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  1. The battery powered dildoe

  2. Finally! The only good reason for self-driving cars

  3. How to make investments in earbuds and headphones obsolete in a flash! Also jacks in cars. This idea is beyond stupid.

  4. 0bama's remarks are a good example of what is meant by 'rule of man', not law.

  5. Who gives a flying fu** about Apple devices?

  6. arithmetic on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    Start by teaching students to make change without needing a cash register or calculator

  7. Microsoft on The Sad Graph of Software Death (tinyletter.com) · · Score: 1

    This article describes Microsoft software, Windows, Office, etc., Get the product out the door, generate income. Let the users find the bugs on their own nickel.

  8. Fusion energy is just 10 years away, and has been for 50 years.

  9. Census form should be one question: How many people live at this address. Feds justify the too many questins by telling us the answers determine how funds are distributed back to us. We should ask: Why are the feds taking our money to begin with.

  10. Need Math? on You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code · · Score: 1

    Clerks at fast food restaurants don't need math either. There is no way I could have written programs without knowledge of the math I was solving

  11. No tiles on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    Get the tiles off the desktop. I have lots of icons, for programs, folders, files, etc., that will be obscured by tiles. Win7 GUI is good, one reasons I never moved to 8 is tiles.

  12. Fewer lights, more stars. A winner.

  13. Re: Silicon Valley Isn't Wrestling with it on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    Excellent comments

  14. Diversity on Silicon Valley Still Wrestling With Diversity Issues · · Score: 1

    So what. Hire the best. Nothing wrong with pouring money into scholarships to encourage career decisions, but only hire the best.

  15. Like MMGW on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Similar to global warming, deniers have had their heads in the sand too, too long, and they are now getting kicked in the butt.

  16. Bad data on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    The F-35 is not built as a dogfighter, it is a ground pounder. Engaging enemy fighters is at most a secondary mission. The F-22 is designed to engage enemy aircraft. And the $1T number is old data, based upon assumptions already shown to not be valid. Plus, it is a lfetime projection for the aircraft, as long as 30 years or more of operation.

  17. What about the removal of bugs? MS is notorious for performing minimal regression testing for errors, preferring to let users find them, at no cost to MS, then releasing patches.Never install version xx.0 of any,software, especially from MS.

  18. What? on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    And the problem is?

  19. Count me in the no response group. Polls do not do the public any good.

  20. Harvard Professors on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 1

    How many Harvard professors does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: It is an academic question, as they are all in Washington telling the rest of us how to live our lives.

  21. Gate's Law on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 1

    Never buy version X.00 of any software, especially one from Microsoft

  22. Expert on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    An expert is a drip under pressure, also anyone 200 miles from home and carrying a briefcase.

  23. GEM on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 1

    GEM was better. Especially given the limited memory of the machines.

  24. Starbucks on Hacker Warns Starbucks of Security Flaw, Gets Accused of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Starbucks makes Wal-Mart look like the good guys

  25. Interview Question on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    I asked prospective engineering hires this question: I own a major league ballpark. I need new grass. If turf is $1/square ft., about how much would it cost me to resod the field? I didn't care about the answer, I wanted to see their thinking. I was amazed at how many couldn't even start to work the problem, many said they needed their computer to start.