User: rossdee

A lot more than that

On: Cord-Cutters Drive Cable TV Subscribers to a 17-Year Low (houstonchronicle.com)

Have had their cable xut by harrucanes and firestorms

Tan?

On: Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan (telegraph.co.uk)

that's Sin/Cos isn't it ?

I didn't know neanderthals had worked out trigonometry

Dunno about a Nobel

On: Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? (qz.com)

but there should be an Arthur C Clarke Award for "Significantly Advanced Technology"

Base Editing?

On: Chinese Researchers Correct Genetic Mutation In Embryos Using Base Editing (bbc.com)

Which base? base ten? base sixteen?

All your base are belong to us

Not the Jedi you're looking for

On: Saudi Arabian Textbook Shows Yoda Joining The UN (bbc.com)

King Faisal was Obi-Wan Kenobi

Wait a moment

On: TV Turns 90 (axios.com)

I thought John Logie Baird invented TV

Random Number

On: Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes (ieee.org)

42

Not renewable

On: World's Cheapest Energy Source Will Be Renewables Within Three Years (qz.com)

The Sun is not renewable.

Sure its going to keep turning hydrogen into helium for a few more billion yeats bit its not renewable.

They need to use another term

Not everybody works Mon-Fri

On: 'You're Doing Your Weekend Wrong' (qz.com)

and then has Saturday and Sunday off

Dupe

On: O'Reilly Media Has Stopped Retailing Books Directly On Its Ecommerce Store (oreilly.com)

Didnt I see this yesterday

I'm sure thats

On: Vegan Mayonnaise Company Starts Growing Its Own Meat In Labs, Says It Will Get To Stores First (qz.com)

a lot quicker and cheaper than shipping it all the way from Vega (26 light years)

How about

On: Museum of Failure Opens In Sweden (failuremag.com)

Assange's condom

Re:Climate change disaster

On: Intel Predicts a $7 Trillion Self-Driving Future Where Over a Million Lives Will Be Part of the 'Passenger Economy' (theverge.com)

Self driving cars will be more efficient than 90% of todays drivers, and probably most of them will be electic or hybrid

Re:Wow, it actually has an SD card...

On: Amazon Refreshes Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 Tablets (betanews.com)

I already have a (last years modek) HD 8 that has a faster processor and an ED slot so I can yse it as a music plater as well as an Ereader
The HD8 is fine but its too big for my pocket
I don't need a camera

Re:Stupid

On: California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com)

Eion Musk alreadt launches from Florida, not foe tax reasons, but because its a better lovariun
why do you think NASA did most of their launches from the cape?
(Yeah, it is rocket science)

Re:"can diagnose up to 34 medical conditions"

On: Scientists Win $2.6 Million For Star Trek Tricorder Device (vocativ.com)

And 2 of those are

"He's dead, Jim"

"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it"

Venus and Mars are alrghit tonight

On: There's an Earth-like Planet With an Atmosphere Just 39 Light-years Away (washingtonpost.com)

There are earth like planets in this system too, doesn't mean we could live there

Michael Anderle

On: Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month?

"Never Submit" (Kutherian Gambit book 15)

"Nomad's Fury" [with Craig Martelle]

New?

On: Public Crowd-sourcing Finds New Exoplanets (abc.net.au)

I doubt these are actually new planets, just ones we didnt know about before

Rare Pepe ?

On: Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy (cryptoinsider.com)

I orefer my pepes well done thankyou.

IoT

On: Massive Ukraine Munitions Blasts May Have Been Caused By a Drone (bbc.com)

"He even burnt my toast this morning."

I always thought having an internet connected toaster was a stupid idea

Who's liable

On: Who's Liable For Decisions AI and Robotics Make? (betanews.com)

Only in the case of K9

What about GST

On: Apple Paid $0 In Taxes To New Zealand, Despite Sales of $4.2 Billion (nzherald.co.nz)

Purchasers of Apple products in NZ would of paid GST so the NZ tax dept didn't totally miss out on its share.
12.5% which is more than most american states

Re:That's cultural appropriation, you RAAAACIST!!!

On: Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org)

Hispanic is not a race

Spanish (and Portugese) is a language.

Although there is a Spanish race - its usualy held in Barcelona, this year its on May 14

Re:in fact its cold as hell

On: Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org)

"there's no one there to raise them if you did."

and all the science I don't understand
its just my job 5 days a week