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  1. Situation normal on Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Comcast is also said to be affected to a lesser degree."

    So, 33.6k instead of the usual 56k then.

  2. Re:Elsewhere in the airport, John McClane is... on Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    M Night Shyalaman twist: this time it's John McClane seriously fucking with an airport.

  3. I used to be a verifier like you until I took an arrow to the knee.

  4. Re:"enable loading of remote content" on How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Still by default for me. Unless I want to see any images, I don't see any images.

  5. I'm sure there's a clause in the tax bill that says you can't do that any more...

  6. Re:There needs to be testing and validation... on This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because software has never been tweaked to provide better benchmark results in order to appear superior to the competition.

  7. If you learn to drive and pass your test in an automatic, you are not eligible to drive manual in UK. Only those who have to have automatic (usually medical reasons, but there are those who deliberately choose it) learn in a car that has it.

  8. Re:These companies claim to want neutrality on 'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm on 3 and the only data allowance I have is a tethering cap of 40GB a month. Otherwise, it's unlimited (and means it, though I haven't tried using silly amounts on mobile to test).

  9. If you cannot vote, you cannot participate in the democratic process. Why pay taxes, then? "No taxation without representation" was a corner stone of that little shindig that occurred 250 years ago.

  10. 50 years ago? In 1967? Seiko claim the first kinetic watch prototype was first shown in 1986 and was on general sale in 1988. I got mine in 1992. Yes, it still works.

  11. So long as they are consenting ounces, I don't see the need to publicise Troy's sex life, especially in bold text...

  12. Re:They're Trying To Milk Subscriptions on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice retcon. Seasons used to run consecutively until recently, when there was the decision to break them up for reasons, usually money; replace with something more likely to get views and therefore increased revenue from advertisers over a holiday period and resume when the festive excitement dies down and everybody is back at work.

    Netflix releasing episodes weekly is just returning to the old model.

  13. Re:I really don't see how this ends well on Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Apologizes For Data Breach, Blames Russians (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Reds under the beds. Makes me feel nostalgic.

  14. Re:I know how the Lord of the Rings TV series ends on Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Melkor was thrown through the Doors of Night. As T-Bird said "there ain't no comin' back"

  15. Re:It's"daylight saving" on Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    And you definitely capitalise words that are part of an acronym.

  16. Re:@POTUS retweets @realDonaldTrump an awful lot on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I could automatically retweet everything Trump's personal account vomits out (I don't need to, though, as there's plenty that do that anyway). Does that make my account "de facto" a government contract? Of course not. Don't be so fucking stupid.

  17. Re:Service used by US Government on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Trump's personal account is part of a government contract now, is it?

  18. Re:Yes Please! on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised. The record for shortest time from start of dry weather to a hosepipe ban being decreed by a water company in UK was _three days_. As I said, we haven't had one for years, mainly because the companies were taken to task after the the day debâcle,, rather than it being due to any increase in rainfall.

    The UK has a climate peculiar to it, so peculiar we don't consider we have one, just "weather".

  19. Re:And any Geologist. . . . on The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep. Filed under "stuff we knew over 40 years ago", only now it happened "roughly 66 million years ago" instead of the usually stated "65 million years ago".

    And people wonder why Trump doesn't have much interest in funding scientific research...

  20. Re:Yes Please! on Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Interesting that they leave Northern Europe out of the list. The hottest summer on record in UK was in 1976, which is also conveniently outside the 40 year window _right now_, let alone in a decade's time. 1991 was a good hot summer but again that's outside when they will be doing their trend calculations. More recent summers haven't come close to 1976. Even last year's temperatures weren't as high and in no way did they last as long.

    If summers are getting consistently hotter, we would have hosepipe bans, but we haven't had one for over half a decade. The water companies are just as rubbish as they were back in the 2000s, so it isn't that somehow the water table is capable of maintaining its current level.

    So this is saying some regions will be hotter, so long as those regions are narrowly defined and the data range is restricted in order to prove the hypothesis.

  21. You mean Ferris Bueller?

  22. Re:I confess, it was me! on Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    Not bad for a one armed man.

  23. You'll have to provide your own Lemon Pledge though.

  24. Re:You can't use cash with no power on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    You see the keyhole on the drawer? That opens it. No electricity needed, just a key. The rest is just adding and subtracting numbers.

  25. Re:I pray the power never goes out PERIOD on In a Cashless World, You'd Better Pray the Power Never Goes Out (mises.org) · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, Puerto Rico was part of US. Or do you just mean mainland?