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  1. Re:Custody disputes on Slashdot?? on Terminally Ill Teen Won Historic Ruling To Preserve Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And the ruling is absurd... if one of the parents wanted to make handbags out of her skin, the judge would of ruled against them. The freezing thing is just as disturbing and silly.

  2. Re:It's hard to get over 25 years of habit on Microsoft Replaces Command Prompt with PowerShell in Latest Windows 10 Build (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    Then just type in 'cmd' and you are set. They aren't removing the application.

  3. Re:If hell is not raised on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the new service economy. You pay to 'service' Apple.

  4. Re:Small claim court on Apple Launches 'Touch Disease' Repair Program For iPhone 6 Plus (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Prices have gone up, and the crappy quality has spread to other retailers.

  5. Re: irreversible on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are you confusing a cabal of banks with an 'international community'?

  6. Re:What Hollande says on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It also helps when you are surrounded by cooling water. :-)

  7. Re:What Hollande says on France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This is the dumbest thing i have heard. These designs are highly inefficient and a big part of the reason we are in the mess we are in. I have a better idea... license France's design, repeal the idiot law about breeder reactors, skip the NRC approval and break ground in six months. It will never happen of course but it's what we should do.

  8. Bullshit. Most construction now is done with particle board. I wish it were plywood.....

  9. Re:Merkel,Obama, Endangered Press want Censorship on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Should be more fun than the back rub she got from Bush.

  10. I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up on James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What will we do without 'The Clapper'?

  11. Re:Yet another win for the people with Trump victo on James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    It say in the article that he has been talking about retirement every day for the last year or so. So no news, if you RTFA.

  12. Re:What The Hell is Going On on Facebook? on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    More like a honey pot for marketers/employers/insurers/government.

  13. Re:Censorship has never improved society on German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's funny but the leadership there seems to be ignoring the brexit/trumparica message and continues to double down on these kind of things. They shouldn't be surprised when more right wing political groups are elected.

  14. Cynical Slashdot on Thanks To the Princess, Han Wasn't Always Solo (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I always had a feeling there was some chemistry between these two even when I saw the movies as a child. Nice to be validated!

  15. Re:1000 years is a very long time on Stephen Hawking: We Might Have 1,000 Years Left on Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Half of being smart is realizing what you don't know.

  16. Re:So let me get this straight.... on Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, you could import all components and build a robot factory assembling iPhone from these, but where's the difference then?

    A job setting up and repairing robots?

  17. Re:So let me get this straight.... on Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei (nikkei.com) · · Score: 0

    This is the same company who's CEO said you could fit all the US tool and die makers in one room.... last time I checked there are about 3,000 tool and die making businesses in the USA.

  18. While trying to make sense of the word salad and context... could he have been simply hinting at a large number of silicon valley CEOs not being American citizens? I can agree with that being an issue.

  19. It's not a sports car on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's as much a sports car as the Hemi Cuda was. At least Chrysler didn't market it as such.....

  20. Re:Easter egg? on Tesla 'Easter Egg' Makes the World's Fastest Car Even Faster (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Name this one 'Gimmickiya'

  21. Re: General Tso's chicken is "chinese" food on Secret Backdoor in Some US Phones Sent Data To China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I wasn't trying to be funny. Without knowing a thing about Chinese culture I would guess that China has very different perspective on what is Asia, 'the far east', 'the west' etc.... those are 'western' constructs.

  22. It's a circular feedback loop... slashdot has changed focus and so has it's readership base.

  23. Not to mention clickbait works both ways-- "look at the lies alt-(whatever) are saying about (whomever)"

    Kind of like the old saw about any publicity is good publicity

  24. Re:General Tso's chicken is "chinese" food on Secret Backdoor in Some US Phones Sent Data To China (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    India is West of Japan

  25. Re:Look, snowflakes on Online Bullying Counselling on Increase, Says Childline (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or let them discover it themselves... remember when facebook was for college kids? I've never shown my facebook page to my kids or even talked about it. Have 15 and 17 yo sons and neither one of them have shown the slightest interest in FB or having an account. Mostly the kids at school like to trade meme or prank videos....