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  1. Re:40% of Silicon Valley's profits on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 2

    And 99% of AC cheap shots.

  2. Re:Oddly enough on SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track Near Los Angeles (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on smarties that ALWAYS use "... and I" when clearly me is needed: ...He came up to my wife and I...

    What about smarties who make exaggerated claims about other smarties just so they can show how smart they are?

    "A hyperloop" is correct because it's how people talk, and that's how English comes about. There's no central organising body.

  3. So that's unlimited data with limits on Verizon Now Offers 'Unlimited' Data On All Plans, Without $5 Fee (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Verizon Now Offers 'Unlimited' Data On All Plans, Without $5 Fee

    Instead, you'll just be throttled to 128 kbps for the remainder of your billing cycle

    Who's actually calling this "unlimited"? Is Verizon doing so? If so, where?

    Or are we now just calling any limited plan "unlimited" because that we've got so used to that terminology coming from the suppliers?

  4. It's not NASA's on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space

    It's not NASA's.

  5. Re:Two groups already debunked the myth on NASA's Impossible Propulsion EmDrive Is Heading to Space (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Dresden has moved on since then, y'know.

  6. The most important thing is the safety of our customers and we don't want to disappoint our loyal customers

    Since when did "disappoint" mean "maim"?

  7. Re:Electrons, or holes? on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ohm y god. You should do a volt-face before someone charges you.

  8. Slices are soooo last century on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Well, USB C until on HP Builds One Desktop PC Around a Speaker, Another Modular PC In Slices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's the current issue with USB-C.

    Hah.

  10. On its way on EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    EmDrive: NASA Eagleworks' Peer-Reviwed Paper Is On Its Way

    But we're not sure how long it'll take because we're not sure it puts out any thrust.

  11. Re:get rid of the fake news / ad's that look like on Study: 33% of Facebook Users Want Less News In Their Feed (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    I know this one simple trick to get rid of the fake news. It'll change your life, and you won't believe what happens next.

  12. The UN does not work that way! Goodnight!

  13. ...officer.

  14. Subject: Dribble?
    Comment: Dribble?

    Double Dribble.

  15. Re:Not a drone... on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, give it up. You've lost that one.

    Things are called what people call them.

  16. Re:America in one sentence on 65-Year-Old Woman Shoots Down Drone Over Her Virginia Property With One Shot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hey, there's nothing in the bible against guns.

  17. Re:Morons on Google Tests A Software That Judges Hollywood's Portrayal of Women · · Score: 1

    Who says they do?

    The Bechdel test was "a little lesbian joke in an alternative feminist newspaper." It has helped to promote discussion, but it's never going to provide an answer.

    It's like the Drake Equation. That was only ever meant to stimulate discussion. It was never meant to be a practical tool, and anyone who uses it as one is missing the point.

  18. Re:Seriously? on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Which tells us what?

  19. "Ensures" is going a bit far on Linus Loves GPL, But Hates GPL Lawsuits (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    The GPL ensures that nobody is ever going to take advantage of your code.

    Is that like how laws against murder ensure that no-one ever gets murdered?

  20. You will not comprehend what occurred subsequently on Facebook Says Humans Won't Write Its Trending Topic Descriptions Anymore (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    This unitary basic deception may alter your continued existence.

  21. Maybe the developers just like Iggy Pop.

  22. Pokemon Go does, apparently, warn you if you're playing and moving at a high speed. This wouldn't have helped, because the guy was distracted by charging his phone - it was flat because he'd been playing, but he wasn't playing at the time.

    I'm not sure how far they're allowed to take chaos theory into account when generating news stories.

  23. With Ambitious Life Possibility

    Has the submitter recently left a job crafting endearingly mis-translated fortune cookie texts?

  24. Re:Starshot is incredibly premature on Earth-Like Planet, With Ambitious Life Possibility, Found Orbiting the Star Next Door (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    At that speed, there will not be much of an opportunity to see anything as the local Oort cloud shreds it to death.

    1% of c, 10%, 20%... isn't it toast if it hits anything at pretty much any speed? It's less dense (ours is, anyway) than the asteroid belt and we just send probes right through that without many cares.

  25. The report adds: "If your site is in the 15 percent group

    What 15% group? If you're going to chop out paragraphs from an article, at least make sure they make sense by themselves.