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  1. Re:With all due respect to Mr. Hawking and us... on Stephen Hawking Wants To Find Aliens Before They Find Us (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    So we should keep our Samsungs just in case?

  2. Re: Conventional warfare is dead on Air Force Grounds $400 Billion F-35s Because of 'Peeling and Crumbling' Insulation (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "The F-35 program has a proven track record of solving issues as they arise, and we're confident we'll continue to do so."

    That's newspeak for "this program had an abnormal amount of bad problems."

    ..." and we're confident it will continue to have them."

  3. Re: I expect it more complicated. on Russia Bans Pornhub, YouPorn - Tells Citizens To Meet Someone In Real Life (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I admit to using porn occasionally on business trips. Don't think my wife would agree to "meeting someone in real life".

  4. 1. We can use my wife's car.

    The title says "90 percent of vehicles", so unless you have 10 or more wives, none of them will be likely to have a non-electric car.

  5. Re:dealer miles; test drive miles on Tesla Admits Defeat, Quietly Settles Model X Lawsuit Over Usability Problems (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    but have been largely demonstrated to be free of faulty components and assembly and have more proven reliability than a car from the factory with 3/10 of a mile on the odometer.

    As a buyer, you do not know that.

    Also, as a used car buyer, you lose the ability to pick color, any extras, maybe even the engine is not the one you would have chosen yourself.

  6. Re:Why not be like Hillary? on Obama Finally Ditches BlackBerry, Switches To Samsung Galaxy S4 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Cruel and unusual punishment?

  7. Re:And probably twitter will ban it much faster on Anonymous Posts Pornography To Hijacked ISIS Twitter Accounts (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even after you've chopped them off?

  8. Re:I'll bet two, in fact on Tinder Bans Most Teens (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    odd

    Even. Most people have an even number of tits.

  9. Re:Food on Apple Not Allowed To Open Stores In India (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    such as fruit

    Such as apples, maybe?

  10. Re:Dealing with steadily rising wages? on Adidas To Sell Robot-Made Shoes In Germany (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    Poof! You would get an "Alphabet scenario", where the CxO's are the only employees of the profitable corporation, and the real corporation is a fully-owned subsidiary that makes no profit.

    If you then try to adjust the rules to cover this case, they will distribute the ownership between corporations owning one another in a sufficiently complicated manner that your rules won't apply.

  11. Re: People don't need supersonic anymore... on Superjet Technology Nears Reality After Successful Australia Test (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My brother in law took a non-stop flight from somewhere in Europe to Australia. They did stop for refuelling in Singapore, but the passengers were not allowed to leave the plane, so from their perspective it was a 24-hour non-stop flight.

  12. Is that you, Julian?

  13. Re:Oh, boy on Amazon To Sell Its Own Private-Label Groceries (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Geeky activities with diapers?

  14. Re:Yep, it's a body transplant on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the old axe joke... so now we can live forever, we will only need a body transplant every 60 years and a head transplant every 71 years. Or actually, we can live 4260 years.

  15. In related news, Ford tests Model T in total darkness using "headlights" tech.

  16. Re:It is inevitable on Volvo Wants You To Ditch Car Keys For Its New Smartphone App (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    ...and then something to reach the inside to trigger the locking mechanism.

    But that also won't work with a dead battery.

  17. Sun tried this 20 years ago with Java and Oracle is still busy with failing to do it properly.

  18. Re:I'm not sure what conclusions to draw from here on Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Is a "cure" for pregnancy good? Is it a better world now when we can have sex and not gain extra babies?

  19. Re:Not the best plan. on Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    But parents fuck better without babies in their beds. It's called "having a sex life".

  20. seen that before on Filmmaker Forces Censors To Watch 10-Hour Movie of Paint Drying (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    2001: the space odyssey was very similar to that.

  21. Re:We've seen this before on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 1

    So, a number of LA officers were googling how to get exactly 15.14 l of water into an 18.93 l jug, using only an 11.36 l jug as a measuring device.

  22. If it's designed for upside-down then why doesn't it have a normal wing just turned upside down? Maybe even mount the pilot upside down to make it even easier. Oh wait...

  23. Re:hence the old joke... on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually bought a slide rule last week

    But there's an app for that.
    https://play.google.com/store/...

  24. Exactly, so you Muricans should, instead of buying IoT kettles, choose a simpler solution of either moving overseas or re-doing the electricity infrastructure in the entire country.

  25. Re:Greetings from Florida Polytechnic on Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving · · Score: 1

    I don't get it, what difference does it make in locking that the bike was stolen?