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  1. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Ah, so it's like Bistromatics?

  2. Re:Now where will I find a shark, that also groove on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Raveshark?

  3. Re:Hello Computer... on Breakthough Makes Transparent Aluminum Affordable · · Score: 1

    Except that the lead engineer on the planet's foremost exploration vessel of today (if one existed), probably would know how to use a slide rule and Morse code.

  4. Re:Why do you need privacy ... on New Privacy Threat: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection · · Score: 1

    What is the expectation of privacy in a car on the freeway? How is using cameras any different to placing a person on the side of the freeway and stopping all cars on the HOV lane to confirm the correct number of people are there?

  5. Re:Common sense here folks on Surgeon Swears Human Head Transplant Isn't a 'Metal Gear Solid' Publicity Stunt · · Score: 1

    What about this?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

    They say it was possible since the nick in the cord was clean (also not being 100% through helped I guess). I wonder if a severance of the spinal cord was done with surgical precision if the process here could be used.

  6. Re:Free speech and trigger warnings, take a pick on Irish Legislator Proposes Law That Would Make Annoying People Online a Crime · · Score: 1

    An interesting thing that happens to be topical right now.

    On one side you have people saying that we shouldn't require a referendum to allow equal rights to marry regardless of gender. On the other side you have the fact that you don't want a precedent set whereby they change the constitution without a referendum.

    I'll be voting yes, but I (and so many others) with it weren't necessary. I suppose we wish it were never there in the first place. If the referendum fails, it will be deeply shaming for our nation as a whole.

  7. To set the record straight on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the most part we don't use their whole corpse as decoration, just their genitals.

  8. Re:Ah, these activist judges! on Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet · · Score: 1

    Just what are you going to do with the profits? Buy a boat?

  9. Re:May finally get servers updated... on Exploit For Crashing Minecraft Servers Made Public · · Score: 1

    Ah, so you've heard of Skyrimming?

  10. Last Paragraph on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    What happens if he testifies that he didn't tamper with the cameras? They will need more than all 4 other people testifying the same to prove perjury.

  11. Re:The unkempt person in the high level meeting... on Ellen Pao Loses Silicon Valley Gender Bias Case Against Kleiner Perkins · · Score: 1

    What I feel is horrifying, is that the poster felt that the level of respect she received should be on the condition that she dresses a certain way. Like someone else said, if she wore "slutty" clothes, would it be okay to respect her less?

    What we need to revive are the phrases "Well-groomed", "well-shod" and "well-kept". To signify that you are dressed appropriately for what you are doing. Or at the very least, you are hygienic. I used to have long hair and beard. It was forever flaky and greasy. After numerous attempts to wear the look cleanly, I gave up and now I have very short beard/clean shaven and short hair.

  12. Re:Advert for Razer? on What Makes the Perfect Gaming Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Their Nostromo is super sweet though. I got one of them at the height of my WoW playing, and it's taken an awful hammering the last few years. I can't imagine oing back to playing games with a keyboard. My mouse, however, is Steelseries, I find the Razer ones too small and light for my hands. I find that making slight movements (lighting up a headshot with a sniper rifle, for example) is a lot harder with a feather-light mouse.

  13. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 1

    There's also Occam's Razor.

  14. Re:Not Surprising on World's Largest Asteroid Impacts Found In Central Australia · · Score: 1

    God, having realised what he wrought, tried to destroy it. Unfortunately Australia had grown too powerful by then.

  15. Re:FMH on Why Is the Grand Theft Auto CEO Also Chairman of the ESRB? · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about 'strong language' in movies or every day use, and why you have to shelter children from it. Either the know what the word means, thus sheltering it from them is useless, or they don't know what it means, and it's not a problem. I know many many bad words, but I just don't use them because of my personality.

  16. Re:Where to draw the line? on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    I hope we can see an end to songs that rhyme "waiting" with "anticipating".

  17. House of Cards on House Republicans Roll Out Legislation To Overturn New Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2

    Guys, much like 1984, House of Cards is not an instruction manual...

  18. Re:er, okay. on In 10 Years, Every Human Connected To the Internet Will Have a Timeline · · Score: 1

    Please don't see this as argumentative, it's meant just to be thought provoking. You say you are at no disadvantage, having avoided these things. Your life might be great now, but can you know for absolute certain that it couldn't have been any better had you adopted these thing?

    Without a ghost of christmas present, you really cannot imagine how different your life (positive or negative) would be with these things.

  19. Re:Custom ... nipples? Actual custom nipples? on Inside the Weird World of 3D Printed Body Parts · · Score: 2

    Are you suggesting he track down a cancer survivor and ask her to show him her tits? I must say it's not a tactic I've heard working before.

  20. Re:Won't make it to 50 on Games Workshop At 40: How They Brought D&D To Britain · · Score: 1

    I recently got the Bloodbowl game on steam, also the Talisman game. Both of them are really great fun.

    I'd love to see games like Dragon Masters, Hero Quest and many others make the same transition to digital version.

    I think they would make great VR games, even.

  21. Re:Best idea is not to hide. on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    If 95% of the entire world population was converted into zombies magically overnight, it would take the other 5% 20 days at 1 zombie a day to eradicate the horde. If any reasonable model of infection is consulted, a sizable enough portion of the worlds armies would remain uninfected to solve the issue in a matter of hours.

  22. Re:In the future on Ultra-Low Power Radio Transceiver Enables Truly Wireless Earbuds · · Score: 1

    Doesn't this pave the way to implanted headphones?

  23. Re:Oh God No... on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    I read this thread and wonder why nobody has mentioned Carrie Fisher. Isn't she returning to Star Wars despite not only aging but also having had a massive drugs and drink phase? Is that not a case where they felt that the only person suitable to play Leia is herself?

    If you wanted to show Harrison Ford as an aged Deckard, but portray Rachel as unaged, you could cast Krysten Ritter in her place. They look similar enough and she could play the character fine I'm sure.

  24. Re:I just must be drunk. on Fighting Scams Targeting the Elderly With Old-School Tech · · Score: 1

    I never realised this before. Until someone actually puts it in a sentence like that. Economists ARE fortune tellers... mind blown.

  25. Re:Wrong kind of drone? on Drones Cost $28,000 Per Arrest, On Average · · Score: 1

    Why not increase the number of H1-B visas for people to do this?