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  1. and "Start Me Up" was played at Windows 95 debut on Apple Has a Lot In Common With The Rolling Stones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Just thought a little devil's advocate would be fun here.

  2. and like many Italian sports cars on Ferrari's New Car Tech Idea: Make Car Go Really Fast · · Score: 1

    chances are it gets 8 miles to the gallon, thus you get a top speed of 202 mph for three minutes before the next refill... even though that refill might be in another county.

  3. and judging by Surface sales figures on Intel's Haswell Chips Pushing Windows RT Into Oblivion · · Score: 2

    it's probably another reason not to go RT.

  4. because it's always easier to shoot the messenger on The Reporter's Fifth Amendment Paradox · · Score: 1

    than go through the time and expense of "innocent until proven guilty" burden of proof that one is indeed guilty. The whistleblowers have already made it clear that they're the ones who spoke, the criminals are more stealth (and protected) with their info.

  5. Kinda batshit of the NRA on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 2

    But in this instance it's for the common good. Serandpity on that. :)

  6. jobs restored...? on Outsourced Manufacturing Plant Maintenance Creates IT Opportunities (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So what you're saying is: American plants gain 5 IT workers because computers/robots are doing the work, but still have not gained back the hundreds of human workers laid off when the plants shipped their labor overseas.

  7. feature bloat on GNU MediaGoblin 0.5.0 "Goblin Force" Released · · Score: 1

    > i live everyday of my life wishing i didnt make that huge life changing mistake.

    You chose the wrong software vendor.

  8. Can you hear me now? *whomp!!!* on New Smartphone Tech To Alert Pedestrians: 'You Are About To Be Hit By a Car' · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...Good!"

  9. people wised up on FOI Request Reveals UK Houses of Parliament Workers' Passion For Adult Content · · Score: 2

    and started looking for those nudes of Kate from their home machines.

  10. (Wizard of Id reference there!) on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 2

    "Marissa! The users are revolting!"
    "Let them eat our new interface."

  11. same song different day on Users Revolt Over Yahoo Groups Update · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The protests on Flickr after changes months ago had the same result: no changes, no apologies.
    And just the other day /. published a story about protests when some other Yahoo page changed, same result: no change, no apologies.

    People need to understand Yahoo is marching off the cliff to the beat of its own drummer, and complaints mean nothing to them.

  12. Physically, yes. Beyond that, so many variables. on Can Closed Public Schools Become Makerspaces? (Video) · · Score: 2

    Seems to me there's something wrong if you have 50 empty school buildings but the same number of available teachers and students (or more) than before you closed them. They do make great workspaces but, hey, even better schools in many cases... unless the school is so run down that it's more suited to being a practice space for local bands.

  13. if you like Gina Kolata on What Works In Education: Scientific Evidence Gets Ignored · · Score: 1

    and getting caught in the rain...

    SOMEONE HAD TO SAY IT!

  14. there's always looking right at the camera on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 1

    Which is hardly a natural act, so you should position your camera just above your screen if possible because that's where you're looking, at your screen. :)

  15. If your froyo is a "sugary treat" on Android 4.4 Named 'KitKat' · · Score: 0

    you are eating the wrong brand, according to Dr. Oz.

  16. I love news without a use on Quantum Cryptography Is Safe Again · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes, you can reason that quantum cryptography is going to protect this and that thing that isn't at the consumer level. Good on it. But you're still going to have people typing "password" as their password at their bank or "Jeremy85", the boy in the photo on their desk and his year of birth, in sensitive work email.

  17. fossil fueled debate on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Gonna need proof there was life on Mars or that whatever life we have here somehow came from Mars.

    Meantime here on Earth we have people who ignore dinosaur bones and fern imprints as proof there was life before 4004 BCE.

  18. this Washingtonian's observation on Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions · · Score: 1

    preventing the sale of pot to cartels and gangs, preventing sales to other states where the drug remains illegal under state law, and stopping the growing of marijuana on public lands.

    Which is typically how you get pot in the first place, historically. Now you just buy it in the store! :-D

    Meantime, drive down your average Washington metro city's street and you'll see dispenseries every other block. Funny how that industry cropped up so quicklike. (Irony: Voters closed the state liquor stores, so alcohol vendors have popped up next to the marijuana vendors.)

  19. Al Gore, you're wanted on line 1... on Huge Canyon Discovered Under Greenland Ice · · Score: 2

    Now's the time when climate change could do some good... RAISE GREENLAND! Make it green land!

  20. Re:travel nose to nose? on Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish · · Score: 1

    I suspect they mean horizontally, not vertically. But that would be amusing, sort of a Fred & Ginger car configuration.

  21. Re:iRobots... on Nissan's Crash-Free R&D: 7 Cute Robots Mimicking Bees and Fish · · Score: 1

    Too late, iRobot makes vacuum cleaners.
    But MSFT might sue them to get the name with some flimsy IP claim if they wanted it. ;-)

  22. waiting for a Godzilla sighting near Fukushima on Fukushima Daiichi Water Leak Raised To Level 3 Severity · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or at least a Godzilla reference in responses to this article. Here's one now!

  23. y duznt he like me? on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    Teenage girls who freak out if a boy doesn't reply in 20 seconds aside, of course.

  24. Re:Dictator on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    Flickr's overlords that changde the UI to caca, yes. ;-)

  25. someone's gotta start the show on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the content being generated by these startups may be vacuous, there is at least the spark of new ideas (in some cases) or tangental thought that leads to other ideas. Someone else does the real legwork if it's a good spark, if these small startups can only talk the talk. Contrast the want-to-do's with the Microsoft archtype of staying safe and not innovating or thinking fresh.

    There is some value to the cheerleading, even if it's just to provide grain for others to mill.