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  1. Re:What's the *need* for Twitter? on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    SMS has 20 more characters, and works even on flip phones.

  2. What's the *need* for Twitter? on Twitter Added Zero New Users Last Quarter Despite Trump Tweets (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of my family or friends tweet anything that I care about, and celebrities, "journalists" and partisan zealots hold no interest for me...

  3. We've started buying certain groceries from them (canned and durable bagged food, toothpaste, etc). The two-day shipping is sometimes three days, but we plan ahead, and it reduces the amount of time we have to spend at the brick-and-mortar store.

  4. Why would we shop at Walmart?

    The prices are good,the quality is Good Enough, it's less than 2 miles from the house, and there are 4 people in our household.

  5. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What I do know is that all roads lead to a resolution of your concerns.

    You've failed to note that one of those resolutions is mandatory euthanasia at a specific age for people who don't have their own money to pay for geriatric care.

  6. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course, the male sperm count has dropped 50% in the last 40 years, and the existing population is breeding at below sustainment levels.

  7. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    but to give people a longer, healthy (and productive) life.

    Like to be given the injections in your 30s (when people are already slowing down)?

    But who thinks about this in their 30s?

    taking the frailty out of the equation not only means a great cost saving

    This assumes that we'll die as soon as our bodies fall apart, as opposed to being frail and repeatedly breaking down for longer.

    it also adds years in which people contribute to society.

    Not when there's no need for 1/2 the population, because of AI robots.

  8. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Four predictions:

    1) This is just going to add more years to the years in which they can get cancer (multiple times) and diabetes.

    2) Robotics is already reducing the amount of work that's going to be needed.

    3) This will continue to reduce the birth rate in developed countries.

    4) Third World countries will continue to grow their populations.

  9. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    than simply only those with a permit can breed and those without get snipped if they want their life extended out,

    If you can't already hear the cries of racism, clear the wax out of your ears.

  10. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Since the issues of cost in medicine will *never* be solved in a manner which is currently deemed "fair", "equitable" and "moral" while still being fiscally prudent, I'm going to presume that you're being sarcastic.

  11. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Maybe....just maybe.... you don't know WTF you're blathering on about.

  12. Re:I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Forgot to add: when it's paid for by someone else (aka "insurance").

  13. I'm glad they're doing the research. on Stem Cell Brain Implants Could 'Slow Aging and Extend Life,' Study Shows (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But, given the population and the cost of geriatric medicine to the economy, is extending human life that much of a good idea?

  14. Re:Increase productivity on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Less -- though still stupidly -- infeasible is still infeasible.

  15. Re:Increase productivity on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Double, triple, quadruple the amount of fossil fuel, fossil fuels, petroleum by products, chemical products, plastics, and even nuclear reactor components?

  16. Re:Increase productivity on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What other tasks in India?

  17. Re:Next Up -- Banning the rest of the robots on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that most people just aren't that artistic and curious and cerebral.

  18. Re:Not a risk anyway on India's Transport Minister Vows To Ban Self-Driving Cars To Save Jobs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The true test of a man's intelligence is how much he thinks like me. You are obviously very intelligent!

  19. Isn't Messenger already in the BR, LR & kitche on It Looks Like Facebook Is Also Building a Smart Speaker With Touch Screen (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Smartphones go with us everywhere, after all.

  20. "simply be held a data-hostage" on Ask Slashdot: Best Option For a Touring Band With Mobile Data? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sounds like entitled whining to me.

    If you want more bandwidth, *pay* for more bandwidth. If that bus company doesn't offer it, then find another one.

  21. "wide-reaching effect of US law on the products" on Ask Slashdot: How Can You Avoid Routers With Locked Firmware? · · Score: 1

    What is your evidence that this is true?

  22. Re:Requires WINE? on Debian, Gnome Patched 'Bad Taste' VBScript-Injection Vulnerabilities (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Not just Wine, but also Winetricks.

    From http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/gnome-thumbnailer-msi-fail.html/:

    If the proof of concept does not work, install winetricks and run winetricks wsh56 to upgrade the Windows Script Host.

  23. What took the UK so long? on Porn Websites in UK Ordered To Introduce Age Checks From Next Year (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The US has had this requirement for more than a decade.

  24. Re: Only LUDDITES hate apps. on Popular Chrome Extension Sold To New Dev Who Immediately Turns It Into Adware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Unless the two posts are by the same AC. (Probably BeauHD and msmash trying to drive up the comment count to pretend to stay relevant.)

  25. Five months and you're a programmer? on Early 'Coding School' Dev Bootcamp Is Shutting Down (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Society is about to collapse!