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  1. Samsung is the "idiot savant" of Skynet! on Samsung Washing Machines Recalled For Risk of 'Impact Injuries' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Accidentally, but expertly, killing us all through banal means... I for one, am building myself a protective bunker out of my dirty underwear until this blows over. (Still working on perfecting the crustiness/stinkiness/loadbearing ratios.)

  2. Re: Manned versus unmanned. on World's Largest Aircraft Completes Its First Flight (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But space can't take tons of cargo, so I don't see which way the math turns into 3x.

    If it was filled with passengers, then it would add up, but just crew?

  3. Manned versus unmanned. on World's Largest Aircraft Completes Its First Flight (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    If it can carry tons of cargo, why the huge difference in time for manned (5 days) and unmanned (2 weeks)? ... Is it perhaps the size of the portapotty needed for the bricks people on that thing will lay during the voyage?

  4. You're being protected from digital dysentery; with the boob tube, the BS flows practically only in a hydrating direction, not a dehydrating one.

  5. Didi, eh? on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep imagining a short, ginger Apple engineer mumbling to himself; "... as long as she stays out of my laboratory...."

  6. Re: Sit/stand *feels* better on Standing Desks May Not Be Healthier Than Sitting All Day, Say Scientists (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I used to do that, but cigarettes cost too damn much here in Norway...

  7. Re: I guess if you have IBM stock, time to sell on IBM Union Calls It Quits (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Article 23 implemented in you constitution?

    http://www.un.org/en/universal...

  8. 1985? Check your code for an off-by-one error. Or is it like a new version; 1984++ or something?

  9. Good thing I buy all my furniture from IKEA then...

  10. Re: it was just too long on Now We Know Why the Hobbit Movies Were So Awful (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a perfect job for Joss Whedon.

  11. Boycott? Why not Girlcoot, you sexism bastard?!?

  12. Re: Not as useful as a real desk on The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work · · Score: 1

    This. And an Occulus Rift. And a bucket to hurl in...

  13. Re: Selling Cell Numbers to Advertisers? on Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins (tumblr.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well they'll need to juggle a lot of numbers...

  14. Re: Greetings from Florida Polytechnic on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    If it was unlocked when he stole it, and he locked it with the welded-on locking mechanism that at least was common back in my youth, he'd locked himself off it.

  15. Re: Not so high tech on Hi-Tech Body Implants and the Biohacker Movement (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Link to source then!

  16. Re: Highest Profit on Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? · · Score: 1

    Right... 'cause falling face down without proper motor control does not cause ANY of the injuries you listed EVER!

    Low voltage electrocution is also not nearly as safe as you think. Localized nerve damage, risk of heart arythmia, burns. It is like going "but the torture method is not lethal".

  17. Re: College? on Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    > "The specifications are handed to you and you simply put the specification into code."

    But that means you'll need an institute to churn out better managers that can write proper specs!

  18. Great, now we have sentient rats on the ARK. What devastating plagues will they bring along this time?!?

  19. Re: Bend over on Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web (ampproject.org) · · Score: 1

    WML was apparently inspired by HyperCard. So, hyperlinks and hypertext and tons of hype... The reinvention rolls around again.

    Best case scenario; marketing and tracking scripts get a solid broadside across the Web with this. Except Google's tracking, of course...

  20. Re: Add all Europeans to the Do Not Fly List and D on EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid · · Score: 1

    Independence, eh? From, like, taxation without representation?

  21. Re: Rule #1 on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    JIRA is the worst? You young inexperienced naive whippersnapper. Never thought I'd miss JIRA, but after 9 months of LeanKit, the chilled ashes is preferable to the heat of the frying pan.

    And for anyone ever having been stuck with TechExcel; there really should be a support group of the survivors...

  22. Re: I love it on Disproving the Mythical Man-Month With DevOps · · Score: 1

    ... on the way out, at least.

  23. Re: GPLv3 - the kiss of death on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format · · Score: 1

    Pulbic?!? That's a variant of GPL I am not familiar with... Pubic on the other hand...

  24. Re: Bad math... on Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient · · Score: 1

    Damn it, I meant factors. Mea culpa.

  25. Bad math... on Twitter's Tech Lead On Making Software Engineers More Efficient · · Score: 1

    "In a group of 1000, he suggests, 255 engineers... "

    Gah, either you are a computer tech or you aren't! It should be 256 out of 1024!

    Damn irrational fractions, how are we to use it in our sub 30 employee company?