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  1. Re:Females Only on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Who needs a Y chromosome? It's dying anyway, on its own.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-19/y-chromosome-disappearing-what-will-happen-to-men/9342994

  2. I have no fear on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no fear. My wife still needs me, if only to catch spiders and to splatter her back with sunscreen.

  3. Re:And so it begins... on Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How long would it take to clean up an airport contaminated with some kind of nasty, superfine powder?

    Orders of magnitude less than the supermax prison term awaiting the evil bastard, methinks.

  4. I'm sorry, but self-policing doesn't work. When you have a new cool toy that is powerful enough to be able to do real harm, there will be idiots abusing it, and a tough regulation will follow. That's the way of life.

  5. I, for one, welcome our new female overlords.

  6. Re:Stallman abandons ethics? on Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Why are you treating someone who has been so generous for so long like garbage? How is your treatment of him ethical in any way? Instead of acting like a religious inquisitor, why not be tolerant? Where's the kindness and appreciation?

    Why are you talking like it has already happened in the Linux community? If it ever happens (which is very doubtful) then the offended developers can simply stop contributing, even if they can't legally withdraw their previous contributions, and it won't be good for Linux. Mozilla did something similar, and look where they are now.

  7. Re:Important caveat on Microsoft 'Re-Open Sources' MS-DOS on GitHub (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Too bad that DOS (including FreeDOS) is at last essentially dead, with the proliferation of new versions of UEFI without BIOS compatibility. Thanks for all the fish, anyway.

  8. Almost? on Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If the clock is always 3 minutes off, then how is it "almost never" on time? It should be "never" on time.

  9. Re:So Open source not great either on Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are the trojaned plugins open source? I somehow doubt it. It's the closed-source so-called "freeware" that is the most dangerous vectors for malware these days.

  10. Re:Always look on the bright side of life on The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you will need to maintain a database of hashes of, say, all substrings of "Harry Potter", which will need much more storage space than the text of "Harry Potter" itself. Not feasible at all.