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  1. Re: Ancillary titles to TFA on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    We must distribute PowerPoint licenses and 4th-grade PowerPoint tutorials to ISIS, so that they bore themselves into irrelevance.

  2. Flamebait title on Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A more appropriate title would be: "Idiot hits pedestrians after purposely setting up his vehicle to do so, hoping it wouldn't."

  3. Re:Contract it out. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    Fact: they have no preexisting projects.

    Therefore, any know-how they acquire has to either be developed or "purchased" (traded for, if you will)elsewhere.
    Since the timeframe excludes the first option, the second one is the obvious one.

  4. Re:Contract it out. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    The fact that they have zero know-how, essentially.

    In fact, they have essentially zero know-how in all fields. They're comfortable living off oil and slavery-backed glamour.

  5. Re:This will be a historic mission. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    You have a funny definition of "open".

  6. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Nitpick: it's not proprietary, it's just not used outside of aerospace environments.

    Otherwise, you're exactly right.

  7. Re:call me skeptical on FBI Alleges Security Researcher Tampered With a Plane's Flight Control Systems · · Score: 1

    The fucking "summary" is wrong.

    If you read the warrant application, the feds state the following:
    - He did try to access the IFE box, as evidenced by physical damage.
    - It is possible that he interfaced with the IFE systems and *possibly* other aircraft systems

    Nowhere did they say: "This guy accessed flight control systems."

  8. Re:I can see this running afoul of.... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    It's an abstract "you", not you, necessarily.

  9. Re:I can see this running afoul of.... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Frankly, Health of the General Population > Freedom of religion.

    If your "religion" demanded that you fire a machine gun into the air for 5 minutes a day, you'd find very little tolerance for it.

    Either scenario has a probability of harming someone around the same order of magnitude, I guesstimate. So why should the first be any different?

  10. Re:Wait. Ssergorp lurking here. on Uber Drivers In India Will Start Accepting Cash · · Score: 1

    And somehow convinced people it was a valid business model an not a bullshit crowdsourcing effort that effectively crowdsources all the difficult parts.

  11. Re: Deniers on Top Advisor To Australian Gov't Says Climate Change is a UN Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    You haven't made a point, either, since all you did was spread vague FUD.

  12. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    "Something weird is going on" is not the same as "it works and we can actually do stuff with it".

  13. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    It's one thing to be open to the possibility that something is incomplete.

    It's quite another to write a long web page with grand predictions for something that is unproven and has no theoretical explanation yet.

    It's also ludicrous to make a computer model without any sort of theoretical basis. I can "invent" a warp drive by imagining that $_phenomenon is a good approximation of $_supposed_operating_principle and making a computer model of that. Naturally, the results are pure bullshit and profoundly meaningless.

    Neither of the above disproves very solid physics. It'll take something a lot more formal to reasonably conclude that space is asymmetric.

  14. Re:This again? on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong.

    Conservation of linear momentum is most certainly NOT derived from Thermodynamics.

    Conservation of linear momentum is a mathematical consequence of translational symmetry - in other words, momentum is conserved if the laws of physics are invariant in space. Similarly, angular momentum is conserved if the laws of physics are invariant by rotation.

  15. Re:ROTFL! on Random Generator Parodies Vapid Startup Websites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You forgot infinitely-scrolling websites that never destroy any of the shit that now lies the equivalent of 20 pages up.

  16. Re:Photo realistic? on Star Wars Battlefront Game Trailer Is So Realistic It Looks Like Movie Footage · · Score: 1

    It looked good, until they were no longer able to not show faces.

  17. Re: About half on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    Even some 10 year old cars are very tightly integrated.

  18. Re:DAB/DAB+ is obsolete already on Norway Will Switch Off FM Radio In 2017 · · Score: 1

    AM is hardly a pleasant thing to listen to.

  19. Re:Is it the Apps? on John Gruber On Third-party Apple Watch Apps: They Suck and Are Really Slow · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point.

    The point is that rushed first-gen devices with a long list of crippling "features" is Apple SOP.

  20. Re:Is it the Apps? on John Gruber On Third-party Apple Watch Apps: They Suck and Are Really Slow · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean like the iPhone supported the vast majority of smartphone features when it was released, like native applications beyond what's bundled, MMS, video recording, 3G, Copy/Paste/Cut functionality, multitasking...

    Oh, wait, that was a rushed piece of shit as well.

  21. Re:Obvious bullshit statement on Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB · · Score: 1

    Kinect 2 has wider-angle lenses than Kinect 1, so there's not as much of a need for different optics.

    Since there never was any announcement that Kinect 2 for Windows was somehow optimized, the logical default is that they are the same.

  22. Re:Obvious bullshit statement on Kinect For Windows Is Dead; Long Live Kinect For Windows Via USB · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is number 3. They've had the adapter for a long time. They're just not packaging the same thing (with a different logo on the front) in two slightly different ways now.

  23. Re:Did Anyone? on SuperMario 64 Coming To a Browser Near You! · · Score: 1

    I read it as Superman 64, which is only normal, since the title should be "Super Mario 64 ...".

    Of course, why anyone would recreate Superman 64 in a modern engine is beyond me (and the rest of humanity, so far).

  24. Re:Disarmamant? on How Nuclear Weapon Modernization Undercuts Disarmament · · Score: 1

    Why worry about stockpiling nukes when you can just build them quickly if push comes to shove? They've got the know-how and plenty of nuclear material.

  25. Re:Nuclear arms use probable in five years on How Nuclear Weapon Modernization Undercuts Disarmament · · Score: 1

    Sure, blame the victim.

    Funny how a bunch of drunken retards get a pass for shooting down an airliner they thought was a military transport plane that posed no immediate danger AND covering it up at the same time you condemn the stressed-out/paranoid crew of a warship that felt threatened (even though there was no threat) by an airliner they thought was a fighter aircraft where there was no attempt at a cover up.