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  1. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Without the politics, Trump still is a contributing member of society and has a stake in that society continuing to function.

    Sitting on your ass and collecting rent doesn't look particularly productive to me.

  2. Re:The wall will be built on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    What power? Choosing whether to drink tea or coffee?

  3. Re:More nation-wrecking idiocy on Are Roads Safer With No Central White Lines? · · Score: 1

    In Belgium they reckon that removing the majority of the traffic lights would increase safety.

    Maybe. An alternate plan would be to prosecute people for running reds.

  4. Still has meanings that aren't time related.

  5. Re:STOP, EVERYONE STOP on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Shut up. We don't come here to hear about Elon Musk. We come here to hear about Forbes, Hot hardware, and 3D printing.

  6. Re: Batteries just don't store enough energy... on Elon Musk's Next Great Idea? Electric Air Travel (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When flying, isn't it weight rather than volume that matters?

  7. Re:Wake up, Mozilla morons on Firefox Adopts a 6-8 Week Variable Release Schedule (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    It's better than vanilla Firefox, but it's still crap.

    I hate it on small screens. You can't get rid of the huuuuuuuuge zoom %age thing, even though it's taking up half your screen. There are other things that can't be changed, even if you install third-party stuff. Classic theme restorer is a decent college try, but it's fighting a battle that should never have happened.

    And if you like rounded tabs, it's so you can stick them up your butt easier.

  8. Re: Why does the summary state on Thirty Meter Telescope Likely Never Gets Built ... In Hawaii · · Score: 5, Funny

    The involved believe that the ant-science activists would delay it indefinitely.

    Unless there's such a thing as Formicologists, Entomologists is the word you're looking for.

    Though why they'd be bothered with telescopes is a bit of a puzzle. Perhaps they're worried that they could be used to fry their subjects.

  9. Now as in since dicksplash took over? Or now as in since Dice did? Or now as in since pretty much forever?

  10. Re:Pre-crime detector on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 0

    Cry to his boss, get him fired, and get a promotion.

  11. Re:Trend towards illegibility on Amazon's Thin Helvetica Syndrome: Font Anorexia vs. Kindle Readability (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously abstract thinking is beyond you.

    tl;dr: a subjective assessment of a static mockup tells you nothing about the performance of an actual dynamic object.

  12. Re:Original NASA article on NASA Announces That Pluto Has Icebergs Floating On Glaciers of Nitrogen Ice (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not Forbes. I count that as a win.

  13. Re:I disagree on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    Do you think kids know what the global economy is?

    Maybe parents are the target.

  14. And it's still not a planet? You bastards!

  15. Re:Is this really international news? on Massive Layoffs Hit University of Copenhagen · · Score: 1

    A 7% reduction (where over half are voluntary meaning only 3% actually get sacked) doesn't seem so unusual and by no means massive.

    As a one-off it's not so bad. But is it, or will this continue year-on-year?

  16. Re:I disagree on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    Except hype. Nobody hypes hype. Not even Xzibit.

  17. Re:I'm selling my poop on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    Shitcoin!

  18. Re:I disagree on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course you're right. The problem is that a lot of these courses are hyped to a laughable extent - equipping tomorrow's workforce with the marketable skills to compete in the information economy, gubbins gubbins gubbins....

  19. Re:Stop promoting your own articles StartsWithABan on Giant Magellan Telescope Set To Revolutionize Ground-Based Astronomy · · Score: 1

    I know about international keyboard layouts, I use UK extended/Welsh for the occasions where I have to write in French.

    Bizarre thing is (on crapdot) that If you quote an excerpt containing a funny character, they get mangled, which doesn't make any sense. Copy/pasted from parent:

    also enables you to type â £ Â¥ and ® with the [...] You can even do diacritics (i think that's what they're called) such as é, Ã, ñ, Ã, ü

    (In preview they're showing as various uppercase A variants.)

    I'll type some direct:
    MÃtÃrhead, HÃgar the Horrible, chÃteau.

    I also suspect that the subject line sometimes acts differently to the body. But heck, I can't be bothered debugging my own shit, why would I bother with whipdice's?

  20. Re:Monero on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    I totally agree that GP is a Monday-morning quarterback.

    But I'm not sure what good it would do the Chinese government (who aren't communist, by the way) to pull the plug on it.

  21. Re: Not a bad deal, really. on Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Sixth Man On the Moon, Dies At 85 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    There are people that are exceptional at some things. They'll be mediocre at many others and dangerously incompetent at some.

    Always be on guard for the halo effect.

  22. Re:All browsers on Avast SafeZone Browser Lets Attackers Access Your Filesystem (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Stop promoting your own articles StartsWithABan on Giant Magellan Telescope Set To Revolutionize Ground-Based Astronomy · · Score: 1

    Did the subject get truncated or is that wishful thinking?

  24. Re:Monero on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 0

    I've been into Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies since early 2011 after I saw one of the first Bitcoin slashdottings in late 2010.

    You sound just like a hipster talking about some lame-ass band.

  25. Re:With the ever-looming cyberpunk future on Ask Slashdot: Time To Get Into Crypto-currency? If So, Which? · · Score: 1

    s/cit/medic/