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  1. Or houses, or cars, or trees, or manhole covers, or other people... Lots of things don't fit in pockets ;-)

    does he actually believe his own pockets exist as he would not be able to put them in side themselves.

  2. Re:So is the 5th or 6th fundamental force? on It's Official: LIGO Scientists Make First-Ever Observation of Gravity Waves (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    When are white holes going to be discovered? :-)

    They a!ready have been and you can oberve them too! Go to the nearest university they are usually members the Greek fraternities

  3. I didn't think they existed. After all I can't see them. Unless I can put it in my pocket I don't believe it exists.

    So you don't believe in the sun as you are unable to put it in your pocket?

  4. Re:So it begins on UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but you got uppity around 1812 and tried to take the remains of our North American empire away, so we sailed down the Hudson river and burned down the Whitehouse.

    We settled on the original borders because we decided you were a lost cause to civilisation.

    Wrong. Brittan decided to start attacking US merchant ships trading with France and Africa, and embargoed the US trading with the West Indies, They kidnapped enslaved US citizens by impressing them in to the British navy against their will. They occupied forts inside sovereign US territory in a violation the Jay treaty. Refused compensation for seized US merchant ships, and the British were funding attacks on US outpost in the west by natives. As for the invading Canada the US wasn't really interested in taking territory they sent a militia regiment the idea being that if they could take it they could trade it back to Brittin in exchange for backing down on everything else.

  5. Re:dear slashdot management on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    Just wondering are there any other editors there any more? Because it looks like Timmys been chained to his desk night and day with only the occasional post from whiplash our new corporate overlord.

    Timmy, did whiplash kill the other editors? you can tell us.

  6. Re:I never heard of Ford on Elon Musk Cancels Stewart Alsop's Tesla Order Over Complaints About Launch Event · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, on the other hand, punishes EVERY customer... by shipping them the product they ordered!

    And in thee case of windows 10 by shipping them a product they did not order.

  7. Re:You must be new here on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Add a disagree mod.

    Because we don't have one, people use mods like troll and flamebait inappropriately. We need an explicit "disagree" mod to allow mods to express their intent. Whether it's -1 is a different question, but I'd be OK with it either way. We really need to emphasize the idea that someone can disagree with you, but be sincere, not trolling, if we want to be different from the non-geek sites.

    There have been time I have up mod'ed people I disagreed with as they have had valid arguments and replied as an AC to them with my rebuttal. I don't know that we need a disagree mod or if we do just don't have it have + OR - attached to it.

  8. Re: Star Wars should cease on 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    ed

  9. Re:Seems to me... on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 1

    So...Microsoft is the same as a sleazy used car dealer? :-)

    after reviewing the evidence

    https://youtu.be/sforhbLiwLA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    yes they are

  10. Re:Idiocracy on More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    you mean Americas Funniest Home Videos or do you mean jackass?

    OR

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=youtube+k...
    a lifetimes worth on ball busters

    Idiocracy is already here

  11. Re: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs? on Marco Rubio: We Need To Add To US Surveillance Programs (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    ... can't resist 20 million dummies who can shoot at them. Hence, the people cannot be subject to an arbitrary government tyranny as long as they possess firearms.

    Dream on. The 20 million would need to be organized to form a serious resistance. The people, even armed people, have no power.

    I take it you have never heard of the IRA. It worked for part of Ireland

  12. Re:Not my money! on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck J. J. Abrams and everything he stands for!

    JJ can do good look at stuff like fringe it was an great TV show. The first of the new startrek was actually okay (the second had awful world breaking plot holes though).

  13. Re:Ridiculous Endeavors on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Sad they are going to cut off Thunderbird, especially since they're only putting in enough effort to keep it on life support.
    However, if some other entity picked up Thunderbird and breathed new life into it that could be an exciting venture.
    On the other hand, from what I gather of the Thunderbird codebase, it is an antiquated beast with a lot of technical debt. Open source developers may be better of putting their effort elsewhere.

    I hope Libra Office or Apache takes it under its wings
    Libra Office makes since as it fits well with it office suite and fills a gap in its product offerings, as well as some shared code already.
    Apache has OpenOffice and it would fit their the same as it would fit with Libra Office.

