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  1. Couldn't happen in the US on Police Allegedly Threaten A UK Photographer With Seizure Of All His Computers (wordpress.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The US constitution (4th am.) would prevent this. So the cops would have taken them using civil forfeiture instead, sold them, and spent the dosh on hookers and blackjack.

  2. 3D-Printed TOY Grenade Launcher on US Army Unveils 3D-Printed Grenade Launcher Called RAMBO (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "During testing, RAMBO successfully fired 15 shots without showing any sign of deterioration. The ammunition itself was also 3D printed, based on the M781 40mm training round. U.S. Army researchers selected this particular round because it doesn't require any explosive propellants the use of which are have not been proved safe with 3D printed objects. "

    So the headline should read: US Army Unveils 3D-Printed Toy Grenade Launcher Called IOAFTR

  3. Re:Do they need driving tests? on California Says Autonomous Cars Don't Need Human Drivers (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's each and every car, then you've overwhelmed the DMV, mulitplying their load by maybe 10 fold.

    I'd like to know where you got that number from. Exactly how many self-driving cars do you think each existing driver is going to buy?

  4. Re:My predictions on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm stocky, not fat.

  5. Re:Gender Confusion on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    If it's recognisable as a woman, it's not Katie Hopkins. She looks more like a horse.

  6. Re:Because the alternatives were awesome. on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The ACA was shit because congress would have blocked it if it wasn't. Obama, responding to criticisms that he wasn't being bipartisan enough, naively went along with it. In that he was wrong - but blame the ones who set the trap, not the one who blundered into it.

    Do you find it odd that every other country where they don't live in mud huts is able to make public healthcare work?

  7. Re:Haters gonna hate. on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I apologise in advance for stealing that.

  8. Re:Wait a minute on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be dense.

    Are you looking for a mirror?

    The DJIA could also climb even higher.

    Which is exactly why today's value is basically noise.

  9. Re:If Trump has proven anything... on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Mr. Trump has approximately nothing to do with British civil courts, let alone this particular lawsuit.

    For the moment, anyway.

  10. My predictions on Blogger Wins Libel Damages Over Columnist's Tweets (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1) At least a dozen fat imbeciles will come along and spout off about how truth isn't a defence against libel in England.

    2) Two of them will be that retarded red-light running granny-grabber A.K.Marc and that shit-thick polack Wijnowski, who know they're lying because I've corrected both of them on this - twice in the latter's case.

  11. Re:In your face Betteridge! on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Some sites allow you to set your own question. You can make it as cryptic as you like while still being a hint to you (and maybe one other person...).

    IGBWOAMWB?

  12. Re:In your face Betteridge! on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    You can brute force a 4-number dial lock in something like an hour.

    Not if it shuts you out after three wrong attempts.

  13. Re:Wait a minute on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You might think it only means something to Wall St. until you realize that the American worker's 401(k) is plugged directly into that.

    Unless they retire today it doesn't matter that much either. It could fall back to its previous value tomorrow. It could go lower in a month.

  14. Re:Anemic growth is not normal on U.S. Jobs, Pay Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They had it when Obama was pres too, which was the point.

    Two little known facts there.

  15. Clearly the power of Trump enables you to draw conclusions from an unparsable sentence.

  16. A different Stack Overflow? on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this a different Stack Overflow to the one with the most ridiculous password rules in the known universe?

  17. Re:In your face Betteridge! on Slashdot Asks: Are Password Rules Bullshit? (codinghorror.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why couldn't they hash & store each character separately - so it's effectively multiple short passwords?

  18. Re:But I want to forget on Ancient Technique Can Dramatically Improve Memory, Research Suggests (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    a0) Become Spinal Tap's drummer.

  19. Company registers only contained a limited amount of personal information and, as executives in companies should disclose their identity and functions, it said.

    What?

  20. Harvard on The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen (hbr.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weren't they good once?

  21. Re: Where's the problem? on Indiegogo Halted Retro Computer Campaign (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    When WW1 broke out they said it would be all over by Christmas. And they were right, with a month to spare.

  22. A more accurate name on Hyperloop Firm Eyes Indonesia For Ultra-Fast Transport System (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It should really be called an rloop.

  23. Re:`We don't need regulation, we pinky-swear' on Uber Admits Its Ghost Driver 'Greyball' Tool Was Used To Thwart Regulators, Vows To Stop (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Uber isn't a taxi company. Fnarrrr!

  24. Re:Pray I don't change it again on Apple Begins Rejecting Apps With 'Hot Code Push' Feature (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    Submit the code without your malware, then hot-push it after approval.

    It doesn't even need to be that.

    "It's only a two line change, it doesn't need the full testing & QA rigmarole". We've all done that, right?

  25. They can on Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Can is one thing. Does is another.