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  1. In the news tomorrow... on Bird-Shaped Drone Symbolizes New Forms Of Covert Surveillance To Come (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Tomorrows headline: "Bird shaped tracking device dropped by drone leads military to insurgent headquarters"

    Or to random persons house. No problem, there's plenty of missiles...

  2. Is this some type of flash-mob baseball game? on AT&T Thinks Drones Can Fix Terrible Reception At Baseball Games, Music Concerts (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that these baseball/concert stadiums are relatively permanent structures. Why can't they just mount a few of these on the overhang above the fans/field? Seems simpler, cheaper, and easier to implement. If the cost of the communications equipment is prohibitive, they could just have a few mounts in each stadium and move the equipment around as needed.

  3. From TFA:

    "What is the EU?" and "What happens if we leave the EU?" The former was the second top UK question on the EU after the results were officially announced.

    Seriously, shouldn't they have been asking this before they voted?

  4. Re:Trend Micro in the US Government? on Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    How is Trend Micro allowed in the State Department?

    It was authorized in an email directly from Hilary.Clinnton@state.us.gov.cn

  5. Re:More info at ... on China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    And that's how we know they're lying: there is no Cancel button.

    The Cancel button only appears in pirated versions of Windows 7.

  6. Re:Is it any easier to program than the Tianhe-2? on China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer Without U.S. Chips (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Tianhe-2 is notoriously hard to program for. ... And will USA ever catch up?

    The Chinese currently have beat everyone else in this, but I believe there are several U.S. government funded teams working on developing supercomputers that are increasingly difficult to program.

  7. So, when the inevitable happens... on Online Loans Made In China Using Nude Pictures As Collateral · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So when someone hacks in to the lenders server, steals the pictures, and posts them (which will undoubtedly happen) will the loans be forgiven?

  8. Was the patient a politician? on Medical Equipment Crashes During Heart Procedure Because Of Antivirus Scan (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If the patient was a typical politician, maybe this was actually a divide by zero error?

  9. They've agreed to relocate the ZIP code centers of Powtin KS and Ashburn VA within their dataset to be in the middle of local lakes,

    Tonight in the news- entire SWAT team drowns!

  10. Well, if history is any indication, any job ending in "er" will be replaced by machines.

    how about- lawyer.

    Bring on the machines...

    (quietly changing my diploma to "Enginear" and hoping the robots don't notice...)

  11. Classy use of Class on Samsung Starts Mass Producing Industry's First 10-Nanometer Class DRAM (engadget.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    FTFA:
    *10nm-class denotes a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 19 nanometers, while 20nm-class means a process technology node somewhere between 20 and 29 nanometers.

    This has the stink of a marketing department on it. Does anyone know what the actual size is? I'm guessing it's closer to 19 nm than to 10 nm. Still an impressive achievement if it meets their claims.

    Next year will their marketing department tout their 0 nm-class* process technology?

  12. I'll put these bumper stickers on my car then on Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    I'll put this bumper sticker on the left side of my car:
    "Attention FBI: This car best photographed from the right side."
    and on the right side of my car:
    "Attention FBI: This car best photographed from the left side."

    Then put some other nutty bumper stickers in between, and wait for the fun to start!

  13. How this study will be interpreted... on Research Establishes 13-Hour Gap Between Viral Misinformation and Correction (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Soon we will have some nutjob claiming that any news story older than 13 hours must be true.

    By this time tomorrow, someone else will have linked to this post to support that claim.

  14. One 2x4 for every customer...

    That would be fine if we get to hit the criminals with it.

  15. 1 bit for presence or absence of underwear

    But without them you lose all the barcode info on the back!

  16. Maybe not about North Korea on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Possibly they just want to have a foothold there before China sends up a dredge and claims that the Moon has always been part of Chinese territory?

  17. Re:Taxis & Uber on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    If people buy more cars, one way more pollution would be generated is the embedded energy in the cars- a significant portion of the energy a car uses over its lifetime is during manufacture. More cars being made causes a lot of pollution, even if the cars just sit on the dealer lot.

    However most of the predictions I've seen call for fewer cars to be manufactured. People who take a taxi now will take a robo-taxi (or whatever they'll be called) in the future, not buy a car. I also think Uber won't have any human drivers left shortly after decent automated cards are on the market.

  18. Yay! It's all ours... on Swedish Scientist Suggests That There Is Only One Earth (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    This headline-ready conclusion seems like a bit of a stretch. From TFA:

    The model creates exoplanets based only on the ones we have discovered, which is an extremely small sample size that probably doesn’t provide a representative cross-section of all of the planets in existence.

    Seems like we don't have nearly enough data to say there's only one Earth-like planet.

  19. Re:So Israel bans drones with cameras? on Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza · · Score: 1

    They should instruct the terrorists to remove the pin before attaching the grenade to the drone, in order to save weight, and to test the action on the handle to make sure it works as intended.

  20. Interesting.... on Apple Announces New Trade Up With Installments Program (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder part of the motivation for this plan is to get all of the older "hackable" iPhone models off the market before Apple is asked to break into another one.

  21. Re:Hoax? on iPhones Bricked By Setting Date To Jan 1, 1970 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    Not true. An iPhone requires a convection microwave oven, not a standard microwave oven.

  22. I think you meant to type LBBT. Was just going to comment on that.

    Has proofreading also been banned (ganned?) in Indonesia?

  23. Re:Plot twist on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's likely that some terrorist at one point lived in or near a terraced house. That should be connection enough for the super sleuths at BBC news.

  24. Re:Trump just says stuff on Trump Says He'd Make Apple Build Computers In the US (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Not until they're elected would they tell you that you have to give it to yourself.

    If someone else gives it to you, it will now be taxed.

  25. How much energy? on Distant Supernova Is the Most Powerful Ever Detected (osu.edu) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It shines 20 times brighter than the combined output of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars, and in the last six months, it has spewed as much energy as the sun would in 10 lifetimes

    Seriously, how about some meaningful units we can comprehend here? How many times the energy usage of the Library of Congress is this?