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  1. Re:Refinement of previously demonstrated tech? on First Automatic Identification of Flying Insects Allows Hi-Tech Bug Zapping · · Score: 1

    I instantly thought of that talk too. They were essentially doing this many years ago.

  2. The BBB For Science on New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like a great idea, but in reality it'll end up being untrusted and reviled by scientists. Set yourself up as THE authority on judging anything and the people you're judging will hate you because of your biases, conflicts of interest, lack of oversight, lack of accountability, and poor dispute resolution.

  3. I thought it was Apple's fault on Flash Is Dead; Long Live OpenFL! · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple's footprints were found at the crime scene.

  4. Re:The submission looks like a Microsoft advertise on Microsoft Releases Free Edition of OneNote · · Score: 1

    I must have been using it wrong. When I tried it I found it to be a big disorganized mess.

  5. Re:Does it really cost $100k? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    And a 10% "shop supply" surcharge, just like a Ford auto shop.

  6. Re: Cool on California District Launches Country's First All-Electric School Bus · · Score: 1

    No it can't be good. One puff of something smelly surely will impact brain development! And THIS right here is why we have scientific studies - so we can do away with shitty opinions like this.

  7. Hacker's Dream on Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free For Non-Commercial Use · · Score: 1

    Once a hacker gets control of it they can have the embedded players show anything they want much more easily than before. They could possibly even have the player show video. Sounds like a very juicy target.

  8. Re:It's only a motion on Legal Motion: Hyperlinks Are Protected By the First Amendment · · Score: 1

    Great to have them? What kind of backwards parallel universe did you just come from?

  9. Re:Frog is boiling.... on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 1

    Judges hand out warrants to police so easily now all it does it delay them for a few hours.

  10. Re: Dont do anyone any favors on Court Says Craigslist Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support · · Score: 1

    So poor people shouldn't be allowed to breed? You should totally run for president because you would make Mitt Romney seem like a decent, caring guy.

  11. Re:This is new? on Why Birds Fly In a V Formation · · Score: 2

    The BBC would report on the link between sex and pregnancy if they had the chance. You try filling that many hours day after day with news and you'll end up reporting anything that happens, whether it's newsworthy or not.

  12. Attach sensors and then launch them into Tornado like in Twister.

  13. Re:Vector UI? on Glyphy: High Quality Glyph Rendering Using OpenGL ES2 Shaders · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be damn easy to generate intermediate bitmaps from the vectors and then use those when dragging and moving windows? You don't need to redo every single calculation every time you re-render something. You only need to do a few more to make sure nothing has changed. Even a modest amount of performance optimization would make 100% vector rendering as fast as the crap we have now.

  14. Re:damn subpixel antialiasing on Glyphy: High Quality Glyph Rendering Using OpenGL ES2 Shaders · · Score: 2, Funny

    Might I suggest using an oxygen free, mono directional, ultra gold-plated HDMI cable to connect your monitor. It should fix the anti-aliasing flaw that you can somehow detect with your superhuman eyeballs.

  15. Re:Location? on Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight · · Score: 1

    Daylight saving time switches generally happen at 2 am.

  16. Who cares? on Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does anybody really care about this stupid metaphor and the idiots in charge of setting the time? It's so ridiculous that when I saw it in a movie I laughed, and then later found out it was real and laughed much harder.

  17. Mood on Why Transitivity Violations Can Be Rational · · Score: 1

    There's just randomness in decision making sometimes. Get over it. Sometimes I just feel like stuffing my face with cheap pizza. Other times I prefer to skip dinner entirely.

  18. Re:Can I get a copy of myself. on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 1

    What does marriage have to do with it?

  19. Re:Can I get a copy of myself. on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I send my salive and get a copy of myself in 9-10 months? How much that will cost?

    Might I suggest a half-clone. They're way cheaper and a hell of a lot more fun to make.

  20. We already have enough police officers on Chinese Firm Can Now Produce 500 Cloned Pigs Per Year · · Score: 4, Funny

    We already have enough police officers. We don't need a clone factory.

  21. Beep boop on Programmer Debunks Source Code Shown In Movies and TV Shows · · Score: 1

    They can't get computers to stop beeping, booping, and whirring. Text messages are transmitted one character at a time and show up that way. Every piece of information EVER is linked to one central easily searchable government database. And you're fucking looking at the source code that you're not supposed to read anyway?

  22. Re:Kessler Syndrome on Swarms of Small Satellites Set To Deliver Close To Real-Time Imagery of Earth · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Orbital space is very very very large. Vast. Immense. It is damn near impossible for it to be cluttered. Don't buy into the FUD.

  23. They can probably see you typing in the password or your phone.

  24. HD on Swarms of Small Satellites Set To Deliver Close To Real-Time Imagery of Earth · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sure film cameras have been in space before and they are much higher quality than HD.

  25. Re:Spoiler on The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures · · Score: 1

    You have no idea what colourblindness is.