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  1. Re:future headline on 65,000+ Land Rovers Recalled Due To Software Bug · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we shouldn't be so hasty with a fix, then?

  2. Re:Solar *activity* not *output* on Double-Dynamo Model Predicts 60% Fall In Solar Output In The 2030s · · Score: 2

    Like that time the 11-, 17- and 7-year cicadas coincided and drove everyone in the US absolutely nucking futz with the noise. And larval shells. And carcasses.

  3. Re:As much good as I think these things can do on Louisiana Governor Vetoes License Plate Reader Bill, Citing Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not just the retention for government purposes, but the access by outside entities (insurance companies, PIs, bounty hunters, stalkers, reporters) that grills my hotdog.

  4. Re:Porn not included on the list! Yes!!! on The Words That Indicate Malicious Domain URLs · · Score: 2

    Unless that's the thing that gets him/her going.

  5. Re:Wind is the answer! on Philae's Lost Seven Months Were Completely Unnecessary · · Score: 5, Funny

    SOLAR Wind turbines!

  6. Re: Store the hardware on Ask Slashdot: A Development Environment Still Usable In 25 Years Time? · · Score: 1

    Then add the lovely note that unbiased electrolytic caps - the big power filter ones - 'dry out' over a couple of decades. The counterfeit ones go even faster.

  7. Re:The ultimate hardware hack on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, yes - the Ejectrode.

  8. She doesn't want to talk to you, unless ... on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:This is why adultery is wrong on Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Users' Sexual Preference, Extramarital Affairs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exactly. Be French about it.

  10. Re:How to DO things on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    That's not DO things.

    DO things is change a tire, change the oil, CHECK the oil, CHECK the tires, BUILD a bench or table, INSTALL a door, install a deadbolt, shut off the water so you can replace a faucet, shut off the gas because you smell a leak, drive in the snow, drive at night, drive in the rain, drive a manual transmission vehicle, lift a heavy piece of furniture into a U-Haul, secure it, drive 2500 miles, unload it and put it where you want it.

    You may not think those are 'tech', but there's a ton of real life stuff you _should_ know how to do that can save your booty (and bank account) while you're not designing electronic doodads or flappy apps.

  11. Re:Wouldn't it be more useful if... on Forecasting the Next Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Modding before finished reading is a regretful thing. The first 2/3 of the 1st sentence starts out interesting, but devolves into a homophobic rant.

  12. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 4, Informative

    The technical word for this is Barratry and is a debarring offense.

  13. Re:Take A Bow For Your Accomplishments on More Than 40% of US Honeybee Colonies Died In a 12-Month Period Ending In April · · Score: 1

    Right - not a specific ag-related agent - but the industry trend to make anything but monoculture effectively illegal.

  14. Re:Discrimination on John Urschel: The 300 Pound Mathematician Who Hits People For a Living · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the answer here is that an NFL career pays rather better than an Academic one. If he can retire with his faculties intact, he won't have to chase grants and prizes to be comfortable.

  15. Re:I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you... on After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing · · Score: 1, Informative

    Like along the Rio Grande Valley? There are places outside of towns you just don't go any more.

  16. Re:Just watched it... IN A GREECE TV STATION... on Amtrak Train Derails In Philadelphia · · Score: 1

    So it's all over NaZn?

  17. Re:They can just drink sewage like in California on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    I can't draw lots!
    I don't know what they look like.

  18. Re:New Mexico already has a newspaceport on Construction At SpaceX's New Spaceport About To Begin · · Score: 2

    875 miles from Brownsville to Las Cruces, which has no ocean/gulf into which to drop things that fall off.

  19. How hard will this break Corp Intranet apps? on Microsoft Is Confident In Security of Edge Browser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So all those corporate intranet apps that stupidly require IE - how hard will Edge break those?

  20. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    The United States spends more per pupil than most other countries with less to show for it.

    Same for healthcare.
    Same for defense.

    Not so for the prison/industrial complex.

  21. Re:More implications on Proof-of-Concept Linux Rootkit Leverages GPUs For Stealth · · Score: 2

    That must be true. It seems difficult to make it run well under Windows.

  22. Re:Golf on Top Cyber Attack Vectors For Critical SAP Systems · · Score: 1

    When they have to start paying their own greens fees and club dues.

  23. Re:We're so screwed. on US Appeals Court Says NSA Phone Surveillance Is Not Authorized By Congress · · Score: 1

    I would say that this constriction of our Freedumz! was the actual goal of the attack.
    Make us a pack of bedwetters begging Daddy for protections, liberty be damned.

    "A Republic, Ma'am. If you can keep it." - BFranklin

  24. Re:I'm innocent! Honest! on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    You have it attached to your person as you are knocked to the floor. Pretty much a slam (your head) dunk (against floor).

  25. Re:How do you pee? on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    Or at least lock the desktop.