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  1. Thanks, Andreas! What's your next book going to be about?

  2. Re:Swedes try product because of marketing on Contraceptive App Natural Cycles Blamed For String of Unwanted Pregnancies (standard.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I have better things to do right now than type [citation needed] 20+ times.

  3. Re:Grrr. on China Builds 'World's Biggest Air Purifier' That Actually Works (scmp.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You've never been to Beijing, have you? The dome of smog surrounding the city is visible from 100 km away, and it's not caused by a big pile of dirt from the Gobi just deciding it wants to live there.

  4. Re:I wish they were still trying on 10 Years of the MacBook Air (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Innovation? I was using a device that looked and worked remarkably like the iPad while Jobs was still at NeXT. Ran Midori Linux, IIRC.

  5. Re:So Germany first, now France? on City of Barcelona Dumps Windows For Linux and Open Source Software (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Remulak may be a small town in France, but Barcelona is neither of those things.

  6. Re:He's referring to now on California Will Close Its Last Nuclear Power Plant (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 2

    Would that link be pointing to the "Institute for Energy Research" that appears to be a PowerPoint propaganda outlet for the big fossil fuel companies, and where there's a conspicuous lack of mention of renewables...?

    Just checking.

  7. Re:Uneven judgement of situations on How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors (msn.com) · · Score: 2

    For starters, Tunisia isn't an authoritarian theocracy hell-bent on exporting its system to its neighbours and on building nukes to facilitate that goal.

  8. Re:Hey Wired - it's the law. on How Millions of Iranians Are Evading Internet Censors (msn.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, because there's absolutely no way could any actual Iranians might want to protest their government's actions.

  9. Re:Warren is right and wrong.... on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Something something due diligence mutter mutter...

  10. Re:Only 2 words?? on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It's pronounced tsaa in Cantonese and Hokkien, both of which are spoken on China's south-east coast. There are plenty of examples in many language families showing how the sounds ch, ts, and t(y)/d(y) can morph into one another over a few centuries.

  11. Re:With a few minor exceptions on Why the World Only Has Two Words For Tea (qz.com) · · Score: 2
  12. Re:Fuck Norway on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    When someone has to refer to Wikipedia to get one of my jokes, I know I should probably stick with the day job. Ah, well.

  13. Re: You know.... on Nvidia Wants To Prohibit Consumer GPU Use In Datacenters (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Ars seems able to handle that issue just fine.

  14. Re:Fuck Norway on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? They don't have any oil, do they?

  15. Re:Can we go back to the actual killer? on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who *instigates* something like this is not an "accomplice".

  16. Re:More proof we need more laws... on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep.

    Set up a redialler service a few months to forward calls to my US number to my Swedish mobile, so that my family in the States can ring me direct at their convenience and my expense.

    My reward for trying to be a good son accommodating his ageing parents who'll never "get" Skype or WhatsApp or WhatEver? I now get calls at 2 and 3 AM my time from telemarketers with caller IDs indicating that they're neighbours of mine in the Orlando area and accents indicating that they've never been any closer to Florida than Mumbai.

  17. Re:Police didn't care on Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Since everything else that transpired in Topeka hinges on the prank call, the party making that call is the responsible party.

    "SWauTistic" should be found guilty of murder by cop.

    End of story.

  18. Saviours of the Just, protectors of the Golden Child.

    Bearing responsibility for yet another K-Pop boy-band is not exactly something to be crowing about.

  19. Re:Only white supremacists, right? on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1
  20. Re:How about we call out on How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Soros is a REAL NAZI, FFS!

    And he's the Left's BFF.

    All you SJWs on the Left screaming Nazi Nazi REEE REEE! better realize that your favorite Leftist groups and organizations are funded by a fucking real, actual, documented, Holocaust-enforcing Nazi.

    You do know that Soros is Jewish, that he and his family had to pretend to be Christians to keep from getting shipped off to the camps by actual Nazis, and that he was 15 years old when the war ended, don't you?

    Of course you do.

  21. Re:Well played on How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There's lots of science and news for nerds that doesn't involve Linux or Open Source, and always has been. Why should /. change that just to suit you?

  22. Re:I'm looking for a good alternative to Slashdot. on How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Bring back kuro5hin.

  23. Why are you asking that question? Something was miscategorised as "fake news"; I pointed out that the news in question was not fake.

  24. "His" is correct, since the subject is singular and of unknown gender.

  25. I thought at first it said "Fail Creators Update" and wondered how they could tell the difference.