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  1. Re:it's not "burning cash" on Tesla Burns Through Record Cash To Bring the Model 3 To Market (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    No, burning cash is spending more cash than you earn. While it's good if you spend that cash on things that build up the value of your company, burning cash will eventually bring you up against a wall, since those value-building things can't be directly used to pay your bills.

  2. Re:Stinker on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought DS9 was pretty well-written from the get-go, but some of the acting was severely painful, like worse than Babylon 5 in the first season painful

    But some of it was very good. I could point out Duet was first season.

  3. Re:Stinker on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Even DS9 and Voyager weren't brilliant from the get-go.

    Voyager was brilliant? When?

  4. Re:Stinker on CBS Delaying 'Star Trek: Discovery' To Maintain Quality (foxnews.com) · · Score: 2

    In the long history of Star Trek, that knowledge has never stopped them before... and I say this as a fan of the franchise.

    Obligatory Penny Arcade

  5. If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

  6. Re:Devil is in the details on US Senators To Introduce Bill To Secure 'Internet of Things' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    For example, define "vulnerability". Anyone who's tried to remediate Nessus findings knows what I mean - those Low findings that just. won't. go. away.

    And all this is being decided by people with no clue what Nessus is or what it does, and wouldn't understand it if you explained it to them. Oh yeah, this is going to turn out well.

  7. Re: Greatly Insane on Apple is About To Do Something Their Programmers Definitely Don't Want (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    Yet it seems that no company on the planet is willing to put out "usable", they'd all much prefer "beautiful"

    And the reason is because "beautiful" is immediately apparent while "usable" can usually only be determined by extensive actual use after the product is bought. Thus, "beautiful" outsells "usable".

  8. Re:I don't like Trump, but on Trump Removes Anthony Scaramucci From Communications Director Role (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    and that's the only reference in popular American culture.

    Well, not quite the only.

  9. Re:Only one part of the problem on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll admit to staring at my phone and the "Walk" light. When the "Walk" light comes on, I step out because cars are supposed to stop. I shouldn't have to look left or right.

    The car is a ton of speeding metal. The fact that you were in the right won't be much consolation.

  10. Re:Maybe I am an asshole but on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The solution might be to build a nice solid wall around every pedestrian.

    And make Mexico pay for it!

  11. Is there a contract? on Roomba Is No Spy: CEO Says iRobot Will Never Sell Your Data (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Unless it's part of the sales agreement that they won't ever sell your data, this doesn't mean shit. Even so, if the sales agreement isn't a signed contract, it might get broken. Company get sold to somebody who wants to recoup the acquisition price with that sweet, sweet data. Ooops, sorry.

  12. In Pakistani politics, the Times Roman, they are a-changin'...

    Now they're Times New Roman!

  13. Re: Nunes is not actually Chairman of the Intel Cm on Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Not just the credentials, but the character. You need to ask yourself, "Can I trust that this guy isn't lying to me?"

  14. Re: Nunes is not actually Chairman of the Intel Cm on Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Because who the messenger is is usually a critical piece of information in determining if the message is true.

  15. Re:*aides on Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First thing I thought of when I saw the headline. Slashdot could really use some copyeditors.

  16. Zero *net* new users on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I really doubt no one signed up for Twitter in the past three months. They just had as many users quit as joined.

  17. I've got to know... on One Man's Two-Year Quest Not to Finish Final Fantasy VII (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Did he manage to free Jessie on the stairs?

  18. Re:Vaccination Rates *and* Autism Rates are slippi on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Autism rates have been on the decline, and this decline started when vaccination rates began their decline.

    1) Not a decline, more like a plateau. It's also very recent, and doesn't correspond with the rise of the anti-vax campaigns, which happened years earlier.
    2) Autism rates did not increase when vaccinations were introduced; again, the rise in autism only happened later--in this case, decades later.
    3) Correlation is not causation.

    Not that you will read any of this. You've reached your conclusion, and evidence that doesn't fit it will be ignored.

  19. It was similar in the USSR - there were no welfare payments for healthy people, but everyone was provided with a job (I think it was even illegal to be unemployed).

    And look how well that turned out.

  20. Do you think that it isn't prudent for a country to say "oh, we're going to focus on jobs instead of buying the latest wonder technology because someone wants to sell it to is?"

    No, I don't think that's prudent at all. If you're for job for the sake of jobs, then you should pay people for digging holes, and a second set of people for filling them in.

    And, like all futurists, the belief that we'll re-build the infrastructure of the world to keep up with their world-changing technology is idiotic -- the reality is, the number of existing vehicles on the road is too vast, humans will never interact well with self-driving cars, and you'll never have the money to change the world over to what the futurists tell you.

    Well,if it's always going to be too expensive to implement, banning is pretty redundant, isn't it?

  21. The minister then excused himself... on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ...as he had an appointment to go smash some automated looms.

  22. What would the Dow Jones Index know about making drones?

  23. Re:And what's wrong with such reasonable assumptio on Unemployment in the UK is Now So Low It's in Danger of Exposing the Lie Used To Create the Numbers (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    To call it a "lie" implies some sort of bias. Assumptions are often built in to such statistical analysis. Why is it a lie this time?

    Because the author disagrees with this particular assumption, and "lie" sounds so much sexier than "assumption I don't agree with".

  24. Re:understanding cats on Amazon Report Predicts Pet Translation Devices By 2027 (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    When they grow up the naturally stop using their voices, except when trying to intimidate other cats.

    Depends on the breed. Siamese in particular are well known for never shutting up.

  25. Re:Obligatory XKCD on Ask Slashdot: Someone Else Is Using My Email Address · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, you definitely need to be cutting back on the caffeine, there.