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  1. Let's all Jurassic Park on Dad and Daughter Recreate Jurassic Park With $100,000 In Lego Pieces · · Score: 1

    decided to Jurassic Park

    I can't wait to see them Godzilla.

  2. Gen Con? on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    General Convolution?
    Genetic Construction?
    Genital Convulsion?

  3. Re:Well, durr on Researchers: Smartphone Use Changing Our Brain and Thumb Interaction · · Score: 1

    Why would it be a surprise

    It's not a "goes against what you'd expect" surprise, but if you had never thought about it before, it could well be a mild surprise.

    or a discovery to see

    That's what a discovery is - to see something for the first time.

    Just because this seems obvious in hindsight, that doesn't mean it's not interesting or useful that it has been shown scientifically to be true.

  4. Re:Check their work or check the summary? on No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory · · Score: 1

    That is pretty much what the article suggests. Concatenating string involves creating objects, blah blah blah...

    I doubt you'd see the same "9000 times slower!" kind of results with standard C strings.

  5. Re:And now, things get Ugly. on Uber To Turn Into a Big Data Company By Selling Location Data · · Score: 1

    Heh, it's opt in for now.

    Unless Uber achieve actual, literal, world domination, using Uber will always be opt-in.

  6. Oh, *seven* feet wide? on Feds Attempt To Censor Parts of a New Book About the Hydrogen Bomb · · Score: 1

    seven feet wide and 20 feet high

    Doh. I made mine six feet wide. No wonder it didn't work!

  7. Re:Fad over? on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 2

    Are aliens still a big thing?

    Aliens only featured in a minority of episodes*, and they were never the best ones. Episodes, I mean, not aliens.

    *yeah, I'm guessing, but I think I'm right.

  8. Re:Why on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 1

    Gillian Anderson will you ever stop getting hotter?

  9. Re:goddamnit!!! on Hack Air-Gapped Computers Using Heat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If anything, then, I'd say they've hacked the air gap, not the computers.

  10. Re:Consent? on First Prototype of a Working Tricorder Unveiled At SXSW · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and are these patients consenting to this?

    Why are you assuming they aren't? The summary says "recruiting," not "press-ganging."

  11. Re:What a stupid piece. on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Costa Rica is #1 on the Happy Planet Index.

    "Development" isn't everything.

  12. List culled from public sources, and here it is: on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 5, Funny

    the personal data was almost certainly culled from publicly available sources

    IS has called for the deaths of:

    Sgt Bilko
    Captain John Carter
    Colonel Jack O'Neil
    Colonel Jack O'Neill
    Major Dad
    General Hospital

  13. Re:Proof of concept on ATRIAS Bipedal Robot Can Take a Beating and Keep Walking · · Score: 1

    Though as for how far or how long, no idea. But it does have some onboard power, at least.

  14. Re:Proof of concept on ATRIAS Bipedal Robot Can Take a Beating and Keep Walking · · Score: 1

    ATRIAS now has onboard power, wireless coms

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  15. Pee-pee dance on ATRIAS Bipedal Robot Can Take a Beating and Keep Walking · · Score: 2

    ATRIAS looks like it's constantly bursting to take a leak.

  16. Re:Distant Origin on Meet the Carolina Butcher, a 9-Foot Crocodile That Walked On Two Legs · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Surprisingly badly written article on Excess Time Indoors May Explain Rising Myopia Rates · · Score: 1

    I don't think there's anything missing, although it doesn't name a specific "syndrome" or such:

    In severe cases, the deformation stretches and thins the inner parts of the eye, which increases the risk of retinal detachment, cataracts, glaucoma and even blindness. Because the eye grows throughout childhood, myopia generally develops in school-age children and adolescents. About one-fifth of university-aged people in East Asia now have this extreme form of myopia.

    I think the middle sentence makes it harder to connect the two outer sentences.

  18. You don't know what I know on How Space Can Expand Faster Than the Speed of Light · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know the fundamental principle of special relativity

    How do you know I know that? Nice way to make your less-informed readers feel stupid.

  19. Bad advice right from the start! on The Stolen Credit For What Makes Up the Sun · · Score: 2

    Sure, it's easy today to look at the Sun

    No it's not, unless you're trying to blind yourself. Use eclipse glasses or make a pinhole projector.

    I think what you meant was "look at Wikipedia [etc]"

  20. Re:Or how about on Scientists: It's Time To Resolve the Ethics of Editing Human Genome · · Score: 1

    It literally makes perfect biological sense as a species.

    There are many more aspects to humanity than biology. And I suspect your idea of "scum" has very little to do with biology as well.

    Anyone who disagrees is disingenuous at best.

    How very scientifically minded of you.

  21. First post! on Taxi Companies Sue Uber For False Advertising On Safety · · Score: 2

    Or it would have beeen if my bloody Uber driver knew where he was going.

  22. Alternative headline on Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans, Not Promising Any Sequels · · Score: 1

    Gabe Newell Understands Half-Life Fans Not Promising

  23. Per praxis? on UK's GCHQ Admits To Using Vulnerabilities To Hack Target Systems · · Score: 1

    will not confirm nor deny as per praxis.

    What does an explodey Klingon moon have to do with this?

  24. Headline got cut off on Lyft CEO: Self-Driving Cars Aren't the Future · · Score: 1

    Lyft CEO: Self-Driving Cars Aren't the Future

    "...I hope."

  25. An *interactive* game, you say? on Project an Interactive Game on Your Floor or Wall (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Project an Interactive Game on Your Floor or Wall (Video)

    And here's me playing non-interactive games like a chump.