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  1. If China is not a superpower, it is surely on the verge of becoming one. And "you keep using that word" was Mandy Patinkin (Inigo Montoya), not Andre the Giant (Fezzik).

  2. With blackjack and hookers! on Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, forget the internet!

  3. Re:Move to Antigua and Barbuda. Happier life? on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, if you lived on a Caribbean beach, would you want to commit suicide?

  4. Re:Appology Accepted on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Captain Needa.

  5. Re:The only way out of this for Twitter on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't need to define hate: it's up to Twitter what they do or do not want on their service. The point is that verification is a bad tool for this but the only to prevent from being used as such a tool is to make it available to everyone and using banning to control who is posting.

  6. Re:Translation on China Cyber Watchdog Rejects Censorship Critics, Says Internet Must Be 'Orderly' (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Say what you like, the Chinese Communists took what had been arguably the pre-eminent power in the world (certainly the pre-eminent power in east Asia) but had become a joke in danger of dissolving entirely, and turned it into a world power again. That's bought them a lot of forgiveness from the populace on their methods.

  7. The only way out of this for Twitter on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Is to offer verification to anyone who wants it because that's the only way it can not be some kind of endorsement, and use banning to control hate they don't want on their service.

  8. Re:Verification on Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not going to stop them short of full-scale repression (which I'll do you the courtesy of assuming you don't want). They'll just do it where you can't get at them. Like the OP says, we'll split right down the middle.

  9. Re:Lobster! on What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 1

    Lobster used to be poor folks' food. When servants in pre-Revolutionary Boston went on strike one of their grievances was how often they were served lobster. They got contracts stating that they would only have to eat lobster twice a week.

  10. Re:I need to go see an eye doctor now on An Inside Look At the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Tell us how you really feel.

    That we'll have true AI when it can tell us how it really feels.

  11. ..they made lotsa spaghetti!

  12. 'Black Friday is Dying' on 'Black Friday Is Dying' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And nothing of value was lost.

  13. Re: Not every article need scrolling effects eithe on Not Every Article Needs a Picture (theoutline.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How good a monetization strategy? Every time a search pulls up a video when I just wanted text telling me what I needed to know, it gets ignored. I'm not going to waste time looking at the pretty moving pictures. They haven't achieved anything but irritating me immensely.

  14. Where's Huddles? on Huddle's 'Highly Secure' Work Tool Exposed KPMG And BBC Files (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  15. You went full Windows, man. on Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Never go full Windows.

  16. Re: Not gonna happen on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    His point was the AS/400 architecture, to use his exact words. A point he then reinforced by stating that the way that the problems were eliminated was "the hardware itself", when the hardware itself in in fact no longer in use. I fail to see how this is continuing to stand.

  17. Re:Not gonna happen on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    You were imprecise. You said AS/400 when you meant OS/400. OS/400 is still around. The AS/400 hardware it used to run on was discontinued almost ten years ago, as I said. You seem to be under the impression that OS/400 still runs on hardware designed specifically for it, which it does not; since the discontinuation of AS/400 hardware, it runs the same Power processor servers that AIX uses.

  18. Re:Not gonna happen on ESR Sees Three Viable Alternatives To C (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    Um, AS/400 (or System i as it got renamed) was discontinued almost ten years ago. How is it relevant to anything?

  19. Re:wow on The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In my country we call escort "a piece of crap made by Ford".

    In other words, a Ford.

  20. What's a qubit?

  21. Re:Aaaand then the power went out on Alphabet's Project Loon Delivers Internet To 100,000 People In Puerto Rico (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Food and water would probably be nice, too.

  22. Re:I know how this ends on Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was thinking of this.

  23. Re:Nice on NASA Is Working With Uber on Its Flying Taxi Project · · Score: 1

    Eh, it'd be tricky to put in umlauts anyways; Slashdot doesn't do Unicode and generally doesn't play well with non-ASCII characters. "ueber" would be an old way of indicating the umlautted vowel; it's not used much any more. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...

  24. Re:Absolute power corrupts absolutely on 'How Chrome Broke the Web' (tonsky.me) · · Score: 1

    Changing a font on a user without notice is bad. Changing a font on a website without notice to the website owner shouldn't make a difference. If it does make a difference, you're a bad, bad website designer.

  25. Obligatory xkcd on 'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' (medium.com) · · Score: 4, Funny