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  1. ",,,alien spaceship theories."

    Wot? Then those aliens can just fly over the beautiful wall?

  2. Re: Macs had this for years on Chrome OS To Block USB Access While the Screen is Locked (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "That's great. So a USB can claim to be a keyboard, but really is a storage device. What difference does it make?"

    You mean besides it storing all the passwords you type in and those awful, disgusting porn search terms you enter?

  3. Who cares? on The GPS Wars Have Begun (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We just pay for our own satellites with our taxes and use all the other ones for free, just like everybody else.
    More satellites, more precision.
    I miss the 'war' part of the article.

  4. is the dumbest fucking thing I've read today.“

    You have no instinct for science.

  5. Re:The Powers of the Earth on Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year? · · Score: 2

    "Outstanding read. First in a series. It won the Prometheus Award for 2018."

    OK, I'll believe you. I downloaded just now, because it's free on kindle unlimited, which I use because I read a book or 2 a day, being retired and there's nothing ever on TV.

  6. Re:It's encrypted on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    +According to the summary, it is "openly shared" encryption. I am not sure how that differs from "unencrypted"

    It means they have the key and you don't.

  7. Re:What happens? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    "Donald Trump should take the test and find out if he has a higher percentage. If he does, he should then claim to have discovered himself to be genderfluid (the left says you can't question it!), and is now the first minority woman to become president."

    He has bigger tits than Elisabeth Warren anyway.

  8. Re:What happens? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    "Elizabeth Warren was at most 3% Native American which corresponds to a great-great-great grandparent. This doesn't match her story."

    So her granny missed a 'great' when telling her the story?
    The bitch!

  9. Re: What happens? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Donald Trump is very likely more "Indian" than she is."

    No, his granddad was a whorehouse owner in Klondike, not an Indian.

  10. Times they are a'changing. on Reddit-Quoting Alexa Tells a User: 'Kill Your Foster Parents' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    In the past if you said: 'A voice made me do it', you went to crazytown, now you might get millions from Amazon.

  11. The restaurants now can buy local black sea bass instead of having it cooled and sent by truck for 700 miles which is good for the climate.

  12. What happens? on What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some white supremacists discover they are not quite _that_ white.

  13. That’s normal on A Delivery Robot Spontaneously Burst Into Flames (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Customers complained that the pizzas were cold, so the AI compensated for the next delivery.

  14. Since we're talking amoeba on An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    A paramecium and an amoeba are walking down the street. The amoeba asks “So, lacking any pseudopodia, how do you manage to get around? The paramecium replies “A cilia question I’ve never heard!”
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    Why did the amoeba flunk the math test?

    Because it multiplied by dividing.

  15. Re:ID by IP address? on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "While courts have found that identifying a suspect by IP address isn't sufficiently specific, maybe it should be enough to secure a search warrant. Then you can send in the cops and bust these creeps."

    You mean the clients of Starbucks?
    Or the VPN people?

  16. Nonetheless on This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    " Farm labor, which about half the American workforce used to do, now comprises around 2 percent of American jobs."

    And they get hundreds of billions of dollars of tax money and they still go bankrupt and commit suicide in droves because they cannot compete on the market.

    It sure needs to adapt quite a bit more. If self-driving cars in big city traffic get along, I'm sure that trekkers and other machines would be able to find a field by themselves in the sticks.

  17. It's encrypted on Facebook's WhatsApp Has an Encrypted Child Porn Problem (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not a 'problem'.
    You are just not yet used to the 3rd millennium.

  18. The Gov should create an AI that trolls those people online mercilessly.

  19. "But terrorists can use this en masse remotely and in large numbers to effectively shut down air travel"

    Terrorists aren't interested. If they wanted to disrupt air-traffic, a couple of calls with bomb threats will do the job much easier.
    A disposable phone is cheaper than a drone and it can be used from anywhere in the world.

  20. "If China has better education, why do many more Chinese come to America for an education than the reverse?"

    They love to go slumming.

  21. " Literally 100% of the people stopped this year "

    Literally. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

  22. So people tell FB their name and address on Turning Off Facebook Location Tracking Doesn't Stop It From Tracking Your Location (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    ...and then complain that they know where they live?

  23. First they ignore you on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then they laugh at you.
    Then they fight you.
    Then you win.

  24. Just like in the past on People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    When trains and steam-driven spinning mules etc were invented, there were also Luddites who couldn't cope with progress.

  25. Without the FCC acting as sheriff on One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's hope the sheriff is not named John Brown, even if Bob Marley is dead, Eric Clapton is still much alive.