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  1. Sheesh. Five cases of Ebola and on White House Wants Ideas For "Bootstrapping a Solar System Civilization" · · Score: 3, Funny

    they start asking how to get off the planet? Lightweights.

  2. It's improved. on The Subtle Developer Exodus From the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Managed distribution has made this much better than the original VPP model. Yes, it was initially a mess. Second iteration was a little better. Things work well now but there is dome deep diving to be done. You'll likely want a 3rd party for MDM (Casper, etc.)

  3. Silly PETA - It wasn't a camel... on PETA Is Not Happy That Google Used a Camel To Get a Desert "StreetView" · · Score: 1

    it was a horse designed by committee.

  4. Suppository form works just fine. on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, that's been the preferred method so far. People gong on massive antibiotics have stockpiled frozen fecal suppositories with perfectly good results. Not FDA approves since it's not been properly tested until recently.

  5. Officials estimates losses on Kmart Says Its Payment System Was Hacked · · Score: 5, Funny

    in the dozens of dollars.

  6. Sooooo... on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tesla Supercharger stations from now on?

  7. Re:Not until they can put on a suit of clothes on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 1

    That model begs the question - in that it presupposes a chimp and a child or a mentally incapacitated person somehow have a common legal standing, given only that they share a limited level of communication skills. Equating the smartest chimp with the most limited-cognition human doesn't create a tenable argument. They are still chimps, not one of which is discussing personhood. The others are still humans, all of whom - absent limiting pathology - are capable of considering this discussion. The term "sentient" is the giant wiggly one here. Protect them and allow them to live as they should? Sure. Grant them the standing of a person? Unsustainable and superfluous. So - when a chimp lawyer can figure out how to do it for Chimp Doe, call me. Until then, still no.

  8. Not until they can put on a suit of clothes on Chimpanzee "Personhood" Is Back In Court · · Score: 2

    and argue their own case in court. Next question.

  9. Projectors and Kinects X 6 ? $6,000... on Microsoft's "RoomAlive" Transforms Any Room Into a Giant Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    White sheets to cover your walls? $200... Spending your afternoon explaining to your better half why there are giant holes in your walls where you swear the moles were? Priceless.

  10. You can have my mouse on Smart Gun Inspires Smart Mouse Authentification System · · Score: 1

    when you pry it from my cold... Wait, what? Oh.

  11. Re:Give'em 2.54 centimeters... on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    Never said it was difficult, I was simply illustrating the superior linguistic tradition of imperial units.

  12. It's like your stereo... on Will Windows 10 Finally Address OS Decay? · · Score: 1

    brand new, it sounds new, different, impressive, then six months down the line you ears get used to it and you think something happened to the gear. I expect OS slowdown is a lot like this.

  13. Re:Government gun regulation is useless on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    You can't swallow your food correctly 100% of the time - so should we all stop eating?

  14. By God, on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1

    you're right: "28 grams of prevention is worth a half a kilogram of cure" sounds MUCH better.

  15. Most of the cost of a used WRX on Which Cars Get the Most Traffic Tickets? · · Score: 2

    involves removing the tree from the engine compartment.

  16. Give'em 2.54 centimeters... on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1, Interesting

    and they'll take 1609.34 meters. 0.473 liters is 0.473 kilograms the world around. Centimeterworm, centimeterworm, measuring the marigolds... The whole 8.22 meters... 28.35 grams of prevention is worth 0.453592 kilograms of cure. He's done it! He's broken the 240 second 1.6 km! "Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal 453.592 grams Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me." HBO. Next up. 1.8288 Meters Under. "You're gonna lose that smile / because all the while / I can see for kilometers and kilometers..."

  17. Well, speaking from the film noir seats, on David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures · · Score: 1, Funny

    91.44 - 60.96 - 91.44 just doesn't have the same ring to it.

  18. You used "Rest assured," and "Microsoft" on Microsoft's Asimov System To Monitor Users' Machines In Real Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    in the same paragraph. That'll be five laps. Backwards.

  19. Jon Snow is perennially downtrodden on Statistician Creates Mathematical Model To Predict the Future of Game of Thrones · · Score: 1

    so it's only fitting he end up having to clean the dragon litter boxes while she gets her mani/pedi.

  20. Finally, dads can get in on the act on Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China · · Score: 1

    since they could never play the "how many hours in labor!!!" card that Moms always could...

  21. Now if they could only on Marines Put Microsoft Kinect To Work For 3D Mapping · · Score: 1

    find a way to get game consoles into military bases... Oh, wait. Never mind. http://goo.gl/vXyxO

  22. Let's save a lot of time. on Statistician Creates Mathematical Model To Predict the Future of Game of Thrones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    John Snow and Daenerys Targaryen FTW. Otherwise it wouldn't be Fire and Ice. Plus they're the only two non-incestuous family leads standing who would not produce a tragedy. And we know one important character is not dead, since another actress already leaked it. Hope he didn't pay too much for his statistificator.

  23. Re:conveniently leave out Xerox, Apple on Microsoft Co-opts Ice Bucket Challenge Idea To Promote Coding In Latin America · · Score: 1

    Kay wished for a culture of symmetrical consumption and creation and a UI that anyone could use. He was smart enough to know that you better start with kids or it will never happen. Alto owes at least as much to NLS as to Dynabook.

  24. Simple. They got affordable. on How 3D Printers Went Mainstream After Decades In Obscurity · · Score: 1

    (read - less than a high-end computer).

  25. Creative solution. on BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    Vending machines are all over the place, they are connected anyway... nice.