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  1. Predicted in Max Headroom on Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures · · Score: 1

    Blipverts!

  2. Coming soon on iPhone 6S New Feature: Force Touch · · Score: 1

    Smash touch!

  3. He turned me into a newt! on Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? · · Score: 1

    But I got better.

  4. Running kismet on a laptop on WiFi Offloading is Skyrocketing · · Score: 1

    while in a skyscraper high above Chicago's Loop, and I could see 100's of AP's.

  5. Yet another reason to drive a 20+ yo car on Allstate Patents Physiological Data Collection · · Score: 1

    Like I needed another.

  6. Lost any respect for polls on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 1

    When they started to be used instead as a way to push a political agenda. ie. An agenda wearing a poll's clothing. This is true often enough that I no longer participate in any polls.

  7. The obvious reason for continued existence on Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight? · · Score: 0

    Someone has to make the pharmaceutical industry look good.

  8. Once lost, trust is very expensive to win back. on SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring · · Score: 2

    Good luck, it is going to take a long time and a lot of effort to win back the trust the SF once had.

  9. Re: Not United, at least on US Airlines Say Smaller Carry-Ons Are Not In the Cards · · Score: 1

    Log a quarter million miles a year, and United becomes a completely different airline.

  10. Linus is amazing in his transparency on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Can Move On Without Him · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You always know what he thinks.

    Put the cards on the table, figure out which ones are good. Lather, rinse, repeat.

    A smart man wants to know when he is wrong.

  11. Re:Congress *Cut* Spending??? on Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services · · Score: 1

    Ha! They increased funding for the SLS above what was requested.

  12. Re:I'm pretty sure what we'll find. on LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics · · Score: 1

    A lot of Physicists have been taking up careers with High Frequency Trading firms. Some are making excellent money doing so.

  13. Re:selective facts on Critics Say It's Time To Close La Guardia Airport · · Score: 1

    As opposed to Chicago Midway, where they slide into traffic.

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

  14. Re:Indian Point leaking tritium - Gov. orders evac on Transformer Explosion Closes Nuclear Plant Unit North of NYC · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As opposed to the natural radon which was in the water of my now capped well.

  15. A question of pacing on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many places are trying to adopt styles/methods/etc that are well suited to a startup in manic phase. They don't seem to realize that you can't keep this up indefinitely. Just dump bodies in the meat grinder, and code comes out the other end.

  16. Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 2

    I'll go shoot myself now.

  17. Wrong Wrong Wrong on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The reason for Linux's success was due to the momentum that BSD/386 had built up. With the AT&T Lawsuit, everyone was looking for an alternative that AT&T could not claim was derivative work. Linux was in the right place, at the right time. They all jumped on, and ran! The rest is history.

  18. They made it difficult to get TV on Internet Customers Surpass Cable Subscribers At Comcast · · Score: 1

    Order business class internet, try to order TV with it.
    Have fun!
    Too much work for me, I skipped it. Plus, what a rip!

  19. Look up "upwards failure" on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 1

    You'll see a picture of Carly right there.

  20. As much as I dislike AT&T on AT&T Bills Elderly Customer $24,298.93 For Landline Dial-Up Service · · Score: 1

    Kudos to then for waiving this.

    Although the call(s) really cost them virtually nothing, they had the legal right to demand payment.

    Wisely, they ate it.

  21. Re:I could go all day on this... on US Switches Air Traffic Control To New Computer System · · Score: 2

    Due to a bug in the code, the data size became an order of magnitude larger than usual. This was a bug that sufficient memory would have obscured.

  22. Who can forget the Z8000's on When Exxon Wanted To Be a Personal Computing Revolutionary · · Score: 2

    and ZEUS!

    Zilog was a real Unix contender for a while.

  23. Go to one of the higher floors in the Sears Tower on Seeing Buildings Shake With Software · · Score: 1

    On a windy day, the whole building sways. On the upper floors, you can really feel it. Last week it was so bad that we were getting sea sick from the motion.

  24. An honorable way to die on Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche · · Score: 1

    It dies with its teeth in the enemy's throat,

    It dies with its name on the enemy's tongue.

    For just as mere life is not victory,

    Mere death is not defeat;

    And in the next world I shall kill the foe a thousand times,

    Laughing,

    Undefeated.

  25. Re:The Revolving Door Argument is Thin Anyway.... on FCC Chairman: a Former Cable Lobbyist Who Helped Kill the Comcast Merger · · Score: 1

    It would have worked a lot better if they brought over John Delorean instead.