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  1. Re:The good news: on Atari Is Going To Build IoT Devices (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much all time-machine-based scams revolve around bringing information back to the past.
    Hardly a failure, especially considering the time-machine could fund it's own improvement in a recursive feedback loop.

  2. Re:The good news: on Atari Is Going To Build IoT Devices (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Which begs the question; if those time machines were failures, how could they have been buried there?

  3. The problem with this is that these apps may use actual notifications as well, which you'd also no longer be seeing.

  4. Re:Lost, not 'denied' on John McAfee Denied Libertarian Party Nomination For President (reason.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    LMFTFY

    Lost is the reality of a not sufficiently batshit crazy nut job 'running' for president.

  5. Please tell us what your job is and why you're not doing it for free.

  6. Re:Who is to blame? on Consumer Campaigners Read T&C Of Their Mobile Phone Apps To Prove a Point (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has nothing to do with a litigious society.
    T&C's are this way because nobody in their right mind would accept them if they weren't obfuscated beyond comprehension.

  7. Re:I doubt it was innocent mistake on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I started to loose weight when I woke up every single morning for a few months with a significant back age (sometimes lasting all day) whilst having adjusted my bed for the heaviest weight possible. After 5kg lost, the back pain was gone, now at 15kg down, no longer fearing going to bed but sleeping like a baby and waking earlier. Obesity isn't healthy.

  8. The limit is when the wet spot is basically any part of the body.

  9. Re:Please help me understand on Too Fat For Facebook: Photo Banned For Depicting Body In 'Undesirable Manner' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like how I try to convince women that a being a fat, alcoholic slob is attractive by posting pictures of myself passed out naked on the street.

  10. Biased on Facebook Is Tweaking Trending Topics To Counter Charges of Bias (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So in summary, Facebook is going to become biased in order to prevent being labeled as biased.

  11. Re:An alternative to the death penalty on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 1

    Sorry to be a pessimist, but has anybody ever really had a "major and unacceptable political fallout" due to executing a person that later turned out to be innocent?
    These types of legal murders apparently happen a couple times a year, yet few people seem to lose their job because of it.

  12. Re:Let me be the first to say on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Being a murderer isn't as bad as being a mass murderer, but it's still bad.

  13. Re:SJW much? on Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test · · Score: 1

    19 people to mess with is way too few for an HR manager to satisfy her urges.

  14. Is Twitter making a profit yet? on Twitter To Stop Counting Photos And Links In 140-Character Limit (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Twitter making a profit yet, or is it still the posterboy for Bubble 2.0

  15. http://bit.ly/IKDMgB on Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    (re; subject: see subject)

  16. Third's a charm on MegaBots Raises $2.4M To Create League Of Human-Piloted, Giant Fighting Robots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Link three, the last link in the article, is the one that contains actual information.

  17. Re:Too late on 11 Years After Git, BitKeeper Is Open-Sourced (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    They could have done like Github and provide an infrastructure.
    As BK's developers, they would have been ideally suited to provide an infrastructure not easily matched by competitors.

  18. Re:Reading between the lines on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Odds makers give worse odds for more likely winners, they do not give every similar type of bet the same odds. It's not roulette.

    The odds makers gave this particular bet odds of 540 to 1, meaning the odds makers (who know a hell of a lot better then any of us, because their livelyhood depends on it) thought the chance of this particular combination of winners being correct would be less than 1 in 540. If they would have bet on a less likely combination, it would have been more amazing if they would have won, but then they WOULDN'T have won.

    But by all means; if you are so sure of your gambling system, you should bet on the horse races, become filthy rich, purchase Slashdot and remove all comments made by stupid people who you disagree with.

  19. Re:Reading between the lines on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    So basically their luck was that, in this particular exceptional case, the odds makers were incredibly dumb?

  20. Reading between the lines on Swarm AI Correctly Predicts Kentucky Derby Superfecta, Turns $20 Into $11,000 (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many other bets did they place on the Kentucky Derby?

  21. Playing devil's advocate: How do you want to teach children to handle private information responsibly on the internet when their parents have already ruined any chance of keeping such information private in the first place?

  22. Re:This article smacks of fat acceptance on Neuroscience Explains Why Dieters Rarely Lose Weight (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Diets don't work if you don't stick to them

    Yet this is what all diets seem to be selling; a temporary pain for a lasting gain.

    IMHO the entire concept of "dieting" is flawed; any temporary fix is just that; temporary.
    Unless the changed behaviour becomes the normal (unconscious) behaviour, it will inevitably revert to what was previously normal.

  23. Re:a bit early on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    In practice, support for older CPU's died out a while ago. Not because of incompatibilities but simply due to the OS becoming too heavy to run in any reasonable capacity on those CPU's.

  24. Re:Always browse torrent sites with Javascript off on The Pirate Bay Now Blocked In Chrome, Firefox, And Safari (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    And they were actually blocked for a good reason; to prevent drive-by ransomware infection.

  25. Please Mr. Attenborough on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Please Mr. Attenborough, please change your legal name to Boaty McBoatface.