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  1. Re:Hmm on August Solar Eclipse Could Disrupt Roads and Cellular Networks · · Score: 1

    Moffett is 28.3 minutes closer.

  2. seen this scene before somewhere... on World's First Floating Windfarm To Take Shape Off Coast of Scotland (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    When I first came here, this was all ocean. Everyone said I was daft to build a wind farm on a ocean, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the ocean. So I built a second one. That sank into the ocean. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the ocean. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest wind farm in all of Scotland.

  3. FL AL LA MI TX CA VA MD OH on Blue Origin To Build Its BE-4 Rocket Engine In Alabama, Creating Hundreds of Jobs (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's been long-standing policy to spread NASA projects around the country to spread the pork around to ensure Congressional support. In this case, gotta keep those rednecks and NAZIs employed.

  4. If it becomes cheaper to artificially manufacture meat, what are we going to do with all those obsolete cows? The species will go extinct in a generation if it's not economical to keep them.

  5. Re:Backwards Automation on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No.
    Obviously they should arm the kangaroos with stinger missiles.

  6. that's not how this works. that's not how any of on Judge Sentences Man To One Year In Prison For Hacking Smart Water Readers In Five US Cities (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    that's not hacking.
    meh. Against stupidity even the gods themselves contend in vain.

  7. simple controller override on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, what do YOU call a 95-story linear accelerator?
    Sounds like a bloody giant goddamn space gun in disguise to me.
    Probably could do double duty in some sort of civil defense program to drive off any aliens that attempt to molest the Earth.

  8. Major Conglomerate?
    Admiral Appliance?

  9. keep the goddamned blue bastards at home! on The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Syria for Sirians!

  10. I WAS going to buy this. on Indie Game Developer Shares Free Keys on The Pirate Bay (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    But now that he's giving it away, I am forced by principle to pirate it.

  11. just in time angst on demand on New Maglev Elevator Can Travel Horizontally, Vertically, and Diagonally (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Now they just need an advanced AI that can see a few seconds into the future so they can arrive right before a passenger needs them.
    Then they can go sulk in the basement.

  12. goddamned lazy physicists, wasting time studying rolling luggage instead of curing cancer!

  13. "SEE?!
    We TOLD you encryption was a problem!"

  14. correcting blatently bad information on Samsung Begins Production For Its First Internet of Things-optimised Exynos Processor (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Spam is the very manna that John Frum brought to the islands on the silver birds. It is the perfect food and requires no refrigeration. Grill it up, maybe add some pineapple or some soy sauce and you're good to go.

  15. Curse of the Invisible Hand. on McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, I'm sure all those cashiers will retrain to be lawyers and doctors, thusly increasing their earning potential. Everybody wins! /S

  16. Some guy named Clifford Stoll would like to talk to you about a $0.75 accounting discrepancy in the computer usage accounts.

  17. turtles all the way down on Tesla Is Talking To the Music Labels About Creating Its Own Streaming Service (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Apple:Apple::Tesla:Tesla

    Oh my, what a frisson of inceptionally lawsuit goodness!

  18. Re:OK, we know the downside... on Chrome and Firefox Headless Modes May Spur New Adware & Clickfraud Tactics (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Chrome's not done until EMACS will run.
    Wait. That's not how it goes...

  19. sheer brutality on Etsy Slashes Almost a Quarter Of Its Staff In Attempt To Refocus (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    why do they have to SLASH their staff, that's just barbaric. Couldn't they just fire, errr, terminate, uh, lay them off?

  20. geeze getta load of all these would-be 9-fingered wonders.

  21. sux if all you have is your labor to sell on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, if I invest my capital in automation to make my employees more productive, I should give them some of the proceeds of those productivity gains? Hah.

    Maybe after I exhaust all other better ideas of what to do with the money.

  22. better than begging for bread. I guess... on Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Underground coal mining used to be the canonical shitty job. It was dirty, dangerous, and you died young from black lung disease.
    Not sure why any rational human being would want to bring those days back. But I answer my own question.

  23. story headline should be "Jack Ma threatens WORLD WAR III"

  24. a real EPCOT by the Bay: on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Also modular construction, although I expect this is nowhere what Google has in mind.

  25. one step closer to the revolution! (hah!) on Google Fights Bay Area Housing Prices With Pre-Fab Housing (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    conditions in the bitmines were deplorable back in '17...
    We lost 217 coders to Starbucks butt just in April.