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  1. Re:What kind of fucktwit are you? on Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
    More people die of motor accidents in California every year than in 9/11.

    Why not declare General Motors as terrorists?

    It may be close to your home, but in the grand scale of things, 9/11 was piddling.

    And absolutely trivial compared to the number of civilians killed by Americans each year in other countries.

  2. Re:What straw will break the camel's back on Why Are We So Bad at Predicting Earthquakes? (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    Yeah, but what if Chuck Norris chucks them?

    Wait ... My money is on Samo!

  3. headlights that hew closely

    WTF?

  4. Re:The cylinder is heavy, not the gas, but where f on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1
    Door to door time is better with HST in Europe,

    And we don't have to face endless queues and stupid pat-downs for the security theatre.

    I am not sure about your "retuning" - here in London, trains are made to switch between 33kV AC overhead and 700V DC third rail invisibly to passengers, while the train is at a station. (Where trains operate underground, they mostly use 700V DC or similar). I am sure lesser compatibility isses are no problem.

    Having said that, I believe Airbus is quite profitable, and I suspect Glasgow to Athens by train would take a wee while longer than a flight, and the planning permission for HST compatible track from Glasgow to London would take at least 100 years, with time off for good behaviour. Meanwhile we probably have enough working steam locos to handle the expected volume of traffic on that route (sod the carbon emissions).

  5. Re:25 years and nothing to show for it on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1
    Yes, It is a great shame that the Germans and Japanese both have loads of car manufacturers, each of which has several models, all available with a choice of engines. I drive a Ford (con)Fusion, and you damn well should too!

    WTF?

  6. Re:Quality was never the problem on Torvalds Hasn't Given Up On Linux Desktop Domination, Will 'Wear Them Down' (cio.com) · · Score: 1
    except that when you can't do a thing from the GUI there generally aren't a command line alternative.

    But in windows, you can down load an exe file that will hack the registry for you! (Probably not in a good way, but if you are using Windows, you probably don't know good from bad anyway).

  7. let the fully-baked hippies try to wish physics away with half-baked tree-hugger politics.

    Have you been reading the prospectus for my IPO?

  8. it's time to replace people in Government.

    With Trump?

    I think sexbots would be a better choice, but I a not a US voter.

  9. Re:A toy is still fun on People Often Deride Game Changing Technology as 'a Toy' (medium.com) · · Score: 1
    Drones were always considered toys,

    Londoners who remember buzz-bombs dropping all around them during the blitz would beg to disagree.

  10. Re:Diet and medication on More People On Earth Now Obese Than Underweight, Says Study (statnews.com) · · Score: 2
    Interestingly, there are reports that small furry mammals from parts of the world where there are no people are also becoming overweight. Which suggests that it is probably pollution causing it, rather than gut bacteria.

    I blame the plastics that mimic female sex hormones, but it could be the huge quantities of birth control hormones themselves.

    Or any number of other things. I am not always right!

    Also, do not discount the fact that a load of idiots think size eight is healthy for grown women, when the optimum weight for healthy women is size FOURTEEN!. It is probably due to the fact that the fashion industry is run by gays and women, who think boys are attractive - MEN are indeed healthier when thin - probably because they do not need to feed babies with their own body fat.

    (These are UK sizes. I dont know how to convert them to US sizes, but Google can probably tell you).

  11. Re: Sounds like a giant pain in the ass on Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is - I say "I'd like a large pepperoni pizza with extra mushrooms delivered to my home".

    And the bot interprets it as: "Select all damaged tanks onscreen. Retreat."

    Somehow this speech recognition thing needs another 10 years development - unless you have a Seattle accent.

  12. Re:Double edged sword on Bill Introduced To Require ID When Purchasing "Burner Phones" (house.gov) · · Score: 3, Funny
    Make diabetes illegal.

    And require ID to get it!

  13. Re:More Wayland & Vulkan: GOOD on NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1
    We're no longer scraping for every cpu cycle on a 16 mhz 386 or 68030.

    I married a mutant werewolf 386, you insensitive clod!

  14. Re:Thanks summary on Meet UbuntuBSD, UNIX For Human Beings · · Score: 0
    Presumably, if an "advert" turns you towards something, an "avert" turns you away.

    Or did you not do Latin in school? Or even English?

    The advantage is well known to everyone here: No systemd!

  15. Re:Yes it's too much on Is $699 Too Much For a 13.3-inch Android E-ink Reader? · · Score: 1
    eink is also brilliant for reading data sheets and schematics, but 7" for schematics? Arrrghhh!

    13" sounds good to me! But what I want is 23".

    Obviously not for $699 - this is supposed to be cheap technology!

  16. Re:Pratchett's Woodpecker on Once Thought Safe, DDR4 Memory Shown To Be Vulnerable To 'Rowhammer' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0
    It has been around as long as semiconductor memory has been around. And not just in DRAM. Static memory, including on-cpu cache can have it. It is a well known potential defect that should be tested for during manufacture.

    Some manufacturers cheat.

  17. forgetting has to be a necessary part of the learning process

    This. A thousand times this!

    Forgetting is to remembering as addition of negative numbers is to addition of positive numbers!

    If you cannot forget, you cannot learn either.

  18. Re:Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
    How do you define a robot?

    I mean, how many people has a web site replaced? Or Apache? I mean a 25% tax on Apache is going to pay for homes for a whole lot of the homeless! Or maybe IIS deserves to go to jail for tax delinquency?

  19. Re: Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1
    But what happens when they make a machine that can do anything a human physically can

    You might want to ask Marie Antoinette.

    Oh, wait ...

  20. Re:The real resaon for this on Within 6 Years, Most Vehicles Will Allow OTA Software Updates (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    However, not until after the terrorists have performed an OTA update, and caused all the cars to drive through the gates to the White House, Pentagon, Trump Tower, etc

  21. Re:There is a battery movement that auto sets DST on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1
    then wait *FIVE* days for the clock to set!

    It is powered by snails, which are heavily doped during transit. You just have to wait for the ketamine to wear off.

  22. Re:Recycling????? on Plastic-Eating Bacteria Could Help Clean Up Waste (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    You better give up on recycling - if you make a bike out of plastic, the bugs will eat it!

  23. Re:Technical topics are not a jury competency on A California Jury Finds Copyright Infringement In an Interface (deepchip.com) · · Score: 1
    Luckily this is not a terribly technical question: Company A cloned company S's product. Is this OK?

    The short answer is YES IT IS OK.

    The API is not the product, it is how you interact with the product, and it has been established in countless precedents that it is covered by fair use.

    Unfortunately, not in the USA, where the legal system has been sold to the highest bidder in a manner that makes corruption in third world countries appear trivial.

  24. I have CAUSED a train crash - they definitely do happen!

    However, where I live subways are underground, and have no cell phone signal.

    If there is a crash, the correct response is to panic!

  25. Customer support? on Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD's Catalyst GPU Driver (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Funny
    From the "are-you-nuts?" department

    Ubuntu does not exist to support customers. That is what Windows is for!