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  1. and as I replied when the Onion got ahold of this on Ford Is Using Microsoft's HoloLens To Design Cars In Augmented Reality (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The next version will allow engineers to also see the safety recalls next to the virtual car.

  2. big pile of dead. on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 1

    dead iron, dead meat... big pile.

  3. pah. all these outfits share data with governments on Kaspersky Software Banned From US Government Systems Over Concerns About Russia (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    the only thing going between the really really white right in the US government is this is the only Russian connection they can sever and look like heroes.

  4. 300 models? VW has more problems than diesel on Volkswagen To Build Electric Versions of All 300 Models By 2030 (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    that's about 200 models too many. 200 brand managers and staffs, 200 ad hierarchies, 200 sets of designers and dealerships and headaches too many. use those 12 brands to differentiate types of vehicles, put birds of a feather on the same lot. I bet the savings would just about pay the fines for those illegal stinkpots they pushed the past 8 years.

  5. don't connect, don't enable, don't use. easy-peasy on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    do not enable wifi, do not connect cat-5, do not collect internet. it's that simple. if it worked out of the box, and can't get to the bad things, it should not become corrupted.

  6. they see us, they hear us. more than enough. on Astrophysicist Believes Technologically-Advanced Species Extinguish Themselves (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    consider an advanced race on another planet eavesdropping on the Khardasians and the news. they want no part of us. enough said.

  7. pay the goof to go away on Google May Be In Trouble For Firing James Damore (inc.com) · · Score: 1

    that's how it's done.

  8. I'm gonna buy 10 copies of that tabloid for my muthah

  9. because he might not be wearing pants on David Letterman Returning to TV With Netflix Talk Show (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 2

    appeals to hackers in mom's basement

  10. micropayment news: something from my Y2K on Facebook Is Looking Into Allowing Paywall For Selected Media Stories (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I have been flogging this idea for almost 20 years. about time somebody picked it up.

  11. doesn't bother me on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    my password is 8 big dots.

  12. total freaking nonsense. what he's saying is, "hey, we can spend really well, and you don't hold us responsible. we like it." I can't get away with that, and neither can you.

    kids don't know about budgets. investment analysts ought to.

  13. I presume there is an arbitration clause as well on UK Wifi Provider Tricks Customers Into Agreeing To Clean Sewers (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    which specifies Right Whale A-221 as the arbitrator....because, of course, the rulings are always right....

  14. take out the pilots' seats first on Colombian Airline Wants To Make Passengers Stand (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    and see how that goes.

  15. broken like Windows "Modern Interface" on Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net · · Score: 1

    it's now Idiot Valley. looks like a 1970 college tabloid.

  16. teamwork and specialists on Ask Slashdot: How Do News Organizations Keep Track of So Much Information? · · Score: 1

    a large news organization will always have specialists, used to be they were called "something" desks in the inky cigar-littered past. the crime desk reporters covered the cops. the business desk reporters covered the business wires, ticker-tape, and wires. sports desk, you had reporters assigned to each team. and so on. Desk Editors rode herd.

    reporter's desks were a mess of folders and papers, and older information was filed in the news morgue, a wall of file cabinets. Facts On File, an annual compendium of important stories and personalities, added filler and color.

    nowdays, it's all in computers, on Nexis/Lexus, and the organization's own servers.

    your Eyewitness Local Team Leader News Source Station, various trademarks licensed but not to me, the reporters who usually work their beats save a copy on their own computer.

    Sloppy Sam who keeps no notes works off the cuff, and doesn't last long.

  17. I presume the fabled Big Red Button on British Airways IT Outage Caused By Contractor Who Accidentally Switched off Power (independent.ie) · · Score: 1

    there really should be a shield cover over The Big Red Button so prevalent in data centers at the door. the damn thing always scared me, I never got within a foot of the bugger. always felt saver leaning on the Halon tank.

  18. just freaking stop caller ID masking! on After Bomb Threats, FCC Proposes Letting Police Unveil Anonymous Callers (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    all this piecemeal crap, hell, just kill the ability to mask the caller!

  19. too late for the analog phone system on Experts Call For Preserving Copper, Pneumatic Systems As Hedge For Cyber Risk (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    existing equipment is basically being kept alive by cannibalizing the unused machines installed in the 1990s for spare cards. there are no analog phones being made any more, it's all chip on board stuff, the 5xx series type of phones are almost 40 years past production.

  20. In other news.... on PC Market Could Return To Growth in 2019 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    unicorn ranches report a record year, after changing their feed delivery system of rainbows and good wishes to use flying pigs to refill the golden troughs.

  21. too many layers, won't change a thing on Google's 'Project Treble' Could Lead To Faster Android Updates (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    nice that it's modular. sucks that the phone maker, chipset foundry, and carrier are still in the mix, because they don't move an inch on old phones they no longer make. so, great effort and cost for nothing. sorry, still as stiff as Gargoyle on updating.

  22. Microsoft has to accept it, as on Microsoft Is Surprisingly Comfortable With Its New Place In a Mobile, Apple, and Android World (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    there are no chairs left to throw....

  23. if they were running Linux, this wouldn't... oh, on Red Hat Suffers Massive Data Center Network Outage · · Score: 1

    if they were running distributed... oh, wait.

    guess it was a Beowulf cluster of Clusters.

  24. they are swearing a tarryable oath on Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "oaf" would have been more like it

  25. there will be changes on Microsoft To Sell Customized Edition of Samsung Galaxy S8 Android Smartphones (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the middle of a vital call, like to 911, the phone will update crapware and reboot, taking another 10 minutes of spinny dot time telling you to not shut it down.