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  1. Okay, who didn't sign it? on AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines · · Score: 1

    AI Experts Sign Open Letter Pledging To Protect Mankind From Machines

    Anyone who didn't sign is therefore an evil genius and should immediately be removed from their volcano base and locked in Area 51.

  2. Re:And for our ethnic customers... on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 2

    I'll stick with my Schmuick.

    Schmuck/Buick, you see... ah, to hell with the lot of you.

  3. Shapes on Chevrolet Unveils 200-Mile Bolt EV At Detroit Auto Show · · Score: 1

    which puts it squarely in the ring

    Ouch.

  4. Yeah, until just now on 'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor · · Score: 5, Funny

    'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor

    *sigh* Sure was a nice secret network we had going up until five minutes ago. Thanks a bunch, timothy!

    TL;DR - shut uuuuuuup!

  5. Re:Meaningless drivel on US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Ban On Internet Access Taxes · · Score: 2

    The only permanent things in the world are death, taxes, and internet pedantry.

  6. Re:Image quality on 3D Cameras Are About To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    You heard the man. 2D is boring.

    This is why no-one, anywhere, is making 2D films any more.

  7. Sounds I don't hear any more on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds I don't hear any more: anything above 10kHz.

  8. Re:never understood this cyberwar thing on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Change someones facebook profile picture or block their twitter accounts?

    Yes, because it's what they know how to do, and it's more than you or I are going to do about it, if we're honest.

  9. Correction on OpenSSL Patches Eight New Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    OpenSSL patches eight old vulnerabilities

    FTFY. They are newly discovered, but not new.

  10. Slightly jumping to conclusions on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I first saw an image of the browser I was awe-struck to see that it made a request to an adddress (http://10.76.1.11/) upon first run.

    This guy may want to tweak his astonishment threshold before going outside.

    "Here's where things start to go off the rails: what this means is that all of the DPRK's national network is non-routable IP space.

    Not necessarily. He might well be right, but it might it not just be that the address is actually routeable from within DPRK, and that the IP address was deliberately chosen so as not to be routeable from the outside world?

  11. Re:The Narnia Browser on Inside North Korea's Naenara Browser · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kim Il-Sung invented English in 1976 to stunt the intellectual development of the Western world.

  12. Re:Who says the events are connected? on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    Cardboard box.

  13. Re:HTTP/1.1 is just fine on HTTP/2 - the IETF Is Phoning It In · · Score: 3, Informative

    Compression? Bandwidth is bigger and cheaper than ever. So why?

    Because it's faster whether or not you've saturated your bandwidth, for a start. Secondly, just because you're not paying for your internet traffic by the megabyte, doesn't mean no-one else is along the way.

    Lastly - why not?

  14. What if plays itself? on Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player · · Score: 1

    Given enough hands, it will never, ever lose, regardless of what its opponent does or which cards it is dealt.

    So what happens if it plays against another instance of itself?

  15. Who says the events are connected? on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack

    I think it's fairly likely that he was seeking new powers before the Paris attack as well. It's just more newsworthy now.

  16. Re:Fear on Publications Divided On Self-Censorship After Terrorist Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Rather, if you can't publish a political cartoon without fear of retaliation, then that's not a country any civilized person should desire to live in.

    So which country would you like to live in, that has 0% chance of anyone doing anything for a crazy reason? Presumably one which enforces weekly mind-probes, and anyone found to not be thinking civilized enough gets deported...

  17. Re:I got it... on Heinlein's 'All You Zombies' Now a Sci-Fi Movie Head Trip · · Score: 1

    You didn't get it. One world. One timeline.

    Almost, but not quite, I think:

    "March 1975. He keeps changing the day."

    That suggests the history is meant to be at least partially mutable.

  18. Re:Next thing you know on Text Editor Created In Minecraft · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. That's not quite how I remember it on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember how Windows XP was "good enough" that people took forever to upgrade?

    No, but I do remember that Vista was found to be so wanting that many people went back to XP, and those that had waited heard the horror stories and stayed put.

  20. Not quite on Analysis of Spacecraft Data Reveals Most Earth-like Planet To Date · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Analysis of Spacecraft Data Reveals Second Most Earth-like Planet To Date

    FTFY.

  21. Re:Islam - the religion of peace on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    or 72 transsexual clones of Madonna impersonators.

    Could be worse. Could be 72 clones of Madonna.

  22. Re:Blah blah blah on CES 2015: FTC Head Warns About Data Grabbed By Smart Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Yet the people who share all their daily activities, without a care in the world for their privacy on Facebook, are safe.........

    I'll reply to this when I'm done pooping. Could be a while...

  23. False impression? on CES 2015: FTC Head Warns About Data Grabbed By Smart Gadgets · · Score: 1

    The collated data could create a false impression if given to employers, universities or companies, she said.

    What's far more worrying than that is giving people a true impression.

  24. Re:Waste of money on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    First we should ask whether we even need diversity.

    What we should strive for is equality of opportunity. If you can get that sorted out, and you still have more white males than black women working in tech, well, that's probably because (readers of a sensitive disposition should look away now) they're different.

    "I have two daughters of my own coming up on college age," he said to the NYT. "I want them to have a world that's got equal opportunity for them."

    Yes, good. But don't judge your efforts simply by the relative numbers of different groups going into a particular profession.

  25. Re:Why only in Tech? on Intel Pledges $300 Million To Improve Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    How else are nerds going to meet chicks?