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  1. Google Docs on Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Google docs is pretty bare bones too. But the online collaboration is a pretty big deal.

  2. Wow this must be impossible to explain! on How Flying Seriously Messes With Your Mind and Body (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    dry air dry mouth...stuff tastes bland with a dry mouth
    lower air pressure means the shape of your eye is slightly different.
    airplane food + carbonated beverages + chewing gum makes you fart 37% more
    dry eyes make you want to cry even without a sad movie.

     

  3. No but the US military will tell you that.

  4. This is good news for ice miners! :-)

  5. Better Investors on Startups Struggle For Survival As Investors Turn 'Picky' (gerbsmanpartners.com) · · Score: 1

    My startup is funded by customers.

  6. Sure they can... on Gamers in Hawaii Can't Compete... Because of Latency (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    they just need to play turn based games.

  7. Didn't anyone ever tell you on Teenagers Think Google is Cool, Study By Google Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    if you have to tell people that you are cool then you are definitely NOT cool.

  8. Hahahaa! Can I borrow a feeling! on Social Media 'Increases Loneliness', Says Study (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Hahahaa! Can I borrow a feeling! [Simpsons quote.]

  9. Can someone post a download link? on Huge Database Leak Reveals 1.37 Billion Email Addresses and Exposes Illegal Spam Operation (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I want to see if I'm on it. Yeah. That's why. Just Kidding. :-)

  10. Re:Good way to kill the golden goose! on FCC Chairman Calls Net Neutrality a 'Mistake' (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes... but now anybody with a piece of hardware in the middle can set up a toll booth. It's the opposite of a free and open internet.

  11. Sorry its me. on One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just downloading a local copy for my flight.

  12. Supersmart *SEX* Robots Will Outnumber Humans

  13. Alexa. Next.

  14. they will reinvent the function prototype so it wont look like or behave like any of the other functions in the language so you'll still spend all you time looking up whether to camel case or underscore or to swap the parameter order versus the legacy functions. Even though it is "by default" they will still make you recompile from source to get it to work and it will still get hacked by a script kiddy who will just alter the source on the production server. *shudder* :-) JAVA RULES! *mic drop*

  15. Re:Ridiculous Slashdot story on Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum to $35 (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    Amazon Quietly Lowered Its Free Shipping Minimum (for Star Trek shit) to $35

      problem solved. :-)

  16. Just as long as.... on Microsoft Calls For 'Digital Geneva Convention' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just as long as.... as unleashing Clippy on the world is deemed a war crime.

  17. Daesh 1-20 were already taken. What are we talking about again?

  18. No way!!!! on Cloudflare Slams MPAA and RIAA's 'Distorted' Piracy Claims (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you telling me that the RIAA and the MPAA are just a bunch of dicks???? Well here is how we fight back:

    Movie tickets for 2 ... $20
    Snacks for 2 ... $25
    Quality of the reboot movie cause that is all they do anymore ... regrettable
    The bedbugs you bring home ... priceless ( to the bedbugs )

    RIAA and MPAA should go after people illegally copying bedbugs while attending their movies.

  19. You can't fart at NASA... on NASA: We're Not Racing SpaceX To Mars (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    without some director whipping out a credit card and throwing a party...

  20. More like the market stopped buying it... at least to the point where it isn't worth supporting it. Let's be honest M$ isn't known for saying no to good money.

  21. Re: About These Weekly Climate Panic Articles... on NASA Scientists Suggest We've Been Underestimating Sea Level Rise (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I tend to believe the people who bring evidence versus the people who religiously refuse to look at it.

  22. Now I'll know from the tarmac the exact moment my luggage hits the river!

  23. Apple is using cable wrong. on Television Needs To Be Reinvented, Says Apple SVP (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Your cable DVR uses voice commands for that stuff... You just call Comcast on your phone, press 0, then just keep saying "Duke basketball game" until it appears on your TV.

  24. So what on Say Hello To Branded Internet Addresses (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Google will still make you pay to compete for ranking for your trademarks unless you successfully sue them. Why drink this koolaid unless Google is going to stop profiting off of trademark infringement.

  25. based on that twitter chat-bot that turned racist and trollish in a matter of hours? I have been looking for a way to UTF-TRUMP encode my documents!