User: rossdee

in fact its cold as hell

On: Study Suggests Potatoes Can Grow On Mars (phys.org)

It gets too cold to grow stuff on Mars.
You'd have to have a heated, pressurized greenhouse.

Just wondering...

On: Tesla's New Solar Energy Station On Kauai Will Power Hawaii At Night (engadget.com)

Why doesn't Hawaii use geothermal?

No shit

On: New Scientific Test Finds Up To 75 Liters of Urine In Public Pools (theguardian.com)

nope, no shit, just pee

Oldest evidence of life

On: 3.77-Billion-Year-Old Fossils Found, Could be Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth (theguardian.com)

cue the John McCain jokes

Re:Where are they taking them?

On: Uber's Self-Driving Cars Are Now Picking Up Passengers in Arizona (theverge.com)

Mexico -it its part of Trump's crackdown on illegals

Atpund the moon

On: NASA Is Studying A Manned Trip Around The Moon On A $23 Billion Rocket (buzzfeed.com)

Didn't they already do that like 50 years ago?

and one of the astronauts read from the first verses of Genesis
Mike Oldfield used an excerpt from that on 'Somgs of Distant Earth

Yes I am old enough to remember the Apollo missions
Nice to see Eoin using the old launchpad

Rare chicken

On: Genetically-Modified 'Surrogate Hens' Could Lay Eggs of Rare Chicken Breeds, Scientists Say (theguardian.com)

I prefer my chicken well done

Seamonkey ?

On: Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017

How long until Seamonkey gets depreciated as well?

And also

On: Banned Chemicals From 1970's Persist In Deepest Reaches of the Pacific Ocean, Study Shows (bbc.com)

MH370

Zero Page memory locations

On: Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Things That Every Hacker Once Knew? (ibiblio.org)

on 65xx CPU

Yeah I know thats over 35 years ago - most of you weren't even born

Re:Turns out they were only resting...

On: 223 Stranded Whales Rescue Themselves (npr.org)

".pining for the fjords."

the fjords are at the other end of The South Island

I predict

On: The City Of Munich Now Wants To Abandon Linux And Switch Back to Windows (techrepublic.com)

That this discusssion will get Godwin'd very quickly

Of course

On: Tesla Employee Calls For Unionization, Musk Says That's 'Morally Outrageous' (arstechnica.com)

With all those Litium Ion batteeries, the factory would be Ionized, not unionized

Can they do this?

On: EU Agrees To Cross-Border Access To Streaming Services (variety.com)

While the EU (government) may agree to this, isn't it up to the companies providing the streaming service (and also the content copyright holders)

The message this sends

On: US Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS (nbcnews.com)

USA doesn't want tourists visiting the country
or business people doing trade deals

any number?

On: You Can Make Any Number Out of Four 4s Because Math Is Amazing (youtube.com)

Pi

Intel chips are bricking

On: Intel's Atom C2000 Chips Are Bricking Products -- And It's Not Just Cisco Hit (theregister.co.uk)

Trump can use them on the border

all in all its just another brick in the wall

we don't need no education
secretary named Devo s

Let me say two things

On: A Super Bowl Koan: Does The NFL Wish It Were A Tech Company? (siliconvalley.com)

I don't give a shit about football (either American, or soccer)

and WTF is a koan?

So use

On: Google To Force Basic HTML Gmail On Older Chrome Versions (computerworld.com)

Some other browser, like Opera or FireFox
Or don't use GMail in the first place

Re:What's with 5 anyway?

On: LG Confirms 5K Mac Monitor Has Issue When Placed Near a Router, Says New Batch To Have Enhanced Shielding (recode.net)

I'll settle for 4K, but with 16:10 aspect ratio.
3840x2400

as far as enhanced shielding, they could reconfigure the main deflector grid to emit an inverse tachyon pulse...

Progressive Apps?

On: Google Is Integrating Progressive Web Apps Deeper Into Android (chromium.org)

I am sure this will be popular in California and NYC, but I don't think The GOP and the Donald will be very happy.

Trompe 2017

On: The Netherlands Opts For Manual Vote-Count Amid Cyberattack Fears (independent.co.uk)

Build a wall and make the North Sea pay for it.

Re:You couldn't make enough

On: It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com)

"Nobody I know voted for Trump, yet he won with almost 50% of the vote."

Trump got less than 46%, while Hillary got 48%

Re:Black market

On: 'Australia Is Stubbing Out Smoking' (bbc.com)

If rugby players smoked, they wouldn't make the grade to be on the (All-Black) NZ team, or even the Walabies (Oz team)

No materials then?

On: Woman Built House From the Ground Up Using Nothing But YouTube Tutorials (digitaltrends.com)

Stupid headline