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  1. Re:Damn developers... on The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is what happens when people get too caught up in method A that they forget about method B. The ship has a steering wheel. If the trackball method seems out of whack for even a second, someone should grab the physical wheel while the video game steering is diagnosed.

  2. Re: Driving nails? on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    The HÅryÅ-ji pagoda is 122 feet tall and was built in 594. I'm not sure concrete is more durable.

    The Pantheon is 190 feet tall and built in 126. I'm sure concrete is at least as durable.

  3. Re:What the... on The International Space Station Is Getting Its First Printer Upgrade in 17 Years (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who prints ANYTHING anymore? Seriously, a 10" tablet does everything paper can do and more

    Well, here we are hundreds of miles above the Earth and a catastrophic solar flare has whacked all the computers on board including the tablets. How do we get life support started up again? Oops, can't look up that PDF... if only there was a way to keep information in some non-electronic retrieval system..,

  4. Re:Climate change solved! on The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "total annual cost at 10s of billion dollars"

    Well, a single $10B is only 0.7% of the DHHS's annual budget. Find a politician willing to cut Welfare or Medicare or WIC by 1% or so and the problem is solved.

  5. Re:Sprint fades into mediocrity on Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B (kansascity.com) · · Score: 1

    Fade? Heck, I already keep forgetting Sprint is still in business in the first place.

  6. Re: "violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes but that was before they were metaphors.

  7. Re:"violence to advance their cause" on Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Violence against nazis, white supremacists and fascists is acceptable. It's always been acceptable and it always will be acceptable.

    Amazingly, this is incorrect. Volunteers from the US who went to help the Spanish again fascists before the outbreak of WW2 were labelled communists for their trouble and prohibited from joining the regular US Army.

  8. Re:conjecture much? on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    Not only your point but also this assumes "the bad guys" are a monolithic group which is clearly not the case. Criminals are just as susceptible to the game theory as anyone else. If Group B can grab a fortune before Group A then they will.

  9. Re:Saw this article online last night ..... on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    CRUMBS, however, from people eating by the machine? Absolutely possible

    This observation may be true but expecting a front line employee to say it to a customer of the general public is out of touch in a special way.

  10. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What do I not get about people with eating disorders that would cause them to short-circuit by seeing a calorie estimate if they walked?

    But the calorie counter is a pink cupcake on a system called Oreo, talk about the double whammy. No wonder they lost it.

  11. Re:Could be trouble on Unsent Text On Mobile Counts As a Will, Australian Court Finds (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Likewise, it's also not a legal certificate of divorce.

    Depends on the jurisdiction: http://abcnews.go.com/Internat...

  12. So he was unhappy with this wife but was he also unhappy with that wife?

  13. Re:TempleOS on Slashdot Asks: Does the World Need a Third Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Nah, it's time for MovieOS Mobile

  14. Re:Fooled ya! on Ask Slashdot: Share Your Security Review Tales · · Score: 2

    Nice one! What musical instrument do you play?

    Working at Equifax he must play a very, very small violin.

  15. Re:The IRS just stepped in it.... on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm claiming that I was replying to someone who said the IRS never has the funding to do IT projects in house.

  16. Re:The IRS just stepped in it.... on IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    but the IRS will never have the funding to do it in-house properly.

    Whoa there; in years past the IRS has wasted whopping piles of money on failed IT projects that they don't outsource. The problem is not lack of funding but lack of competence, especially in project management.

  17. Re: Virtual SSN - White House Petition ? on US Studying Ways To End Use of Social Security Numbers For ID (securityweek.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The underlying reason: they wanted a unique identifier in their database.

    Dear gas utility, my SSN is: select sys_guid() from dual;

  18. The Hyperloop idea sure has been good for business lately... the "conduct a study" business, that is. How do I get in on some of that action?

  19. Re:Not prophetic, but very accurate on Ask Slashdot: Which Businesses Will Go Away In the Next 10 Years? (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Record stores have bounced back, photographic film has bounced back, and telemarketing is (I'm sad to say) still going strong.

    I don't get bothered by any of these much any more, even telemarketing, but when will newspapers have the decency to die off? Someone started one up locally just a couple of months back and started tossing it onto everyone's driveway once a week. They don't even have the thoughtfulness to bring it on the morning of trash day.

  20. Re:But 725$ for a Samsung is OK! on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 2

    An observation though: that $2400 camera lens can last you a lifetime.

    Where lifetime is until Canon changes the mount interface again.

    This is really funny to people who know Canon hasn't changed their mount since the late 80's.

  21. I look forward to hacking your daughter's alarm clock and jacking off to the nightly strip show.

    My daughter was born without a vagina, you insensitive clod.

    He might just have a fetish for watching her change her ostomy bag?

  22. IKEA furniture isn't that difficult to put together. You just need to take your time, follow the directions and try not to misplace any of the small parts.

    Don't forget: be careful not to damage the easy-to-flake particle board when said instructions include 'hammer the dowel into the hole'. I've never not been able to do the assembly without marring the gloss white finish in at least one spot.

  23. The problem with your rant about race to the bottom line and race to market is that the article is about a public school district.

  24. Re:enough Star Trek already on 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premieres Tonight (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    When will Blake's 7 come back ?

    Who would do it properly ?

    It was done properly the first time.

  25. Re:And nobody has asked on Flush With Cash: Swiss Toilets Mysteriously Stuffed With 500-Euro Bills (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    More likely it is a modern art installation...

    Modern art, bleah, well at least it's being displayed in the proper location.