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  1. Re:Someone should start a non profit... on 12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone should start a non profit... to manufacture and distribute stickers:

    This item is not a f*cking bomb

    and a for-profit to make the stickers saying:

    ... or is it?

  2. Re:2 C is a fantasy on Paris Climate Deal Adopted · · Score: 1

    Good thing we started emitting all this carbon 20000 years ago, otherwise most of the northern hemisphere would still be covered by a thick sheet of ice... :-P

  3. Re:Bringing more women and underrepresented grps i on Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    Women are also severely underrepresented in mining, oil drilling, heavy equipment operation, fishing, logging, plumbing, transportation and garbage collection. We should work hard to encourage more women to take these well paid jobs.

  4. Re:Start going after incompetent contractors on US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You think incompetence caused this? How cute.. Anyway, wanna buy a bridge?

  5. Re:Surprising oversight on A Real-Life Space Botanist Comments On the Potato Garden In 'The Martian' (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, they tried, but I was in the middle of delivering manure to the site, and didn't get back to them in time.

  6. misdirection.. on The Coming Terrorist Threat From Autonomous Vehicles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They want you to worry about AVs, while they are actually learning to fly DRONES!

  7. Re:Wait, you have to TYPE the password??? on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 2

    If your password is "OPnuo(I&n hKUYNB68IOnih4wOIB*GBi234t73" as it should be,* then yes...

    Now my favorite password is in cleartext on the Interweb, and I can't use it any longer.. Thanks for nothing. :(

  8. Re:More by whom on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 1

    As long as everyone in the area is aware of potentially falling drones, and keeps their attention on the sky, (what else is there around to look at?) taking them down indiscriminately should be pretty safe. So, yeah.. this is a bad idea.

  9. Quality training on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    Does it say anywhere in the contract that they have to actually teach the replacements useful skills, or just spend X months doing it to receive the severance package?

  10. Re:Bullshit! on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 1
    I'm sure acetaminophen would not be approved either, given the easy overdosing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

    Paracetamol overdose results in more calls to poison control centers in the US than overdose of any other pharmacological substance, accounting for more than 100,000 calls, as well as 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 458 deaths due to acute liver failure per year.

  11. Death... on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, preventing death using some sort of a missile defense is money well spent. Preventing death using health care is socialist bullshit. Fuck, yeah.

  12. Re:It be 12m above sea - max Tsunami: 7m on Pakistan Builds Nuclear Reactors In Karachi, Sparking Fears of Disaster · · Score: 4, Informative

    A brand new 21st century reactor != Fukushima Daiichi 1960 BWR design. Nor 1950's RBMK design for that matter. Misleading panicky comparisons lead nowhere.

  13. Re:Obligatory on Ikea Unveils Furniture That Charges Your Smartphone Wirelessly · · Score: 1
    while that xkcd is funny, it does not apply in this scenario:

    Ikea will equip its new range of furniture with Qi-certified wireless chargers from the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and has also joined the organization.

  14. Re:Don't fucking do it. on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mother nature did this before. It wasn't pretty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y... Something tells me we shouldn't fucking do it.

  15. Simpler on Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    1. Disable SSH v1
    2. Disable root login
    3. Enable two factor authentication

  16. Re:they're a french company on Security Company Tries To Hide Flaws By Threatening Infringement Suit · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A French company threatening a Swedish guy with a US law.. Makes perfect sense...

  17. Re:Not Google's fault... on HR Chief: Google Sexual, Racial Diversity "Not Where We Want to Be" · · Score: 1

    In his memoir My Grandfather’s Son, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pointed to his years at Yale Law School as the genesis of his hostility to affirmative action. “Before long I realized that those blacks who benefitted from it were being judged by a double standard,” Thomas wrote. “As much as it stung to be told that I’d done well in the seminary despite my race, it was far worse to feel that I was now at Yale because of it.”

    http://reason.com/blog/2013/06...

  18. Re:um on Chernobyl's Sarcophagus, Redux · · Score: 2

    The core melted a hole through the ground deep enough to hit the water table where it exploded on contact with water, then caused a steam explosion that was so powerful some of the material hit the jet stream. The heat continued causing hydrogen build up and further hydrogen explosions.

    Citation?

  19. George Bernard Shaw on Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  20. It was a CIA project all the time on Facebook Patented Making NSA Data Handoffs Easier · · Score: 1
  21. Re:I'm Dead on Experian Sold Social Security Numbers To ID Theft Service · · Score: 1

    You can't let fucking zombies drive man, be serious.

    He still has his driver's license... but you can't let him get a car loan.

  22. Re:User Story. on Google Wants Patent On Splitting Restaurant Bills · · Score: 1

    "An automatic service charge of 18% will be added to groups of 8 or more."

    Add "With 50% of that being a royalty for the patent", and this story gets done-done in the next sprint..

  23. Re:Get out the bong on Study: Our 3D Universe Could Have Originated From a 4D Black Hole · · Score: 2

    I think they did.

  24. Why bother with disks? Just upload any data needed to your favorite hosted (I almost said cloud) storage server, possibly encrypted. And travel with a clean laptop. Download when at destination.