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  1. It's not you on NYT Reporter 'Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain' (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    " I found myself incapable of reading books, watching full-length movies or having long uninterrupted conversation"

    It's not you, it's the movies that suck.

  2. Re:Considering his other claims... on Did A US Navy Scientist Just Invent A Room-Temperature Superconductor? (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    "So, basically, no. Sounds like a crank."

    Betteridge's law of headlines agrees.

  3. "Coinbase claims that no currency was actually stolen from any of its accounts."

    No data gets ever 'stolen', not movies, not music, not passwords not cryptocurrencies.
    They just get copied.

  4. Re:What if the car hits someone? on Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals · · Score: 1

    Correction it's 12€ so about 10 bucks a month.

  5. Re:What if the car hits someone? on Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals · · Score: 1

    "Why doesn't anyone answer this question?
    Of course it WILL happen.

    Seems like the risk would make it cost prohibitive."

    Why that? Albeit I live in Europe where we have unlimited corporeal damage insurance for cars, it costs me only 12 bucks a month for my Smart car.
    It's not the AI that makes problems in the US, it's the lawyers.

  6. Re: Yea right on a perfect day in controlled on Waymo Self-Driving Cars Can Now Obey Police Hand Signals · · Score: 1

    "Gonna be funny when the cars visit a gangsta hood and starts obeying hand signals :)"

    I sure hope so, then I can send my AI car to buy drugs for me.

  7. Re:Yeah no offence but on Israel Launches Spacecraft To the Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    "What science can you do on the moon, that cannot be done cheaper and easier on earth?"

    Well, the technology that reduces the earth gravity to 1/6th is not quite ready.

  8. Simon Wiesenthal is glad he's dead and doesn't have to suffer those Nazi-Ads.

  9. "Isn't this one of the signs of the coming Armageddon?"

    Too late, the truck-balls started that years ago.

  10. Re:Well yeah... on American Airlines Has Cameras In Their Screens Too (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    'Airlines saying:

    "No, no we're not using them"' ...unless you're trying to set your shoe on fire.

  11. Needs a No-Shit-Sherlock flag on Unearthed Emails Show Google, Ad Giants Know They Break Privacy Laws (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Definitely!

  12. Re:Will it help? on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "If people wanted to search for information, they would use Google."

    Yeah, there you'd get 'Did you mean Anti-Fat?'

  13. I'm curious to read all the basher-posts.

  14. "The legislator in question is Republican"

    The party affiliation was obvious from the title.

  15. Maybe on Oracle Claims a Fighter of Pirated Apps is a Front For Ad Fraud (adage.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It just asked the Internet Oracle
    http://the-oracle-answers.com/

    My question was:
    Is a Fighter of Pirated Apps a Front For Ad Fraud?

    THE ORACLE answers:
    Maybe.

  16. I'm ready on Are We Ready For 5G Phones? · · Score: 1

    I'll be out of my 'unlimited downloads' in minutes instead of hours that month.

  17. Re:If you read the fucking article on Neuroscientists Say They've Found An Entirely New Form of Neural Communication (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    "Brain WiFi "
    BiFi for short. Unfortunately, most people forgot the password for their BiFi network.

  18. The Wire 2, Emoticon age on Emoji Are Showing Up in Court Cases Exponentially, and Courts Aren't Prepared (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    McNulty. What the fuck did I do?

  19. It's not broken on How Badly is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (blogspot.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It just now thinks you didn't _mean_ what you entered.
    Join the line.

  20. Where will the 'smocking guns', 'covfefe' and the 'muderers' come from in the future?
    Twitter has 'the best words' as we know.

  21. Re:Question on NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Concludes a 15-Year Mission (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "If I manage to get up there, can I claim Opportunity as a derelict, bring it back and part it out?"

    No. When you're there you can give the robot a bum-wash and clean its solar cells.
    NASA will give you a dollar.

  22. "closely resembles a large pancake, and the smaller lobe looks a bit like a walnut."

    Some scientist should have breakfast before going to work.

  23. Re:Muh-russia on Russia To Disconnect From the Internet as Part of a Planned Test (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Estonia, there did you get that from? Estonia is a NATO country."

    Holland, Estonia, Latvia and United Kingdom are all Nato countries and members of the European Union as well, albeit one of them only for a couple of weeks more.

  24. "Al shot the Serifs but he didn't shoot the style sheet.
    Slashdot, why can't we change the default font to something with some Serifs in it."

    Are you crazy? Next you'll want umlauts and accents to work here as well.
    I see that you aren't exactly new here from your UID, so you should know that this will never happen, you'll have to do it yourself.

  25. Re: Understood on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "I'm of mixed opinion. Measles is nasty as hell, I have no problem with requiring that vaccine. It's airborne and can linger for hours after an infected person leaves an area.
    But HPV is not in the same league,"

    You think that just because you don't have a cervix.