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  1. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 1

    Oh, so close! It was Theta Sigma, but thanks for playing! ;)

  2. Re:Unue! on The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living · · Score: 2

    Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, laushajne estas rano en mia bideo.

  3. Judoon on The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living · · Score: 1

    Do ro to ko so bo, mo fo.

  4. Re:Suckage on Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See · · Score: 1

    good for superman effect

    As is wearing underpants over pants and tying a bedsheet around your neck.

  5. Re:Enough with the fucking "Supermoon" already! on Tonight's Dazzling 'Supermoon' Lunar Eclipse: What You'll See · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The concept of a "supermoon" was invented by an astrologer

    The word was coined by an astrologer, but no-one invents astronomical events. And it is an astronomical event, regardless of who came up with the word or why.

    And the term probably sees more far use these days without any connection to astrology, as here.

  6. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 2

    Somewhere around Matt Smith's tenure, the show's logo were the letters "DRWHO" bent into the shape of a perspective view of a Tardis.

    It's TARDIS, and no, it was the letters "DW", with "Doctor" to the left and "Who" to the right.

    As David Tennant, he identified himself as "Doctor Smith"

    Pretty sure 10 never did that...

  7. Re:Headline lengths are limited on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 1

    Doctor Who Detective Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes

    Then you name the guy in the summary.

    Irrelevant anyway, since there is plenty of room for more characters:

    FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage"

  8. Re:Facebook use shows a lack of maturity on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 1

    Sure, because Facebook and other so-called 'social media' platforms have done so much to advance human society and civilization.

    Why should they be expected to do so?

  9. Re:Surprised "The Power of the Daleks" was lost on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 2

    I will swear to you up and down that when I was a kid in Tampa, FL.

    Yeah, and loads of people swear that Luke threw the grappling hook tw-

    I'm willing to believe that my memory is faulty.

    Aw. Spoilsport.

  10. Re:My nerdrage says: it's "Doctor Who" on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 0

    The series has always been "Doctor Who."

  11. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 2

    The character is called "Dr Who" not "Doctor Who."

    He's credited as Dr Who, sometimes. He's never called Doctor Who.

    Err, except in that one episode where he was...

    Anyway, point being, the name of the series has always been "Doctor Who," never "Dr Who."

  12. My nerdrage says: it's "Doctor Who" on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 2

    Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes

    It's called "Doctor Who." It's never been called Dr Who.

    And that's not just nerdly outrage talking. Dr Who is someone else entirely. Sort of.

  13. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 1

    Do keep up. They've been missing for decades.

    What did you think, someone misplaced the DVDs last Wednesday?

  14. Re:A list of missing episodes on Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes · · Score: 2

    Can I ask where the idea that he has "teased more episodes to come" comes from? Because it doesn't seem to be borne out by anything in the article. Even inferring that he's hopeful he might find more seems a bit of a stretch to me.

  15. Re:Disagreeing with someone on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 1

    This being the UK

    What being the UK?

  16. Re:What a crock of shit on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 1

    "The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying," Josh Bornstein, a lawyer at the firm Maurice Blackburn, told ABC News.

    "What the Fair Work Commission did find is that a pattern of unreasonable behaviour, hostile behaviour, belittling behaviour over about a two-year period, which featured a range of different behaviours including berating, excluding and so on, constituted a workplace bullying."

    First off, nobody said anything to the contrary.

    Yes they did. See the headline and opening line of this very story. It's complete and utter bollocks, and contradicted entirely by the quotes from the article you've given above, but it still said it.

    Honestly, some people. You've supposed to RTFS and not RTFA, not the other way around!

  17. Re:How do you know? on Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes · · Score: 1

    "The goal is to do all they can to prevent the crime from happening."

    How can you know if you have succeeded?

    In a single case, ultimately, if want to be really really pedantic about i? You don't. I mean, that kid might have had a perfectly non-lethal reason for bringing a loaded shotgun to school, but that's not going to cause the cop who arrests him before he can (potentially) begin a rampage to lose any sleep.

    So no, if you want to get all deep and meaningful and armchair-philosophical about it, if you succeed you won't know, for sure. But that's a lot better than failing by not bothering to try.

  18. Totally misleading -article COMPLETELY contradicts on Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying"

    They didn't rule that at all. Just read the last paragraph of the article:

    "The Fair Work Commission didn't find that unfriending someone on Facebook constitutes workplace bullying,"

    That is a complete contradiction of the headline and the opening of the summary.

    If Slashdot had a shred of integrity left, it would retract this story in its entirety and apologise for talking bollocks.

  19. If you can be hurt by someone not speaking to you or by unfriending, you sorta deserved to be called a pussy, don't you?

    No.

    What isn't deserved is for that other person to be branded a bully simply because they did those things to you.

    But then, that's not what happened here. At all. The headline is pure click-bait.

  20. Re:Can anyone explain in actual meaningful terms? on Apple Admits iCloud Problem Has Killed iOS 9 'App Slicing' · · Score: 2

    On the other hand, they could not do that, and not decrease their profits by 2%.

    What to do, what to do...

  21. "Supports"? on iOS Ad Blocker "Crystal" Will Let Companies Pay To Show You Ads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple's iOS 9 now supports ad blockers.

    I think you mean "deigns to allow you to install".

  22. "Your" = clickbait on IBM's Watson Is Now Analyzing Your Vacation Photos · · Score: 1

    Headline contains the word "your." Clickbait score+=1000;

  23. Re:Hello, 1993... on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    Doesn't look very 360 to me. The player seems to have a bit of control over the view, but Wikipedia lists it as a rail shooter.

  24. Laterally AND horizontally, you say? on Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video · · Score: 1

    llowing the viewer to pan laterally and horizontally

    And there's me thinking they were the same thing.

    For even greater pedantry, "panning" in photography usually only refers to horizontal* rotation. The vertical version is "tilt".

    *by which I mean rotation about a vertical axis, just in case anyone even more pedantic than me wanted to pipe up.

  25. In MY blood? on The New Technique That Finds All Known Human Viruses In Your Blood · · Score: 1

    The New Technique That Finds All Known Human Viruses In Your Blood

    Well, not all, I hope. Otherwise I'm in trouble.