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  1. Re:Stuff from our past, when we grew up... on Die-Hard Sysops Are Resurrecting BBS's From The 1980s (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes (although I don't remember if that is the correct hayes command), but not all programs allowed you to edit the initialization string...and that's assuming you knew how to do it.

  2. Re: I also performed a study. on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    Science can only predict things insofar as they don't challenge powerful establishments.

  3. Re:How about no on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It may be medically easy, but getting/leaving a job should not involve any medical procedures. And with the growing ineffectiveness of antibiotics...well I'll just carry an ID card instead.

  4. Re:How about no on Companies Start Implanting Microchips Into Workers' Bodies (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The way you use the word "easily" is unsettling.

  5. Re:Reality check on aisle 3! on Netflix Now Lets You Download Videos Onto Your PC (pcworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Pirate Bay has a better selection too.

  6. Relevance? So what?

  7. Surely they already did that before the Windows 10 release. Unfortunately we'll never know because nobody has actually read it all the way through.

  8. Re:Fake news, see the MASIE data for yourself on Sea Ice Extent Sinks To Record Lows At Both Poles (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    But don't you see! It's a vast conspiracy with thousands of participants who all collectively are keeping the global warming hoax a secret!

  9. Re:We're not doomed [Re:We're Doomed.] on 'Extreme and Unusual' Climate Trends Continue After Record 2016 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll see significant change when it starts affecting profits. By the way, I'm an atheist not because of evidence I can believe in, but because there's no evidence at all. None.

  10. Apt

  11. Re:Muslim laptop ban? on UK Flight Ban On Devices To Be Announced (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the vigilante penalty for disobeying Allah's laws tends to be rather medieval.

  12. Re:Professionalize computer science on Bruce Schneier Calls for IoT Legislation, Argues The Internet Is Becoming One Giant Robot (linux.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does that mean we can hold Dennis Ritchie responsible for all of the buffer overflow related crashes and security exploits?

  13. Re:Chrome _is_ the standard! on Chrome 57 Arrives With CSS Grid Layout and API Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This is a joke, right?

  14. Re:I worked in IT for about twenty years before... on Boeing and Airbus Can't Make Enough Airplanes To Keep Up With Demand (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, if it's so awesome in the factory, why don't you get a job there?

  15. Re:Cats have othe ways to make you crazy on Owning a Cat Does Not Lead To Mental Illness, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They have teeth too... When my cat plays this game it's usually the teeth that have me running for cover.

  16. Re:So much for that Trillion or so that Obama Spen on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    What's a bike land?

  17. Re:Cost on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh hi Buzzkill, I didn't see you arrive.

  18. Re:Cost on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    That shortens the distance to Asia right?

    Nope. The distance between Asia to every other places still remains exactly the same.

  19. It's not as easy as you think. Somebody has to supervise the robots so that when they inevitably fall off the track, they are shutdown and repaired rather continue running and destroy everything.

  20. Re:Jumped the shark a long while ago on Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed Again As Spock's Father Is Cast (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Sisko never had super powers. Did we watch the same series?

  21. It's different because one is about spying on people(which is apparently illegal), and the other is about spying on consumers(which is legal).

  22. Re:I saw an article about why Chinese did better on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Asian doesn't really make sense. So...do they prefer mongoloid? I thought that was offensive.

  23. Re:It IS hipsterism (if that's a word) on Cassettes Are Back, and Booming (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Old computers are practically free, I throw away a couple every year. Tape decks are so antiquated they actually cost money because they're becoming more scarce.

  24. The people making a stir about these things are the ones that stand to gain employment from scaring the general public

    So, news writers and editors then.

  25. Re: WW3 is going to be a nightmare on Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I agree. But there many be a precedent set at some point in the future where small tactical nukes become acceptable...and anything above a certain kilotonage becomes the new "line of doomsdayness".