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  1. It's funny how "Wow, I am actually unable to answer your question to my own satisfaction. Well played, sir!" got typoed as "Check your autism privilege, faggot." The letters are, like, right next to each other!

  2. Re:Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    And the dolphins think they're the smarter ones for THE EXACT SAME REASON.

  3. Re:Lololololol on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes lots of sense as the opening sentence for a herbology book. The person in question (she) has tried to (or wants to) give this information to the church, to authorities (my take on 'man of the house'), to the author and everyone else.

    Basically: This is a Public Domain license.

  4. Re:Hardly on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 2

    Humans live about 40-50% the span whales do, they just seem abnormal because primates don't normally live that long.

  5. Have you heard music from the past ten years?

  6. Every single OS written before the internet was a common household thing says hi.

  7. Re:I'll say it -- I enjoyed it a lot on Netflix Executives Say 'Bright' Success Proves Film Critics Are 'Disconnected From Mass Appeal' (indiewire.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude. You know this thing about spoiler alerts?

  8. You'd think Netflix would NOTICE that the movie was turned off within the first 25-50% and never finished, then use that as a metric NOT to recommend movies like that?

  9. Not necessarily.

    I have no clue who this guy is, never heard of him, but if he actually WANTED to make this work and simply couldn't it probably feels like a pretty bad defeat despite the money.

  10. Re:WTF!? on Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance (thetimes.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe because in Europe (hell, probably all over the world) the standard has become to not leave contact info but a mocking note instead.

  11. Re:Well... was the driver lying? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, you're talking about laws of physics here. A car going 65 MPH is physically incapable of coming to a complete and abrupt stop in a way that does NOT kill the driver of said car.

  12. Re:"Very Fast" means nothing to me on Android Can Now Tell You How Fast Wi-Fi Networks Are Before You Join Them (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    This is a growing frustration in general - various games and programs have also switched to keeping secret the size of a given patch. You barely even know you're downloading something, and you certainly don't get to know how MUCH you're downloading. Discord is really bad with this, and Twitch's "Downloading file X of Y" is just laughably useless.

  13. Re:Is there any other option, Linus? on Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage' (lkml.org) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linus always tells it like it is, which you can either view as professional or not. But from an engineering perspective, it seems better to do that than just say something polite so you don't upset people.

    It appears to me he's directing his displeasure at Intel management/legal/marketing making decisions where really they shouldn't.

    Just to see the Slashdot reaction after you got +5 Insightful for your comment, I'm going to try a little social experiment:

    Trump always tells it like it is, which you can either view as professional or not. But from a leadership perspective, it seems better to do that than just say something polite so you don't upset people.

    It appears to me he's directing his displeasure at Democrats/newspapers/people in general making decisions where really they shouldn't.

  14. The headline is almost two full lines on my screen; longest yet on Slashdot?

  15. Re:Biodegradable wires? WTF? on Car Manufacturers Sued Over Rodents Eating Soy-Insulated Wires (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The rest of the car is unlikely to last a century or more, though.

  16. Re:What? on Pedestrian Attacks Self-driving Car in the Mission (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    I applaud you for how many people you snared with that bait. Well done, sir, well done.

  17. Re:The weakest security on A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Approximately 1 to 0.9995743548.

  18. Re:Full of shit on A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the editor of that newsletter, "How To Be Perfect And Never Make Mistakes", aren't you? May I please subscribe to it?

  19. Re: Really bad security on A Photo Accidentally Revealed a Password For Hawaii's Emergency Agency (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Glue stick.

  20. Re:10 square kilomethers on China Builds 'World's Biggest Air Purifier' That Actually Works (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the range of a single cell phone tower? Maybe, just MAYBE, they're going to build MORE THAN ONE once the experiment is done and shown to work?

  21. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I would much rather have fewer children born with more born into families that WANT them, than more children born with more born into families that never wanted children but made a mistake, bad call, etc.

  22. Re:UI failure on The Tech Failings of Hawaii's Missile Alert · · Score: 1

    Strong confirmation? "Send Alert?" [Yes] [No]

  23. Re: What did you THINK would happen? on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Charged; Faces 11 More Years in Prison (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Comparing it to hiring a hitman is actually the best analogy I've seen in all this mess.

    If you hire a hitman, you are guilty of the murder. So is the hitman. You are BOTH guilty. In the same vein, both the *spits* prankster AND the officer who fired the killing shot are guilty.

  24. Re:Yes. Yes it is. on Is Finland's Universal Basic Income Trial Too Good To Be True? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you need to work to reliably eat and keep a roof over your head, but you CAN'T find work anywhere due to illness, lack of (the right) skills, past crime history making you undesirable for hiring etc., then spending your time stealing stuff becomes very attractive. If you have a reliable income and you're basically a good person you stop stealing stuff.

  25. Re:Is this unexpected? on PC Market Still Showing Few Signs of Life (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Or do any kind of serious text work. Can you imagine typing a twenty page report on an onscreen keyboard on your phone?