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  1. And GDPR in Europe didn't even kick in yet...

  2. Re:And we still hear how global warming is a hoax on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh you know, the total mass of insects has fallen by nearly 80% in 40 years. Doesn't that figure ring a bell about something exceptional happening? Bet most people didn't even know that.

  3. Re: 127 degrees? on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyway a subtraction K-273 is easier to perform than (F-32)*5/9

  4. Re:127 degrees? on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they talk game-of-thronian, that's fahrenheit.

  5. 135,908 feet is about 41.4 km, for those wondering.

  6. Re:For most of the World on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not keen to open a unit war. But seriously, how Brine and body temps are accurate references? Brine is a high-concentration solution of salt in water, to salt solutions ranging from about 3.5% up to about 26%. Body temp differs 3~6% depending on (healthy) people ethnicity, activity etc...

  7. Re:For most of the World on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Btw why do you think in TFS the temperature is 68 F? Because 68 F is a nice rounded 20 C ...

  8. Re:For most of the World on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And the ego-challenged poster will use the word 'stupid', a lot ;-)

  9. Re:For most of the World on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And water freezes at 32 deg, boils at 212 deg... very easy to remember.

  10. Re:Wait a second... on Facebook's 'Downvote' System Begins Rolling Out Wider In US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    The 0.01% reading /., no.

  11. Re:Can we downvote msmash on Facebook's 'Downvote' System Begins Rolling Out Wider In US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you store that in a byte?

  12. Re:one site to rule them all on Facebook's 'Downvote' System Begins Rolling Out Wider In US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Wondering why we don't see that moderation system on more sites. Too complex for the non-geek mortal?

  13. Re:A good start on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Good luck resurrecting an auroch or a Bali tiger. These worms were merely hibernating.

  14. Re:And in other news... on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    And as a scientist you only focus on the worm, of course.

  15. For most of the World on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    68 deg F == 20 deg C

  16. ...they might be surprised when they see a mobile phone.

  17. Re:I think I have seen this movie before. on MoviePass Having Outage Issues Because It Couldn't Pay Its Bills (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    déjà vu

  18. Re:People are still using that? on Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The idea is not to use excel in the first place.

  19. People are still using that? on Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    LibreOffice, OpenOffice... you say "yeah but it's not fully compatible with MS Office". This is the problem. Start using standard stuff, and everything is to be compatible. Some excel fonctions / macros only exist on MS? Don't use it.

  20. a device not connected to the network that just works is better than something doing untimely automatic updates.

  21. Re:Medical devices with Windows 7? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle Hardware That Never Gets Software Updates? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    We have medical devices around here running Windows XP. How's that for a nightmare?

    Is it connected to the network? XP is simpler than 10, maybe that device works even better with it?

  22. Waited 16 years on Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Just go closer to wait less.

  23. Thanks for your testimony - so who do you recommend? GB?

  24. The Airbnb syndrome on IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' · · Score: 0

    They found "multiple examples of unsafe and incorrect treatment recommendations". How many exactly, what's the %? What's the relevancy of the "incorrectness" (totally, or mildly?). Doctors have to protect their interests and, probably, discredit AI, thus any mild error is to be publicized. Similar to complaints against Airbnb. Airbnb does close to a million rentals a day, and when an infinitesimal part of that (twice a year) makes trouble, it's largely publicized.

  25. Re:Nice, but... on This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    lunar eclipses aren't that spectacular.

    Because you're not at the right place. It's way more spectacular from the moon.