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  1. Sure. Ep.IV. Ever see the original trailer? on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    It's a wonder anyone went to see it based on the actual original trailer. Check out the behind the scenes of the 6-film DVD set. The production was so disjointed, when crew from various units saw the first complete cut the remarks were along the line of "Cool! So what movie is this?"

  2. It's not a documentary. on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    I have a science background and it my actual spaceship made any of your blunders I would be livid. But that's not what we're doing here. We're going for a ride. Enjoy it.

  3. Open the garage door please, HAL. on Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone · · Score: 1

    Hello, HAL. Do you read me?

  4. Remarkably little lens flare. on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 2

    Nice work on the contrails. No Jar Jar. Hey, it's a teaser but I like what I see so far.

  5. Winning in competition does not equal monopoly. on Google Should Be Broken Up, Say European MPs · · Score: 1

    Of course when after eons of warring you finally create an exclusive federation then see it threatened financially by less-than-egalatarian reality, I can see where that mistake could be made.

  6. But can it scale on A Worm's Mind In a Lego Body · · Score: 1

    enough for a Dune reboot?

  7. Also - couldn't you actually just sign the drivers on Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X · · Score: 1

    that are needed for trim? What prevents that? Likely just time. But that doesn't make for an alarming headline.

  8. For those of us in the greater Boston area on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 2

    that's 81.6 smoots per second. Not that a piece of track anywhere near Boston could support that.

  9. I hear it comes with a shiny gold ring on Satellites Spot Hidden Villages In Amazon · · Score: 4, Funny

    and all the fissshes you can eat.

  10. Yyyyyyup. on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 1

    But try explaining that to some people.

  11. Snark aside, this is huge. on Ebola Nose Spray Vaccine Protects Monkeys · · Score: 2

    Simpler admin, less risk of infection. Wicked fast development.

  12. DC? Perfect. Now we can finally on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 5, Funny

    have an answer when someone says "I dunno what Congress is smoking..."

  13. As yet unspecified computer glitch? on Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches · · Score: 1

    That would be news in CT. It was a chain of human errors.

  14. Re:Setting the Clock? on New Atomic Clock Reaches the Boundaries of Timekeeping · · Score: 2

    Simple. Call (860) JAckson-48123. You even get the temperature.

  15. So by extension on Space Tourism Isn't Worth Dying For · · Score: 1

    it was not worth all the lives lost in atmo flight dev if people are just going to go on vacation. Hogwash. P.S. There are no federation starships. Silly to even reference never mind use in an argument.

  16. C is called C because it came after B on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    and that's somehow OK? (puerile snickers at words aside...) Language naming isn't exactly highbrow technical stuff to begin with.

  17. LiveCode and Swift on It's Time To Revive Hypercard · · Score: 1

    are the best current follow-ons to the HyperCard simplicity and utility.

  18. Somebody needs a hug on China Completes Its First Lunar Return Mission · · Score: 1

    and a replacement box set of Firefly.

  19. Nope. Just got through tussling over a DME on Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare · · Score: 1

    - one that was billed at $900 that I can buy on Amazon for $117. Reason? That's the Medicare "book" price and no one else is interested in spending the time to create a realistic price sheet. Of course their first excuse was that it took time to size and fit the device. When I pointed out that's a personnel/visit charge not a hardware charge, they came up with the "real" reason for charging so much.

  20. Another opinion. on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    That's all it is. From someone who runs a 5 person tech design shop with a dozen clients that no one has heard of. WalMart and other majors will build in whatever it takes to process cards at whatever price from 0.01 to current rates.

  21. So MS biz model = Olive Garden? on OneDrive Delivers Unlimited Cloud Storage To Office 365 Subscribers · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's back! Never Ending Data Bowls starting at $9.99!

  22. The 2% figure is for tobacco sales per se... on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    and that varies by location. With friends who are a store manager and regional manager, according to them it's going to be wait-and-see if the smokers just move on to another drug store - taking the rest of their business with them.

  23. This is a special kind of stupid. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 2

    To push away the two leading mobile solutions especially when you're in the midst of losing smokers in CVS (a good move health-wise but consequential for sales nonetheless)? Heck they wouldn't even do Passport.

  24. What would have saved Challenger on A Look At Orion's Launch Abort System · · Score: 1

    was the first "all-the-way-down" human decision turtle: 15% higher cost for one-piece SRBs instead of the 4-piece propellant sections.

  25. Wow. on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 2

    This is a longer article than the one about India getting to Mars BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE. And I thought the fact that Harry Potter has a longer WP entry than Prince Harry was ridiculous.