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  1. Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

  2. "Unfortunately, some 'easter egg' labels meant for prototypes accidentally made it onto the internal hardware for tens of thousands of Touch controllers,"

    Sure. That's just what THEY want you to think...

  3. Re:Embarrass the EU on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    They're bureaucrats. They have no sense of shame, and therefore can not be embarrassed.

  4. Well, to the publishing companies anyways... on EU Tells Internet Archive That Much Of Its Site Is 'Terrorist Content' (techdirt.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To the publishing companies, ANYTHING freely available is terroristic content.

  5. Re:Clock skew, powering off to honor Sabbat? on Moon Landing By Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    As a Jewish person, that is hysterically funny.

  6. Re: How long before the first... on Magnetic Field Reversals Unlikely To Be a Problem For Life, Says Astronomer (arxiv.org) · · Score: 2

    Don't even need to know if it's before or after noon.

    Put a stick in the ground, mark the tip of its shadow. Wait ten minutes. Mark the new tip of it's shadow. The direction from the original mark to the new mark is east.

    Boy Scout Handbook strikes gain!

  7. What about the actual Chromium browser itself (rather than Chrome). Does anyone know if Chromium went evil?

  8. Re:So is Mitch McConnel's career then. on Mitch McConnell: Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill is 'Dead on Arrival' in Senate (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    This. So much this.

    This is the problem with Congress in general, not just GOP Senators. So that even with a 95% (or whatever) disapproval rating for Congress, everyone gets reelecte.

    "My congresscritter is cool. It's all them other assholes that are the problem".

  9. My guess is embedded and things like 8-bit microcontrollers.

  10. Or, as they called it on "How I Met Your Mother", the

    "Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything" (P.L.E.A.S.E.).

  11. Re:"My recent documentary" on Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open To Everyone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Per this: https://paywallthemovie.com/, I'm guessing the anonymous submitter is one Jason Schmitt

  12. Re:Half the world are middle men on Paywalls Block Scientific Progress. Research Should Be Open To Everyone (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They can have reservations on the B Ark

  13. Re:How many are hiring? on Bay Area Tech Firms Laying Off 1,200 Workers By Memorial Day (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Oracle's case, those are probably all lawyers.

  14. Not DiscoRilla?

  15. Re:Not only no on Would You Put Ads On Your Homescreens For Free Mobile Service? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Came here to post this EXACT comment.

    Well, at least the first sentence. The rest is true, but I was just going to stop at fuck no.

  16. And it will come as an Office Depot gift card.

  17. Re:Oracle purchased a poorly managed technology, J on Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market (crn.com) · · Score: 1

    I forget what they called that mobile version of JAVA

    I believe it was, oddly enough, Java ME (Mobile Edition)

  18. So it's all gonna be touchy-feely spiritual bullshit?

    Disclaimer: My GF loves the Oprah channel. I try to ignore it when she has that channel on.

  19. Betteridge's law.. on Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? (oreilly.com) · · Score: 1

    No.

    Because there are powerful vested interested with a desire to prevent such a thing.

  20. They've had one for years... on Windows 10 Calculator Will Soon Be Able To Graph Math Equations (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a graphing calculator in the Power Toys. Why don't they just make that the default calculator?

  21. I know it's fun to MS bash here, but they are doing the right thing.

    And because it's a ${BIG_CORPORATION} complaining instead of public interest groups or ${PEONS}, maybe something will actually get done (but I doubt it)

  22. Re:Slashdot can't afford editors who can read on 1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that? Because I heard that the streaming site had more than 4,000 members, 97 of whom paid a $44.95 monthly fee to access extra features, such as the ability to replay certain live streams.

  23. I think I'll just wait till next week, when a new study shows that eggs are good for you again.

  24. Re:The Betting Pool is Open... on Kickstarter's Staff Is Unionizing (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Until, for some reason, they need ionized water.

  25. Re:Empowered ignorance on Scientists Grow 'Mini-Brain On the Move' That Can Contract Muscle (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone whose wife died from ALS, thank you for saying this.