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  1. Tom Cruise and "total commitment" on Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Because Tom Cruise has made a career of total commitment." To Scientology.

  2. Re:Consider This on The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students. (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Old-School high quality troll. You just don't see this level anymore.

  3. Re: Simple answer on Is Quantum Computing Impossible? (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I see what you did here...

  4. Re:Very Sad News. on Bill Godbout, Early S-100 Bus Pioneer, Perished In the Camp Wildfire (vcfed.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mike Quinn's. I worked out on Edgewater Drive off of Heganburger and took Doolittle Drive home to my studio apartment in Alameda. I would swing by Mike Quinn's several times a week. I remember Bill, Vinnie, Mike, and Jay. Those were great times. Mike Quinn died many years ago. The store moved out near San Leandro, and closed a few years ago. I miss them all.

  5. It's not a steady-state beam, it's a highly directional pulse.

  6. This is not news on A Third of Wikipedia Discussions Are Stuck in Forever Beefs (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia was taken over by the self-styled elitists 10 years ago. That's when I stopped contributing anything other than correction of blatant errors.

  7. Only a Millennial would ask such a silly question. on Slashdot Asks: Are DevOps, Agile, and Lean IT the Same Thing? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Only a Millennial would ask such a silly question.

  8. Re:Wasted helium on How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Every couple of months we hear about a project that needs helium with a *street value" of two hundred billion dollars. Well, I don't know what "street" you live on, but on my street, you can score helium for way less than that.

  9. Every time you compress air, it is heated. The heat is lost energy. Every time you release air pressure, the air is cooled. More lost energy. No mention by the author, no analysis of the amount of lost energy. Bullshit article.

  10. The other Big Deal is the bandwidth that gets eaten up by spam. If you have a relatively slow DSL connection, and a lot of people do, the massive amounts of spam received will eat up a substantial amount of your bandwidth.

  11. Re:Speaking as a man... on Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you talk a little louder? I can't hear you over the noise from the pumps here at the sewage treatment plant...

  12. Re:Good on A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Speaking as a 66-year-oldfart, going out in a sheet of flames in the one of the worlds fastest aircraft looks a lot better than shitting myself in a nursing home. Go ahead, let people take the risk if they want.

  13. If D-Wave's machines are so fabulous.... on D-Wave Launches Free 'Leap' Quantum Computing Service (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just put all of them to work mining Bitcoins?

  14. It's not a voting machine... on Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a high speed ballot counter. Back in the day, before the great buyup and consolidation of the elections business, I designed much of a competing machine.

  15. "It's a poor craftsman that blames his tools", and sometimes Windows is the tool you have to use.

  16. So how many of you /. readers admit to being on the spectrum. Come on, at least half. So Linus is on the spectrum too.

  17. I started working in Bay Area tech in the 70's. Most tech workers, myself and my ex-wife included delayed having kids until we had a house and established career, which was in our early-to-mid 30's.

  18. What could possibly go wrong? on Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I mean, seriously, have we not learned anything about the government's, or any government's ability to abuse their power?

  19. I didn't see a Request For Comments anywhere... on Google Wants To Kill the URL (wired.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That used to be the first step in an internet protocol change. Does Google well and truly own the internet now?

  20. Re:does the FAA count any military stuff? on Google Made New Search Tools To Help Veterans Find Better Jobs (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that some aircraft maintenance work can count towards your A&P certificate.

  21. I guess a working sewer system... on India To Launch First Manned Space Mission By 2022 (hindustantimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Is less important.

  22. Of a site that would be tremendously better if the posters were known by real ID's. It's way too hard to sort out the middle-school ankle biters from the useful comments.

  23. The employer pays for workers compensation insurance. The employee and the employer pay for Social Security. Both worker's comp and SS disability pay long and short term to support an injured worker. In return, the worker does not sue the employee.

  24. "Didn't make anyone smarter..." on ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn (inverse.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    " Adderall improved focus and attention -- but it didn't actually make anyone smarter." Presumably, you are reasonably smarter already, being accepted in college. So the real benefit is focus and attention, not "smarter".

  25. Re:NO, it was not the result of a Reddit witch hun on Game Company Fires Two Employees Who Complained About 'Mansplaining' on Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You still read Slashdot...