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  1. Snowcrash 0.01 Pre alpha... we dont even have 1/500th the processing power nor even 1/50,000th the internet capacity needed to do even early snowcrash.

  2. Re:Literally six years old, still not real/practic on China Unveils 'Straddling Bus' Design To Beat Traffic Jams (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    And bad hype. Look at the renders, they did not even bother rendering a simulation, the whole thing bends around the corner instead of the segments.

    It will never exist, they do not have the tech to build it and they miss an important part... like how does traffic EXIT and ENTER the roadway?

    What makes more sense is simply build a traditional elevated train or monorail. Instead they want to build this unservicable monstrosity.

  3. Re:Not bad on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    No atmosphere? It most definitely has an atmosphere.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Not bad on Mars Is Coming Out Of An Ice Age (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes 4 feet from the ground. at 6 feet it's 40 degrees and drops off rapidly from there.

  5. Thank the FCC. on Comcast Users Must Now Pay $50 Per Month Extra To Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 0

    They could have made the internet a wondrous thing, instead they did what they could to make sure maximum profits are to be had.

    Fuck you FCC..... Fuck you.

  6. Considering it's accuracy has dropped.... on Get Ready To Be Bombarded With Ads When Using Google Maps (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    The LAST 5 times I tried to use google maps for routing it was wrong. I gave up using them and switched to tomtom GO.

    Just yesterday went to drop off a package at the DHL hub. Google maps had me go one more street past and told me the empty field was my destination.

  7. Rogue pathc to circumvent this in..... on Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password (securityweek.com) · · Score: 0

    This will be instantly patched around with either a registry edit or a binary rogue patch available for download.

    Microsoft, you cant force people to use their brain.

  8. Re:Yes, good job FCC!!! on FCC Formalizes Massive Fines For Selling, Using Cell-Phone Jammers (networkworld.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    prevent the call to a lawyer? They want to prevent you from detonating your terrorist bomb. you damn dirty terrorist.

    Sorry, but cops should be stripped of armor and not allowed to carry a gun, it would force them to start acting like human beings instead of fucking stormtrooper goons.

  9. Do they start fining Law enforcement?

    Oh wait, the law doesn't apply to them...

  10. Dear Pirate Bay... on The Pirate Bay Sails Back To Its .ORG Domain (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Find a way of doing your own DNS using an app and tell all these registrars to fuck themselves with a copy of the hurt locker.

  11. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    And the owner now has to pay SIGNIFICANTLY more taxes as all those robots are now a Taxable asset. Employees are not.

  12. Re:And then those employees burn down your restaur on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? cutting costs means it spits hydraulic oil in your food. Mmmm hydrocarbons.......

  13. Really, so he thinks you buy a $15K arm and it magically does what it is told? it takes a lot of hours of programming at $190 an hour. It takes a LOT of maintenance at $125 an hour. Oh and if you think local health departments will give a free pass to automation... Nightly Sanitization, replacement of the plastic coverings to protect the food from the operating arm shedding paint flecks, shedding oil, etc... Food processing on a LARGE scale with robots where profit levels are far higher as that robot is making hundreds of thousands of product a day between cleaning and maintenance evenings is hugely different than one that is making hundreds a day that are not all 100% identical but can have almost random requests. the software will have to be far more advanced, and absolutely more expensive. All of your product now has to be in standardized containers increasing the cost... no more pickels in a 5 gallon bucket, but now pickles need to be stacked in a dispenser package. Pickles now triple in price. etc....

    Sounds like a CEO shooting off his mouth about a technology he knows absolutely nothing about but thinks you can go to Robots-R-Us and buy what you want and install them ready to go.

  14. Re:top security on State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those IBM System/1 are far more reliable than any crap that can be purchased today. Plus I bet they are radiation hardened.

  15. Re:Sounds like my D&D group on Google Built an Escape Room, Making People Use Its Apps To Get Out (adweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You solve puzzles?

