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  1. Great Parents on Unable To Hack Into Grading System, Georgia Student Torches Computer Lab · · Score: 2

    I see dumb people.

  2. Flying on US Switches Air Traffic Control To New Computer System · · Score: 1

    Simple solution. VFR. Why make things more complex? Contractors are getting rich from public money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  3. Disneyland on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Disneyland was a great place years ago, my family visited there many times. Now it seems more like Wally World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  4. Re:Injuries? on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 1

    I get it. The pay is good but it must be difficult to have time with family and friends. I worked rotating shifts and was either at work or sleeping when most people would go out for dinner or a drink. A friend was a California Highway Patrol officer and spent his day living in his car.. His patrol area was very rural so there were not many places to eat .He had a difficult time maintaining his health and weight. I'm sixty five years old. .

  5. Injuries? on Crashing iPad App Grounds Dozens of American Airline Flights · · Score: 1

    "frequent injuries incurred by pilots from carrying heavy flight bags, and would also save time by making revisions electronically." Who makes this stuff up? I went hiking with a forty pound backpack. I forded streams and climbed over boulders as big as a car at elevations from six to nine thousand feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  6. Re:The Pinto on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was a complete crap car. Ford was trying to compete with superior imports from Japan. Detroit lost their engineering and technology advantage for years. Toyota? Best cars . BMW, even better. Sometimes you get what you pay for.

  7. The Pinto on The Engineer's Lament -- Prioritizing Car Safety Issues · · Score: 2

    Why drag up a nearly fifty year old car as a reference? A known POS that was an engineering disaster.

  8. Poor Emigrants on Robots Step Into the Backbreaking Agricultural Work That Immigrants Won't Do · · Score: 1

    Get an education. If their country won't take care of them why should the USA? A click bait story.

  9. Teachers on The Future Deconstruction of the K-12 Teacher · · Score: 1

    I had great teachers who were smart and motivated. Jack Munson should have been working at a university, not a high school. http://www.helixcharter.net/

  10. Monsanto on Bees Prefer Nectar Laced With Neonicotinoids · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Poison everything. I stopped using insecticides many years ago. Monsanto had a large display at Disneyland boasting about their use and how effective the products were. The chemicals are slow to break down and pollute the environment for years. There are are still a few honey bees in my yard, haven't seen a Bumblebee in years.

  11. The Sky on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 1

    I have a small 'scope but my area has become too light polluted for me to see. I could see Andromeda and other objects but can't now. I would drive 45 miles to a remote, dark location but haven't done that in a few years.

  12. The Hubble on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Create an account at Heavens-Above to get time and direction to see space objects. http://www.heavens-above.com/ It's a great resource.

  13. Degrading on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 1

    Employees as chattle.

  14. It Will Never Happen on Swallowing Your Password · · Score: 1

    Many people don't have access to medical care now. What insurance company would pay for this? Their business model is to make money, not to care for patients.

  15. No More Executions on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    Stop killing people.

  16. Genius Brother on Can High Intelligence Be a Burden Rather Than a Boon? · · Score: 1

    My brother Pete got a doctorate in math from UC Berkeley and has no social skills. He has never married and doesn't ever contact me or my sister. I used to call him and there was dead air if I didn't talk to him. He has lived in a tiny apartment for forty years. There are other things from his childhood that affected him.

  17. Re:I waste a ton of time ... on Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's like watching "The Simpsons" for parenting advice.

  18. Low Bid Equals Low Quality on Incorrectly Built SLS Welding Machine To Be Rebuilt · · Score: 1

    Just work with companies with a good record. I worked at a place that had a policy to hire minority and woman owned businesses. Some were OK, others couldn't perform to the needed standards.

  19. Ocean Pollution on Scientists Locate Sunken, Radioactive Aircraft Carrier Off California Coast · · Score: 1

    Thanks nuke industry. That stuff will be poisoning the ocean for ten thousand years.

  20. Re:Landing vs splashdown on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    I camped near San Felipe in Baja California and a dummy was driving his car along the beach and got stuck in the sand at low tide. The tides are from eight to twelve feet in the Sea of Cortez and his vehicle was covered by water twice until a local arrived with a mini Caterpillar to pull the vehicle from the sea.

  21. Re:Delivering the Mail on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 1

    He just might be in jail for a while. Psych evaulation. I hope he has some support from his family.

  22. Re:Landing vs splashdown on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    Salt water would likely cause too much damage. Go park your car in the ocean for thirty minutes and let me know how that works out.

  23. Isolation on Road To Mars: Solving the Isolation Problem · · Score: 1

    TLDR. There will likely be a team of three. Space travelers are highly trained and there is always something to do. They will be monitoring gauges and systems aboard the craft.

  24. It Will Never Happen on A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country · · Score: 1

    There are to many unpredictable events..Who do you sue when the car kills somebody?

  25. E, The most boring racing on At the Track With Formula E, the First e-Racing Series · · Score: 1

    Formula 1 is the high point of automotive racing technology. Electric cars? No way. What does the NBA have to do with the story? Odd.