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  1. Re:Carbon taxing is worthless on Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    > Yeah, at the moment
    > Until adfitional coal plants is stooped

    Which wiki did you copy this from again? You very helpfully failed to include your source.

  2. Re:The article is crap on New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    About half an hour ago, actually.

  3. Re:The article is crap on New Horizons Probe Captures Images At Record Distance From Earth (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, I racked up 11,972,000,000 miles last year, so I don't know what planet you've been living on, but it's clearly an awful long way from here by now.

  4. It'd be interesting to see what comes out of this process if they'd used a [real hardwood](http://www.wood-database.com/australian-buloke/)

  5. Re:Lorem Ipsum on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The Lorem Ipsum text, though, is based on something that Cicero wrote, but is definitely not coherent latin.

    where Cicero wrote;

    "Dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit, sed quia non numquam eius modi tempora incidunt ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam"

    Which is Latin, the Lorem Ipsum runs;

    "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua"

    Which has some Latin words in it, but is mostly not.

  6. Re:Star Trek invents the future again. on Will We One Day Use Tractor Beams In Manufacturing? (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Hand in your geek card. E.E. (Doc) Smith did it first in 1931

  7. That's a great help! on Mozilla Tests Firefox 'Tab Warming' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I use <Ctrl>+<TAB> to switch tabs like a normal person, you insensitive clods!

  8. Re:Kodi is both good and bad... on Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I have somewhere north of 3000 DVDs, BlueRays, HD-DVDs (remember HD-DVDs?), CDs, videotapes (both VHS and BetaMax (remember BetaMax?), audio cassettes and records stacked up under the house, just in case anybody asks me about this 3.4-odd terabytes of copyrighted content living on my NAS. Your argument is invalid.

  9. Now that Net Neutrality is gone, can Postal Neutrality be far behind?

  10. > "You with a donkey's member!"

    It's nice that I give that impression, thank you,. but it's really not that big...

  11. Go label something "Walter Elias Disney widgets" and see how far you get.

  12. Re:10 types of people on Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? · · Score: 1

    It's second cousin, the mathematician;

    Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who know this joke is in base 3.

  13. Re: Mandatory Protection? on New NSA Leak Exposes Red Disk, the Army's Failed Intelligence System (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, those Normandy landing were a complete washout, weren't they, Kamerad?

  14. But does it have a plugin for MilkDrop?

  15. Re:Oh Great... on Upsurge in Big Earthquakes Predicted for 2018 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    > and is scientifically predictable in the same way that other huge events like a Maunder Minimum of the sun are predictable.

    Or, indeed, the effects of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

  16. Re:GMO trees... on What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think volcanoes are included in the "we" OP was talking about.

  17. Re:May as well be a billion miles away on Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean, like, somewhere around Saturn, which we've sent four probes to so far, one of which actually landed on Titan?

  18. Meanwhile, in Australia on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In one state, the genius government ordered trains that are too wide for the existing stations, resulting in two years of delays and track closures while they fix the problem, while in another, the cut-price trains the genius government ordered have the driver's seat in the wrong position so the driver can't see the trackside signals clearly. And the brakes don't work.

  19. Re:Cusomers DEMANDED this? on Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't want a dog that can bring you a beer and also remembers to close the fridge after itself?

  20. Re:Poor Eith Intel! on Google Worked With Intel on a custom AI Chip For Its Pixel Phones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    She probably shouldn't have swallowed the chip in the first place. All those pins, really couldn't have been pleasant going in either direction.

  21. Re: Where's the oral argument? on Profile of William H. Alsup, a Judge Who Codes and Decides Tech's Biggest Cases (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You must be one of those slow readers, given that watching a video or listening to audio takes the rest of us way longer than reading the transcript.

  22. Re:Getting mixed messages here on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    My kingdom for an edit button, because I missed the best one;

    - three diagnostic tests that each take about 15 minutes.

    - The process takes an hour.

  23. Getting mixed messages here on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    - The laptop was working normally apart from the spacebar

    - ...lays the whole computer out

    Pick one.

    - A piece of dust is capable of rendering a butterfly switch nonfunctional. The key won't click, and it won’t register whatever command it’s supposed to be typing. It’s effectively dead

    - Or, apparently, make a key register twice for each keypress

    Again, pick one.

  24. Re:Government has no business allocating resources on Australia Finally Creates Its Own National Space Agency (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, it does very much depend on how the government steps in and what the next government decides to do about it, qv, the NBN, the ETS, the ABC, Medicare, negative gearing...

  25. How about autonomous flying taxis?