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  1. Several years ago I closed my WF account and was surprised to keep getting statements for a $5.00 balance. So I went and closed it again, but then kept getting statements for a $0.05 balance. I had to go see them a third time to get it closed for real.

    Someone really didn't want to report a decrease in their number of customers.

  2. Tolerance for error on Google Smashes the World Record For Calculating Digits of Pi (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    So if her last digit was wrong, how far off would she be on a calculation of the diameter of the observable universe?

    Does pi have any meaning when you get details beyond the Planck length?

  3. What more proof do you need? on 12-Year-Old Boy Reportedly Builds A Nuclear Fusion Reactor (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    He aged two years in the last 13 months.

  4. Israel's Slashdot?

    Or maybe just an editor's confession?

  5. Re:Russia finally found what it's good at on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    To wit: When you don't have abs, pecs, or ceps, show your dick. If your dick is small, just moon them.

  6. What possible benefit does Russia gain by spamming bad reviews for a movie?

    Makes their people feel at home on Slashdot.

  7. Re:Is that a joke research paper? on 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's a Russian troll.

  8. Not the fact the movie was shit and just happened to piss all over one if the franchises most beloved characters, totally wasting any opportunity to use Luke Skywalker in any interesting capacity before unceremoniously killing him off.

    You almost make me wish I'd seen it.

  9. Don't know how much you can learn about the QI hypothesis from it's name, but it's clear that mass is quantized, and it is sometimes suspected that space is quantized, so if so, you get the "quantized inertia" for free.

    Whether the rest would follow from that is another questions.

  10. Re:Simple Definition on IAU Ad Hoc Committee Publishes Revised Set of Definitions For SETI Terms (arxiv.org) · · Score: 1

    Life on a planet other than Earth which did not get there as a result of human activity.

    Good defiinition, but unless you're extraterrestrial I'm pretty sure you didn't type that while clutching your feet in your hands.

  11. i ignored it and all invites on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    until I got an invite from an old friend. Then I set up an account.

    After seeing the clickbait-tedium it takes to enter your information, I deleted it again and went back to ignoring invites.

  12. Re:Missing person on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    "11 years old" sounds suspicious in the context of a sunspot observatory.

  13. The latter would surely be very limiting. on Mozilla Working On Google Translate Integration In Firefox (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    Not being able to read the page is also very limiting.

  14. Re:High potential returns means high risk on As Value of Cryptocurrencies Falls, a Lot of New and Risk-Taking Investors Are Suffering Immensely (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you buy into something that returns significantly more than what you can borrow money at, of course it's high risk (or else the bank lending you money would buy those same investments instead of lending you money).

    But if it's a bubble based on speculation on something that has no inherent worth, it's no longer a risk - it's a certainty.

  15. Re:Just let the opensource foks on Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, if you don't mind waiting a few years to play last year's games.

    Actually, I don't mind. I wait for enough DLC come out to turn the crippled game into a complete game, and for the ridiculous prices to come down from the stratosphere.

  16. Re:I just can't relate to micrometres per minute on Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death In Cells And It's 30 Micrometers Per Minute (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Please, can't we standardize on lightyears per dog year?

  17. If I had a trillion dollars to spend... on Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Man, that's a lot of ___". (Fill in the blank in your reply.)

  18. Now we know how our Octopodian Overlords got here.

    The only remaining loose end to this mystery is whether they consider Pluto a planet.

  19. Didn't they just change their name? Or am I thinking of some other association of shysters?

  20. Re:43% of everyone is Planning To Leave on In a Poll, 43% of Millennials in 36 Countries Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs Within Two Years (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    i think that's low

    Yeah, since 98% of them probably have shitty dead-end jobs.

  21. Re:Planted evidence on Suspect Identified In CIA 'Vault 7' Leak (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They also "found" a baggie of Longbottom Green behind his toaster.

    The state has a *serious* PR problem if that's the first think straight people like me think of.

  22. Re:Don't look at intelligence, look at paranoia on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't expect intelligence to factor into strength of passwords.

    Especially if the strength of a password is defined by whether some random company where you used it got hacked.

    Also, if you know it has been exposed, continuing to use it might be a de facto indicator that you're not a bright one.

  23. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd say that anytime there is a duality of opinion, no matter how much evidence there is, you'll always find people on both sides.

    Because otherwise there wouldn't be a duality of opinion?

  24. Re:smugglers can hardly wait on Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I reckon that fully automated ships ought to be the greatest boon to piracy since the invention of the cutlass.

    But where's the fun, if there's no one to make walk the plank?

  25. Lets eat slugs and the worlds hottest pepper, then go on disability so tax payers can the bills of stupidity.

    Or put him in a Matrix, and use the power he generates to mine cryptocurrency to pay down the public debt.