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  1. Re:"Other types of electromagnetic radiation" on The Town That Banned Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    Necrophobe!

  2. Re:yes, ignore the masses on Mayday PAC's Benjamin Singer Explains How You can Help Reform American Politics (Video) · · Score: 1

    Nah that's old school. He's probably a dark enlightenment/neoreactionary type.

  3. Re:I'm surprised this made the front page on Mayday PAC's Benjamin Singer Explains How You can Help Reform American Politics (Video) · · Score: 1

    You are attacking an inanimate object.

    If I put a plutonium rod on your desk, would you do anything about it?

  4. Re:Conversely on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    It should be pretty hard to obtain an expendable human in the countries where the remaining rhinos live. C4 is very stable and won't go off on impact, but a stable and long-lasting detonator would be needed.

  5. Re:Conversely on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    New idea: Give the rhinos an authentic-looking prosthetic horn with some C4 in it and a tensioned trigger wire running to the old horn stump. If some fucker cuts the horn off, BOOM.

  6. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 1

    That gives me a great idea - turn the poachers into middlemen. Get them to resell the fake horns at a large profit. It gives them a vested interest in passing off the fake horns as the real thing instead of making them compete with the fake horns, and the smugglers will be none the wiser.

  7. Don't make Canada's mistake on UK's Legalization of CD Ripping Is Unlawful, Court Rules · · Score: 1

    (They suggested an alternative: taxing blank CDs and storage devices, sharing the resulting funds among rightsholders.)

    Canada tried this, and naturally, it didn't satiate the rightsholders' infinite greed for long. Don't do this, it's pointless.

  8. Hellooo? GPL violation? on LibreOffice Now Available On Apple's Mac App Store · · Score: 0, Troll

    If the Mac app store is anything like the iOS app store, it would be a GPL violation to put LibreOffice in there:

    https://www.fsf.org/blogs/lice...

  9. Re:Shitting all over casual gamers. on Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    In case you haven't noticed, for the last decade or so the gaming industry has been catering mostly to casual gamers and shitting all over hardcore gamers as a matter of course. And then when a rare product targeted at hardcore gamers comes out, you bitch.

    I was going to upgrade from an Xbox 360 PC wireless to an Xbox One PC wireless, but I think I'll save up for this model now.

  10. Voicemail analogy on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    You know the prank where you leave a burning bag of dog poop on someone's doorstep, then ring the doorbell and run away? Voicemail is like stapling your message to that bag and acting like it's an acceptable way to communicate.

  11. Re:Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    Improve your understanding:

    https://www.reddit.com/user/Te...

  12. Re:Photo Op on Interviews: Ask Kim Dotcom a Question · · Score: 1

    Two words: Panorama mode.

  13. Re:pretty weak on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 1
  14. Re:pretty weak on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If that's true, why don't we already have programs that can make sense of human questions like this in text form?

  15. Re:Fuck being skeptical on Siri, Cortana and Google Have Nothing On SoundHound's Speech Recognition · · Score: 1

    The computer from Star Trek was indeed not so quick to answer, but they'd often ask it to run simulations that would bog down all of today's supercomputers and and give the results, so it's certainly more advanced even if it has a lower interface speed setting.

  16. Re:100% effectiveness against any unknown attacks on 100kb of Unusual Code Protecting Nuclear, ATC and United Nations Systems · · Score: 1

    This one weird trick protects government systems from malware! How does it work? The developers don't want you to know!

  17. Re:'Numérotez vos abatis'... on 100kb of Unusual Code Protecting Nuclear, ATC and United Nations Systems · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like AppArmor.

  18. Dr. Cox says: on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Dr. Cox would call the side effect a major case of "deadness."

  19. To borrow another user's analogy... on Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails · · Score: 2

    I think it was on a story about Facebook's .onion site, someone made a comment that also applies here:

    "That's like putting a condom over the car you drive to the whorehouse."

  20. Probably shouldn't have made this public on US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests · · Score: 1

    The illusion of effectiveness was the only real deterrent the TSA had to keeping terrorists from bringing explosives onto planes. Now that the illusion is gone, what's stopping them?

  21. Re:Tesla Scam on How Elon Musk's Growing Empire is Fueled By Government Subsidies · · Score: 0

    That makes a lot of sense. I've always wondered why Tesla likes to spend so much money on technologies that are Tesla-specific and have only fleeting usefulness...if they can turn them into government credits, they suddenly make sense.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the battery swap stations do indeed work, but I'm sure the demand for them is tiny now and will be nonexistent in a few years.

  22. Re:This used to happen on 4chan. on Feds Bust a Dark-Web Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin · · Score: 1

    Should I click this link? Could be a clever way to goatse people...or have I become paranoid?

  23. Right conclusion, wrong reason on Australia's Prime Minister Doesn't Get Why Kids Should Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Kids don't need to be taught to code - not because they're too young to learn (I was coding since I was maybe 10 years old?) but because there's already a glut of coders in the workforce. The shortage was a now well-understood hoax made by a few US tech companies who employ coders.

  24. Re:This is why adultery is wrong on Adult Dating Site Hack Reveals Users' Sexual Preference, Extramarital Affairs · · Score: 2

    Agreed. A while ago there was a big stink kicked up locally because a government official's mistress was about to fly in but his wife found out and was going to catch her, so he called the customs officials and had the mistress held at the airport and then deported to keep his affair under wraps (or at least keep the wife and mistress from meeting). The mistress had no idea why she was being held at the time. Officially it just looks like she was held and deported for no good reason at best - or profiling at worst.

    Of course in a small community, it's not in the news even though everybody knows it, on paper it's "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

  25. Re:Publicly Funded Research on New Class of "Non-Joulian" Magnets Change Volume In Magnetic Field · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aaron Swartz thought the same thing...