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  1. Re:No, this seems wrong on Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I was basing that on the US-centric slant this site has, not your particular location. It seemed easier that way.

  2. Re:No, this seems wrong on Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    On this side of the pond "can't be bothered" is in common usage. A lot of the time the colloquialism "can't be arsed" is used to mean the same thing.

  3. Re:It's a shame except for vaccines... on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't try that with smallpox. I'd rather have an easily shrugged off case of cowpox to get immunised...

  4. Re:Not surprised on The US Government is Finally Telling People that Homeopathy is a Sham (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The only thing the alcohol might have done is kill off some bacteria that might have caused an infection through the cracks, thus allowing the body to be able to cure the wart quicker. A benefit to be sure, as less resources are spent combating infection, but definitely not a cure.

  5. Re:People perform large parts of their life online on Microsoft Survey Shows Negative Online Interactions Affect People In Real Life (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How about they reverse the conditions for the survey? I'll bet a lot of people are untrusting online because of negative experiences in real life...

  6. Re:Detroit has been 98% Democrat since shortly bef on General Motors To Lay Off 2,000 Workers at Two US Plants (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A mea culpa response seems called for from Ray. He could even put his hands up if he wants.

  7. Re:Whatever was wrong with local solar time? on Slashdot Asks: Is It Time To Dump Time Zones In Favor of Coordinated Universal Time? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's just ditch this heliocentric stuff and go for sidereal time.

  8. Well, that's on US deciding to do something different to the rest of the planet, much like writing dates in the wrong order.

  9. Re:Never stop? on A Naked Black Hole Is Screaming Through the Universe (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The black hole isn't screaming, it's the victims.

  10. Still true after all this time...

  11. Re:We need more competition, not less. on CenturyLink To Buy Level 3 For $34 Billion, Create a More Formidable Competitor To AT&T (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    AT&T was broken up before because it was too big and anti-competitive. Now it is almost what it was again through the bits being renamed several times, "pivoted", bought by others (mostly other supposedly independent bits) and then bought back / merged again. There was an infographic going around last week that detailed how they are basically back where they were.

  12. Re:How do they make money anyway? on Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Guy got goat game going good.

  13. Re:"I Don't Want Your Money" on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I give completed stamp cards for coffee shops so they can get a hot drink with as much sugar as they want. I haven't redeemed a card in years, they just collect in my wallet so I can give them out to those who can't afford it.

  14. Re:poor vim users on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Every keyboard I used at university had a different layout. Whichever it was, be it a 80386 PC, Amstrad PC1640, Mac, Sun SPARC, SGI, dumb terminal, every one had the tilde key in a different place. Then I went home and my own had it somewhere different again. Drove me nuts.

  15. Re:How is everyone supposed to use Emacs? on It Looks Like Apple is Killing the Physical Esc and Power Keys On New MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    My US/Russian keyboard laptop has [ next to P, as does a UK, Italian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak and Spanish keyboard. Latin American has it next to Ñ. Must be hell to access array indices if you don't have one of them...

  16. Thought that was bootlegging

  17. UK doesn't have a climate. Even "temperate" isn't accurate, though that is the closest.

  18. Yes you can. It *will* rain on Tuesday in UK. You just didn't specifically ask how much and where...

  19. Re:Comcast/NBC Universal merger was a disaster, to on AT&T Buys Time Warner For $85B. Is The Mass Media Consolidating? (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you have written to the FTC, not FCC? Not that that would have made the slightest bit of difference...

  20. Re:"Tacit approval"? My nose! on American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website (ksat.com) · · Score: 1

    "when there's no clear nexus to US jurisdiction"

    That has never stopped them in the past. This time, the targets of the hacks are "the bad guys" so who cares, right?

  21. Re:OMFG HE HAD A SERVER IN AMERICA?!!? on KickassTorrents Lawyer: 'Torrent Sites Do Not Violate Criminal Copyright Laws' (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Not just that. As "secondary copyright infringement" had only been ruled on, incorrectly, in a civil case in US and such a concept doesn't exist in Poland or indeed anywhere else, there is no criminal case in the first place. There is no extradition for civil "offences" (quoted because the offence doesn't exist except in mealy-mouthed law twisting Hollywood asshole imaginations), so the request is invalid.

    Where is the extradition request for Google Ireland board members for doing the same thing? They have servers in US as well...

  22. Re:That's, for better or worse, for a court to dec on Samsung Forced YouTube To Pull GTA 5 Mod Video Because It Showed Galaxy Note 7 As Bomb (redmondpie.com) · · Score: 1

    Sony have form in being the bad guys in DMCA crap like this, and there's plenty of mud-slinging in their direction, but this time they aren't involved.

  23. Mine requires a finglonger to operate, but it got lost in a house move...

  24. Re:Big news on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    MAC would be better.

  25. Re:It's counter-intuitive on DNA Testing For Jobs May Be On Its Way, Warns Gartner (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Females can have colour blindness as well. It's just a lot rarer.