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  1. Re:Profit is a tax on productivity on 24 Women Allege Sexual Harassment By Investors, and Another VC Gets Demoted (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It is amazing to me that you think there were no new ideas developed until the rise of capitalism.

    And yet, we can see an explosion of new ideas in the late 18th century and in the 19th century. This would be right around when capitalism became well-developed and wide-spread. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

  2. Re:"Responsible Stewards" on The Age of Distributed Truth (eugenewei.com) · · Score: 1

    If there's one lesson from the 20th Century it's "Trust No One"

    And the others are "Stay Alert" and "Keep Your Laser Handy."

  3. Re:What Chinese proverb? on The Age of Distributed Truth (eugenewei.com) · · Score: 1

    If he's angling for what I think he's angling for, ancient Chinese curse would've been the right description: "May you live in interesting times."

  4. Re:500,000 Euros? on Vertu, Phone-Maker To the Rich, Says It's Broke (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    500,000 Euros for one pay period, which wouldn't be a year. Assuming it's every two weeks, they'd probably have more like over a hundred.

  5. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Not having a thermometer handy, I can't be precise, but I'd say somewhere around 72 degrees F, maybe a few degrees warmer. (it's 90 outside, but I'm in an air-conditioned building).

  6. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in an ambient temperature. So do you, unless you've found a way to live in a vacuum.

  7. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares if it is "livable"?

    Uh, people that have to live in it?

    It regularly gets 110F here in summer and people still live. In Canada it often gets below 0F and people live.

    But they generally don't live in those temperature. They have airconditioning or heating and try to avoid going out into those temps. It may be possible to survive in those temperatures, but it's not "liveable" in the sense that you're going to be very unhappy about it.

  8. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the headline gives the unit...and gets it wrong. "129C" it says. It's correct in the body, but still...

  9. System76 was Ubuntu before it was believed killed in the incident at Linux's Switzerland headquarters.

  10. Re:Not really surprising on Research Finds 1 In 3 American Cats and Dogs Are Overweight (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. The article notes that households where the members are of healthy weight are more likely to have overweight pets.

  11. Re:So Canada agrees with the U.S. on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Are the drugs being sold to Americans traveling to Canada? If so, it's not illegal.

    How do these Americans know where to buy these drugs? If they're being advertised to people in America, that's sure as hell illegal.

  12. Re:no he doesn't on Software Developer Explains Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not why it failed. It failed because there was next to no demand.

    Well, duh. That's why every new product failure fails: nobody buys it. The question is: why didn't anybody buy it?

  13. It's impossible to even guess why a criminal would want $12 million worth of Towers and antenna equipment.

    But that's just it: it didn't actually get him the towers and equipment. He just hacked a database (which was not the legal record of ownership) to say he had it. It didn't get him possession of it, and if he tried to dispute ownership, the hacked records would quickly be shown as fake. So what did he intend to do?

  14. Re:Remember the law of unintended consequences on What Happens When Geoengineers 'Hack The Planet'? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But that's the beautiful part. When the ice age rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death!

  15. Appropriate link on Former Slashdot Contributor Jon Katz Believes He Can Talk To Animals (amazon.com) · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Typical lazy pirate. on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not exactly true. Hitler never won an absolute majority in the Reichstag, true. But Weimer Germany elected its parliament by proportional representation: nobody ever won an absolute majority. Governements were coalitions of parties, generally led by the largest party in parliament. And in 1933, that party was the Nazi party. Actually, the first go-round, nobody would form a coalition with them, and they had to go back for new elections, but the Nazis were the largest party again. This time the mainstream parties gave in, and formed a coalition government. As leader of the largest party in the governing coalition, Hitler had a right to be named Chancellor (prime minister, basically). There was some behind-the-scenes maneuvering to diddle him out of that (some people could see how dangerous he was), but it didn't work. Hindenburg named him chancellor because that was his ceremonial duty, but it really wasn't his choice. In summation, the Nazis did come to power because they were democratically elected to it. Didn't stay that way, of course.

  17. Re: Typical on Sci-Hub Ordered To Pay $15 Million In Piracy Damages (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Saying "It's civil obedience, so it's not fair they're punishing me" doesn't sound much like "accepting the risk" to me.

  18. True, but other stuff that discolors urine isn't all that common compared to dehydration. Isn't all that rare, either, but still, if your urine is medium or dark yellow, dehydration should be the first thing you think of, while keeping in mind it could be something else.

  19. Re:This has to be a troll lawsuit on Home Improvement Chains Accused of False Advertising Over Lumber Dimensions (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    This tells me anyone can sell any product in any size and claim it's based on rough sawn dimensions.

    No, because lumber that's larger than the customer expects is a problem--it won't fit.

    Sir, that pack of beef was actually 2 pounds -- before we cut off the excess fat for a uniform finish.

    Not the same thing, because a) there's no expectation the butcher would do this and b) the beef being actually two pounds rather than somewhat less than two pounds wouldn't render the customer incapable of cooking it.

  20. Twitch writes House of Cards!

  21. Re:Always on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    "Embiggens'? I never heard that word before I started reading slashdot...

    It's a perfectly cromulent word.

  22. Re:Always on Facebook Has a New Mission: Bring the World Closer Together (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    FB's mission is to take other peoples' money and make it theirs, period.

    And that's easier when they're all bunched together, right?

  23. There's someone you should meet. Name's Barbara Streisand, maybe you've heard of her?

  24. Re:They should let you share with anyone on Snapchat's New Snap Map Lets You Share Your Location With Friends (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Are you suggesting that the most important factor in deciding whether or not to hook up with somebody is their immediate proximity?

    Well, if you can't be with the one you love...