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  1. New investment opportunity on Automakers Want Cars That Won't Start If You're Drunk (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    With this coming out I'm investing in charcoal filter masks now, I'm going to be rich!

  2. Are bad jokes all Slashdot has become? on Fermi Satellite Clocks Pulsar Going 2.5 Million Miles Per Hour (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Opened this article looking for some insightful comments about what this means, how this will impact our understanding of space and the universe and what do I get? A bunch of jokes about the use of the term 'miles'. [sigh]

  3. So in that context, it's only really been a widespread part of gaming culture since around 2001 when Halo introduced the "Everyday Joe" to online 1st person shooters.

    Ummm, have you never heard of EverQuest? a.k.a. EverCrack?

  4. Google Play Apps With 150 Million Installs Contain on Apple Says Spotify Wants 'the Benefits of a Free App Without Being Free' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Play Apps With 150 Million Installs Contain Aggressive Adware
    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

    Tell me again the problem with Apple's walled garden?

  5. If you want society to go cashless on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want society to go cashless then all banks must be required to issue bank cards and associated accounts to anyone and everyone who applies without fees of any kind.

  6. Re:Good. on Philadelphia Bans Cashless Stores (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Cash is legal tender for all DEBTS. There is no debt involved with a retail purchase.

    I've picked an item up off a shelf and it is now in my possession. I have created a debt that must be paid prior to my leaving the store or I must return the item to the shelf.

  7. Re: Making America Great Again on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    2014 Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China
    1969 Rouge River, Detroit, United States
    1968 Buffalo River, Buffalo, United States
    1892 Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, United States
    2015 Bellandur Lake, Bangalore, India

    17 fires from 1868 to 1969 Cuyohoga River, Cleveland, United States

  8. In other news... on YouTube Will Disable Comments on Nearly All Videos With Kids (variety.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In other news YouTube nuked its head office from orbit in order to deal with a mouse found in their cafeteria kitchen.

  9. Making America Great Again on Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Andrew Wheeler is helping Make America Great Again by bringing back those glory days when rivers routinely caught fire.

  10. Re:Not sure about Canada on Police In Canada Are Tracking People's 'Negative' Behavior In a 'Risk' Database (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how your post got modded "informative" when the criminal statistics you state are factually wrong. The murder rate in Toronto is lower than it was ten years ago, for example. Also Toronto's murder rate is below the national average, not #2.

  11. Comment ranking system on YouTube Videos Could Get Demonetized If They Have 'Inappropriate Comments' · · Score: 2

    If only there was some way to rank comments, on say a -1 to 5 scale, then people could view comments at the level they're personally comfortable with.

  12. Now we can finally get the end of Snoopy's Novel.

    It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed.

    Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up.

    A light snow was falling, and the little girl with the tattered shawl had not sold a violet all day.

    At that very moment, a young intern at City Hospital was making an important discovery. The mysterious patient in Room 213 had finally awakened. She moaned softly. Could it be that she was the sister of the boy in Kansas who loved the girl with the tattered shawl who was the daughter of the maid who had escaped from the pirates?

  13. They don't need to hire a company to remove the cup, they just use it for the next purchaser (sell the seat to someone on stand-by) and they don't need a refund from the fountain company because the cost of the drink was already covered by the meal purchase so there is no loss (and potential additional revenue) to the restaurant.

    If I pay for an airline seat and don't show up the seat flies empty (which saves the airline money) or is sold to someone else which makes them additional money.

    This is a situation caused by the airline's pricing structure where the ticket to fly from A to B to C is cheaper then the ticket to fly from A to B. Which is simply gouging people who want to fly to B because it's a more popular destination.

  14. Not everything needs to be insured on Favourite Player's Injured? Get a Refund (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everything needs to be insured, the occasional disappointment is good for you it helps you learn how to manage your actions to maximize benefit to yourself. This is just another step in the movement for no one to be responsible for anything that happens to them.

  15. Let's look at a Happy Meal Analogy:
    At McWendKing a burder is $5, fries $3 and soft drink $4. They also sell a Happy Meal (burder, fries and soft-drink) for $7. So I buy a Happy Meal, eat the burder and fries but leave the soft-drink cup on the pick up counter -- then the restaurant sues me for not filing my cup up at the fountain.

  16. It will be hard for the airline to argue that it cost them money (i.e. generated a loss) by not flying the passenger on the final leg.

  17. Does anyone have a link to the actual social media post? Or a copy of it?
    I think it's impossible to form a valid opinion on whether the kid should be charged or not without it.

  18. I'm all for safety for drugs reaching the public, but surely we can quicken the pace in the research field far before it becomes publically available?

    I'm not sure the victims of thalidomide would agree with you on that one.

  19. In other news... on Apple Might Debut 3 New iPhones in 2019 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news Apple might not debut 3 new iPhones in 2019!

  20. Re:Hot take from Gizmodo and Newsweek on NASA Releases First Clear Images of Distant Kuiper Belt Object (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If you'd asked me I would have said that Thule is the GateKeeper -- but then I looked it up to double check and find out the Gatekeeper is actually Zuul so I had no idea what it meant.

  21. Ah, by "the text flows horizontally" you mean it's printed in landscape mode. Got it.

  22. A Reporter, Posing as Sketchy PR, Asked 28 Sketchy Bloggers If They'd Take Money To Publish Content Without Disclosing it Was Advertising. More Than Half Said Yes.

  23. Hypocrisy or is it stupidity? on Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair On New MacBook Pros (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "We want our systems to be secure! Also, we want anybody to be able to access them at any time to repair them".

  24. And this is why we need on-line voting!

    [/sarcasm]

  25. Re:Phones Phones Phones on Apple Sets New iPhone Event For September 12 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I won't use a security feature that would allow someone to unlock my phone just by pointing it at my face.