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  1. "You'll be shocked if when you click this link!" on Wristband Gives You An Electric Shock When You Overspend (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Buzzfeed adds some truth to there advertising with a new gimmick?

  2. Re:Office365 Haiku on Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 (open365.io) · · Score: 2

    Thin clients are back
    But your browser is bloated
    How does it all fit?

    Your haiku was missing a syllable.

  3. Better headline: on Microsoft Stops Xbox 360 Production, Servers To Stay Online · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft does a 360 then walks away.

  4. I never thought this tumblr would be relevant... on Microsoft's New AI Mistakenly Identifies Photos, Ignores Hitler (mashable.com) · · Score: 1
  5. Re:Imma go stage 2 on Scientists Build Smallest, Single Atom, Working Heat Engine (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Better yet, split the single atom in half. That generally produces lots of energy.

  6. Re:Reality check on Apple Employees, If Ordered To Unlock iPhone, Might Quit (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But.. there is exactly one company called Apple, and people spend years and years trying to get a job at Apple.

    Does Apple Records know?

  7. Re:What do I get? on Hack Chromebook In Guest Mode, Win $100,000 · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt he and punctuation are even on speaking terms after that post.

  8. Reverse Engineering Social Engineering on Amazon Wants To Replace Passwords With Selfies and Videos (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Great, catfishing is already popular, so someone had to come up with a form of security easily thwarted by it?

  9. FBI has it all wrong on Apple Might Be Forced to Hand Over iOS Source Code to the FBI (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    The burden is ethical, not financial. Finding people who could sleep at night after doing this is the trouble.

  10. Re:Cubic inches? on Google Challenge Results In Astoundingly Efficient Inverters · · Score: 4, Funny

    And in English no less, the third most commonly spoken first language in the world. Could we please get these summaries in Mandarin and Spanish? If we're going to base things in the US on what more people are doing elsewhere, why stop at measurements?

  11. Who owns the data? on Obama Administration Set To Expand Sharing of Data That NSA Intercepts (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine there's going to be a flurry of DMCA take down notices if any of the data can even remotely be copyrighted.

  12. Re:I will never give up on New Hack Shrinks Docker Containers (www.iron.io) · · Score: 2

    "Less code/less programs in the container means less attack surface..."

  13. Re:Yeah, but... on New Hack Shrinks Docker Containers (www.iron.io) · · Score: 1

    The best part is you get the same compression ratio improvement at each stage.

  14. Re:Read the .sigs on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I look forward to someone figuring out which part of mine to fix.

  15. Re:Nothing Special... on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Deciding who dies is simply a matter of patience, deciding who lives takes more effort and skill.

  16. Re:What I want on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't follow, could you use a car analogy?

  17. Re:HTTPS support on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    Really hoping you meant obtrusive rather than intrusive.

  18. Re:We still use Carrier Pigeon on Why 6 Republican Senators Think You Don't Need Faster Broadband (cio.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Was the conference in Russia? on Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So those in attendance can check out any time they want, but they can never leave?

  20. Re:Everything must be owned! on Sony Attempts To Trademark "Let's Play" · · Score: 0

    also rent seeking, orthodoxy, assimilation, or "embrace, extend, extinguish". The same business model has many names.

  21. Re:Great Depression on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    Thinking you're in a period of economic growth and getting hit by the dustbowl era? That does make tariffs look terrible in hindsight.

  22. Re:Seems extremely excessive on Arrested Nigerian Email Scammer Facing Up To 30 Years In Prison (dallasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful, or your advice might get him to plead freedom of religion.

  23. Re:inefficient on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah." Also, the developers of EverQuest have their own take on it: http://everquest.allakhazam.co... Check the prompt just before receiving a tattered cloth note.

  24. Re:Great Title on How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    What are you doing here? Where are your parents!?

  25. Re:Austin? on Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? · · Score: 1

    I spent 20 years in Texas one week, and that was it for me.

    How is the future, and can you get us lottery numbers?