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  1. Re:Viewing curvature from 1500 feet on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a test launch on the path to an eventual space flight. He says.

  2. Re:He should really get a paramotor on Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway (desertsun.com) · · Score: 1

    This specific launch wasn't meant to prove the Earth is flat. It was meant to be a stepping stone to an eventual space launch.

  3. Re:We want the 4 hour version! on DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    I do believe that Joss Whedon's reshoots did more harm than good, but if the film had been watchable to start with, then WB wouldn't have requested Whedon to do so.

    They brought Joss Whedon on because Zack Synder's daughter commited suicide, not because they wanted him replaced.

  4. Re:let's get this straight on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    so $20,000 to go 1800 feet up(probably not), to take a picture, to see for himself whether the Earth is flat.

    No. There's nothing to indicate he's doing this particular stunt to get any evidence.

    It seems his long term plan is for this test to lead to a future journey into spaaaaace (between the ears).

    Anyway, there's plenty of evidence in favour of a round Earth that you can gather simply by going outside.

  5. Re:OMG on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? He'll raise the average IQ of the planet.

  6. Re:SPOILER FOR A 32-YEAR-OLD BOOK FOLLOWS on Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who decided to go and check would know.

  7. ...what? on Star Trek: Discovery Will Return On January 7th, 2018 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    CBS announced that Star Trek: Discovery will return for the second half of the split season on Sunday, November 12th. There will be roughly a two month gap between the last episode of the first half of the split season, which aires on Sunday, November 12th, and the first episode of the second half of the split season. The Verge reports:

    Right, so the last episode of the first half airs on Sunday... and the first episode of the second half airs (or "aires") on the same day two months later.

    Glad we got that cleared up.

  8. It's going to stop working. Support is being removed. That will make it obsolete. You may not think that's a great way to run a business, but that doesn't make the headline bad.

  9. Re:energy bob, the little pieces on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Free as in doesn't cost him anything. Sheesh.

  10. Re:energy bob, the little pieces on Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    He's paying for the electricity consumed by the processors performing bitcoin mining which create heat.

    He's paying for it with the bitcoins he mines. That's how it's free.

  11. Re:The trouble with Net Neutrality on Portuguese ISP Shows What The Net Looks Like Without Net Neutrality (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    Owning a cellphone is hardly a great indicator of being "better off."

  12. uBlock Origin does. AdBlock Plus does.

    Safe to say any ad blocker worth its salt does.

  13. Was this particularly unexpected?

    This sounds like one from the Bleedin' Obvious dept to me.

  14. Whenever you give iPhone apps permission to access your camera, the app can surreptitiously take pictures and videos of you

    Wow, really? Whoever would have guessed?

    but performed and published this research

    This is hardy research. I certainly hope it isn't the epitome of this secury researcher's career.

  15. The font changes are interesting but...... until other browsers support it, who in their right mind is going to design a chrome-only website?

    It's not an either-or choice.

  16. Re:This is what you wanted on EPA Says Higher Radiation Levels Pose 'No Harmful Health Effect' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For instance, I know there was a law in the Roman Empire that made it illegal to use someone else's plough

    But... then how did ploughshares work?

    You can take my neighbour's plough out of my cold dead hands!

  17. Not really "found" there, those elements on Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    which are found in everything from wedding rings to cellphones to nuclear weapons.

    No, they're found in the ground. They're taken out of the ground and put in those other things.

  18. Re:The Doctor may be a doctor but not the only doc on Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    He has - or claims he has - a medical degree from the University of Glasgow.

  19. Re:Really? on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    It's [complete bollocks].

  20. Re:Speech is not better. on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. How long does it take to type:

    for (i=0; i<10; i++) {

    compared to saying

    for, no, the word "for", bracket, I mean open bracket, i equals 0 semi-colon* i less than, I mean less than symbol, oh fuck it

    * look at that, four syllables for a single keypress.

    Keyboards aren't going anywhere for a long time yet.

  21. Sorry, who says? on What Will Replace Computer Keyboards? (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Computer keyboards will be phased out over the next 20 years

    Oh, will they? Who's declared this? The Elders of the Internet?

    Keyboards aren't going anywhere, certainly not within 20 years.

  22. Eventually, his browser opened up a page on the domain hxxp//:centerbluray.info

    a) That's (almost) a URL, not a domain
    b) What's with the "hxxp"?
    c) The : is in the wrong place

  23. Uranus on Scientists Discover Ring Around Dwarf Planet Haumea Beyond Neptune · · Score: 1

    Make your own joke.

  24. Thus we can expect children, drunks, and senile seniors to travel freely.

    If they have the permission of the vehicle's owner, why not?

  25. Re:720p on Latest TVs Are Ready for Their Close-Ups (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    People can make up their own mind about anything but random pixilation, motion tearing, time adjustment (sudden pause and then fast forward), ghosting, etc are objectively bad things that distract the viewer from what they are watching.

    It's a trade-off. Some people prefer motion-compensated video with all its flaws.