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  1. Re:The problem is "beneficial" on Concerns of an Artificial Intelligence Pioneer · · Score: 1
  2. Cancer vs common cold on Protein Converts Pancreatic Cancer Cells Back Into Healthy Cells · · Score: 2

    I bet we find a cure for all kinds of cancers before we find a cure for the common cold.

  3. Re:I don't understand on USPS Shortlists 'HorseFly' Octocopter Drone Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    The drone doesn't waste time chatting with co-workers.

    Not until they install G.P.P.

  4. Re:I don't understand on USPS Shortlists 'HorseFly' Octocopter Drone Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    What about installing tubes to each and every door? They did it for people on Futurama, I don't see why it couldn't work for packages a thousand years earlier.

  5. Re:They should resurrect some shows... on Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should un-cancel Better Off Ted. That lie detector scene was priceless and that fake Veridian ad about friendship was really spot-on.

    Deal with it!

  6. It's not a supervoid on Mysterious "Cold Spot": Fingerprint of Largest Structure In the Universe? · · Score: 1

    It's a defence system made by hyperintelligent pan-dimensional beings to protect them from super black holes.

  7. Re:Nobody cares, but... on Mysterious "Cold Spot": Fingerprint of Largest Structure In the Universe? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The definition of "Universe" from Marriam-Webster: " all of space and everything in it".

    And the definition of "Universe", from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

    Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow, that's big," time. Infinity is just so big that, by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

  8. Re:OMG, not the RED uniform. on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 2

    How appropriate. You fight like a dairy farmer.

  9. Re:Great pic on Astronaut Snaps Epic Star Trek Selfie In Space · · Score: 1

    There's a problem with that photo: we can see the Earth. This means that Samantha is dreaming and all of this isn't real.

  10. Obligatory on Mandelbrot Zooms Now Surpass the Scale of the Observable Universe · · Score: 1

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

    Relevant part is at 3 minutes and 9 seconds.

    Yes I know, it's "fake", not done in real-time. But it's still an impressive image sequence compression playback that was done on computers 22 years ago*.

    * That was more than two decades ago? Holy shit, I'm old. And get off my lawn!

  11. Re:So? on John Gruber On Third-party Apple Watch Apps: They Suck and Are Really Slow · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apart from the gold model, the Apple Watch isn't any more overpriced than the high-end versions of Samsung smart watches.

    With that said, we're still amazingly primitive to think that smart watches are a pretty neat idea.

  12. Re:Paper trail on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 1

    Any vote given to a candidate technically goes to the party, and the party's summed-up vote count tells how many seats they get, which are then filled by the candidates by the order of most votes received.

    That's the most sane thing I've ever heard in my life. Are you sure this is politics?

  13. Paper trail on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 0

    In Canada we use paper ballots and we know the outcome of an election in less than 24 hours.

    What the fuck are you U.S.A.sians doing?

  14. Photo? on The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers · · Score: 2

    To drive the point home, Dutta, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, emails me a photo of 50 of these computers. They barely fill a thimble halfway to its brim.

    And just to annoy everyone reading my article, I didn't even bother to include that particular photo in it.

  15. Re:Segways are awesome on Chinese Ninebot Buys US Rival Segway · · Score: 1

    If the heat gets to 90 degrees then you have a much bigger problem on your hands, water is close to the boiling point.

    Oh wait, I bet you're one of those people using the idiotic system.

  16. Re:Segways are awesome on Chinese Ninebot Buys US Rival Segway · · Score: 1

    If you use a Segway to do a 10km morning walk then you're not really walking.

  17. Re:Segways are awesome on Chinese Ninebot Buys US Rival Segway · · Score: 1

    If you are a "Segway train" group leader, make sure to call out to pedestrians "watch out to your left, passing by" while barely missing them, instead of riding in a more appropriate place.

    That's why I use the all-terrain, off-road model of Segway while in I'm in cities. The powerful motors and oversized wheels makes it easy to just roll over all obstacles.

  18. Re:"unfortunate" on Chinese Ninebot Buys US Rival Segway · · Score: 1

    Maybe it wasn't an accident. Maybe the Segway itself committed suicide and the death of the guy was simply collateral damage.

  19. Re:Will probably be used for VR applications. on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1

    And that's why I think VR's future is hard to imagine in 2015. The current technology is only beginning to achieve decent capabilities.

  20. Re:Been through Denver on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that there was shrinkage?

  21. Re:Will probably be used for VR applications. on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1

    But smartphone or advanced PDA, the question remains the same. When most people think about "VR" they think about displays in front of their eyes, blocking their outside view. Closed-view is fine to give us a stereoscopic view of what we think of as "videogames" right now but future VR isn't going to look like today's 3D-rendered-on-a-2D-display systems.

    I think Microsoft is on the right path for VR, with their augmented reality demo.

  22. Re:Will probably be used for VR applications. on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1

    But the same thing could happen to VR one day. We've got a limited view of what VR is and what it can do right now. What happens within a decade or two might be so different that you'll be writing a similar comment about VR.

  23. RNG? on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 2

    RNG sucks. I'd rather play a BLM or a THF.

  24. Re:Will probably be used for VR applications. on Sharp Announces 4K Smartphone Display · · Score: 1

    Two decades ago, nobody thought the "portable phones" market would ever overtake the laptops market.

  25. 3D printers on 1980's Soviet Bloc Computing: Printers, Mice, and Cassette Decks · · Score: 1

    Looking at all these home-made dot-matrix printers and pen plotters reminds me of the DIY 3D printers.