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  1. "...when a police officer is in danger." on Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Great. Just freakin' great. This bloody thing is going to go off every time a Black man is pulled over.

  2. This won't be a problem fir much longer on Dozens of Recent Clinical Trials May Contain Wrong or Falsified Data, Claims Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Scott Gottlieb, the current head of the FDA, wants to end drug trials. "The free market will put the bad actors out of business."

  3. In Colbert's defense... on FCC Won't Punish Stephen Colbert For Controversial Trump Insult (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1
  4. Re: Not good. Maps is a tool not a toy on Google Maps Adds 'Ms. Pac-Man' Feature (blog.google) · · Score: 2

    You would have abhorred the video game I wrote in Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day.

  5. Re: Can't patent this on Mission Possible: Self-Destructing Phones Are Now a Reality (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Their patent is being challenged by Israeli intelligence who assassinated someone with an exploding mobile in the '90s

  6. Re:A little more on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    And most people could do with a logic course.

  7. Re:Turbine on The Rise and Fall of America's Jet-Powered Car · · Score: 1
  8. "human error causes roughly 70% of the problems" on Blizzard Sues Private Server Company, Awarded $88M · · Score: 1

    Does that mean I need to quit using the old line "To err is human; to really fowl things up requires a computer"?

  9. Re:Then... why not release a hackable calculator? on TI vs. Calculator Hobbyists, Again · · Score: 1

    It would have to be sufficiently different that the cases of the hackable and non-hackable versions couldn't be swapped. May not be enough of a market for the hackable model to make it worth their investment.

  10. Gone With The Wind on Hollywood Accounting — How Harry Potter Loses Money · · Score: 1

    I hear it's going to break even any time now.

  11. Experience on Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio · · Score: 1

    I've seen what it can do. A traffic cop with several years experience can estimate your speed to within two miles per hour. And they're probably not going to write you up for doing 47 in a 45mph zone.

  12. Re:Must be controlled with a keyboard... on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    It works better than speaking into the mouse.

  13. Gattaca! on Could Colorblindness Cure Be Morally Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Gattaca!

    Gattaca!

    Gattaca!

  14. Re:Don't do it! on Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots" · · Score: 1

    Hey, some future archaeologist is going to have to do it. Hopefully.

  15. Re:Fair Use? on Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect · · Score: 1

    Screw his vile guts.

    No doubt that will be happening very, very often.

  16. Love the incompetence on 22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found · · Score: 1

    They couldn't even destroy the evidence effectively. At least Reagan could run a paper shredder.

  17. Re:How common is your name? on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Build up identities with the same name but obviously different information. We'll assume his name is so unique there's only him to find

    Anyone who is going to hold a several year old indiscretion against someone is likely to be suspicious of profiles popping up with no histories before today.

  18. Re:great timing on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    So, um, you gonna eat that?

  19. Re:New proposed functions for YUI on Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the slot to feed the bills into, to keep the strip, er, script running.

  20. If happiness is contagious... on Happiness May Be Catching · · Score: 1

    then I'm immune.

  21. An exercise in...? on Scientists Clone Oldest Living Organism · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomatia_tasmanica: ...reproduction occurs only vegetatively: when a branch falls, that branch grows new roots, establishing a new plant that is genetically identical to its parent.

    Why didn't they just stick some branches in pots of soil?

  22. Re:Captain Obvious on Has Texting Replaced Talking For Teens? · · Score: 1

    Given that, I don't think 60 messages a day for a teenager is all that high.

    Sure beats having to wrestle the one phone in the house away from your sister when she's been on it for four hours straight

  23. Welcome to... on Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out of Farming · · Score: 1

    Milliways. Where the cows want to be eaten.

  24. The X-Men... on Disney Buys Marvel For $4B · · Score: 1

    is a Mickey Mouse operation.

  25. Good thing the specify "on demand" on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I remember ripping ads out of the center of paperbacks thirty years ago. Without "on demand" they'd have that pesky prior art thing to deal with.