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  1. Re:Coding requirements on Microsoft Research Developing An AI To Put Coders Out of a Job (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 2

    "Then, yes, would programmers be able to look at kitten pictures all day."

    I see what you did there.

  2. Re: Why not go the whole nine yards? on Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The only useful application of Agile so far.

  3. Re: Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    I can't recall "geek" ever being a punchable, offensive word, and I'm old enough to recall when those terms (nerd, geek, etc) were derogatory. Probably because most real geeks don't have the realistic option of resorting to fists.

  4. Re: Has he been invited to the white house? on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That doesn't match with the president's strong support for Israel, although it does fit your personal narrative, presumably that old white male = evil.

  5. Re:FM not as common as the article sounds. on FCC Chairman Wants It To Be Easier To Listen To Free FM Radio On Your Smartphone (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I turn flip through stations on FM, 83% of them are running commercials, and the other 17% are playing garbage. As posted earlier, AM stations are more useful, generally geared towards news and weather.

    Also, 92% of statistics are made-up.

  6. Re:Distributed Trackers on Swedish Court Rules: 'Block the Pirate Bay For Next 3 Years' (fossbytes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The distributed hash table (DHT) functionality in BitTorrent doesn't include the ability to mod the torrent (good quality, fake, etc), which is how junk torrents are filtered out from real ones. Plus, not all BitTorrent clients support DHT, so you reduce the peers, which is where the real power comes from with BitTorrent.

  7. If the service stinks, it might start being referred to as Chyme.

  8. The real bastard is the dish, who ran away with the spoon, leaving the poor fork in tines.

  9. Re: I thought not all US carriers use LTE on Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US (androidcentral.com) · · Score: 2

    T-Mobile switched from HSPA+ to LTE a few years ago.

  10. Re:Disable ad-blocker for a paragraph of twitter c on Google Chrome Engineer Says Windows Defender 'the Only Well Behaved Antivirus', Cites 'Tons of Empirical Data' (onmsft.com) · · Score: 2

    Agreed. Twitter is an utterly useless site.

  11. Re:Why bother? on Former Fed Employee Fined $5,000 For Installing Bitcoin Software On Server (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here's your Rick reward.

  12. 3DTV is the wrong 3D on 3D TV Is Dead (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    3DTV used the wrong 3D, the "fake your eyes into thinking you're there" kind of 3D. What would be far more useful and likely adopted quicker is the free viewpoint 3D, where the user can choose their own camera perspective, not being locked into what the director chose.

  13. Just like his commitment to protected (condom) consensual sex.

  14. back into the air at all the grade school science fairs

  15. Phone Case Users on Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those of us who use protective phone cases dislike this trend.

  16. Smeared Seconds on Google's New Public NTP Servers Provide Smeared Time (googleblog.com) · · Score: 2

    Smeared seconds come after sloppy seconds.

  17. Re: Poor Nazis on Twitter Suspends American Far-Right Activists' Accounts (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Where do you think we get the left-wing and right-wing, if not the wing industries. They've been super busy this election season.

  18. Indiscretion as Advertised on In 5 Years, Games Experience Will Move From Discrete To Indiscrete, Says EA CEO (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the advanced notice that the company will no longer be discrete with your personal information or privacy, not that they ever were. They want to mine every bit of information they can from you, converting every user into a revenue generating machine.

  19. Get in line behind Texas, hippies.

  20. Easy to root for, as a citizen of Greenwich, England, where no changes will be made.

  21. Selfies are for Narcissists on Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Selfies are for narcissists.

  22. when life gives you lemons, burn life's house down - with the lemons!

  23. Funnier with Samsung Note 7 on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Funnier with Samsung Note 7

  24. Open Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface on OpenCAPI: Google and IBM Lead Tech Consortium To Speed Data Centre Performance (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Why no acronym expansion? That's not a well-known acronym.

  25. Re:How much do all the ads on webpages cost? on Verizon, AT&T Made $600 Million in Overage Fees Alone in 2016 (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    they were looking for new positions to try