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  1. This just in, what experts believed was the last honest person died last week in Salt Lake City, Utah. This makes it official that you can't believe anything you see or hear. And speaking of things you can't believe, here's Chip with the weather.

  2. 30 thousand in real time. If you split it into 8 hour shifts, you'd need 90k plus floaters for sick days and holidays and another 1000 supervisors. And a human resources department just for the hundreds quitting and their replacements being hired every week. All of which would be rendered redundant as soon as they get the algorithm working properly to censor videos.

  3. Re:It's a shame, because Canada is not on NYTimes Editorial Board: The FCC Wants To Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    As another Canadian, have you ever heard the term "The U.S. sneezes and Canada catches a cold"? The cable companies are some of the richest in the country. With people losing interest in sports and cutting off their cable, Rogers and Bell and the rest are running out of nuts to squeeze.

  4. On behalf of Kevin O'Leary, thanks, sucker.

  5. What to tell your kids on How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tell them that Santa was fired by his employers (Coca-Cola) because there were accusations of him sexually harassing the female elves Apparently he would get them to sit on his lap while telling them what he wanted for Christmas.

  6. Politicians! on R.I.P., Cape Wind (bostonglobe.com) · · Score: 1

    Executive: Pack up. We're leaving. We only have a thousand dollars anyway.
    Mayor Quimby: There's a thousand dollar leaving-town tax!

  7. They have an algorithm for everything on Can Researchers Detect Irregular Heart Rhythms with the Apple Watch? (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reminds me of the internet meme where the guy forgets to take off his apple watch while watching porn and masturbates for 3 miles.

  8. Re:Attention poor people of the world on Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can still take the bus. You probably ride in the short yellow one. Lose your mommy?

  9. Attention poor people of the world on Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you want the cheapest car to operate, buy an electric. But a hybrid or electric are not the cheapest to buy and nobody is recommending you buy a used Prius or something similar. There's a segment of the market who isn't concerned about such things which is why Chevrolet is bringing out a new 755 horsepower Corvette ZR1. The fuel mileage is atrocious, it costs $120k and they'll probably sell as many as they can make. Some people get excited over that while others want a blender on wheels. Go figure.

  10. Re:Coming soon to a theater near you on Controversial Study Claims 'Smartphone Addiction' Alters the Brain (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny because it's true.

  11. Coming soon to a theater near you on Controversial Study Claims 'Smartphone Addiction' Alters the Brain (inverse.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I Was A Teenage Smartphone Addict". They turned a generation into drooling smartphone junkies willing to do anything except work for their next fix.

  12. Re:Werner Von Braun said on SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Did that with a slide rule fifty years ago. Some people are just nacky like that.

  13. Werner Von Braun said on SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    What's the big woop? We were doing this in 1942. And it worked, ask the British.

  14. "The sky is falling!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  15. Re: Science? on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: 1

    It's because I like cats AND dogs that the idea of someone slicing them up for "science" bothers me. No matter what the study says, it's an apples and oranges issue. Dogs are better at some things and cats others. Suppose it's a job for somebody.

  16. Science? on Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats (vanderbilt.edu) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who does this benefit anyone or how is it making the world a better place? It's studies like this that make "scientists" sound like fools. And at the risk of piling on has zero tech relevance.

  17. Re:Lenny is that you? on MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    macos uses launchd.

    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/C...

  18. Must have been 1975 first video game ever - Pong. Seemed mind-blowing. It was only ten years earlier that an Etch-A-Sketch impressed kids.

  19. The usual suspects on Elon Musk Says He Is Not Bitcoin's Satoshi Nakamoto (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is a cia-nsa project. According to google. Who else can keep a secret that well?

  20. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm all for fun. But you know what happens when you have too much fun.

  21. Re:Tip of the iceberg on Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Bernie's looking pretty good right about now isn't he? The only one nobody has accused of cozying up to the Ruskies.

  22. Now add up all the money lost to the economy from people playing video games and consider maybe Washington isn't to blame for all the country's problems. Usually it keeps the perpetrators off the streets so it's tolerated. Addictive as crack games can be.

  23. They put you through to their call center in India on Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Hello, this is Raj, I am understanding that you have feelings of suicide? Could you please confirm your email address and I will give you the numbers of a counselor who can make you feel better. Please hold the line.

  24. So there's not enough to worry about now? We don't have problems that need work this year? We have to worry about what "might happen"? I should be worrying that Mumbai might flood in 80 years? There's no chance they might find a solution between now and then? We all have to argue over who's the bigger bastards, the deniers or the over-reactors? Me, I got more important things to worry about

  25. Re:No, it was me! on Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? (cryptocoinsnews.com) · · Score: 0

    It's funny you should mention that as a couple weeks ago I watched a show on CBC called The Fifth Estate about the recently released then not released JFK assassination files. They alleged that what was not released clearly showed that the fatal shot which blew the back of Kennedy's head off came from the front. But then again who really cares what happened 53 years ago?