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  1. Re:What would replace Excel? on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Sound like he wants a spreadsheet with real time data.
    Which is something Excel (and probably most other spreadsheets) can already do, you just need to hook it up to the sources.
    Perhaps a simple pivot table tool (which Excel can also somewhat do).

  2. Re:What if the physics of our alien was alien too? on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    I would dare say that we are incapable of recognizing such intelligence for what it is unaided because of how tightly bound it is to what we understand as so-called physical laws.

    I would dare say you speak only for yourself. Why would it be tightly bound to our physical laws. Why even assume that our reality would be the only one it created?

    Denying our ability to reason logically about such a theoretical alien still sounds like a setup for introducing some sort of god-like entity.

  3. Re:What if the physics of our alien was alien too? on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    If such a fantasy-alien exists, it has some equivalent of physics.
    That's because "physics" would be whatever enables the alien to exist.
    In our reality it means mass and energy and such.
    In the fantasy-alien's reality, it might mean something completely different, but by definition there must be something or else that fantasy-alien cannot exist.
    Unless you go all religious and confuse a refusal to think about something as a lack of that thing.

  4. Re:What if the physics of our alien was alien too? on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    Given infinite god-aliens, one of them is bound to be a turtle.

  5. What if the physics of our alien was alien too? on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    And what if the physicis of the physics-alien of our physics-alien was an alien intelligence also?

    Mind... blown!

  6. Just long enough on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A 2 month break is just long enough for me to forget about my time "invested" in the show.
    The show might return in 2 months, but I probably won't.

  7. Re:Omg, the racism! on Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    unauthorized

    Where do you get this bullshit from?
    Why do you believe doctors shouldn't try everything they can to save the live of a middle-eastern girl?
    You seem to have a unique flavor or racism where you hate every race.

  8. Vigilante justice never goes wrong.

  9. Re:I don't need a law. on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 2

    Have fun watching you 5 year old pre-installed, intentionally annoying Pepsi ads, because you blocked your TV from downloading new ads.

  10. Re:I can live without it. on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem won't be "free" advertiser-paid TV's, it'll be the vastly increased cost of paid, advertiser-free TV's.
    As soon as those TV's exists, you can be sure they'll try to make the model you actually want less desirable.

  11. Don't buy a smart TV on Ask Slashdot: Can Smart TVs Insert Ads Into Your Movies? (gigaom.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A Smart TV is a Dimwit TV after two years at most anyway.
    Compared to even the most basic stand-alone media player, the "Smart" part of TV's is rarely more than "Marginally above braindead" any way.
    Get a separate screen and separate smart media box.

  12. Re:Second chances are good but well... on Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    He's been let off way too easy. 2 years probation? So after 2 years he can freely start stealing computer resources again?
    How about docking all his pay until he's paid for his tuition, all cost to the legal system and additional damages?
    Better yet; send him on a no-expenses-paid apology-tour to all 77.000 individuals he stole electricity, bandwidth and CPU resources from?

  13. Re:Lots of people fall of rooves on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You know those underlined things in Google can be clicked on, right?
    Some of those take you right to reports with statistics.
    Do you just pull random bullshit statements out of your ass in hopes of somebody else not just handing you all the counter evidence but reading it to you as well?
    This goes one step beyond mere ignorance, it's willfull denial of even attempting to find facts.

  14. Re:Lots of people fall of rooves on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody keeps statistics for the number of deaths due to solar installation,

    Apparently "nobody" are a lot of people.
    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=solar+con...

    You get your facts from Fox? ;)

  15. Re:Why shut down nuclear? on Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Using it will likely cause it to kill less people in the long run, as we allow our thin anti-fusion shield to heal itself.

  16. Re:too many false positives and negatives on New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    "some users had to draw the pattern or enter the PIN number several times"

    Which won't cause security guards to become suspicious of you at all.

  17. Re:Why are they so stupid? on New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    You'd like it to be based on body parts which are harder to remove?

  18. "Tolerant" has come to mean "Make a slightly negative comment about anybody and I will fucking torture you to death".

  19. Re:Heard this before on Tech Companies Pledge To Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes me feel safe knowing that no matter how evil a killer robot they make, it can be remotely hacked in about 3 seconds by any idiot with a webbrowser.

  20. Re:The Orville on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing The Orville season two will drop some more of the comedy, and it'll basically be Star Trek in all ways that matter.

  21. Re:Highest in history... Trust me. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, citizens piss on Trump!

    I don't know if that was a joke.

  22. Re:Highest in history... Trust me. on Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    CBS refused to offer numbers, but did boast that Discovery's debut lead to the highest number of sign-ups in the history of its All Access service.

    I bet they claimed the same thing just after their first customer signed up.
    Then again the month when two more customers signed up.

  23. Re:How to sell massive games? on Denuvo's DRM Now Being Cracked Within Hours of Release (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If that would work, why not sell the game itself "only through authorized channels" that somehow magically make cracking impossible?

  24. Re:$80k? Our politicians could learn something on Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    What should politicians learn? That they should lie more in order to reel in the idiots?

  25. Re:You agreed to this on Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Problem is, I don't know what of my currently innocent doings will be considered nefarious in a decade, and neither does anybody else.
    But the information will still be out there.