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  1. Maybe we don't name a project on Librem: a Laptop Custom-Made For Free/Libre Software · · Score: 1

    after the sort of prayer you use when things hit the fan?

  2. Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Google? on Google Pondering $1 Billion Investment In SpaceX's Satellite Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sure - but where are we going to get a hyperloop that big and 3,000 WRT54Gs at THIS hour?

  3. Only side effect is on Hibernation Protein May Halt Alzheimer's · · Score: 1

    craving honey and salmon.

  4. "and prevent services like Google and others on Ask Slashdot: Can I Trust Android Rooting Tools? · · Score: 1

    spying on me" Well, you've completed Step 1: Buy some Google ecosystem. Step 2: ???? Step 3: Profit!

  5. It is good for science at large. Example: on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 1

    Ask some random person to name another WHOI scientist after Bob Ballard. Thought so. Even when he first started splitting his time between WHOI and NatGeo - many of the established scientists in the field could not comprehend why he would want to go on TV and gas on about ocean science. It was like he was speaking another language. After he got the vents stuff out in the mainstream, I happened to be in Woods Hole and saw that they had finally put together a WHOI exhibit on the work that was done. Understand that WHOI proper has always been a locked-down place with nothing much public. NOAA Fisheries has an exhibit and for a long time you could pop into MBL and see what was going on - within reason - used to borrow their labs to sort out alga specimens. So after going through the new exhibit in an old church at the top end of Water St., I was talking to someone who has a business in town and remarked that it was nice to have something permanent for the public about WHOI, good for them. Punchline? She told me the church was merely rented for the exhibit. Arrrrgggghhhh!

  6. Re:Why the &%#$@ does CENTCOM on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 1

    Well, my stepson was fighting an actual battle on an actual battlefield, and it had nothing to do with posting to Twitter or Youtube.

  7. Why the &%#$@ does CENTCOM on US Central Command's Twitter Account Hacked, Filled With Pro-ISIS Messages · · Score: 2

    need a Twitter feed and a YouTube channel?

  8. So are taxes easier on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 2

    or harder than spelling?

  9. There's not "a" reason people aren't voting. on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1

    And the opposition majority congress thing swings in every modern-era mid-term election except one.

  10. "If implemented correctly" on How Bitcoin Could Be Key To Online Voting · · Score: 1, Insightful

    how is this in the same sentence as Bitcoin?

  11. Somehow the first one is going to former on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    baseball legend Chico Escuela.

  12. Um, yes, temporary. on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    Traditional producers are apparently willing to let the price of crude float so as to try and starve out the frackers. Theory is once they shutter the most expensive methods of getting oil out of the ground they could reduce competition / supply and drive up the price.

  13. After the local auto show, the eGolf is on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    my first choice if I have $27K to spend. Line for line a Golf, and with the US tax credit it's the same net purchase cost as a GTI. This Mark VII Golf is by all reviews a considerable step up in the platform. It doesn't encroach on the trunk like the Focus Energi, a lot more heritage than the Nissan B platform, it's not a cramped version of a compact Chevy, and for $700 they send Bosch to your house to install a 4-hour charger. Second call would be to SolarCity.

  14. "incentivisation"? on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 1

    How about "incentives".

  15. Amazing. Rob's got a day job... on Hubble Takes Amazing New Images of Andromeda, Pillars of Creation · · Score: 1

    he'll be fine.

  16. Prior Art... on Nest Will Now Work With Your Door Locks, Light Bulbs and More · · Score: 1
  17. But good on Dawkins for doing so. on WSJ Refused To Publish Lawrence Krauss' Response To "Science Proves Religion" · · Score: 1

    Absent a paywall, it'll probably get read more, but sadly not by as many who would need to read it.

  18. WSJ news and editorial divisions are two on WSJ Refused To Publish Lawrence Krauss' Response To "Science Proves Religion" · · Score: 1

    completely different animals. One of them is reasonably accurate, the other is a partisan shop.

  19. Except that now on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    when you open the latest gadget, it's black boxes, nothing that you can see working, or replace without just desoldering a chip.

  20. Yes they do on What Isn't There an App For? · · Score: 1

    which is half the story. I use SleepTime by Azumio. If apps collect HR and BP they should be able to give you parameters of the rhythm including rhythm-adjusted average (MESOR), amplitude and time of peak (acrophase). MDs hate isolated data points.

  21. Circadian rhythm analysis. on What Isn't There an App For? · · Score: 1

    Linked to healthkit or whatever it is Android uses. Health data is of limited value if you ignore time of day.

  22. Every analogy fails. on Anthropomorphism and Object Oriented Programming · · Score: 1

    Like all, this one works up to a point. Learning something new without analogies is probably going to be very slow. It's not like this is the downfall of programming, but it's passing-interesting as a note.

  23. Where's Sarah MacLachlan when you need her? on How Galaxies Are Disappearing From Our Universe · · Score: 1

    Off merely saving a single breed of Doberhuahua. Piker.

  24. ^^^ this. on Google Fiber's Latest FCC Filing: Comcast's Nightmare Come To Life · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most places have one cable provider. There were supposed to be two per market. Due in no small part to the cost of running cables over existing infrastructure. It's expensive and nobody else thought it was worth the investment so far. But none of them were Google.

  25. Is it accurate to say most of the people on /. on Happy Public Domain Day: Works That Copyright Extension Stole From Us In 2015 · · Score: 1

    do work for hire, paid by the job or salaried and that's it - on to the next job/pay? Is it possible that colors the discussion? Seems to me there would be a different take on it if most of the people here worked for advance against 8-10% royalties or percent of sales. Not sure the /. take on this is global.