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  1. Could I get that explained... on Old-School Slashdotter Discovers and Solves Longstanding Flaw In Basic Calculus (mindmatters.ai) · · Score: 1

    In the form of a frog meme?

  2. Simple answer, the machines must be certified on Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I worked designing ballot counting machines in the 80's. It was a lot of fun and we had an active R&D department where I worked. After the Federal Election Commission started requiring us to certify new machines through a very rigorous and expensive process, the company stopped all new development work and simply sold the last models that were certified.

  3. So this is what "news for geeks" has fallen to.. on Apple Still Hasn't Fixed Its MacBook Keyboard Problem (wsj.com) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apple users whining about stuck keys.

  4. In other news... on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    Workplace productivity is up 52%.

  5. OP has a firm grasp of the obvious.

  6. Re:BS article and summary on Scientists Have Discovered a Shape That Blocks All Sound (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Came here to say that. Should be top post.

  7. What could possibly go wrong...

  8. Re:You spin me right round baby, right round... on New York Mayor Says Amazon Headquarters Debacle Was 'an Abuse of Corporate Power' (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    A pretty good analysis. Too bad it will get modded to death by the shitposting hivemind that dominates /. these days.

  9. To a corporation from a New York democrat? My sides.

  10. "You can't just claim an incendiary partisan point like that without citing sources." Your point is valid, but it still won't stop me from shitposting.

  11. Re:So many other places not served on California Will Not Complete $77 Billion High-Speed Rail Project (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

  12. Re:Dubyah Tee Eff? on Adobe is Considering Whether it Wants To Design Its Own Chips (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What for? Better and tighter DRM and licensing models among other things. I guess you never paid Adobe money for a font.

  13. Does that mean???? on Women's Brains Are 'Four Years Younger' Than Men's, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That they should not be allowed to vote until they are 22?

  14. Maxwell is real and has been producing interesting products for years. Most of the products have not been cheap enough for consumer use. I'm figuring Musk plans to change that.

  15. Re:Flank Steak on Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't let 'em give you any of that flank steak bullshit. You know what I mean? Try the London Broil.

  16. Re:lol on Snopes Quits Fact-Checking Partnership With Facebook (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Snopes can, and in my opinion does, choose to ignore fact checking subjects that might reveal results damaging to his personal agenda. Facts have no bias. The way you present facts can have bias. You do understand that, right?

  17. Re:Also need to make it impossible to turn off GPS on New Satellite Network Will Make It Impossible For a Commercial Airplane To Vanish (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    We're talking about an overt action, not following FAA regulations. Nothing to stop the pilot from reaching back and opening the circuit breaker that powers the device.

  18. Re:lol this is bullshit on The Super-Secure Quantum Cable Hiding In the Holland Tunnel (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 2

    Possibly, but that's not the way a tap would normally be detected. A very short pulse of light would be sent down the cable. Any tap would reflect a tiny bit of the pulse back to the source. With an instrument called a [Optical Time Domain Reflectometer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflectometer) the exact location of the tap can be pinpointed.

  19. I'm no constitutional lawyer.... on Do Social Media Bots Have a Right To Free Speech? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    But my understanding of US constitutional law requires whoever petitions for relief have "standing" in the case. It would be a hard sell to convince anyone that a person should have standing for a robot. OTOH, when AI reaches the point where the robot can argue it's own case, things might get interesting.

  20. Call me a shitposting troll if you must, on Nest Competitor Ring Reportedly Gave Employees Full Access To Customers' Live Camera Feeds (9to5google.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    But anyone that trusts their privacy to Ring gets what they deserve.

  21. Re:Congress should make net neutrality law on Ajit Pai Thanks Congress For Helping Him Kill Net Neutrality Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    What an adorable little socialist.

  22. You mean without millennials?

  23. Re:Socialism? on Two Miles From Facebook's Headquarters, Working Poor Live In Trailers (mercurynews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Underrated. People that coasted along, not contributing to the social contract, IE social security and income tax, and now complain that the "system let them down" don't get a lot of sympathy from me.

  24. Correct me if I'm wrong... on Do Alternative Software Licenses Represent Open Source's 'Midlife Crisis'? (dtrace.org) · · Score: 0

    But didn't this start being a problem about the time Redhat wen't public.

  25. Better to review the ethics of on China Forms New Body To Review Ethics Risks of Video Games (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    CRSPR gene editing in humans.