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  1. Yes on Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? · · Score: 1

    In the same way that Glenn Close looks as good as she did when she was 21.

  2. At what ranges do arrows travel at bullet speeds?

  3. Re: Maybe it could help in Ukraine on Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost as good as forgetting that other nations - like Tsarist Russia - did it too.

  4. Re:not a rejection, a redirection on Android Ransomware Infects LG Smart TV, Company 'Refuses' To Help (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    but after the factory guys pull the lithium cell, or hook it to a tesla coil, or replace a module, or whatever to hard-reset the set, it's still vulnerable.

    It's more likely to be some masonic handshake like holding down certain buttons for exactly 2 pi seconds while standing on one leg with a pencil in your ear - which they could have read out over the phone.

  5. Re:Impressive and ambitious, but... on China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Nice in theory.

    In practice, they'll build an island on it and claim they own it.

  6. close to the vest on Apple Publishes Its First AI Research Paper (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Is this another Indianism like always dropping definite article?

  7. Re:Star Wars killed her on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Carrie Fischer? Is she related to that chess player dude?

  8. Re:So did on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    And Liz Smith.

    You wouldn't know her, she doesn't do things with explosions.

  9. This leaves them all basically as related as identical twins.

    They're definitely going to go extinct then, because either they're all male or all female.

  10. Re:What does this have to do with tech? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    You were born, and you're stupid.

    Can't really draw much from a sample of one.

  11. Re:I don't understand this... on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck, I must have been as drunk as he was!

  12. Re:Will marriage still be a legal construct? on Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    When women's suffrage was the topic of the day, the argument against it was that they would have to suffer the draft and war.

    Ah. That explains why elderly, blind and crippled men weren't allowed to vote either.

    Founding of suffragette movement in UK: 1897.
    Introduction of conscription in UK: 1916.

  13. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    I think he's getting her mixed up with Alanis Morissette.

  14. Re:Will marriage still be a legal construct? on Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    In some societies, women were (and still are) considered chattel, i.e., property

    If you think that's good, the SJWs hate you for being a misogynist.

    If you think that's bad, the SJWs hate you for being islamophobic.

  15. Re:I don't understand this... on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    This year we lost Bowie and E&L (P is holding on for now), not to mention Lemmy out of Motorhead.

    I wouldn't really put him in the same league, not even with Rick Parfitt who now has all eternity to learn another chord...

  16. Re:As Someone Actually In Turkey on Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps false flag was the wrong expression, but the situations I mentioned are quite distinct; in one case the rebel leader is a rube, in the other he's a stooge.

  17. The odds of a tissue type match would be even tinier than they are within the same race. Heck, it's less than 50% chance within the immediate family.

    Either it's a myth or it dates from before they knew about stuff like that and the guy would probably have died anyway.

  18. Re:As Someone Actually In Turkey on Turkey Says It's Investigating 10,000 Social Network Users (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Either a false flag operation (the leaders are really in Obiwan's pocket and will be quietly pardoned when nobody's looking) or they were somehow duped into having a go by false intel. I suppose they could have just been incredibly stupid.

    In any case, Turdipan's making the best of it - if even a tenth of the accused were really in on it they'd have won.

  19. Re:Its about land on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Rig up a cheetah make-out pad with a treadmill/conveyor belt thing.

    Do you know how tiring it is doing all the thinking?

  20. Re:So overpopulation is not an issue? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    x is not dx/dt in the general case.

  21. Re:What does this have to do with tech? on Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Because hopefully one of the kids will grow up to know what the excluded middle fallacy is.

  22. I'm waiting for unixisc to come along and write it as w/ings.

  23. How To Win Friends And Influence People. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    https://www.amazon.com/How-Win...

    It taught me that anyone who says otherwise is a cuntwad and a Trump-U alumnus.

  24. He'd had a previous chance to learn that lesson: he served in the trenches on the Western front in WWI and was wounded and gassed.

    But you knew that, right?

  25. Working with on Apple Working With Consumer Reports on MacBook Pro's Battery Issue (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a vague phrase - "working with".

    Does this mean bribing them to write more favourable reviews, or threatening them with lawsuits if they don't?