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  1. Re:This really is ... on Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    Has anyone made the Frozen Asset joke yet?

  2. Crap, I just bought a P4000.

  3. Yeah but wouldn't 3D printing music in braille be a good idea?

  4. Is that how the brand name is pronounced?

  5. Scientists Speculate on Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems to happen a lot more often since the internet became popular.

  6. What "power users" want is a portable desktop, not a sexy, sleek status machine.

  7. Brain Outsourcing to Software on We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I still contend that computer usage makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber (yet the now-dumber people think they're smarter).

  8. How is it going to get there since there's no air for the blades to push against in space. Dumb idea.

  9. Re: Should be simple enough to try it on animals f on States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "nitrogen is a heck of a lot cheaper than lethal injection drugs"

    Thousands of tons of it ("waste nitrogen") is vented every day in the air separation process.

  10. Re:Unions, most likely on The Rise of the Pointless Job (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I hope the actuators were *attached* to the valves (and there were no wires going to the actual valves themselves) because that's how those things are supposed to work.

  11. Barney Google and Snuffy Smith on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Pffft. Everybody knows that Google's name really comes from Barney Google with his goo-goo-googley eyes.
    ==========
    Who's the most important man this country ever knew?
    Do you know what politician I have reference to?
    Well, it isn't Mr. Bryan, and it isn't Mr. Hughes.
    I've got a hunch that to that bunch I'm going to introduce:
    (Again you're wrong and to this throng I'm going to Introduce:)
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.
    Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.
    When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.

    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.
    Barney Google had a wife three times his size.
    She stood Barney for divorce,
    Now he's living with his horse.

    Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
    And who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
    No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.
    When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands
    out?
    Why, it's Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.
    Barney Google is the guy who never buys.
    Women take him out to dine, then he steals the waiter's dime.
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.

    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.
    Barney Google is the luckiest of guys.
    If he fell in to the mud, he'd come up with a diamond stud.
    Barney Google with the goo-goo-googley eyes.

    Who's the greatest fire chief this country ever saw?
    Who's the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?
    Anytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,
    Say, tell me do, who goes, "kerchoo!" and puts the fire out?
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.
    Barney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.
    He got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.

    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.
    Barney Google tried to enter paradise.
    When Saint Peter saw his face, he said, "Go to the other place".
    Barney Google, with the goo-goo-googley eyes.

  12. Searching: Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but... on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Like the New Gmail UI? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    When using the search function, the old interface does not highlight the previously-chosen (guessed) message in the search results when you return to it, making it difficult to pick up where you left off.

    It's such a minor detail and so useful that I don't know why it is not this way.

  13. Maybe free Ferraris or hookers and blow for garbage collectors?

  14. It's unprecedented and exponential!

  15. What does "carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" have to do with "universal basic income"?

  16. Re: Are we talking on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    "I would guess that only a minority of the votes had anything to do with xenophobia"

    But it's just so much more satisfying to accuse others of racism/xenophobia for decisions they make! You get to feel all smug and morally superior and stuff! Not to mention that you yourself are now immune from others calling you a racist/xenophobe!

  17. Re:This is why I run linux on my 2013 MacPro Deskt on Latest macOS Update Disables DisplayLink, Rendering Thousands of Monitors Dead (displaylink.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure your last name is not Pournelle and did you rise from the dead on Sunday?

  18. Yeah, some of the skills and experience demanded in many ads is just absurd.

  19. "Vancouver tech companies couldn't find enough workers to fill their positions"

    At the rates they were offering. At least some (maybe most) of this is just a pretext to outsource work to countries with extremely low cost of living.

  20. "people make major moves to different cities"

    Sort of like Californians voting-in idiots that ruin California, then leave California because it becomes so shitty, and then vote for the same kind of idiots when they get to the new place?

  21. Re:The question is are there really jobs on Duolingo To Silicon Valley Workers: Move To Pittsburgh, Where You Can Actually Afford a Home (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "I when to collage 5 times"

    Did you take English?

  22. Could have been poor drawings or erection procedures also.

  23. Re:Emphasis on "routine" on AI is Rapidly Changing the Types and Location of the Best-Paying Jobs (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    " if a machine can do it instead, humanity wins

    As long as it isn't first wiped out by angry, desperate people fed up with the status quo of no job, no money, no options.

    What do you think this opiod crisis deaths thing is all about? It's loss of hope and desperation in action.

  24. Re:Neatly outlines the problem on AI is Rapidly Changing the Types and Location of the Best-Paying Jobs (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "Training someone with an IQ of 80"

    Ooh, ooh, I know, I know! They could all get Social Justice Warrior/Angry Studies/Clown Quarter/Grievance Mongering degrees, go into government and make rules for everyone smarter than themselves!

    Oh, wait...

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

    Digital Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

    * Actually four.