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  1. I just want all my fiends to know on Google Wants To Write Your Social Media Responses For You · · Score: 1

    I love Google. They're awesome and you should too. Show them the love with your data and search for all your deepest secrets #notabot

  2. Re:Distracted driving on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 2

    You just bored or didn't actually get it's a vehicle envy thing? They wanted SUVs. They're getting SUVs. No further analysis needed. They want drones and military weaponry too. Guess what...

    No, we definitely need new vehicles! Why can't we just put little cameras on the roofs pointing down? Because we'd have to run a few small wires and a monitor of some kind inside, nope, it's gotta be new vehicles...real big ones!

  3. Re:ya know... on Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools · · Score: 1

    Do you have absolutely verifiable proof of one species evolving to another?

    Do you have even the slightest hint of a whiff of a suggestion that the garden of eden existed and people/animals popped out of thin air?

  4. Re:find an old modem on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? · · Score: 1

    911 ($1.50)

    Wait, are you saying they'd charge you $1.50 to call 911?

  5. Re:Where was this caution with Wii U? on Xbox One Released · · Score: 1

    When the Wii U came out, everyone declared it was crap and that Nintendo was doomed. But when XBOX One and PS4 come out people say to wait and see? Really? Excuse me while I go play "Super Mario 3D World" on my console that actually has games.

    They said that because Nintendo are technologically a generation behind for the second time and they keep rehashing the same games over and over again. You go play Super Mario 3D Galaxy World Adventures II, I hear another Zelda game is coming out or getting a HD remake. Don't forget super smash brothers X99 now with wiifit girl. What other decent third party exclusives are you playing? ZombiU looked quite intriguing and having the tablet/pad is quite novel but only being able to connect one and have them not able to charge and play at the same time isn't. I heard they might do something about that with patches but I don't follow it so they may have fixed that by now. Either way it was a stupid idea for launch.

  6. Re:What will researchers do next on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    /. really should implement a sarcasm tag.

    Maybe a campaign should be started to make backwards italics mean sarcasm. I'll get on kickstarter.

  7. Re:What will researchers do next on Imagining the Post-Antibiotic Future · · Score: 1

    They just want money, so they say there will be some sort of catastrophe so they can get funding for their so-called studies. They even managed to throw in think of the children on top of their other hyperbole. I, for one, want absolute iron-clad proof that something disastrous will happen before we lift a finger to prevent it.

    The above post may contain toxic doses of sarcasm.

    Proof? Look at mortality rates from simple wounds prior to antibiotics. Read the reports about drug resistant bacteria that already is prevalent in the hospitals and the dangers involved. To clean the hospitals, they use strong chemicals and UV light, both known to be detrimental to human beings. You want proof? All you need to do is look at mortality rates about 100 years ago.

    You should've finished reading before hitting reply, unless there's delicate, subtle sarcasm in your post I'm not getting.

  8. Re:Bionic on Bionic Eye Implant Available In US Next Month · · Score: 1

    Well, they have to interface with the optic nerve. I'm pulling this from half-remembered biology lectures, but IIRC nobody is actually sure if the optic nerve can handle a broader spectrum input. It might work, it might compress the new expanded spectrum into the common perceived one, or it might just flip out and overload. We don't know.

    We should test it on a living being. I think an animal rights protester would be a suitable test subject, save the tigers and all that.

  9. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    I'm fine with armed pilots.

    I am not. Reason: how would the pilots use their guns? In order to use a gun the pilots need to open the cockpit door. Think about what could happen if the cockpit doors were opened during an attempted hijacking.

    Then the pilots shoot whoever opened it? Don't send them out to take on hijackers, that's just silly.

  10. Re:Fuck the TSA on TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance · · Score: 1

    With regards to the crash site; same issue as car crashes. Angle, speed, geology and load all play a role in the end result. Crash into igneous rock at 600 and you're going to have debris spread out over miles. Crash into sedimentary rock (chalk) at 180 and there's not going to be much debris (it cuts into the rock).

    Come on triclipse, don't let some conspiracy nutter do your thinking for you. Think for yourself.

    Come on now, technicalities about the feasibility of the phone calls is one thing, but no plane ever crashed there ever. You show one other instance where a plane has practically disappeared on impact (Pentagon doesn't count). There is no indication that anything other than an explosion happened there. If this plane had 'cut into chalk' there would still be a shit ton of debris to dig out and a huge plane shaped hole in the ground instead of a small smoldering hole and a few scraps of metal. Please, I bet you think the towers collapsed in a perfectly natural way as well.

  11. Perspective on SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So $3 billion offer for a website/app, some paintings sell for $142 million, and people moaned about India spending $75 million on sending a rocket to fucking Mars. What the fuck is wrong with some people.

  12. Re:Biased on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    Of course we all know this will be biased. Piracy funds terrorism, illegal drugs, crime and violence.

