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  1. Re:And watch makers everywhere sighed. on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 2

    Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

    Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

  2. What? on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I would imagine it's more fun to just spend the next month watching week to week as nature intended

    I don't think nature intended us to be sitting on our asses to watch stories happen on animated flat canvases.

  3. Dear algorithm on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

  4. I have no desire for an Apple watch (especially since they don't make a left-handed one)

    If I remember the Keynote correctly, right-handed/left-handed is available in the settings.

  5. Re:Humanity is lost on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 2

    Dude, the Pebble sucks. Get yourself a real smartwatch.

  6. Re:Budget running dry? on Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools · · Score: 2

    And if you know a place that's "rolling back property taxes" I would love to fucking see it.

    Walmart?

  7. This has been happening for a while now. I'm Canadian and I stopped using USA-based hosts almost a decade ago.

  8. Re:For when you're too cheap to buy two monitors! on LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now you are constantly paging because every single Windows program is unusable unless it is in full screen even though the number of white pixels is approximately 98%.

    Have you tried inverting the colours?

  9. Re:What about gut bacteria? on Plaque-busting Nanoparticles Could Help Fight Tooth Decay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's an idea: don't swallow the toothpaste?

  10. Re:I Am Crest, of Procter & Gamble.... on Plaque-busting Nanoparticles Could Help Fight Tooth Decay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Could the Borg really defeat Tooth Decay?

  11. Re:Cutting edge journalism on Google Lollipop Bricking Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 Devices · · Score: 1

    Google should ask Apple how to transmit updates to lots of users at once.

    And without their approval, too!

  12. Re:Aaron Schwartz on MIT May Help Lead Bitcoin Standards Effort · · Score: 1

    And you can even get free Dogecoins by using the second link in my signature!

  13. Re:"everyone from PayPal merchants to Rand Paul" on MIT May Help Lead Bitcoin Standards Effort · · Score: 1

    However, I don't expect to be paying my rent in bitcoin at any time.

    Of course not. That would be stupid. You need Rentcoins for that.

  14. Re:Muscle memory - where UI designers go wrong on Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype · · Score: 1

    This explains why GIMP is so horrible. Things have been done a certain way in image editors for decades and these guys come along and move everything around because they think they're better than everybody else.

  15. Re:The what keyboard? on Finding an Optimal Keyboard Layout For Swype · · Score: 1

    And here I am with no mod points.

    Virtual +1 Funny to you, sir.

  16. Re:Strictly speaking... on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1, Funny

    It is far more pressing in the snort term to stop doing drugs, mmkay?

  17. Re:It's been nice knowing y'all on The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not.

  18. Re:Arduino? on Ask Slashdot: How To Introduce a 7-Year-Old To Programming? · · Score: 1

    I would recommend a regular Arduino so that if he's interested, he can add regular shields later.

  19. Re:If this thread is like all the others... on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    I guess it all depends on how it's presented as a subject. I remember "shop class" and having almost no interest in it. However, decades later, I'm now building a 3D printer and I have a desktop CNC mill. It's not that I hate working with my hands, it's that I lack the skills to make the things I want to do. Computer-controlled tools allow me to enjoy "shop class".

    If all they try to teach kids is .NET, frameworks and things like that, most of them will get bored really fast, even those who might have a good future as a programmer. They should use things like Arduino because it can mix programming, electronics and robotics all at the same time.

  20. Re:i don't like this on Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject · · Score: 1

    Which in turns means its going to become easier to exploit people, steal their data and infect their computers.

  21. Re:The internet generation on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 1

    That's funny, the earlier edition of the Slashdot guide to the Internet said that we were anonymous.

  22. Re:And this is different to.... on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sounds like hell.

    No, it sounds like hell on the Internet. I'm sure you could get a patent for that.

  23. Re: one person != some developers on Why Some Developers Are Live-Streaming Their Coding Sessions · · Score: 1

    And for the FCC crowd, Ding-a-lingface.

  24. Re:Apples? on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, there's Applejack, Apple Bloom, Big McIntosh, and Granny Smith.

  25. New business model on ESA Rebukes EFF's Request To Exempt Abandoned Games From Some DMCA Rules · · Score: 1

    1. Make a game that requires server authentication and have date X for the launch of the servers.
    2. Sell a boatload of games.
    3. Take the servers off-line on date X plus 10 seconds.
    4. Profits!

    According to the ESA, that would be legal and appropriate?