    We just burn down most of the realm... Hell we currently have half of Ravenloft on fire and are considering joining Strahd's forces as they pay really well.

  16. We have to have our regular dose of stupid.

    Plus look at our sports, the big pussies wearing all the padding and gear to play rugby but we call it football the average european rugby player would demolish any american "football" player.

    Then we have baseball, where we have 6 hours of standing around grabbing crotches and sweeping a base, once in a while someone hits the ball and runs.

  17. Coat tail rider looking for fame again... on Billionaire Technologist Accuses NASA Asteroid Mission of Bad Statistics (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nathan only got his billions by riding the coat tails of Bill. he did nothing at all that was impressive, and honestly from insight read online during those yearst he CTO was not as competent as he should have been.

    Bored Billionaire wants attention, attacks real scientists with pseudoscience, news at a11.

    Now if he actually give them ALL the information including his Excel spreadsheet.... I mean software.... then we can start to take him serious.

  18. Re:Arduino! on E Ink Creates Full-Color Electronic Paper Display (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Buy a Kindle DX and snatch the E ink display out of that.

  19. Stop it.. and start working on what all of us in the USA want...

    Make the CatDog.

    yes one end cat, one end dog... Give it to us!

  20. As a backer of all the releases.... on Pebble Unveils Pebble 2, Pebble Time 2, and Pebble Core Smartwatches (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    Pray you get your watch around December or January. I was one of the very first to get in on pebble time steel and mine did not show until late October.

    Just in time for them to announce, "your newwatch is obsolete! get the round one!"

    I have since walked away to the land of apple watch as they still do not have voice control on pebble working for ios nor any text responses.

  21. Re:More than one city supplies a home on AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in a City of 100,000 and we have Comcast only. The DSL option is at 1.5m down and 256 up. barely out of dialup.

    Why? because comcast signed an agreement with the city to keep out any competition.

  22. Nobody wants thinner and lighter. on Apple To Launch Thinner, Lighter MacBook Pro Models With OLED Touch Bar, Touch ID In Fall (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 2

    We want Fatter with multi day batter and 17 freaking inches in size with a retina display.. The fact that used 17" MBP laptops are going UP in value are a fantastic indicator of this. It's the only peice of electronics outside of an Apple -I that gains in value almost daily.

    Give us a workstation 17" that is fat as the 2012 MBP that allows the installation of 2-3 .2 SSD drives and the option to install metric buttloads of ram.

    Dammit Apple, people will pay $2500-$3000 for that.

  23. Story is wrong. on Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Scorch Earth, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Burning all the fossil fuels on the planet at once in a large thruster will SAVE the planet. All we need to do is move the planet further out in orbit from the sun and it will counteract all effects of global warming.

    These scientists today are only looking for problems and not solutions.

  24. Re:Since when did Apple "rule" smartphones? on Avoiding BlackBerry's Fate: How Apple Could End Up In a Similar Position (marco.org) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Only if you count all the out of date crap. I dont count ANY phone not running Android 6 as being a part of the "market" The crap level phones that run 4.x and 5.x just dont count.... unless we want to count all the apple phones stuck at out of date OS releases.

    Sorry, that $49.00 prepaid tracphone running android 4.x is not an android phone in the market. It's an embarassment.

  25. Android has the biggest possibility of that fate. on Avoiding BlackBerry's Fate: How Apple Could End Up In a Similar Position (marco.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Android is so fragented it is frustrating for everyone. Carriers and Manufactureres are allowed to screw it up and Google does not care.

    Pure android is awesome, the Crap that HTC and Samsung does to it makes it suck, then the carriers add on their crap to make it suck more.

    Google needs to say, "NO" you ship a clean android and your add on crap is in the application world that CAN BE UNINSTALLED by the end user. They also need to demand that at least all updates to the OS be pushed to phones within 30 days of release, none of this bullshit like AT&T pulls with security updates showing 6-12 months later.

    Please google Force these companies to stop making android a steaming turd.