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  1. Re:Clickbait wins on (Over-)Measuring the Working Man · · Score: 1

    This metric would seem to be encouraging authors that write the clickbaitiest titles. Sounds wonderful.

    Thankfully that could never happen here.

  2. Re:Free money isn't free on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    I wondered why we still lived in caves.

  3. Re:Huh? on Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? · · Score: 1

    That would be a telecomcom, which doesn't exist and if ever it does we know it's just time to give up; the hipsters have won.

  4. Re:Huh? on Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? · · Score: 1

    Also, there's no such thing as "a telecom".

  5. Idiotors on Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? · · Score: 1

    An M2M solution. Unless you pronounce it "muhtomuh".

  6. the HMS Belfast? Don't think so. Expand the "HMS" and see if it makes sense.

  7. Utter nonsense on Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement · · Score: 1

    Florida Bitcoin trader Pascal Reid, who was arrested in a February 2014 sting operation as part of his plea agreement, promised to...

    Why did he agree to be arrested? It makes no sense. Surely if he was at the plea bargain stage that had already happened?

    Now if you meant "Florida Bitcoin trader Pascal Reid, who was arrested in a February 2014 sting operation, promised as part of his plea agreement to ..." then there's a way to write that.

  8. caveats my arse on SlideN'Joy Extender Adds Up To Two More Screens For a Multi-Monitor Laptop · · Score: 1

    Caveat means a warning. The word you're looking for is tradeoffs.

  9. How about? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Empty Toner Cartridges? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How about hiding them behind an icon?

  10. more crap on European Government Agrees On Net Neutrality Rules, With Exemptions · · Score: 1

    Notably, this means (if all goes as promised) the elimination of cellphone roaming fees within the EU

    No it doesn't. They're two different (albeit related) things that happened to be announced at the same time. One is not a consequence of the other.

    Protip: learn to read before attempting to write.

  11. Quality writing from the Dept of Redundancy Dept on Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? · · Score: 1

    dismissal from his stations

    What?

    jumped the gun too soon

    "Jumping the gun" by its very definition implies acting too soon; it refers to a false start in athletics. Are you suggesting it isn't even loaded yet?

  12. Re:O rly on Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? · · Score: 1

    Dylann Roof.

    I wonder if that's the root of the problem. If I had a name that stupid I'm not sure that I wouldn't get a haircut to match and shoot up some random group of unfortunates who've never done me any harm.

  13. Re:Conversely on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    If you'd read the article you linked to, you'd see it does work, but not 100%.

  14. Crap writing on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Protip: when comparing two things with a list of points, state - ideally just before the list - which way round your comparisons are phrased. Wrong: Blah blah Tiger yada T34 yada yad. Yada yada yada yada. Slower. Bigger gun. More complicated to build ... Correct: Although the Tiger had a bigger gun, it was slower than the T34, more complicated to build ...

  15. sigh on Cool Tool: The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator · · Score: 1

    the per kilowatt-hour cost of nuclear energy

    or

    the per kilowatt cost of nuclear power

  16. crafts? on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 1

    The plural of craft is crafts - when you're talking about embroidery, woodcarving & the like.

    When you're talking about vessels, it's just craft.

  17. Brilliant, until some idiot blabs about it.

  18. Garbage on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    With biologists getting closer and closer to reversing the aging process in human cells

    Not really.

    You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space.

    I think you can. On occasion, this has actually happened.

    not enough medical care

    Why? I thought doctors and nurses started out as people, so if you have more people you have more raw material for making doctors & nurses.

    The entire article is built on sand.

  19. Re:Simple Answer: Warfare on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 1

    As an interim measure, some of the critters can get repurposed as food for the other critters.

  20. Are you sure? on Making the World's Largest Panoramic Photo · · Score: 1

    During this time they shot over 70,000 images, which were combined in to the giant 365 Gigapxiel panorama using a special robotic head with a long 400mm telephoto lens (and a 2x Extender).

    I don't think so.

    I think it's more likely that they shot over 70,000 images using a special robotic head with a long 400mm telephoto lens, which were combined in to the giant 365 Gigapxiel[sic] panorama.

  21. Re:Stupid on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1, Troll

    Witeboards are racist. So are blackboards, which is what chalkboards were called before 1886.

  22. Re:I just have to laugh! on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    Say that to the Vietnamese boat people.

    Presumably you mean the ones who didn't drown. They did get lucky, compared to the others.

  23. protip on UK Criminals Use Drones To Case Burglary Prospects · · Score: 4, Funny

    to for surveillance of properties

    Protip: if you're not sure which preposition to use, put both.

  24. Protip on Book Review: The Terrorists of Iraq · · Score: 1

    hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraq's

    Protip: try to pair up your errors, and hope that one masks the other.

  25. Re:I just have to laugh! on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    Or he got lucky. In any case, anecdotes prove nothing.