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  1. Re:Bell labs "failed" by making money. on What Bell Labs Was Like C.1967 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    also: compare & contrast US tax law in 1967 vs 2016.

  2. HA! GOTCHA! on Austrian Minister Calls For a Constitutional Right To Pay In Cash · · Score: 1

    "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"

    You notice it only says that on bills, not nickles, dimes and pennies.

  3. Re:Thank you.. on UK GHCQ Is Allowed To Hack (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They MAY hack, not they CAN hack.

    whoops, welcome to the list...

  4. Re:Uh... let me think about it on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1
    Stupid truckers routinely follow their GPS up Tail of the Dragon.
    They blindly drive right by the BIG YELLOW signs that basically say

    "If you take your semi past this sign, you are an idiot, you will get stuck, please don't kill any motorcyclists with your stupidity."

  5. Randall Monroe, please do the math for us. on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing you can't build a fusion reactor out of LEGOs.

    given enough of them you can.

  6. buh? there's non-Human scientists? on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    the first gravitational wave to be detected directly by human scientists

    I had to go read the linked story to make sure it wasn't typical /. submitter reading failure.
    Please, The Economist, do tell more, I think you buried the lead there.

    sigh. At least it's not a Forbes link.

  7. Re:IOT isn't as easy as it sounds. on Trane Takes 2 Years To Remove Hard-Coded Root Passwords From IoT Thermostat (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No. But I'm pretty sure I could spec out cheap crap compressors from China while riding my brand name into the dirt.

  8. when you hear WHOOSHING, think helicopters... on Windmill Blade Molds 3D Printed By National Labs (energy.gov) · · Score: 1

    holy crap Seymore, that WHOOOSHING sound isn't coming from 3D printed windmill blades.

  9. Capitalistic Toolbag on LIGO Will Make Gravitational Waves Announcement on Thursday · · Score: 1

    StartsWithABang must think Forbes is a popular science magazine.

  10. Re:Oops on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the ones now with the teeny-tiny box with an 'X' to close that cycles through a '>' to play. Those are particularly intentionally obnoxious.

  11. LAST STRAW on Wired To Block Ad-Blocking Users, Offer Subscription (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's it, I'm sending back my ::cue::cat !


    shit, that joke's old enough to drive...

  12. Re:hyperloop without the hyper or loop on The Hyperloop Industrial Complex · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Advantage #342 of HyperLoop - unlike High Speed Rail, it doesn't share its infrastructure with overladen freight trains which tear up the rails and lead to lengthy delays and a unsmooth ride.

  13. cheap shot from the cheap seats on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure insurance doesn't pay off in case of "suicide".


    ohhhh, too soon?

  14. Marijuana is legal in WA now on Utility Targets Bitcoin Miners With Power Rate Hike (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeaaahhhh....
    "bitmining", that's the ticket...

  15. "annoyed grunt" on Carbon Nanotube Films Stronger Than Kevlar (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    Let's hear it for inanimate carbon tube!

  16. Re:Why hate on NASA on AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  17. rabblerabbleSTATES RIGHTSrabblerablle on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    This is just another unfunded Federal mandate to force states to squander precious taxpayer money to well-connected interests in BIG FONT.

  18. Colossus must be fed on How To Build a TimesMachine (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    sorry, dropped the link.

    Although, sadly, they apparently never came to an agreement with The New Zork Times.

  19. nobody cares, google did it first on How To Build a TimesMachine (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    sticking it behind a paywall will cut down on bandwidth usage dramatically.

  20. Re: Breaks the Diffraction Limit... on Graphene Optical Lens a Billionth of a Meter Thick Breaks the Diffraction Limit (gizmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but can it do the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs?

  21. LET'S SLASHDOT ROBOHUB! on Let's Tear Down a Kiva Bot! (robohub.org) · · Score: 1

    wow, haven't seen that in a while...

  22. planet 'Murika on San Francisco Bay Area In Superbowl Surveillance Mode (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand why they don't do like baseball and declare our national championship the World Championship.
    Err hell, just go right to Championship of the Universe. It's not like anybody else bothers to play the game.

    queue up Hollywood treatment where the best of the NFL have to stave of an alien invasion by beating them at American Football. Unfortunately, Bert Reynolds is probably unavailable.

  23. repost - for reference only on Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed (datacenterdynamics.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING

    Yes that's right, THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING. Why you might ask? Well it's simple!

    Your brain usually takes care of breathing FOR you, but whenever you remember this, YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.

    There are also MANY variations of this. For example, think about:

    BLINKING!

    SWALLOWING SALIVA!

    HOW YOUR FEET FEEL IN YOUR SOCKS!

    In conclusion, the THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING troll is simply unbeatable. These 4 words can be thrown randomly into article text trolls, into sigs, into anything, and once seen, WILL FORCE THE VICTIM TO TAKE CARE OF HIS BREATHING MANUALLY! This goes far beyond the simple annoying or insulting trolls of yesteryear.

    In fact, by EVEN RESPONDING to this troll, you are proving that IT HAS CLAIMED ANOTHER VICTIM -- YOU!

  24. do you even TINFOIL, bro?! on Google Testing Project Loon: Concerns Are Without Factual Basis (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    SIGH.
    More proof of how far slashdot has declined.
    Everybody knows it's shiny side down, so the chicks don't see the shiny side
    Hell, you're probably using aluminum, to boot.
    I know, I know, IHBTIHLHAND...