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  1. The world instantly became a better place when Steve Jobs died. I don't care who disagrees, they can have fun being wrong.

  2. Re:Oh, sure, Tegra on NVIDIA Begins Supplying Open-Source Register Header Files · · Score: 1

    This is a gimmick to try to get Tegra to see an uptick in adoption. If Tegra actually starts getting into everything, everywhere, Nvidia will yank the carrot away as fast as they can, because Nvidia doesn't like sharing.

  3. Missed the point on Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    In my experience, when somebody asks when you are leaving, it is a polite way of saying, "I am sick of you, when are you going away?"

  4. Click here! on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 5, Funny

    Some regular guy got $25,000 from the government with one weird trick!

  5. Re:russia is devolving on Russia Says Drivers Must Not Have "Sex Disorders" To Get License · · Score: 1

    china doesn't have to militarily invade siberia. it can just corrupt officials, pay russian legislators to make laws friendly to it, own all of the companies operating in siberia, flood the area with immigrants, etc

    Great idea, flood the place with Chinese people, then move in military units to "protect them"! Russia won't see it coming!

  6. Obviously on Bad Lockup Bug Plagues Linux · · Score: 0

    This can only mean one thing: not enough systemd. systemd needs to expand much further and start replacing the Linux kernel itself to ensure this kind of thing won't happen.

  7. Re:2mm by 12mm on Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands · · Score: 1

    You want inert? Do you even know what teflon *is*? Teflon (PTFE) is used for catheter linings, sutures, synthetic blood vessels, and more. So, it's relatively bio-compatible.

  8. Re:My predictions on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    It's easy to make the droids thread through everything when you suck at writing. They have no character development, nor capacity for it.

  9. Re:My predictions on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 1

    I almost forgot:

    7.) An awkwardly shoehorned in love story, possibly satisfying prediction 4 simultaneously.

  10. My predictions on 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Gets a Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's what I expect, in so specific order.

    1.) Lens flares, so you can't see what's happening clearly!
    2.) Shaky cam, so you can't focus on anything happening!
    3.) Ultra-close-up action, so you don't know who is doing what in fights!
    4.) Previously known characters acting against their established personalities, for no good reason, and against all reason in general.
    5.) Teal and orange! In every scene, teal and orange will provide the color contrast.
    6.) C-3PO and R2-D2 will appear for some stupid fucking reasons and tie into the mythos in even more unlikely and retarded ways.

  11. Ugh on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it the samurai."

    That's the douchiest way of saying "knowledge is power" that I have ever heard.

  12. Mental masturbation on Statistician Creates Mathematical Model To Predict the Future of Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    By only looking at the data for what you have eaten the past few weeks, I can predict what you will eat tomorrow, with some random accuracy. (Assumptions: no friends, no changing tastes, constant values for availability and prices of all foods, no problems with traffic or weather, no sickness, etc).

    This seems like pointless mental masturbation.

  13. Re:did you find this much romance in grad school? on Ask David Saltzberg About Being The Big Bang Theory's Science Advisor · · Score: 3, Informative

    They aren't in grad school, they are researchers at a university. 3 of them have PhDs, the other has a Masters, and he's made fun of constantly for it.

  14. Re:Stupid design, appalling on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 2

    Erm, that is, the 4G cap is too low for too much money. That's what I get for not adjusting my sleep schedule properly.

  15. Re:Stupid design, appalling on Facebook Blamed For Driving Up Cellphone Bills, But It's Not Alone · · Score: 2

    No kidding, data plans in Germany are atrocious. I only get 100MB/month. There's more expensive plans but in my opinion the data cap for 4G is always too low for too little money. I expected a lot less retardery after hearing for so long about how much better Europe is for cell phones.

  16. It's amazing on First US Appeals Court Hears Arguments To Shut Down NSA Database · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Our entire government seems to think the constitution can be superseded by any other law whatsoever, as if the constitution being the highest law of the land doesn't actually overrule anything that contradicts it. It's as if the constitution is completely meaningless.

    Sigh.

  17. Re:What's wrong with Windows Server? on You Got Your Windows In My Linux · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm really sick of reading that excuse. Whenever somebody doesn't like something new on computers, the people who do like the new thing immediately jump to "well it's just because you don't like changing."

    This was easily the loudest, most repeated response to somebody hating the Metro interface on their desktop, and it should be clear by now that sometimes, avoiding change isn't the primary reason why craploads of people hate something new. Sometimes the new thing just... sucks.

  18. Re:Or... on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 1

    You sound like you care more about it than I do, and are channeling your hatred of others onto me. I think if you had better reading comprehension you'd have a better understanding for what I was saying, since you completely missed my point.

  19. Or... on Among Gamers, Adult Women Vastly Outnumber Teenage Boys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mental hurdle aside, the reality is that anyone who plays games, regardless of the platform, is a gamer.

    Or, people who play video games are called "video game players", and the subgroup of people who make it a huge part of their lives are "gamers". Or some other definition. I don't know, I don't really care. If you want to generate page hits by making boys feel uncomfortable by playing mind games with a definition of an adjective they use to describe themselves, whatever. If "gamer" is going to be hijacked to mean something else now, then the community will use a different word.

  20. What's this? on Scientists Glue Sensors To 5,000 Bees In a Bid To Better Understand Them · · Score: 1

    A handsome research project woefully underpopulated by bees?

    A large influx of bees ought to put a stop to that!

  21. Re:Scotland on Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It · · Score: 1

    Huh? Oh you mean that song where everyone sings "An old man's eye, my dear, an old man's eye."

  22. Re:They really know the geek market on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 1

    No they need a bro.

  23. Well-deserved shame on Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know what this sounds like? "Aw shucks, people don't like me because they caught me peeping in their windows and jerking off. Don't they know I'm helping to keep them safe? What's wrong with them?"
    It sounds like a lot of them are sad people don't like them, not that they were unwittingly helping to ruin America. They need a big ol' whack across the head with a cluebat.

    However maybe some of them actually have souls. I'd feel like crap too if I was a party to trampling all over the constitution and promoting a police state. Maybe we'll see another one with a brain and a conscience grow a pair and do something about it. It's hard to do when you have people you love who depend on you but that's life. Life isn't fair. Shit needs to get better and it requires sacrifice. If you can't handle that then you're a crappy patriot.

  24. Re:Hell I'd love it if they had something so on Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if "politics and PR" are higher than you think on their list, and "finding the next generation of researchers" was much lower.

  25. Re:God is great? on Astronomers Discover Largest Structure In the Universe · · Score: 1

    I don't see how it matters one way or another.