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  1. Regarding the book on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was dumb. Tell the kid off and get back to your day. Imaginary powers (much like angry trolls on a screen) are of no direct consequence - if they are, there's a few Unnatural Phenomena awards you can cash on.

    I wanted to suggest that behind the he-said-she-said, the kid was probably showing off the book (the page*, even to some kids, like other generations did with dad's nudiemags or a Sear's catalog lying around. Which, again, tell the kid off and send parents a note to also tell the kid off.

    *https://leonsmom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/tbbk1.jpg, supposedly. And looking at it, you can tell their fascination was with something weird and exotic, kind of like telling Billy that one secret word that my dad muttered and it made uncle Joe gasp and I think it's a bad word and I don't actually know what "vagina" means but I'm gonna whisper it to Billy and we're gonna giggle cluelessly at something that we can at least tell is foreign and taboo and that makes it AWESOME nervous giggle goes here now keep your voice down Billy.

  2. Re:He is correct. There are no Grandfather Paradox on The Quantum Experiment That Simulates a Time Machine · · Score: 0

    > I cannot return to my original universe as we didn't have the means to capture signatures in my timeline yet when I left
    titor ur such a n00b learnto4D already

  3. > we're prohibited from getting Do solid concrete walls prohibit you from information? Walls be illegal now. They're just mad that break-in solutions don't work. Like paper documents in a flashbox.

    Or they actually CAN break in and this is all elaborate fakery.

  4. > Grand Wizard
    Who do I have to kill to get THAT in front of my name? For a hate group they sure know how to pick bitchin' titles.

  5. "because Terrorbullyism" AND "because For The Children"

    I'm waiting to see this kind of bullshit inevitably optimize into a final solution. It's funny, because "more" oppressed and regressive countries will see it used as well.

    It'll probably be some kind of dead-man or canary thing, that ultimately amounts to a very hard fact of "I don't have the password. I can't disclose it, and you can't fuck me for Obstructing Justice or whatever because it's outside me. It has to be supplied by [mechanism? person?]."

  6. Re:People forget about people. on Pirate Activist Shows Politicians What Digital Surveillance Looks Like · · Score: 1

    I sympathize. Many groups have overzealous individuals, and seeing them wave your banner is a bit of a drag, a phenomenon frequent enough that I want a word or phrase to refer to it. But at least some people indulge the benefit of the doubt - I'm willing to believe in the existence of prudent bronies and good dubstep, out there somewhere.

    Somewhat relevant

  7. Re:slashdot saves slashdot by killing beta.slashdo on Man Saves Wife's Sight By 3D Printing Her Tumor · · Score: 1

    You raised my hopes then dashed them quite expertly, sir!
    -TT

  8. Re:One more reason to use a wired keyboard on Wireless Keylogger Masquerades as USB Phone Charger · · Score: 1

    > wireless mouse data
    Kind of sounds like an interesting challenge. Countless points of failure, though, even with a predetermined OS, web browser, etc.

  9. Re:Find the source on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    "Made for" aside, people are also prey. It's like "buyer beware" in the world of consumer products slash snake oil, except with the absence of guides like price tags and visual features and functional testing, and you can be approached easier.

  10. Television Static on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Or as the kids call it, "snow".

    And by kids I mean old people.

  11. nc on Radio, Not YouTube, Is Still King of Music Discovery · · Score: 1

    People still use the top-40 echo chamber to tell them what to listen to, details at eleven.

    They need netflix for the same reason.

  12. Re:Conform or be expelled on HOA Orders TARDIS Removed From In Front of Parrish Home · · Score: 1

    No, that's critical, valuable, private information! You doxxed yourself! You're guilty of putting someone's safety at risk! You'll be hearing from your lawyers!

  13. Re:Why do I want to upgrade? on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    > Does the circle take you to the home screen? Or the square? Better try both and see!
    FUCKING
    HATE
    THIS SHIT
    Fuck these devs
    Fuck every course or book that teaches this
    Fuck your hipshit GUI rot

  14. Re:Not expensive for an audiophile device on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    Zero is an absolute and should be reserved for logistic impossibilities or exaggerations.

    "Pathetic number of sales" and "Sony will make money" can be simultaneously true.

    Especially when it costs shit to do, mostly in the form of "it's shiny!" marketing.

  15. Re: Clearly on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    > it doesn't mean it isn't a valid product
    It's a valid product.
    It's a valid music player.
    China says it's about $0.10 to add such function to your consumer electronic.

    The product's capabilities decide whether it's $1200 valid, and they're delivering three-figure at best.

  16. This bot was only semi-autonomous, it was placed and written and instructed all very specifically. It's hard to consider these events to be unowned.

    Today's is easy to consider. But let me play Devil's advocate:

    Is the butterfly responsible for the tornado that happens 20 years later?

    Then there's a line somewhere and we don't know where it is.

  17. Paying someone to build a laptop. Boom, the world now has two brand new laptops. Well, one's refurbished.

    GGP may have some merit if such events manage to cause trickle down, at least. But the prole workers exist to shuttle money upwards (job exists because overhead's less than profit) so ultimately the re-purchase event is probably a funnel upwards, not down.

    Toshiba and HP and Lenovo CEOs depend on these people.

  18. Re:Summary without technobabble on Bots Scanning GitHub To Steal Amazon EC2 Keys · · Score: 1

    You won't see anyone whining about their rights or "it's MY information!" or intellectual property or "we need to change (git) policy!" here.

    Quarantine or bust.

  19. Re:In other news on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    > who write angry tirades
    lol.

  20. Re:Could build in an auto-fix setting on Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It · · Score: 1

    Someone's earlier comment pointed out they don't go through the thermal cycles a laptop does. "My router has probably seen three." or such.

  21. Re:What percentage... on Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles · · Score: 2

    TFA says the fitting was already being researched for fuel efficiency reasons, so that may throw a bone to the "what will it cost" crowd, results pending.

  22. Re:Hole on Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    Challenge accepted.

  23. Re:Who? on FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate · · Score: 1

    I blame this one on lawyers being indulged by a trigger-happy legal system.

    Someone team up with me, we'll stage an assault (the real sticks-and-stones kind) on the steps of a stock exchange or something and sue the theat- I mean bank. We'll draw lots for who has to get shot.

    OT: People who insist they were harmed by colored lights on a square screen are victimplay demagogues. I don't care how many bad movies have shown otherwise, a computer can't "EMP your brain" or explode with the force of a grenade, it just sits there and glows.

  24. nc on Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? · · Score: 1

    lawl, he thinks consumer purchases are exclusively inextricable to the objective merits of a product/service, and results are a direct reflection of said merits

    allow me to break that illusion:

    "apple"

  25. Re:News for Social Justice Warriors on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    Actually, it'd be nice to see them resisting some real oppression, not manchildren giggling about "dongles" in the workspace.

    But you can only reach low hanging fruit from the facetweets and leddits and instablrs. Let me know when an SJW stands their ground while the pepper spray bites.