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  1. Re:Why do tech-bros love antisocial behavior? on The New Yorker on Linus Torvalds (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1
    I agree.

    Let me Quote Bertrand Russell :

    "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

  2. Re:useless data sources on John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear they also work well when attached to ceiling fans.

  3. Re:California BANANAs! on Some Northern California Cities Are Blocking Deployment of 5G Towers (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You will all be poor when that happens

  4. Re:Really? on Quantum Experiment Confirms Causality Is Fuzzy (physicsworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    They will be broken and repaired at the same time.

  5. Re:Not only the death of Internet on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    Keep telling yourself that.

    You're not going to get far with you pea-shooters if things get really serious.

  6. Re:Steve Jobs weeps on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, now you can buy a R(allye) version of the iPhone ! Must be fast.

  7. Re:OS updates on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My nexus 5 doesn't

  8. Re:Cultural meaning of terminated on Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He was fired. Out of a cannon.

    Canonized?

    Who says there are no such thing as a free launch?

  9. Re:well now ... on EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I live in a "socialist" country and things aren't that bad.

    The problem with socialism is that at some point, the government will run out of other people's money to spend.

    When you run out of good arguments, there is always Thatcher to quote...

  10. Re:Techno Salvation on Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Maybe we can make shoes out of it ! That will cheer us up.

  11. Is the Royal Spanish Academy powerless to stop this?

    The Spanish Inquisition would make quick work of it

  12. I was wondering why my hovercraft was full of eels

  13. Objective C wasn't exactly a pleasure on Four Years On, Developers Ponder The Real Purpose of Apple's Swift Programming Language (monkeydom.de) · · Score: 1
    Well I prefer Swift over Objective C because I experienced programming in Objective C as painful.

    Very verbose syntax, and at least for me, hard to read/parse.

    I agree with the lack of introspection and dynamic dispatch being a bummer, though. And the Smalltalk style message passing appeared attractive.

    There was a time that this was not an issue because the alternatives were equally clunky and probably worse. But I would not be programming anything on iOS these days if it were not for Swift.

  14. Re:I hope I'm alive. on NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if the guys have electronics. In that case they will have been watching our TV programs for the past few decades, and a few of their nerds might be quite fluent in English. And guess who they would send to tap on that lens?

    Musk ?

  15. Re:That's frightening. on The Whole World is Now a Computer, Says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not blue. It's orange

  16. f.uk.eu

  17. Re:Three* Words... on Baidu Shows Off Its Instant Pocket Translator (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Digital Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

    * Actually four.

    My hovercraft is full of eels

  18. Are they allowed to use the letter "N" in translations ?

  19. It's getting there though. We had an aspirational basketball player working at UPS.

    Dropped a package in the basketball ring on our driveway, Question is: from how far did he throw it ?

  20. Re:Two person "phone booth" on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Put wheels on it and call it a BMW i3

  21. Re:Depends on if anyone is allowed to bring facts on Trump's Meeting With The Video Game Industry To Talk Gun Violence Could Get Ugly (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Oh, I did not know that a truck's primary function was to kill. Unless you mean this kind of truck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    False equivalency

  22. The new model, yes. The old one moved to China and will be sold as XC Classic.

    Now, as you may see here, where a car is manufactured depends on the model and where it's sold. Volvo has 16 manufacturing locations worldwide, including China and the USA.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  23. Re:the myth continues on Forget Learning To Code, Bosses Value Collaboration and Communication (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Ah, the Mythical Man Month. An old fart book that stays relevant. If only more people read it. Or even heard about it.

  24. Re:Rights on Kaspersky Lab Sues Over Second Federal Ban (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    Why would you be shocked ? We all know that slashdot has it's fair share of Russian trolls.

  25. Re:Fingertip condoms on 'I Tried the First Phone With An In-Display Fingerprint Sensor' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People call those "Gloves"