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  1. Re:Crash Test? on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We don't have the technology to make a flying car that is both a good car and a good plane. You just end up with all-around suckyness.

  2. Re:yeah, ok, whatever. on Online Creeps Inspire a Dating App That Hides Women's Pictures · · Score: 1

    4. Mention that you have to be at the gym in 26 minutes.

  3. Re:gtfo on Intel Drops Gamasutra Sponsorship Over Controversial Editorials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Putting this in a different context if you ran a McDonalds and a table full of 14 year old were using language like that you'd have no trouble telling them to knock it off or leave. And nobody would think you're stamping on the free speech rights bought with blood.

  4. Re:Notes next? on End of an Era: After a 30 Year Run, IBM Drops Support For Lotus 1-2-3 · · Score: 2

    I had the pleasure of using it for a couple months several years ago. It sucked so badly I couldn't imagine why any company would pay for it.

  5. Re:I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' movi on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    So if the mass vaccination of people stopped the spread of an infection then 'nothing happened', and obviously the vaccinations and precautions were a waste of time. That's some fine reasoning there.

  6. Re:Yay! on How Hackers Accidentally Sold a Pre-Release XBox One To the FBI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So someone could steal your car, steal your identity, destroy your business with a targeted hack, and you'd be fine with the police not investigating because there are still murderers and rapists out there? Alrighty then. Crime is crime and it all deserves to be investigated. Some crimes are worse but it's not like they put them in order, start with the murderers and completely ignore the rest.

  7. The arm is a tool on Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station · · Score: 1

    The other day my screwdriver put together four IKEA cabinets. Thankfully I didn't have to lift a finger.

  8. Re:How the fuck are those screens built? on Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Probably spilled their beer.

  9. Re:Antecdotes != Evidence on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    I've only heard about it from friends and family. When they explain that their computer has 'slowed down these days' I can usually trace it to a single piece of shit software they've installed. Computers don't just get slower and slower. Something specific has to cause the slowdown and you can actually fix it.

  10. Re:How the fuck are those screens built? on Boeing Told To Replace Cockpit Screens Affected By Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I'm thinking. I've had speakers emit noise when near cell phones but I've never seen any LCD show interference. Are they expecting passenger jets to withstand the same radiation as the ISS?

  11. Re:No, it is not. on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy”. Maybe it's not possible and maybe that's totally ok.

  12. Re:Where can I find the except clause? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    One major problem is judges authorizing any warrant that's put in front of them. Getting a warrant used to take some doing. You needed evidence and you had to make a bit of a case for one to a judge. You don't have to do that anymore. Judges stopped policing the police.

  13. Re:The average speed has slowed down in Canada on Japan's Shinkansen Bullet Trains Celebrate 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I just drove from Edmonton to Ucluelet (near Tofino on Vancouver Island) and back. Road conditions were great. Hell, I'd even say they were perfect. BC has 120 km/hr speed limits on many stretches of highway now. There are good rest areas, some with picnic tables, proper bathrooms, and a concession truck - even in the middle of what seems like nowhere. I don't know where you got the idea that our highway system sucked but maybe you should come drive out west.

  14. Re:Possible numberwang on Japan's Shinkansen Bullet Trains Celebrate 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    2,000,000,000 billion km = 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 km

  15. Re:And still nothing in the US on Japan's Shinkansen Bullet Trains Celebrate 50th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    When the US gets high-speed rail service there will be the same bullshit security theater as the airport.

  16. Ophthamologist on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    The ophthalmologist that spent half a million on a system is a complete moron.

  17. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Add the following:

    1-3/4"
    13' 8-13/16"
    23' 3/8"

    Go ahead. Use a calculator if you have to. Now do you see the problem?

  18. Re: FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Not 60, not 64, but 100 km/hr equals 62 mi/hr when rounded.

  19. Re:Moire expensive car, richer driver, that's FINE on Which Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets? · · Score: 1

    All based on their assumptions about your income and your ability to hire a lawyer.

  20. Re:Pigeons? on China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons · · Score: 1

    I thought doves were pigeons. Just white flying rats instead of grey flying rats.

  21. Re:Study is quite incomplete on Which Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets? · · Score: 2

    The more expensive flashy cars are generally driven by old people who can finally afford them. They still drive them as if the factory forgot to install a gas pedal.

  22. Re:Beware the headlines on Antarctic Ice Loss Big Enough To Cause Measurable Shift In Earth's Gravity · · Score: 1

    Yes. We can measure extremely small changes. Measurable in no way means significant.

  23. Re:Nope! on Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? · · Score: 1

    The world's religions weren't ready for the invention of the wheel.

  24. Re:FP? on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 4, Informative

    They aren't capable of reading the km/h letters on their speedometers. Really. We have to put signs up all over the place near the border reminding US drivers that our highway speed limit isn't 120 miles / hr.

  25. Re:Jailbreak on Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only · · Score: 1

    My wife is from China. After ten years in Canada she still switches he and she almost randomly. It can get pretty funny at times.