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  1. I don't know, are they? on Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam? (polygon.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nintendo Is Repairing Left Joy-Cons With ... a Piece of Foam?

    Are you asking a question or making a statement?

    Slashdot is... going down the toilet?

  2. Re:Are all Outlook users this pedantic? on Microsoft Outlook, Skype, OneDrive Hit By Another Authentication Issue (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You yourself should be nicer to otherselves themselves.

  3. Re:No word on what "O" in Android O stands for. on Android O First Developer Preview Featuring Notification Channels, Background Limits Now Available (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    The summary doesn't ask what it means; it asks what it stands for.

  4. Google is also adding "multi-display support" and improved "keyboard navigation." Your guess is as good as mine as to what these features will actually do.

    My guess is that former adds support for multiple displays and the latter improves the navigation of the keyboard.

  5. I've seen better.

  6. Intel Unveils Optane SSD DC P4800X Drive That Can Act As Cache Or Storage

    I might be missing something, but if you're going to mention that it can act as cache it would be nice to include something about that bit in the summary.

    No-one reads TFA anyway, of course, but in this case it's counter-blocked because I'm using uBlock, so I'm doubly put off.

  7. Re:It's all a simulation on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    The planck length. The smallest unit of length there can be in the universe. 1.6E-35 meters.

    Except it's not. It might be in some theories, but it may also have no physical significance.

  8. Re:time does not actually exist in the universe on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, wait right there.

  9. Time is exactly as real as space. That's why we have spacetime.

  10. Re:Is there a thing called time? on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually we can slow it down: time passes more slowly for an object moving at a high velocity relative to the observer.

    Not exactly. After all, you can't measure how "fast" or "slow" something "passes" except by doing so... over time. Which leads to a bit of a circular definition.

    I prefer to think of it as time being a different "direction" for different observers, just as "forward" and "right" can mean different directions to different people. This also makes it easier to reconcile the apparent paradox of two observers both appearing to run slower to each other.

  11. Re:It's all a simulation on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    Another thing I read mentioned that the size of the estimated universe (they provided some math which I don't recall) would actually fit almost exactly into a 64 bit unsigned integer for X,Y,Z.

    Measured in what units?

  12. Re:It's all a simulation on Physicists Find That As Clocks Get More Precise, Time Gets More Fuzzy (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Whut

  13. Well, I kinda disagree with your definitions but I see where you're coming from.

  14. I don't see how you can call it custom purpose but not general purpose.

  15. Re:A bit of history on Movie Theaters Haven't Innovated Beyond Popcorn, Says Netflix CEO (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Brazier/brassiere.

    One is for holding up boobies, the other is something workmen warm their hands on.

    You can see how confusion arises...

  16. Spider-man has had three "boots" in 15 years.

  17. Re:drink it through a straw on Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Human teeth will be replaced by a round sucking mouth

    I see no downside to this.

  18. Get reported. In general terms, I mean. If having a law against it was a requirement for something to be turned into a news story, there'd be a lot less news.

  19. There's no law against a lot of things that got reported. We're talking about because it's interesting and suspicious.

  20. Re:You say vulnerability, I say opportunity on Nintendo Switch Ships With Unpatched 6-Month-Old WebKit Vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes as much sense as "this!"

  21. Re: You say vulnerability, I say opportunity on Nintendo Switch Ships With Unpatched 6-Month-Old WebKit Vulnerabilities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It begs the question:

    Hoo. I'd like to think you did that deliberately, but...

  22. Re:The Pi Symbol is Nonsense on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no reason to use a purely symbolic constant to represent a naturally occurring relationship.

    How can you ever represent it except in a symbolic way? That's what symbols do. That's what "representation" is.

    A circle with a line across it? That's still a symbol, and you still need to learn what it means.

    would also write that they would not want to have to relearn the new symbol, thereby proving a point that it took too much effort to lean the old one.

    No, it means it took almost no effort to learn the old one, and it's not like anyone ever really forgets it if they need it, so what's the point in changing it now?

  23. Conway as in Conway's Life, that is on This Is How the Number 3.14 Got the Name 'Pi' (time.com) · · Score: 2

    John Conway, mathematics professor emeritus at Princeton University who once won the school's Pi Day pie-eating contest.

    He also invented Life, of course.

  24. Because there are some USB devices which have a legitimate purpose for doing all of these "bad" things, so they'd be rendered useless.

  25. Re:For those who don't know... on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Because it's a) my opinion (also that of many, many, many other people) and b) true.

    I can shout as loudly as I want that I think Katie Hopkins is a shit stain on the boot of humanity and has an ugly, black soul, but I would never (for several reasons, the least of which is being sued by the sour-faced shit-stirring hate-monger) suggest that she condones the desecration of war monuments, or the torture of animals, or the skewering of babies on spikes, because none of those things are true (to the best of my knowledge).

    Oh, and c), because it would probably make it ten times easier for anyone else she libels in the future to win against her in court.