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  1. Re:Good luck with that! on Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I was a Marine, but that was back before photography had been invented. Semper Fi.

    Back then, you used to pass around woodcut prints of naked women. They were harder to carry in your wallet, though.

  2. Re:The Village People will be upset on Navy, Marines Prohibit Sharing Nude Photos In Wake of a Facebook Scandal (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The Navy's always had sort of a conflicted sexuality.

    As they used to say in WWII, "Don't come knockin' if this destroyer's a rockin'"

  3. Re:"Neural signal diversity" on First Evidence For Higher State of Consciousness Found (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I can see that higher diversity might be some kind of "super awake" state.

    Talk to people who've practiced meditation for years. "Super awake" is a way to describe it, but it doesn't quite do it justice.

  4. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Hydrogen peroxide is created in the atmosphere when ultraviolet light strikes oxygen in the presence of moisture.

  5. Re:'Jucers' are a meme on Silicon Valley's $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Animal sources of Vitamin C include certain organ meats such as goat liver

    I'm working on a $400 WiFi-connected machine for juicing goat livers.

    Upgrade to the $800 machine and you can juice the whole goat, which has more fiber.

  6. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    He is correct. Many counties/cities have laws prohibiting laundry hung outside.

    I can't imagine. How embarrassed do you think the cop would be who has to come and write a citation to someone for hanging wash on the line?

    I've lived in a lot of places, and have seen a lot of dumb laws, but I've never seen one against hanging clothes on the line. Maybe it's because I avoid suburbs like the plague. Either I'm gonna live downtown or I'm gonna live out in the boonies. Both are pretty much insulated from this kind of busybody bullshit.

  7. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, doesn't sunlight, water and oxygen have some sort of chemical reaction that acts as a sort of bleach to disinfect and make clothes brighter? I know my mom used to hang the bedsheets and pillowcases outside in the summer and they always were soft and smelled nice.

  8. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    In the county where I am in the US there are by-laws that prohibit hanging washing outside*, and from what I understand this is not uncommon.

    Is this a county law or a covenant of your homeowners association? I'd be very surprised to hear that an entire country has banned outdoor clothes-drying. I know there are states that have outlawed restrictions against outdoor drying.

    I'm keen to know which government body would do such a stupid thing.

  9. the euro-step on Researchers Discover New Species of Giant Spider (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 2

    Califorctenus Cacachilensis

    Sounds like the name of a Utah Jazz power forward drafted from Latvia.

  10. Sorry, left off the link. Here you go:

    https://obamawhitehouse.archiv...

  11. Fake (not real) on Dingo Wins The World's Most Interesting Genome Competition (smithsonianmag.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    A dingo is a loser with horrible ratings. I have the most interesting genome, believe me. Dingos (bad) only wish they had my genome.

  12. They have developed a new device that "sends little electric shocks to sensors on your arms"

    Fuck you.

  13. Re:Open.gov on Trump Administration Kills Open.Gov, Will Not Release White House Visitor Logs (techdirt.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The O admin kept telling us those logs were useless and inaccurate anyhow.

    The Obama administration released the visitors log in its entirety.

    Here it is, in csv format.

  14. La Jetée on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 2

    Chris Marker's 1962 film is my perfect science fiction movie.

    If you ever get the chance, watch it in the original French, with subtitles. The dubbed English version is not nearly as good. For some reason, since I first saw it when I was in the Film School at the School of the Art Institute back when Jimmy Carter was president, every frame has stuck with me.

    It has influenced directors ever since.

  15. Re:How does a company like Uber lose $$? on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Next question.... why exactly are they paying drivers more than they charge the customer?

    Interesting question, considering the average Uber driver is making about $13/hr. How much less you think they're going to be able to pay?

  16. Re:How is that possible? on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A taxi company doesn't have an app for rating every ride.

    Sure they do.

  17. Re:How is that possible? on Uber Face Fines Over Drunk Driving Complaints -- And Lost $2.8 Billion Last Year (usnews.com) · · Score: 2

    How can a company continue to operate and attract investors / high valuation with $2.8 billion losses?

    Are you kidding? At this rate, Uber Corporation will become president in 2020.

  18. They've also built a virtual-Messiah twitter account. It's first tweet was, "I drew much bigger crowds than Moses. Believe me."

  19. Re:paleo on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I just wish I didn't need glasses to read the damn thing.

    I bet they make a speech-enabled slide rule now. They're doing wonders with vacuum tubes, I hear.

  20. Re: paleo on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 1

    I had a rock. It was good, so I got a second rock.

    We were too poor to get a second rock.

  21. paleo on Ask Slashdot: What Was Your First Home Computer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    My first home computer was a slide rule.

  22. Re:Fact checking? on Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election (go.com) · · Score: 0

    That's the great irony of Russia trying to buy itself a US President. The only way Trump is going to be able to hang on now is becoming even more anti-Russian than his recent predecessors.

    It's all theater, now. Trump bombs Syria, but calls Putin to warn him (aka, "ask permission") first. Nothing gets damaged, but it changes the conversation. A "mother of all bombs" is dropped on some godforsaken part of Afghanistan, that it just so happens the Russians were trying to destroy a few decades ago.

    "Looking tough" on Russia is dead easy when you're coordinating things with Russia. It's like me paying some big, tough-looking dude to back down so I can look tough in front of my girlfriend. The sanctions will be lifted, There won't be a word said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Estonia, Poland, etc.

  23. Re:Fact checking? on Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You know, all this 'Russian' bullshit is just new birther shtick,

    I thought so too, at first. Now, the list of names in the Trump administration with direct ties to Russian Mafiya and oligarchs is just too long to deny. Add in the number of people with ties to Eastern European neo-nazi "nationalist" (Russian front groups) organizations and you've got an administration that is thoroughly and deeply tied to some seriously bad people (see, "gay concentration camps, Chechnya")

  24. Re:Fact checking? on Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election (go.com) · · Score: 0

    We all know how well "fact checking" and poll massaging CNN and Politifact were doing prior to the elections

    You're right, the Russians were much more effective.

  25. Re:Wow, detailed instructions to achieve on YouTube Has a Secret 'Dark Mode' (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I assumed it was to limit all the videos by white people. Live and learn.