User: fredrated

Re:It's the middle of April

On: Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change (washingtonpost.com)

lol!

Re:It's the middle of April

On: Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening Because of Climate Change (washingtonpost.com)

Haven't you chocked to death on your ignorance yet?

the psycho-historian doesn't 'read the future'

On: Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (deadline.com)

he develops the mathematics to predict the future based on large-scale statistical analysis.

Explorer still can't do what DOS did:

On: Microsoft Open-Sources Original File Manager From the 1990s So It Can Run On Windows 10 (theverge.com)

print a list of files in a directory, like Dir>PRN.

Re:Crocodiles are dinosaurs - since when?

On: New Theory Suggests Dinosaurs Were Already Dying When Asteroid Hit (phys.org)

If you bothered to RTFA you would see it says "Crocodilians are descendent from the precursors to...dinosaurs".

Re: This couldn't possibly hurt more.

On: Apple Tells the EPA Why Cutting the Clean Power Plan Is a Bad Move (theverge.com)

Coward.

Bacteria.

On: Hot-Air Dryers Suck In Nasty Bathroom Bacteria, Shoot Them At Your Hands (arstechnica.com)

Yum!

Re:Not so clear cut

On: Humans Produce New Brain Cells Throughout Their Lives, Say Researchers (theguardian.com)

there is a great argument forming for completing secondary education by 14 as we used to. We hurt ourselves by not getting more of our foundation in place during that more biologically capable time period.

Sounds good on paper but it seems like the familial and social structures are no longer up to the task.

This is ridiculous.

On: Microsoft Touts Breakthrough In Making Chatbots More Conversational (windowscentral.com)

Two people talking over each other doesn't make a conversation.

A child is engaging in "mischief"?

On: Our Devices May Listen More Attentively, Patents Filed By Google and Amazon Suggest (nytimes.com)

Is Google going to notify the parents that the child has started masturbating?

Re:Capitalism... again

On: President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com)

'Trump' and 'wise' in the same sentence? You just made my head explode!

Re:Prove it, CRO

On: Waymo CEO Expresses Confidence Its Cars Wouldn't Have Killed Elaine Herzberg (washingtonpost.com)

Exactly my thought.

Were you born a natural asshole

On: World Cities Go Dark For 'Earth Hour' Climate Campaign (afp.com)

or do you have to work at it?

This is on slashdot

On: Pablo Escobar's Brother Says He Met an FBI Agent Posing As Satoshi Nakamoto (vice.com)

Why?

I would love to believe him,

On: Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com)

but every word out of his mouth is a lie, and his administration makes a point of dissing science and information.

Why didn't Congress consult with the people...?

On: Senate Passes Controversial Online Sex Trafficking Bill (thehill.com)

Because in the Republican-controlled Congress, ignorance is bliss. And they are very blissful.

Re:And another interesting stat...

On: Microplastics Found In 93 Percent of Bottled Water Tested In Global Study (www.cbc.ca)

In other words, a country just like America!

Re:just pay a fine

On: SEC Charges Theranos, CEO Elizabeth Holmes With 'Massive Fraud' (engadget.com)

Wake up Rip, it's 2018.

Re:Er

On: Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com)

You suffer from projection: accusing others of what you would do.

Here's my idea of a startup:

On: A Startup is Pitching a Mind-Uploading Service That is '100 Percent Fatal' (technologyreview.com)

Offer to post-pile people into the sediment so they become part of the fossil record.

Re:Er

On: Trump's Pick for New CIA Director Is Career Spymaster (bloomberg.com)

Perhaps the bad thing is participating in the secret torture of untried human beings and destroying evidence, you think?

Re:"Fountains of the deep"

On: Pockets of Water May Lay Deep Below Earth's Surface (sciencemag.org)

From hundreds of kilometers below the surface? Probably a long time.

Re:"Don't be evil"

On: Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones (gizmodo.com)

Some people think that murdering people from afar, when you can't even see who you are killing, is wrong, even evil.

How about

On: Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com)

we tax guns to pay for the health care of people injured by them!

With Slashdot down

On: Slashdot Outage Update

I actually had to work yesterday! Oh the horrors!