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  1. The plural of "anecdote" is not "data". on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Most Stable Smartphones These Days? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your wife's iPhone needs to be looked at. Your 5S is streaming even higher res video to another device on a WiFi network (it couldn't be the home network - nah, impossible) yet here you are, putting a trend line on something with two data points. Yeah. That's how it's done.

  2. Re:There's already laws.... on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    I live in one of the states that makes it illegal to have a K&N or Injen cold air intake on my engine. That 17 states make my car illegal and the rest don't is silly. How am I supposed to do the Cannonball Run?

  3. *blink* Dangerous? *blink* on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    "cars have become too complex and dangerous for consumers and third parties to handle..." Ya don't say? The sucker is loaded with fuel that rates at dozen or more sticks of dynamite per gallon, spews poisonous gas while running properly, and doing the wrong thing to a MacPherson strut assembly can put a hole in something you like too much to have a hole in... Remember the original compleat idiot's guide - about the VW beetle? The story about the ponytail? CARS CAN BE DANGEROUS. They want to lock down the ECU, fine. Just leave the rest of it to anyone brave and sober enough to turn a wrench and think straight.

  4. I couldn't understand why that fuel tank on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    was getting larger. Then it struck me.

  5. In space, no one can hear you laser go 'pew pew' on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 4, Funny

    so why bother.

  6. "help them on their path to be their best selves" on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 1

    That makes it clear. Nothing to do but sit back and wait for Oprah's spawn to burst from his chest.

  7. Has /. been taken over by on V'Ger Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    a 5th grade creative writing class? This isn't even bush league satire / sarcasm.

  8. Please. Just. Stop. on Parents Sue School After Pod Daughter Is Banned From Prom · · Score: 1

    April 2nd can't come soon enough.

  9. A new record on Scientists Discover Meaning of Life Through Massive Computing Project · · Score: 1

    for embarrassingly bad 4/1 stuff.

  10. Be nice if your 4/1 stuff was even remotely on Military Caught Training Children To Fight · · Score: 1

    plausible.

  11. Testing is at Canadian Area 64.58 on Amazon Tests Delivery Drones At Secret Canada Site After US Frustration · · Score: 2

    (that's Area 51 in American)

  12. OK I get WHY (push e-tech), on At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series · · Score: 1

    I get HOW (like IROC) and I get WHAT (spectator interest + industry money) but the BLASTED THINGS SOUND LIKE MY OLD SLOT CARS!

  13. 173010 !!! on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    Wait, no, that was the boot loader address for the PDP-11. Never mind.

  14. Summary: on Is the Apple Watch a Useful Medical Device? (Video) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't seen one, I think they're expensive, and I don't know exactly what they can do, but here's some presumptuous answers to your softball leading questions.

  15. Dad, daughter, and a bunch of professional help... on Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces · · Score: 2

    studio space, animators, etc. it is formidable and well done - but it's not like this was a two-person effort.

  16. I believe this was settled on Treasure Island... on Do Robots Need Behavioral 'Laws' For Interacting With Other Robots? · · Score: 1

    in any given episode.

  17. They're fishermen, not engineers. on Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat · · Score: 1

    As evidenced by them calling that gap between the computers 15 inches.

  18. Best takeaway from Star Wars and Star Trek? on Boeing Patents Star Wars Style Force Field Technology · · Score: 1

    Apparently obsession with cell phones and fax machines is a condition particular to our time and place.

  19. They're reviving the Yugo?! on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: 1

    Or is there another use of the term "doomsday dashboard" that I wasn't previously familiar with? (this may dupe - submissions seemed borked for a bit)

  20. They're reviving the Yugo?! on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Introduces the Doomsday Dashboard · · Score: 2

    Sorry, there must be another use of the term "doomsday dashboard" that I wasn't previously familiar with.

  21. It's simply pining on "Google Glass Isn't Dead!" Says Google's CEO Eric Schmidt · · Score: 1

    for the fjo... I mean the millionaire hipsters!

  22. Simple. on How Device Drivers Are Reverse Engineered · · Score: 1

    Ben Affleck. Problem Solved.

  23. How are they allowed to do this?! on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Oh, right - because they're a private, for-profit company and not a government agency or public utility.

  24. Really? Because on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 3, Funny

    unloyal dahlia cloud blacklegged gwyniad timorously. Denoting cobb browser emulsifier kearney underthroating flowage drysdale. Outsprue antipolitics handwrought palatable phosphatized preliberated fico overheadiness. Or maybe not.

  25. These authors are a shoe-in for the on Scientific Study Finds There Are Too Many Scientific Studies · · Score: 1

    next IgNobel awards.