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  1. Re:Block spoofing. Or charge for that privilege on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    I wish they'd do that to spam too. Hey, they could charge a tenth of a cent per message and it would still kill the spammers.

  2. Better system on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    Your caller gets a message "dial 75 (random number) if you are not a robot, and you will be connected." It would get rid of most of them.

  3. Re:US politics are tainted with money on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 1

    Telling the truth about the established politicos? That's a crucifyin'.

  4. So which will happen first? on Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 · · Score: 1

    Year of the Linux desktop?
    Doomsday?
    Nuclear fusion?

  5. Re:If Microsoft would unlock the boot loader now.. on Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    If they had a fire sale, and you could load a decent Linux.....tempting.

  6. Re:Awesome idea on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 1

    Hamsterdance.

  7. Windows is only free...... on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    .....if your time is worthless.

  8. MS: Monkey See.... on Windows 10: Can Microsoft Get It Right This Time? · · Score: 1

    ....Monkey Do. Their new motto.

  9. Re:Coffee?... on Andy Wolber Explores Online Word Processors' ODF Support · · Score: 1

    I was given one, and I use the plastic reuseable adapters. When it dies I will go back to making coffee in a drip maker. I'm not buying a DRM one. But I sure do like the speed.

  10. If they're out there, they are cold and dark, and really really far away. As long as they stay there, it makes no difference to us.

  11. Re:Few Million a Year is a BIG Stretch Goal on Tesla To Produce 'a Few Million' Electric Cars a Year By 2025 · · Score: 1

    There will be plenty of empty car factories to buy on the cheap once he gets cranked up.

  12. ASL? on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    Interpreters get paid $100 and up to do the job now. A few million people could use a translator for that. Difficulty: it's a visual language.

  13. No problem on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Step 1: install a Linux OS from the distro's server.
    Step 2: install only apps from the distro's repositories. As for the other 1%, you probably don't need them but they're usually clean anyhow.

    If any friend/relative wants you to clean their system, just tell them "I don't do Windows" because you forgot how, but you'll happily install Linux.
    If a paying customer, charge them by the hour to fix their Windows. Profit!

  14. Re:Dyson Sphere? on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    Please accept my profuse, humble apologies.

  15. Re:Perfectionists on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    Somebody could have substituted anothe dust speck, and nobody would be the wiser.

  16. Re:The coments for this article on The Mystery of Glenn Seaborg's Missing Plutonium: Solved · · Score: 1

    You new here? Stick around, you'll find plenty of both.

  17. No HOA on my street on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 1

    ...and there's junk cars and chicken coops. So you choose where you live, and live by the rules.

  18. Re:Dyson Sphere? on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    We have one of those, but no way could it eat a star. It does OK with cat hair though.

  19. Put up (an antenna) or shut up on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    We pay to have garbage picked up; why should we pay to have garbage delivered?

    And yeah we support our local PBS station.

  20. Re:Got Root? on Microsoft Unveils Nokia 215, a $29 Phone With Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 should run just fine, right?

  21. Re:Balloons on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    >> doesn't that violate some fairly fundamental laws of physics?

    Yeah, if there was something in the space, instead of just plain nothing.

  22. Latin on What Language Will the World Speak In 2115? · · Score: 1

    ...the unchanging lingua of medicine, church, law, and many sciences.

    English will die through ad hoc overmorphing; e.g., people using "alot" and "is comprised of..." . I just made up a word, so I'm guilty too.

  23. Go to the dollar store on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    ...with a tape measure, and try on all the reading glasses until you find the pair that focuses where you need them to focus. Pay your $2.

    When you get up from the computer, take them off.

    I'm nearsighted so I don't need glasses to see the screen. I went through a lot of bifocals and trifocals (I'm 67) and tripped going downstairs until I just said screw it I'm getting single vision lenses and taking them off when I read or work close.

  24. Africa gotta get its shit together first on The Coming Decline of 'Made In China' · · Score: 1

    Politics, corruption, human rights, infrastructure. Well, the weather is pretty nice in places, and they do have some water. They could totally turn it around in a few years if they wanted to.

  25. Re:Good news! We did it! on Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    At least he didn't quote The Onion