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  1. Who is giving them a pass? E. Warren suggested splitting up big web co's.

  2. Re:Better resolution on The Opportunity Rover's Final Photo of Mars (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is another source. The bottom panel is highly zoom-able.

    https://www.nasa.gov/feature/j...

  3. They asked the wrong people on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It makes me want to kill, not the fans.

  4. Shame on you, GOP judges.

  5. PC's are the latest rage, who wouldda guessed.

  6. Per Bernie Madoff scandal, many interviewees repeated a variation of "yes, it smelled funny, but I couldn't resist the big returns. I hoped it would pay off before the bottom fell out."

    Similarly, the salesperson here probably said something like, "I can get your kid into X University for Y grand. But I can't reveal our proprietary methods."

    Thus, technically the customers may not have directly known it was done in an underhanded fashion, but it was spewing red alerts like a bad 4th of July.

  7. If people use it often, they'll probably make it display pop-up ads.

  8. Re: JiggaByte on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:About damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    About time he says something right. [paraphrased]

    You know what they say about a broken daylight savings clock being right twice a year.

  10. knowing that guy... on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet he asked it be named, "Trump Standard Time". And maybe "Time Force" the second option.

  11. Re: Fake need? on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I likk yerr bot hole in da heeted pewl

    Here ya go...

    Well, no heat, but wait until summer.

  12. Re: JiggaByte on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's "Fly you fools."

    I'm a wingless being, you insensitive clod!

  13. Re:Somewhat arbitrary what we call data on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    World? Instead of "Libraries of Congress" as the reigning standard unit of Big Info, it's now "Putin's Harddrives".

  14. Re:StuffShirtBytes on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Or "Trilo": TriloBytes.
     

  15. Re:Can you list some hard examples? on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    It appears to be a character attack on employee(s) of Snopes. Judge the content by the content. Where is the evidence the content itself is systematically wrong or biased? If character attacks on editors are the best you have against it, your argument is weak and you have homework to do.

    Something along the lines of, "Article 13 says Bob Smith was in NJ on March 3rd, but these 5 court documents clearly show Bob was in NV."

  16. StuffShirtBytes on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Without professional intervention, Dr. Brown fears, the next numerical prefix could become the Boaty McBoatface of weights and measures.

    What's wrong with that? The rejection of "Boaty McBoatface" was a stuffed-shirt reaction. Going with that name could have helped increase funding even via increased awareness.

    BoatyBytes, McFaceBytes, sounds fine with me. The existing names are already silly, or at least magnets for jokes.

  17. Why make a new prefix for each power of ten unless (and until) it really is used often? Just make a generic term, such as "24th order of magnitude". In fact, I believe that's already used. We can even have a shorthand: "24 oom bytes". To remember it, think of a cow mooing in reverse.

  18. Re:JiggaByte on To Keep Track of World's Data, You'll Need More Than a Yottabyte (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    A Future, Back To The, reference this is, no?
      - Yotta

  19. Re:So Slashdot is...... on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    or worse, Russian commies.

  20. Re:So, balance it out a little on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 2

    How about some specifics. Your accusations are too general to evaluate. And a couple of mistakes doesn't necessarily mean the whole kit and caboodle is rotten. They are run by people, and people make mistakes. I've disagreed with the scoring myself on occasion.

  21. IBM and Oracle merge on Cringley's Next 2019 Predictions: Only 3.5 Cloud Players Will Survive (cringely.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it possible IBM and Oracle merge to gain cloud muscle?

  22. Those artificially generated fire trucks sure are funky looking. They immediately stand out as fire-trucks, but as you look more closely, they have weird details in weird spots, and duplicate things that shouldn't be duplicated in practice. iLSD or a transporter accident.

  23. Re:Pixel counting on Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds (futurism.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    2 or 3 times I've come very close to accidentally flattening pedestrians at night wearing dark clothes and having a dark complexion/tan. They just blended into the background. Regardless of your skin color, please DON'T walk around at night wearing dark clothes. Leave ninja-ing to ninjas.

  24. Re:tell bruce on Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple solution: a mass clone army of Bruce Willises.

  25. Robocide