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  1. Re:No gun (real or fake) used to play this game. on Student Arrested For Posting Zombie-Killing AR Game Clip Filmed at His High School (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Killing zombies in real life (yes, I realize how absurd that was) is no crime

    Obviously it is a crime to kill a real-life zombie. In fact, killing someone solely because of their ethnicity or medical condition (depending on your definition of zombie) is a hate crime.

  2. Re:The problem with twitter on Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Their problem is that their market is quite small

    This is the key. There's nothing inherently bad about Twitter, it simply is not a mass medium and can never have more than a limited role. And the less the platform is used the more individual tweets have value.

  3. Unless.... the aether was dark matter all along!

  4. Re:"Customer feedback"? on Microsoft To Make Saying No To Windows 10 Update Easier (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    To be fair, Microsoft has very little insight into what customers want.

  5. Long live English Montreal!

    English Montreal deserves to be its own separate province.

  6. They have vast insight into what actual humans do, and deliberately write something different.

  7. Re:and Predict What Humans Will Do. BZZZZT - WRONG on Scientists Force Computer To Binge On TV Shows and Predict What Humans Will Do (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The news used to be about reality but even that not so much any more.

  8. Re:I blame slashdot for Brexit! Hear me out. on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, you're in denial that someone is challenging your personal notion of 'obvious'.

  9. Re:I blame slashdot for Brexit! Hear me out. on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a number of obvious contributing factors to Brexit. Nationalism and selfishness are two of the most obvious.

    You can't be a nation without some degree of nationalism. Too much and too little are both harmful.

    You can't have enlightened self interest without selfishness. Again, either too much or too little can be bad.

  10. Re:Congratulations, Britain! on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in the '80s Canada learned the hard way that "free" "trade" was just a slogan. It's never had anything to do with free trade the economic philosophy.

    It's surprisingly effective to use a term as an Orwellian euphemism for its opposite; all these decades later people are still being fooled by it.

  11. Re:An omen of a Trump victory on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or, maybe there is more than one objection to the EU approach (or rather lack thereof) to cross-border migration.

    Not wanting to compete for jobs with people who have lived their entire lives with a vastly different standard of living is not racism or any other bigotry. The difference is bigots are able to clearly articulate their objections. Others who feel something is wrong can't quite put their finger on what the underlying problem is.

  12. It's trickier because health is also a function of age, so everyone's health is constantly changing.

  13. No, they're using 'purpose' in the sense of an adaptive function.

    Just like they always have. It's never caused confusion before, at least not for people acting in good faith.

  14. They are not 'giving' you money by not taking as much.

    We've had money for thousands of years and people are still getting the fundamentals wrong.

  15. Or, he is both lying and incompetent, and he's showing off how powerful he is in comparison to mere citizens by the fact that he will face none of those consequences.

  16. Re:Rename the robot to Steve McQueen! on It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Stevie McQueenface? Doesn't quite have the right ring to it.

  17. Ambiguity on Microsoft Open-Sources 'Checked C,' A Safer C Version (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm confused - is Microsoft reinventing C++ or reinventing Java? I can't tell which decade from the last millennium they're trying to drag us back to. (Maybe as far back as when they were considered a reputable software company?)

  18. Customer confusion on Citigroup Sues AT&T For Saying 'Thanks' To Customers (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ATT's use of the "thanks" and "ATT thanks" trademarks is likely to cause consumer confusion

    It's true, people are surprised and confused to hear the word "thanks" coming from either of those corporations.

  19. Re:Is he responsible for the pain? on Autonomous Robot Intentionally Hurts People To Make Them Bleed (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    An anti-Betteridge headline. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

  20. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Statistically, there are no examples of gun owners who do not own guns killing anyone. Or existing.

  21. Why does what they're calling the "future" sounds suspiciously like the dot-com/Y2k bubble, which is now over 15 years old?

  22. Re:wouldn't want any of them as neighbors on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ignoring Thiel's motives for a moment, was the outcome actually an injustice?

  23. So it's not about computers that have had Microsoft malware forced on them.

  24. Re: Revenge p0rn on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not about Gawker anymore, this is about a billionaire using his money and influence to destroy someone using the legal system as a proxy.

    It can be both.

  25. Provoking laughter is not the same as being funny or entertaining.