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  1. Re:Laws allowing their use, have not on Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived (starship.xyz) · · Score: 2

    I see a market for maybe five of these.

  2. Rolling drones on Rolling Drone Delivery Robots Have Arrived (starship.xyz) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do they have a special coating to repel lichens and similar things?

  3. Re:Switching positions twice on Scientists Say The Asteroid That Killed The Dinosaurs Almost Wiped Us Out Too (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    No, duodecimated.

  4. Re:Tenants of the world unite! on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    go read his platform so you don't look like a bafoon.

    Better idea - try a dictionary.

  5. Assholes on Self-Driving Tesla Owners Share Videos of Reckless Driving (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Assholes don't know they're assholes. Film at 11. Brought to you by frosty piss!

  6. Re:They'll just move to Rust. on Oracle May Have Stopped Funding and Developing Java EE (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    J2EE doesn't have a code of conduct.

  7. Re:Tenants of the world unite! on Landlords, ISPs Team Up To Rip Off Tenants On Broadband (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    What Stalin has going for him is that he isn't Hitler, I look at him and say "well, whatever Stalins's failings, at least he isn't evil like him. And he has a better moustache".

    FTFY.

  8. Re:"The pound dropping" on Will Brexit Hurt International Cyber-Security? (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Friends of mine who live by just trading stocks made 20-30% returns in the last week betting on the FTSE recovering which it did and was expected to do.

    Awesome. Because that's all that matters.

  9. Re:Why is this on the front page? on Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    just ignore the story and read something else

    Sounds great in theory, but it suffers from the same flaw as "Your [US] internet provider sucks, switch to another one", "Your [Any country] bank sucks, switch to another one", et cetERA, et cetERA, et cetERA.

  10. The last one is because some aliens couldn't keep their dicks in their pants. It's explained in one of the episodes.

  11. In the real world, no one thinks we should stand idly by while a bully nation invades its neighbors

    Doesn't it depend how much oil/dithilium they've got?

  12. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things' (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    And for what it's worth, if you control the gateway, it is always possible to make a machine behind it believe it has unfettered access to the internet if you know what the device is expecting to see.

    But you don't, do you? Or nothing that required a subscription service would work for more than three minutes before somebody hacked it.

  13. videos about repairing out of warranty repairs

    I herd u like repairs...

  14. "Autopilot" on an airplane means it flies itself, aside from takeoff and landing.

    It doesn't actually. I used to think autopilots are either fully on or fully off, but then this happened.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re:It's not even just creating new laws. on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    LexusNexus

    It's just ToyotaNoyota with a different badge.

  16. Re:Law doesn't work that way on Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They did that because they couldn't spell rinocerus.

  17. Re:Your shitty product kills jobs? on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Fuck, this ain't the half of it. This one got found, how many do you think didn't?

    Compared to this, icebergs hover over the ocean with it all out on show.

  18. Fucking true, read it on the EU website on Security Researcher Gets Threats Over Amazon Review (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Bizarrely, if you write "AuYou Wi-Fi Switch" in Han Chinese it's only two little ticks different from "Streisand Effect".

  19. My rule of bum^H thumb on HP Rolls Out Device-as-a-Service for PCs, Printers (eweek.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you see "X as a service", especially in an advert, replace X with "sodomy".

    Because you are so totally going to get fucked up the arse. And charged for it.

  20. Re:Notes on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    Queef, and I meant that.

  21. Re:It's worse than Java EE these days. on Ruby On Rails 5.0 Released (rubyonrails.org) · · Score: 1

    Is that your fixie out front that someone just pissed all over?

  22. Re:And this is why... on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they did choose to codify existing practice that's a long chalk from the the UK telling them that they had to do it. Do you even know when you're lying?

  23. Apart from the Ferengi.

  24. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on Netherlands Gets First Nationwide 'Internet of Things' (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    It totally does matter.

    1) You give the fridge unfettered access to anything it wants.

    or

    2) You come home from work and your ice cream has melted and the milk's gone manky.

    Those are the options when you have refrigeration as a service.

  25. Re:There had to be a first case... on US Regulators Investigating Tesla Over Use of 'Autopilot' Mode Linked To Fatal Crash (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It's called the Yerkes-Dodson law.

    But you can forgive designers for not knowing it, as it's only been around for a century or so.