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  1. Re:Easier way to handle this... on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "This doesn't work, believe me I know. The cops will still find it no matter how much trash you pile on it."

    It seems to have worked for Jimmy Hoffa.

  2. Re:Disgusting on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Yes, I could. It's easy. Just think of the last time you saw a bloated deer on the side of the highway during the summer. "

    I prefer to live in a place where cadavers get removed from the streets.

  3. Re: Disgusting on Washington Could Become the First State To Compost the Dead (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "Soylent Green is the next step."

    This is compost so it will be vegan soylent green.

  4. They're going on sale in the neighboring countries.

  5. So IOW they are too stupid to sell iPhone parts so somebody else makes the money.
    Tough luck.

  6. Re:Classic solution to classic problem on Ask Slashdot: An Android or iOS App For Boosting the Volume of Speech-Impaired Person? · · Score: 1

    "How about a wired telephone on a land-line"

    The question was Android or iOS. not landline nor ham-radio.

  7. Re:A hardware solution would seem best on Ask Slashdot: An Android or iOS App For Boosting the Volume of Speech-Impaired Person? · · Score: 1

    "I would have thought a good quality noise cancelling microphone and a pair of headphones into the jack on the phone"

    What jack? In 2 years there won't be one.

  8. "How far does your volume go up in these apps?"

    Unfortunately not to 11.

  9. I guess you tried these at the receiving end for low talkers?

    https://www.amazon.com/Serene-...

    I found this for the starting end.

    https://store.rjcooper.com/pro...

    PS. Beware the puffy shirts.

  10. I gave up on phones on Did Apple Retail Prices Get Too High in 2018? Consumers Say Yes. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Since I hate phoning I went for an iPad mini instead, a tablet instead of a phablet.
    Much bigger screen and much cheaper for people like me who use only messengers, imessages, whatsapp and facetime.

  11. Re:Yes. on Could You Live Without Your Smartphone? (theglobeandmail.com) · · Score: 1

    "Some people won't be able to find their way home, won't know who to call,..."

    We usually call such people 'drunks'.

  12. Re: Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    "I doubt intelligent farming is unprofitable."

    So those almost 900 billions of subsidies are for what exactly?
    Eradicating stupidity?

  13. Re:Why nature abandoned asexual reproduction? on Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds (sciencenews.org) · · Score: 1

    "Asexual reproduction results in genetically identical organisms highly vulnerable to diseases and parasites. "

    Diseases usually _are_ asexual organisms.

  14. Re:Target the customers on Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "with chemical castration drugs.

    That won't work as what you describe is something that needs to be taken daily."

    The thing is, the horn doesn't work either but people believe it.

    Flood the internet with videos showing rhinos with a drug-filled hoodies soaking on their horn for a couple of days and explain that consuming any of it makes you impotent and sterile for years.
    Push it on every media in Asia for months.
    I bet it would make a dent.

  15. Target the customers on Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Poison the horn with chemical castration drugs.

  16. 1.Firm sells office supplies.
    2. Client buys office supplies.
    3. Firm advises on how to order office supplies to save money in the future..
    4. Scandal, because ...I don't see it.

  17. " If you tell a computer a person is in a room, the computer has no concept of what you are talking about"

    OTOH I know lots of real people who never notice the elephant in the room.

  18. "to systems for checking out materials and tracking fines. "

    I guess the library cops were all sacked then?

  19. But on AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    But if you have already removed the tumor and put its cells under the microscope, does it really matter which is which?

  20. It's the success on 'Amazon Prime is Getting Worse' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    UPS, USPS etc can't do the volume anymore.
    Amazon has now 50! planes itself, because of it and still.

  21. No, they can't write on 'The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die' (psmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ...because they can't read either.

  22. Re:Because it's there on 'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Mars has no atmosphere, radiation, toxic dust and has a different gravity"

    Sounds like LA to me.

  23. "unconditional cash transfer to 250 randomly selected people among those already receiving benefits (250 others will act as the control group),"

    Oh, the honor!
    Participating in the unconditional cash test and being in the control group who doesn't get a dime. That's love of science.

  24. "Rocco, an African grey, was caught using the virtual assistant to play his favorite music, tell jokes and even order snacks,"

    He's pining for the fjords^h^h^h^h^h^hdeserts.

  25. The parents I know on Should Parents Shun Toys That Track Their Kids? (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    ..buy those gadgets exactly _because_ of that feature.
    They _want_ to spy on their kids.