However, Edward Snowden could not be reached for comment.
More like: "Someone got a papercut today. Mead G.P. Hammermill, the first person to have all four limbs severed by a cardboard guillotine developed and tested illegally under auspices of the U.S. Department of Paper Products, could not be reached for comment.
Every job that I've ever worked, every job except "research scientist" that I've ever even heard of, has always affected the world in some small way, and it always mattered to someone, anyone if I didn't bother to do it.
But instead I guess you can just program a robot to talk like a child molester and write down how people react to it, and that's a real job that someone, somewhere, will pay you for? And you can tell your family about it at Thanksgiving? And maybe they'll even be proud?
Oh, okay, it's back now. My apologies. I thought you were talking about the "latest update bricks thermostats with a lifetime warranty" story from yesterday.
An international team of researchers have found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter... known as a quantum spin liquid... in a two-dimensional material.
Damn. That's a wasted opportunity. I would have called it "flatsma".
There's already a long thread about how likely this device would be to kill you (the consensus seems to be "not very, unless you're holding it in your mouth while BASE jumping"). But I'm wondering whether regular use would do some sort of permanent damage to the taste buds. Like, after you use it for a couple of years, you can no longer really taste salt under any circumstances.
sodium glutamate, used in combination with table salt, can significantly reduce the amount of sodium required to properly season a dish.
Of course 78% of donald trump supporters are allergic to soudium glutamate rofl
Unless this is a reference that flew over my head, because I find hearing Trump say things very depressing, and avoid it when possible, I'm not sure you're being fair to fans of Mister Silly the Circus Monkey. Say what you will about Trump and his supporters (I certainly do), but I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that if you did a survey, you'd find that significantly fewer of them report food allergies than people on the other side of the political spectrum. It's a big world, and there's more than enough idiocy to go around.
You may actually be thinking instead of Trump supporters' attitude toward the eradication of polio and other crippling and/or lethal diseases via a campaign of universal vaccination. Turns out they're against it.
Sorry, I meant to say "INTERNET_PROVIDER", not "CABLE_PROVIDER". I got confused because for some reason they're the same company in my area. I asked my congressperson if this made sense, and he said, "YES! ME LIKEY MONEY GOOD!"
$MY_CURRENT_CABLE_PROVIDER is the worst. I thought $MY_PREVIOUS_CABLE_COMPANY was the worst for years, but then I moved from $MY_PREVIOUS_REGION to $MY_CURRENT_REGION and sometimes I actually feel like I owe $MY_PREVIOUS_CABLE_COMPANY an apology.
These Zaha works are just ugly and trying to be different... I don't think they are aesthetically pleasing.
Sorry, but all the good-looking designs have been taken. If you want to prove to the world that you're a brilliant artistic genius, which they make everyone swear an oath to do in architecture school, then you have to make something ugly, because that's all that's left.
You're probably just not smart enough to see the Emperor's clothes--er, I mean, the beauty.
No, see, "I could care less" is something stupid people say when they mean "I couldn't care less". So, yes: humor, sarcasm, very much ring-a-ling-ding.
Irregardless, as this study learns us, peeple who point out errors of any kind are all complete jerks, so I bet you're both undoubtably really a literal pain in the ass.
"Less agreeable participants showed more sensitivity to 'grammos' than participants high in agreeability," the researchers said...
So people who are less likely to let small errors slide without comment in general turned out to be less likely to let small errors slide in one specific context?
If only there were some system in place for predicting the outcome of new court cases based on the verdicts in previous similar cases that were heard by the same court.
Sometimes the road more frequently traveled is, in fact, the better road.
Right. Because when, not if, you eventually break down, there'll be someone along to help you shortly, and the towing fee will be relatively reasonable. But if you instead insist on driving exclusively on ice roads on the sides of mountains in northern Alaska in December, well, God bless you, but your first breakdown is likely to either bankrupt you or kill you.
Well you actually get to SELL your airship to NASA and others afterwards, for moar $$$. That's in addition to the $1.5 million prize money. So yeah maybe it could be worth it.
"What's that? Oh, it's a check for my share of the prize money? Thanks, I've really been looking forward to... uh. Where are all the zeroes? What do you mean, the prize was split between three hundred teams?
"Crap, this thing cost me ten times that to build. Hey, listen, do you want to buy it? What? Why not? No room, you say? Well, maybe you could store it at one of your other facilities. Texas is huge, and you barely even use Alabama anymore.
"No? Fine, screw you. I know plenty of parties other than the US government who'd be interested in delivering a 20 kilogram payload to the stratosphere. I'll just get in contact with one of them...
"What do you mean, you're putting me on the terrorist watchlist?"
