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  1. Re:Important fix on Most of the Web Really Sucks If You Have a Slow Connection (danluu.com) · · Score: 1

    Do not kick landmines with remaining foot.

  2. A charged battery contains energy, possibly lots.

    If you damage it or take it apart, the energy has to go somewhere.

    Boom/hiss/crackle/pop!

  3. Six times closer! Four times less! on Asteroid Whizzing By Earth 6 Times Closer Than the Moon (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Five times the savings!

    *sigh*

  4. Re:Oh lord, the pain on Ask Slashdot: A Point of Contention - Modern User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Certainly doesn't stop them from transparently redirecting 2 times so that when you hit the back button, you are just going back to the redirect page which then puts you back into the page you were trying to leave. You have to either hit back 2 (or sometimes even more) times very quickly, or right click on the back button and choose the page you want to go back to. It's almost as annoying as not being able to hit back at all.

    +1 on that!

    While i'm at it, how about the practise of overriding visited link style and showing them in the same color as unvisited (curse you Microsoft!)

  5. Their domain validation process (as of yesterday) is sheer torture.
    It involves making changes to your DNS or your web site - something which, in a corporate environment, is far from trivial: change requests, etc.
    Oh , and if your domain is a third- or fourth-level domain (like whatever.co.uk or someschool.k12.ca.us) it is a complete FAIL.

  6. Re:I disagree Answer:.. on Ask Slashdot: Why Did 3D TVs and Stereoscopic 3D Television Broadcasting Fail? · · Score: 1

    Content is poor. And not just selection. Tron Legacy is beautiful in 3D and has a great soundtrack, but the movie is just awful. And sadly, there are plenty others like it.

    In many (most?) new consumer technologies, PORN is the enabling content.
    In fact, where would the internet be without it?
    I submit that there was not enough 3D pornography. That's why it failed.

  7. It will hurt poor [illegal] immigrants. on Slashdot Asks: Will Farming Be Fully Automated in the Future? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And I say this without judgment.
    Trump will not need to build his wall; there will be no more work for the poor.

  8. This is interesting how?

  9. Before Australia follows suit.

  10. Re:Cheap chargers on Most 'Genuine' Apple Chargers and Cables Sold on Amazon Are Fake, Apple Says (engadget.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, but you sound like an Apple employee.
    Their attempt to build in incompatibility with standards-based power, interfaces, and connectors is nothing but loathsome.
    I'll be electrocuted by a third-party USB cable? Give me a break.
    As with all things, follow the money.

  11. Gil Scott Heron Was Sooooo Wrong! on Tomorrow's Wars Will Be Livestreamed (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "The revolution will not be televised" - LOL
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. If that's what they're doing...
    Kind of gives the term new meaning.

  13. Give me the one for sex, sex, sex

  14. "Electrodes"? on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    an electrode will send positive ions into the air. These ions will attach themselves to fine dust particles. A negatively charged surface -- the counter electrode -- will then draw the positive ions

    You mean "cathode" and "anode"? Welcome to the dumbed-down news.

  15. Attention: NASA on SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You guys never quite figured it out.
    You survive in today's world by producing videos, not rocket ships.

  16. 13 Pounds in 18 Months? on Activity Trackers May Undermine Weight Loss Efforts, Says Study (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Trivial for an obese person weighing hundreds of pounds.
    WOTAM.

  17. And, Yet More Batteries! on Apple To Unveil 'AirPods' That Use Custom Bluetooth Chip (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Battery management is already a PITA for all the various digital devices, now Apple has made it even worse.
    You will have to buy Apple-only chargers.
    Any bets that the batteries will be proprietary format and non-replaceable?

  18. "I have cars where you can plug in the music" on Steve Wozniak Says Apple Must Fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth Or Revive Its Headphone Jack (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    >I have cars where you can plug in the music

    How many cars do you have, Steve? Just curious.

  19. Re:Stupidity to follow: on Canada's Police Chiefs Want New Law To Compel People To Reveal Passwords (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "pig"

  20. Re:US Legal system on Man Sued For $30K Over $40 Printer He Sold On Craigslist (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    IANAL ...and neither are you.

  21. "North Korea Announces Two More State Exedcutions" on North Korea Launches Two Midrange Missiles, Both Tests Fail (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    They are going to run out of rocket scientists. Maybe they can use rocket scientologists - they'll never know the difference.

  22. "Next, Spiridonov’s head will be nearly froz on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Next, Spiridonov’s head will be nearly frozen, ultimately reaching 12 to 15 degrees Celsius, which will make him temporarily brain-dead.

    Which sounds pretty cold if you don't understand SI units or Metric system...

  23. I Call BS on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 0

    Doctors claiming the ability have made headlines (even on /.) before.

    The acid test is: has it been successfully tried on another mamal?
    Um, no...

  24. Prediction: Rick Santorum Will Be the First in Lin on Google Expands 'Right To Be Forgotten' To All Global Search Results (thestack.com) · · Score: 0

    "That frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex"