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  1. Re:outsourced by fools... think of the children... on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If Lennart Poettering invented a language, it would use logograms.

    (Firefox's shitty spielchucker doesn't think that's a word. It also doesn't think "Firefox's" is)

  2. Re: Notepad on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Whole point of the test at it's most basic essence is to see if the person can spell without any help.

    Some clearly can't.

  3. Yeah you're right. It's too hard having laws about anything. Settle it with a duel, or perhaps scissors-paper-stone.

  4. they are just removing the word "secure" but leaving the lock icon which indicates the exact same thing.

    It might do. It rather depends what the lock icon looks like - Donald Sinden, a turnip, a Mandelbrot set...

    You never know with Google.

  5. African or European?

  6. Another way would be that if you register XYZ.com then any established business called XYZ can boot you out unless you can come up with a good idea why not.

    I mean your friends might call you Mercedes. It might say that on your doorbell and business cards. But when I go to mercedes.com I'm looking for the car company, not you.

  7. Re:They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I must have done, because I clearly missed the implementation of a single education system world-wide.

  8. Re:It's pillars all the way down on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Another 999,999,999,999 jokes like that and we'll have a terapun.

  9. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not necessarily a bad thing. I used to be a member of a drinking club with a rugby problem.

  10. +1 Informative, really? on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It was never Christian land in the first place. The first crusade was to aid the Byzantines who had lost lands to the Turks. Christian Franks recaptured the land and didn't return it

    What religion were the Byzantines?

    Since I actually have a clue what I'm talking about, I'll give you a hint: not Buddhists.

  11. Re:Been around for centuries, will be around for m on Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    There are far to many stupid people

    I see no evidence of that.

  12. Re:Whats the problem? on Japan Moves To Ease Aging Drivers Out of Their Cars (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You cant just kill the elderly

    You have to bury them too or they get a bit smelly.

  13. grimy arse on The Brazen Bootlegging of a Multibillion-Dollar Sports Network (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those countries last year accused Qatar of supporting terrorism

    The words "pot" and "kettle" spring to mind.

  14. Re:They should make them misdemeanors on California High Schooler Changes Grades After Phishing Teachers, Gets 14 Felonies for His Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    When I was about 12 I had this brilliant idea: learn Braille, tape the cheat sheets under my trousers and then I can read them in tests and it looks just like I'm rubbing or scratching my thighs.

    I realised it'd be easier to just study for the tests.

  15. Neither on Ask Slashdot: Is It Linux or GNU/Linux? (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's Systemd/Linux, at least for the next couple of years.

    By the way, does anyone think ginger goes well with broccoli?

  16. Re:Al vs Trump via twitter on AI Systems Should Debate Each Other To Prove Themselves, Says OpenAI (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    stable genius

    I interpret it as meaning that if he was in a shed full of horses he'd be the smartest guy there.

  17. No they shouldn't.

  18. I thought they meant the one near Sunderland.

  19. Re:Not unexpected on Last Stop For Wikipedia's Feuding Editors -- Online High Court (wsj.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    This appears to be a polemic, and contains opinion rather than facts.

    Not in accord with WP:NPOV.

  20. I'm somewhat surprised on Tesla's Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence (wsj.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Surprised that they even had an engineering chief.

  21. Re:Bigger issues if he can't take a sabatical on Tesla's Engineering Chief Takes Leave of Absence (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Or he's selling some stock and he thinks he'll trigger less of a fall by calling "hey, let's play lifeboat drill" rather than "abandon ship OMFG torpeedarzzzzz!".

  22. Re:I have my own cure on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I had a friend at college who was a heavy metallist, he had it long when he arrived. By about 20 it was receding seriously. Once it started looking like a Ferengi veil he made the sensible decision to say fuck it and get a number two on what was left.

  23. Re:I have my own cure on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh man, I used to work with this dude.

    He had these implants, and they were little clumps in a pretty regular pattern. It looked like a paddy field.

    You just couldn't avoid looking at them when you were talking to him. Like when a woman has huge boobs and her blouse is open a few buttons too low. Except the other way up.

    And on the partition behind his desk was a poster for something like "Northern Region Unix User Group": NoRuug.

  24. Re:I wonder... on Potential New Cure Found For Baldness (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so a rugant.

  25. Re:I realize I was never their demographic on Klout's Score Drops to Zero as It Announces Plans to Close Down (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I have. They usually beat Engrand at football.