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  1. That's one of the most elegantly expressed thoughts I've ever read.
    Bravo.

  2. Re: Do they need Infrastructure People? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    He wasn't "let in", he was made there.

  3. Re:Do they need Infrastructure People? on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 2

    The downside is that you *can* experience some pretty horrific latency when accessing stuff that isn't physically located in NZ.
    That's just the laws of physics

  4. What's the difference between Australia and an apple?

    If you leave an apple for long enough, it'll grow a culture.

    (And no, I'm not a Kiwi)

  5. Re: "trying to recruit experts" on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pretty good - from my experience, NZ has few noticeable flaws.

  6. Re:Just mention, Dental Work on British Startup Strip Mines Renters' Private Social Media For Landlords (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it safe?

  7. Huh? It adds generics?

    Only sum of the time

  8. Re:But are their search results as good? on DuckDuckGo Is Giving Away $225,000 To Support Open Source Projects (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What a coincidence - I used to hang around with archaeologists too.

    I guess that makes me a dinosaur - I used to work at Symbian...

  9. Re:Sanders who? on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    Let me try: The US $100 bill is called the "C Note". It confirms that it's used by piano tuners to tune the 'C' key and by obstetricians to do 'C' sections.

    I 'C' what you did there.

  10. Re:You mean? You mean? on Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Who knew?

    I forgot, right?

  11. Re:Wrong... on Stallman's Legacy Halts At Hardware (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You will never get there because you don't have 4-10 Billion dollars

    Speak for yourself.

    you obviously don't have the technical knowledge either.

    Ah, I see that you were.

  12. Re:or maybe an Android Wear app? on Netflix Creates DIY Smart Socks That Pause Your Show When You Fall Asleep (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    Finally a reason to buy a smartwatch? Except then the battery is dead all day...

    Get a Pebble - mine lasts over 4 days between charges.

  13. Re:Probably not a coincidence on Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't do that - sooner or later we're going to run out of GUIDs. There's only so many of them - and once they're gone, they're gone. That's it. That's your lot.
    There won't be any more.

  14. Re:last four digits of your Social? on Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Same as the last 4 digits of Pi

  15. Re:Humans remain better sometimes on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    consider Air France 330 (IIRC) from 2009

    I think you mean AF447 - an Airbus A330

  16. Some facts... on Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In my long (over 30 year) career, I've never once seen anyone hired because they were male despite there being a more-able female candidate.
    I'm not saying it doesn't happen - I've just never seen it.

    On the other hand, I *have* seen a less-capable candidate hired because they were female.
    I'm not saying it's common (not least because I don't think it is) - but I have seen it.

    In my experience, whether you keep your reproductive organs internally or externally has exactly ZERO influence on how good your code is - so can we just cut all this SJW bullshit, and hire the best person for the job?

  17. Re:How much will it cost. on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    I heard that The Devil Went Down to Georgia...

  18. Re:How much will it cost. on Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three · · Score: 1

    Not everyone lives in California.

  19. Re:how much is lost really? on British Movie Theater Staff To Wear Night-Vision Goggles To Combat Movie Piracy · · Score: 1

    Yes - but did you have to tell them?

    Now they'll be wanting us to have our memory erased after going to the theatre...

  20. Re:So, the FBI doesn't need to ask for Android? on Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time · · Score: 1

    Lets not let ignorance cloud the discussion.

    You do realise this is slashdot, right?

  21. Re:Why not ... on Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As always, the question is not "are you paranoid", it's "are you paranoid enough"

  22. Re:Apple can't modify Time Machine Firmware? on New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article I read

    You must be new around here. You'll learn.

  23. Re:Has been fixed in iOS 8.4.1 on MDM Vulnerability In Apple iOS Sandbox Facilitates 'Rogue Apps' · · Score: 1

    A good ./ submitter

    Are you aiming for some kind of "Oxymoron of the year" award?

  24. Re:Old style on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    Firefox already has the mechanism to save pages for later (bookmarks)

    A bookmark saves the *location* of a page, not the content. Next time you open that bookmark, the content may have changed (e.g most news sites' home pages are updated several times a day as new content is added)
    Pocket, on the other hand, saves a "snapshot" of the content of the page as-is. Next time you go to it, it'll have the same content.

  25. Re:OUR solar system? on Our Early Solar System May Have Been Home To a Fifth Giant Planet · · Score: 1

    What makes you think it belongs to them?