    If you want to accuse someone of racism, you need more than "they googled something". Otherwise, all you are doing is accusing them of thought crimes.

  10. Re:Nice way to frame somebody! on Man Sentenced To 180 Days In Jail For Refusing To Give Police His iPhone Passcode (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 2

    "I will gladly give you my password, but only in the presence of my lawyer, and only if the phone is also present and immediately unlocked in front of both my lawyer and myself. All data collection must then be performed right then and there, in front of both my lawyer and myself. Before the phone leaves my sight, I get to change the password and relock it. Only myself and my lawyer will know this new password. My lawyer will know it because, since I cannot take my usual time coming up with a new password, I will most likely forget it."

  11. Re:crap on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Handle Interruptions At Work? · · Score: 1

    It might be the best, it might be the worst. But only the coder can know that for certain.

  12. Re:The awful transformationz on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Sets Record As Fastest-Selling Game In the Franchise (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the rubber banding

    If "rubber banding" means what I think it means, make sure that Smart Steering is turned off. It is on by default, and annoyed the hell out of me every time it activated, because I had no idea why I was suddenly being pulled away from the direction I was trying to drive.

    When selecting kart parts, press +/- to bring up the stats screen, and the left-most option will be for Smart Steering.

    In addition there's a huge selection of cars and wheels and other crap to choose from, you end up spending 10 minutes setting up the race and 3 minutes playing.

    I'll admit there are a lot of options to go through, but is there any particular reason you are selecting a completely different kart configuration on match 2, and match 3, and 4, and 5, and so on?

  13. Re:Typical Wells Fargo... Steal as much as possibl on Bitcoin Exchange Sues Wells Fargo Over Massive Wire Transfer Suspension (bitcoin.com) · · Score: 1

    Each teller I encounter is flabbergasted that a non-customer can walk in, make them do some actual work, and get money without any fees attached.

    As someone who has never worked in banking or finance, that is news to me as well. How did you learn that they were required to do that?

  14. Since we're talking about something that happened tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands of years ago, I'm guessing that "PDA" does not refer to "Personal Digital Assistant". "Public Displays of Affection" also does not seem to make sense. So what does PDA mean in this context?

  15. If you ride with a navigator who always tell you to turn right or left, you don't learn the route.

    Currently, I always use a SatNav system to get anywhere new. Yet after a few trips, I find that I can make the trip without the SatNav. But in my younger years I did have to rely on a paper map, so maybe that is why I eventually learn it, and someone who has never been without SatNav would never learn the route.

  16. Re:Work/home balance on IBM, Remote-Work Pioneer, is Calling Thousands Of Employees Back To the Office (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Why is it notable and how is it ironic? Is this some kind of reference to the 1950's image of the stay-at-home mom?

  17. But in my view, free space can be explained as not inherently incriminating in the same way that free space on a regular hard drive is not incriminating

    Can, but I suspect that someone who is willing to resort to "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" probably doesn't care about things like that.

  18. "Hey, there's nothing incriminating here. You must be using a hidden volume!"

    But really, you weren't. You only had the one password. Now the beatings will continue until you die, since you cannot prove you don't have a hidden volume.

  19. Re:Oakhurst Dairy is correct on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I helped my Uncle, Jack, off a horse

    Still ambiguous. Did you help him down from a horse, or did you help him kill a horse?

  20. Re:Oakhurst Dairy is correct on Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between "packing for shipment" and "packing for distribution"? Wouldn't they be the same thing?

  21. Re:Cuz pi are round on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Haven't you heard? Pie aren't round, pie are squared.

  22. Yes, sweat contains urea. But they didn't measure urea, they measured acesulfame potassium. Does sweat contain acesulfame potassium? That I do not know the answer to, and a quick google does not reveal the answer either.

  23. Re:reading back numbers is dumb on Researcher Breaks ReCAPTCHA Using Google's Speech Recognition API (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    What if the sign takes up a few pixels in a box, does that count?

    That is one of my problems with such recaptchas. The other problem, does a stop sign, yield sign, railroad crossing sign, etc, count as a street sign, or do they only mean signs with street names on them? I assume the former, and answer accordingly, but it always gives me a new set of images, with no indication on whether I passed or failed the previous test, so I have no fucking clue.

  24. Re:Problem ... Faith on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it ironic, that some have faith in cryogenics given the evidence for any possible success is certainly no better and in many ways much less then the evidence for a omnipotent creator who will resurrect your body at a future date.

    I forget who said it, but there is an argument for believing in God which says "if you don't believe, and He does exist, you lose everything. If you do believe, but He does not exist, then you've lost nothing. So you might as well believe."

    The problem with that, is which God should you choose to believe in? Zeus? Odin? Amun-Ra? Someone else?

    The reason I bring this up, is that cryogenics is a bit like that. If you choose to be frozen, and in the future they are able to revive you, you get a second lease on life. If it turns out that they cannot revive you, it's no different than if you hadn't gotten frozen. So if you can afford it, you might as well freeze yourself. The difference here, is there is no "but which God should I believe in?" problem. At least not as far as I can tell.