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  1. Re:You want NoOps; IT is a cost center on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Same with IT. If you need help, call Infosys or Deloitte or get someone who is world class to do things right.

    DTNFY,RIYHOD

  2. The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had written "Free Palestine" underneath

    Underneath that, somebody else wrote "With every 10 gallons".

  3. Re: Never thought I would hear about Legacy Ruby on Can Ruby Survive Another 25 Years? (techradar.com) · · Score: 1

    And if he'd called it "dataduplicate"?

  4. Each person who leaves slightly reduces the utility to everyone else.

    Cripes-a-murgatroyd! We've got thegarbz quoting Shakespeare and now you're paraphrasing Donne.

  5. Re:And go to where, exactly? on Steve Wozniak Drops Facebook: 'The Profits Are All Based On the User's Info' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    How about meeting people with different interests? You might find them interesting because, well, they're different.

    I wasn't always interested in buses, you know.

  6. One difficulty with that approach is that the software required for a third-party replacement component might be completely different to the software required for the component from the original manufacturer.

    And yet it worked before the upgrade. It's not proof, but it's cause for suspicion.

  7. Re:But hey, at least they're not selling your data on Recent iOS Update Kills Functionality On iPhone 8s Repaired With Aftermarket Screens (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would they sell it once when they can rent it an infinite number of times?

  8. Riddle me this on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Crocodilians are descendent from the
    precursors to, not only dinosaurs, but pterosaurs as well.
    Based on this connection, Gallup and Suarez (1987)
    examined crocodilians for their capacity, or lack thereof,
    to form learned taste aversions. Since crocodilians are
    descendent from the same creatures that gave rise to
    dinosaurs, this creates the opportunity to evaluate the
    tenability of the proposition that dinosaurs went extinct
    due to an inherent inability to learn to avoid eating toxic
    plants.
           

    It claims we can conclude that dinosaurs didn't develop an aversion to foods that make them sick based on the fact that caimans (which have a common ancestor) don't.

    Can we therefore conclude that pterosaurs didn't fly based on the fact that caimans don't?

  9. Re: A NEW THEORY! on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    It could equally be interpreted the other way. At best, it's sloppy writing.

    s/the species/them/ and it's unambiguous.

    P.S. another gem (p48) "gastro-intestinal track". No doubt you'll find some convoluted way to justify that too.

  10. Re:"Full stack" developers come from "boot camps" on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    Probably your brain is wired to see errors and mistakes.
    I only see meaning :D

    Then it's fucking bullshit to say that you saw no errors as a rebuttal to someone who said there was one. Of course you didn't see something you weren't looking for, not that you'd see it anyway.

    when I perform examinations in martial arts

    Internet tough guy spotted.

  11. Re:The world is not a static system on One-Degree Rise In Temperature Causes Ripple Effect In World's Largest High Arctic Lake (folio.ca) · · Score: 1

    Bizarrely I just watched an episode of Horizon and they said 10% per billion[1] years. One thing's sure, your figure's a lot closer to theirs than either is to minus something.

    [1] Ob: for a minute I was worried - I thought they said million!

  12. Did he announce this via twitter?

  13. Re:ololol on Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    As Morrissey said, some magmas are hotter than others.

  14. The only African country with redundant cables is South Africa, connected by both the west and east.

    Maybe there was originally one for blankes and one for the kaffers?

  15. Re:Worth the risk on FDA Worried Drug Was Risky; Now Reports of Deaths Spark Concern (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

  16. Re:Um, duh. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 1

    Does transcoding fall under editing? Perhaps, but I'd say not.

    In any case, he doesn't even mention file sizes. My reading was that he was just trying to find a way to make his humongous files upload faster, not addressing the issue of their being humongous in the first place.

    Then again it seems nobody can ask questions properly these days.

  17. Re:Sycophant submitter spotted. on Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    He didn't even do it himself, did he? I thought he pinched it from Claudia Winkleman.

  18. Re:ololol on Zuckerberg Gets a Crash Course in Charm. Will Congress Care? (bgr.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it the one where they bury the turd for 20 million years in hot magma and then polish the resulting diamond?

  19. Is anybody?

  20. Re:Missing piece of information on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't speak metric.

    How many elephants squared per library of congress is that?

  21. Re:Too much data, on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? · · Score: 2

    Plus most recorders are optimised for speed rather than storage efficiency, since if you're recording live you miss it and it's gone.

    Not the same thing but the same principle, I record analogue TV with an old PVR500. At DVD resolution it chucks out nearly 3G per hour, which is ridiculous. If only there was something that could crop it, chop it, normalise the sound and make the bitrate more sensible... they could call it mencoder or something.

  22. Re:Galileo's Square-Cube Law on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The real problem is that people have decided that they are dead-set against the EU without actually learning what it is

    Like Hungarian voters, you mean?

  23. Re:Can birds taste the toxins? on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    More like having a digestive tract which does not incapacitate the seeds.

    Last time I had a jalfrezi it was the other way round.

  24. Re:A NEW THEORY! on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Their survival demonstrates their fittest-ness

    No it doesn't. It just demonstrates the absence of total crappiness. You don't have to be best to be good enough.

  25. 'scuse any typos - 13 fingers on New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    nothing in biology precludes you being descended from your brother and your cousin.

    For once, Alabama law agrees with science.