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  1. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    if they do have news moderators then it must be a global team because in the UK the trending items are rarely about USA, at least I don't think. The only item I can recall seeing recently on the trending segment was reaction to Katie Hopkins' assertion that she would run naked down Regent Street with a sausage up her bum if Sadiq Khan won the London mayoral election. Quite what purpose the sausage serves is lost on me. Anyway, I imagine the response to either name in any other country would be "Who?".

    And if your response is "Who?", then take my word for it, you don't want to see Katie Hopkins naked.

  2. Re:In other news, water gets things wet... on Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I don't think there is such a thing as a truly unbiased media platform and people will like the ones that support their beliefs and complain about the ones that don't. The worst case scenario being finding yourself working for an organisation that's on the other side.

  3. Re:Wait, Wait, Now Hear This . . . on Parents Could Be Sued By Their Kids For Posting Pictures of Them On Facebook (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The moral here is never accept friend requests from family. Requests from work colleagues are also best left unaccepted.

  4. Re: And this isn't going to render random ... on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    However, if it's a side affect of killing them, then that's actually okay.

    I think loss of vision is a side effect of being killed in 100% of fatalities.

  5. Re:Undoing mod on UAE Bank Suffers Massive Data Breach (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Uhm... you have to post from a logged in account to undo moderation.

  6. Re:the criminals have no shame on UAE Bank Suffers Massive Data Breach (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the real issue is that the data was probably not much more difficult to acquire than pocketing a candy bar at the 7-11 and that's not really the hackers' fault. Sure, punish them but those that were responsible for the lax security should not escape reprimand for their negligence as so often seems to be the case when these things happen.

  7. I don't like coffee. Do you have any tea?

  8. Re:You do the world a favor.... on Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    I was about to say that lots of people give away some of their time for free (organizing social events, amateur sports teams, etc.) but I realized that's because where I live you actually tend have some spare time and you're probably in the USA and so won't have any.

  9. Re:Isn't the idea on Who's Downloading Pirated Scientifc Papers? Everyone (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't see a problem with those results not becoming publicly available.

    Suppressed is another word for that. And it has caused a few problems in the pharmaceutical field.

  10. Dear GCHQ employee who reads my slashdot posts,

    I mean a UK citizen posting to a US based site must be slightly out of the ordinary behaviour worthy of further investigation, right? Anyway I was just after a general evaluation of how you think my posts are. I got a +5 funny once you know.

    Thanks,

    Yours faithf... you already know my real name and where I live anyway, don't you?

  11. Thanks for the quick summary of today's Daily Mail.

  12. Re:Sadly, the norm on Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls (usuncut.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That would put a monetary value on each account which is related to it's standing within whatever forum, and the money being flung about in the presidential campaign is a lot more than most people would ever see. Do you have a price that you'd sell a social media account for?

    Sure, any account purchased like that would quickly lose any credibility but it would have a short window of usefulness.

  13. Re:slippery slope on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Cigarettes haven't been banned.

    Not yet, but in UK it seems that the restricted areas keep proliferating. There's a park near my work that just put up "this is a smoke-free zone" signs, and this is in the open air. Ridiculous. But I digress.

    But we try to keep minors away from them.

    And there's the real problem. It was always the shop worker that was the gatekeeper to bar tobacco, alcohol and porn from minors. It wasn't a perfect system and everyone knew workarounds but it was good enough to appease the majority. Now the porn is readily available as digital media and there has been a scrambling around by legislators in all countries to have a gatekeeper but none of them seem to have proposed a reasonable and workable solution yet. They just cobble something together to win votes.

  14. Re: Seems obvious on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I meant in the context of them being in cahoots with any government on earth, as the conspiracy in the article alleges. I do absolutely believe that extraterrestrial life will exist but I also absolutely believe that it's never been anywhere near this planet.

  15. Related to earlier article? on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Hang on, I was just reading an earlier article about bogus, nonsense books on Kindle. Is this an example of one?

  16. Re:Seems obvious on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    people will claim anything to "prove" aliens exist.

    They already do and not just for aliens. Replace "aliens exist" with any false statement and it sums them up. For example, "the earth is flat", "god exists", "Obama was born in Africa", "trickle down economics works", the list is endless.

  17. Re:"Half a second" is a lifetime... on Mysterious Gamma-Ray Burst May Be Linked To Gravitational Wave Find (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Neutrons (and gravitation waves?) are not affected by the matter

    I think you mean neutrinos. Neutrons represent about half the mass of normal matter and don't pass through it easily. Gravity waves would theoretically be propagated by the graviton but since it's never been proven to exist it's hard to say what its attributes are.

  18. Re:No Big Surprise on Online Voters Name British Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Elections on the other hand seem to be taken about as seriously as that boat name vote by many people.

    It's the only explanation for the current UK government.

  19. Re:Par for the course on Online Voters Name British Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Only because it was a local radio presenter that made the initial suggestion. If a Daily Mail journalist had got the idea first it could very well have been just that.

  20. What does the user put on the insurance claim? on Jet Strikes Drone Near Heathrow Airport (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Given they might not have been too bright in the first place and may also have insured their new toy, particularly as many get fitted with expensive digital cameras, someone just needs to browse the insurance claims from the area.

    If the camera memory survived and is found that could be some nice footage.

  21. Re:what's the explaination? on Alien 'Wow!' Signal Could Be Explained After Almost 40 Years (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not the done thing to read the articles I know.

    Essentially, it's been suggested that the event was caused by two comets that were undiscovered at the time. Their next passes are due soon and proposer of the hypothesis is requesting funds to buy radio telescope time during the passes. If he gets the funding and finds nothing then we won't have any explanation and can still say it might be aliens.

  22. What's more worrying is the implication that the poster would consider themselves an ubermensch. Granted one without an uber-skill in languages but an ubermensch nonetheless.

  23. Why shouldn't England be tropical (again)?

    Tropical means within the tropics, i.e. between the latitudes that the solar zenith touches at the solstices. Plate tectonics are why England was once tropical and might be again (I don't know what the long term movement is projected to be).

  24. So now that it's the run-up to the EU exit referendum in the UK, the Google search engine will be modified so that any "should UK leave the EU" search will simply return "Yes, because we want to keep our tax situation secret in the UK".

  25. Re:Selection bias on Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, selection bias: enabling people to convince themselves they are most definitely, unquestionably and unarguably right since the dawn of civilization.