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  1. not so accurate headline on How Curved Spacetime Can Be Created In a Quantum Optics Lab · · Score: 1

    So they made an analog that pretty well simulates curved spacetime. It's not actually curved spacetime. And here I was hoping the iPhone 7 would run off of a Stargate SG1 Zero Point Module made out of infinitely bent space :(

  2. Well that's not true on As Prison Population Sinks, Jails Are a Steal · · Score: 5, Funny

    "but can't be easily sold or repurposed"
    Bullshit! You know what you have to do to turn it into an airsoft and paintball facility? Put up a sign and a cash register.

  3. ZOMG! on FBI Director Continues His Campaign Against Encryption · · Score: 1

    I am literally a terrorist for not letting an FBI agent walk into my apartment at will and dig through my fridge. Same logic.

  4. not a good thing on How Nigeria Stopped Ebola · · Score: 1

    They stopped it before whoever the hell is sending those scam e-mails caught it and died. This is certainly not a good thing.

  5. Re:Awesome quote on Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area · · Score: 1

    If it was me, I would have said "The police have been ordered to shoot any Comcast staff members on site"

  6. their own fault on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I worked in an IT department in a hospital and even I had to go through biohazard and infection protection training. These workers came into contact with the patient's bodily fluids. That's sort of frowned upon for medical professionals. Forget ebola. Under normal circumstances, they could now have hepatitus, AIDS, or basically anything else. People this careless are a time bomb. Ebola was just the one that got them.

  7. a fun analogy on Netflix To Charge More For 4K Video · · Score: 1

    Ooooh 4k! What an impressive buzz word! Unfortunately, I feel like it might not be quite 1 gigabit per second filling it. Here's an example. If I give you a small container filled with peanut butter, you'd be sort of happy. If I give you a gigantic container with a big, flashy title and the fill it with horse manure, you actually were better off with the smaller container. 4K is a resolution. It's just a container. I care about the pixels inside of it. When Direct TV's "HD" signal had to display confetti falling at the superbowl, 1920x1080 @ 30 effective FPS @ about 2 megabits = pixels the size of cats. Seriously, I saw 1 inch wide pixels. It's a static bitrate so for the encoding, pixels that don't move are lower quality and ones that do move are higher quality. When they're all moving, it looks like a 1996 dial up streaming video. In fact, with downscaling (since nobody owns 4k monitors) you'd actually get a better overall quality with 8 megabits per second crammed into 1080 than you would with it crammed into 4k.

  8. wait, what? on VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt -- and It's Better · · Score: 1

    I don't consider that last part "better." Making up for people stupid enough to choose a weak password is not "stronger" it's actually weaker because it's enabling them. You know what else makes your password 10-300x harder to brute force? Adding 2 characters.

  9. Obvious on Who's In Charge During the Ebola Crisis? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's whoever has the most guns! In case of a tie, hand sanitizer and lysol can be used as a tie breaker.

  10. Re:Birth control pills signifcant contributor? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 1

    Absolutely not. Ask anyone who is a professional dietician what the last healthy drink in the world is. They'll say milk (or be incorrect).

  11. um no on The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers · · Score: 1

    The probability of getting your data leaked or inappropriately accessed sometime in the future on any cloud service is 100%. The potential benefits of taking nude selfies is absolutely nothing. Sorry, but your reasoning falls apart.

  12. Re:Birth control pills signifcant contributor? on Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Stocks · · Score: 2

    According to a former slashdot story, that is absolutely where the estrogen is coming from. The primary point of the story was that tap water processing plants do absolutely nothing to filter it out. This is why I don't drink tap water.

  13. let me summarize on Statisticians Uncover What Makes For a Stable Marriage · · Score: 2

    Irresponsible, immature, self-absorbed assholes who have a poor opinion of their spouse get divorced 500x more often than normal, nice, decent, reasonable people. Who would have guessed? At least this dispels the absolutely ridiculous myth that Christians have the same divorce rate as everyone else.

  14. really? A fireball? on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: 1

    "Later on, the cosmonauts narrowly avoided being obliterated in a huge fireball when oxygen levels soared inside the craft."
    It was really close but luckily they realized Oxygen isn't flammable and requires other flammable materials to burn. Boy, that was a close one!

  15. Re:what an idiot on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Oh I forgot one! You know "the men who stare at goats?" Yeah, that was a gigantic drug-fueled waste of time by pretend scientists who thought halucinogens made them super smart and gave people super powers with quantum waves of life force and blah blah blah and other bullshit that doesn't exist in real science.

  16. So it output a ridiculous amount of energy. That means it works. Just because they can't understand it doesn't mean it doesn't work. I don't care if it uses nuclear fusion or elf magic. It does exactly what it was supposed to do so why don't scientists stop making fun of it and build a power plant using it. If I invented the single most money-making device in over a century, exceeding even personal computers, I wouldn't open source the specs even if I had an established patent. China would just steal it a decade sooner. I'd keep that sucker so top secret, I'd have $100 billion company before anyone figured out how it worked.
    "We're confused and don't like the person personally" it not a sufficient reason to not take the device seriously. We were using quantum effects and technology before scientists figured out how and why it worked. Same thing here.

  17. I don't get it on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    How does using bittorent on public wifi clog up "residential" routers. Do the residential ones see the corporate coffee shop ones under heavy stress and get "sympathy congestion?"
    Also, over half of all public wifi I've seen cuts any client off for 24 hours if they use X amount of bandwidth, usually 1GB. If they don't implement something like that, or really good QOS, or port-blocking then their network is misconfigured and they brought it on themselves. The proper way to fix that is to offer to fix it, not boot people off with some stupid hack.

  18. Re:what an idiot on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I have solid, proven, documented proof that the highest IQ test ratings, the best software programming I can achieve, and the greatest creative problem solving and creativity is after 8.5 hours of sleep and a sufficient diet with lots of B vitamins. That is supported by all of science and biology. Having random, idiotic ideas pop into my head while my synapses fire randomly because of THC does not constitute a superior means of thinking, it is in fact completely inferior. It is illogical and useless and the thought patterns would be easily achieved in a superior way by simple concentration and mental exercises while not under the influence of drugs.

  19. Re:what an idiot on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Amen to that. And I'm sure the drugs helped him expand his amazing knowledge of AIDS and made up astrophysics.

  20. she handled it incorrectly on Why the Trolls Will Always Win · · Score: 1

    Here is the correct way to handle it:
    1. buy a gun
    2. stop the sexist bullshit about how it's all because you're a woman
    3. ignore them

  21. so no Obama? on 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay · · Score: 1

    I was really hoping Obama would get it again. You know, for failing to do anything or engage in combat with ISIS for months. Just letting the enemy take over and burying your head in the sand is what those anti-war protestors want after all.

  22. Re:IP-Based Banning on a Dynamic Network? on BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer · · Score: 1

    It adds their IPs and MACs to a ban list. That's a bit harder to get around. MAC address spoofing isn't that hard but it's another step.

  23. what a moron on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So battery life is the #1 problem and the CEO is worried about people crashing them and alleged fire risks and getting them banned in certain states. What should they do? I know! Spend R&D money on autopilot! That won't crash them or get them banned in certain states at all!

  24. what an idiot on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Drunk people think they're great at driving too. Anyone under the influence of illegal drugs think they're sooo intelligent and creative and imaginative and infinitely smarter. In reality, they can't even think straight.

  25. Re:Airborne Mutation Remains Greatest Fear! on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    Also Fox News would try to sell you gold so you can throw gold at oncoming infected ebola patients and knock them out. I really can't think of any other use of gold in a post-apocalyptic scenario. You certainly cantt eat it.