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  1. Sorry, I wasn't listening.

  2. You should have made that argument first instead of trying "it's not ad hominem if I don't like them". Still not sure I agree with it, but you'd be on firmer ground.

  3. Re:The New American: on Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You might feel safe in ignoring them, but if you attempt to refute them, using "they're scum" is still a logical fallacy. If you feel there's no point in refuting them any more, that's a different matter. But laziness is not logic.

  4. Re:The New American: on Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's not ad hominem if they really are scum.

    Yes, it is. The scumminess or non-scumminess of the source is not relevant to the strength of their argument. If they are scum, it may be more likely that they have made false arguments, but it is not guaranteed, and the proper counter is to root out the falsity of their arguments.

  5. Shoot... on Study Finds Little Lies Lead To Bigger Ones (go.com) · · Score: 1

    ...Basil Fawlty could've told you that.

  6. Re: Considering they fail at nearly sixty times... on More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL (yahoo.com) · · Score: 2

    They are supposed to be ruggedized. Apparently, they're not ruggedized enough.

  7. Last heard transmission: on Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then explode"
    "We're gonna explode!? I don't wanna explode!"

  8. 90,000 is a pretty statistically relevant number.

    Not when you have a selection bias, it isn't. If your sample selection is consistently biased, no sample size will be large enough.

  9. You don't understand Zuckerberg. This is climbing, for him. He doesn't sell Facebook to do what he wants to be doing, because running Facebook is what he wants to be doing. There's no place else he'd rather be.

  10. Nintendo unveils "Switch" on Nintendo Unveils 'Switch', Its New Gaming Console and Tablet Hybrid (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Jimmy Smits!

  11. Historically, Mars probes have had a very high failure rate. NASA techs have made jokes about "The Great Galactic Ghoul" being responsible.

  12. Apple only likes cults that worship buying their stuff.

  13. Re:Big agro GMO ploy on Scientific Breakthrough Increases Plant Yields By One Third (wsu.edu) · · Score: 1

    Projections are that the atmosphere could be 78% nitrogen in the future if this is allowed to go forward!

  14. Re:A recall from just a single occurrence? on Samsung Could Face Second Recall As US Probes Burnt Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    or
    3) This is a phone with the original fault, unfixed. They haven't ruled that out yet. There are going to be thousands, if not millions of phones with the original fault unfixed out there for years. People don't always turn things in on a recall.

  15. Marvel's way ahead of you.... on New AI Is Capable of Beating Humans At Doom (denofgeek.com) · · Score: 1

    They've had Doombots for years.

  16. When cat videos are criminalized... on Indonesia Wants To Criminalize Memes (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    ...only criminals will have cat videos!

  17. Re:The police know they're wearing cameras on Police Complaints Drop 93 Percent After Deploying Body Cameras (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The cameras aren't exactly hidden. They're generally right there in plain sight on the front of the uniform shirt, and fairly large.

  18. I think I see a typo in the headline on Can NASA's Gryphon-X Project Save America? (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Shouldn't it be: "Can NASA's Gryphon-X Projec Have Anything To Do With What NASA is Supposed To Be Doing?"

  19. Re:This is why America needs President Trump on Laid-Off Abbott IT Workers Won't Have To Train Their Replacements (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    America needs to once again put Americans first

    Which, of course, Trump will not do. Trump puts Trump first, last, and always. When he even bothers to lie about it it's so transparent as to be pathetic.

  20. Re:Interesting idea on Why Buses Need To Be More Dangerous · · Score: 1

    It's mostly because if the cabbie drives faster (and less safely) he can make more fares, and more money. The purpose of proposing that buses drive less safely is to speed up the schedule, which doesn't get the bus driver paid more and normally the bus driver doesn't get to define his schedule anyways.

  21. Okay, this is getting ridiculous on FBI Warns That Car Hacking Is a Real Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Is anyone compiling a list of new cars you can get without this crap in them?

  22. And Windows Phone users rejoiced. on Microsoft Finally Rolls Out Windows 10 Mobile To Older Phones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Both of them.

  23. Re:Had these when I was a kid on Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Will Go On Sale This Year (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think good-quality Velcro should last as least as long as a shoelace before it breaks--but replacing the Velcro is much more difficult.

  24. Good lord, man! on Nike's Self-Lacing Shoes Will Go On Sale This Year (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You've invented the loafer!

  25. Re:Still a meaningless stunt on Google's AlphaGo AI Beats Lee Se-dol Again, Wins Go Series 4-1 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Go is rather simple compared to other problems like image recognition

    Not really. When looked at naively, the problem space seems much larger in image recognition, but there are algorithms to drastically simplify things in IR, while such things are very scarce on the ground for Go.