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  1. Re:Mass censorship incoming on Australia Passes Law To Punish Social Media Companies For Violent Posts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Hard to have "social" media if you and your friends are all on different platforms.

  2. Soon the pesto will rise up and takes over.

  3. I guess we don't encourage bad behavior.

  4. Don't let the lumber industry hear about this.

  5. Intel used to used formal meathods to prove that their CPUs worked. They had to stop proving the entire CPU as they became too complicated to complete in a reasonalbe time. So they just prove the core functions. That is why the Pentium bug was such a shock for them. Here was a bug missed n a fully proven processor. Oops.

  6. I wonder what the German word for "pwned" is.

  7. Re:We need to stop the HTML5 madness on Mozilla Will Run Two Experiments This Month With Firefox To Explore Ways To Fight Push Notification Permission Spam (zdnet.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A comment about Chrome clones in response to one of the only browsers that doesn't use the chromium blink engine.

  8. To inform us about this change. Man, talk about getting blindsided.

  9. I've never had Firefox nag. It just updates.

  10. Re:I found out why on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Cut greenhouse gas emissions by eliminating duplicate posts!

  11. Re:Duplicate post? on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    lol

  12. Duplicate post? on Canada Warming Twice as Fast as the Rest of the World, Report Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This same story is 12 stories down.

  13. Frying all those donuts on Canada Warming At Twice the Global Rate, Report Finds (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    can really generate the heat. I blame Tim Hortons.

  14. Re:Staying on Windows 9 on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    I hear it's one louder.

  15. Staying on Windows 9 on Windows 10 Makes Large Share Gains, While Windows 7 Declines Significantly (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    All my computers run on Windows 9, and I see no reason to upgrade. I bought licenses for a great price off some Chinese website.

  16. One way to get a flat memory model on OS/2 Warp Community Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society (os2world.com) · · Score: 1

    If you don't know anything else, of course it will be flat.

  17. There's no way it came from that movie, or that syndicated series based on the movie.

  18. Re:They Blocked My VPN on Russia Orders Major VPN Providers To Block 'Banned' Sites (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they will have a revolution next October.

  19. How about ceramic then?

  20. I was thinking the very same thing.

  21. How about a glass one?

  22. Problem with energy efficent specialty lights on Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs (npr.org) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many specialty bulbs are very odd shapes. CFL and LED lights are difficult to fit into these shapes, and end up being highly unreliable. For what the special nature of these bulbs, the conventional style works more reliably.

  23. Re:Am I missing something? on China Says it Cloned a Police Dog To Speed Up Training (xinhuanet.com) · · Score: 2

    I think the main issue would be getting the females in heat to the police station at the right time. The females would be on a breeding farm. Easier to just clone them instead.

  24. Re:Am I missing something? on China Says it Cloned a Police Dog To Speed Up Training (xinhuanet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The point is to breed dogs with desired traits without waiting for the parent to retire from active police work to be a breeding dog.

  25. Re:Engineer? Hardly on Elon Musk Makes Surprise Visit To Flint, Michigan Elementary School (metrotimes.com) · · Score: 1

    His degrees are in physics and business.