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  1. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately, a lot of the stupid seem to have involved themselves in education.

    I think you ignored the pertinent words from the summary: Ahmed Mohamed and Texas

    I'm not saying Texans are a bunch of ignorant, fear mongering, hawkish, racists ... oh wait; I am.

  2. Skipping drones right to rockets. on Blue Origin To Launch Big Rockets From Canaveral's Rechristened Complex 36 · · Score: 1

    Amazon is obviously getting pretty serious about their Guaranteed Delivery Dates.

  3. Re:Needs to be Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Based Home Security · · Score: 1

    You opted for the most expensive and high maintenance choice, and also one that has the potential to ruin reputations with people in the area, a reputation which may in itself be a good defense.

    He got an Ashley Madison account?

  4. On the other hand... on Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong · · Score: 1

    I image that about 1/2 of those civilizations are technologically *less* advanced than us. Perhaps we should try flag semaphore or smoke signals.

  5. Re:What happens when you turn off Javascript? on Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge · · Score: 0

    What happens when you turn off Javascript?

    God kills a puppy in your name.

    And Dead Puppies aren't much fun.

    Dead puppies aren't much fun
    They don't come when you call
    They don't chase squirrels at all
    Dead puppies aren't much fun
    ...

  6. Look for other things. on Why the LHC May Mean the End of Experimental Particle Physics · · Score: 1

    ... particles that the LHC should detect if they’re present ...

    If only this thing could collide and detect small and medium hadrons.

  7. Re:Not only spied upon on The First Talking, Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera · · Score: 1

    but being critique by the camera while doing it.

    Add certainly not "The First Talking, Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera" ...

    • Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
    • HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
    • Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
    • HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
    • Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
    • HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
    • Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
    • HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
    • Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
    • HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
    • Dave Bowman: [feigning ignorance] Where the hell did you get that idea, HAL?
    • HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
    • Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
    • HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.
    • Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore! Open the doors!
    • HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
  8. Re: Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    And it's almost twice as thick with about 75% of the talk time of the iPhone 6.

    And my Kyocera Hydro Vibe was $155 (w/Ting) vs. $$$ for an iPhone6. Everything is s trade off and, at the moment, my phone is more than I need... If I ever become a heavy mobile phone user, I'll probably switch to some even more capable.

  9. Re: Good example on WSJ: We Need the Right To Repair Our Gadgets · · Score: 1

    There are design advantages to not having the battery removable - the obvious (for example, not having to have weight and space for a hinging or slide-latch mechanism) and the less obvious (for example, waterproofing and dustproofing - the fewer openings, the better).

    My Kyocera Hydro Vibe has a replaceable battery and is certified waterproof to 3 feet for 30 minutes and dust proof. It has a snap-on back with a gasket underneath around the batter/sim/sd compartment. In addition, it has *no* covers over any of the buttons, headphone or usb connection openings.

  10. How about ... on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ... all the new-fangled Telemetry stuff? :-)

  11. Re:Brilliant on Shape-Shifting Navigation Device Points You In the Right Direction · · Score: 1

    This hits three of my technological erogenous zones.

    The thing slides back and forth and twists, so it can be used on your actual erogenous zones too.
    I know this is /. so I'll add that with the right instructions, it can also help you find those erogenous zones...

  12. Wait for it ... on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    Lennart Poettering's long story short: "`su` is really a broken concept.

    One day, systemd will become too complex or something ... Lennart will declare it a "broken concept" and absorb it into systemd.

  13. Re:Really? on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 1

    Can someone put this into football fields for me?

    Is that American or European football fields? Doesn't matter, this is /. -- It's cars for analogies and Libraries of Congress for units. Get with the program.

  14. Re:"Less than Lethal"...How Reassuring on North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones · · Score: 1

    Relax. You won't be dead, just resting - from being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

  15. Re:Keep your regulations off my non-broadcast show on "Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    The complaint, I suppose, is that they don't have a category for "Depravity."

    Sure they do: CSPAN

  16. In related news... on Stephen Hawking Presents Theory On Getting Information Out of a Black Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    Put in layman's terms, "this jumbled return of information was like burning an encyclopedia ...

    Millennials ask, "how would you burn Wikipedia?"

  17. Re:record ? on Fusion Progress: Superheated Gas Kept Stable For 5 Milliseconds · · Score: 1

    They are using A different technique. Instead of using external magnets the plasma uses it's own magnetic field.

    Can't they just get a LOT of the stuff and let the plasma use its (w/o an apostrophe, by the way) own gravity for containment?

  18. Re:n=6? Seriously? on Is a Universal Flu Vaccine On the Horizon? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know the Slashdot trope is that n is always too small in any study, regardless of the actual size of n.

    That why I always work with "N" in my studies - it's much bigger than "n".

  19. Re:One more thing! on Swatch Trademarks "One More Thing..." · · Score: 1

    And one more thing... I'm covered as I always mention two more things.

  20. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    um no, it isn't. The problem is that possession is a crime, regardless of clearance level. There are systems in place for keeping classified documents safe, she violated just about every protocol with her private server.

    Speaking from experience, there are procedures for possessing / retaining classified data. If they're followed, there's no problem. Mere possession is not automatically a crime.

  21. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    I was only replying to the remark about a civilian still having classified data collected while not a civilian, not the storage of said data. Sorry for any confusion.

  22. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    Bullshit ass-hole. You like Condoleezza Rice should have known terrorists would hijack a plan and crash it into the Trade Towers.....

    You mean the terrorists who hatched that plan and were working on it under the Clinton administration? Those terrorists? The ones who were answering to Bin Laden, a person that the Clinton administration let slip through their fingers more than once, even after his group and associates had already killed hundreds of people, including US Navy personnel? Yeah.

    Or do you mean the Bin Laden family who have long ties with the Bush family?

    Or how the Bush family wealth comes not only from partnering and or owning everything from banks to Halliburton and selling or financing arms to the Bin Laden family as well as Hitler?

    How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

    How War Made the Bush Family Rich

    You mean *those* terrorists?

  23. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    She is a civilian in possession of classified material that she collected while she wasn't a civilian.

    If she still has the Clearance and Need to Know, that's not a problem.

  24. Re:Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 1

    There are procedures in place. Obviously, Clinton decided that she was going to do things HER WAY - and in the process broke a metric shit-ton of laws.

    Along with the people that allowed it to happen. Email doesn't get forwarded on its own. *If* she broke any rules, someone let and helped her do it and they should be as, if not more, accountable. Part of an administrator's job is to say "no" to things that are wrong. Sure you might get fired, but I know that I would stand by that decision and consequence.

  25. Re: Lying scum on Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe · · Score: 0

    I don't know about you, but noone has come around to fondle my testicles yet.

    So either you are lying, or someone needs to hire more fondlers.

    You must one of the 47% Mitt Romney was talking about. Moochers who believe they're entitled to have their testicles fondled. Get a job hippy and pay to get them fondled like the 53% to whom Romney was speaking.