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  1. Re:Surprise on 99.6 Percent of New Smartphones Run Android or iOS (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news today...

    • * Water is wet
    • * The sky is blue (when it's not raining in So Cal)
    • * The Sun is hot
  2. Re:Call me when on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    And... it's a horribly bad book series. Herbert probably should have stopped after "Children", or even just "Dune".

  3. Re:A little more subtle than that. Teamsters light on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    The quote is now, "The best things in life are for a fee".

    Also appropriate here.

  4. There's also a nuke plant out there.... on Utilities Vote To Close Largest Coal Plant In Western US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    About 60 miles west of Phoenix. The Tonopah plant.

  5. Re:from the Journal of Predictable Answers on IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Sympathies. Dude. Glad you made it through.

  6. Re:from the Journal of Predictable Answers on IT Decisions Makers and Executives Don't Agree On Cyber Security Responsibility (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I bailed in a similar situation. I went for an interview, told the receptionist I was there for an interview and who my contact was.

    45 minutes later, I called my recruiter and told him I was bailing out.

  7. Re:larry flynt for president on Playboy Is Featuring Naked Women Again -- After Dropping Nudity a Year Ago Due To the Internet (nypost.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    English doesn't borrow from other languages.
    English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and rummages through their pockets for loose grammar.

  8. Fact - people are lazy animals, and if you put obstacles in front of them, the vast majority of them look for the path of least resistance, even if it yields an inferior result. Blocks like this one aren't designed to block everyone, just make it painful enough that a large number won't hassle with a workaround, and because of human nature, it normally works.

    Except that the demographic for TPB is those people who have shown that they don't mind hassling with a workaround.

  9. Re:Scammers don't use real numbers on Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    It's wintery here.

  10. Re:Everyone is different on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Heck, it was so fast, it was over before I even finished gowning up.

    For our second, there was time for the mirror. I just didn't look.

  11. Re:Everyone is different on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife was a nurse. She wanted to see everything. Me? Not so much.

    And with our first, I didn't have time to get dressed and in the delivery room anyways... Baby went into distress and... WHOOSH ... out of the labor room in into the delivery room for an emergency section. She was pissed that they didn't have time to put up the mirror.

  12. Re:Please limit your applause. on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    So, what you're saying is:

    lim applause(x) > 0
    x->0

  13. Re:Everyone is different on Mexican Surgeon Uses VR Headset To Distract Patients During Surgery (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    For C-sections, they will put a mirror up over the drape, if the mother wants to watch.

    My wife watched, I didn't.

  14. Re:Made from Note 7... on Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones (silicon.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Gives new meaning to it when an announcer says, "This guys' on fire!!!"

  15. Let's not mention the messed up quote:

    Lithium-ion batteries don't contain lithium-metal because they're even more prone to overheating and exploding than lithium-ion

    So lithium-ion batteries are more prone to overheating and exploding than lithium-ion.

  16. They can use Congress as the source of the hot air!!!

  17. Re:They need to fix their network on Even Sprint Beat AT&T and Verizon in Customer Growth (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Talk with your travel partner, drag up reservations/whatever while talking.

  18. Re:Trump is what he said he was on The US Border Patrol Is Checking Detainees' Facebook Profiles (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    This is all the voters' fault. They reelected 97% of congress and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

    That's because MY Congresscritter is teh aw3some, but those other assholes suck.

  19. I just figured MOD was looking to add more courage

  20. Re:But what does it give on a round-trip translati on Google Translate Is About To Get a Lot Better, Thanks To Its Machine Learning Push (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's an old apocryphal story about a English/Russian translation machine.

  21. Re:Rebellion on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    The problem was that they threw the baby (buttons/discoverability) out with the bathwater (insanely over-skeuomorphic stuff).

  22. But what does it give on a round-trip translation? on Google Translate Is About To Get a Lot Better, Thanks To Its Machine Learning Push (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially for the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind"? Or do we get "Invisible Idiot"

  23. Re:When pigs fly... on 'The Future of Advertising is Fewer, Better Ads' (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And some charities.

    I'm sure "Kars 4 Kids" is a great charity, but their ads make we want to drive an ice-pick through my ears. I always change the radio station the second that one comes on.

  24. The only way to win is not to play... on Customer Feedback Surveys Could Be Considered Harmful (easydns.org) · · Score: 2

    I follow Joshua's advice and rarely, if ever, fill out the "customer feedback survey".

  25. Re:I don't know why... on Mac Sales Declined Nearly 10 Percent Last Year (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Parent is a perfect example of Poe's Law.

    Honestly, I can't tell if he's serious or snarky.