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  1. Re:What danger ? on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck breaking it with a fist. If you could break it with your fist you probably would not get many cuts, as the safety glass doesn't create shards like a house window. But you really need to use a hard point object to break it.

    Something like an elbow perhaps?

  2. Re:Dangerous on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People died while being locked in cars. Two examples are : car fallen in the water, and people sleeping in a car while owner and friend locked it. The owner came back after a long hot weeken, his friend was dead inside. Double lock is a dangerous feature.

    They really should stop making these windows out of unbreakable materials. Dogs die in hot cars, people have no excuse, ok the water is a decent excuse but still.

  3. Re:Blue Voice of Death? on Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    How about you hide the switch in some kind of chest badge that you tap to activate?

  4. Re:Definition of overpriced on Apple Says It Is Working On Self-Driving Cars (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple products are almost certainly not over priced or if they are it isn't by much.

    Ah Ha Ahahahahaha, good one. Not overpriced. Man, that'll keep me chuckling all day. Apple not overpriced. I bet your reckon they're not under powered either. Not overpriced, good one.

  5. "No matter how fit he is, I think visiting the south pole aged 86 its taking awesomeness a bit too far."

    Why? Compared to the moon, the temperatures on the south pole are quite toasty.

    Because they send 86 year olds to the moon all the time.

  6. Re:Don't forget the Glam Metal Detectives! on British Film Institute To Digitize 100,000 Old TV Shows Before They Disappear (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Glam Metal Detectives. Me and my dad took a trip down to London to watch that again a few years ago. There was one joke we referenced for years and we went all the way down there to see it again as you can't buy the show, it's not on youtube or any of the bigger torrent sites. We got a little room, a shitty TV, crappy headphones and the tapes. We watched it all til it came on and it was worth every second. She loved it!

    What's that? We're number one in Backupland? That's good, we're playing there next week.

  7. Who do you think is going to fly the rocket?

  8. OneNote (which really shines in mobile even better than on a desktop),

    Unless you're not online in which case fuck you and fuck your notes. What save local copies or just have a simple offline notes app? Fuck off!

    My main problem with my windows phone is it seems very reluctant to do things on its own and just begs to be synced, linked or otherwise connected to something else. It doesn't even have a simple phonebook ffs. It has to be linked to an email address that it can associate all the numbers and shit with so it's either give them all your contacts and have it mess with your main email account or create a new one just for this so you can just store numbers for people on your phone (and even that's a bit screwy). I picked option 2.

  9. By the time M$ got off their ass and got serious, the market was already locked up, regardless of how awesome their product was.

    IF their product was awesome they might've been able to get a foothold to work from. Their product was shit though. Basically windows manhandled down to phone size, all the good bits taken out and replaced with iWannabe imitations that failed on all fronts.

  10. Re:We need fewer rocket launches, not more on ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    If you care about this planet, you'll want to reduce rocket launches and make them less accessible to most people.

    Yeah because this makes rocket launches accessible to most people. Most people with 100+ million to spare and a satellite that they want to put in orbit that is. Most people want to do that, I know I do, I've just been waiting for someone to make it accessible. Better get on it now before the queue starts.

  11. Re:Do they have a Black Friday sale? on ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Are their discount codes?

    Are their discount codes what?

  12. They skipped be because 7 ate 9

  13. Like? I have a windows phone what apps should I be getting? Sure there's a lot of crap in the store but that's all it is, crap and dupes. The facebook app is shit, the youtube app is a link to open a browser window. There's no decent browsers, music players, video players etc available apart from the ms' offers and they're meh at best. I got a windows phone mainly because I thought it would intergrate more with my pc and expecially xbox, but no it does neither of those things and the bits that it does are worse than my previous android phone.

  14. It's bad enough I can't afford anything, now I'm a chatbot? Fuck you!!!!

    You could make some money passing the Turing test for other chatbots?

  15. Ok, ok, among the things you technically enjoy are such compounds as ....

  16. Re: More important question on Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How are the crusades any different than today? We are actively trying to eliminate all the radical muslims that we can...we just do it safely from unmanned drones. It was a political response to the violent spread of Islam, very much like today.

    How is it different? Because then we went over there in great numbers and killed basically everyone who didn't convert radical or not. Nowadays we're more discreet about it and all we really give a shit about is the oil.

  17. So next time somebody talks about how wonderful Steve Jobs was, you can tell them to lay off the drugs, and still mean it both figuratively and sincerely...and hell...probably literally too.

    Dopamine and Serotonin, technically the only two things you enjoy.

  18. Re: More important question on Religious Experiences Have Similar Effect On Brain As Taking Drugs, Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd call Islam a cult bent bent on world domination. Convert or die.

    That's exactly how Christianity became a dominant religion. Convert or die and if anybody thinks that I'm trying to defend Islam here, think again. I dislike all the Abrahamic religions equally since they are all missionary and violent.

    What do you mean? The crusades were full of very reasonable gentlemen going door to door offering to share their love of jesus with you. If you said no they gave you a piece of cake and went next door. Am I thinking of the right thing?

  19. Re:Developers say it is safe? What about engineers on San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space (sfgate.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The building's developer, Millennium Partners, insists the building is safe for occupancy and could withstand an earthquake.

    In this context, I would guess "developer" is used similarly to "business development" which means sales. Personally, I would prefer an engineer to make a safety assessment rather than a developer in the assumed context, but I could be wrong about context. I didn't see Millennium Partners engineering firms on the first page of a Google search, though.

    Maybe they mean safe in a context similar to "perfectly safe" from Zaphod Plays It Safe.

    Look, it's safe until it's not okay, now shut up and get in there.

  20. Re:SF sinking further into hell on San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Almost as if God is punishing them for something....

    Like the rampant drug use, loose morals and homosexuality perhaps?

    Nah, the smug.

  21. Re:SF sinking further into hell on San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost as if God is punishing them for something....

    just very, very slowly?

  22. Re:The "Mil-Lean-eum" Tower on San Francisco's 58-Story Millennium Tower Seen Sinking From Space (sfgate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the name suits the millennial generation quite well: ambition, arrogance, but wilfully ignorant and/or unaccepting of reality/logic/math.

    If you have a problem with millennials, look to the people who raised them like that.

  23. What are they supposed to do, buy all the parts manufacturers including Samsung and Intel?

    If they can't get parts to fix it because they aren't being fabbed anymore, they can't fucking fix it, can they?

    Some people just refuse to think before hitting submit, I guess...

    So that's why they run on with years old designs selling at premium prices? They buy up all the parts at once and go through them til they run out then buy a new batch and call it a new design. Is that how it works? I guess the designs are so strict and locked down that there's no such thing as an equivalent part.

  24. We're low on clickbait stories that will drive page views and ad revenue...wait...holy shit Trump AND H1B's? JACKPOT! - EditorDavid

    And yet you clicked on it.

  25. Re: Counterpoint on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh Reginald........I DISAGREE