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  1. Re:You can build them on Can We Build Indoor 'Vertical Farms' Near The World's Major Cities? (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    "t would likely still be uneconomical, but not obviously so."

    But it can't be worse than traditional farming that gets tons of subsidies, protection for everything under the sun and still farmers kill themselves by the dozen because they can't make it.

  2. Re:Greeaaaaat... on Google's New Book Search Deals in Ideas, Not Keywords (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    " I already have to re-refine my searches over and over again, in a drain-swirling process of thwarting Google's hopelessly inept attempts to read my mind. "

    Exactly my thoughts! I absolutely_hate_ that 'did you mean...' stuff, just return what I type in and not what you think I meant!

  3. Re:There's no money to be made in health. on 'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "I've never heard of a pharma company that says it needs more sick people."

    Sure? They usually say that it's not a good business to create cures for rare diseases, because so few people have it. Is that not exactly the same thing?

  4. Q: There's illegal content on Telegram. How do I take it down?

    All Telegram chats and group chats are private amongst their participants. We do not process any requests related to them.

  5. "Apple and Google have no investment in Telegram, why should they be expected to solve this problem?"

    They could also call the CEO of the Internets and ask him to kill that new email thingie, where users send each other all sorts of ungodly files and links.

  6. I don't believe it! News for nerds! Stuff that matters!
    Something we didn't already read in our grandpa's paper newspaper*.
    (* kids, that's like a large papery blog)

    Thanks for the tips guys, downloading now...

  7. Like the rest of them on Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' In Space (space.com) · · Score: 1

    "The galaxy cluster, called SDSS J0146-0929, features hundreds of individual galaxies all bound together by gravity."

    Not to be picky, but all the other trillions of galaxies are also bound together by gravity, it's sort of a 'thing' that all galaxies have.

  8. "Hasn't it already been pretty well established that the USPS is doing just fine, but the accounting practices congress forces them to use for their pension funding make it look bad on paper?"

    Nonetheless, the idiot will make the post office asking for a higher price, which then will prompt Amazon to create their own 'delivery boy' service, thereby ruining the post office and thousands of people may lose their pensions and jobs.

  9. "Sure, it's anecdotal, but I don't personally know anyone who's done more than change their privacy settings."

    I saw people being asked on local TV and funnily, all the teens (4-5) said, when asked, Facebook is where old people hang out, not us, so they didn't care.

  10. Re:In soviet Russia on A Wanted Man in China Has Been Caught Because of Facial Recognition Software (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "I do wonder how many false alerts they got along the way."

    False alerts? Everybody the machine recognizes goes to prison.
    There _are_ no false alerts.

  11. Semi-infinite? on Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that a bit like semi-pregnant?

  12. Re:Difficult to compress centuries to hours on Apple Is Developing a TV Show Based On Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series (deadline.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    " A tv show is the only way to approach Asimov's story"

    Indeed. And every year will finish with the line:
    "It doesn't matter, because I know, where the Second Foundation REALLY is!"

  13. "Facebook Doesn't Use Your Mic For Ad Targeting "

    We have a special company that does that for us. We don't do such things.

  14. Too much on Dubai To Launch Digital Vehicle Number Plates (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If my own plates rat me out to the police, I'm giving up driving.

  15. Delikatessen News For Nerds on Eating World's Hottest Pepper Sparks Brain Disorder, Thunderclap Headaches (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If if it doesn't matter, it's hot!

  16. My bank app, my paypal app, my amazon app, ... has been doing that for years now.

    Since I'm an old fart here and ergo I can't possible read neither THA nor TFS, what's actually new here?

  17. So, when the attacker do this, does it now beep or not?

  18. Dear Product^h^h^h^h^h^h^hCustomers on Facebook Launches Bug Bounty Program To Report Data Thieves (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    We have so much data about you, your kids, your family, your friends, your vices, your drugs, your vacations and we leak them like a sieve.

    Please tell us who captures your data, so that we can send them a bill.

    Thanks a lot suckers^h^h^h^h^h^h^h

  19. Re:Trending on twitter is news worthy on Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links Come From Bots, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Many of the traditional news outlets cover things that are trending on twitter. "

    Their bots do the trending and direct users to their main business: You watching their ads.

  20. Re:No Shit on Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links Come From Bots, Report Says (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "most social media users likely don't appreciate the prevalence of automated "users."

    Sheep also don't care for the shepherd's dogs, but nobody ever asks the sheep.

  21. Well, if doing a sociological experiment on people, to see if you can get them to elect an orange moron as president is not 'academic research', then what is it?

  22. The right question for /. on Ask Slashdot: Are Companies Under-Investing in IT? · · Score: 1

    Just as if you asked bakers if it's good for you if you eat more bread.

  23. Re:How come each and every one of these cars... on California May Soon Allow Passengers In Driverless Cars (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "At least there I know there is some primal instinct not to die baked into it."

    You wish! The urge to impress the other sex is much greater that the survival drive.

  24. It's advertising on Scientists Discover That Puffin Beaks Are Fluorescent (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    It says to the other sex:

    "Here I am, huffin' and puffin' until I blow your nest down."

  25. Alas ... on Ask Slashdot: Do You Miss Windows Phone? (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    ...I wasn't one of the 2 people owning one.