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  1. Nerds 1, football players 0 on Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    MAybe they'll make Sam Biddle the waterboy now.

  2. Re:The wet dream for the dorks here on Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We saw Brazilian domination in the shooting events, including over the vaunted Team USA. Though people expected an early Brazilian lead in mugging pairs, Ryan Lochte's humiliating defeat in mugging fours was something none of us anticipated.

  3. Re: Boom, indeed on Malware That Fakes Bank Login Screens Found In Google Ads (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    "I have no sympathy for idiots transporting large sums of cash. You're just an idiot if you do this. If you need to make a large transaction, get a frickin' cashiers check. Frankly, you're lucky if the cops are the ones who seize the moolah and let you walk."

    And I have no sympathy for the next cop who gets shot by someone whose cash he was about to seize.

  4. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    "No, our Constitution simply doesn't hold any weight in other countries."

    You're forgetting about the Because We Have Nukes clause, which grants the FBI controlling legal status in New Zealand.

  5. Re: Does this mean... on Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they were christian and the point is the president has that power.

    Iranian Christians do exist, now mostly in Arizona and California.

  6. Re:other purported features on All Windows 10 PCs Will Support HoloLens Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    " Windows 10 Skynet mobile cloud "

    The good thing about this is there is no chance that will become self-aware.

  7. Re:At her disposal on All Windows 10 PCs Will Support HoloLens Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    So only women are interested in augmented and virtual reality?

    There is a reason English has the gender neutral word "their" which would be appropriate in this instance.

    By the rules of Corpspeak, descriptive text like this must contain a precisely equal mix of male and female pronouns. The mix must be randomized, with a male pronoun being required if your presentation contains an example of bad protocol by a user. You want your next call to a meeting to be from HR?

  8. "The difference is that people don't have to sit at a gas station overnight. "

    This study shows that the limiting factor to adoption of electric cars is not range, which is already good enough to replace that in-city commuting car, but charge time. We may beed to go to flow batteries, in which the charge is held in an electrolytic fluid that handles like gasoline. Flow batteries have two important limitations for automobile use. They are bulky, and the liquid is a lot lower in energy density than gas. And...your filling cycle has to include pouring back the 'used' fluid before each recharge.

  9. Re:A priori analysis on There May Be A Fifth Force of Nature, Study Suggests (space.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dark Matter could contain anything... but conveniently the secular Left has determined what kinds of things it definitely doesn't contain.

    That helps with the physics... right?

    All bow before the Gap God!

  10. Re:ei helena filha da puta on China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    vai dar teu cuzinho até engravidar, pra ver se tu tem uma filha com merda na cabeça como você.

    So have you been able to mug anyone's gold medal yet?

  11. Re:Really? You need to ask this? on China Launches World's First Quantum Communications Satellite (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The portion of its population that is still in poverty exceeds the entire population of the United States"

    The Chinese cohort of anything exceeds the entire population of the United States. This is also true of the number of Chinese brains being applied to science/tech problems of every kind.

    We fear what our lawyers cannot suppress.

  12. Re:TISP on Google Fiber Is Changing Its Strategy as Costs Grow (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "That plan would kinda suck for people on the outskirts of a town who still have septic systems"

    BUT: these are the places where it is easy to bury fiber along the sides of roads.

  13. Re:Was this before or after adjustments? on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 0

    "I'll get modded to oblivion but "scientists" aren't any smarter or dumber than the average person. They just managed to find a job that pays out more when the headlines aren't positive."

    -1, Oblivion.

  14. Re:Was this before or after adjustments? on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 0

    "Was this before or after adjusting the data?"

    The data are adjusted for improved newsworthiness.

  15. Re:$5K is just fine on Canadian Fined For Not Providing Border Agents Smartphone Password (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    That was my question too. Can Canadian cops steal cash from people without filing charges the way our cops can, or do people have rights up there? Or did they resort to the idea of "Fine - $5000?"

  16. News for nerds, stuff that matters TO SLASHDOTTERS on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The outcome of this case has relevance to the debate we have been going in here about whether AC posting should or should not continue. If Reddit ends up being required to divulge personal information for a registered user, this would obviously strengthen the case for allowing AC.

  17. Re:Why the obsession? on Ask Slashdot: Are There Secure Alternatives To Skype? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    All terrorists have to do to surprise us again is attack us with a new technique. While the three-letter agencies are making our lives miserable at airports, one jogger tossing a vial of hacked Ebola into a big-city reservoir could be the next 9/11.

  18. Re:SJW on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    "My assertion is that "punishing" society with incorrect verdicts is not the correct way to handle search and seizure abuses - the better way for society as a whole is to punish those abusing search and seizure."

    Since cops routinely avoid murder convictions, not at trial but by friendly prosecutors not indicting them in the first place, your suggestion would give us Guantanamo Everywhere.

  19. Re: SJW on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "That way leads to police states....

    The one we would have if there were civil forfeiture.

  20. Re:Still not physically in jail on One Year in Jail For Abusive Silicon Valley CEO (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Anti-semitism is perfectly acceptable to today's left, and can even be regarded as hip. Just use the magic word: Zionists.

  21. Re:In 2016 FBI move to it. on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 0

    Unwanted on Earth, they left the reign of their new employer Bernie Sanders.

    Unfortunately, Bernie Sander's woodburning rocket would take 32 million years to get there.

  22. starshot project and similar, preliminary designs of tiny probes less than a gram, in a swarm of hundreds to thouands accelerated to sizeable fraction (10-20%) of the speed of light seem like the only plausible way to explore other "nearby" star systems for the next century.

    And they would get data back to us how?

  23. Re:interstellar mission on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 2

    This civilization has seen our I Love Lucy broadcasts, and is planning war.

  24. Re:If it sticks it to the utiities I am in. on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I should have added that for all 3 households in my sample, zeroing out net residential power cost was NOT the same as going off grid. These families sold net usage to the grid during sunny middays while drawing from the grid at night. To go off grid, they would have had to install ore collectors and run Powerwalls (or other equivalent) to save their daytime excess.

  25. Re:If it sticks it to the utiities I am in. on Will New Battery Technologies Smash The Old Order? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You will hate utilities until you actually sit down and figure out the costs, construction and maintenance of running your own power source, whatever it may be. I live in one of the sunniest places in the world, and I know three people, all of them well-off and having taken full advantage of the state, federal and utility company subsidies for solar. In each case they were able to zero out their average residential utility bill for two people (though one of them is single) for about $40,000 US in capital cost. Each of them was willing to do a lot of their own tinkering during construction, and are doing as much of their own maintenance as they can to keep the costs down.