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  1. Easy peasy... on New Facebook Video Controls Let You Limit Viewing By Gender and Age · · Score: 1

    I predict online personalities will be willing to prevaricate around gender and age restricting bylaws.

  2. Re:Thats kinda strange on FTC Accuses LifeLock of False Advertising Again · · Score: 2
    I believe in this case, the company was caught once failing to deliver on promises of increasing personal security.

    That naturally put Life Lock on the prosecutors' radar. Then, instead of cleaning up their act, the misleading ads continued.

    This is precisely what law enforcement is supposed to be doing. Lifelock? Well, they're malevolent, incompetent, or both.

  3. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1
    Ahhhh, the unblemished record was an albatross about their neck, anyhow.

    Couldn't last forever, like any proper winning streak, and often times more is learned from one's failures.

    Carry on Elon, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

  4. Re:Deliberate 'overextraction'? on Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets From Human "Biofuel" · · Score: 1

    A gadget might make it practical for them to have that sneaky bar of chocolate in the evening and not buy bigger clothes, or to look pretty good in a bikini and yet also put bacon on the breakfast plate.

    This gadget of which you speak...

    It would be a rainmaker.

  5. Re:Very clever on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo's Re-entry Tech: the Feather · · Score: 1
    You know, you're correct in saying if they wings don't close, well then, you're proper fucked.

    The parachute is for if they don't reopen, after shuttlecock mode has done it's job.

  6. Very clever on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo's Re-entry Tech: the Feather · · Score: 0
    I would still like to see a redundant parachute in case of the the mechanical failure of the the wing folding mechanism.

    Before you comment in droves about Samzenpus missing the the edit on the two "descent" fails, please proofread this post.

  7. Re:Deliberate 'overextraction'? on Your Body, the Battery: Powering Gadgets From Human "Biofuel" · · Score: 1

    The article talks, among other things, about biofuel cells which target glucose - so, actually, yes, using those devices would lead to weight reduction. Because that's one of the more important ways to distribute energy throughout the body: delivering glucose where it's needed which the cells then convert again in the citrate cycle to more readily usable stuff.

    Thus, using machines based on this kind of fuel would lead to weight reduction the same way it would when you exercise.

    That's what I was thinking, although it seems likely I would just eat more to compensate for any additional caloric expenditure.

    Personally, a device that sources power from my truck and prevents me from entering the drive-through lane at the Burger Palace would be a better solution for me.

  8. Re:leftie vs.rightie pitching on US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years · · Score: 1

    This math as a sport has some catching on left to do.

  9. Dog whistles... nice! on Asteroid Mining Company's First Satellite Launches From Space Station · · Score: 1
    Space nutter.

    nutter butter

  10. Re:Man in the Boat on The Frozen Plains of Pluto's 'Heart' · · Score: 1
    As of the most recent interplanetary accords,

    the political appointees of social justice warriors had deemed that description as derogatory

    to binary planets.

  11. Monetize space on Asteroid Mining Company's First Satellite Launches From Space Station · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Escaping the earth's gravity well is the millstone about the neck of the exploration of the rest of the Universe for the Earthling humans.

    The asteroid belt contains the galaxy's low hanging fruit of available rocket fuel (hydrogen and oxygen), and quite probably some metal groups we find necessary on planet, as well.

    This is the next logical step. Monetize space. Get behind it... or get out of the way, so that others might not trample you.

  12. The FIFA exception for excellence in achievement for US women is steeped in the opposite supply and demand curve. There are plenty of qualified applicants to choose from.

    Unlike athletically gifted American males, who often choose to make a career in baseball, hockey, basketball, and the other football, there isn't as much competition for the athletically-gifted females.

    It's precisely why the US women are a force to be reckoned with, and the men are not. Soccer, the World's football game, gets a great deal more of the premium female athletes.

  13. Man in the Boat on The Frozen Plains of Pluto's 'Heart' · · Score: 2
    If the mountain in the moat formed due to the energetic effect of a heated inbound meteorite,

    that means ice was briefly liquid on friggin' Pluto.

    I don't even get people who aren't excited at this round's intelligent life form's shot of the first viewing of its region's most remote planet(ish), thus far.

  14. Re:Probably... on The Frozen Plains of Pluto's 'Heart' · · Score: 1
    Plead the 5th.

    Element, of course.

    That's the way it goes; first your money, then your clothes.

  15. Cheaper service AND less human employment on Robot-Staffed Japanese Hotel Opens · · Score: 2
    It's a common theme.

    For those with no interest in human contact, the future is looking bright indeed.

    Hell, I don't even like frequenting the stores with automated checkouts.

  16. Moore interestingly on Preserving Radio Silence At the Square Kilometer Array · · Score: 3, Informative
    The success of the project is dependent on the continued biennial doubling of computer processing power,

    since a supercomputer does not presently exist that can deal with the volume of data the SKA will produce.

    The formula for human advancement: Christmas trees, spiders, cows, and eternal optimism.

  17. Re:Robots Aren't The Problem on Robots Appear To Raise Productivity Without Causing Total Work Hours To Decline · · Score: 1

    The problem is not robots, its illegal immigrants. They steal jobs. They take jobs for less than the prevailing legal wages, get paid under the books so they avoid the taxman, and cause social strife. I'd rather robots take jobs over these illegal aliens.

    Until.

    The robots are the illegal immigrants!

    Donald?

  18. Iranians with payload delivery ability on The Missile Impasse In the Iran Negotiations · · Score: 3

    IMHO, one of the remaining hurdles to us getting past the Great Filter is the proliferation of technology and doomsday weaponry to all corners of the globe.

  19. Re:Ridiculous post ..shouldn't be on slashdot on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1
    I'm five nines certain a realist would sigh under her breath and occasionally accept articles she deems unworthy.

    Like beauty and even competence, relevance is in the eye of the beholder.

    After all, what are you going to do with your smart self? Troll on Voatse or Reddirt?

  20. 28 hours? on New Record For Solar-Powered Autonomous Flight: 28 Hours Without Refueling · · Score: 3, Funny
  21. All Shuttle Vets on NASA Names Its Astronauts For the First Dragon and CST-100 Flights · · Score: 4, Informative
    Same story, better link.

    Congratulations, one and all.

  22. Re:Gender Distribution? on The College Majors Most Likely To Marry Each Other · · Score: 1

    Considering this, I find the fact that the numbers of spouses with the same college major is as low as it is -- 10% on average according to TFA -- to be a little surprising.

    Although common interest, mating opportunity, and optimum age would seem to promote these matches, there are other forces at work here.

    Some people want to get that degree and enter that work force before choosing a life partner. Many others get the education while they run a little wild as young adults recently freed of the bonds of high school and living beneath parental reign.

    And sometimes, spending too much time with another person actually works against the magic of attraction.

  23. Re:Not on /. on Technology and the End of Lying · · Score: 1
    Just as in your case regarding differing birth dates, many debates are not considered to be settled despite being settled by scientific trial.

    Many subscribe to belief sets that will not allow the introduction of new, contradictory evidence. Political, religious, and tribal leanings come to mind.

    Often enough, in debate, lying isn't the same as believing different fact(s).

  24. Re:Weather on Facebook's New Data Center To Be Powered Entirely By Renewables · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure I like your tone.

  25. Re:Fake news? on China's Stock Crash: $3.5 Trillion Wiped Out, $2.6 Trillion Frozen · · Score: 1

    Why hasn't this been in the news?

    It has been. You have to watch Distractavision News carefully, though.

    Coverage is lagging behind Jared, Cosby, and Trump over here in the States.