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  1. Re:Leap hour on Extra Leap Second To Be Added To Clocks On June 30 · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Holy shit on India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory · · Score: 1

    Depends on the crud. Sometimes a base is much better.

  3. Re:Who cares? on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of million people care. This might push a lot of them in the right direction and that may be enough to prevent the worst of what's coming for us.
    It gives me hope.

  4. Re:Environmental radicalism? on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I don't care that is not radical. I care that he wrote it. I care that such an influential man takes the same stance as I do. I care that he influences hundreds of millions and that he pushes them in the right direction on this issue.
    I care that this might actually help.

  5. Re:This post is copyrighted on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 1

    If you cut and paste this message I will raid your kid's college fund.

    Happy New Year!

    I didn't know I had a kid.

  6. Re:Don't see the point on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    Spotify can store the data on your device and update playlists when there is wifi.
    You just need a large-ish storgage in the phone. My Spotify music folder is 9.25 GB. It is on the external SD card if that is available so it doesn't clutter your internal memory.

  7. Re:I'm amazed on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    My most important reasons: not dependent on Internet (ergo more reliable) and less data usage.

  8. Re:Museum Buzz on Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix · · Score: 1

    Having a mosh pit in a museum just doesn't seem wise. It does combine well with alcohol though.

  9. Re:Drunk Now, So How Can I Possibly Care on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    If you are not a troll then you are an idiot. Drinking and driving is a bad plan.

  10. Replicators run it.

  11. Re:Drunk Now, So How Can I Possibly Care on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    Trol?

  12. Re:How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    no insurance

    When you drive drunk insurance isn't going to help you. They won't pay (rightfully).

  13. Re:How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    Technically true. However nobody should be insane enough to complain about that when you take the sane option of taking a cab.
    Unless you cause other problems (peeing in mailboxes or singing at the top of your voice at 3 in the morning for example). That sort of behavior will get you in trouble, drunk or not.

    I have taken a bike home from a bar or a party about a hundred times. Years ago I was occasionally too drunk to not be able to walk, let alone in a straight line.
    Never have the cops said anything about that, although I have met them on a few occasions while overly and clearly drunk.

    Are the US so different from the Netherlands that the cops will arrest a quiet drunk walking home? Really?

  14. Re: How about mandatory felony sentences instead? on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    When I go into a bar I either go back by bike, someone else drives (someone sober) or I am the sober one who drives. Except for the last solution, why wouldn't I be allowed to drink until I have a BAC of 0.2?

  15. Re:Hands and feet on Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health · · Score: -1

    Hands and feet can be mostly solved by increasing blood flow. That takes a few years and a lot of willpower but nothing else. Just want the blood flow to increase.

  16. Re:My plan on ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill · · Score: 1

    My parents' basement and a pallet of chips and mountain dew will have to do :P

  17. Re:"Haven't reached that point yet" on Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype · · Score: 1

    Put simply, I refuse to relinquish that level of control over my driving experience. Ever.

    Don't you ever go with someone where the other drives?

  18. My plan on ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill · · Score: 3, Funny

    In a Chicxulub sized impact event my plan is to die. I like to set achievable goals.

  19. Re:Potatoes and Ping Pong Balls on The Magic of Pallets · · Score: 1

    'round here many potato trucks look like this. The bottom is sloped to the middle and in the middle is a built in conveyor belt. In the back plate on the bottom is a small door to let the potatoes exit.

  20. Re:No big red button? on Cyberattack On German Steel Factory Causes 'Massive Damage' · · Score: 2

    A nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb are as different as cola and coffee.
    If you bomb a nuclear reactor you have made a dirty bomb. Not an atom bomb. Dirty bombs are not nice but not as destructive as atom bombs.
    Add to that that the fact that all nuclear reactors have massive concrete and steel walls. Those are meant to keep the radiation inside but also keep bombs outside.
    I can't find it now (corporate filters) but there is a film clip of a jet fighter crashing into a reactor wall as a test. Watch it and guess if a bomb is going to damage that.

  21. Re:A pilot checking in here on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    You clearly have no idea how stupid people can be. For research purposes I advise going to a beach party in summer.

  22. Re:Just use filters on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    1. Practical lasers are in just a few frequencies. Not all over the spectrum. They are NOT light bulbs. Filtering works.
    2. The rest of the public is not the problem. The problem is not damaging of eyes. It's seeing nothing because the whole freaking windshield lights up.

    Having said that, education should indeed be part of the solution.

  23. Re:Do not give lasers as gifts to children on Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic · · Score: 1

    DANGER! LASER RADIATION! Do not expose beam to remaining eye

    The beam might get damaged.

  24. Re:I'm confused on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Does that include the inside of your mouth?:P

  25. Re:What kind of statement is this on Over 9,000 PCs In Australia Infected By TorrentLocker Ransomware · · Score: 2

    In my experience: not really. They just have virusses and don't know it.
    Most users still don't backup. They just don't think about it.