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  1. The culture of responsibility switches. on Ubisoft Points Finger At AMD For Assassin's Creed Unity Poor Performance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is it now obvious to them that this excuse mean nothing after release?

    Are they implying they never tested their game on the platforms they specified in the minimum requirements?

  2. Sideways on Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now Philae seems to be sideways and under the shadow of a cliff that only let's it have sunlight 1,5h per 12h cycle.

    That amount of sunlight may not be sufficient to keep Philae operating beyond its 60h battery autonomy.

    Most info seems to appear first in BBC news

  3. Re:Piracy Precident on Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't find Precident in the Wiktionary. Is he the guy that governed the country before the current one?

    How is he related to 5 cent, the famous rapper you mention?

  4. Re:I hope it... on Senate May Vote On NSA Reform As Soon As Next Week · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many redundant players do we need to keep us safe?

    I'd suggest starting by questioning the base. Which, if any, is actually contributing significantly* to keeping someone safe?

    And then I'd suggest to compare that significance to the investment in money and in degradation of privacy among other rights.

    i.e.: If every life saved by HS costs some millions of dollars, it's way more efficient to spend that money in idiot-proofing vending machines and, as an added bonus, the country gets to keep being free.

  5. Re:Not a solution on Senate May Vote On NSA Reform As Soon As Next Week · · Score: 2

    Which, of course, opens the door to the simplest of international agreements : "I spy on yours, you spy on mine and we can share the results, all legally."

  6. Re:yet another duplication of what's out there on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 1

    I don't understand! Do you have a car analogy?

    Of course. Here's what the car is. The car is a market. The car is cuttable into unlimited slices. Who gets the car, depends on if they get into the market. Getting into the market guarantees them a slice of the car. This is why Google entered the market. Because of capitalism, gobbling up as much car as possible is always desired, even if it's unnecessary and duplicates what's already out there a million times over.

  7. Re:How indeed on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 2

    Those fuckers at WMG would claim all rights to the sound of me taking a shit.

    If you find that unfair you clearly don't follow current trends in pop music.

  8. How indeed on How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music

    In no way, shape or form.

    However, the actual question is quite more interesting:

    How will YouTube redefine what THEY consider music, now that they get to ask for money for the items included in their new definition?

    Or, in other words, will people be forced to replace the music in their skateboard stunt video with humming and whistling to avoid their video from being paywalled?

  9. Re:Fear on European Parliament Considers Sharing Passenger Information By Default · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No.

    The reason for this is people's ignorance. They want the information and they just chose the excuse that's easiest to justify in the current situation.

    If the cold war was still on, the reason to ask for all the data would be "communists!".
    Then it was "Drugs!".
    Now, it's "Terrorists!".
    Soon it will be "Pandemia!".
    Later "Organized crime!".
    And then "Aliens!".

  10. With one condition on European Parliament Considers Sharing Passenger Information By Default · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would allow this with one condition.

    For each single case of an individual's data being stolen, the current director of Europol and the one in place at the moment of the steal spend a year in prison and Europol pays to the individual $1M plus whatever is stolen from his accounts.

  11. Re:Are they drones? on Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck would someone post shit like that under their user account? The mods have already come down on you and there are only two posts as I type this.

    Usually because at the moment of writing they found it funny. It happens often when one posts before the first coffee or minutes after leaving the workplace. In the first case, because the humor detectors are still asleep and say to the brain "Yeah, whatever, that's hilarious, go with it.". In the latter case, the thought process is more like "WOHOO! one minute to GO! Everything's great! Everything's fantastic! Share your happiness with the world!"

  12. Re:These idiots are going to ruin it for everyone on Drone Sightings Near Other Aircraft Up Dramatically · · Score: 1

    Drones are so much fun and you can get so many cool photos and video from them.

    Yet these morons flying drones near airports are going to ruin it for everyone. Expect to see them heavily regulated or banned soon.

    This is why we can't have nice things. :(

    Actually, I think someone will find a way to steal them from the air and that will be the end of free roaming drones.

    Once people start seeing news of "my drone suddenly took off and left", people will stop attaching $300 cameras to their bellies.

    And that's why we can't have nice things unless everybody else has nice things too. Which is the most disregarded part of economic inequality and yes the easiest to sell.

  13. Re:Congratulations! on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 0

    10 years and 317 million miles.

    3249439800 itinerary stadia!

  14. Links for a quick review of today's Rosetta events on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 5, Informative
  15. Re:second picture on Philae Lands Successfully On Comet · · Score: 1

    It's the Rosetta spacecraft as seen by the Philae moments after separation.

  16. It's imperative to have this kind of rules on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 2

    The decision is absolutely required. The contrary would be cruel.

    Why lie to them? There's is no future in IT for a person who is not able to copy code from the internet and pass it as his.

  17. Re:The dark net on After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly · · Score: 1

    Dr. NO, is that you?

  18. The dark net on After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly · · Score: 1

    I expect some of those 20221 products to be made of dark matter and powered by dark energy. Brought to you by Dark Helmet on a dark horse.

    Also, let's all agree that "Evolution" is an amazingly shitty name for an online black market after "Silk Road", which was pretty inspired.

    We should start a campaign to suggest better names for the next instance after Evolution.

    I suggest:
    The Dark Bazaar

  19. Re:Pump water instead on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    I think Hydrogen energy storage is at 65%-70% nowadays. But you are right, I had forgot about the reverse dams and I think it's easier to sell to the public "We store energy in a very large pool of water." than "We store energy in a very large tank of hydrogen (which fill level is eventually going to be checked by a Darwin award with a lighter.)"

  20. Re:Are renewable energy generators up to task ? on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 4, Funny

    in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day

    I understand we're all geeks here. However, I think we can be expected to have a basic academic knowledge of environmental facts. For example, even though from my basement I may see very little of The Big Fireball in the Sky, I still know, based on YouTube videos, that clouds don't entomb us in pitch darkness.

  21. Re:to quote from a +5 comment in another thread on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 1

    Including time in the restroom? Bedroom? Annual performance review?

    Or, even worse, a combination of those three?

    "In February, Mr. AC's restroom visits' length decreased by 50%. This evolution was probably unrelated to that same month's bedroom performance rate: low to very-low. A significant increase from January's performance: Abysmal. Here you can see a video in which his technique has been described by Mrs.AC as 'Uninspired and sad'."

  22. Hydrolysis on Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy · · Score: 2

    Make hydrogen when the sun shines and the wind blows. Burn hydrogen when it's dark and quiet.

    Even with really bad conversion, it's cheaper than maintaining a nuclear plant just for backup.

  23. It's a product of the environment on Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech · · Score: 1

    Basements whiten people.

    In 2018 the explosion of the Yellowstone caldera will block the sun for years, killing everything that needs the sun to survive.

    Leaving behind only IT professionals.

    Thus, Morlocks.

    Mr. Wells did build the friggin machine.

  24. Re:Why feed the lawyers? on GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon · · Score: 2

    Is GNOME going to challenge anyone who calls anything a gnome?

    You mean the desktop environment? Or the tablet-based point of sale system.

  25. Re:In other words.. on How To End Online Harassment · · Score: 1

    *shouldn't..

    Damn, that typo always sucks.

    I hope you're not an BDO (bomb disposal officer).