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  1. Re:M$ Sales at it's finest... on Microsoft's Get Windows 10 App, KB 3035583, Reappears (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really have to include so much quoted text? It's like the September that never ended didn't end.

  2. I for one welcome our newresearch rodent overlords on Possible Cellphone Link To Cancer Found In Rat Study (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a bit harsh. It's better than anything the dogs and monkeys have published.

  3. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    My point was be that electrical connections etc. wouldn't normally be counted as *moving* parts. Stuff like pistons & gears would.

  4. Tell you what, how about you learn to give a citation or fuck off? The first hit from google says just about the opposite; the observed person could be guilty of indecent exposure.

    https://www.thestar.com/news/2...

  5. it's not what you say, it's how you say it. on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
    PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.

    *
    ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
    CONFIGURATION SECTION.
    SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
    OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.

    DATA DIVISION.
    FILE SECTION.

    PROCEDURE DIVISION.

    MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
    BEGIN.
              DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
              DISPLAY "What's wrong with COBOL?".
              DISPLAY "Frosty piss!!!!!! ".
    STOP RUN.
    MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
    EXIT.

  6. Non sequitur on Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the use of COBOL got to do with leaks?

    If anything COBOL is more secure, because you can't transport a wad of punch cards via the internet.

  7. Re: ok on Someone In North Korea Is Hosting a Facebook Clone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't, but Santa Claus does. The tooth-fairy? She's sitting on the fence, as usual.

  8. I'm sure there's a punchline for this on Feinstein-Burr Encryption Legislation Is Dead In The Water (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Most rednecks have redneck cousins. Most rednecks have redneck spouses.

  9. And may I say what a brilliant job it's doing there.

  10. Now, imagine how long Maduro might last in a Venezuela with an armed population supporting opposition parties.

    About the same, if there's a reasonable proportion of the armed population who support him.

  11. Re:Battery life? Interference? Audible artifacts? on ForcePhone App Uses Ultrasonic Tone To Create Pressure-Sensitive Batphone (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    supersonic sound

    Yo dawg, i herd u like fast sound, so I put more speed in ur sound so ur sound is faster than sound which is faster than sound which is faster than sound which is faster than sound which is faster th
    stack size exceeded. Baling out near line 214137.

  12. it's not the USA.

    Let's hope Microsoft know that. Otherwise there might be some very confused Indians arriving in Salo looking for someone to train them.

  13. Re:Blast From The Pabst on Hackers Claim to Have 427 Million Myspace Passwords (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's considered suitably retro now. I'm going to write a kickstarter proposal for emulating blink tags with React as soon as I've fixed my fixie.

  14. Re:Really? on North Korea Linked to the SWIFT Bank Hacks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the sport example, there's a selection mechanism in place. Starting from a pool of pretty much everybody, the gym teacher selects the best kids for the school team, and the ones who win the city championship compete at the state level and so forth until the best are in the national squad.

    You couldn't do that if only a dozen people have ever actually seen a running track. Well you could, but they probably wouldn't win very much.

    tl;dr either the Norks are utterly brilliant at talent spotting or they're subcontracting the whole thing out to somebody else.

  15. Except we aren't talking about theft here.

    No we aren't. The statement you made was that no business should be able to make use of the force of law.

    I gave a counterexample that holed you right below the waterline, and now the water's got shit floating in it.

    You can't move the goalposts now.

    We're talking about the resale of something that should be treated as property.

    Protip: first establish whether you're talking about the law as it is or how you wish it was.

    Not that it's relevant to the point I made anyway. Tell you what, how about doing away with all laws altogether.

  16. Is "designed to" some kind of binding covenant enforced by heavenly thunderbolts?

  17. Re:I don't evev know what it is on Ask Slashdot: Have You Migrated To Node.js? · · Score: 1

    You mean Jim Jefferies?

    I hadn't heard of him before, but apart from him being Australian and slightly less handsome we're like fucking twins.

    The way he talks and goes off on tangents is very similar. Two beers and we'd be finishing each other's sentences.

  18. Re:custom chips == government backdoors on Qualcomm To Manufacture Custom Chips For Chinese Market (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    WAPI by name, wappy by nature.

  19. I thought that too, but you can use headphones as a microphone so I suppose the reverse applies.

    Of course "can" and "should" are not synonyms, as anyone who's observed a dog using its tongue knows.

  20. Re: This is why VR will fail. on Wearable 'Backpack PCs' Let You Experience High-End VR On The Go (mashable.com) · · Score: 0

    Stupid question, but...

    If you're moving around while using VR, why don't you run into things and trip over?

    If you aren't moving around, why do you need to carry the 'puter with you?

  21. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    I won't ever want a car I have to pamper.

    You must be a millennial.

    You had to get down on your knees and pray to cars made in the 70s to even get them to consider starting.

  22. Re:I would like a simpler electric car on Model X Owner Files Lemon Law Suit Against Tesla, Claims Car Is Unsafe To Drive (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    The original claim, which has been lost in the noise, was moving parts.

  23. Re:The emperor has no clothes, on FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If you shoot the messenger, you'll stop getting messages.

  24. Rodney, you plonker, that's an FTP server's grape of being.

  25. Re:Anonymous FTP server is as private as park benc on FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    If they aren't supposed to, then put a fence around it with a combination lock to open the gate, and only give the combination to people who are supposed to be there.