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  1. Fuck all to me on Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't give a shit. I can only fly these days by ingesting 15 mg valium while boarding and 5 mg every two hours until the flight is over.

    The sad thing is that I used to like flying. They just kept squeezing us closer and closer until one day I had a panic attack at 30000 feet and that was the end of my ability to relax on a flight.

  2. I liked the movie on Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers · · Score: 1
  3. HR bullshit on Average Duration of Hiring Process For Software Engineers: 35 Days · · Score: 2

    HR is Lucy holding the football. Charlie Brown is everyone trying to get work done.

  4. Re:Penn State did this back in 1983 on New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' · · Score: 1

    I was there in EE too. Today, the fuckerbergs of the world would call the guy on the vhs a 'super-teacher' worthy of vast sums of money and the guy who changes the vhs - well, he's still a TA.

    He's a ikaa sahyaka

  5. Re:Penn State did this back in 1983 on New Google and CMU Moonshot: the 'Teacherless Classroom' · · Score: 1

    I took an EE circuits class back in 1983 where the professor, as far as we knew, existed only on some VHS tapes in the corner of the room.

    Hartshe University?

  6. Re:Learned from the Patriots on Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Don't worry, they'll try again on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    not measuring up in Disney's new high performance culture.

    Fred, these chapatis of yours are just not quite right. I'm afraid we are going to have to let you go.

  8. Re:Learned from the Patriots on Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cheating is OK when the reward is championships and the penalty is a wrist slap.

    Found the bitter Colts fan.

  9. Re:Smart Sports on Baseball Team Hacks Another Team's Networks, FBI Investigates · · Score: 1

    That's nice and all. But the bottom line is: using all of that intellect to perform an activity that is stupid and pointless is still a waste. That's another one of those things you just have to be bright enough to notice.

    The MIT baseball team always seems to be having fun.

  10. Quincy, M.E., MBA on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 1

    There is a good reason why we don't let the deceased perform their own autopsies.

  11. Re:I see what they dug there on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 1

    What - you mean a European shed or an African shed?

  12. I see what they dug there on Jewels From an Ethiopian Grave Reveal 2,000-Year-Old Link To Rome · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Every day we had shed-loads of treasure coming out of all the graves...." Holy shed, that's a lot of treasure.

  13. Re:Yes, but can it launch Waze on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 0

    I pronounce "vase" as "ah-nt".

  14. Re:Cord cutters? on Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) · · Score: 1

    Duh - OB/GYNs, obviously.

  15. buffering...buffering... on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    I don't know how they will die on Mars, but we will be watching them with a 4 to 24 minute time delay.

  16. Create your own song adventure on Ask Slashdot: Will Technology Disrupt the Song? · · Score: 1

    For some reason this makes me think of the trend in the early 90s of people creating hyperfiction, where the reader could pick the direction of the plot at certain points. That never appealed to me. Fiction should be about surprising the reader, not letting them control the narrative.

    In the same way, I always like hearing a song which takes an unanticipated turn.

  17. Look out, bro! on Protons Collide At 13 TeV For the First Time At the LHC · · Score: 1

    What happens to the Standard Model if at 13 TeV they start hearing tiny screams at each fragmentation?

  18. The feeling of having some control on Asteroid Risk Greatly Overestimated By Almost Everyone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I can take action to mitigate being hit by a truck by looking both ways, not texting, crossing at the green. I can minimize my chances of dying on the roads by buying a large safe car, driving defensively, wearing my seatbelt, etc. If I am in an airplane in trouble, there is nothing I can do. If an asteroid in on its way, there is nothing I can do.

  19. Re:Triticum aestivum spelta on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 0

    The last time I saw the word "smelt" outside of metallurgy was in The Hobbit.

    He who smelled it delled it?

  20. Just the latest iteration on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hammer salesman: See that problem? That's a nail. Over there? Another nail. Got a question? Nail.

  21. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 1

    That's not a false positive. It is a positive test. It is up to the administrator of the test to decide if the result is significant to their purpose.

  22. Re:All about tha Benjamins on Cocaine Use Can Now Be Tested In Fingerprints Using Ambient Mass Spectrometry · · Score: 2

    simply handling money doesn't result in your body absorbing enough cocaine to synthesize and excrete " benzoylecgonine and methylecgonine".

    As the limits of detection get smaller and smaller, the chances are that I could detect one molecule of almost anything on you. So how much is legally enough to charge you?

  23. They don't want to be Chinatown College on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    Harvard would rather not have 1500 spots of every 1600 member freshman class be the sons and daughters of mainland Chinese billionaires, that's why.

  24. That can't be right on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 1

    The Big Bang Theory taught me that all smart people were pencil-necked geeks or had some obvious visual clue that they were intelligent. It is just not possible for someone to be athletic and intelligent.

  25. Re:overturn murder conviction? on Prison Messaging System JPay Withdraws Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    finished?