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  1. Depends on Ask Slashdot: What's The Best CMS? · · Score: 1

    Do you want simplicity to implement without coding, or the flexibility to "carve your own bricks"? Or just the performance to get a frosty piss?

  2. Re:An old Soviet joke ... on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think there might be a degree of debate about which 6 million go into the ovens.

    I'd start with anyone who thinks getting their kit off makes them an authority on immunology.

  3. Re:Chinese/Alt. medcine on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    The people prescribing bits of rare species are.

    But waaaagh, racism, right?

  4. Re:No, its because of social media it happens on British Startup Strip Mines Renters' Private Social Media For Landlords (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It was ã20,300

    Is that Australian pounds? You're old!

  5. Re:An old Soviet joke ... on Universal Basic Income Programs Arrive (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    will be doing something different and more productive than they were doing before.

    Such as?

    That's what facts and precedents tell us.

    Precedents from the time when the population was about a sixth of what it is now?

    If the economy and progress worked like you want it to, we would still have 99% of the population employed in agriculture.

    Strawman argument. Nobody is suggesting that.

    But before, there's always been a "something else". Jobs in agriculture went away, the something else was industry with a bit of imperial expansion thrown in. Jobs in industry went away, there was the service sector.

    If they automate everything, there isn't a something else to move to.

  6. Re:Chinese/Alt. medcine on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    has it is charlatans? WTF is that supposed to mean?

  7. Obligatory on Twitter Denies Breach of 32 Million Accounts (twitter.com) · · Score: 1

    Well they would, wouldn't they?

    Famous unquotes of history: "Sure, I bumped the motherfuckers off." -- Al Capone.

  8. If it's the one where a there's a guy who makes a cog with X[1] teeth by going "... yeah, well, Y is easy, so you just sort of space them apart a bit" and goes on to make one using a chisel it's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.

    [1] Where X is a prime number and Y is a nearby very unprime number.

  9. Re:doesn't tell the future on The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    Especially when it's been known for decades that the item described is an orrery.

  10. reaqlity distortion on A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    curved glass planes

    I suppose they only look curved due to the RDF.

  11. When begging the question, beg a stupid one. on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Most Tablet Specs Suck? · · Score: 1

    They don't. They're sufficient for their intended purpose when you take into account all the inherent tradeoffs.

    You might as well complain that an A10 is slow or an MX5 has poor towing ability.

  12. There's always some evidence, just by coincidence.

    So a total lack of evidence shows that there's a cover u*.&@
    no carrier
    .

  13. Re:Chinese/Alt. medcine on DEA Wants Access To Medical Records Without Warrant (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    It's safer because rhino horn is chemically indistinguishable from fingernails.

  14. I am thinking it is written in the Indglish.

  15. Re:Because internet unicorns. on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. It means "I spotted the grammatical/spelling error in the original, but I'm reproducing it as-is in the interests of accuracy".

    Hipsters use it to mean "I don't agree with this", but they're wrong, as usual.

  16. Re:1st Amendment? on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    OK. How about the second then?

    That says they can shoot Hogan, right?

  17. Re:Mixed blessing on Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the Hogan case it isn't clear to me if the jury knew that the lawsuit was being funded by Thiel at all, and this would be something that they should know.

    Why does that matter? I'd say a trial should go on the facts of the case, not facts around the case.

    But then unlike you I don't have a J.D. from DeVry.

  18. Twaddle. There was a limited trial but they were abandoned for political reasons, with the Liberals (for a change) living up to their name.

  19. Because internet unicorns. on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't have to follow the rules if you're disruptive.

  20. Re:Europe is multilingual on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They chose Greek because along with Latin it was what scholars used until fairly recently.

    One advantage is that it enables them to more precisely & specifically name new things, e.g. television and telescope are different but are both literally "far seers".

    The other is that it keeps the oiks in their place.

  21. Re:Scientists have no sense of humor. . . on Four Newly Discovered Elements Receive Names (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of "X Jock McX, winner of last year's Mr X competition" which IIRC used to crop up in Blackadder when they'd run out of willy jokes, i.e. most of series 2 and 3.

  22. s/cars/lawnmowers/

  23. it get's it's own

    I think Joe_Dragon's hacked somebody's account.

    Oh hang on, it's Lumpy. Forget that.

  24. Don't do it, Larry. on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Google are the Toni Basil of the computing world. Or Leicester City, if you prefer.

    Let someone else make it, then buy them out. After that you can fuck up the interface and scrap it.

  25. Re:Yet we can't build houses... on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you can live where you want and not have to worry about traffic and insane housing costs.

    If you haven't been replaced by an Indian (or whoever will be undercutting them in a decade or so).