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On: Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com)

At least D&D players don't assume you want to subsidize their enthusiasm for choreographed violence on your monthly cable bill.

if you're not doing anything wrong...

On: TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com)

so many people getting themselves on the enhanced screening list today. Why do you haet 'murika, maeka?

should render as MÃÃse

On: FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi

A MÃÃse once bit my sister...

the above is reason enough for slashcode to get their unicode shit together.

this post is the planet Venus, please ignore

On: NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive

This idea is older than dirt, about time somebody actually tried it.

Now just hook up your Rossi E-Cat to it for power any you can fly your woowoo-mobile to meet the space brothers, just like on the Kansas album cover.

Would you like to know more?

good job AC!

On: SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com)

OH NO YOU DINNINT!
We haven't had a good ol' fashioned thermonuclear flamewar around here in ages.
Just what this thread needs!

An all day HARRASSMENT seminar seem a bit much

On: SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit (arstechnica.com)

Try Mr. Barnard; room 12.

Congressional porkamandering is the problem

On: NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars (spacenews.com)

Do the Russians have a saying equivalent to :

gas, grass or ass, nobody rides for free

?

That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

On: Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security

holy crap.
Quicktime ?
RealPlayer?

What is this 2001 ?

another twist to the story

On: Junkyard Owner Saves Lunar Rover Prototype (vice.com)

This "rover" is a replica knocked together from junk the owner had in the junkyard when this story hit the wire.
The "original" "rover" may or may not have been melted down, sold to the Chinese or some pets.com mogul or turned into a bitchin' electric dunebuggy.

"no" once should suffice.

On: Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill

Then they just randomly call looking for people that aren't you.
And don't accept your word that you aren't them, don't know them, and have no responsibilities for their bad debts.
And keep calling back.

we're at the tipping point of Civilization

On: Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill

That's OK. ARSONBOT technology is improving by leaps and bounds.

some guy on the internet said it, must be true

On: Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain

(Note - direct links to project Gutenberg bibliographic details)
Armageddon - 2419 A.D.
The Airlords of Han

I have fairly high confidence that PG has at least one competent lawyer and knows what they're talking about when they say those works are in the public domain.

way to miss the subtext, Sheldon

On: Lawsuit Claims Buck Rogers Is In the Public Domain

Steamboat Willie was a STEAMBOAT Captain.

You know, those big boats with the paddlewheels that they forced the slaves to load the cotton onto back in the good old days.
And since he was the Captain, he was in charge, and you can bet he damsure kept those darkies in line so they didn't deservedly murder him in his sleep.

Every single word of that logically follows from the job description Steamboat Captain.

Re:one joke, one explaination

On: Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal (vice.com)

local scientific survey module

one joke, one explaination

On: Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal (vice.com)

1. up on blocks.
2. Huntsville.

space pirate, ARRRRRRRR!

On: A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com)

I'd be more interested in his take on maritime law.

full social media saturation bombing

On: Stanford's Autonomous DeLorean Can't Time Travel, But It Can Do Donuts (stanford.edu)

holy crap, I can't believe the amount of media coverage B2tF2 30 is getting.
Dance for Robert Zemeckis slashdot, dance!

technically, Mars is international waters...

On: NASA Picks Winners For 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Design Contest (space.com)

Technically, Mark Watney is the best architect on Mars.
So logically, early period Martian colonial architecture would look like the parts of Fred Sanford's junkyard that didn't get blow away by a recent hurricane.

Re:Remove casing from a Wallmart clock - get invit

On: 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar

cry discrimination

So this little troll is as red-white-and-blue American as Balloon Boy. Got it.

what kind of crap journalism is this?!

On: The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor (bloomberg.com)

Claiming he's beat Edision's record but no tally of the number of stray dogs, cats and elephants he's electrocuted?

Before Edison's innovations, we had to hang any rogue elephants we wanted to dispose of!

Re:WiFi water kettle? Really? Seriously?

On: Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London (pentestpartners.com)

... yadda yadda toilet posting to facebook yadda

Well, that certainly improve the quality of facebook.

it's the hammock complex on third

On: The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com)

That certainly puts the episode "You only Move Twice" in a new light.
Homer, you monster!

alternately:

On: The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents (dice.com)

or, you know, google could pay a living wage.
Time to unionize, boys!

Re:Ok first...

On: Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London (pentestpartners.com)

I don't see anything describing a low/no water safety shutoff. So hackers can turn it to 100C right when you leave the house in the morning and have your house burnt down by lunchtime?

Also, it seems that a wifi control app would be ideal for a sous vide cooker. That shouldn't be much more complicated than a crockpot, why are they so damn expensive?

so constant singleminded tea-oriented conversation

On: Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London (pentestpartners.com)

This is like Talkie the Toaster, but it's a tea kettle?
And all modern crackpots are wired to the internet these days.