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  1. Re: How hard is it to change the mode to full auto on US Army Assures Public That Robot Tanks Adhere To AI Murder Policy (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    They won't have to flip the switch. The human gatekeepers will quickly get complacent - when's the last time you actually read the T&C's before clicking "Continue"? - and pretty soon, the difference between life and death for some poor brown kid with a rock will be Homer's nodding-bird desk toy.

  2. "unspecified cargo"? on Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm assuming it'll mostly be union organisers.

  3. SPOILER FOR A 32-YEAR-OLD BOOK FOLLOWS on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    Isn't this similar to Carl Sagan's Contact, with its image of a circle embedded in the digits of pi?

  4. Bring back renameable terminal tabs on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop Default Application Survey · · Score: 1

    They vanished in 15.04, and the world wept at their departure.
    ...OK, I wept.
    ...OK, I shouted at the screen, spent too long searching for it as a bug, eventually found it was a "feature", then shouted at the screen some more.

  5. Re:Not quite on Looking Back At Far Cry 2 · · Score: 1

    Fair point - it is indeed distractingly inconsistent.

  6. Re:This. Game. Sucks. on Looking Back At Far Cry 2 · · Score: 1

    So - just to make sure I understand you correctly - your complaint about the map is that it's not realistic enough (because it scrolls) and at the same time, it's too realistic (because it's opaque)?

  7. Re:bah on Physically-Challenged Gamer Hacks Together Custom PS3 Controller · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...the PC crowd must be on holiday or something.
    Which is why he built it for the PS3! Badum-tsh!

  8. Re:A few I remember on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    I second "Grinny," and also the sequel, "You Remember Me". Also, "Z for Zachariah", although that might go in the "Young teen" section.

  9. Re:I'm tired of these defenses. on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok, then put it another way: Why do you deserve to have the song for free? (Just to be clear on my general position - RIAA = bad, but paying people for their work = good, though I'm not getting into a row about relative revenue-pie-slice sizes)

  10. Re:Didn't he do Samurai Jack? on CG Television Clone Wars Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Yes, he did - as well as Dexter's Laboratory, and Powerpuff Girls. But Samurai Jack remains the only cartoon series I ever saw that I could call beautiful. He is, IMO, the Great Western Animator of this generation. Someone please put him and Brad Bird on a project together, and do it now.

    You'll also be pleased to hear that according to Wikipedia, "He has also expressed his desire to bring an animated Samurai Jack film to the big screen."

  11. The Beeb used to fill me with British pride on BBC Kicked out of School Over Wi-Fi Scaremongering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I still think that the TV Licence is a great way to pay for my TV, and can often produce splendid telly (Life In The Undergrowth, The Day Today, Doctor Who, What The Victorians Did For Us to name but a few), the dragging down of the once-great Corporation to the level of the lowest commercial channels (yes, Reality TV - I'm also talking about you) brings a mournful tear to my eye.

    Britain used to make really good documentary shows, too - Dispatches, anyone? Q.E.D.? Channel 4's Equinox, I seem to recall, could also be counted on for a refreshing brain-jiggle. You wouldn't catch 'em making anything like that anymore, of course - not when there's slaggy morons to build into role models.

    And if they produce a "Deal Or No Deal"-aping enormobrowed-yahoos-receive-unearned-prizes celebration of dimwittedness, I'm fairly certain my head will explode. (Man Alive, I sound old.)

  12. Re:unnerving? on Crackdown Review · · Score: 1

    What color person is allowed to kill what color of victim?
    We've just found Popcap's next hit game...

  13. Forget hammers! on Astronaut to Attempt Spacewalk Record · · Score: 1

    He needs the astronaut's best friend - the inanimate carbon rod!

  14. Re:Price issues on Running Your Electric Meter Backwards · · Score: 2, Insightful
  15. Re:Well she has a point... on 10th Annual Wacky Warning Labels Out · · Score: 1

    SP: Excessive.
    (Oh, sweet irony!)

  16. Obligatory "Chasing Amy" quote on 360 Achievements More Popular Than Microsoft Imagined · · Score: 1

    "The premise is very basic - you roll the ball up the ramp at varying speeds, in an effort to pop it into the score circles. The higher the score, the more prize tickets you get."

    "What do you do with the prize tickets?"

    "Trade them in for prizes that aren't worth nearly as much as you paid to play the game."

  17. Re:How is it misleading? on Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming · · Score: 1

    I still remember the day there was a series of unrelated signal failures and train breakdowns on the Underground (far more so than usual), causing all sorts of palaver for commuters, last summer (IIRC). The Standard's front page coverage used the word "terror" no fewer than four times in the opening two paragraphs, as well as one in the headline.
    Gawd bless 'em... A London newspaper, whose correspondents clearly all hate living in London.

  18. Re:the Death Penalty in the US on 2006's Bill of Wrongs · · Score: 1

    Or just watch the movie Pierrepoint.

  19. The popular catchphrase on Scientists Developing Commercially Viable Synthetic Gecko · · Score: 1

    "Criminals are a gravity-fearing and downward-looking lot. I must become a creature of the ceiling. I shall become a gecko."

  20. Re:wtf on The Curse of the Wayward Sequel · · Score: 1

    "Has," should be, "as". Once you change that, the sentence makes sense.

  21. Re:Freudian Slip? on Blair Bullied Over Bully · · Score: 1

    No, it was deliberate - with the Labour Party devolving the way it is, Tony truly is the BeastMaster.

  22. Re:If I had that kinda money... on Firsthand Account of the Christie's Star Trek Auction · · Score: 1

    "Happy; birth, day... to -

    Khaaaaaaaan!!!

  23. Re:Amen...Duh on The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News · · Score: 1

    I get all my news from the Police Squad! shoeshine guy.

  24. Re:Remember the old slogan on The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News · · Score: 1

    "The Daily Show - the most trusted name in the increasingly crowded arena of Fake News"

  25. Re:Well duh on The Daily Show as Substantive as Broadcast News · · Score: 1

    Because for most people, the state of the world is what their news outlets say it is, and the change from, "Republican senator caught trawling for high-school cock," to, "Democrat senator caught trawling for high-school cock," especially as election-time approaches, is a significant one.