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  1. Re:energy bob, the little pieces on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's free in the sense that a by-product is free; it arises as a side-effect of making something else.

  2. For all their faults, this would never have happened in North Korea.

    Ready for launch? I thought you said lunch!

  3. Re:Indeed... on Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today (space.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can get a special comb. Or a collar impregnated with chemicals.

  4. I'd rather have the UI designed in consultation with the end users

    As long as you don't interpret "in consultation with" as "by". This does happen, and the results can be ... interesting.

    Unfortunately, digital gauges are useless when a pump's output is fluctuating rapidly while an analog one lets you estimate the average output while you address the casualty.

    Rookie error, that's 101 level stuff. Good that they eventually remedied it, but it shouldn't have made it off the drawing board.

  5. Re:The report, prepared by a board-appointed speci on Equifax Investigation Clears Execs Who Dumped Stock Before Hack Announcement (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Culture? He was talking about Atlanta!

  6. Chelsea Manning archivist Lisa Rein don't want to include Gottesfeld

    I doesn't even know who her are.

  7. Goshdarnit, I thought I was the king of puns.

    Are you looking for a crew chief?

  8. XP was better. You didn't need an add-on to get a sane start menu.

    Also, if there's a way in 7 to show free space all the time in file explorer (or whatever it's called) I'd like to know it.

  9. Strewth! on Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Blue ruin! I'll get some tinnies while you chuck another pie on the barbie, mate.

  10. Re:The REAL question is on Twitter Employee Blamed For Deleting President Donald Trump's Account (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    As far as "illegal misuse", this employee was apparrently granted access to manage user accounts. Unless he circumvented security measures to get that access, he didn't break the law.

    So if I'm granted access to manage the accounts payable system of a company I can give out any amount to anybody I wish? Or block payments to valid vendors until the company gets sued?

    You're in the wrong place -the DeVry J.D. reunion is over there: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

  11. Re: Why do I commute? on Ask Slashdot: Why Do We Still Commute? (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    fall head first on the cement pavement and brake your neck

    If he's paying attention he might hit the breaks in time.

  12. It's as if interior designers started calling themselves architects and this went on until people forgot what an actual architect was.

    Then you get doorways that you have to crouch down and turn sideways to go through. But aren't the walls a lovely colour!

  13. I'd much rather have a programmer design the user interface than a UX designer.

    I'd rather have an ergonomist/human factors wallah do it, but then I actually know what the fuck I'm talking about.

  14. I doubt there are many blind sailors out to sea.

    They'd probably be better at spotting a joke than you, though.

  15. You could argue that they all do.

  16. Good luck suing a US company from outside. You wouldn't stand a cat in hells chance of collecting even if you won.

    And if the contract is with a local subsidiary, good luck suing a business when it doesn't exist any more.

  17. There was actually an icon to show that the station didn't have full control. However it was light medium grey on a medium light grey background and looked like a turnip.

  18. Re:The state of modern Science on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's just Microsoft. There's Gnome 3, and then there's this.

  19. Re:Future is AI war on Eric Schmidt and Bob Work: Our AI 'Sputnik Moment' Is Now (breakingdefense.com) · · Score: 1

    That or trying to solve a spat between Upper and Lower Belgoland.

  20. Re:seriously we needed a study for this? on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    At least when the PHBs or uxtards decide to build something with an interface consisting entirely of emocrap you'll have something to point to.

    They'll ignore it, of course, but there you go.

  21. Re:They are confusing in America too on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words
    Words in papers, words in books
    Words on TV, words for crooks
    Words of comfort, words of peace
    Words to make the fighting cease Words to tell you what to do
    Words are working hard for you
    Eat your words but don't go hungry
    Words have always nearly hung me
    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words

    Words of nuance, words of skill
    And words of romance are a thrill
    Words are stupid, words are fun
    Words can put you on the run

    Mots pressé, Mots sensé
    Mots qui disent la verité Mots maudits, Mots mentis
    Mots qui manquent le fruit d'esprit
    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words

    It's a rap race, with a fast pace
    Concrete words, abstract words
    Crazy words and lying words
    Hazy words and dying words
    Words of faith and tell me straight
    Rare words and swear words
    Good words and bad words

    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words
    Words can make you pay and pay
    Four-letter words I cannot say Panty, toilet, dirty devil
    Words are trouble, words are subtle
    Words of anger, words of hate
    Words over here, words out there
    In the air and everywhere Words of wisdom, words of strife
    Words that write the book I like Words won't find no right solution
    To the planet earth's pollution Say the right word, make a million
    Words are like a certain person
    Who can't say what they mean
    Don't mean what they say With a rap rap here and a rap rap there
    Here a rap, there a rap
    Everywhere a rap rap
    Rap it up for the common good
    Let us enlist the neighborhood It's okay, I've overstood This is a wordy rappinghood, okay, bye
    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words

    What are words worth?
    What are words worth? - words

    He'll stop ... Don't stop ... Stop

  22. Re:We needed a study for this? on Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Aircraft were invented by a Yorkshireman. That doesn't mean that nobody else has ever designed one.

  23. When comparing across time different time periods, the rule is simple: if white westerners used to do it and non-western non-whites are doing it now then the former are at fault.

    e.g.
    Me: ISIS just burnt someone alive, the fucking savage bastards.
    SJW: But what about the Spanish inquisition!

  24. Re: Trading one problem for another on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever seen a wooden ship or building that's burnt but the main beams are still mostly intact?

    It's called ablation. Educate yourself.

  25. Shutting down 'Hilton' in the EU would just lead to multiple lawsuits from the franchisees for breach of contract.

    Against whom, and for what?