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  1. Re:Duplicate post? on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Canada is actually warming 4 times faster but they had to release the story in two parts so as not to cause a panic.

    Stampeding Canooks are worse than stampeding mooses.

  2. Re:They are depresesed by the success of MX Linux on Linux Mint 19.2 'Tina' is On the Way, But the Developers Seem Defeated and Depressed (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Manjaro is actually #1 right now, Mint #3.

  3. Re: April first is a blight, need to be stopped!! on OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah right. Next you will want us to believe that you can grow spaghetti on the ground in a squash-like gourd.

  4. Since I was a kid it has gone from:

    Masturbation will make you go blind
    Masturbation will make hair grow on your palms
    Masturbation will make you gay
    Don't ask, don't tell about masturbation
    Not masturbating 10 times a day will make you go blind and gay

  5. Sounds good. I was nearly t-boned yesterday buy a guy who ran a stop sign whilst texting. I could see the phone in his hand as I passed by.

    And there should be greater penalties if you are talking or texting and are involved in an accident.

  6. Re:A law to forbid hardware to become a brick need on Microsoft To Offer Band Refunds, Announces End of Apps and Services (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe someone can port Linux to it.

  7. Also sounds like Windows Compact Edition, aka Wince.

  8. Re:It sounds like... on Google's Waymo Risks Repeating Silicon Valley's Most Famous Blunder (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought it was blowing off IBM when they wanted to use your CP/M operating system for their PCs, forcing them to go to Microsoft. Either that or selling your QDOS to Bill Gates for a few thousand dollars, which Microsoft then used as the basis for MS-DOS.

  9. Re:Talking Heads... on Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's Life During Wartime, piker.

  10. I think it's from the 60's.

    At least that's how I remember it.

  11. Damn, you stole my snarky comment.

  12. Re:Future CC on CERN's New Collider Design Is Four Times Larger Than the LHC (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    And will they continue to call it the "Future" CC after it is built? Unless they are really building a time machine and will call the next one the "Past Collider" after they go back to 1965 and build it.

  13. Re:Who/What is Supreme? on Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme (droid-life.com) · · Score: 0

    I thought this was going to be about Brett Kavanaugh. Oh wait, he is a real Supreme.

  14. Self driving cars should fix this on Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, they should be able to drive on icy roads, right?

  15. So they are saying Starwood has stored data for 500 million "customers". Isn't that ~6.4% of the world population? Sounds fishy to me.

    I thought it seemed a bit high too so I checked . According to

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/247310/number-of-starwood-hotels-and-resorts-hotel-rooms-worldwide/

    " This statistic shows the number of Starwood Hotels and Resorts hotel rooms worldwide from 2009 to 2016. There were more than 339 thousand Starwood Hotels and Resorts hotel rooms worldwide as of January 1, 2014. "

    That's a lot of rooms. Starwood includes many hotel brands.

  16. Of course if you finance the car you would need to make the PIN available to the repo man. In fact, repo men would become obsolete, they would just call the car in fro the office.

  17. There was a company in Chico, CA (the area that is burning right now) that was doing this in 1980. They could even send weather maps to Apple ][e computers over a 300 baud modem. Oddly enough the name of the company was "Nowcasting".

  18. But it is not TLA (Three Letter Acronym) free.

    I think the Linux community should join CAT - the Campaign to Abolish TLAs.

  19. Following the Gentleman Janitor robot is the Soylent Green Robot.

  20. Re:Ummm ... yeah ... on Physics Holds the Key To Performing the Flipping Water Bottle Trick (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    That Newton fellow didnt even invent anything, he just described what was already there. Why is this guy even famous? ;)

    Because he also invented a tasty cookie with a fig filling.

  21. Re:That was one expensive tweet on Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman · · Score: 1

    At least the settlement doesn't include drug testing (AFAIK). He supposedly really likes his coke.

  22. That means Pyst is also 25 years old.

  23. Re:First? on Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    He would have been first if he didn't have to type all that stuff:

    IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
    PROGRAM-ID. FIRST.
    PROCEDURE DIVISION.
    DISPLAY 'First'.
    STOP RUN.

  24. Re:Not just one--someone's entire life on Slashdot Asks: Have You Ever Gotten Someone Else's Email? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    My Gmail account is firstinitallastname@gmail.com. My last name is very uncommon but at least three times I've gotten emails intended for someone else. They apparently signed up for something just using their initiallastname without bothering to check or sign up. The worst one went on for years. It was a woman who used it when applying for a bank account. I began getting notices that her account was overdrawn, offers for new features, loans, new credit cards etc. I tried contacting the bank but most big corporations these days do everything they can to avoid unsolicited contact. At one point I called and got routed to someone who promised it would be taken care of. The emails actually stopped for a few months then started up again. O even got an offer to join some kind of special advisory group, which turned out to be just a different way to send shady offers.

  25. I hadn't realized until now that Master Cylinder from Felix the Cat cartoons was a racist slave holder.

    And Felix was of course black.