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  1. Java might be faster than my PDP-11/05 ? on Retro Roundup: Old Computers Emulated Right In Your Browser · · Score: 2

    If not, I'm shipping the whole thing out to Sun, postage COD.

  2. I predicted this years ago. on Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster · · Score: 1

    But no one believed me.

  3. Best part is that on "Happy Birthday To You" Now Public Domain · · Score: 1

    we won't have to listen to those custom birthday songs in chain restaurants.

  4. Nonsense. on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 1

    Obviously there was a hole in one of his rigged cables and it let the smoke out of the interweb tubes.

  5. Bob Lutz. on Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The John Dvorak of the auto industry. Apple could not ask for a better endorsement.

  6. 42 on Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura · · Score: 1

    I mean, c'mon.

  7. Huh. Imagine that. on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The equivalent of $7,172 in 2015 dollars, skip frame 1:3 recording and no rewind. And they failed you say? Early bird gets the worm, second mouse gets the cheese.

  8. Alternatives on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 2

    "I wish Apple had a solution where you could download the update once then redistribute it." They do. Two in fact. Once it's on your own network, use Caching Server inside OS X Server. $20. Worth the savings in aspirin alone. Or ARD. Similarly cheap. Outside of Apple, sneakernet. Store apps like XCode only care that you bought them and they they are intact on the drive. I did this for several large in-the-store, non-installer-based, free-with-OSX apps (GarageBand, iMovie) in a building that shared a 10-base fiber link across 18 machine and I wanted to get home for dinner.

  9. Re:Ironically this was caused by slow XCode downlo on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Downloading XCode from the Mac App Store takes nearly a full day!" I get it and the accessory files in about an hour. YMMV but a day? Where?

  10. It's not a documentary. on Former NASA Mission Controller James Oberg Lauds 'The Martian' · · Score: 1

    It's entertainment.

  11. Last I checked authorities had guns, on Only Self-Awareness Can Keep Drones Out of Do Not Fly Zones · · Score: 1

    and many guns can take out some pretty craftier-than-a-drone game at reasonable distances. That would be a good place to start. And "Under The Dome" is a pretty great read, equally lousy TV. Don't know why Stephen cooperated on that one.

  12. Fine by me if authorities choose to frag these on Only Self-Awareness Can Keep Drones Out of Do Not Fly Zones · · Score: 1

    personal quadcopters in a firefighting area. If they can forcibly stop a car from entering an active crime scene or fire area, they can do this.

  13. They're letting you play iOS games on your TV. on Can We Trust Apple To Make a Good Games Console? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is this a console war? This move is so far simply to keep you in their ecosystem. Like every vendor. How about we see what happens instead of launching a pre-judging flame-bait non-article?

  14. Sheesh. on Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well this was pretty pointless.

  15. Amazon Stops OFFICIALLY Selling Fire Phone. on Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone · · Score: 1

    There. Fixed that. In that they likely weren't really selling...

  16. Oh, they're a big company, on Windows Telemetry Rolls Out · · Score: 5, Funny

    surely they know what they're doing and it's all for a better customer experience.

  17. Serious lack of factor analysis here... on Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US · · Score: 1

    There weren't cell phones in every car in 98-99. That has changed. Younger riders have been going to MTB for a good 20 years, whereas older riders are *still* on the road bikes of their younger days, bikes whose demise had been predicted more frequently than Dvorak with Apple.

  18. Please give me an otherwise full-manual car on How Autonomous Cars' Safety Features Clash With Normal Driving · · Score: 1, Insightful

    with ABS, airbags and selectable 4WD. Window cranks, inert key and levers on the seat. Cheaper, less to break, and I think I can still manage.

  19. Damn these trifocals... on Lack of Sleep Puts You At Higher Risk For Colds, First Experimental Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I though it said "sheep".

  20. Christie's catching up on his TIVO... on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    and it's loaded with "Person of Interest".

  21. No. on Do We Need More Emojis? · · Score: 1

    Next question.

  22. Oh, c'mon admit it you watch MacGyver reruns. on The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' · · Score: 1

    It's not a documentary, it's speculative entertainment.

  23. Re:He actually said "evildoers? on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Yes, I was awake for that. "Kerry lost" more than "Bush won" give or take an especially stubborn xenophobic national security hangover. I'd bet lunch that if they re-ran Gore he would have won. Heck, he won the popular vote the first time. Reagan won twice, candidating four times. `

  24. JEB: on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    ALL YOUR - well, everything - ARE BELONG TO US

  25. He actually said "evildoers? on Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    Did he learn NOTHING from his brother's tenure? There should be a team of handlers with cattle prods around every make Bush never uses that word again.