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  1. Re:Huh... on Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    This controversy is about proposals to extend messaging seamlessly to such devices using the Internet, as is done for non-cellular Apple devices.

  2. Re:Huh... on Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Edit: The target must be a device with a cellular connection, though.

  3. Re:Huh... on Apple Explains Why iMessage Isn't Coming To Android (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    "You can send a regular text message to a PC or an Android tablet?"

    Yes. In fact, iMessage tells you via a blue message background if it's using the Internet to pass the message to another Apple device, or a green background if it had to fall back to SMS to send the message to an infidel device.

  4. Now that Harry Reid is leaving we might actually be able to bury nuclear fuel in Nevada.

    Better still would be a plant to reprocess nuclear fuel in Nevada. The Nevada Test Site, where Yucca is located, would be an ideal location. Yucca Mountain itself would be its buffer storage.

  5. Re:Radio interference on Alien Contact Unlikely For Another 1,500 Years, Says Study (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    For this reason, I think that our first detection of aliens will be imaging of large-scale engineering rather than signal leakage. And NOBODY is going to be intentionally signaling.

  6. I like this approach! on Bill Guarantees 50% Salary For Workers Laid Off With Non-Compete (computerworld.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Non-compete agreements were historically an executive clause, designed to protect a company against having a key man quit and then immediately apply a headful of inside knowledge against the former employer. When such a worker separated with a non-compete in effect, he was usually walking off with a tidy stack of equity shares whose value would be diminished if he were to violate the agreement.

    So when a company requires a non-compete from a worker who does not in any way benefit from the clause, let's require compensation in the form of a percentage of former salary.

  7. Re:Someone is playing Kerbal Space Program on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Crashes Into Droneship (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Also lithobreaking is used as a term for crashing."

    No, that refers to a type of prison labor. You mean lithobraking.

  8. Re:Cause and Effect on Asymmetric Molecule, Key To Life, Detected In Space For First Time (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    "Of course these chemicals are now in space. Look at all the things we've launched into it! Undoubtedly these little things just hopped along for the ride."

    Oh look, it's Space Nutter Troll once again demonstrating how little he knows about science.

  9. Re:Dignity? on Online Loans Made In China Using Nude Pictures As Collateral · · Score: 1

    What would prevent a borrower from photoshopping a different, much better body onto his/her head?

  10. Re:iOS now 10? on Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS · · Score: 1

    It was odd that the most significant part of the software announcement was not part of the announcement at all, because it was the new filesystem announced afterward. This will have the largest effect on how all Apple software runs.

  11. For a week or so, we'll be able to crash terrorist communications, until they pick another app.

  12. Re:Cancer, like AIDS, is Gods... on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the ESP machine I use to delve into the individual Green mind is in the shop, I have to rely on the publicly expressed opinions and manifestos of the group.

  13. Not a serious offense, small fine on Amazon Faces $350K Fine For Shipping 'Amazing Liquid Fire' (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fined a really large amount, like half a billion dollars, your company would have to do something monstrous like Google advertising low-cost online prescriptions:
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

  14. Re:Cancer, like AIDS, is Gods... on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Finding a cure for either will violate His plan for the human race.

    Unless his plan is to test if we're stupid enough to believe that shit.

    And when you can't find Christians who believe that shit, you can find Greens who do.

  15. Re:Thalidomide on Repurposing Drugs To Tackle Cancer (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thalidomide is still manufactured because it is now a standard treatment for leprosy.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

  16. Android haters bitching about fragmentation... on Older Android Wear Watches Will Miss Out On the v2.0 Update (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Meet the Apple haters in the adjacent thread bitching about how the "walled garden" prevents them from sideloading dubious apps that spread viruses and ransomware.

  17. Re:Definitely a few big improvements .... on Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Pro version of Photos is Adobe Lightroom.

    My favorite of the new features win this announcement was Single Sign-On. You log onto your iPhone with the fingerprint reader, and have it become an amulet that you can wave to log on to websites, apps and Apple TV channels on your local network.

  18. Re:iOS now 10? on Apple Announces iOS 10, watchOS 3, and new features for tvOS · · Score: 2

    This little name change is more significant than you might think. "OS X" was always a pain in the butt to use in search requests. It was like trying to find reviews of a movie called Relentless. "MacOS" will be a breeze.

  19. Re:The downside of this on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    "Mateen was mentally disturbed, hated gays, and had a god complex."

    Just like every other terrorist who has fallen under the spell of Wahhabism.

  20. Re:Another one bites the dust on Microsoft Is Buying LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    And $26 billion, seriously? MS could fix half the bugs in Windows for that amount.

  21. Re:An easier sollution on Ask Slashdot: Can Technology Prevent Shootings? · · Score: 2

    "what we have instead in this country, on both state-by-state basis, as well as a metro-area basis, is very clear correlations between gun prevalence and gun deaths. and it's summed up thus: more guns = more deaths."

    So when did Chicago suddenly start allowing its people to have guns?

  22. I'm talking about drugs and sensory deprivation, not torture. Torture is only good for intimidating people, which is why the jihadists use so much of it. When we want to intimidate people, we use drones.

  23. Re:Finally on How ISIS Finally Hacked the Arkansas Library Association (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    First they had to finish attacking the American Dental Association.

    That RPG is going to leave quite a cavity.

  24. To those who claim that PC does not exist... on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While investigators are exploring all angles, they "have suggestions the individual has leanings towards (Islamic terrorism), but right now we can't say definitely..."

    This statement is about a perp who called 911 and proclaimed himself an agent of ISIS

  25. Re:Will women be banned or will nasa force the UAE on NASA And The UAE Will Collaborate On A Journey To Mars (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    They are usually thrown off building roofs but it might be acceptable to drop them from the stratosphere. There is no exact rule on this and no scholar ruling that I'm aware.

    Fortunately, when you throw a person off a building in space, nothing happens.