  14. Re:Oh good I was starting to worry. on Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    With the news over the past week I was beginning to worry that Mozilla was going to actually focus on making Firefox a nice browser. Good to see my faith was not misplaced.

    Mozilla hasn't tried to add any real improvements for a while now just killing customizability (removing thaeming option removing add-on api's.) and adding bloat.

  15. Re:Snitching devices on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    A car collision is a circumstance that requires reporting nearly 100% of the time. This is what you agree to when you use your license to drive. Not something that started today.

    Spare me the Nanny State bullshit. Not only is this very far away from there but it's not even a gov't device. It was a privately designed add-on service that the customer was still paying for. Privately designed, privately agreed to. It is, without question, a safety feature. This is a stupid battle to fight, you should run all the way back to the fridge with your Doritos in it so you can hide your obesity from the internet.

    So if I hit a young deer, my car detects a impact and decides to involve the cops who start to tele-interrogate me and I should not be bothered by this.

  16. Re:You really want cheap? on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

    Any idea where to find out about these types of sales? If it helps, I am in Maryland.

    There is one in Tumwater Washington, they often sell used computers by the the pallet load. don't know where any are on the east coast though.

  17. Re:This is supposed to be shameful? on New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This is supposed to be shameful? I'd be damn proud I'd one of my trolls made it on this billboard. That's like the ultimate goal for a troll like me - getting as many eyeballs on my message and as much attention as possible.

    Next time I go to Brazil, I'll think of this campaign and take my shot at fame with a good troll or two.

    Sincerely,
    AC

    So is this automated? And if so how long until they start posting billboards of goatsx because they were out trolled while trying to for troll trolls.

  18. Re:What Is the Future of the Television? on What Is the Future of the Television? (ben-evans.com) · · Score: 1

    you want to watch "ow my balls"
    here you go

    You can send me a dollar worth of bitcoins here
    1GTxfb58rv5beX22Twq1p19PkKvvMzL6BD

  19. Re:You'll just spend black friday on Slashdot. on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Compiling your kernel again while trying to uninstall SystemD.

    Why would you need to compile a kernel to uninstall systemD? Its about the only thing that would be unaffected at this point.
    Just apt-get purge systemd && apt-get install $anyOtherInitDeamon

  20. Re:Two companies, one red cup on How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning (time.com) · · Score: 1

    When will their War on Christians end?

    FTFY - The only people who have a problem with Christmas are Christians, who feel left out of the celebrations. After all, the holidays are for them and not everyone else.

    You mean when will this war on Saturnalia end...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:To do list on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, you can just use AdBlock to block their AdBlock blocking.

    According to this post, you can avoid their blocking by adding this custom filter:

    @@||yahoo.com$elemhide

    I can't test it since they aren't blocking my ancient Yahoo mail account, but unless they're doing some heavy server-side detection, a combination of custom AdBlock filters and/or a NoScript surrogate script should take care of things. And it's just a matter of time before the former gets added to a list like Easylist's AdBlock Warning Removal list.

    Yeah I have some greasemonky scripts running that block ad-block-blockers I think if it gets more meta than that I go the Stallman way and just use wget for everything and rip out the JavaScript.

  22. Re:To do list on Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Disable AdBlock
    2) Login
    3) Set forwarding to other email account / Send all mails to that address
    4) Logout
    5) Enable AdBlock

    Sorry, no profit, but the end result will be satisfactory.

    if you don't login to your account every so many days they will deactivate your email account or so I am told

  23. Re:Those answers drove me crazy. on Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form (time.com) · · Score: 2

    There was no alt-text to be found!

    yeah I went through enabling scripts trying to figure out why it wasn't working myself.

  24. Re:Why? why now? on Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll just an editor that _already_ works, not some buggy, incomplete, PoS.

    Why are you coding on a Point of Sales system incomplete or not.

  25. Lumbersexual is a new one to me. Apparently it's someone who grooms and dresses to appear like a person who spends a lot of time outdoors (like a lumberjack I guess).

    they cut down trees, they wear high heels suspenders and a bra.