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  1. Re:One more reason to abandon FB on Facebook's "Hello" Tells You Who's Calling Before You Pick Up · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if it will also blurt out what you were going to say, but decided not to, like their textual messaging system?

  2. Re:Oooh, Ahhh, on New Horizons Captures First Color Image of Pluto and Charon · · Score: 2

    If God is a "Her" how did Mary get pregnant with Jesus?

  3. Oh oh. on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    "Dr. Ford hasn't been heard from for several days."

  4. Re:Nope... on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    Haha! Wait...they probably all work for the NSA too! Or are they CIA? It gets so confusing. Wait until we find out there a Something-A that we don't even know about.

  5. Re:Pointless. on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    The guy at Cisco that puts the packing tape on the boxen is probably NSA.

  6. Re:Boxen? WTF? on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 1

    It's a cow made by Volvo.

  7. Re:Sounds good on Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year · · Score: 1

    Oh good! That's what I was hoping they would turn into. It'd be pretty boring if they just flashed you the finger on the little sign that has the route number. :) I was really thinking more about all of these auto-autos. With our lack of adherence to the three laws, so far, it could get interesting out there.

  8. Re:Sounds good on Self-Driving Cars Will Be In 30 US Cities By the End of Next Year · · Score: 1

    What if someone gets on the bus and doesn't pay? If a rider has a heart attack is the bus going to cal 911? If you try to force one of these buses/cars off the road with your vehicle will it fight back?

  9. Re:Dumbing Down of The OS on Why We Should Stop Hiding File-Name Extensions · · Score: 1

    You're right. I'm not even sure some Apple OS programmers would understand this article.

  10. Re:Philosophy as a Robot Buddy Movie on Should a Service Robot Bring an Alcoholic a Drink? · · Score: 1

    Agreed on Robot and Frank. Good movie. Why doesn't someone like Elon Musk buy SyFy, fire every asshole that works there that thought "SyFy" was cute and a good idea, put it back to "SciFi" and start producing good shows like Almost Human? Bring Star Trek Continues to the channel too.

  11. Re:Are you sure? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    That's the one!! Did you get one too!? WE'RE gonna be rich. :)

  12. The first picture in the abstract link shows it. The description above is a bit confusing.

  13. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    Got it. The 0dBm=1mw was the link I was missing. Geeze...that's not much for those kinds of distances. Pretty amazing. Thanks!

  14. Re:how do they do it today? on New Fiber Optic Signal Processing Technique Doubles Communication Distance · · Score: 1

    How powerful are the lasers at the start of the run? mW? bunchesofW?

  15. Woohoo! No. What it means is that all of that money I keep transferring to them won't keep getting lost because of transmission errors! I'm finally going to be rich!

  16. Re:Thanks OPEC! on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    OH! Well in that case...Thanks OPEC!, except in the opposite way. $30-some to fill a tank is a lot better than $50-some. Of course, it's destroying some job markets, but there you go.

  17. Thanks OPEC! on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    I knew lower gasoline prices would cause some kind of trouble. Who knew it would make it cheap enough to use to blow up ATMs?

  18. Re:It should be noted that... on Apple Pushes First Automated OS X Security Update · · Score: 1

    One of my four Macs was set to install things automatically, and I still had to respond to the above stuff manually. I don't know if it would have gotten around to it eventually or not.

  19. Re:When/Where on Geminid Meteor Shower This Weekend · · Score: 1

    I think I saw two of them last night (Tues) just in the couple of minutes it took to take out the garbage. One to the north and one to the west...from Gemini. This was early too. Like 9:30pm. Hope the weather holds out in New Mexico.

  20. Re:Are we ready to accept it? on The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS · · Score: 1

    I don't know. I thought encrypting everything ate up more bandwidth with more overhead, and I just notice the little padlock icon by the URL more and more. Something is sure driving up the number of bytes for basically an unchanged daily reading pattern. Don't notice it, of course, when using WiFi. Maybe it's just more cloudcrap going on, but that shouldn't have changed much, either, and it's megabytes. Darn NSA. I understand, except for my problem. :)

  21. Re:Are we ready to accept it? on The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS · · Score: 1

    I used to be able to surf the headlines of my morning list of websites before going to work on my iPad using a Verizon connection for about 10MBs. It now takes about 15MBs. That could be iOS8, HTTPS, the lack advertising blocking software and/or the increase in advertisements, or whatever. The point is megabytes is [now] money [that I have to pay for], and I don't get any say in controlling the amount of my data plan everyone sucks up -- if I still want to keep reading the same set of headlines in the morning.

  22. Re:Rocket science is called so for a reason on Technical Hitches Delay Orion Capsule's First Launch · · Score: 1

    The only problem I have is that they saw this same valve problem on a previous (the last one?) launch of the DIVH. And I can't imagine they didn't see it during testing too. I guess they didn't think it was important enough to stop a launch, and fix it before it did. Watching the wind to 'manual'. Too funny. It's sad that they thought they needed a computer to watch the wind in the first place. What's the saying? Hoisted by my own petard?

  23. I'd say you are gong to have to do both. on Ask Slashdot: Objective C Vs. Swift For a New iOS Developer? · · Score: 1

    When full-on apps can be written in Swift (like when the language is up to it) iOS and all of the API stuff and most of the books and documentation and example code will still be in Objective-C, so you'll have to understand it. Once all of that starts getting converted to Swift then you will have to know Swift. It can be done on your own, but it is an uphill battle. Understand C and that will be half the battle.

  24. Re:How do I refill it? on Toyota Names Upcoming Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think he meant that he was uncertain about the name.

  25. Re:At -40F/C? on Toyota Names Upcoming Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car · · Score: 2

    I meant the "exahust" out the tail pipe. Where I work it would be great to power our equipment with fuel cells in the Arctic/Antarctica, but there's no way to get rid of all of that water vapor exhaust. It will eventually build up into a big chunk of ice. And if everyone starts using this you can't just let it drip on to the road in cold climates, or the road will be covered with ice, and you can't keep it in some tank where it will freeze. I guess there will just have to be some oil-buring heater add-on that evaporates it. :)