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Coming soon - 3D printable everything

On: ATF Tests Show 3D Printed Guns Can Explode

Once they have these minor inconveniences ironed out I look forward to printing my own hand grenades, flame-throwers, rocket-launchers, heat-seeking missiles, and battalion of robo-troops to deploy them on my 3D-printed floating island in the pacific.

Dammit - printer jam. brb

So close except for the Osama part

On: Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario

If you haven't seen Loose Change and In Plane Sight on youtube you might want to watch them.

This one only "crashed"

On: Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario

Just an accident. And when the first drone "accidentally fires" on a US citizen... what then?

Compare incarceration rateo to crime rates:

On: Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes
How's that prison-as-a-deterrent thing working out for you, America? Not so much, huh,

Each human sperm holds the equivalent of 37.5mb...

On: NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone

and one average ejaculation represents 15.8tb of information. By those standards, the ability to call it a success was a long time coming.

That's 25 terabytes

On: NASA's Mars Orbiter Reaches Data Milestone

Did the math for the mathally-challenged.

You're welcome.

I feel flagellated already

On: Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia

Thanks for flagellating me into shape.

Thanks, I really liked that rendering :)

On: GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware

It does put their actions into a less fear-based perspective, and a more accurate one. At least it seems so to me.

A synonym of "scourge" is "flagellate"

On: Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia

I, for one, would have picked another adjective.

Please stop calling them Attacks

On: GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware

They are frauds. The NSA perpetrated a fraud with these actions. This helps to clarify that these acts are illegal. Fraud is illegal.

Thanks,

Re:Waht about LinkedIn?

On: GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware

Linked-who-what?

I for one welcome my Google overlords,

On: Google Is Testing a Program That Tracks Your Purchases In the Real World

and their NSA comrades.

I for one welcome my new Google overlords...

On: Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January

and their NSA comrades.

Flagrant Flatulism Posing as Reporting

On: Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates

If car auto-pilot is like auto-correct, we're all going to die in really funny ways. No matter what the results of this survey say.

And the patent system is good thing?

On: Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties

Nope. This shit has got to go.

EVERYBODY PANIC

On: Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It

'cause good fear-based reporting is always appropriately met with a good panic.

P2TC signs: "I really like this"

On: Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages

nods and looks sad, grabs cap brim with left hand and runs right thumb along chin

It probably wouldn't, because...

On: Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages

some signs need no translation.

Re:We can always hope

On: Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

Yeah that is annoying, but I kept it for the performance boost.

P2TC signs: "I really like this"

On: Microsoft Research Uses Kinect To Translate Between Spoken and Sign Languages

Kinect translation with new autocorrect-for-ASL: "I really like your tits"

Thanks Microsoft!

Re:We can always hope

On: Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

have you tried Foxit? I've been using it instead of adobe for years now. Lighter, faster, more stable, less annoying.

The Code was Photoshopped,,,

On: Adobe Breach Compromised Over 38 Million Users, Photoshop Source Code

so it wasn't real anyway.

Reviews Should have rules too

On: An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef

TLDR

Editor must be from Pittsburgh?

On: Most Popular Human Cell In Science Gets Sequenced

get/get/Verb: Come to have or hold (something); receive
Experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)

"gets sequenced?"
wouldn't simply "sequenced" have been better?
"gets" is present-tense, "sequenced" is past tense.

I got to the "Al Gore" part...

On: SXSW: Al Gore Talks Surveillance Culture, Spider Goats

and then fell asleep.

Please wake me when slashdot stops thinking Al Gore is interesting.