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  1. Re:Swatch Internet Time on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's based on French time (UTC+1). They tried decimalising time in the revolution. That didn't work out too well.

  2. Re:DST is less than 100 years old on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    "the farm kids no longer work the farm in the summer"

    Then what's the excuse for politicians (who never worked a farm in the first place)? They get longer holidays than I've ever had, being a farm kid who worked the farm in winter *and* summer.

  3. Re:Is there anything to show benefit/harm from it on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Lined curtains work just fine. Plus they increase insulation when drawn over unlined ones so you don't use as much energy heating your house in the winter (when it is dark more, so they are more likely to be drawn). Think of the curtains in Victorian times. They were thick material for a reason.

  4. Re:I'm not sure what bothers me more, on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 2

    That's the justification given: the poor kiddies have to go to school in the dark. This conveniently forgets that if you alter the time so that didn't happen (for the three weeks it takes for that hour to be cancelled out) they are coming home in the dark instead. But that's logic, which has no place here.

  5. Re:No meeting in the middle... on FTC Sues AT&T For Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plan Customers Up To 90% · · Score: 1

    So it's the customer's fault that there isn't enough bandwidth because they're using too much, rather than AT&T's fault for not expanding the network to cope with all the millions they salt away in tax havens?

  6. Re: Spiritual Needs on Jedi-ism Becomes a Serious Religion · · Score: 2

    You're advocating violence to "educate" and show superiority? Once you start down the path to the Dark Side, yada yada...

  7. Re:Geneva Convention? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 2

    It's not the Geneva Convention, it's the Chemical Weapons Convention.

  8. Re:Fentanyl on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    That's because you have a soul.

  9. Re:PETA won't be happy until all animals are extin on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    My pets have always had medical insurance. I have never had it. True, I'm in UK where it could be argued that I do because of the NHS, but they don't fund *everything*, unlike my pet's insurance, which is comprehensive and includes palliative care. My pets have better coverage than I do. So fuck you PETA.

  10. Re:Driverless on the deep level tube is pointless on London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains · · Score: 2

    It's extremely rare that an emergency results in a train stopped between stations: if you pull the cord the driver won't stop mid-tunnel. Every carriage on every train on every line has a notice stating this.

  11. Re:Aerodynamic design? on London Unveils New Driverless Subway Trains · · Score: 2

    And this was part of the original plan: as well as having occasional open spaces (for lines close enough to the surface of course, see 23/24 Leinster Gardens) for venting until full electrification the engines were steam powered from coal burning. Got to get rid of the smoke somehow.

  12. Re:Orcas are dolphins! on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can see their lips move.

  13. Re:Whales? on Killer Whales Caught On Tape Speaking Dolphin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your mom gets enough publicity as it is...

  14. Re:Rose Glasses on The Era of Saturday Morning Cartoons Is Dead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So it was fine for you to watch and enjoy them as a child but not for a child today because you subscribe to the ridiculous "imitation" dogma? Are you a violent racist wife-beating asshole or just an asshole?

  15. Re:This debate is about money. on Mark Zuckerberg Throws Pal Joe Green Under the Tech Immigration Bus · · Score: 1

    Or use the word "irrespective". Not this gestalt abomination of the two. But then, people think "learnings" is a real word as well, when it was made up by Sasha Baron Cohen for his broken English speaking character Borat.

  16. Re:What? on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    I find odd that someone with such a low UID would think this. Proof of posting just means you have a piece of paper that verifies you entered into a contract to have something delivered, something you don't get from just using a postbox. There's nothing to say that it will be delivered or even when, just your interaction.

  17. Re:Black letter law on Proposed Law Would Limit US Search Warrants For Data Stored Abroad · · Score: 2

    Ireland *has* ratified it, as part of being in EU and implementing directives. The absolute minimum that can be implemented is that it is illegal for data belonging to EU nationals to leave EU without the *owner's* permission. Everything else is window dressing.

    Written into the Act (2003) is the get-out clause (section 8), where data can leave without permission (say for US subpoena purposes). However, this is not a carte blanche instant compliance thing and requires the owner be informed as to the transfer with a maximum of 40 days before it can occur to allow an appeal against it. Failure to do so is the illegal act.

  18. Re:Why purchase service from provider in US then? on Proposed Law Would Limit US Search Warrants For Data Stored Abroad · · Score: 1

    USA LEOs can subpoena all they like. However, if the data belongs to a foreign national (say, British) and is held on a foreign server (say, in Ireland) then Microsoft would be breaking EU law in handing it over as *that* is the law that applies, not US. Thus, as coercion to commit a criminal act is itself illegal in both US and EU, Microsoft refused to comply. This has nothing to do with the constitution.

    If it was the other way around, for example data belonging to a US citizen stored anywhere else on the planet being subpoena'd by any other country on the planet, US would tell them to go fuck themselves. And they'd get applauded for it.

  19. Re:The same as with Fortran on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    "He must have forgotten to update it"
    Bet you're glad you left.

  20. I'm sure there's a "yo mama" joke in there, but I can't be bothered.

  21. Re:illogical captain on Why Atheists Need Captain Kirk · · Score: 0

    Atheists are as arrogant as Theists in that they are convinced what they say is correct with no room for argument. Atheists cite lack of proof as proof itself, Theists cite lack of proof as a deliberate action on the part of what they believe (thus faith). Agnostics recognise that no one is omniscient; the lack of proof of something can merely be that this proof hasn't been discovered yet and they are willing to accept that it may be forthcoming. See Higg's boson.

  22. Re:I just unplug my landline phone on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 1

    Not in UK they won't due to BT's Universal Service obligation. This is so you can always contact the emergency services should you need to.

  23. Re:which side of Earth? on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 3, Funny

    The outside.

  24. Re:Normally I'd side with anyone but Disney, but. on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: 1

    When I first saw Deadmau5 the first thing I thought of was a comedy show starring Johnny Vegas in which one (silent)character called Cartoon Head wears a mouse head throughout. Then I thought of Mickey only because he's a cartoon mouse as well.

  25. Re:Revolt of the Machines on Space Station's 'Cubesat Cannon' Has Gone Rogue · · Score: 3, Funny

    And that'll be their excuse when they come back long after dark:

    "Where the hell have you been?!"

    "Imaging Earth."

    "Until this time of night? I was worried sick!"

    "We were curious."