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  1. Sorry honey, I can't pull you on a sled in Antarctica since I'm a little husky.

  2. Re:Who is this Bruce Perens guy. on Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Forget who he is. Look at that Slashdot UID.

  3. Gentoo users are like Hatchables on Clear Linux Beats CentOS, openSUSE, and Ubuntu in (Enterprise) Benchmark Tests (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Gentoo users are like Hatchanimals. You have to wait for them to emerge to see what you get.

  4. Blizzard Take 2? on Amazon (and Netflix) Pursue a 'Lord of The Rings' TV Series (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    WOW movie wasn't so good. But what about a series using the Diablo franchise for a show? Got a good bit of backstory and the simple dungeon crawl aspect might be cool.

  5. Re:Testing Phase on Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 2

    I bet you spent a good bit of time on the "testing phase" to make sure it really worked.

  6. Re: transmitted by pixies. on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Tinkerbell said, "Let my people go!"

  7. Dreamed of X86 Assembler speaking aliens on Learn To Code, It's More Important Than English as a Second Language, Says Apple CEO (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Dreamed of X86 Assembler speaking aliens. Though once they had defined their data section, I knew everything they could possibly say to me.

  8. Re:TL;DR version on Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, let me know if you find my AT to PS2 adapters back there. It was right here a decade or so ago.

  9. Re:Nobels in Science Seem OK, It's Peace... on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Yassir Arafat had a chance to do some good in the world and make a huge difference to the Palestinian people. Instead he stole their aid money and left destitute and angry.

  10. Nobel Peace Prize on The Absurdity of the Nobel Prizes in Science (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. He then created the Nobel Peace Prize to give to people who refrained from using his previous invention.

  11. Not evenly distributed on Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The jobs of the future may be short 2 hours gigs like you mentioned. Some people who are used to working 60 hours a week may well be able to handle 20-30 of those jobs with ease. There is no guarantee they will be evenly distributed without even addressing the skills needed to do them.

  12. Risk vs Reward on Why You Shouldn't Imitate Bill Gates If You Want To Be Rich (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you get to middle class status, which in the US you can do on two college level salaries, you are less willing to "risk it all" to get 10x wealthier.

  13. TRS-80 Color Edition on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Teach Programming To Schoolchildren? · · Score: 1

    I had the TRS-80 Color Edition in the late 80's. When I found an old Radio Shack cassette player I could save my programs to I was overjoyed.

  14. Hard to comprehend on Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates as World's Richest Person (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It is hard to comprehend how much money they have. To put it into perspective, figure out what just he decimal part of their wealth is.
    "$90.9 billion, versus $90.7 billion" .9 Billion and .7 Billion is how much? What is the .2 Billion dollar difference in their wealth?

  15. Don't blame Sweden on Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens (thehackernews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't blame Sweden, they thought the cloud was wearing a condom.

  16. Re:only one of those people ever owned a computer on College Students Are Flocking To Computer Science Majors (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    "only one of those people ever owned a computer"

    I believe Turing never had a modern computer. More than one of the rest surely had modern computers.

  17. Re:Human in the Loop on Top US General Warns Against Rogue Killer Robots (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    What about self driving cars? There have been many articles on the ethics and morals of self driving cars and unavoidable accidents. Will cars make the decision on who to hit and who to avoid? Or does the "backup driver" get an alert:

    Please choose person to hit:
    1 Pedestrian - Elderly Lady
    2 Pedestrian - Female pusing Stroller

    3...2..1.. *Crash*

  18. Re:no longer need trained civilians on Top US General Warns Against Rogue Killer Robots (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember that terminators that can kill people can serve tea as well. The rich and powerful will control these resources and not need that many other people. Every time I read an article on UBI - Universal Basic Income, I think it is more likely to get UBG - Universal Basic Genocide.

  19. Re: Let's not make AIs too human... on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1
  20. So you want... on Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You want more Bender and less Terminator?

  21. I see your App-Ee and raise you an a-duck on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 1

    Was a contractor who asked us to open "a-duck". We are all like, open what? Finally he says, open Active Directory Users and Computers or ADUC.

  22. Not just "One big break" on A New Kind of Tech Job Emphasizes Skills, Not a College Degree (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you lack the education to back up your experience, every time you hunt for a job you will need that "One big break" again not to start off at entry level and work your way back up. Seen too many people drop out of college with maybe a year to go to graduate. Some make good money and work for a few years, but they are always at a disadvantage when the job markets tightens up and they find themselves looking for a new job.

  23. Re:need more STEM grads on Short of IT Workers At Home, Israeli Startups Recruit Elsewhere (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a BS in Computer Science. Turns out it isn't even really about computers. I got into it because I really like computers. Maybe he just likes math.

    "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - attributed to Edsger Dijkstra

  24. Reboots caused selective monitoring on Roadside Cameras Infected with WannaCry Virus Invalidate 8,000 Traffic Tickets (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It could be argued that the reboots caused "selective monitoring" where one vehicle passing thru the intersection above the limit would get a ticket and another vehicle going above the limit would not because the system was rebooting. Since the system was not "fully operational" the ticketing was inherently unfair.

  25. All things being equal on 'Older Fathers Have Geekier Sons' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    All things being equal... anyone consider that maybe the old dads are just too old/fat to go play outside and prefer geeky indoor activities with their children?