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  1. Re:internationallyricdatabase on Google Partners With LyricFind To Display Songs Lyrics In Search Results (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I must be missing something in this story. I don't remember ever NOT getting lyrics in a Google search. Right now, I'm going to do a search on, I don't know..."Biz Markie Just a Friend lyrics".

    https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

    So what exactly is the change that Google's announced?

  2. easy one on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And why is the US still throwing money at the F35, unless it can be flown without pilots.

    Because Lockheed-Martin spreads around bribes to legislators and the Defense Department employees who approve spending.

    And is "dogfighting" still a thing in the 21st century?

  3. Re:That'll be interesting on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Just tell them your slashdot ID then. Mine is 3654617.

    Please step out of line, sir. I'm going to need you to put your hands where I can see them. Can someone bring me some more rubber gloves?

  4. I'm pretty sure Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey already ruined time travel forever.

  5. Re: Xray bikes on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We are talking about penetrating a steel pipe not just looking a few mm down into a weld.

    No Tour de France bicycle has steel tubing.

  6. https://youtu.be/KqWqCuHR0Og

    He should also fix that $200 red light camera ticket that someone who wasn't me got when he (or she) was driving a car that looked just like mine through the intersection of Ashland and Diversey.

  7. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 0

    You have a terrible phobia of guns

    As I've written here many times before, I've been a gun owner for four decades. I have qualified as Marksman and Sharpshooter (a while ago) with both handguns and long guns.

  8. Get out of his way on Sergey Brin: Don't Come To Silicon Valley To Start a Business (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sounds like Sergey Brin is tired of having to wait in long lines at the In-and-Out Burger.

  9. But the Brock Turner thing is an anomaly

    You're right. Most rapists don't get any jail time at all.

  10. Re:And this is different how? on Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court (engadget.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    don't see Brock Turner complaining much.

    Actually, Brock Turner's dad absolutely did complain that 6 months was too severe of a sentence for his special snowflake rapist son.

  11. You then respond with a story of a woman killing her daughters after, and I quote your article, "A family spat."

    A "family spat" is when you disagree with your uncle about whether Bart Starr or Aaron Rogers is the better quarterback.

    When you murder two family members, it's a shooting spree, not a "family spat". The fact that it was perpetrated by a radicalized Second Amendment activist is not just coincidental. She recently complained online about how Obama was going to come and take her eight guns away. The ironic part is that if he had, two young women would still be alive today.

  12. In white neighborhoods there aren't random shootings.

    Meet Christy Sheats - white, Baptist, Republican Trump supporter and Second Amendment activist:

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/everi...

    This is what she did yesterday:

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

  13. Re:News at 5... on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sigh... this issue is so bloody simple to resolve.

    1. Default to a default set of morals, which include a reasonable (but not excessive) degree of self-sacrifice - based around the sort of decisions a "typical" driver would make.

    That sounds anything but simple.

  14. Re:Freedom of Speech is dead. on Google and Facebook May Be Suppressing 'Extremist' Speech With Copyright Scanners (theverge.com) · · Score: -1

    Truth is, Freedom of Speech is dead. We have news organizations that purposely change the message of new stories to fit their agenda. We have big internet companies pushing their political agenda via their services. We have the government watching everyone, under the guise of "our security and safety".

    Everything you say is watched, everything you post is noted. If it doesn't fit the agenda of who's in charge, it will be deleted, shadowbanned or you'll get a visit from the authorities, or just as bad, a DMCA/Court order.

    He said, openly, on the Internet.

    America was a nice place to live.

    When? And for whom?

  15. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Mental instability and violent crime both work for that... And considering how many ways there are to kill people, can you be sure they would be alive, and not run over with a car or drowned in a bathtub? Both have been done before...

    We're talking about Texas. If they took the guns away from the mentally unstable in Texas, it would reduce gun ownership by 80%.

    And isn't it interesting how often mental instability, violent crime and gun advocacy (or at least, enthusiasm) intersect? Do you also think we should be looking into the Baptist church where she was radicalized? Maybe find out if she's had any online contact with the NRA?

  16. Love Escort Sites! on Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites (softpedia.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here is my favorite escort site. I hope this hacker doesn't mess it up.

    http://www.feoa.net/

  17. Re:Police body-cams on As It Searches For Suspects, The FBI May Be Looking At You (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And remember Trump isn't running for King he is running for an office that has clearly defined limits to ensure a President cannot dictate policy.

    Hillary's running for the same office.

    And please, for the sake of all that's holy, learn how to use paragraphs.

  18. Re:Police body-cams on As It Searches For Suspects, The FBI May Be Looking At You (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    He is a great businessman and he will lead america like a business.

    Let's just hope he doesn't lead American like one of his own businesses.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/news...

  19. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That is a lie, there is no bribe there, only ordinary campaign spending.

    You're so close to finally understanding.

  20. Superannuated on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm so old I remember when there was a number you could call that would tell you the date, and it would give it to you in Julian and Gregorian.

  21. Re:So, what time is it? on Remember When You Could Call the Time? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trump 2016

  22. So just to be clear less ok to steal from some people then others. Does that spectrum run all the way to it being actually ok to steal from some people?

    Yes.

    http://screenrant.com/wp-conte...

    Seriously, though if you believe that stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family is the same as stealing the crutches of a crippled man, your parents taught you morals all wrong.

  23. That and "LOL" are both give-aways for stupidity.

    But how else will they demonstrate that they're not mad, really, they're actually laughing?

    (yeah, they're mad)

  24. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Who, specifically, do you wish to revoke the 2nd Amendment for in this referendum?

    How about we start with this lovely Christian woman and self-avowed Second Amendment activist who shot and killed her two young daughters today?

    http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

    She had been posting on Facebook recently that Obama was going to come and take away her guns. Well, if he had, she and her daughters would still be alive today. So, I'm suggesting going back to those old days (pre-2008) before there was an individual right to own and carry guns.

  25. They are after your bank account, and emptying your bank account from a hospital is not worse than emptying it from an e-commerce site.

    Sure it is. They're going after the bank accounts of sick people.

    The real evil here are all the people who legally exploit the system by overpricing essential drugs, equipment and services because the insurance will pay, insurance themselves for changing monster premiums for said monster fees and paying only after being threatened by a lawyer, who is the final link of this rotten chain.,

    No argument here. But stealing from sick people is stealing from sick people. I also hope the profiteers in the health industry die horrible deaths and we finally go to a single-payer, universal system.