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  1. I'd rather have on Dell Bringing Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Support To Linux · · Score: 0

    a Thunderbolt 2
    AKA A10 Warthog
    FP?

  2. Do they work with the curtains shut on 'Moth Eye' Graphene Breakthrough Could Create Indoor Solar Cells (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    and we used to have solar powered calculators that worked indoors with normal office lighting

  3. Won't Electron Volt cars still have Integrated Circuits ?

  4. Re:"the United Kingdom recently agreed to pay" on France Seeking $1.76 Billion In Back Taxes From Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "France demanded reparations for all their soldiers killed by English bowmen."

    England lost more soldiers fighting for France in one day on the Somme (WWI) than the English killed in the whole hundred years war

  5. Since a Kg measures mass on Big Test Coming Up For Kilogram Redefinition (ieee.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It should be defined by Pope Francis
    He used to be a chemist, and is infallible.

  6. Effector on High-Energy Laser Effector Tested On German Warship (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    WTF is an effector?

    I dont speak german

  7. Bot how do you get one on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Could 'Break' General Relativity (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    A 5d ring shaped black hole might be cool, but how does one get created?

    An ordinary black hole is formed after the collapse of a big enough star, but we still don't know how the supermassive black holes came about.

  8. Re:This shit again? on Scientists Propose Using Cold War Era Weapons To Deflect Asteroids (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that asteroids are usually rotating.. Painting one side so it reflects the suns rays more isn't going to do anything.
    The same thing applies to going up there and sticking a rocket motor on it. Although at least with a rocket morot you could turn it on only when its facing the right way.

  9. In this day and age on Camless Internal Combustion and the Digital Age (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    why are we still burning fossil fuels for transportation anyway?

  10. Field Trials on AT&T To Begin 5G Wireless Field Trials This Year (eweek.com) · · Score: 2

    It works in a field but not inside a building

  11. Ricin in Minutes? on Self-Propelling Microparticles Spot Ricin In Minutes (acs.org) · · Score: 1

    If you keep you minutes in digital format and the members read them online, there'd be no way that anybody could get any biological orr chemical agents spread that way.

  12. If you had a eink Kindle and you found Helvetica to hard to read you probably switched to another font already
    anyway I like white text on a black background

  13. Its maths dammit on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    In the rest of the world the subject is mathematics
    plural

    apparntly in America there is only one math.

  14. Re:It's not a 'six-week' release schedule. on Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Next month theyre going to rename the organization to The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

  15. 'surge protection' internationally on Ask Slashdot: Surge Protection For International Travel? · · Score: 1

    Well don't go to Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria
    all three have experienced a 'surge' of troops from the US, Iran, or Russia

  16. your tinfoil hat certainly won't stop neutrinos

    oh, we are not talking about the massless subatomic particle?

  17. Too Many T's Timothy on Twitter Tackles Terrorists In Targeted Takedown (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    firsT posT

  18. Decades of makware on Online Museum Displays Decades of Malware (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Do they have the disk-validator vorus?
    That gets my vote for the cleverest virus of the early days
    just pop it in your drive and you were infected
    of course kickstart 2.0 made it obsolete
    I wonder if John Veldthuis is still around

  19. Odo on DNA Makes Lifeless Materials Shapeshift (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So how is Rene Auberjenois doing these days

  20. Never mind Scotland or other EU/NATO countries, to capture Snowden they would have to fly into Russian airspace, and I don't think Putin would be too pleased about that...

  21. Bring back Woz on Apple: Losing Out On Talent and In Need of a Killer New Device (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The other Steve was what made Apple technically great

  22. Re:Not 12 euros... on Europe Now Has Its Own "Most Wanted Fugitives" Web Page (eumostwanted.eu) · · Score: 2

    > Some European countries use "." instead of ",".

    spreadsheet data stored in a ..CSV file must really confuse them.

  23. Re:New Calories on Why the Calorie Is Broken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The unit of energy in the mtric system is the Joule

    with the typical metric multipliers = 1 KWhr is 3.6 MegaJoules

  24. Obvious joke on France Says AZERTY Keyboards Fail French Typists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "The keyboard won't type French Letters"

    Bot the French are Catholics so that shouldn't be a problem.

  25. "each coast" on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    major cloud players, who typically have server farms on each coast,

    Did you know there are more than just 2 coasts
    In addition to East and West, there's a;so the South (Gulf of Mrxico)
    and theres also the North Shore (its Northeast of Duluth)
    That would be a good place for a datacenter , less cost in cooling and no worries about hurricanes even with global warming.