No, it's not disparaging the products, it's disparaging the people who own and use those products. Big difference.
Was he, though? I'm asking. The article was pretty light on actual quotes. All I found was:
Schiller said that 600 million people are using PCs that are over five years old. "This is really sad," he said.
Which seems kind of ambiguous to me.
And, uh, being a dickhead in a marketing launch does not magically excuse him being a dickhead.
I suppose not. But based on my personal experience with marketing people, not being a dickhead might well get him magically excused from his job as a marketeer.
It's fucking unbelievable how much trouble plumbing has caused for so many people.
Let's ignore how fundamentally broken it is, as a technology, in almost every respect. That includes its fucking awful historical association with toxic lead, its total lack of real modularity (sorry, reservoirs are complete shit), its ultra shitty set of mutually incompatible pipe sizes, materials, and connections (which is this problem exist in the first place), and similar problems.
Plumbing has allowed too many unskilled cranks to shit out way too many leaky pipes. It was one thing when they did it in Ancient Rome, where it was isolated to a fountain in the town square. Now it's being done in people's houses, and it's a motherfucking disaster!
Worse, plumbing has enabled the for-profit water supply industry. Plumbing makes it trivial for them to track every drop of water you use. If you don't want to fall victim to it, then you have to waste your time turning off a bunch of valves, and digging wells everywhere.
Plumbing needs to go.
If you really need to use a water delivery technology, use a river, or a pond, or even a goddamn barrel . All three of them are better than plumbing in every way.
Slashdot Mirror
However, Edward Snowden could not be reached for comment.
More like: "Someone got a papercut today. Mead G.P. Hammermill, the first person to have all four limbs severed by a cardboard guillotine developed and tested illegally under auspices of the U.S. Department of Paper Products, could not be reached for comment.
Damn, I should have been a scientist.
Every job that I've ever worked, every job except "research scientist" that I've ever even heard of, has always affected the world in some small way, and it always mattered to someone, anyone if I didn't bother to do it.
But instead I guess you can just program a robot to talk like a child molester and write down how people react to it, and that's a real job that someone, somewhere, will pay you for? And you can tell your family about it at Thanksgiving? And maybe they'll even be proud?
I'm such a chump.
Oh, okay, it's back now. My apologies. I thought you were talking about the "latest update bricks thermostats with a lifetime warranty" story from yesterday.
This has been the front page story, until lately:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/06/1529210/nest-reminds-customers-that-ownership-isnt-what-it-used-to-be
Is slashdot applying censorship? Who are really the new overlords? Has Alphabet paid SlashdotMedia to silence its criticism?
I would find this troubling indeed, only it appears that it's just a second-page story now. There's this new thing called the passage of time.
Ubuntu Budgie Could Be The New Flavor of Ubuntu Linux
I prefer albatross flavor.
An international team of researchers have found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter... known as a quantum spin liquid... in a two-dimensional material.
Damn. That's a wasted opportunity. I would have called it "flatsma".
"People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy'"
That is ridiculous. Things that change games are properly classified as "sports equipment".
There's already a long thread about how likely this device would be to kill you (the consensus seems to be "not very, unless you're holding it in your mouth while BASE jumping"). But I'm wondering whether regular use would do some sort of permanent damage to the taste buds. Like, after you use it for a couple of years, you can no longer really taste salt under any circumstances.
I am not a neurologist.
sodium glutamate, used in combination with table salt, can significantly reduce the amount of sodium required to properly season a dish.
Of course 78% of donald trump supporters are allergic to soudium glutamate rofl
Unless this is a reference that flew over my head, because I find hearing Trump say things very depressing, and avoid it when possible, I'm not sure you're being fair to fans of Mister Silly the Circus Monkey. Say what you will about Trump and his supporters (I certainly do), but I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that if you did a survey, you'd find that significantly fewer of them report food allergies than people on the other side of the political spectrum. It's a big world, and there's more than enough idiocy to go around.
You may actually be thinking instead of Trump supporters' attitude toward the eradication of polio and other crippling and/or lethal diseases via a campaign of universal vaccination. Turns out they're against it.
We beat world hunger! We beat the over loving shit out of it.
Yes, it took a few millennia, but at long last civilization has achieved its original goal!
Now we can finally start dismantling all these eyesore cities. Good work, everyone. Now let's shut it down and retire.
Sorry, I meant to say "INTERNET_PROVIDER", not "CABLE_PROVIDER". I got confused because for some reason they're the same company in my area. I asked my congressperson if this made sense, and he said, "YES! ME LIKEY MONEY GOOD!"
