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  1. Re:Single line of code? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Used to be a thing. Not so sure about now. The "modern" TDIs (from the PD up through the newer common rail) were never as good as the older ALH engine models from the very early 2000s.

  2. Re:Laterally AND horizontally, you say? on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    I think they mean that when viewers ultimately review the movie negatively (ie, 'pan' it), those viewers will be able to do so from either a recumbant or standing position.

  3. Re:Pig-Pen on Study: People Emit a "Germ Cloud" of Bacteria As Unique As a Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Only when I dance, I swear.

  4. Re:Why do teens *need* all these drugs??? on Re-Analysis of Medical Study Reverses Conclusions -- Paxil Unsafe For Teenagers · · Score: 1

    CBT? How is cock and ball torture going to help teenage anxiety?

  5. Re:Color me naive.... on Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming · · Score: 1

    My guess? Scangauge, yes; Vag-Com, no. TDI maintenance without reliable vagcom would be even more nightmarish.

  6. Re:Why do you live in west Tennessee? on Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run · · Score: 1

    Easy river access - this guy knows how to travel.

  7. chalk another one up for the librarians on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those folks stand up for freedom.

  8. Re:Predicable do-gooder medling. on Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots · · Score: 1

    And if that apple pie has corn flakes in the crust you're a (probably white cis-) male cereal rapist!

    The HORROR!

  9. Re:Multiple layers? on Solar Windows Could Help Power Buildings · · Score: 5, Funny

    More than 5 layers would be unsafe, since the windows would then be operating at 120% efficiency and arcing sweet, free electricity all over the place.

  10. Re:Why is this on SlashDot? on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. I use regularly.

  11. I feel Kerry's pain. on Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found · · Score: 1

    Anyone who's ever had his/her cybering find its way to eyeballs outside of the intended audience knows just how awful that is. So yeah - John Kerry talking dirty. You're welcome for that visual, slashdice.

  12. Re:Shifting election day on Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign · · Score: 1

    How about April 1, because it's just a sick fucking joke anyway? I'd wait in line to vote on April 1. There's nothing readable about slashdot that day.

  13. Re:I'm torn.... on Coca-Cola To Fund Research That Shifts Blame For Obesity Away From Bad Diets · · Score: 1

    To lose weight? Exercise is almost entirely irrelevant. Screw the walk. Just take in less than your body burns as a sedentary lump. Calculate your BMR, adjust for sedentary lumpenness, and maintain a deficit of ~500 kcal below that number every day. It's not rocket surgery. Once the weight is where you want it, stop maintaining that 500kcal deficit.

    Exercise has tremendous health benefits, but it's so mostly meaningless to weight loss that I really hate seeing it brought up in weight loss discussions. Really - which is harder? Not eating that 500 kcal donut, or running for 2 hours to burn it off?

  14. Re: I understand why they need all that power on Military Data Center In a Suitcase To Get Commercial Release · · Score: 1

    No! Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!

    Sorry, I thought you said "hostile."

  15. That sounds really painful... raw nerves. on Chemical Treatment Transforms Skin Cells Into Neurons · · Score: 1

    All I can picture in my head right now is the ATHF episode where Carl's skin gets transformed into eyeballs. Whole new meaning to "Ow! My Balls!" there.

  16. Re:I found this bit quite funny on Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE · · Score: 1

    Yep that's perfectly intuitive. If I want to start my dvd-ripping tool I'll just remember "Han shot first" and for word processing, either Joey Lawrence or "woe is me."

  17. Backslash right above enter. on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    Me and my sausage fingers would LOVE to see the backslash key moved even just a few millimeters farther from the enter key. I don't know how many times I've gone to enter a command and I catch the backslash just before the enter, dropping me to > .

  18. Re:It's shift for some people on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Caps Lock Key Still So Prominent On Keyboards? · · Score: 1

    A one-handed typist with a thing against popularity? You go for the bizarre fetish stuff, don't you?

  19. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 0

    Birdshot falling out of the sky? Even if you were looking straight up and one of the tiny pellets landed right on your eyeball it would not do any damage (unless it didn't bounce off and you then rubbed it). There are reasons to prohibit discharge of firearms in certain places, but hysterical concerns about where birshot lands are not among them.

  20. Re: Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. All the keef I've ever smoked was white, too.

  21. Hey we got some of that stuff on University Students Made a Working Model Hyperloop · · Score: 3, Funny

    Floating at sea nuke plants? Fukushima came pretty damn close, eh? Not to mention all those nuke subs and carriers. Maglev trains are out there. Some of them even run through tubes (and/or chunnels). And synthetic meet? Kids these days just call it "social networking."

  22. I don't remember hoverbikes in Star Wars. on US Military To Develop Star Wars-Style Hoverbikes With British company · · Score: 1

    There were hovering bikes in ET. Those were very similar to the Omicronians' hovering bikes in Futurama - powered by love. Don't think that would work for the US Military.

  23. Re:Seriously: get a sponge on Turning a Nail Polish Disaster Into a Teachable Math Moment · · Score: 1

    The sponge may have been removed from market before this daughter was conceived. Sadly, it's probably also too late for "get an abortion."

  24. Re:Local charity on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    Since you mentioned PETA, I'll toss in the idea that your local no-kill shelter and animal rescue groups are often worthy recipients, as well. Full of volunteer opportunities, too, for us soft hearts with more time than money.

  25. Re:I wonder on Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    "We're also seeing initiatives to support Docker containers on Windows"

    Not exactly. What you're seeing is an initiative to support docker-for-windows containers on windows. They're fragmenting docker, not seeking interoperability.