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  1. Re:Comes from SHITHOLES on New Study Claims That the 'Black Death' Was Spread By Humans, Not Rats (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you being ironic or ignorant?

  2. Re:That's not me! on Will Facial Recognition in China Lead To Total Surveillance? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    OK, no idea what happened to those links, but way to ruin a gag, Slashdot.

  3. Re:That's not me! on Will Facial Recognition in China Lead To Total Surveillance? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon has the perfect thing.

    And just so nobody accuses me of partisanship in suggesting who should be framed, here’s one of Hillary.

  4. Killbots? You realise this means the leader of the next US revolution will be Zapp Brannigan...

  5. Re:Impressive on macOS Exploit Published on the Last Day of 2017 (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    ...the last root exploit only required you to type "root" and no password.

    A computer does exactly as it’s instructed and you complain. There’s just no pleasing some people...

  6. Re:None since the invention of cell phone cameras on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? · · Score: 2

    My theory is that some alien species have senses that can detect TV transmissions, and the probing is an equivalent form of revenge. “This is for Seinfeld!”

    More plausible, however, is that it’s CIA agents equipped with aerosol hallucinogens, slightly customized gas masks and dildos creating a cover story for black ops projects (or possibly just having an office party).

  7. Re:I delivered for Dominos on 'App Truthers' Question the Accuracy of the Domino's Pizza Tracker (foxnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The delivery driver can also change literally on their way out the door.

    Bloody hell, they hire werewolves?!?

    [Makes note not to order pizza on the full moon]

  8. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That isn’t going to make him any dumber...

  9. Re:Device? Since it won't be a phone ... on Microsoft Teases Multi-Day Battery Life For Upcoming ARM-Powered Windows Devices (techspot.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, but this is Microsoft...the only product they could build that wouldn’t suck is a sexbot.

  10. Re:Quick on A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They did, and confirmed it is indeed a hole.

  11. Re:Rather a Short 'Age' on Dawn of Solar Age Declared as PV Beats All Other Forms of Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    BP, Sharp, Panasonic, Mitsubishi and Bosch probably aren't disappearing soon.

  12. AdBlockPlus, NoScript and Ghostery are available as extensions for Safari.

  13. SSDs will be automatically converted to APFS, HDDs and fusion drives won't.

  14. But they could just send an instant message to it and let Pavlovian conditioning do the rest.

  15. Re:Somebody has been watching too many movies on NASA's Plan To Stop A Supervolcano from Destroying The Earth's Climate (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Long-time walterbyrd shared a new article

    ????

    Yes, that's who he's been his entire life.

  16. Re:Why doesn't Slashdot push more liberal agenda? on Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step With the Body-Positive Movement? (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is nobody advocating for more smelly, greasey, fat men in movies?

    Because Jack Black.

  17. Re:8$ a day! for a porter? on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems like a reasonable estimation to me, thanks for putting it into perspective.

  18. Re:8$ a day! for a porter? on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Hw long ago are you talking about, and have you accounted for inflation? It may not be as much of an improvement in real spending power as you think...

  19. Re:I've heard that AI is making jobs redundant.... on First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Being President requires intelligence? That's a novel theory...

  20. I knew airliners had inflatable escape ramps, but I didn't know they had escape goats too.

  21. Not even the dead are that sleepy...

  22. Re:So here's a question: on Amazon May Give Developers Your Private Alexa Transcripts (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Power corrupts. Warp power corrupts and...um, warps?

  23. Re:Dreadful. on Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net · · Score: 1

    Maybe I heard wrong, but I think Grace Jones is slave to the ribbon...

  24. No, but percussive psychosurgery works.

  25. Not true, there are some highly competent Windows admins out there. There are also some people highly competent at banging their head against a wall. Here's a Venn diagram of these two groups:

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