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  1. This bit made me laught on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Lies Programmers Tell Themselves? · · Score: 1

    They [the Unicode consortium] also toss aside certain emoji, effectively denying someone’s feelings.

    Because nobody ever felt anything before there was an emoji for it.

  2. Re:Android on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    I'd second fedora.

  3. Re:Amber Rudd is dim on London Terrorist Used WhatsApp, UK Calls For Backdoors (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    She's simply the latest of a long line of British ministers who don't really understand the first thing about the Internet and its associated technologies.

    Hilariously, in the same interview she claimed that Google was at fault because it was far to easy to find ‘stabbing instructions’ online.

    To be fair anything so practical is probably beyond the capabilities of most politicians

  4. If self driving cars take off on Americans' Shift To The Suburbs Sped Up Last Year (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If self driving cars take off expect the suburbs to spread even further. A lot of people who wouldn't like an hour's drive each way wouldn't mind an hour reading, watching tv, and eating breakfast.

  5. If this allows you to live a health life until 100 on Molecule Kills Elderly Cells, Reduces Signs of Aging In Mice (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If this allows you to live a health life until 100 they will put retirement age up to 90.

  6. "Save $100 on a new TV during our Spring Sale!"

    ... you can't afford not to buy it!

  7. Re:Gravity waves, really? on Mars Rover Spots Clouds Shaped By Gravity Waves (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    We do. All you need to do to see them is go to the ocean or a reasonably large lake. These are not gravitational waves, simply waves in a fluid surface under gravity.

  8. You are not alone. I use them frequently

  9. remove muslims

    I wish it were as simple as deprecating islam.

  10. Are there alternatives to John Deere? on Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there alternatives to John Deere? Is there some lock-in with attachments, trailers, etc. (As a non-farmer I don't know)? I would have thought that the ability to repair would be a key selling point for competitors. If farmers stopped buying John Deere I expect they would review this policy

  11. If we could only use community shame and ostricisation to stop the religious fundamentalist who believe in using violence to overthrow lawfully government we would be going a long way to make the world safe.

    You are naive if you think this would work. With all the Islamic community telling them that hatred of non-muslims (particularly Jews) is good and all their religious books teaching them separateness, hatred and violence, do you think that the fact that you support equality, freedom, democracy and other things they oppose will shame them? Hell, they are shaming (and threatening with violence) moderate Muslims to support extremism

  12. Why is it a scandal? on Google To Revamp Policies, Hire Staff After UK Ad Scandal (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Surely people know that google inserts ads to videos and can't watch them all? Would it be a scandal if someone wrote racist graffiti on a bill-board? Would the bill-board provider be responsible?

  13. You seem to be trying to extinguish your burning phone, can I hel...

  14. Not the British. they were too busy bugging Trump's microwave to worry about drones

  15. They have been living in the Netherlands for three generations already. Some were born in the Netherlands, of one or even two parents that were also born in the Netherlands. Of course they still speak Turkish, have a Turkish passport (and a Dutch one), serve in the Turkish military (and the Dutch parliament if they want to), watch Turkish TV, eat Turkish food, and go to Turkish supermarkets and Turkish mosques, where they get indoctrinated by Diyanet - the Turkish ministery of religious affairs. And if their government wishes to speak to them, but the evil white oppressors forbid that, they go out and riot throughout the conquered province in the name of Erdogan and allah.

    Yet somehow we are all supposed to pretend they are also Dutch people that are perfectly well integrated into Dutch society. Now tell me why I should NOT vote Wilders (the Dutch Trump).

    You certainly should vote for him. Your culture and way of life is at risk. They are not content to live unintegrated, they want to dominate.

  16. The real problem is ISALM on Hundreds of Verified Twitter Accounts Compromised, Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The real problem is ISALM. That's why so many Muslims want to turn their back on Ataturk's dream of a modern, secular Turkey and make it yet another Sharia hell-hole.

  17. The irony is this is a British company, but in Britain he would have had the legal right to take time off to make other arrangements. (though probably not for much longer)

  18. It's trump planet on Stunning Close-up of Saturn's Moon, Pan, Reveals a Space Empanada (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's trump planet. The Alien trump built a wall right round the edge, then sent the bill to the other side.

  19. Things had to change. on EU Court Sets Limit On 'Right To Be Forgotten' In Company Registers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    AS it stood there were two conflicting rules; the right to be forgotten and the need to retain financial records. A guy from our legal department says "if this goes in unchanged someone could ask you to delete all their data, claim that they were miss-sold something then if you had deleted the data win by default because you had not kept the required information, and if you hadn't sue you for not complying with the right to be forgotten.

  20. What if the Muslims coordinated something like this with a mass terror attack?

  21. I imagined a Beowulf cluster of these things and it suddenly existed. It then went on to destroy the universe when Windows 10Q failed an update. However, on reboot, it restored the Universe to what is laughably called "its last known working state."

    Hence Trump and Brexit!

  22. I misread as "50 Quid Universal Quantum Computer" on IBM Will Sell 50-Qubit Universal Quantum Computer In the Next Few Years (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    At first I misread the headline as "50 Quid Universal Quantum Computer", but thinking about it, based on the speed of advance from Colossus to some of the cheap tablet computers there may be some people reading this who will be alive to see a £50 Universal Quantum Computer!

  23. Re:Blockchain... on Researchers Suggest Using Blockchain For Electronic Health Records (hbr.org) · · Score: 2

    It'll fix every security problem you have!

    It worked wonders for my constipation, though the links were a bit uncomforatble

  24. One thing's certain on Uber Ex-engineer Who Alleged Sexism Retains Lawyer (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    One thing's certain. S/he's got balls!

  25. Re:Just got back from Wellington on New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree To a Job Interview (esquire.com) · · Score: 1

    Most importantly, the people are smart, decent, and welcoming.

    Not many Muslims either, which is a definite plus