Comment Is Aldrin still alive? (Score 0) 25

by rossdee on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:16AM (#66251500) Attached to: Jack Dorsey Takes On Slack and GitHub With New AI Workplace Platform 'Buzz'

He must be pretty old by now if he is...

Comment So... (Score 1) 45

by rossdee on Saturday July 18, 2026 @08:06PM (#66245600) Attached to: Next UK Prime Minister Drops Digital ID Scheme

They'll have to be satisfied with Analog ID

Comment They should stop the time change (Score 1) 263

by rossdee on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:41PM (#66240432) Attached to: House Votes For Permanent Daylight Saving Time

and let the citizens of each state decide what time zone the state will be in.

Comment Re:"Focused on Discovery" (Score 1) 30

by rossdee on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @06:48PM (#66238762) Attached to: Google Images Gets a Pinterest-Like Redesign Focused On Discovery

Lets see...

There's the SUV (made by Land Rover)
The space shuttle
one of Captain James Cook's ships
the ship used by Robert Falcon Scott in his ill-fated polar polar expedition
an album by Mike Oldfield
A TV documentary channel
and also a Star Trek series

Comment 200 Economists (Score 4, Informative) 155

by rossdee on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @01:18AM (#66237436) Attached to: Over 200 Economists Say 'We Must Act Now' On AI's Economic Impact

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Comment Kind of like Slashdot. (Score 1) 59

by rossdee on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:16PM (#66236720) Attached to: Social Media Limits Are Coming For Teens Across Europe

Slashdot is the only Social Media site i use, and you can see from my ID# that I am not a teenager.

Comment If its in Canada (Score 4) 72

by rossdee on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:17AM (#66229726) Attached to: Meta To Build $9 Billion Alberta Data Center, Its First In Canada

Shouldn't that nat-gas be measured in cubic metres?

Comment Re:"Unknown" risen to 20%, did Windows really decl (Score 4, Funny) 86

by rossdee on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:39PM (#66228714) Attached to: Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share

Where can I download this Unknown OS

Comment for eligible Windows 11 business devices (Score 1) 77

by rossdee on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @09:44PM (#66227658) Attached to: Microsoft Flips Windows Backup On By Default Outside the EU

How can I become ineligible>

Comment Learn snither language (Score 1) 100

by rossdee on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @12:11PM (#66226874) Attached to: Learning Another Language Appears To Slow Brain Aging By Up To 13 Years

I tried learning APL but that was like 50 years ago...

Comment Re:When you can’t be bothered to cut and pas (Score 1) 11

by rossdee on Saturday July 04, 2026 @08:58PM (#66222780) Attached to: New DNA Tech Identifies Soldier Killed in America's Revolution in 1780

He could of rode a horse...

Comment But... (Score 2) 132

by rossdee on Friday July 03, 2026 @06:13AM (#66221096) Attached to: US Life Expectancy On Track To Reach Record High

I thought everbody who sits for more than 30 minutes was dying of cancer.

Comment Re:Doesn't it use that gay OS? (Score 1) 32

by rossdee on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:33PM (#66220128) Attached to: OnePlus Is Quietly Steering Customers Toward OPPO Products

Whats a polesmoker?

Comment Units (Score 1) 96

by rossdee on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:12AM (#66219372) Attached to: US Home Battery Installations Hit Record High On Rising Electricity Costs

Energy is measured in Joules.
Power is measured in Watts.

1 KiloWatt-Hour = 3.6 MegaJoules

(the hour is not an S.I. unit.)

Comment Cost (Score 1) 131

by rossdee on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @07:03AM (#66217986) Attached to: DOT Announces 'Return of Supersonic Flight' For Commercial Airlines

It was cost that killed Concorde, it burned too much fuel to be viable.

(well the tire burst on takeoff didn't help)

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