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  1. Price Dispute Means 800k Customers Lose TV Channels In Sweden

    Slow down, Mr Headline. They haven't lost them yet.

    This follows Discovery's attempts to raise prices and pay for a number of channels that viewers had not chosen.

    Huh? Discovery wants to pay for some extra channels?

  2. Re:Hey! Wait! on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    ^ not a euphemism.

  3. Re:Hey! Wait! on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    Is energy wasted in bending the stalk?

  4. Re:And wind .... on There's a Wind Turbine On the Horizon With Blades the Size of Trump Tower · · Score: 1

    There's Trump himself, but I think that would violate all sorts of laws of nature.

  5. "And." Just say "And." on Facebook Introduces Emojis, Live Video (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook Introduces Emojis, Live Video

    "Emojis, Live Video"? Is that like "Santa Claus, the Movie"?

    Just say "and" if you mean "and." Let these pointless newspaper traditions die with their medium.

  6. Slashdot Top Deals on German Inventor, Innovator and Businessman Artur Fischer Dies At Age of 96 · · Score: 1

    I've got ads disabled and yet - and this is the first time I've noticed it - there's a box under the story listing 6 "Slashdot Top Deals."

    Is this new? Good start, new corporate overlords...

    (and yes, I've got uBlock installed)

  7. Synergize!

  8. Re:Suuure on The Widely Reported ISIS Encrypted Messaging App Is Not Real · · Score: 1

    They want you to think that's what they want you to think, but that's not what they want you to think.

    Think, McFly, think!

  9. Re:Open to Questions on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  10. Re:Serious question on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 2

    I don't need to see representations of shit in the text of comments on Slashdot.

    You really are new around here.

  11. Re:Finally be able to really see our own galaxy on The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 2

    This Ceres of puns really Mars my enjoyment of this story.

  12. Re:Check the Focus! on The Future of Astronomy: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope · · Score: 1
  13. Duh on Tesla Truck 'Quite Likely,' Says Elon Musk (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    If you think Tesla's plan for world domination begins with the Model S and ends with the Model 3, you're sorely mistaken.

    Oh, really? And there was me thinking a car company would just stop making cars once they've made one they thought was good enough.

    Sheesh...

  14. Re:At a customer's site on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Installing a Novell Network. We all gathered in the conference room to watch.

    And then everyone heard about Challenger, and the Novell-Network-installation-watch had to be disbanded.

  15. Re:Not AI on Computer Beats Go Champion · · Score: 2

    That's because AI has a real definition: "computers that think like humans."

    I dispute that. What a computer that definitely thinks, but not like a human? What if we could develop a computer that thought like a dolphin? Would that not be AI?

  16. Re:Have them work on site using your secure comput on Ask Slashdot: How To Work On Source Code Without Having the Source Code? · · Score: 1

    And no ventilation access in the ceiling that's just the right size for a pint-size movie star to dangle through.

  17. Re:Down to the millisecond??? Dubious on New Clues To How the Brain Maps Time (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 0

    It is a requirement

    No it isn't.

    plenty of drummers do it

    No they don't.

    it is not even debatable.

    Sure it is, unless you've actually got some evidence and aren't just shooting your mouth off.

  18. Re:Great! on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No, it requires more than that.

    More? Or do you mean less? It does require permission to establish a push connection, as far as I can tell.

    According to Mozilla themselves [mozilla.org], "Firefox maintains an active connection to a push service in order to receive push messages as long as it is open."

    "Firefox maintains..." - that particular quote says nothing about whether permission is required to establish such a connection in the first place.

    There's something a bit non-sequitur-ish about your first two sentences.

  19. Re:In very related news on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The above post has been rated E: Exempt from rating for educational and factual purposes.

  20. Stringraaay, Stingray *durdur lurdur lurdur* on Stingray Case Lawyers: "Everyone Knows Cell Phones Generate Location Data" (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1
  21. Also gyroscopes on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    For extra nuttiness, read the comments under any video on gyroscopes.

  22. Re:Magnets on YouTube and the Modern Mad Scientist (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Same way babby is made.

  23. Or failing that, lawyers and money.

  24. When you say "impossible," do you *mean* impossibl on Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the government’s requested order would be substantially burdensome, as it would be impossible to perform

    That, to me, would seem to be the end of it. It's impossible. Can't be done. Don't even bother asking.

    But then the lawyer goes on to image a hypothetical customer asking:

    "why is [Apple] continuing to comply with orders that don’t have a clear lawful basis in doing so?"

    How is it complying if it's supposed to be impossible to do so?

  25. Re:People don't realise on Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I had no idea that most of what you see on Monk wasn't filmed on the streets of San Francisco (which I only found out about because of a breakdown video like the you linked to). It just never occurred to me to even consider the idea, so I never noticed. If I went back now, I might spot something about it. Or I might not.

    Seems to me there's a world of difference between "What can we do with CGI?" and "Here's what we would do if we had an unlimited set/production budget - now how do we achieve it with CGI?"