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  1. Air Force fig leaf on The WWII-Era Inspired Plane Giving the F-35 a Run For Its Money · · Score: 1

    How about this? If it's CAS, but unmanned, then the Army can have it; manned fixed-wing aircraft stay with the Air Force. Would that soothe Top Gun's fragile ego?

    I think a lot of this self-destructive behavior by the Air Force is due to them knowing the days of manned combat aircraft is rapidly coming to a close and they're panicking (kinda like the demographically-doomed white right-wing).

  2. College Tuition on The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year · · Score: 1

    It's a nice idea in concept, but just like we've seen in the stratospheric rise of college tuition, giving money to everyone will give a green light to every for-profit entity in the country (along with state and local governments) to raise their prices to get some of that 'free money', just like the colleges have, as greed like contaminated water will always find it's own level.

    The only things that will save this (or any country) is well-regulated capitalism in place of cronyism, upper income tax rates rolled back to the Eisenhower era, and the total illegality imposed on any and all shell game, off-shoring tax dodges done by both the One Percent and corporations (THAT ARE NOT PERSONS IN ANY LEGAL SENSE).

  3. Jono on XPRIZE's Jono Bacon On the Next Great Challenge · · Score: 1

    "Communitizing the Community thru Communitization tools."

    I miss that podcast.

  4. Re:Common sense = none on Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results · · Score: 2

    Its just not politically correct to say so because parent involvement lines up so closely with racial lines. Not exact, but close enough.

    Indefensible xeonphobia.

  5. ReChristening? on Blue Origin To Launch Big Rockets From Canaveral's Rechristened Complex 36 · · Score: 1

    Paging Inigo Montoya.

  6. And yet, somehow a chunk of those supporting this Libertarian school of thought would still furiously oppose a women from controlling her own body.

  7. Pee-wee's Playhouse on Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel · · Score: 1

    "Jambi, your new hands are here!"
    "Thanks, Pee-wee! There's something I've been wanting to try for a long time."

  8. Finally! on Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US · · Score: 1

    The Stagefright exploits will no longer have to take a check!

  9. 1-800-sue-em on Microsoft Is Downloading Windows 10 Without Asking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She will be a perfect, unassailable test case in the airtight class action lawsuit Data Cap Victims v Microsoft Corporation.

  10. Thomas P. M. Barnett on TSA Luggage Lock Master Keys Are Compromised · · Score: 1

    TSA = "Thousands, Standing Around."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._M._Barnett/

  11. Planning a new TV show about this on Pentagon Halts Work at Labs For Dangerous Pathogens After Anthrax Scare · · Score: 1

    "Halt and Catch Your Death"

  12. Cut out the middle men on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 3, Funny

    "We install the backdoors and trojans on the factory floor ourselves, and pass the savings on to you!!"

  13. Given that the local Barney Fifes are still allowed to use them (and still lie about using them), makes this decision the equivalent of a thousand angles dancing on the head of a pin.

  14. The real cost on Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage · · Score: 1, Troll

    The real reason of this costly storage is that incriminating evidence of an LEO executing someone can be completely deleted at a moments notice, with the traces left behind as that of a cosmic ray / solar flare incident.

    That there is zero talk of all the data being recorded to and held only by the DOJ is related to the same reason that there is _still_ no centralized, national database of LEOs shooting and killing people. It speaks volumes about the real agenda of state / local LEO w.r.t. all the minority communities nationwide. The Klan didn't so much disappear as having merely traded their white robes for blue and brown uniforms (and the license to murder with impunity).

  15. Re:The market for this on Self-Driving Golf Carts May Pave the Way For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    It's proven most weekends, that golf is just an excuse to go drinking; either at the '19th' hole, or via that second golf bag crammed with ice and beer. But given the preponderance of lawyers, judges, and even cops playing, you'll rarely see DUI checkpoints at the nicer country club parking lot exits.

  16. cet par on Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem · · Score: 1

    It seems most economists have 'cet par' on the tips of their forked tongues. Ceteris Paribus meaning 'other things being equal', which is rarely ever true in meat space.

    However, to truly model economist behavior, I think quantum machines should be used, so they can offer two conflicting opinions at the exact same time.

  17. Re:Flash is soooo bad... on Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads · · Score: 2

    Flash ads are awful.

    Until un-blockable HTML5 animated ads with audio become the norm - and I suspect the Google advertising agency will have no problem with this.

  18. Missing the point on Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars · · Score: 1

    A goodly chunk of the One Percent _want_ AGW-fueled (emphasis on FUEL) disasters, as it will 'thin the herd' of the underclass (starting with foreigners but eventually even the domestic useful idiots), all the while turning a hefty profit. It's just "Make Room! Make Room!" with a sound ROI.

  19. Re:Bullshit on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    And still, Linus says JACK SHIT ABOUT THIS POS. That's the part I don't understand _at all_. "Sure, the midwife is slowly killing my only child, but I don't want to say anything; that would be rude."

  20. Re:Graph explains everything on How Close Are We, Really, To Nuclear Fusion? · · Score: 1

    The only thing more depressing than that graph would be a calendar with the date of your death circled.

  21. The! on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    A team of researchers from Ohio State University claim

    Oh, nonono: you mean THE Ohio State University!! So as not to confuse IT with all the hundred other Ohio state universities!.

    The, THE, THE!!!

    What a bizarre type of monomania they possess. (Neat story nonetheless).

  22. Scant details have been released, but the technology has similarities with the RRAM and memristor technologies being persued by other companies.

    So we can all look forward to massive lawsuits spanning at least five years before enough palms are greased and beaks wetted to release this magic to the proles.

  23. Vietnam quote redux on US No-Fly List Uses 'Predictive Judgement' Instead of Hard Evidence · · Score: 1

    "In order to save our constitutional freedoms, we had to destroy them."

  24. Clinically insane on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 2

    The problem with the clinically insane is once in a while, they make a cogent point.

    They're still bug-fuck crazy, though.

  25. Great to read about this on Implanted Optogenetic Light Switch Lets Scientists Flip Neurons On and Off · · Score: 1

    At least, that's what the lights told me to write.