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  1. Re:Marriage on Why It's Almost Impossible To Teach a Robot To Do Your Laundry · · Score: 1

    In my house this has just ended up as us having a basket for 'Don't wash this stuff because it's delicate woman things your man brain insists on treating like other laundry so I'm going to do it myself'.

    Everything else is merely sorted by owner or function. Grownup clothes, little boy clothes (which is actually an astonishing amount), sheets and towels and other things of a practical, non-wearing nature. That's it. I brute-force laundry.

  2. What about shuffle? on That U2 Apple Stunt Wasn't the Disaster You Might Think It Was · · Score: 4, Insightful

    U2, sitting innocuously near the bottom of your Artist list, it always syncs and whenever it comes up on random you're reminded yet again to go sort that shit out, but you always forget. And the cycle continues.

  3. That word... on The Case Against E-readers -- Why Digital Natives Prefer Reading On Paper · · Score: 1

    etc etc etc. People always forget the e-ink devices. probably because they're so boring and uncool and you can't Facebook or whatever the fuck on it. I really, really miss my PRS-300 and -600. I don't miss my tablets.

    I wonder if this study would turn out any different if they excluded all tablets disguised as readers. E-ink only.

  4. Re:Be realistic on The Imitation Game Fails Test of Inspiring the Next Turings · · Score: 1

    Now I feel I need to see a Michael Bay-directed remake of the Imitation Game. Thanks a lot.

  5. Re:What about... on Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep · · Score: 1

    Lots of ereaders.

  6. Re:I hate electronics consumer culture on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 2

    But the sound particles degrade over time!

  7. Re:physical buttons are better on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    This is why I like the old Shuffle, the little square one with actual buttons. I stick my hand in my pocket, I know exactly how it's oriented and what button is where. No display, no problem. Low capacity, who cares, I randomize my playlist every time I go out. It's always been my favourite iPod.

  8. A black day indeed. on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 4, Funny

    There goes all those torrents of 'WINDOWS 8 ULTIMATE X64 TIMMY EDITION FULLY ACTIVATED'.

  9. Re:Guffaw! So much overhaul it's FOUR better! on Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0 · · Score: 1

    Now? Where have you been for the past thirteen years?

  10. Re:Surprise, surprise on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 1

    Except school boards, obviously.

  11. Re:I always think it's sweet on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    Moties are way cooler than fish though.

  12. Re:Nice job Samzenpus. on Ninety-Nine Percent of the Ocean's Plastic Is Missing · · Score: 1

    We don't need an FA, we just need a paragraph and ominous wording!

  13. Re:The IEEE on Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth · · Score: 1

    I would wager it's because the important word in that sentence is 'had'.

  14. Re:Hey - a little red paint, some crash test dummi on Civilians Try to Lure an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft Back to Earth · · Score: 1

    Because that's how we're going to deal with the Ukrainian crisis.

  15. Re:Charging is the actual venue. on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 1

    This is why we have IT security briefings stressing you're not supposed to do this, and software installed on workstations to let us know who plugged what in where and what it did. Most people know they're not to plug personal shiz into DND assets but there's always that one officer.

  16. Re:There's a reason books can't be updated on US Navy Develops World's Worst E-reader · · Score: 1

    I can't fathom how it's supposed to be easier and sneakier to dump secret material onto a personal ereader than jamming a USB stick into the computer.

  17. Re:I DON'T CARE! on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Whenever I drink a $6 cup of coffee I really savour it and enjoy the knowledge that when I get to the bottom, someone's gonna die.

  18. Re:I DON'T CARE! on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    I thought I'd seen somewhere that it was closer to 50%, but that may have just been for North Americans.

  19. Re:Consumers will choose the best option on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    Smart watches are coming, in some variety. In the end, they will be far superior then a standard watch.

    In what way exactly? Will time be shinier?

  20. Re:Maybe they should ask corded phone manufacturer on Japanese and Swiss Watchmakers Scoff At Smartwatches · · Score: 1

    An acceptable digital or analog watch with no paired device will cost you even less. Some of us just want to know what time it is.

  21. Re:Smart Cars = HiTech ??? on Smart Car Tipping Trending In San Francisco · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry you're so cranky about having a hard time getting the McCain sticker off of your Corvette.

  22. Re:Homeopathic Innovation! on Homeopathic Remedies Recalled For Containing Real Medicine · · Score: 1

    Fake surgery? Please expand.

  23. Re:So now everybody trusts gov't? on Homeopathic Remedies Recalled For Containing Real Medicine · · Score: 1

    Well, I would presume they tested some samples and found traces of penicillin. Now, based on those test results, do you think it'd be appropriate for them to publicly announce every bottle has traces of penicillin?

    It's the same with food recalls and why they ask you to return these products; if you bought, say, chicken strips that were subsequently recalled due to possibility of listeria contamination (which just happened here in Canada), are you 100% guaranteed to have a bag of chicken listeria? Of course not. But you're sure as fuck returning it.

  24. Re:Evidence that media cycle is useless on French, Chinese Satellite Images May Show Malaysian Jet Debris · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What annoys me more is how every day that someone or some government sees a piece of trash in the ocean from satellite images, it's pushed as headliner news with absurd speculation lasting for hours that it could be a breakthrough in the search... Until inevitably it's confirmed to not be airplane wreckage

    This. A wooden pallet? It's like people think the surface of the ocean is pristine and doesn't have any sort of other debris floating on it at all. I would wager one random wooden pallet has a 100% chance of not being from MH370.

  25. Re:The geek in denial. on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Frozen? The movie that has two hot women princesses in the main roles?

    Are you sure you aren't fantasizing about some future production of 'This Ain't Frozen XXX'?