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  1. Re:Sooner it goes, the better on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. I'd rather be ruled by people who actually care about me and my rights. They could be Martians for all it matters.

  2. Re:Sooner it goes, the better on EU Presidency Calls For Massive Internet Filtering, Leaked Document Shows (edri.org) · · Score: 1

    48% of us aren't realising we made a huge mistake. We've known it all along.

  3. Re:Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback on Mozilla Testing an Opt-Out System For Firefox Telemetry Collection (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this the same Pale Moon that took the whole of my RAM up last time I tried it?

  4. Re:Puff, Puff, Pass the Bullshit. on We Can't Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the search engines seem to have got the "cheapest price" responses under control so you don't have to scroll to the third page. for the first meaningful result.

  5. Re:Virtue signaling douche bags on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What an ill chosen homily. Everybody does not have an arsehole. Think about it.

  6. A train needn't be a specific piece of hardware, whether it be a locomotive or the whole thing.
    "The Flying Scotsman" was the name of a daily train that ran for many years in Britain from London to Edinburgh.
    Or at least everyone called it a train; but in reality, it was the name of a timetable entry.

  7. I second every single word of that. If ever there was an app that hits the nail right on the head, it's MPC.

  8. Wow. It used to be a joke (and somewhat of a reality) that rich people throw their transistor radio out when the batteries run flat - back when alkaline etc. batteries were everywhere.

    Rich people change their car when the ashtray is full.

  9. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if it's arbitrary. None of the key units in a measurement system can be defined by a universal constant that people in the street can relate to (wavelength of cadmium light anyone?).
    It's designed to be rational, not meaningful.

  10. Re:120 whatchyamacallit on It's Too Hot For Some Planes To Fly In Phoenix (npr.org) · · Score: 2

    But there's probably more to the story, since 1oF increase in temperature increases the volume of Mercury by 1 part in 10,000. Did this play into it?

    No more so I guess than the length of a 1-second pendulum being near as dammit 1 metre or atmospheric pressure at sea level being near as dammit 1 bar.

  11. Re:Waiting for the MS hate on Microsoft Now Lets Surface Laptop Owners Revert Back To Windows 10 S (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    I have real work to do and have no choice but to use Windows. But I can choose my version.
    It needs to be one I can rely on to stay stable, stay the same, and stay out of my face.
    Guess which version that isn't.

  12. Yes but we didn't have cellphones then.

  13. Re:Not sure about that on We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier (reason.com) · · Score: 1

    There's an alternate reality where tiny portable phones never caught on and broadcast TV (or its successor, possibly 2-way chatting TVs) really needed the extra spectrum.

    Yes I read that book too. I think it was by Tony Blair or some other Brit with a similar name.

  14. Re: hardware compatability on Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? (backblaze.com) · · Score: 2

    I have dictionaries made for 16 bits that the publishers never updated and which no other dictionary I've found can hold a candle to.
    I need to call these up on the same screen as the documents I'm working on.
    Having said that, the "Windows XP Mode" virtual PC does the job, even if it is a bit "sticky" at times.

  15. Well that's Occam's razor well and truly debunked.

  16. Re:Stupid on Theresa May Loses Overall Majority In UK Parliament (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    She called it in order to enjoy five years as Empress of Britain.
    She called it when she did because she's an opportunist.
    That just about sums up her whole political ideology in fact.

  17. Re:Slashdot moderation no more for me on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    3) "danke", "ja","nein" & "ich liebe dich" are the only words of German I know. Can I still move there? :)

    Nope. You fail. Swiss Germans say "merci", not "danke".

  18. Re:They've definitely been laughing on Manchester Attack Could Lead To Internet Crackdown (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nope. May was there first.

  19. Maybe it's the constitution that runs contrary to the world.

  20. Next Generation - Many female and black characters, Also, Picard was a disastrous attempt at portraying a Frenchman,

    FTFY

  21. Re:It's his own fault... on UK Group Fights Arrest Over Refusing To Surrender Passwords At The Border (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And the River Thames in Oxford. Can't go calling that Isis any more. No Sir.

  22. Re: Really? on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah because we know that there are such things as false positives it couldn't possibly be that single euro the dog smelled...

  23. Re:We're being divided and conquered on Cable Lobby Survey Backfires; Most Americans Support Net Neutrality (consumerist.com) · · Score: 1

    If the public could build consensus around some solution without getting split up in D vs. R nonsense, most of us really hate the scumbag tactics the telcos and their lobbyists were using. The public has mostly forgotten this and is being divided and conquered by lobbyists.

    Yes but that's not ISP specific. It's a universal truth.

  24. Re:Really? on Human Sense of Smell Rivals That of Dogs, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A sniffer dog at an airport, trained to find drugs and banknotes, flagged my travel bag positive. The dog handler searched the bag and found nothing. When I unpacked the bag at my destination I found a squeaky-clean 5 euro note in the pocket of a shirt that had been through the washing machine.
    Of course, my being a human, I could smell it all along.

  25. Re:Apathetic Americans on 'Weaponized' Twitter Bots Spread Info From French Campaign Hack (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Probably a lot closer to zero than to one.