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  1. Can it detect DWH* or DWM* violations? on Tostitos' Breathalyzer Bags Can Detect If You're Drunk -- Then Call Uber · · Score: -1, Troll
    It should use NFC to contact the police if either of these conditions exist.

    If you're dull enough to voluntarily blow into a bag which will presumably not rat you out to the local police, you don't need a ride from Uber - you need a keeper!

    * DWH - Driving While Hispanic, DWM - Driving While Muslim

  2. And not defend our nation? I'm sure that would be your answer, but not mine.

    I'm a veteran of the US military; if I have sworn an oath to die for the rights of US citizens I'm surely still prepared to do so defending my own. Incidentally, I may no longer be an active member of the armed services but I don't recall ever being released from that oath. It still binds, and I will serve it gladly if needed.

  3. No - if we once get over our communication problems, we should well be able to handle this ourselves. Thank you for your offer of assistance but I think you ought to leave what will be a purely internal political issue to us to resolve - it's been precisely one and one-half centuries since we've done this. I strongly recommend you stay outside and not get involved.

  4. Sort of. That was written into the declaration of independence, but so were some things that we've since cast aside, like god.

    Which god? Big Daddy, Junior or the Little Spook? Or perhaps you meant one of the hundreds of demigods (e.g., Peter, Paul, John, Ringo) whose idols . . . er, I mean statues . . . adorn so many churches in this once-proud but now only prideful nation?

  5. Your handle - 'religionofpeas' . . . on Trump's Executive Order Eliminates Privacy Act Protections For Foreigners (whitehouse.gov) · · Score: 1
    Must be a reference to the predominant form of Christianity.

    All we are saying is give peas a chance!

  6. Re: Jan 12-15? on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    Oy vey!. Have you always been a schmuck, or is it only since we elected a cheddar cheese rind with delusions of adequacy?

  7. Re: Wasted Effort on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    So leave behind the Democrat/Republican Alliance and join the Independents!

  8. Re: Confession on Who Hacked The Washington D.C. Police Surveillance Cameras? · · Score: 1

    You know, jokes like that are a great way to find out how waterboarding works. You do realize that even though you're (apparently) a US citizen there are those here on Slashdot who aren't - so exercise a bit of caution or check your ammo.

  9. I don't use Facebook. on Avaya Explains Why They've Declared Bankruptcy (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Anybody I want to talk to, I'll talk to. Facebook is for self-important morons in a desperate search for approval. Sorta like Twitter.

  10. Re: That is *terrible* news on Solar Energy Now Employs More Americans Than Oil, Coal and Gas Combined (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Right.

    You do realize that oil and coal infrastructure won't last forever, right? Neither will our planet's ecology, for that matter.

  11. A lot more than digging for black-lung.

  12. Not as far as President Cheeto is concerned. Management is a cost, but you don't really need to pay for labor!

  13. Fresh P-tweet. WRONG! False news! on Solar Energy Now Employs More Americans Than Oil, Coal and Gas Combined (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Solar power workers are all elitist - their jobs don't count. Coal-miners will make 'Murica Grate Again! If we had taken the oil when we had a chance all those radical Moslem terrorists would be gone now! It's the Mexicans fault - we'll build a wall around Saudi Arabia and make those rapists and murderers pay for it. If they don't I'll grab every woman that wants an abortion by the pussy! The news media is the opposition! Not sure about the Pope yet, I'll tell you Monday. Sad.

  14. Re: Okay, let's include the last eight years . . . on USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that all you know how to do . . . make up any outlandish alt-right/truth to accuse a good man of all the criminal and treasonable acts Here Drumpf has committed in less than a week as President? Let me guess . . . you learned that the magnitude of your falsehood doesn't matter so long as you have the last word, right? I see that 'Anonymous Coward' isn't just how you post, it's who you are! As a veteran of the Armed Services, I find you even more disgusting and pathetic than that child-man you seen so enamored of. At least his motives I understand . . . his is a blatant grab for more money and perhaps the respect he has obviously never felt he had. You seem to be little more than a worthless sycophant, hoping and praying that your blind support of this small-minded and small-handed mass of petulance will somehow earn you some measure of superiority. Good luck with that.

  15. 85â... live under a corrupt government... on New Data Shows 85% of Humans Live Under a Corrupt Government (newatlas.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The other 15â... run that corrupt government.

  16. Re: 99% likely a math error, but... on New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' (space.com) · · Score: 1
    I didn't say I subscribed to M-theory (or even string theory). Frankly, I'm still a fan of Einstein's theories - except that they don't explain everything, and quantum theory has made predictions which were later verified (quantum tunneling, particle superposition states). Even Albert Einstein knew that Relativity was a theory, not a fact.

    It's too bad there isn't some kind of wonderful, grand theory to unify the contradictions in our current understanding of the Universe. Something we could test. We must be getting closer though - I can feel it in my GUTs.

  17. Re: 99% likely a math error, but... on New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Not saying the Universe could be curved . . . saying constants such as magnetism and gravity may not be constant. Like Earth's curvature, this may not be apparent to local examination.

  18. Re: 99% likely a math error, but... on New, Higher Measurement of Universe's Expansion May Lead To a 'New Physics' (space.com) · · Score: 2
    I've heard similar predictions associated with M-theory. If the separation between our brane and neighboring branes is not uniform, it's possible that the scalar "constants" (e.g., the relationship between mass and gravity) could prove to not be constant.

    Put another way: if there is a place in our universe where the neighboring branes are closer than they are here, an Earth-sized planet might well exert more than 1g of force on objects around it. Conversely, a greater separation between branes might result in lower gravity associated with a given mass.

    This may be no more readily observed than the curvature of the Earth. The Earth certainly looks flat from my back yard (and even more so from a back yard in Kansas), but when you can see enough of it the curvature becomes readily apparent. It may well be that it requires observations on this vast cosmic scale to discern the inconstant nature of our universe.

  19. Okay, let's include the last eight years . . . on USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science (popsci.com) · · Score: 1
    How many alternate truths did the last administration put out there? How often did the last administration gag multiple government agencies? How often did the last administration call for the power to override the Second Amendment to muzzle the press?

    Please stick to your alt-truth websites - alt-truth for the alt-right. Go back to breitbart, there's nothing for you here at Slashdot.

  20. Re:Step one in seizing power, control information. on USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    No, not the last eight years. I was going for a Godwin call. Now, back to your brownshirt meeting.

  21. Re: Why wasn't this caught in peer review? on Cervical Cancer Just Got Much Deadlier -- Because Scientists Fixed a Math Error (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, confirmation does get in the way of alternate truth (a.k.a., newspeak) doesn't it? [cue ad hominem attacks]

  22. That kind of talk can get a fellow in trouble.

  23. Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself.

  24. Re: Continuation of the Bush policy "Hear No Evil on USDA Scrambles To Ease Concerns After Researchers Were Ordered To Stop Publishing Publicly Funded Science (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    He was, after he received a megadose of gamma radiation while inspecting the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island. Don't make him angry . . . you wouldn't like him when he's angry.

  25. Donald, is that you?