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  1. Re:Brain scan? on Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Maybe an MRI or brain scan would provide something more conclusive than people self-reporting."

    You mean cases of Tinnitus or those who hear 'dead people, all the time'?

  2. "Learn to code"

    Exactly. Those 300.000 will kill 50 millions jobs in the first 3 years then they have plenty of people to re-train.+

  3. Re:Slashdot bigots will appear shortly on Quentin Tarantino and JJ Abrams Team Up For 'Star Trek' Movie (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bait the Startrek fans instead:

    Can't wait for the Hattori Hanzo laserswords. (GDARVVF)

  4. I doubt it. They don't even have a government yet.
    Nobody knows what and if a coalition will be formed.
    There might be new elections.
    This is nothing else but bullshit.

  5. Misnamed on Android Go Will Make the Most Basic Phones Run Smoothly (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "Android Go Will Make the Most Basic Phones Run Smoothly"

    So IOW it should have been name 'Android Run'.

  6. GizmoPaid on Gizmodo: Don't Buy Anyone an Amazon Echo Speaker (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess Gizmodo was paid by Google or Apple as another article on this page suggests.

  7. "I usually store passwords salted and hashed 100 to 500 thousand times with SHA-256 or MD5.

    Should I switch to this now ?"

    Argon 2? No, Helium 3 is apparently the future.

  8. Re:Here in the Real World ... on '24 Pull Requests' Suggests Contributing Code For Christmas (24pullrequests.com) · · Score: 1

    "Pull my other leg, you goddamned liar."

    I see they pulled your finger.

  9. That is if you give them a hundred bucks per year to save your data.

  10. So Startcom will rename to Stopcom? Cute.

  11. I see on Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' (cnn.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    " Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention,"

    Like cash?

  12. Re:Let Me Get This Straight on Massive Financial Aid Data Breach Proves Stanford Lied For Years To MBAs (poetsandquants.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    "So the "controversy" here is that Stanford is using financial aid to attract the most intelligent kids to the university?"

    No, they're using financial intelligence to aid them attracting the most rich kids.

  13. "Domino's pizza-tracking app is a bunch of crap." ?

    So it fits their pizza.

  14. "SIP over XMPP? Already had it. It doesn't work well."

    Perhaps it didn't work well in 2004 when there were no smartphones.

    "And towers still need to know where you are in order to reach your phone."

    Where I live, the whole town has free wifi, the young kids don't even own a SIM card, the don't care about towers.

  15. Re:repeat? on Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "Wasn't this reported here yesterday?"

    If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.

  16. The Chinese don't need to attack stuff, they just buy it.

  17. Re:POTUS non-incumbents will _all_ be wiretapped! on House Panel Advances Bill on Key Surveillance Measure (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    "The House Intelligence Committee is made up of elected Representatives."

    Unfortunately intelligence is not a prerequisite to be a member.

  18. switches on? on Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did they ship it fully loaded?

  19. Hi, Nigeria on The Underground Uber Networks Driven by Russian Hackers (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm a Russian Prince and I need your help to transfer a gazillion rubles I 'inherited' into your country....

  20. ...that they would block injecting javascript code from a gazillion of 3d party sites, just to display one fucking page of text.

  21. Re:Did the right thing... on An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo (nejm.org) · · Score: 1

    "For all they knew, the tattoo could have been an artifact of previous poor life choices,"

    A written on paper, signed, with notary and witness signatures is also a 'previous life choice' that would be called 'poor' by some people.

  22. There's no wall on Prepare for the New Paywall Era (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    "Right now, the preferred method is the paywall. The New York Times has one. The Washington Post has one."

    No, they haven't. They have a pay-cookie, delete it and there's no 'wall'.
    Or just install one of the extensions that resets them immediately

  23. Re:I'm not saying it's aliens... on Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "They cannot be illegal aliens, as they have not yet migrated to any country. The ISS is in a sense exterritorial."

    The article states, that a cosmonaut said it, so the illegal alien bacterium must come from the American 'sector' of the ISS.

  24. I don't believe it on New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not reading TFA?
    Call me shocked.
    The author must be a newbie.

  25. I doubt it on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 5, Funny

    My dog runs 200 times to fetch a stick I throw, my cat gives me the 'fuck you' look the very first time and goes for a nap.