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  1. Re:Since when on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    You need less of it because it's WAY sweeter, it's more heat stable at high temperatures, and it's cheaper.

  2. Re:How did he even get that job? on Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There's no chance of dying from a video game and I start on normal because I play to have fun, not to prove anything to anyone. If I play on hard, it's just to see if I can do it and because I got better at the game. But I'm glad you think he "earned" the right (aka he's a stuck up rich asshole who can afford the travel costs and expensive gear) to climb Everest. I think he earned the right to have an avalanche fall on his head.
    There are poor people living in awful neighborhoods who wish they could afford a security system or a gun or to move and they're in danger every day. Then there's this rich asshole who's just so bored with his career and life, he has to travel around the world and climb a mountain. He got what he deserved and frankly every poor person he offended agrees with me.

  3. How did he even get that job? on Google Executive Dan Fredinburg Among Victims of Everest Avalanche · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Climbing Everest is stupid, irresponsible, dangerous, pointless task for people with severe mental problems like constantly needing approval from others or pathological levels of arrogance or constantly feeling inadequate. So I have to wonder how he even got that job at Google with the personality of an Everest climber.

  4. Re:I have a bug on Microsoft Opens Vulnerability Bounty Program For Spartan Browser · · Score: 1

    And they'll charge monthly for it

  5. I have a bug on Microsoft Opens Vulnerability Bounty Program For Spartan Browser · · Score: 2

    "All your new crap is named after Halo and Minecraft so nobody will respect it."
    Is that considered a bug?

  6. here's a dumb question on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 1

    Why can't we just assume that since there are 9 dimensions, the connection between quantum entangled particles travels through a higher dimension. Doesn't that solve everything more tidily? In fact, I don't remember if NASA's experiment with entanglement on the space station disproved faster than light communication (I think the rocket with the experiment onboard blew up) but it would even explain that if it were true. It travels faster than light because it doesn't, it shortcuts through a higher dimension and rejoins normal space.

  7. Re:Solution looking for a problem? on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 0

    If you drop an iphone from about 1 inch off the ground, it shatters so the watch is supposed to keep it in your pocket.

  8. Re:Wrong Wrong Wrong on Surgeon Swears Human Head Transplant Isn't a 'Metal Gear Solid' Publicity Stunt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't tell that to the body. The body thinks it's a head transplant :P

  9. Re:Comcast and Time Warner, a match made in . . . on Comcast Officially Gives Up On TWC Merger · · Score: 2

    I can't even get past the fact that the TWC - AOL merger was labeled the worst in the entire history of the US and then they went for a second indentical title with Comcast. Who the hell is running things at Time Warner?

  10. Re:even when in offline mode on iOS WiFi Bug Allows Remote Reboot of All Devices In Area · · Score: 1

    Apple phones have GPS devices that are active even when the phone is powered off. Take a guess if they sniff wifi while wifi is "off"

  11. I have an explanation on Hubble Spots Star Explosion Astronomers Can't Explain · · Score: 1

    Based on the most prominent modern science, it was either dark matter that caused the unusual result or the aliens that built the pyramids accidentally crashed their spaceship into the star, causing a mini-nova.

  12. almost a stupid as Steve Jobs on Wellness App Author Lied About Cancer Diagnosis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Steve Jobs had the most treatable, survivable type of pancreatic cancer. He decided to do yoga and change his diet and do acupuncture instead of real treatments. Then he died. That's just how stupid some people are.

  13. damn it, you're screwing with evolution on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    Humankind is devolving! We need to stop enabling stupid people and stop letting them live. Babysitting them like this is only spreading their sub-100 IQ genes to future generations.

  14. nothing to steal here on New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The processor's cache? Nothing typically enters that except high level math that needs to be done rapidly. You'd basically never see a string in there because string manipulation doesn't benefit from processing in hyper-fast flash cache. So if you stole the cache data, you'd be looking at a bunch of useless numbers and gibberish.

  15. more names on Yahoo Called Its Layoffs a "Remix." Don't Do That. · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have some suggestions for additional terminology. An unprofitable quarter (so in other words, all of them) could just be called "dippin'" Then accidentally serving up crytowall malware through their ad network could be "trippin'" and buying out a company that they think is hot and turns out to be a complete nosedive could be called...um...not really sure on that one but Marissa Mayer is a freaking idiot. Maybe they could call it that. Call it a "Marissa Mayer" when someone royally screws up and loses a ton of money.

  16. that can't be true on New PCIe SSDs Load Games, Apps As Fast As Old SATA Drives · · Score: 1

    Can anyone explain to me why a seek time of 50 microseconds, 200,000+ IOPS read speed, and 1.5GB/s + throughput can't load game files faster and why that's specific to PCI-E SSDs only? That sounds completely ridiculous.

  17. Re:Who cares on New Dark Web Market Is Selling Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 2

    Or it might even AFFECT it as well.

  18. Re:root cause on Broken Beer Bottle Battle In Debate Over Merits of Android Over iPhone · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, this is one of the more intelligent reasons I've seen drunk people fight.

  19. hehehehe on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 1

    He should formally get the land re-zoned as "go fuck yourself." That'll show his stuck up neighbors.

  20. some problems with this on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    I see a couple problems.
    1. lasers don't magically make things go away like in the cartoons. They just break it into smaller pieces by making it hot
    2. photons don't impart much inertial energy onto an object compared to radiation beams
    3. the space station has very limited power and it is carefully allocated to good use

  21. gee thanks on D-Link Apologizes For Router Security · · Score: 1

    It appears that as a countermeasure to getting hacked, all netgear routers freeze up constantly, have the internet connection cut in and out, reset settings for no reason, and fail to load their config pages. Very clever. Maybe they should apologize for the quality of their routers too.

  22. See, it isn't that hard on Oklahoma Says It Will Now Use Nitrogen Gas As Its Backup Method of Execution · · Score: 1

    The media acted like a European import ban in killer chemicals for lethal injection was the end of the world. It's not that damn hard to kill someone. In fact, they could just give him too much of basically any depressant and too much of almost any anesthetic.

  23. just try to take my water on William Shatner Proposes $30 Billion Water Pipeline To California · · Score: 0

    I'm from the Great Lakes area and sorry, California can't have our water. Our water table is too low as it is. None of the other states are going to agree to send their own water to that tax and spend, giant deficit-having, liberal disaster over there.

  24. Re:Ehhh What ? on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're talking about people who sincerely believe that in a black hole, "loss of information," a completely human-created concept, is some sort of law of physics. They also think they can measure all the mass and energy in the entire universe even though some of it isn't observable. Astrophysicists aren't exactly logical.

  25. Re:Thank god on Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just limit trade requests to like 10 per day and have a 60 minute cooldown on account creations from the same IP address?