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  1. V.I.N.C.E.N.T. didn't need legs! on NASA's Robonaut 2 Can't Use Its Space Legs Upgrade · · Score: 1

    What's a space-robot need freakin' legs for?
    Piece of junk, throw 'im in a Black Hole!

  2. Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television on Who's Responsible When Your Semi-Autonomous Shopping Bot Purchases Drugs Online? · · Score: 2

    This bot, it paid for blackjack and hookers?

  3. starring Perry King & Joe Penny on Project Ryptide Drone Flies Life-Rings To Distressed Swimmers · · Score: 1

    Sounds like the bastard child of Roboz and the Screaming Mimi.

  4. well if it's gonna be that kind of thread... on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple Computer - proudly going out of business since 1979!

  5. conditions in steerage were deplorable on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: -1

    Actually, we have flying buses, not cars. Crowded, smelly buses full of the diseased dregs of humanity.

  6. Come and see the violence inherent in the system! on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 1

    The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed.

    -- Benjamin Franklin

    See?! The rich get the edge on everybody else by getting the latest tech sooner. Lousy 1%'ers, priming the tech pump for the rest of us.

  7. trees in SPAAAAACEEE! (or: stagetrees for all!) on Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? · · Score: 2

    How many gigatons of carbon nanotubes is it going to take to build a space elevator?
    Maybe we should really be worrying about Elon Musk's carbon harvester bots coming after us as a readily available source of carbon.

  8. Airport ?! on Army Building an Airport Just For Drones · · Score: 1

    surely the proper nomenclature would be aerial drone aerodrome .
    or at the very least, robot roost

  9. Re:Scientists? on High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride · · Score: 2

    How to See Ghosts 101 :
    Develop one or more of the following:
    1. cataracts
    2. glaucoma
    3. macular degeneration

  10. Re:Have the Germans threaten to invade on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    pas de peau de mon cul, je ne lis pas le franÃais

  11. Some things never change on Sony Hacks Continue: PlayStation Hit By Lizard Squad Attack · · Score: 1

    Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

  12. home taping is killing music on Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "You didn't buy it from us, you must have stolen it."

  13. $100k is not adequate information on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $100k and sharing a rented hovel in silicon valley with seven other brogrammers ?
    Or are we talking $100k in a mansion on the golf course in Arkansas?

  14. obvious (ab)use case : on IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard · · Score: 1

    I have to admit, it would be nice if my fridge would automatically re-order things I'm running out of and want always stocked.

    I would not be nice if my fridge ordered 50,000 pizzas because the script kiddie down the block H@XX0R3D some NSA-mandated vulnerability.
    /IoT

  15. Re:Good riddance on Microsoft's Age-Old Image Library 'Clip Art' Is No More · · Score: 1

    But what of curation?
    If I do a web image search, I get 2,000,000,000,000,000 possible matches to wade through. With maybe 0.0001% of them being simplified line art or, heaven forfend, SVG.
    Also, that random pile of images has no cohesive style.


    wow, me break /.'s spellcheck. There's a surprise.

  16. better left to the privacy of the bedroom on South Korea Bans Selfie-Stick Sales · · Score: 1

    rebranded as walking canes, suitable for thrashing uncultured young whelps that insist on annoying their elders by taking selfies everywhere.

  17. Re:Oh, the entitlement... on 10-Year-Old iTunes DRM Lawsuit Heading To Trial · · Score: 1

    Ah, but see, that puts in stark contrast the GENIUS of Microsoft.
    The only unbreakable lock is the one that does not exist.
    They brilliantly prevented people from running Windows on 68k Macs, with 100% success.
    Unfortunately, their engineers aren't the Titans they were in the days of yore. I've heard rumors that Windows 8 has managed to sneak onto some tablets, but I don't believe them.

  18. I'll keep warning you, you won't listen on NASA Offering Contracts To Encourage Asteroid Mining · · Score: 2

    Just remember I told you so when Elon Musk is holding the Earth for a ransom of one MILLION dollars or he'll smack us with an asteroid.


    Also, could one of these new asteroid mining companies get whatever's left of Atari to sponsor them so they can fly under the Atari logo?

  19. PFAH! on Ohio College Building Indoor Drone Pavilion · · Score: 1

    Your toy airplane is weak if it can't hack it in a light breeze.

  20. salt water + electronics = magic smoke on Microsoft Rolls Out Robot Security Guards · · Score: 1

    countermeasure - pee in the exhaust port

  21. you know, for the cats. on the internet. on Google Announces Image Recognition Advance · · Score: 2

    Next they need an AI that can describe the smells in a image.
    Then you can finally tell if someone on the internet is a dog.

  22. you think I am making joke... on Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors · · Score: 1

    ah. So since Francis Bacon isn't deceased, he's not considered. Got it.

  23. God, schmod! I want my monkeyman! on Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone · · Score: 1

    I really need to know if mammoths are tasty.
    Plus, Brundlefly, they're not carnivorous. No problemo.

  24. future managers of America on Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative" · · Score: 1

    Gulags for people who can't code their way out of "hello world" ?
    YES.

  25. OOOOHHH GAAAAWWWDD..... on Magic Tricks Created Using Artificial Intelligence For the First Time · · Score: 0

    Now skynet can BORE us to death!
    Thanks Science.