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  1. This didn't take long... on Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    skip election day at play
    or check a bad box
    the choice is yours all the same

  2. Re:Um, on Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Worst. Haiku. Ever.

  3. Pro Tip - ALWAYS charge in the local currency. Your credit card exchange rate is almost guaranteed to be better than the merchant's exchange rate. (Typical cards charge 3%, some only 1% and there are a few that charge 0%).

    The merchant exchange rate will approach the worst rates + fees that you will find in Airport kiosks.

  4. It takes me about 10-15 minutes of watching a bored teller at Wells Fargo tapping a keyboard before I can get out of there to buy or sell CAD, Euros, Pounds, or Yen... (and I highly recommend having at least your first cab/train fare in local currency when you travel. I have skipped a very long line of cashless tourists at CDG airport to buy my train ticket to Paris from a machine with cash. To be fair that was 3 years ago, maybe the chip cards are good-to-go now, if you remember to get your PIN.)

    Every time, I am amazed... really, 10 minutes to change a few hundred USD to something else?

  5. Just what we need on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    2 million MORE newbs who THINK they can program. And can post to the app store, um Play (yeah, because all my apps are a frolic).

  6. Cell phones are used to take selfies - it's all related. People are just too selfish to get sick anymore.

  7. What do you mean "turn out"? on Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? (marginalrevolution.com) · · Score: 1

    They are both works of fiction. When you are making up stuff, you can make up whatever you want.

  8. because one takes place "long ago" and the other is in the future... so no conflict at all.

  9. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  10. Re:I don't want robots making my pizza on Robot Pizza Company 'Zume' Wants To Be 'Amazon of Food' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Robots will be doing a lot more than pizza, in a world of 15$ + minimum wage...

  11. "1% of twitter" on 3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I am proud to say I use 0% of Twitter.

    Whatever.

  12. more likely... on FBI Can Access Hundreds of Millions of Face Recognition Photos (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    ID your "remains" when an IED has reduced you to a smear.

  13. Yeah, but the fine print says you have to get your money back the old fashioned way - by stealing it, using the device!

  14. deeper than google... on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    About 1.5 hours ago I could reproduce the results of this video

    And now, mysteriously (even non-google) searches for "hillary clinton ind" are mostly coming up with "indiana" instead of "indictment"... weird.

    of course, maybe in the last hour, zillions of sock puppets are searching and clicking thru on indiana...

  15. After "googling" around a bit, Startpage.com is now my default search engine. (n.b. it is not a default option in Chrome... you have to "add" it, and don't be fooled by "searchpage" which is really yahoo.)

  16. Re:Case closed on There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton (vox.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I searched duckduckgo for "secret plan to manipulate search results to help Hillary" - and all the results start with "Did Google..."

    The results for the same search on Google start with "There's No Evidence..." or "Google denies", but to be fair there is also a link to the whack jobs at zerohedge...

  17. A picture is worth 1000 words on Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    But a video is the same "words", over, and over, and over - WASTING MY TIME.

    On the plus side, I tend to remember which sites to avoid.

  18. Iceland - of all places! on Scientists In Iceland Turn CO2 Into Stone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Trying to thwart the next Ice Age!

    No, wait, I think I got that backwards! They are trying to prevent becoming Texas!

  19. Symptoms? What Symptoms? on Microsoft Analyzes Web Searches, Finds Clues For Early Cancer Detection (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you have symptoms that are just in common with pancreatic cancer symptoms, in which case they are just symptoms of something else. The study has a biased sample, since they where studying the history of "known cancer" patients (or someone who lies to search engines... for example, I just now searched "I think I have pancreatic cancer"... Shit! - oh, wait, I just searched for "medical student syndrome", too! Whew! That's what I have.)

  20. "analyzing past data" - I've had great success in creating convincing horse race and stock picks using that method!

    Unfortunately, "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" is VERY true.

  21. Why say things like "70 percent" and "40 percent" for such a small group (of 24).

    Are we to believe 16.8 of the 24 had their symptoms stop and 9.6 had reversals?

  22. My usage is the same on Report: People Are Spending Much Less Time On Social Media (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Zero percent for me, that's been a constant, so they won't register any decline on my part.

  23. you want random? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Use my brain. It is random as shit. My wife tells me so, all the time.

  24. Re:Obligatory... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    good enough horse in the stable

  25. Re:Use an application or OS that allows passphrase on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Create A Highly-Secure Password? (securitymagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    "sorry spaces not allowed"