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  1. Re:Let's do some physics on Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nowhere in the description does it say it will deliver pizzas one at a time; I would assume it would do multiple deliveries per run for efficiency's sake.

  2. You only noticed now? on Science Fiction Author Brian Aldiss Dies Aged 92 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    He died a week ago!

  3. No, the court implied that censorship doesn't stop an otherwise valid copyright claim.

  4. Re:Census Records on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    why the hell is Facebook digging into public records in the first place???

    To be able to suggest exactly the sort of Facebook friending that they did. Establishing and indexing these sorts of relationships for advertisers is how they make money, you know.

  5. Re:Where are the security trolls? on Bug In Lowe's Site Sold Goods For Free. Couple Arrested For Exploiting It (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know the facts; the article didn't give them. It depends on what they had to do; if they didn't have to actively subvert the site, it's more like they took it to the checkout counter and the register charged them $0 for it. They even have the receipt. Is that theft?

  6. Re:Is it the language or Slashdot... on Red Hat Gives Ceylon To The Eclipse Foundation (eclipse.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a paywalled link is really meaningful to 99% of us.

  7. So, 9th generation, then?

  8. Re:Clean up your own mess, douchebags on Canonical Needs Your Help Transitioning Ubuntu Linux From Unity To GNOME (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 1

    In retrospect, it's easy to see they were wrong.

    Retrospect? I said right from the start that thinking smartphones and full blown computers had the same UI needs was batshit insane.

  9. Re:The same tech that produces MREs? on Military Tech Could Be Amazon's Secret To Cheap, Non-Refrigerated Food (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Excuse me - I've eaten C-Rations, not K-Rations.

    That makes more sense. Since K-rations were retired in 1948, you'd have to be pretty damned old to have eaten them. C rations were retired in 1958, you sure it wasn't MCIs (Meal Combat Individual) you ate? They were the successor to C-rations and the immediate predecessor to MREs and very similar to C-rations. They weren't completely retired until years after their replacement by MREs in 1981.

  10. Re:Perhaps the solution is on Blizzard Starts Drive To Recruit More Women and Ethnic Minorities (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're posting as Anonymous Coward. You're already a nancy-boy.

  11. Re:My Brain Hutrs... on Playing Action Video Games May Be Bad For Your Brain, Study Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Well, it'll have to come out!

  12. Re:Backup navigation for ships? on Cyber Threats Prompt Return of Radio For Ship Navigation (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Really? Ships had pretty reliable means of open sea navigation for at good 1000++y before GPS and even before the first aircraft, gradually improved trough the centuries. Paper maps, magnetic compass, more or less accurate clocks, tools for optical measurements? Whatever happened to them?

    A: You need a sextant or some such; such things are not generally carried on ships any more. B: You need someone highly trained to navigate this way; it is no longer guaranteed that you'll have a navigator trained for it. C: The sea is enormously more crowded than it was in centuries past. The relatively low accuracy of these methods is no longer good enough.

  13. Re:LORAN-C on Cyber Threats Prompt Return of Radio For Ship Navigation (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    LORAN-C depends on transmission stations, a lot of which are gone (although some aren't). The US and Canadian stations were shut down in 2010. Since they have to build new stations anyways, why not incorporate improvements? There's been a lot of advances since the 1970s.

  14. Betteridge's law makes this easy. on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's not the end of typing.

  15. Re:Oh. My. God! on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it was no GPS, no maps, because you can't get paper maps any more.

  16. Re:Stupid lawsuit, but useful on Linux Kernel Hardeners Grsecurity Sue Open Source's Bruce Perens (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Uh, no, it doesn't work like that. "It's my opinion" is not a magic phrase that wards off all charges of defamation. If I say "It's my opinion that John Smith is a child rapist," John Smith can still sue me for defamation. Mind you, I think this is an utterly invalid suit, but not because Bruce Perens said "it's my opinion."

  17. Well, then I have to ask... on BLU Claims Innocence, Gets Phones Reinstated On Amazon (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    What about RED?

  18. Wow. Did you try the lost and found when you were looking for your sense of humor?

  19. Re:I love the benevolent dictator on Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    signed, little girl.

    with GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS!

  20. Re:Interesting question on Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Spell checker? That won't help. It's spelled correctly. It's the wrong word, but it's spelled correctly. That's why I don't like spell checkers.

  21. Re:Sad but true... on Chinese Chatbots Apparently Re-educated After Political Faux Pas (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    All programs are equal, but some are more equal than others.

  22. Re:Hormones are nasty things to screw with... on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's also the fact the consequences of pregnancy hit women more immediately and personally, so they're wiling to put up with more to get birth control.

  23. Re:Welp, all you folks who voted Trump on The FCC Is Full Again, With Three Republicans and Two Democrats (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I voted third-party since I couldn't stomach either of the candidates, but Clinton actually took my state. So it didn't make much difference.

  24. Re:it's not "burning cash" on Tesla Burns Through Record Cash To Bring the Model 3 To Market (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. "Burning cash" is not necessarily a bad thing. If done right, it'll be getting you to a place where you're making cash. But if you can't stop burning cash, that's bad.

  25. Absolutely. Who wants a car that looks like this?