$MY_CURRENT_CABLE_PROVIDER is the worst. I thought $MY_PREVIOUS_CABLE_COMPANY was the worst for years, but then I moved from $MY_PREVIOUS_REGION to $MY_CURRENT_REGION and sometimes I actually feel like I owe $MY_PREVIOUS_CABLE_COMPANY an apology.
These Zaha works are just ugly and trying to be different... I don't think they are aesthetically pleasing.
Sorry, but all the good-looking designs have been taken. If you want to prove to the world that you're a brilliant artistic genius, which they make everyone swear an oath to do in architecture school, then you have to make something ugly, because that's all that's left.
You're probably just not smart enough to see the Emperor's clothes--er, I mean, the beauty.
No, see, "I could care less" is something stupid people say when they mean "I couldn't care less". So, yes: humor, sarcasm, very much ring-a-ling-ding.
"I can't believe those stupid jerks demanded we scrub the launch, just because of some stupid made-up bullshit about 'O-rings'!"
I could care less.
I "could of" been a nice guy all this time...
For all "intensive" purposes, "your" a great guy.
Irregardless, as this study learns us, peeple who point out errors of any kind are all complete jerks, so I bet you're both undoubtably really a literal pain in the ass.
"Less agreeable participants showed more sensitivity to 'grammos' than participants high in agreeability," the researchers said...
So people who are less likely to let small errors slide without comment in general turned out to be less likely to let small errors slide in one specific context?
Mind. Blown.
If only there were some system in place for predicting the outcome of new court cases based on the verdicts in previous similar cases that were heard by the same court.
Sometimes the road more frequently traveled is, in fact, the better road.
Right. Because when, not if, you eventually break down, there'll be someone along to help you shortly, and the towing fee will be relatively reasonable. But if you instead insist on driving exclusively on ice roads on the sides of mountains in northern Alaska in December, well, God bless you, but your first breakdown is likely to either bankrupt you or kill you.
Well you actually get to SELL your airship to NASA and others afterwards, for moar $$$. That's in addition to the $1.5 million prize money. So yeah maybe it could be worth it.
"What's that? Oh, it's a check for my share of the prize money? Thanks, I've really been looking forward to... uh. Where are all the zeroes? What do you mean, the prize was split between three hundred teams?
"Crap, this thing cost me ten times that to build. Hey, listen, do you want to buy it? What? Why not? No room, you say? Well, maybe you could store it at one of your other facilities. Texas is huge, and you barely even use Alabama anymore.
"No? Fine, screw you. I know plenty of parties other than the US government who'd be interested in delivering a 20 kilogram payload to the stratosphere. I'll just get in contact with one of them...
"What do you mean, you're putting me on the terrorist watchlist?"
No, it's not disparaging the products, it's disparaging the people who own and use those products. Big difference.
Was he, though? I'm asking. The article was pretty light on actual quotes. All I found was:
Schiller said that 600 million people are using PCs that are over five years old. "This is really sad," he said.
Which seems kind of ambiguous to me.
And, uh, being a dickhead in a marketing launch does not magically excuse him being a dickhead.
I suppose not. But based on my personal experience with marketing people, not being a dickhead might well get him magically excused from his job as a marketeer.
An offhand joke? During the launch of a new product? Disparaging older and/or competing products? I am outraged!
Yes, it's the Hipster False Switcheroo Fallacy. Also known as satire.
"Mr. Swift, cease this frippery at once! I fail to see what infant cannibalism has to do with wealth inequality and class relations in Ireland!"
And how dare you, sir or madam or other. I'll have you know I've put countless man-or-woman-or-other-hours into my artisanal gluten-free bread.
Also, how dare you, Slashdot! Putting a squiggly red underline under "artisanal" in 2016. This is disappointingly regressive!
It's fucking unbelievable how much trouble plumbing has caused for so many people.
Let's ignore how fundamentally broken it is, as a technology, in almost every respect. That includes its fucking awful historical association with toxic lead, its total lack of real modularity (sorry, reservoirs are complete shit), its ultra shitty set of mutually incompatible pipe sizes, materials, and connections (which is this problem exist in the first place), and similar problems.
Plumbing has allowed too many unskilled cranks to shit out way too many leaky pipes. It was one thing when they did it in Ancient Rome, where it was isolated to a fountain in the town square. Now it's being done in people's houses, and it's a motherfucking disaster!
Worse, plumbing has enabled the for-profit water supply industry. Plumbing makes it trivial for them to track every drop of water you use. If you don't want to fall victim to it, then you have to waste your time turning off a bunch of valves, and digging wells everywhere.
Plumbing needs to go.
If you really need to use a water delivery technology, use a river, or a pond, or even a goddamn barrel . All three of them are better than plumbing in every way.