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  1. Re:Obligatory on Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this mean we'll be coming back as Facebook Llamas?

  2. Re:We're not dead, we're in a simulation on Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Flick me to hibernate for a while, I'm sick of this shit.

  3. Re: Really excited about this on Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Some relation of Ford Prefect. And a replicant. I wonder if they'll rename them to be the Pixel series?

  4. Re:just one thing to say on Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd wonder how many accounts existed on what is, after all, a private server of hers. And then examine them all.

  5. Re:And thus the Internet of Things collapses on Woman Sues Sex Toy App For Secretly Capturing Sensitive Information (ctvnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    So she's afraid of her vibrator setting being saved, but not afraid of national exposure via her lawsuit.

    Hello, Barbara Streisand.

  6. Re:Like suing McDonald's for hot coffee on Florida Man Sues Samsung, Says Galaxy Note 7 Exploded (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard, they double as espresso machines.

  7. Re:Not a nice way to die on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    If you could do biosphere replacement in a reasonable timeframe, there'd be a lot of other candidate planets you wouldn't need to fight for.

  8. Re:employment classifications may not be limited on Uber Drivers Are Subject To Individual Arbitration, Says Court (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Obligatory xkcd. https://xkcd.com/282/

  9. Re:Colossal Space Adventure on It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

  10. I guess erotica has its place :)

  11. Most 'business books' end up being fiction. Goto Amazon, search business books. THe top ten hits were all semifictional rubbish.

  12. I'm thinking the Red Dwarf theme song here. on Isolated NASA Team Ends Year-Long Mars Simulation In Hawaii (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I want to lie, Shipwrecked in-comatose
    Drinking fresh mango juice
    Gold fish shoals
    Nibbling at my toes


    Just because, Hawaii.

  13. Re:MP3 on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    Spotify have that model as well, sort of. Tick the 'save to your library' and it's on your device. Playable at locations without internet coverage. Spotify's problem is shuffle play. I've got probably thousands of songs/music on it, and it does a woeful job of shuffle playing them.

  14. Just 'lubing us up' for the NSA.

  15. Re:duh on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    Some speed signs *are* suggestions - for instance the yellow diamond that indicates a speed to do a bend at. http://preview.tinyurl.com/z68...

  16. Re:duh on The Feds' Freeway Font Flip-Flop (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    For the English language, Helvetica seems to be a good choice. If, on the off chance, you're interested - there's actually a movie by that name. It's a documentary (of course, that's all I watch) and surprisingly interesting and informative.

    Just when I was thinking Highway Gothic would be a good movie name. Probably a horror story, with hitchhikers.

  17. Re:Clarity in the title might have helped. on Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out the lint colour in your tumble-drier. If you separate stuff the non towel load is usually blue.

  18. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    > Aha. That's going to go over really well after both Google and Apple have already long purchased some prime Manhattan real estate

    If that is there price then that is their price. If they can't walk away from that investment, then they are owned by that investment. What is better for the long term good? Caving? Or publically walking away and telling Manhatten to suck an egg, they are not more important than liberty?

    Its their investment to do what they want with, but its better to own your investment than let it own you.

    Tech companies actually own real estate? I thought at most they had a holding company that did, and then leased it to the tech subsidiary.

  19. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Sell them without an OS. But with an OTA bootstrap loader. Origin of the OS that gets loaded to be not in NY.

  20. Re:Brutus on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    (Cruz looks less crazy than I'd figured - maybe it's just the contrast with Trump but I'm re-considering him).

    Because he's Canadian? Birther redux, from the other side.

  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    3.5 mm refers to the size of the metal connector going into the socket, not the diameter of the connector. You're likely thinking of the diameter and not the length.

    That's what she said.

  22. How is jurisdiction going to work here? on Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Will there be a 'lame special' model especially for the UK? If there is, how hard isn't it going to be to jailbreak it to the international version?

  23. Re:memory loss defence? on Bank's Severance Deal Requires IT Workers To Be Available For Two Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I was in that kind of position where I got retrenched (80/90s), and the company asked me to do some contracting after. At the time I wasn't all that happy with them, so I squared my usual hourly rate and added a zero on the end. They paid. I was the *only* one that knew that design and could finish it. :)

  24. Re:Smokeless powder on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The important thing about the railgun, though, is that it's a big conductive chunk of dumb metal. It's a direct-fire or ballistic weapon, not a guided one. We already have supersonic missiles. Missiles and rockets cost a lot of money to build and then are destroyed, but are often launched from relatively inexpensive platforms. Railguns put the expense in the maintainable, reusable launcher and use cheap ammunition that causes plenty of damage from kinetic impact.

    The manufacturers will hate that. They'd rather be supplying a lot of expensive ammo.

  25. Re:So when's "gun control" going to stop guys with on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    More cool than a gun control argument at any rate. More than over them.