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  1. I am in that dimension. What I'd need to travel to is the dimension where he, too, realizes it.

  2. I hope he hasn't.

  3. Re:Look yourself in the mirror, Mr. Cook. on Apple's Tim Cook Shares What He Learned From Steve Jobs (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with soft buttons in general? That I have to look at the fucking phone to hit them!

    I used to have a cellphone with a real keyboard. Typing on it was not really comfortable, but you could do it blind while either looking at something else or at least at the screen to see whether what you wanted to type actually matched what you typed.

    Now you have to look at the stupid KEYS instead of the screen. That's progress? Please find me a regressive phone!

  4. Steve Jobs taught him to look into the mirror and tell himself that he's wrong. I could definitely see that, Jobs pushing li'l Timmy in front of a mirror and yelling "Say it! Say it, idiot!"

  5. Re:Hopefully no side effects... on Scientists Selectively Trigger Suicide In Cancer Cells (scitechdaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering the side effects of the current treatment and its success rates, I'd say the side effects of this can be rather horrible before it's no longer a suitable replacement...

  6. Re:It's probably not a good idea to point this out on Julian Assage Taunts US Government For Forcing Wikileaks To Invest In Bitcoin (facebook.com) · · Score: 1

    Then all you have to do is create a demand for bitcoins. Sell something people want only in exchange for bitcoins. Then the problem is on the masses, not you.

  7. Let's see, internet access, food, freedom to sleep whenever you please, no need to work or do anything sensible...

    Not so different to your mom's basement, to be honest.

  8. You really could have googled that yourself.

    I guess as long as there's no hurricane coming through it's kinda nice.

  9. Wait, the NSA wants me to? on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    If some reputable source would say it, I would certainly start rethinking my privacy strategy. But considering who's "recommending" this, I have to second guess whether the reason is that it keeps them from spying on me...

    If I had told you 40 years ago that you can't trust one of your TLAs when they warn about Russians...

  10. Israelis caught them being used to spy upon it's users which is why it is banned by the US government. In addition it replaces SSL certificates with their own doing MITM attacks and sniffing de-encrpyting your data.

    Care to show us how to scan the content of encrypted traffic for malware without? Me and the makers of a few proxies and firewalls would like to know (hint: They all do exactly that).

  11. Re:Yes, of course uninstall it. Don't be a traitor on Ask Slashdot: Should Users Uninstall Kaspersky's Antivirus Software? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Russia has been found to be using Kaspersky to spy on Americans, as part of their ongoing cyberwarfare campaign against the United States.

    Really? Could you link the article?

    Damn, be out of town a few days and all hell breaks loose!

  12. Re:CO2 is not bad.... on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, I was off by a factor of thousands. Sorry. But from the replies I can deduce that the majority of readers understood what I was trying to say, that the carbon dioxide levels used to be higher a few million years ago, before modern human walked the earth, and that other life forms can survive in such a climate.

    We, on the other hand, don't do so great when CO2 levels rise. We're fairly sensitive to CO2, due to the way our respiration system works. Our breathing reflex is actually not triggered by a lack of oxygen but by a surplus of CO2. But what really "kills" us here is our brain. That thing really starts to freak out if you flood it with high CO2 levels. If it wasn't dangerous I'd suggest breathing in deeply from a CO2 bottle and see for yourself how your body goes into panic mode.

  13. Re:One of the reasons on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Baseball is no spectator sport. Sorry. Even as a European, who's used to soccer and hence boredom, Baseball was unwatchable.

  14. Re:One of the reasons on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I think people should less respect the piece of cloth and more remember what it stands for. Land of the brave? Home of the free? A few more such zingers and you have a stand up routine!

  15. Re: At what expense? on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, but then it doesn't really scale that well, unless we manage to pump the Earth's CO2 somehow their way. Or make one of their unpronounceable volcanoes explode again.

  16. Review pages have just become utterly useless on Real Moviegoers Don't Care About Rotten Tomatoes · · Score: 2

    Between "professional" reviewers that don't dare to pan an atrocious movie because they fear the social shitstorm, astroturfing studios and people who don't give a shit about the movie being good or bad because it doesn't fit into their world view and that's why it's horrible (or because it caters to it and that's why it has to be stellar), all of them trying to out-do each other with "it's the greatest movie of all times" or "it's the worst trash since the invention of cinema" on a movie that is essentially "meh".

    I guess everyone knows by now what I'm talking about, so I'll just close here. tl;dr version: It might work for simple Michael Bay movies that have no "message" but as soon as there is one, just ignore RT and find out for yourself.

  17. Re:Flooding one end to find the other? on Someone Is Trying to Knock the Dark Web Drug Trade Offline (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Not really good enough. Many TOR sites, dark webbed and otherwise, have atrocious response times. You'd get too many false positives.

    Not that this would discourage our current "arrest them all then have them prove their innocence" law enforcement strategy.

  18. Re:Drug cartels are ... on Someone Is Trying to Knock the Dark Web Drug Trade Offline (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You think the dark web markets would get shut down if the CIA profited from them?

  19. Re:Probably ... on Someone Is Trying to Knock the Dark Web Drug Trade Offline (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that certain TLAs don't like it when you cut into the way they fill their "funding for special operations".

  20. Re: I'm confused on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, it isn't the plant producing the CO2.

  21. Re:At what expense? on World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    If that was viable, we'd already have something like this. Transporting power is cheap, easy and quiet safe.

    Most deserts are not in the most stable of areas. Aside of that, you deal with extreme temperature differences in deserts, along with sand that kills your solar cells. I can see where you're coming from, but it just ain't that simple.

  22. Re:I sort of support Comcast on this one on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why it lets C-SPAN through.

  23. Re:This reminds me.... on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Football is pretty good, so is Ice Hockey. Both are constant reminders why doing NO sports is good for your health.

  24. Re:Such dissonance... on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't find it totally normal. They just have no way around it.

    You just identified the difference between monopoly and a fiercely competitive market.

  25. Re:One of the reasons on Comcast Pressures Local Cable Firms to Curb Low-Cost TV Packages (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck should I care whether they kneel or not. I want them to play football and get hit in the knees, what they do outside the field with their knees, why should I give a shit?