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  1. Re:So a guy that runs a ride sharing company. on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Get back to me when Roomba can avoid smearing dogshit all over the house.

    Then maybe I'll consider the possibility that a robot car can safely discern a child running into the street from a abandoned shopping bag blown in the wind.

  2. bald tires, upatched OS, questionable brakes on Lyft Says Robots Will Drive Most Of Its Cars in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Eliminating the driver also eliminates the person most likely to complain loudly about life-threatening deferred maintenance.
    win-win

  3. What exactly does 'solving global warming' mean?

    NAZI space mirrors to block out the Sun
    Mr Burns is philanthropist. You little people are just too stupid to understand his genius.

  4. HO LEE CRAP! on iOS 10 Is Surfacing Hardcore Porn GIFs in iMessage (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    iOS 10 is turning out to be even MORE fun than Windows 10.

    Awesome job, Tim!

  5. Re:Looking at this I have a title: on Bank of America Analysts Say There's A 50% Chance We Live In The Matrix (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Everybody says : "100% chance Bank of America wasting peoples' money theorizing about the matrix"

  6. Why is 6 scared? on GCHQ Planning UK-Wide DNS Firewall (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    1. gee, if there were only a way to find out TL;DC : 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 not 4.4.4.4
    2. you're just trading the NSA for GCHQ, you patriotic American, you.



  7. 40% less BANG for your buck! on Samsung To Push Software Upgrade Which Will Cap Galaxy Note 7 Battery Charging at 60 Percent (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Samsung steals 40% of customers' battery life

    TFTFY

  8. Craigslist killed syzygy job.
    How can you predict earthquakes if you can't monitor lost pet notices in the newspaper classifieds?

    Also makes it hard to hookup with timetravellers, for obvious reasons.

  9. Yeah, maybe by 1980 they'll get the moonbase finished.

  10. "king of the dead" ? !! on NASA Launches OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft To Intercept Asteroid (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    At this point, I think NASA is intentionally picking mission names just to troll Richard Hoagland.

    Unless you actually believe that NASA is run by a secret cabal of Egyptian god worshiping death cultists.
    Like Jack Parsons.

  11. merely a simple matter of engineering... on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 2

    You have to heat the mixture (a man made combination of several minerals) to about 2,700 degrees F to get Cement.

    hey wait, don't they have volcanoes in Costa Rica? So that pesky cement production problem is solvable.
    Now to just get everybody switched over to electric cars.

    And since someone inevitably brought up the energy storage with problem with renewables -- Costa Rica is also pretty close to the equator. Just run mass up the space elevator when the wind is blowing / Sun is shining. Then run mass down the elevator when you need more baseload power. Good grief, I can't believe I have to spell everything out for you. This isn't rocket surgery!

  12. Re:gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 0

    hybris - hypocritical hubris

    seem pretty self-evident and a perfectly cromulent word.

  13. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you're all missing the point here:
    Tesla's KILLER ROBOTS 2 , Humanity 0

  14. oh good grief! on Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Why can't you just tell him to blow on it?!!1


    It's time-tested tradition that over time the magic smoke settles into the bottom. You might need to blow in the slot to get the magic smoke circulating properly again.

  15. those poor people on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    oh please spare us another "dark and gritty reimagining"

    instead, how about:
    1. a comedy
    2. a musical
    3. a war movie
    4. a police procedural
    5. a lawyer show
    6. a doctor show
    7. a buddy cop movie
    8. a special episode where the Harlem Globetrotters drop by

  16. Re:Lots of skepticism over this one on China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What do you do when fishing boats start operating in the area.

    In America, we usually send a submarine full of senators out to do an emergency breach under an encroaching fishing trawler to send a very clear message to "STAY OUT OF MY TERRITORY".

    I trust the Chinese will go about things in a more efficient manner.

  17. Babel II, here we come! on An Algorithm May Soon Cover Your Local Sports Team (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Read about one weird trick that ROBOTS are using to STEAL our JOBS...
    You won't BELIEVE what happens NEXT!
    KITTENS after the break
    Learn about Obama's program to refinance you latte, banks hate it!

  18. Re:KEEP CALM on British Airways Passengers Delayed By Computer Glitch (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    we all know the reason for the delays was that there were leaves on the tracks.

  19. Re:Some pics and videos on Falcon 9 Explodes On Pad (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is why we put our space launch sites in places nobody cares about like Florida and Kazakhstan.

  20. fucking paywalled knowledge is antiknowledge on 'Octobot' Is The World's First Soft-Bodied Robot (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    They can't RTFA because it's published $Nature$, hence paywalled.


    publish:
    transitive verb

    1 a : to make generally known
    b : to make public announcement of

    2 a : to disseminate to the public
    b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : print 2c
    c : to issue the work of (an author)

    I guess 2 out of 5 isn't bad. Wait, that's a failing grade.

  21. lookout fleshlight! on 'Octobot' Is The World's First Soft-Bodied Robot (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    BRB, off to the patent office!

    Who am I kidding, the sort of person that would use a fleshlight won't have seven male friends to share an octopussy with.

  22. Re:A little? on Singapore To Cut Off Public Servants From the Internet (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam in Singapore, either.

  23. hey, but it's FREE! on Opera Brings Its Free VPN Service To Android (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Submitter got the acronym wrong in the story title:

    Opera Brings Its Free MitM Service To Android

    TFTFY.

  24. Re:No, that can't be right on New Mexico Nuclear Accident Ranks Among the Costliest In US History (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's another paltry couple of billion dollars when they can't account for that they did with 6 Trillion dollars

  25. Re:Again? on Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    I too find it heartening that Manish is observing time-honored slashdot tradition.

    Now the posters honor tradition by with the traditional bitching and moaning pointing out the story's a dupe.
    The circle of life continues.