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  1. I try and I try, yet this phone still uploads the wrong characters. :(

  2. This is SchrÃdinger's cat all over again. Perhaps there is value to this though. One might use the misinterpretation of non-political thought experiments as a nominal baseline for all kinds of political bias.

  3. Re: "Massive" scale? on Einstein's 'Spooky Action' Has Been Demonstrated On a Massive Scale For the First Time (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that's something like 60 times larger than modern transistor architecture.

    Given we're used to entanglement involving single atoms, it is astonishing in size.

  4. He beat Pac-Man on camera at Funspot. That record is not in doubt.

  5. I hate it when companies spin dumbing down as cleaning up.

  6. Points for stick on Don't Give Away Historic Details About Yourself (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    If I can't find out what kind of fruit someone is, how am I supposed to defend myself against them?

  7. Re:The sun doesn't really have a "surface" on An Up-Close Look At the Parker Solar Probe -- the Spacecraft That Will Skim the Sun's Surface (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a Parker Square of a title.

  8. I've heard this joke before on Nearly a Third of Tech Workers Are Ready To #DeleteFacebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do a google image search for "boycott mw2" sometime. It's the punchline to a very funny joke.

  9. The original free calling plan on There Are Still 100,000 Pay Phones In the US (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Was a 6.5536 MHz crystal.

    Anyone?

  10. Remote in? on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic? · · Score: 2

    I'm not an expert on these things, but maybe do it from the outside? Set up an internet facing server on your network and then push and pull data using a known honest provider.

  11. He then suplexed Fox news for disingenuous reporting and triple axle-kicked the those who think 'slams' isn't the most goddamn overused headline verb.

  12. I immediately wondered if this would wind up vindicating Todd Rogers and his impossibly fast Dragster score.

    Probably not.

  13. I don't know how the number could possibly be that low. A bot can iterate through many accounts per second. Oh, sure, timeouts, but any competent bot must surely try to log into many different places while waiting for timers to count down on the ones it has already tried.

  14. Seriously, AGAIN with this? on President Trump: 'We Have To Do Something' About Violent Video Games, Movies (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess countries with low gun violence don't consume violent media. I...can't believe that even he would try to sell this idiotic chestnut. This predates "thoughts and prayers" as the go-to do-nothing policy. Seriously, AGAIN with this?

    https://satwcomic.com/funny-mo...

  15. I seem to recall on Game Industry Pushes Back Against Efforts To Restore Gameplay Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Didn't Turbine explicitly say they'd be happy to let players run their own servers when Asheron's Call went down for good, but them WB lawyered up and acted like the assclowns they really are?

  16. Ocean wide sensor array on Ocean-wide Sensor Array Provides New Look at Global Ocean Current (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I feel like there's a good yo mama joke in here somewhere.

  17. Re:Probably Bogus - What's "Driving"? on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I once had some people behind me get really damn angry when I shut my engine off during a traffic jam. I assumed I was breaking some law, but I never researched if it applied in my state. Might be a similar idea though.

  18. Re:Don't do it around me. on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 2

    Rats get paid. He's doing it for spite. Which is awesome.

  19. For me personally on Distracted Driving: Everyone Hates It, But Most of Us Do It, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    The biggest source of distracted driving: "GPS signal lost."

    Because I know the damn map app took five minutes to warn me it had no idea where it was.

  20. Re:Sad on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Ah, now I 'expected' it of them. I think your lack of coherence emerges when you can't do line by line rebuttals to make yourself look witty. Fisking is lame.

  21. Re:Sad on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Fisking is lame.

  22. Re:Sad on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you mean by books. Every weekend it had been my habit to drive to Borders, read some role-playing manuals, and then buy a novel. I stopped, well, partly it was the coffee shop, and partly it was because 4th edition of D&D came out. World of Dungeoncraft manuals are boring and not enjoyable to read through. They also just plain trimmed down the RPG section. Before then they had a lot of semi-obscure stuff like A|State.

    Did I particularly convert those manuals to 'used' status? Not to my knowledge; they're kind of designed for rougher treatment than a fat guy with clean hands reading them page by page. I think I actually bought a copy of the Kult manual, although I might have imagined doing so. Huh, I should dig that out if I did; it's worth like eighty bucks now.

  23. Re:Sad on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was younger I was very angry with Borders for not developing an e-reader. I waited a good long while before buying a kindle and abandoning Borders as my place for book get. In retrospect, just being a huge bookseller probably didn't mean they had the clout to develop that kind of infrastructure.

    Then again, they did for a time feature Sony's struggling e-reader. Those two could probably have been able to meaningfully compete with the Kindle. Might not have mattered anyway; I stopped going there when they scrapped Cafe Valos for Seattle's best and stopped carrying Vanilla Mystic Chai.

  24. Re:How do I become a Belgian citizen on Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Users, Court Rules (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    So, if this law is enforced, just going to throw this out there, might it be possible to change location to someplace in Belgium? A little spoofing might force Facebook to clear all your existing internet history?

  25. The joke used to be that Internet Explorer was only good for downloading better browsers. During the last few setups I've done, Edge wouldn't work well enough to download Vivaldi. So I used Internet Explorer.