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  1. Recycling an old joke... on Oculus Rift Pre-orders Begin At $600 (oculus.com) · · Score: 1

    Protip: use your own hand.

  2. I hope they all die in a fire on Coin Teams With MasterCard In Wearable Payments Push (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    They deserve to fail and die for not only choosing a common word for their name, but also choosing a name that's in common use in something closely related.

  3. In former and possibly future Soviet Russia frosty piss gets YOU

  4. Re:Ugh... no thanks. on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you say "I don't bloody know, something's blocking the camera". That something will probably be the butter.

  5. IoaYTGS on Comcast's Xfinity Home Security Flaw Leaves Doors Open (rapid7.com) · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the IoaYTGS - Internet of all Your Things Got Stolen.

  6. Re:Why not a simpler solution? on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd go for two thin glass doors with a gap between, but I'm a bit strange.

  7. Re:is anyone else tired? on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't waste any energy by opening the door - I treat it as an opportunity to take a beer out.

  8. Pause for thought for the day on Samsung's Latest Smart Fridge Has Cameras and a Huge Display (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    I see the nutbags in the Middle East and I think there's no hope for humanity.

    I see useless trinkety shite like this and I know it for sure.

  9. Re:Isn't it still DUI? on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I would not be suprised if that were the case.

    Can you propose a mechanism for how that would work?

    Funny bit of trivia: there are baking ingredients like certain flavours that, if aersolized into the mouth, will skew that breathalizer test.

    These flavours wouldn't happen to be solutions in ... alcohol ... would they? Do you regularly drive along the road sipping artificial lemon essence?

    I noticed that a good defense attorney would be able to defeat such a test easily, by simply questioning the validity of the assumptions about a correlation between the amount of alcohol in someone's breath and the amount of alcohol in his or her blood.

    I suspect it's been tried before, and thrown out as utter bollocks. In any case, in sensible place there is a followup blood test.

  10. Re:Working vs. not working on 'Flexible' Working Can Keep You Stressed Out For Longer, Lead to Illness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously though. The only way wages can "not keep up" with inflation is if the government or some other entities make up the difference.

    Seriously though. The purchasing power of wages could fall, taking the workers' standard of living with it.

  11. Get back to work! on The Sad Graph of Software Death (tinyletter.com) · · Score: 1

    It stands to reason that if adding people to a project makes it later then taking them away makes it earlier.

    That's why I is a manijer and you isn't.

  12. Re:Doesn't matter. on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Still requires a voluntary act.

    Getting behind the wheel is a voluntary act. If you'd bothered to read the link he provided you'd know that.

  13. Re:Isn't it still DUI? on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised there was even a breath test. I thought in the US they used "roadside sobriety tests" which means you have to stand on one leg while rubbing your stomach and patting your head.

    I can barely do any of those things on its own.

  14. Re:Isn't it still DUI? on DUI Charges Dismissed Against Woman Whose Body Brews Alcohol (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Epileptics are generally considered unfit to drive. But one could still pass the test if he didn't have a fit in the middle of it.

  15. Re:Just like being on-call on 'Flexible' Working Can Keep You Stressed Out For Longer, Lead to Illness (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

  16. Re:top to bottom, left to right. on How the Internet Changed the Way We Read (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    That's because you're a racist who hates Arabs (or is it the Chinese? -Ed). Anyway, in the spirit of exclusivity you should read equally in all directions.

  17. It's not supposed to be flexible both ways! That will lead to death panels and compulsory gay marriage to Mexican rapists.

  18. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so quick to judge. He might be wearing a sort of corset thing.

  19. Re: Those who would give up essential Liberty... on Majority of Americans OK With Warrantless Internet Surveillance (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    IQ scores are, because they're normalised (in technical terms "frigged") to do so. The raw scores do not.

    So be careful about drawing conclusions on that as if it reflects some underlying reality: so would anything else if the same transformation was applied.

  20. Re:UTF-32 does not hold a grapheme cluster on The Swift Programming Language's Most Commonly Rejected Changes (github.com) · · Score: 1

    One byte, to be interpreted as per ISO/IEC 8859-1.

    It was good enough for Homer, Jesus Christ and Shakespeare. So unless you're writing something überspecial It's good enough for you.

    If you want to scribble goddam pictures, use a png.

  21. Re: Firefox will continue to lose market share. on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    Mr Trump, I think we found one!

  22. Re: Twitter pledge is too weak on Khan Academy Seeks Patent On Education A/B Testing · · Score: 1

    Pledge schmedge already. Privacy policies certainly aren't enforcable when a business is taken over, so why would these be?

  23. I didn't know what A/B testing is' but... on Khan Academy Seeks Patent On Education A/B Testing · · Score: 1

    It looks like they're trying to patent experiments.

  24. Re: When Feb 29 rolls around on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    You missed the other error. Unfortunately fighting with the submission system is somewhat distracting.

  25. When Feb 29 rolls around on Ask Slashdot: Predictions For 2016? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    When Feb 29 rolls around the subject will drift to lead seconds, and there'll be wave of whing and ill-informed nuttery from drometards who rolled their own half-assed date/time libraries and don't know what TAI is.