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  1. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And how is 72 a clearly superior number to use over 22? They are both arbitrary, and you learn from experience what they mean.

  2. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And what is that temperature?

  3. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    You live in a temperature scale? That must be a very strange life.

  4. Re:The market was already moving in this direction on The iPhone Turns 10 (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Utter bullshit.

    The iPhone and Apple products in general have immense retention. People don't buy one, they buy many. And you don't get that with marketing. With marketing, you get one buy. Any subsequent buys come from the experience the buyer had with that first device.

    And people are overwhelmingly happy with iPhones. That is 100% engineering and design.

  5. Re:The market was already moving in this direction on The iPhone Turns 10 (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There were "smart phones" before the iPhone. But none of them were anything like the iPhone.

    After the iPhone, every single smart phone is now like the iPhone. The earlier designs disappeared completely.

    So in that sense, Apple did in fact invent the smartphone as it exists today.

  6. Re: Sounds great... on Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re: Sounds great... on Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not name calling. I am stating a literal fact.

  8. Re:Sounds great... on Social Media Giants Step Up Joint Fight Against Extremist Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ladies and gentlemen, a nazi.

  9. Re:Use a real node. on Is Coinbase Closing Accounts For Paying Ransoms With Bitcoins? (coindesk.com) · · Score: 1

    He does, actually, and what he describes happens all the time.

  10. Congratulations! Here is a ribbon that says "I DID NOT USE POPULAR THING" that you can wear to show your pride!

  11. Re:Lossless Compression on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? (youtube.com) · · Score: 1

    That is not actually what the world wants. It is what you want. Most of the world most certainly does not want it.

  12. Even worse, really: It's not actually much of an improvement over JPEG at all. JPEG-2000 artefacts tend to be more visually displeasing.

  13. Re:Chrome is fastest on Former Mozilla CTO: 'Chrome Won' (andreasgal.com) · · Score: 1

    "I'm pro.gay marriage (but let me immediately make sure to tell everyone that it is actually bad (but no I am totally pro-gay marriage (no homo)))"

  14. Re:Is anyone surprised by this? on Uber's 'Hell' Program Tracked and Targeted Lyft Drivers (engadget.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is what happens when you let libertarians run companies.

  15. That sounds reasonable, except for every single part of the statement being a complete falsehood.

  16. Re:Yes, let's build a walled garden on Canonical Helps Launch A Snap Store For The Orange Pi Community (ubuntu.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of us get to have that every single day on our OS, and the sky has not fallen on us yet. In fact, it works great.

    So yes. Yes, we do really, really want that. We have tried it, it works, it's much nicer, and we want it.

  17. Re:Not true I bet. on Most People Would Give Lab-Grown Meat a Try, New Survey Reveals (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, only STUPID YOUNG PEOPLE would like to reduce environmental damage and let animals not suffer! What IDIOTS!

  18. Re:Ah the irony.... on The SEC Just Handed Bitcoin a Huge Setback (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, it could, if you were insane.

    In reality, it means bitcoin is too susceptible to fraud.

  19. If you race a car for fun next to a crowd and crash into somebody, you will, though.

  20. Depends on if you have guards for the props. If you don't, like is often the case with many big drones, you can easily trash the propeller blades, which will cause a pretty instant crash.

  21. I have not yet, and I do not plan to. Now, are you going to offer any kind of justification for involving the authority of your wife in this discussion?

  22. Do you blame your wife for all the bad posts you make on the internet?

  23. Re:Why this is wrong: on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a shame there is no legal procedure he could make use of to prove the accusation is fabricated, then, isn't it?

  24. Re:He's on the run for illegal arrest. on Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited, Rules A New Zealand Court (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you likewise claim defectors from the old Soviet Russia were criminals on the run???

    No, because that is a completely different situation in nearly every conceivable way.

    He's not even facing an accusation yet

    Because he is, by his own choice, delaying the legal process so that it can not proceed to that point.

    He's still only wanted for questioning.

    Which is required before charges can be filed, by Swedish law.

  25. Re:I'm not surprised. on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, it is not, and you are either an idiot or trying to cover up bad behaviour if you claim it is.