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  1. It's the modern day version of Mad Libs.

  2. With posts like this. on 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality' (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    The submitter will continue to be only a commentator. The post meanders along with no substance, then eventually gets to the point that it is just a political hit piece.

  3. I missed the picture on MIT Discovers Way To Mass-Produce Graphene In Large Sheets (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    of the graphene product, I see the machine but the 'product' looks like a computer illustration. (sigh)

  4. Re:Can't wait for this to get loose on Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you don't have electricity or plumbing yet over there?

  5. Re:Wait what? Online takes too long to arrive? on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If a contractor needs it, they need it today. Contractors buy as needed, and are used to just picking up more on the next supply run. Small things bought ahead of time just wind up lost behind the pile of extra parts in the truck or shop. But yea you just sit there on your couch with the 'easy order' button.

  6. Re:Ripe for disruption on Demand For Batteries Is Shrinking, Yet Prices Keep On Going and Going ... Up (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Haha, good luck getting everyone to agree to a standard. Plus there a ton of non-hardwired smoke alarms and such out there.

  7. Re:Can't wait for this to get loose on Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    It's fun to imagine the mayhem if it also eats vinyl: Vinyl siding. Vinyl windows. Vapor barriers. Drain and sewer pipes (and some supply pipes). Electrical insulation. And thats just a basic modern home.

  8. Re:Unsafe autopilot is what sells Teslas on NTSB Boots Tesla From Investigation Into Fatal Autopilot Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not the driver's fault for buying a defective product with false advertising, this a fault of the manufacturer. However now that we all know it is a defective product, knowingly using said defective product is NOW the fault of the driver. Hmm, can't be long now until a lawyer initiates a class action suit.

  9. Re:Only the positives are talked about... on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's even better than that! Exceed the speed limit for the area and boom! Automatic speeding ticket!

  10. Re:What's going to suck... on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's going to suck more for them as my business goes elsewhere.

  11. Re:Yes, let us make it worse. on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It gets even stupider when you realize they are breaking one of the 1st rules of passwords, use a different one for each account.

  12. They get your password, you just change it. on Biometric and App Logins Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But if they get your 'biometrics', you um... Use a different finger? Use a different face?

  13. Re:Metro design and Live tiles?? on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am undecided if you are implying the windows phones were big and clunky, or bragging that you still play with matchbox cars ?

  14. Re:Yes I do on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing there are no pesky updates to get in your way anymore. It is now the perfect phone.

  15. Pumping their own awful prices on GPU Prices Soar as Bitcoin Miners Buy Up Hardware To Build Rigs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    just an excuse to explain poor supply and price gauging.

  16. Re:On the contrary on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    Since it would first record the data of the person to beam...

    I'm gonna stop your right there, before facebook gains interest.

  17. Re:translation on BMW Says Electric Car Mass Production Not Viable Until 2020 (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    How do you cede customers to a car maker that can't even meet it's own release schedule?

  18. Whole point of facebook is to BE public. on Mozilla Pulls Advertising from Facebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that why people use it? To put yourself out there to the public?

    Or to put it another way, those that want privacy don't use facebook.

  19. Re:Response Intel vs AMD on AMD Says Patches Coming Soon For Chip Vulnerabilities (securityweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but these don't look related to meltdown or spectre at all. It's a problem with their 'secure' management layer, intel already fixed theirs a while back - what took AMD so long :P

  20. Sounds a lot easier to have never been there in the first place.

  21. Re:Why does it look like an sidewalk? on Police Chief: Uber Self-Driving Car 'Likely' Not At Fault In Fatal Crash (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Looks to me like some 'designer' got what they wanted. Nothing more.

  22. "Made in China" on China Approves Giant Propaganda Machine To Improve Global Image (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Good luck undoing that.

  23. Re:What does this translate to price per gallon? on Tesla Raises Prices At Its Supercharger Stations · · Score: 2

    And your $36 includes taxes, which helps pay for road repair and expansion. Do those electric prices do anything to help maintain the roadways they use?

  24. 3 billion users, sure.. on Data Breach Victims Can Sue Yahoo in the United States, Federal Judge Rules (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That is almost 1 out of every 2 people on earth. They might have had 3 billion 'accounts', but how many of them were throw aways that people kept creating and discarding for various questionable purposes. I would guess legitimate accounts will drop 2+ zeros from that total. Verifiable accounts, those where the owner will respond back, would drop 2+ more zeros.

  25. I don't use twitter, but isn't this the type of thing they have been preaching to people for a long time now? Why has it taken them so long to also have equality on their data collection convenience platform?