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  1. Re:Most of Facebook is moms reposting the same jok on Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years · · Score: 1

    Where were you for the ice bucket challenge?

  2. Re:so size DOESN'T matter? on New Particle Collider Is One Foot Long · · Score: 1

    According to Mike Litorous, no.

  3. Re:Terrible on Russia Takes Down Steve Jobs Memorial After Apple's Tim Cook Comes Out · · Score: 1

    What if you say "no homo" first? That protects you, right?

  4. Re:what's the point? on A Smart Electric Bike: Taking the Copenhagen Wheel Out For a Spin · · Score: 1

    If it was designed for hilly cities, "Copenhagen wheel" is kind of a hilariously off-the-mark branding.

    What you did there, I see it.

  5. Re:And they'll be running Android Lollipop on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 2

    They named it lollipop because it will come with the next evolution in biometric unlocking, tongue-print to unlock. I'm coining the phrase "Unlicking my phone" right now.

  6. Re:Scarier still.... on Scanning Embryos For Super-Intelligent Kids Is On the Horizon · · Score: 1

    I dunno if this will be much of a problem. Selecting for higher intelligence should filter out such issues

  7. Re:Where's my dinosaur? on Euclideon Teases Photorealistic Voxel-Based Game Engine · · Score: 1

    Which comes first, the cloud point model, or the 3D print of the cloud point model!?

  8. Sorry, what? on Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed · · Score: 1

    Why are we concerned that a gigantic metal tube designed to transport people underwater and missiles/other weaponry does not travel as fast as an organic unit that does not transport personnel and ordinance?

    In other news, School buses not as fast as F1 cars.

  9. Re:You mean... on AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise · · Score: 1

    You really are missing the whole point, I'm sorry to say. Here in Europe, I have fibre internet and when I pick a show to watch on Netflix, it starts in under a second. When I use VOIP there's no latency. When I video conference, the image is crisp and again, there's no stuttering or lag.

    US ISPs have convinced you there is a problem here that needs solving, and that the only way to solve it is to charge you or Netflix to prioritize one type of traffic over another. If someone tried that here, all their customers would move to another ISP that had their shit together.

    US ISPs have refused to invest their profits into infrastructure and are going, instead, to use "Fast Lanes" as a win win situation. They _still_ don't have to build infrastructure AND they get to charge people to put up with a deteriorating service.

  10. Re:No trouble finding single player games.... on The Growing Illusion of Single Player Gaming · · Score: 1

    Interesting about your list, is that some of them (from my experience) are EVEN better in multiplayer, Civilisation, GTA V, Torchlight.

    I'd also add Terraria and Borderlands to your list of games that are great single player, but also have the bonus of multiplayer mode.

  11. Re:Shades of... on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    When marketing accounts for a greater than 50% of the development costs (One figure I read said $180Mil and $100Mil on top for marketing) then yes, there's going to be huge hype of an average game. What happens when the marketing budget is tiny compared to the development costs? You get a cheap, great game but it might take a bit of searching to find it (Example: Terraria and many many other indy games)

  12. Re:Call it what it is... on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    Aardwolf and others are still going strong. I'm still writing code for one to this day (not Aardwolf) and it's a lot of fun taking things that were good in MMOs and easily incorporating them into a MUD.

  13. Re:"console shooter" on Early Reviews of Destiny: Unfulfilled Potential · · Score: 1

    GTA V would be one of those, but the shooting aspect of it was never that tough with Aim Assist.

  14. Sounds like... on Scientists Capture the Sound Made By a Single Atom · · Score: 1

    It was said to sound ominously like clapping.

  15. Re:Who would have thought on The Documents From Google's First DMV Test In Nevada · · Score: 1

    But for your 4 examples, the car would have plenty of advanced warning and if no response came from the driver, the car would be capable of stopping in time. The tests they were passing with the DMV was to allow them to do further testing in more conditions. They were not trying to get ubiquitous permission for autonomous driving, just an assurance that it would be safe for other road users for Google to perform more testing.

  16. Re:I know what causes high blood pressure on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    I have the body of an e-sportsman.

  17. Re:I know what causes high blood pressure on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about blood pressure, but she sure sets my heart a-racing ;) ;)

  18. Re:$1.1 Trillion over 54 years... on Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Right, but it's still an utterly stupid policy.

    If America had just allowed free trade with Cuba the inflow of US culture into the country would've long turned it into a pro-US state - it's the policy of isolation that's keeping it hostile in the first place.

    You'd swear nobody in the White House had played Civilisation V.

  19. Re:uuuummm... on Using Wearable Tech To Track Gun Use · · Score: 1

    Why not fit the guns with cameras?

  20. Re:P.S.A. in you live in NYC on Surprising Result of NYC Bike Lanes: Faster Traffic for Cars · · Score: 1

    Depends, how do you feel about being run over by cops?

  21. Re:Yeah, good luck with that on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 1

    More likely it will be a public statement about how, after a thorough examination in the courts, they found the phone company not guilty and how pleased he is with the result.

  22. Re:Isn't that cutting it kinda close on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 1

    I would love to see footage from the time between discovery, and plotting it's exact trajectory. I wonder how many times they ran the numbers to be sure.

  23. Re:Isn't that cutting it kinda close on Newly Discovered Asteroid To Pass Within Geostationary Orbit Sunday · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's house we taking about here?

  24. Re:Interesting, if optional on New Usage-Based Insurance Software Can Track Drivers Using Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Who's going to propose that in the face of lobbying? Can you outbid the lobbyists?

  25. Re:Too simple on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    +1 Graphic