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  1. I got woken up very early once because somebody knew the 100 year exception for leap years but apparently not the 400 year exception to the exception.

  2. Re:Show how Wakefield's article was wrong on 100 Years Ago, Influenza Killed 50 Million People. Could It Happen Again? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Wakefield says this, and my doctor says that, and how can I decide who is right?

    Doctors aren't infallible, but on medical matters they're probably the go-to people.

    Your doctor is a doctor. Andrew Wakefield isn't.

  3. GTFO, beige loving philistines on Apple Watch's Fall Detection Could Get Users Into Legal Trouble (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    automatically dial a user-determined contact

    That requires an input field which would totally ruin the clean look of the UI!

  4. Re:15 seconds not long enough on Apple Watch's Fall Detection Could Get Users Into Legal Trouble (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Could the "feature" deactivate automagically when it's not actually being worn?

  5. The question I'm asking is why?

  6. They will kill something on What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 2

    They will kill something. It'll just be a different thing than if they hadn't got hijacked.

  7. Re:"mostly confident in its stability" -- on Open Source BeOS Successor Haiku Releases R1/beta 1 (haiku-os.org) · · Score: 1

    There'll be a Duke Nukem port real soon now.

  8. I can't be arsed to look it up, but wasn't it something to do with over-triggering the immune system?

  9. Re:But only the "wrong" kind of people on 100 Years Ago, Influenza Killed 50 Million People. Could It Happen Again? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    s/brown/orange/

  10. Wired, LOL. Has about as much science as GQ and that one with the office pest cartoon.

  11. they interviewed the authors of the studies that Damore claimed showed biological differences, and those authors said that while there were some it was not warranted to conclude that they would have the kind of influence Damore (and many Slashdot posters) claim

    If they'd said otherwise they'd have been figuratively - and possibly literally - hung, drawn and quartered.

  12. Isn't it weird if this only happens in Antarctica? But if it happens everywhere and nobody noticed before, isn't that weird?

  13. Perhaps you should have read a little further where it clarifies that. Did your finger get tired?

  14. Maybe there's a hole or a tunnel.

  15. I suspect this is the opening gambit by Apple.

    As opposed to a closing one?

  16. Circle squared on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Coming up after the break: how they squared the circle followed by a peek at the fully functional perpetual motion machine. It's not a hoax, say boffins.

    But now back to our main story - reports are coming in that Rei has actually shut the fuck up.

  17. Re:Should have taken the deal... on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You made me choke on my coffee and droplets are condensing all over my monitor.

    You really should conduct yourself better.

  18. Re:How many mac users are there? on Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS (neowin.net) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fair point. I use "mac users" as it's a lot quicker to type than "pretentious hipster pansies".

  19. How many mac users are there? on Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    If anyone knows how many mac users there are we could divide it into 9 Billion and see whether the answer seems like a reasonable amount for Google to make from advertising.

  20. Re:More Random Thoughts on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe the SEC will also need to prove that Musk *intended* to manipulate the stock price

    Perhaps you should read this.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf...

  21. Re:Gutsy move on Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Did you miss the bit about the 2 year ban?

  22. Re:And this is helpful? on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    How is it hard? Hidden camera, hidden cop with a baton. When they see someone doing it the cop steps out and tells them to stop and issues a spot fine. If they don't stop the cop uses the baton.

    Increase fines for repeat offenders and/or confiscate the bike.

  23. Re: That's going to really tick off people on Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think it needs a doctor to tell you that you're using the type that go over your ears (as opposed to in them) or you've got the sound up too high.

  24. Meh. If they want people to believe it they should put it on the Usenets.

  25. Re:If it blew the doors off on Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you Michael bloody Caine?