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  1. Re:Makes sense on YouTube Algorithm Can Decide Your Channel URL Now Belongs To Someone Else · · Score: 2

    Google wants to change people's expectations of where youtube.com/coke will take them. Their opinion, which your earlier statements actually support, is that currently the URLs don't have any meaning. They want to give them some.

  2. Oh, so now it's possible to roll out Adblock Plus? I wonder what I've been doing by requiring the plug in via the Google administrative template in group policy.

    Though, it might be nice to suppress the initial run page, which seems to be what the article is actually praising.

  3. All your games on Microsoft Announces Xbox One Backward Compatibility · · Score: 5, Informative
    The summary and article:

    you can play all your Xbox 360 games on your next-gen console.

    Ars Technica:

    Much like the Xbox 360's limited support for the first Xbox's games, more 360 games will be added to the backward compatibility list over time--and there's no guarantee that a favorite 360 game will ever be brought forward to work on Xbox One. Nonetheless, Microsoft promises over 100 titles to start, with hundreds more coming in the future.

    For some reason, I find the second quote much likelier.

  4. Helium on 'Warm Neptune' Exoplanets May Have Lots of Helium · · Score: 3, Funny

    The result is that the atmosphere may be largely made up of helium instead. If so, the planet would look oddly colorless to our eyes,

    and have a really squeaky, high-pitched voice.

  5. Re:Spending more than you earn on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 1

    GIRLS DON'T FUCKING LIKE COMPUTER SCIENCE, GET THE FUCK OVER IT.

    Its not because all men in it are assholes, its BECAUSE THEY DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT. They are wired differently than men, this is a KNOWN AND ACCEPTED FACT to anyone who doesn't have political correctness shoved so far up their ass they can taste it.

    Absolutely. There obviously can't be any external factors that could discourage girls from getting into computer science.

  6. Re:Ride one in January on New Redesigned Citi Bikes To Hit NYC Streets This Year · · Score: 1

    I use Citi Bike as the first/last part of my commute, between the train station and work, all year round. It's about .75 miles, and since it's not convenient (or economical) to take mass transit that short bit, it's a question of either walking in the cold or biking so I'm in it for a shorter time and generating more body heat.

    I'll admit I don't bike when there's an inch or more snow on the ground or it's raining harder than a light drizzle, though.

  7. Re:not new on Company Extends Alkaline Battery Life With Voltage Booster · · Score: 1

    The article itself says it isn't new. What is new is the miniaturization that allows it to go on batteries and have them still fit into existing devices.

  8. Foreign Laws on Facebook Sued In US Court For Blocking Page In India · · Score: 1

    If the plaintiff wins, I suppose all American businesses will have to pull out of China.

  9. Re: We do not consider it abuse to request a refun on Valve Introduces Steam Refunds In Advance of Summer Sale · · Score: 1

    why not just have an 7-14 day price guarantee with an auto refund?

    Because not everyone will return a game that just dropped in price (or even be aware of the price drop), and Steam gets to keep the difference for the people who don't.

  10. Re:I beleive it on How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds · · Score: 2

    You should get a Norwegian Blue. They're much calmer.

  11. Please give a warm welcome to the new 'Skype Killer' emoticon.

  12. Re:Obviously on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 2

    Remember, cynicism and wisdom lead to the same result most of the time, only wisdom is so much harder to learn.

    I doubt that.

  13. Estimate of 660 meters on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 3, Informative
    In case anyone else was completely confused about the ''estimate of just 660 meters" in the summary:

    But let's do the math: even if these particles are moving at almost the speed of light--300,000 km/s--and they live for 2.2 microseconds, they should only be able to travel about 660 meters before decaying away.

    Yet I told you these particles are created at the top of the atmosphere, which is some 100 kilometers, or 100,000 meters up! From our perspective, that muon should never make it to the ground. And yet, it's Einstein to the rescue, thank to the fact that when objects move close to the speed of light, their clocks run slow.

  14. Great... on Chinese Nationals Accused of Taking SATs For Others · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we have Chinese grade farmers.

  15. Re:They're missing the point... on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Either way, you end up dead - but for a lot of people, option two looks more appealing.

    Until they try it. (Though a small number will actually take to it.)

  16. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Anyone who's a fan of Opera back when it was still innovative and highly configurable (way back in version 12) might want to keep an eye on Vivaldi, a browser being created by a number of people who left the Opera team after the change in focus. It's based on the Blink engine and the developers are working on incorporating many of the features of Opera 12. It still has a way to go, as it's currently still at the technical preview stage.

  17. And give us bread, too!

  18. Headline on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    We really couldn't have worked 'Oregon Trial' into the headline?

  19. Details on (Hack) and Slash: Doing the LORD's Work · · Score: 0

    Maybe it would have been good to give at least a brief description of the game itself?

  20. Philosophy on How Responsible Are App Developers For Decisions Their Users Make? · · Score: 2

    From a philosophical or pure cause and effect approach, sure, the makers of an app have some responsibility for the effect it has on people and what they do as a result. From a legal/liability standpoint, generally not.

    The article writer is just saying to keep in mind that how your app behaves, how it looks, how it presents data, can have a real effect on its users, so you should consider the implications of your decisions.

  21. Re:So like Japan? on Psychologist: Porn and Video Game Addiction Are Leading To 'Masculinity Crisis' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With the decline of civility, asking a woman out and being rejected is no longer, "I'm sorry. I appreciate you asking but I'm just not interested" to, "Fucking loser! Why would you talk to me? Get the fuck out of here."

    It is?

  22. Re:OMG - How will I update twitter when I'm dead? on The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead · · Score: 1

    Just create a script on a computer somewhere that has it every so often send an update consisting of '[date] Still dead.'

  23. Re:Head/desk... on Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol · · Score: 2

    Yeah, it's the easiest thing in the world to come up with an encryption scheme that you can't break.

  24. 95% of climate models 'have been found to be in error'. Of course, if he's defining being in error as having any sort of mistake in the model, it's not only true but 5% low.

  25. City? on NASA Will Award You $5,000 For Your Finest Mars City Idea · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I want to know is where in the world the word 'city' came from in the article's title. There's nothing anywhere close to a city mentioned in the article itself, with the goal of the challenge being to 'establish a technically achievable, economically sustainable human living space'. I don't know about anyone else, but to me, that sounds like an outpost rather than anything like a city.