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  1. Re:Actually indeed before ~1995 it was liveable on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    eventually, they'll hit my number and i'll sell.

    And then where do you live? There's no place cheap to move to.

  2. Re: throws spears at helicopters on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    And London discourages density--the "greenbelt" zoning practiced by the government prevents the construction of any suburbs to provide large amounts of low-cost housing to the population.

  3. The summary said "firehawk." But it's not Thexder, either.

  4. Re:Let's keep things even on 'New California' Movement Wants To Create a 51st State (wqad.com) · · Score: 2

    If we're going to do this then maybe we should trim the liberal parts of Texas off to create another state as well to keep things even

    In fact, at least at first look, it'd even be easier. By the Constitution, splitting a state takes both the state government and the federal government agreeing on it. But the Texas state government can split the state of Texas into up to five states unilaterally, because it's a clause in the treaty signed with the then sovereign nation of Texas by which Texas joined the union.

  5. blindly trusting anything is stupid.

    You're absolutely right. I'm gonna start by not blindly trusting you, 'cause you're a fruitcake.

  6. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    What's a disk?

    A device of persistant solid state memory, Why it is called a "disk" is a mystery lost to the depths of time, as it is not at all disk-shaped.

  7. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    The cost of the computer is meaningless, because it's only a small fraction of what you're paying. The real cost is the cost of hiring someone capable of administrating it.

  8. Re:No maple in "pancake syrup" on No More Pancake Syrup? Climate Change Could Bring an End To Sugar Maples (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So, pancake syrup may contain quite a bit of maple.

    It's allowed to, but it won't. The whole point of table syrup is that it uses cheap corn syrup instead of expensive maple syrup. In order to maximize that advantage, a manufacturer will not put any expensive maple syrup in it, since he doesn't have to.

  9. It's a fairly old joke. I came here to make it myself.

  10. Re:Vanilla-JS.com on Which JavaScript Framework is the Most Popular? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    our app is very SPA!

    Ha, our app is Spa Fon! We're working on getting it to be Squa Tront, too.

  11. Re:They're ready: except costs on 'Don't Fear the Robopocalypse': the Case for Autonomous Weapons (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's conservative. CNN reports $850,000 to $1.4 million for US soldiers in Afghanistan.

  12. Re:Come on guys. on The Linux Kernel Mailing List is Down (lkml.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    As others have pointed out, this isn't actually the mailing list, which is run in a much more resilient fashion. It's just a web archive of the list run by a guy as a hobby. Not nearly so critical.

  13. "Cat Rambo" on 'Science Fiction Writers of America' Accuse Internet Archive of Piracy (sfwa.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is it bad that I immediately thought of this?

    Ms Rambo is probably sick of that joke...

  14. Re:Maybe... on Peter Thiel Is Now Bidding on Gawker.com (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    This will probably all end in tears.

  15. Re:Only 2 words?? on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Maltese: corto

    Man, that was a great comic.

  16. Re:Remember Slashdot beta? on Snapchat's Big Redesign Bashed In 83 Percent of User Reviews (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Unlike many other web sites, Amazon seems to use a product description keyword based categorization system. If you're searching for a widget in a broad category (eg, "headphones"), it's nearly impossible to use Amazon to filter the search accurately by attributes because the filter categories are based on production descriptions, not actual specifications.

    That's not a UI problem, it's a functionality problem. And how is the Amazon software supposed to catagorize products other than using the descriptions? Remember that what they're selling generally comes from someone else--all they really know about it is the product description the original seller gives them.

  17. Too overcomplicated on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Use Computers To Make Elections Better? · · Score: 1

    Just always provide a "none of the above" choice. If it wins, the election must be rerun, with the previous candidates barred from standing.

  18. Re:It's just a website on Circuit City Is Coming Back (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    A website is all that us needed to keep people parts all over the USA.

    You keep parts of people? Sounds a little messy to me...

  19. It's so confidential on Dropbox Files Confidentially For IPO (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a major news article for Bloomberg! Now that's confidential.

  20. Re:Bast Shatner movie ever! on The Invented Language That Found a Second Life Online (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Which is more popular online? Esperanto or Klingon or Elvish (or other JRR Tolkien invented language)

    Nerd alert: Tolkien invented two Elvishes: Quenya (High Elvish) and Sindarin (Grey Elvish). He didn't really create any other languages, just tossed a few phrases into his books to make them sound good (Dwarvish, Black Speech, Westron, Rohirric--note that Westron was usually "translated" into English while Rohirric was turned into Old English--all fall into this catagory).

  21. Re:obama-clinton legacy on Top US Government Computers Linked to Revenge-Porn Site (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Kennedy and Clinton prett7y much weaselled their way out, although Clinton did get his tail feathers singed. Franken and Conyers, not so much. Things seem to be changing.

  22. Re:Nearly 2 Hours? on Power Outage Brings CES To a Standstill For Nearly 2 Hours (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "Hour and a half" would've been most accurate, since the times they give add up to 91 minutes.

  23. Re:people still care about achievements? on Xbox One Adds New Achievement, Do Not Disturb Features In Previous Update (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is the point of them other than to make you feel good? ,

    Why shouldn't that be the point? Isn't that the reason you play games in the first place?

  24. Re:It's like, how much more black could it get? on Super-Black Is the New Black (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    And the other standard joke: They've invented fuligin!

  25. I'm assuming Windows Update looks for an installed AV. Only if there's an installed AV and no registry key do you get no update.