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  1. Less efficient on Larry Page Is Secretly Working On a Flying Car (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Flying cars have to fight against gravity, which will always make them less efficient than ground based cars that mainly have to deal with friction.

  2. Re: Consider on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Really?

  3. Re: Nothing of value would be lost. on Canadian Startup Uses Trump to Lure Tech Workers (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Says the anonymous *coward*.

  4. Re: Politics Feh on The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere · · Score: 0

    Are you fracking kidding me? You're equating the group of people refuting the nonsensical anti-AGW claims with science ( "10 of the hottest years occured in the last 18", "oceeans are absorbing some of the heat") with the camp that trots out the same fracking tired arguments that have been refuted over and over again in every fracking thread? Science isn't a "camp", it's the conclusion you reach after looking at the data.

    The problem with these threads is there are too many idiot trolls who think themselves oh so much smarter than the people who spend their entire lives studying the topic of climate.

  5. Re: From TFA: bit-exact or not? on Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm · · Score: 1

    Stop whining jesus.

  6. Re: Already running a $50 phone. on The Realities of a $50 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Except for the maddening transitions that take up so much fracking time and the lack of web browsers that aren't just alternative UIs for IE. Or the ugly single pallette tiles that block your background or the gigantic fonts that make browsing the phone and reading the headings a pain.

  7. Re: Harvard is the right place on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 0

    The neocons STILL want to send troops back to Middle East. Can you not see how utterly nutty they are?

  8. Re: Harvard is the right place on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    Do you fracking understand Saddam was our ally in the Middle East? He kept Iran subdued and under control. With him gone and ISIS going wild we were *forced* into allying with Iran, helping them develop nuclear technology in exchange for their help in the MEast. That's what Bush's fracking legacy is.

  9. Re:Only kinda sorta on Intel Skylake & Broxton Graphics Processors To Start Mandating Binary Blobs · · Score: 1

    Uh... that doesn't have the Iris Pro GPU you dope.

  10. I have a Radeon 6950 and I can't get 60 fps in DA Inquisition at 1080p unless I turn the settings down to medium.

  11. There are 20 PC ports released or scheduled for release in a month.

  12. Re:Collapse on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    Only the passion of the young push society to dream and explore.

  13. Re:Collapse on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between extending life and living forever.

  14. Collapse on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 0

    Immortality would realistically cause the collapse of human civilization. Massive cullings would have to be undertaken. Riots, revolts, revolutions would all ensue. Economies would destabilize as the retirement system would lose all meaning. Jobs would never be vacated.

    Seriously. If there is anything that might have wiped out all other intelligent species in the galaxy, it's the scientific achievement of immortality.

  15. Re: Get rid of it on Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping · · Score: -1

    The federalist papers were written by one man. The founding fathers had a variety of opinions that lay across the entire spectrum. In general the purpose of the Constitution was to replace the weak Articles of Confederation (which couldn't deal with the variety of cross state issues) with a new document that would create a much stronger federal entity.

  16. Re:Why do this in the first place? on Mozilla Drops $25 Smartphone Plans, Will Focus On Higher Quality Devices · · Score: 1

    I thought iOS 8 allows 3rd party browsers to use Nitro?

  17. Re:Climate "Science" on Can Bad Scientific Practice Be Fixed? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    First, the gold standard of scientific proof is experimentation.

    Uh... there's a lot more to science than that. But even if we take your word for it, the climatologists create statistical models based on observable variables and fit those models to collected data. The better the fit, the more accurate the predictions.

  18. Re:"Google feels that reeducation is necessary." on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    Hmm I never thought of the social services argument. That's an interesting way of looking at it.

  19. Re:females operate on emotion, not logic on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 2

    Research indicates women use tools and weapons far more than men, which make up for their physical limitations. They also carry grudges for far longer than the male partner and will re initiate the violence at a later date.

  20. Re:females operate on emotion, not logic on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 2

    You literally just made up the 95% number. How does it feel to be a victim of cognitive dissonance? To know that you're so scared of the truth you twist reality to fit your biases?

  21. Re:And I'm the feminist deity on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is western society so obsessed with proving the idea that men and women are exactly alike? That doesn't even make evolutionary sense.

  22. Re:I have an idea on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    The truth is leaving the Euro would result in an almost immediate improvement. There would be no "adaptation". How can it be worse than 25% unemployment? Your country is already in a massive depression.

  23. Re:Soverign debt on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Obama debts don't compare to the Bush debts. Certainly Obama has been shrinking the deficit every year he's been in office, while Bush took a surplus and blew it up into a multi trillion dollar debt.

  24. Re:Greece can pull out Re:Soverign debt on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    The corporations won't stop doing business with Greece. They would be leaving money on the table. The only problem would be high interest rates for Greece if they want to borrow money. But really... what difference does that make if you have your own currency? They're running a current account surplus even with 25% unemployment. If they ever get out of their economic depression they'll have a huge amount of money to play with.

  25. Re:Wireless charging on Daimler and Qualcomm To Develop In-Car Tech, Wireless Charging · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? Can you attach this in your car? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...