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  1. Is this the end for Betteridge's law? on When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    n/c

  2. Re:Milk floats on First Mass-Produced Electric Truck Unveiled (nhk.or.jp) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Those don't count. Only Japanese things count. In a pinch, Chinese will do.

  3. Re:Complainers aren't even fat?!?!? on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd never heard of the silly mare but Google says she's an " editorial strategist", whatever that is.

    Sort of confirming my new rule

  4. Re:Whatever on Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure how any of that prevents a tyranny of the majority. It just frigs around with how you decide who the majority is.

  5. Re:Robbery. on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think they charge you road tax (or vehicle excise or whatever they call it this week) if you don't have a car. Do they?

  6. Re:Take care of your body on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot the Amazon link.

  7. Re:Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, historically surgeons were an entirely separate guild. In the UK this lingers on in the convention of titling surgeons Mr/Miss etc rather than Dr.

  8. Re: Take care of your body on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, apart from voting them out.

    And if you say the chance only comes up every four/five years, an insurance company can keep stalling for much longer than that.

  9. Re:GNOME? on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released · · Score: 1

    Some later versions of Mate now use GTK3, and it shows. I don't mean that in a good way.

  10. Rather surprised AmiMoJo isn't here trying to put a positive spin on it.

  11. Re:GNOME? on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released · · Score: 1

    You answered your own question. GNOME Shell is intended to be simple enough for an average, non-computer-savvy, person to be able to pick up and use. I'd say it does fairly well there

    I'm assuming you're talking about 2.

  12. Re: Unnecessarily complex name on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released · · Score: 1

    My first thought on seeing the picture was that they were fictional things from H.P. Lovecraft. Ruth truly is stranger than Richard!

  13. bigly trusted

    #FTFY

  14. Re:Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" on Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    How dare they refuse to save people's lives just because they're trying to kill themselves!

  15. Re:$DEITY, you make me feel old ! on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    His name's rather appropriate.

  16. Re:Old. on Slashdot's 20th Anniversary: History of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    Now you need a 1600 x 600 display because of the yuuuuge empty space on the right.

  17. Re: Unnecessarily complex name on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released · · Score: 1

    Is there any other kind?

  18. Re:Unnecessarily complex name on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark Released · · Score: 2

    how many people will remember instantly the correct spelling of "Aardvark"?

    Me, plus anyone who owns a taxi company.

  19. He might be mocking the "in the 70s scientists all said we'd be in an ice age" crew.

  20. Re: Stop relying on them on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    You can't stop credit bureaus et al from Hoovering up your data and reselling.

    The government could.

    Oh noes, teh cormanizzems!

  21. C-level execs in handcuffs on Ask Slashdot: What Are Ways To Get Companies To Actually Focus On Security? · · Score: 1

    Haul some C-level execs away in handcuffs. And don't put them in some white-collar resort prison either.

  22. Re:Apple thinks nothing of bad keyboards on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Er, yeah. That could be why they turn up in thrift stores.

  23. Re:A sign of times on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    It also goes out of its way to avoid the question of whether it's OK to eat kangaroos.

  24. Re:wrong on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Was it you who dropped the loose screw in there? When I do that I always make a point of finding the bugger, because if I don't it'll home in on the most expensive component and cause more than an intermittent fault.

  25. Re:A sign of times on "Maybe It's a Piece of Dust" (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Between 41 and 43, unless you're a C programmer.