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  1. No reason on Ask Slashdot: Why Would Anyone Want To Spend $1,000 on a Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    No reason whatsoever.

  2. Geez, ya think that $1,000 (minimum starting price) for a phone isn't exactly what the market wanted?

    Double Duh.

  3. With apologies to Carly Simon on Ask Slashdot: How Did You Experience The Solar Eclipse? · · Score: 1

    You drove your motorcycle up to Glendo, Wyoming, to see the total eclipse of the sun...
    .
    .
    .
    You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
    Don't you
    Don't you

    https://www.facebook.com/Nambe...

  4. Grammar on 'The Unwillingness To Foresee The Future' (stratechery.com) · · Score: 1

    " opponents' '"

  5. These guys lived in Africa 300,000 years ago, 294,000 years before before god made the earth!

    Impressive.

  6. PS: god favors the Dallas Cowboys as well on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, good, he's invoking god to justify bombing the shit out of Syria. So, god is obviously on our side in this one. I was wondering about that.

    "'No child of God should ever suffer such horror': Trump explains why he launched air strikes on Syria in the wake of chemical gas attack

  7. It's a stupid idea. Why am I not surprised?

  8. that you have to teach people how to detect bullshit.

  9. Two words on Ask Slashdot: Why Do You Care About Tech Conferences? · · Score: 2

    Booth Babes.

  10. Whoopie.

    Yawn.

  11. Your choice.

    Round 2, this time a *25* page report from the "U.S. intelligence community" (nearly twice as big as last week's FBI/DHS joint 13 page report) claiming that the Russians hacked our election.
    Oh, and it also contains *no* proof. Zero. None. Not even a little bit of proof. Nada. Zip.
    But that's ok, we don't need no steekin' proof.
    Right?

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...

  12. Responsible journalists verify before publishing.

  13. Big Brother Lies to Us, We Love It on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    “He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”

      George Orwell, 1984

  14. Is that even possible? on Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? (scmagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is.

  15. Somebody beam him some wifi on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Stat

  16. Here in the US we promote the teaching of creationism in our schools by allowing the use of tax dollars to do so:

    http://www.slate.com/articles/...

  17. A nation of idiots. on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    We truly are.

  18. My OnePlus 3 has 6GB of ram, and 64 GB storage.

    And a 3.5 mm jack.

    And costs half as much.

    http://www.gsmarena.com/oneplu...

  19. Re:Not yet ready for prime time on Linux Mint 18 KDE Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, the Mate version had serious issues a couple of weeks ago.

  20. Not yet ready for prime time on Linux Mint 18 KDE Now Available (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    The Mate version, anyhow. A couple of weeks ago Linux Mint 18 thoroughly borked my Intel Pentium G4400 Skylake desktop. It went through the install with no issues. I rebooted, did all the updates, rebooted and voila: Black Screen Of Death, X was totally hosed.

    I diddled with it for about a day and could not make it work trying just about everything, so I rolled back to Mint Mate 17.3.

  21. One word: on Star Trek CBS Series To Be Streamed Internationally On Netflix (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    torrent

  22. Credit where credit due on Bernie Sanders Endorses Hillary Clinton (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Our country's two-party system gave us the following two choices to be the next President of the United States: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
    Does anybody else see a problem here?

    But credit where credit due: the 350 or so million dumbed-down 'Murikuns will get one of them come November 8. And they will have earned the right.

  23. Every bit as well designed as on Google-Backed Solar Plant Catches on Fire (pv-tech.org) · · Score: 1

    Android

  24. "Private industry provides a lot of opportunity," NYPD intelligence chief Thomas Galati told Congress earlier this year. "So I think the best people out there are working for private companies, and not for the government."

  25. about fucking time.