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  1. Re:It's not Google's responsibility... on Google Responds On Skewed Holocaust Search Results (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you judge truth when it's all just words on a screen? In a lot of cases, you can't find the truth without going and seeing for yourself, which may be impractical or downright impossible.

  2. Where's the suit of powered armor, Zuckerberg?

  3. Re:There is a legitimate dispute on US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Widespread "Consensus" is not the measure of scientific fact; if it were, we'd all still believe that the Earth is flat, etc

    Actually, we haven't believed the earth is flat ever since we started to seriously consider the matter. The proofs that it's round are just too obvious. In fact, Eratosthenes determined the size of the globe within a few percentage points over 2300 years ago.

  4. Re:"Just call me, we have no chain of command" on Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And if (when) the press picks up on the fact that Trump is trying to be an actual do nothing president they will rake him over the coals continuously

    The press has been raking him over the coals continuously for about the past year. Doesn't seem to have damaged him too badly.

  5. "To the victors go the spoils" has been around since Andrew Jackson

    And spoils system was dismantled in 1883 with the establishment of the Civil Service reforms manedated by the Pendleton Act. This has generally been regarded as A Good Thing.

  6. I don't know, but I don't think they are even mandated to be created by law by congress...

    You don't know. All the Departments in the cabinet are established by Federal law as passed by Congress.

  7. Re:A mage? A fighter? A H-1B holder? on Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters (amazon.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry mage, the H-1B doesn't do nearly as much DPS as you, but he'll do it for dirt cheap, and we don't have to pay him benefits.

    Yeah, but just wait until you hit that DPS check in the Agile raid...

  8. Well, isn't this getting involved and understanding the population? I'm sure they understandd the population much better after analyzing their Twitter feeds.

  9. Re:Conspiracy theorists at work. on Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Complete lack of understanding of simple Newtonian physics he should have learned in high school. He honestly believes that when you stop applying thrust to something in outer space, it stops moving. Amazing.

  10. Re: I call bullshit. on BMW Traps A Car Thief By Remotely Locking His Doors (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This hardly ever happens. What does happen, is emergency workers not being able to open the door because it is locked. You're much more likely to die from your doors being securely locked than you are from them not being locked...

    False. One of the largest dangers in a car accident is being thrown out of the car (in the car you are, after all, surrounded by protecting metal), and leaving the doors unlocked increases that danger. Emergency workers have tools. They don't need the doors to be unlocked to get you out.

  11. Re:Finnish OS with Russian backing.... on Jolla's Sailfish OS Now Certified as Russian Government's First 'Android Alternative' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep in mind, that though the Finns made enough of a nuisance of themselves to survive, they did lose, and lost a good slice of territory buying peace, including their access to the Arctic Ocean.

  12. My God on The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams (howtogeek.com) · · Score: 1

    It's full of scams!

  13. Re:Agile is good for some teams & projects, ho on Ask Slashdot: Has Your Team Ever Succumbed To Hype Driven Development? (daftcode.pl) · · Score: 1

    As Yogi Beara said, "if you don't know where you're going, you not get there."

    Sounds a lot like something Yogi Berra said, "If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else"

  14. Meanwhile, in the mainstream media... on Ron Glass, Firefly's Shepherd Book, Has Died (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    ... they're mostly remembering Barney Miller.

  15. If you've been paying any attention whatsoever to Trump's cabinet picks and you're not just stiggint then you too would be terrified.

    "stiggint"?

  16. Foundation update on 'No Man's Sky' Releases Huge New 'Foundation' Update (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hari Seldon not included.

  17. Not as long as... on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Zynga needs eyeballs.

  18. Already know the answer to this one on Commercial-Mining Drones Keep Getting Attacked By Eagles (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    Your mining drones just have to be protected. If you want to use scout drones, Hobgoblins are generally regarded as the best.

  19. Re:Speaking of lies... on President Obama On Fake News Problem: 'We Won't Know What To Fight For' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Then Obama was a fool for promising something not under his control.

  20. Re:Huh? AOL is still around? on AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Its competitors were Compuserve and Delphi.

    Also Prodigy and GEnie.

  21. Re:I got most of my news from the Onion on Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 · · Score: 1

    I can not believe news organizations are actually endorsing politicians!

    Why? They've been doing it for a couple of hundred years.

  22. Bringing Heinlein to the screen works so well on 'Stranger In a Strange Land' Coming To TV (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it'll be as true to the novel as Starship Troopers was!

  23. Sizable lead? on Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    While saying Trump won the popular vote appears to be fale, you can hardly call a 668,000 vote lead "sizable" when the total turn out was somewhere around 130 million. She barely edged him out.

  24. This is important on Online Bullying Counselling on Increase, Says Childline (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If our children don't get online bully counselling, how will they ever get good at it?

  25. That's the status of politics in the US. Neither side offers concrete policies--those are a liability. Better to rely on feel-good words that are totally content-free.