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  1. Re:Apple will still not get my money on Apple is Postponing Release of New Features To iOS This Year To Focus on Reliability and Performance: Report (axios.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know. I've always refused to inter-operate with their products.

  2. Re:As I say... on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, my bad!

  3. Re:As I say... on Americans Are Saving Energy Because Fewer People Go Outside (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Um, if you live in the UK it's the big, grey, wet room !!

  4. Re:Use a tape on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Build a Private TV Channel For My Kids? · · Score: 2

    Better still, print out each frame onto postcard sized stock, and install into a what-the-butler-saw machine. That way your kids get exercise turning the handle too. Win!

  5. Re:Prior art. on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that Marmite has become so well known for it's ability to divide opinion over the taste. Personally I love it, having been fed it since I was a baby. I can understand there are those who hate it just as much, but the fact is in continues to sell very well.

  6. Re:Prior art. on Microbes May Help Astronauts Transform Human Waste Into Food (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Marmite is actually by-product of the brewing industry. Perhaps you've been over-indulging in their products /humour

  7. Re:Demanding job on French Train Engineering Giant Alstom Testing Automated Freight Train (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that a lump of concrete on the line? A car stuck on a level crossing? A landslip blocking the line? A tramp/hobo walking along the line? A suicide about to jump from a platform? Is that signal blocked by a fallen tree? The rails a greasy and the wheels are slipping. What do you do? There's a medical emergency on board. What do you do? etc. etc. Yeah. Simple job /sarcasm

  8. Re:Doug Lenat's Test on AI Beats Humans at Reading Comprehension (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously, she was gagging for sex. The window shopping was just a distraction

  9. That would be the one with 300 metres of wire from a bedroom window, down the garden. And an earth wire to a bathtap? Good luck getting those in to a mobile phone

  10. Re:Why can't we have these in the US? on $30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month (factordaily.com) · · Score: 2

    I agree. I bought a second-hand S6 edge about 6 months ago for around £200 from Amazon. It was unlocked and I found a 128GB internal model as not all apps will install to an external SD card (I have LOTS of apps installed, still have ~80GB free). Together with a Virgin unlimited data plan for which I pay £11 a month, I get all I need from a mobile (phone)/computer for limited outlay.

  11. Re:Depends on how many features Google takes away on Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 2

    By paying for the serice thy provide ?

  12. Re:So, this is how it ends on US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    ... not with a bang but a tilde !

  13. Re:you forgot ur "h" sakespear on Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not necessarily. Given that i's a reference to opera - Verdi's opera Otello is spelled exactly like that, being the Italian translation for Othello.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Re:Y2KY Jelly on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe she's just not that into you?

  15. Re:Virtue Signaling at its best. on 'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks (nbcchicago.com) · · Score: 1

    Anonymous coward is a coward. with a potty mouth

  16. Re:The typic of the one true house. on The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    My comment was not about pollution. The original subject was about dependency on oil. My assertion is that would will find it more difficult to replace oil and gas as an industry feedstock than as a fuel.
    The assertion is unlikely to be tested however, because as we find other sources of energy, the remaining oil and stocks will be available for industry.

  17. Re:The typic of the one true house. on The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Unchanged maybe not. Deepened, I suspect. Setting aside the use of oil as a fuel, the production of plastics and so many other materials that are oil or gas based is almost universal. I look around the office I'm sitting in, almost every surface is covered in plastic or other synthetic material. If all types of fossil fuel disappeared tomorrow, I think this would have more of an impact that the loss of an energy source.

  18. Sounds familiar on American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do they use the same holiday scheduling software as Ryanair?

  19. Re:Correct me if I am wrong... on Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The perceived value of gold seems to be maintained (if not improved) across global events such as war, financial crashes etc. I wonder if Bitcoin's value would also be maintained in similar circumstances.

  20. Re:Seriously? on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does that mean I get smarter as I lose weight?

  21. Re:Let's solve this problem, once and for all... on Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Helium is in short supply - hydrogen? No thanks!

  22. Re:Pretty sure I did mine a bitcoin on Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was a BBC article a few years ago about a man trolling though his local rubbish dump looking for a HDD with bitcoins on:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-w...

  23. Re:you know you've arrived.. on Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 2

    Equivalent series resistance and root mean square, obviously

  24. Seriously! Would you operate a machine tool with the safety features disabled?

  25. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Agilent has been renamed AGAIN - now it's Keysight