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  1. From TFA

    Meanwhile, GM has said that it has sought the services of a NASA team, to consult on whether the affected vehicles are safe to drive.

    This is asinine CYA. It's safer to drive these cars than to unload your dishwasher and take a chance at stumbling and impaling yourself on a knife in the silverware basket.

  2. A universe of actual physics where quantum potentials exist, even if nothing else, is a far cry from nothing.

    Perhaps the question is wrong: why does something exist instead of nothing? This presumes some utter nothingness is the default state from which things must change. Arguably, the brute fact something exists suggests, from causality, something must have always existed.

  3. Re:Low even for Slashdot on Double Take: Condoleezza Rice As Dropbox's Newest Board Member · · Score: 1

    > she was a part of the most terrifying Republican administration in history,

    The South in the Civil War might disagree.

  4. Re:Hardware off switches on Google Chrome Flaw Sets Your PC's Mic Live · · Score: 1

    Yes. As soon as some new phone is released there's always web sites that rip it apart instantly.

    They can add "Verified LED is hardware tied to powering the mic." to their report.

  5. Re:What does it mean to divest? on 93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels · · Score: 0

    Plus it's not their money anyway and god knows where their pension money actually comes from!

    "I'm like a bird.
    I don't know where my home is.
    I don't know where my soul is.
    I know my money is from government
    And people borrowing hand-over-fist!"

  6. Can't find it on Scientists/Actress Say They Were 'Tricked' Into Geocentric Universe Movie · · Score: 1

    I kept searching for Ms. Mulgrew's statement online to the effect of feeling duped, dumb, stupid, fooled into acting in something, but all I could find talked about giant space salamanders or something.

  7. No, not that Homer on Hewlett-Packard Admits To International Bribery and Money Laundering Schemes · · Score: 1

    This is why people in those countries go into government in the first place -- so you can ge in the way of things so you can get paid to get back out of the way.

    This happens in the US, too, but not as much (or, a lot more, based on dollars, but with a much more polished meme cover story).

    "Well, look at that. Those oil or pharmas are having unconscionable profits agin', Homer!"

  8. Commander Data: No, it is empirical data. on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    This is based on the empiraclly disproven notion that if you restrict work hours that more people will get hired because, hey, the work's still gotta get done, right?

    Even after this was repeatedly demonstrated as wrong (unemployment goes up) voters elected to keep the rules. But one shouldn't think for a microsecond it's about anything remotely resembling "increasing employment".

  9. Re:Darmok and Jalad on Yahoo DMARC Implementation Breaks Most Mailing Lists · · Score: 1

    "Dmarc, his eyes close. His sails furl."

  10. Re:Difficult to defend against on Navy Debuts New Railgun That Launches Shells at Mach 7 · · Score: 1

    Thick, large plate on the end of a powerful robot arm. You should have the seconds necessary for a computer to crank it into position. You just need the accuracy in detection.

  11. More cardio on LHCb Confirms Existence of Exotic Hadrons · · Score: 0

    Did anyone else get sick of not misreading posts about misreading the title as exotic hardons?

    Hardons should not become exotic to you until your forties, and even then because ypu take lots of high blood pressure or other cardiovascular medicine.

  12. Re:They do. on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    > Navy creates fuel from seawater

    "In an unrelated story, the USS John C. Stennis drove off the side of a road and crashed last night in mysterious corcumstances, while driving home from work along a mountain pass in Virginia. Police are investigating but there is no immediate evidence of foul play."

  13. Re:On the other side, a bit looming problem on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    I guess they should have magically known it would have been a big deal, then never hired in the first place, carefully keeping that reasoning quiet, so as to not upset the voters who demanded that law while simultaneously reserving unto themselves the right to harm companies for those exact behaviors they forbid them from fixing.

  14. Curbstone on German Wikipedia Has Problems With Paid Editing — and Threats of Violence · · Score: 3, Funny

    > "Germans will threaten to 'curbstone' people for saying it"

    Pick your punchline:

    1. I'm gonna have to look that up on Wikipedia.
    2. Well, that's an improvement over a gas chamber anyway.
    3. I found a curbstone in Elder Scrolls Online and was wondering wat it was for.

  15. Re:How does this simply not move the goalposts? on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 2

    Before outlawing it in a pique of jealousy at some perceived cosmic injustice, is this kind of trafing actually a problem?

    If the real danger is a scenario where computers issues millions of trades in a few seconds in some feedback loop watching each other and making predictions, a 500ms slowdown could be just what the doctor ordered, slowing things down by 3-4 orders of magniude.

  16. Re:Stop using Youtube on Blender Foundation Video Taken Down On YouTube For Copyright Violation · · Score: 1

    IIRC, *not* going after an infringement can be used in court to bust your copyright. So they're damned if they do, damned if they don't?

    Yes, they should be more careful -- apparently there's little, if any, manual review of automated detections, which is the real problem.

  17. Re:Fuck M$ on Five-Year-Old Uncovers Xbox One Login Flaw · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > Hello, you appear to be new to Slashdot

    "For discovering a multi-million dollar bug that would have required us to shut everything down until fixed, and probably reverted our databases by several days, you get almost nothing! Good day, sir!"

    "Wut?"

    "I said 'Good day, sir!' !"

  18. Re:Oh goodness me, non-military means! on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    comma he said while typing on equipment developed largely by corporations.

  19. Re:Universities should have no patents on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    Tuition increases are being absorbed by growth of non-teaching positions, not by better professor salaries or lab equipment.

  20. Re:Terrible summary on Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Zebras Have Stripes · · Score: 3

    Assuming the statistical analysis is correct, I will give the answer:

    As the fly flies by, the alternate dark and light banding confuses the fly into thinking it is the moving shadows of some threat from overhead, like a hungry bird.

    Go write a paper and list me as lead.

  21. Re:Good, I guess on European Parliament Votes For Net Neutrality, Forbids Mobile Roaming Costs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ISPs advertise, amd charge more for, higher speeds to your house.

    It's fraud to deliberately degrade Netflix to attempt to extort from them a portion of what I pay Netflix.

  22. Re:Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    Pepsi sales did not unfurl.

  23. Re:What is it with curtwoodward? on How Airports Became Ground Zero In the Battle For Peer-to-Peer Car Rentals · · Score: 1

    If a pizza delivery guy, who is reimbursed to use his own car, creams someone on the way to work, and not while delivering, is he personally liable?

    In any case, this isn't about insurance -- that's a smokescreen. It's about using one issue to restrict competition for established players. New companies can get insurance, if that's the established players' only beef.

    Look in the mirror and repeat after me: "...but it's not."

  24. Powerful idea on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    "Lack of knowledge is lack of power."

  25. Re:that's ok on Vermont Nuclear Plant Seeks Decommission But Lacks Funds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You regulate the electricity costs, so your fingerprints are all over it already, "The People".