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  1. Re:Not tachyons? on Scientists Propose Using Fast Radio Bursts To Chart Universe In 3D · · Score: 4, Funny

    I refuse to be satisfied until my sci-fi fantasy is a reality!

    Me too! But... you probably don't want to know what mine involves.

  2. Kill it dead? Oh noes! on Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead · · Score: 2

    Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead

    Great, you've killed it dead. Now I have to fix it alive.

  3. Not on my laptop! on Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

    See, this kind of crap is why I always wipe new laptops and install a fresh copy of Windows 10.

    What?

  4. He didn't make much? on Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Operator Pleads Guilty To $150M Fraud · · Score: 1

    He netted $164,758 from the scheme.

    Huh. That seems kinda... low, given the sums quoted. What about the $40.7M in bitcoins he was "holding on to"?

    arrested in November, two months after a federal judge in Texas ordered him to pay $40.7 million

    Ah, maybe that's what it was for.

  5. Your kid just doesn't like computers on Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs · · Score: 1

    The YouTube CEO said her daughter had stated point-blank that she did not like computers, so Wojcicki enrolled her in a computer camp.

    I wonder if she even considered the possibility that her kid just really, genuinely, doesn't like computers and never will.

    Maybe she should try asking the kid what she does like. Hopefully she likes cars and engineering, then mom can relax and tell herself she's raised her gender-non-comfortist child well. But I pity that kid if she actually does want to go into nursing or fashion, because mom is not going to like that.

  6. Re:Mick Dundee on This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like · · Score: 1

    That's a spoon.

  7. Analog DRM, no way on The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR · · Score: 5, Informative

    using an analog form of DRM

    So, that'd be "RM", then.

    In case you're wondering, it was simply that only the rental store could rewind rental tapes (cartridges).

    Not so much rights management as blanket functionality removal.

  8. Re:Bullshit on Status Problems Break Skype For Many Users; Quick Fix Promised · · Score: 1

    Yes, just as it says in the summary.

  9. Re:Seems like a reasonable rule set and outcome on UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    Great risks seem unlikely unless the drone was carrying something really bad.

    What it was carrying was "mass" with a failure mode of "plummet."

  10. Slashbot on 'Rose' Wins 2015 Loebner Contest, But Big Prize Remains Unclaimed · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I disagree with this story and believe it to be Obama's fault.

  11. Actors on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 3, Funny

    The effort is known to be generally funded by various actors

    Curse you Matt Damon!

  12. Re: Many eyes... on Crash Chrome With 16 Characters · · Score: 1

    Regrettably, it will ultimately mean what people mean it to mean.

  13. Re:Other brand names that Americans use ... on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Sellotape.
    Post-It Note.
    Portacabin.

  14. Re:This problem really shouldn't exist. on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    Newsflash: announcers aren't really that smart.

    ...DNS-and-BIND announced.

  15. Seems unlikely on Wasps Have Injected New Genes Into Butterflies · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're a caterpillar

    If you're not sure whether any of your readers might be caterpillars, you probably shouldn't be in publishing.

  16. I wasn't doing anything! on What's In Your Hand? This Malware Knows · · Score: 1

    What's In Your Hand? This Malware Knows

    I was just scratching an itch!

  17. Re:So it's NOT a mistake, then? on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 1

    None of that is evidence that Apple has made any kind of mistake. They just haven't how behaved how this guy wants them to.

  18. In English, please on Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames · · Score: 2

    Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames

    Trademark and patent trolls have even found there way

  19. So it's NOT a mistake, then? on Apple's 16GB IPhone 6S Is a Serious Strategic Mistake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Leaving the entry-level unit at 16GB of storage rather than 32GB drives higher profit margins in two ways. One, it reduces the cost of manufacturing the $649 phone, which increases profit margins on sales of the lowest-end model. Second, and arguably more important, it pushes a lot of people who might be happy with a 32GB phone to shell out $749 for the 64GB model."

    First you say it's a serious strategic mistake, then you give two perfectly (corporately) good strategic reasons for doing it. Make up your mind!

  20. Re:A sign of things to come on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    has anyone not noticed how paranoid, racist and over-the-top police in America is?

    Well, they keep chanting about how they're number one. They never specifiy in what, though...

  21. Hahahaha on Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum · · Score: 1

    raging Butte Fire

    Hahaha haha. Hahahaha. Hah!

  22. Re:'Servicing' your enemies' satellite ... on DARPA Working On Robotic Satellite Repair · · Score: 1

    Tape a photo of your country with all the military stuff airbrushed out over the lens.

  23. Re:like GnuChess on Neural Network Chess Computer Abandons Brute Force For "Human" Approach · · Score: 1

    I've looked, but never found evidence that a human brain can "fill up."

    This short, informal, but informative film begs to differ:

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

  24. Correction on Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change · · Score: 1

    For the first time, public school students in Alabama will be required to understand evolution

    They'll be required to hear about it. Whether they understand it or not is an entirely different matter.

  25. Re:"Just a totally rogue employee, not us" on Vodafone Australia Employee Searched Journalist's Phone Records To Find Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    If any member of your team is caught or killed, Vodafone will disavow all knowledge of your actions.

    This tape will self destruct in five minutes, mate.