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  1. So, Potemkin customers?

  2. Re:Saw a documentary about this before on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    +1 funny

  3. Re:How about people ? on Cats and Dogs Contribute Significantly To Climate Change, Says UCLA Study (patch.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder what UCLA's carbon footprint is...

  4. Re:There's your problem! on Being Outside Could Become Deadly In South Asia, Says Study (go.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When the loudest voices proclaiming AGW as a crisis have an actual carbon-footprint lower than mine, I'll pay attention to what they say. But as long as they all jet off to exotic locations on private jets to preach to me why I should give up my automobile and air conditioning, I'll simply consider the whole thing a racket to shake down governments and corporations.

    “What you do speaks so loudly I can't hear what you say.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  5. Re:Maybe I am an asshole but on Honolulu Targets 'Smartphone Zombies' With Crosswalk Ban (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Instead of padding, perhaps iron poles extending across the crosswalk at ~5' height should be installed. These should prevent most of these accidents, as face-planting a metal pole usually snaps one into situational awareness.

    ...and cameras to capture the hilarity.

  6. Re:Drought or increased rainfall: are you baffled? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of intellectual honesty, when the loudest voices proclaiming AGW as a disaster have an actual carbon-footprint lower than mine, I'll pay attention to when they say. But as long as they jet off to Tahiti to preach to me why I should give up my automobile and air conditioning, I'll simply consider the whole thing a racket to shake down governments and corporations.

    “What you do speaks so loudly I can't hear what you say.”
    --Ralph Waldo Emerson

  7. Re:Because they can rather than because its needed on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    Please don't leave graft out of the equation: which vendor will get the no-bid contract, and to whom to they donate re-election funds?

  8. Re:If you thought enterprise IT was just software on Ask Slashdot: What Are The Lesser-Known Roles Of The IT Department? · · Score: 1

    Look for this clause in your job description: Other duties as assigned.

  9. How to upgrade to Windows Mobile 10 on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 2
  10. Re:False Scarcity on Getting Rid of Carpool Lanes Could Double Travel Times (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The HOT lanes in the I-85 NE Atlanta corridor were originally HOV lanes, that were then re-tasked as pay-to-drive lanes.

  11. Betteridge's law, hard at work.

  12. >the people he swore to protect
    He actually swore to uphold the Constitution.
    Common misconception.

  13. Re:is thought to have contributed to != is causing on 38,000 People a Year Die Early Because of Diesel Emissions Testing Failures (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    +1; I wish I had mod points today.

  14. Re:This is the EXACT same thing that "hacked" Pode on Gizmodo Went Phishing With the Trump Team -- Will They Catch a Charge? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have mod points, but can't find the "Irony" tag...

  15. Re:I feel left out on Google Researchers Find Wormable 'Crazy Bad' Windows Exploit (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    1.) The Zero-day Flaw you reference is, once again, not a remote exploit.
    2.) Regarding Mint, from the referenced article: "Because the crooks didn’t manage to hack the actual Linux Mint repositories, they weren’t able to compromise the Mint source code, or the official Mint download ISOs (disk images), or even the list of official download checksums."
    3.) Comparing the Andriod & iOS installed user bases with that of Windows phones is somewhat deceptive.

  16. I wish I had mod points.
    You sir, win the thread.

  17. +1

  18. +1, Thoughtful

  19. Re:Yes.. because with only a 49% stake in ownershi on Google Reducing Trust In Symantec Certificates Following Numerous Slip-Ups (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    From the link;
    Huawei Symantec and Symantec Corporation are two separate entities.

  20. Re:And so it begins... on A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone get Elijah Baley on the case....

  21. Re:Familiar? on Skin deep? Robots To Wear Real Human Tissue (thememo.com) · · Score: 2

    Time to get a dog.

  22. And that is why I only use a single digit, facing me, as a hand gesture...

  23. Re:Why not? Ask Lenovo on Razer Built a Laptop With Three Screens Because Why Not? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly; +1

  24. Re:And NEOCam is on Life Support on NASA Unveils Two New Missions To Study Truly Strange Asteroids (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I hate when an excellent comment is posted, and I don't have mod points.
    Kudos.

  25. Re:Starship Troopers on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    +1
    i read both those this year; ST had to be my favorite of the two.
    Also, ST has kind of an HFY feel to it.