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  1. Imperial Stormtroopers Assemble! on Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    All your space rocks are belong to us.

  2. It seems to me you are just using the old Bluetooth generation devices which are power hungry. Bluetooth 4.x, called Low-Energy is fixing this problem.

    Bluetooth still uses more power than a wired headphone, and with a device that is chronically power-hungry (like an iPhone), this is not a feature.

  3. But will the self-driving cars be 3D-printed on Mars by Elon Musk?

  4. Also, SJWs. Take a drink.

    No. I'm posting from rehab.

  5. Call me when there is a Bluetooth headset that sounds as good and uses the same amount of power as wired headsets.

    So digital audio to the speaker is the future

    Nonsense.

  6. Re:3.5mm? on Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think there was a 2.5mm variant floating around for a while, but it never caught on.

    Yeah. I had a Sangean radio that had the smaller variant. I hated it because I couldn't get replacement earbuds for it and had to buy an adapter, which defeats the purpose of the smaller jack.

  7. Step away from the Barbie on Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports (bt.com) · · Score: 1

    Something tells me it's not just going to be little girls that will get spied upon:

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ijiNDZy...

  8. Bill Gates to Headline? on Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks · · Score: 1

    I heard they tried to get Fetty Wap to headline, but they didn't want to meet his price.

    https://youtu.be/wxMZkhWum64

  9. Re:Why not Al Gore? on Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks · · Score: -1

    Yeah, that effin' Al Gore. If he's so smart, why ain't he rich?

  10. Re:Oh Boy on Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This story will generate rational discussion on Slashdot.

    Lemme start.

    That Bill Gates, man. If he's so smart, why ain't he rich?

  11. Re:Home on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 1

    economic studies

    That actually made me snort-laugh.

    You might as well have said "parapsychology studies".

  12. Home on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 1

    Your perception of how good or bad the world is probably depends most on what's going on inside your home and inside your head.

    Despite bad things that happen (which is nothing new, of course) the world is definitely on the good side of the bell curve. Positively above average. Maybe it's the proximity to Thanksgiving, with my family around me and everybody healthy and the Bears beating the Packers, but I feel pretty good about the world now. I can feel pain from all the bad things in the world, have those things diminish me as they do everyone, and still feel like the world is a pretty good place.

  13. Re:Really? on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols"

    Then they should put the video on twitch.tv.

    I'll bet the chat would be awesome:

    Nevada1: xD
    R1ku1313: just pooped myself
    monkeytamarin: 100
    Cjadl24: VAC
    Tomraax: drone Kappa
    Bx_flip_mula: whites created EBOLA
    Drayco88: CruW CruW CruW CruW
    Dylan88937: MP7?
    MohammadTayyemHD: As pasha once said rippepperonees Kappa
    Nios03: REKT! god bless KappaRoss
    Ovxe: GOOO LG
    Kosaukacz: cyka nuggets
    BambiOnPcIn1080p: lick my balls
    Caki322: chupenme la japi manga

  14. Re:so, open season on American civilians now? on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a form for declaring war? A special hand shake, a ritual dance?

    Yes. This is how we do it:

    https://youtu.be/YRKhTvUUYMI

  15. Re:Make no mistake on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those crazy alarmist's, I took a nature walk through Hanford just the other day and it was fine.

    Except for the radroaches and an angry death claw. But the mutfruit is delicious this time of year.

  16. I got yer Pip-boy, right here. on Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age · · Score: 1

    Fallout 4: It's a cookbook!

  17. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Want a recent pop culture example? The Zoe Post

    Give links, man. Let everybody see what you're talking about so they can understand your commitment to ethics in journalism.

    Common knowledge, it doesn't require a citation.

    Common knowledge is quite uncommon.

  18. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Why's that? Does your personal definition of journalist require that he believe himself the final arbiter on truth?

    Does your personal definition of constructive criticism mean you get to do it on somebody else's dime?

  19. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    No they don't have to. It's just better for society if they do.

    I wonder how the Founding Fathers managed, since their books, pamphlets, newspapers didn't have comments sections.

    I'm still waiting for a single citation of a comments section that has been "good for society". Some bit of evidence that it does something besides play into people's confirmation bias.

  20. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're familiar with that Ratzo; you practice it incessantly

    Yer oan a burst mooth, ya lying fooking buftie cunt.

  21. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It has to do with the internet providing a place where people can discuss what was said by journalists.

    You mean like this one? In case you haven't noticed, there is an endless number of places where people can discuss what is said by journalists. It doesn't mean the journalists have to provide one.

    The papers can do what they like of course but that doesn't mean their newfound intolerance of criticism is a good thing for free society.

    And yet, here you are criticizing the fact that there is intolerance of criticism. You don't see the wee flaw in your argument?

  22. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I would never trust a "journalist" that isn't willing to open themselves up to public feedback.

    I understand that. But does it mean that it is the obligation of the journalist to provide and maintain a forum for instant feedback at his own expense? And further, to do so with protection of anonymity?

    Technology has given us limitless avenues for speech. Anyone can put up a website, submit a story, be a source. You can feed back to your heart's content. A guarantee of free speech is not the same as a guarantee to be heard by everyone. If it were, I'd have my own cable news network (where everyone would have Scottish accents, by the way, because I find them amusing). Instead, I've got fooking nowt, innit?

  23. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Comments sections often call out mistakes in reporting

    Citation?

  24. Re: Isn't this why computers are great on Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So, journalism did exist before there were online comments sections. It just doesn't anymore.

    Of course it does. You just have to look for it. And don't expect to see comments sections when you do find it.

    If you're looking for journalism in mass media, you're right. It doesn't exist any more.

  25. Re:Typical world bank conspiracy on Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 1

    And the drones are piloted by Uber drivers. On Mars.