    When 3d printers become common place we'll finally be able to download our cars and all that will stop.

  13. Re:Godwinned in One Post on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    I was a product of DARE. What was wrong with DARE? Sure, it's indoctrination, but it's indoctrination to not do drugs, all drugs, not just the ones stoners swear can't harm anyone.

    Better put down your coffee then, forget the lucozade or whatever after a run, ride out your aches and pains. Or is it a case of the drugs on list A are bad, list B is good, because we said so.

  14. Paid voluntry? on CIA Pays AT&T Millions To Voluntarily Provide Call Data · · Score: 1

    Surely if you volunteer something something, by definition you're not getting paid for it

  15. Re:could not care less on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 2

    Actually, since they are there already, crawling it, they really could care less. They could not be there at all, but no. They do care, and are crawling.

    So it was correct to say they could care less.

    Well, the quote says 'could care less about your site'. I doubt google care one iota about most individual sites in isolation. They care a great deal about the web in general to be sure, but if they cared about your site, they'd send a person to look at it rather than an automated crawler.

  16. Could care less? on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 2

    So they do care a bit then?

    The Caring Continuum - http://incompetech.com/Images/caring.png

  17. Re:Only (based) In America on Facebook Lets Beheading Clips Return To Its Site · · Score: 1

    So death porn is fine, but if you try to post a picture of a woman breastfeeding, they'll crap-can it and threaten to close your account faster than a businessman can pick a pocket.

    What if it was a video of a breast feeding woman having her head cut off? That would be a real tizzy.

    Black bar over the tits.

  18. Re:Illegal, Not Undocumented. on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Having accidentally been born somewhere shouldn't give you special privileges.

    I'd say being part of a nation and its culture should.

    Back of the line!

  19. Re:Bullshit on What Employee Lock-In Means At Facebook · · Score: 1

    Oi! Twattish AC!

    Brilliant!

  20. Re:Why all this governmental intrusion? on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    That's utterly preposterous and defeats most of the purpose of the first amendment. Using that logic, the government can come and punish you for saying something it doesn't like so long as they don't "censor" you. No, the purpose (what it should do and what it says) of the first amendment is to prevent government thugs from harassing people for their speech. Period.

    It doesn't say that though. All interpretation aside it says congress shall pass no law etc etc. What that means and it's application to today's world is up for debate, and that's all that seems to be done. The founding fathers meant this or they could never have envisioned that. I'm not American so I don't really give a shit but it says shall pass no law, not send no thugs.

  21. Re:Why all this governmental intrusion? on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    I believe you'll find that the first amendment only says the government won't censor you. You can however still be criminally charged for what you say.

    The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech, which is the freedom to not have government thugs harass you for your speech. You do not understand the first amendment; it lists no exceptions. Really. Read it

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    I'm pretty sure that says congress won't censor you, not that there can be no repercussions for what you say.

  22. Re:insouciance? on Online Journalism Is Becoming a Billionaires' Plaything (Again) · · Score: 1

    "Are you honestly claiming that you believe at least 200 million English-speaking people read that article and happen to already be familiar with the word "insouciance"? It's unlikely that there's even ten million English speakers throughout the entire world who've even heard of that word."

    Au contraire, it's le mot juste. English is a cache for french words, not only faux éminences grises, poseurs and blasé parvenus know that it is de rigueur to know them. Ask your fiancé. Sorry, I have to leave you with this impasse, my hors d'oeuvre (mélange of mange-tout with mousse) is ready and I need some change for the pourboire for my garçon. Sorry for the pastiche.

    English has a lot of words based on french words but you're just dropping french in there. Anything with an accent isn't english. Especially garcon. That's just a french word. If any one in a restaurant calls for their garcon they're either incredibly stuck up or are taking the piss.

  23. Re:This on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    I would also add that we need smaller classrooms. It's easy to get distracted when the teacher has to give a generic lecture for 30+ kids. When I was in high school we'd play euchre in most classes and the teachers wouldn't even know. Some kids would chew dip, some kids would sleep. It just wasn't possible for the teachers to ensure that everyone was doing something constructive or paying attention. Class size is one of the most important distinctions between a crappy school and a good one, and unfortunately reducing class size costs a lot.

    Now-a-days as long as you do it quietly, you could probably murder someone in most classes.

  24. Re:This on Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    Apparenty, the cop though attempted suicide came with the dealth penalty.

    Either way it's win-win. Suicidal ends up dead, cop gets to shoot someone.

  25. Re:Summary says it all on China's State Press Calls For 'Building a De-Americanized World' · · Score: 1

    The deficit could be zero and we'd still be screwed. We need 50 years of surpluses.

    Not after you consider inflation. We can refi and choose our rate. ;)

    Unless that rate is a negative there is never going to be enough money in existence to pay off the debt.