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  1. Re:why would anyone cancel comcast? on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    It's not about having the 5 or so useful local channels in your average market available to you, it's about having them in the same interface as the rest of your channels. Flipping back and forth between CNN and NBC should require another HDMI input, a cable box AND an antenna.

    It's fine to cut the cord, and of course we all want a la carte programing, but you're ultimately paying for the convenience of everything in one place.

    [Aside, this is one of the reasons I like my One. It honestly is the "One" device attached to my TV.]

  2. Re:The future turned out to not be so cool on Mozilla Doubles Down on JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all very complicated now, but by then it will make perfect sense.

    Colonel Sandurz: Try here. Stop.
    Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at? When does this happen in the movie?
    Colonel Sandurz: Now. You're looking at now, sir. Everything that happens now, is happening now.
    Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
    Colonel Sandurz: We passed then.
    Dark Helmet: When?
    Colonel Sandurz: Just now. We're at now now.
    Dark Helmet: Go back to then.
    Colonel Sandurz: When?
    Dark Helmet: Now.
    Colonel Sandurz: Now?
    Dark Helmet: Now.
    Colonel Sandurz: I can't.
    Dark Helmet: Why?
    Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
    Dark Helmet: When?
    Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
    Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
    Colonel Sandurz: Soon.
    Dark Helmet: How soon?

  3. Re:Hard to get excited. on Mozilla Doubles Down on JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I should use a smaller font then, I think.

  4. Re:Libertarian opinion on science... on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    People who use being Libertarian to rationalize their actions mostly fall into those two camps.

    Actual Libertarians, who certainly want less regulation, live in the real word, and understand that without some regulation, we'd fish to extinction and deforest ourselves to death (faster than we are). Actual Libertarians wouldn't dump their waste anywhere, because they know their rights end at their nose -- and not the public water supply.

  5. Re:Including censored episodes? on Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park · · Score: 1

    Also censored now is pooping out your mouth...

    I too am curious what episodes will still be censored. Super Best Friends? Cartoon Wars? ...the aforementioned pooping episode?

  6. Re:Sacreligious Spew on Three-Year Deal Nets Hulu Exclusive Rights To South Park · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean, in the pilot?

  7. Re:How about 5BN... on FCC Approves Plan To Spend $5B Over Next Five Years On School Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I'd like to believe that education benefits from technology - and it might benefit from things like open source ebooks - but making sure the classroom has wireless is a poor substitute for a teacher actually teaching, parents being involved with their kids (not on their own tablets), and kids "bravely" unplugging for a few hours a day to focus on learning.

    Schools today babysit students for the state mandatory minimum hours before releasing them to the debt-prison that is college. :/

    Yes, I'm jaded. :/

  8. How about 5BN... on FCC Approves Plan To Spend $5B Over Next Five Years On School Wi-Fi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about 5BN to turn off WiFi at schools, make kids and teachers alike actually log off Facebook for the two or three actual hours of education they get a day?

  9. Re: Died Outside a Tesla on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    ...and thus not immortal.

    QED

  10. Re:Died Outside a Tesla on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 5, Funny

    As there have only been 100 billion humans ever on the planet, 7% of us are still alive, making being human only 93% lethal.

    I suspect the number of Tesla owners versus dead Tesla owners demonstrates them to be nearly immortal.

  11. Re:Wait a second on A Peek Inside D-Wave's Quantum Computing Hardware · · Score: 1

    Here's a fairly complete anti D-Wave article.

    http://www.scottaaronson.com/b...

  12. Re:difficulty on Arecibo Radio Telescope Confirms Extra-galactic Fast Radio Pulses · · Score: 1

    A normal sensor, sure. Just make sure it's the size of Arecibo and pointed right at Auriga.

  13. Re:Message on Arecibo Radio Telescope Confirms Extra-galactic Fast Radio Pulses · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

  14. Testing. Validation. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 2

    Do you plan on automating the end-user testing and validation as well?

    Countless system administrators have confirmed the system was operational after change without throwing it to real live testers only to find that, well, it wasn't.

  15. Re:Google already has the technology to fix this on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 1

    My spam FOLDER in Gmail has about 1000 items in it on any given day.

    My inbox has zero.

    Every once in a while I get a series of emails that fool Gmail's filters, and after reporting them for a while (like thousands of other users do), they'll disappear. Those "once in a whiles" get fewer and farther between.

    I lose a few real emails into the spam filter as well - but mostly because I moved to contracting, and I get genuine contacts from foreign recruiters - and they're barely distinguishable from spam by humans. I just have to know to take a peek into my spam box after submitting applications.

  16. Re:Not about jealousy, but ... on Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting To Happen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Vokda?

  17. ...or... on Homestar Runner To Return Soon · · Score: 1

    ...or, to a lesser extent, Z'Nuff.

  18. Re:What's next in the headlines? on Physicists Spot Potential Source of 'Oh-My-God' Particles · · Score: 1

    The "Oh, Yes!" particle was faked :(

  19. I'm ashamed of you people. on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    I thought I knew you people...

    This article is hours old, and there's no link to the .onion address of the revenge site.

  20. Re:$300 for a GPU on Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results · · Score: 1

    Do you have to connect that video card to anything, like, say, a computer?

  21. Re:And I thought on A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found In an FDA Closet · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not gay, but twenty bucks is twenty bucks.

  22. Re:Good idea, but terrible implementation on YouTube Issuing "Report Cards" On Carriers' Streaming Speeds · · Score: 4, Informative

    No such button on my view of the page, which includes "Results from my location are not yet available, check back later."

  23. Re:Good idea, but terrible implementation on YouTube Issuing "Report Cards" On Carriers' Streaming Speeds · · Score: 1

    It's not intended to help you switch.

    It appears intended to send you running to your ISP to complain... ....so you can watch more YouTube, so they can deliver more ads and gather more data on you.

  24. Re:And in other news on Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi · · Score: 1

    To tack on... ...I explain this to my wife constantly. The reason most accidents happen close to your home is exactly as you said -- most driving occurs close to your home. I use it as a reason to have her buckle up even for short trips, but it's also a lesson in our house about manipulating statistics.

    Coming up next, the percentage of American's that live "near" water.

  25. Re:And in other news on Uber Is Now Cheaper Than a New York City Taxi · · Score: 1

    Not to mention driving to unfamiliar locations.

    We "normal" drivers go strange places all the time, but the majority of our miles driven are on repeatable predictable paths to and from work and school and picking up the kids at Karate. Insurance calculates all of this.