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  1. Why should we care about those assholes? on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    They try to make electric cars look bad any way they can and drool over wasteful, polluting muscle cars that are of use to no one.

    Bunch of idiots.

  2. Re:Proxy! WTF? on Google Quietly Launches Data Saver Extension For Chrome · · Score: 3, Funny

    ilovefurriesporn.com doesn't even exists, you insensitive clod!

  3. Bitcoin startups on UK Setting Itself Up To Be More Friendly To Bitcoin Startups · · Score: 1

    Here's my startup: please click the links in my signature and get free bitcoins and dogecoins for yourself!

  4. Canadian Tire on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you return an item to Canadian Tire (for a refund, maybe exchanges too) they also ask for your phone number. I've learned that they do this to limit the number of returns you can do (which I think is probably illegal) so I always say I don't have a phone, only Internet. The cashier always end up using the store's own phone number instead.

  5. Seinfeld on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1
  6. Colossus to Guardian on Do Robots Need Behavioral 'Laws' For Interacting With Other Robots? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:requires gravity^H^Hs on Australian Company Creates Even Faster 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    The printer on the ISS is FDM, Gravis Zero is talking about stereolithography printers that use liquid photo-sensitive resins.

  8. Re:Price is ridiculous on Better Disaster Shelters than FEMA Trailers (Video) · · Score: 1

    Got a link to your trailer model?

  9. Re:4 words... on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 1

    Is it still worth it to mine any coins at all with a GPU?

  10. Re:Cost on Better Disaster Shelters than FEMA Trailers (Video) · · Score: 2

    Sixteen units per trailer, at around 34 seconds into the video.

  11. Re:What am I missing on Better Disaster Shelters than FEMA Trailers (Video) · · Score: 1

    Cleaning is automated. The technology is called "autowash" and currently available for beds and showers.

  12. Re:Cost on Better Disaster Shelters than FEMA Trailers (Video) · · Score: 1

    From the looks of it, a FEMA trailer looks like a low-cost RV trailer, cheap but has a minimal living space (bedroom, kitchen, etc). This Exo Shelter is nothing but a rigid tent with four beds.

    And the Exo has LED lighting and an external LED display for identification but doesn't seem to have solar panels built-in which seems like an obvious flaw to me.

  13. Re:Oh good.... on The X-Files To Return · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best one was, IMHO, War of the Coprophages.

    ---

    Mulder: Bambi also has a theory I've come to acro...
    Scully: Who?
    Mulder: Dr. Berenbaum. Anyway her theory is...
    Scully: Her name is Bambi?
    Mulder: Yeah. Both her parents were naturalists. Her theory is that UFO's are actually nocturnal insect swarms passing through electrical air fields.
    Scully: Her name is Bambi?

    ---

    Mulder: I'm just speculating here, but if extraterrestrial lifeforms do exist...
    Ivanov: Oh, there's no need for speculation, I believe they do.
    Mulder: And assuming that they're more technologically advanced than we are, and if your own ideas about the future of space exploration are correct, then...
    Ivanov: Then the interplanetary explorers of alien civilizations will likely be mechanical in nature. Yes. Anyone who thinks alien visitation will come not in the form of robots, but of living beings with big eyes and gray skin has been brainwashed by too much science-fiction.
    (Mulder looks away, shrugging slightly)

  14. Re:4 words... on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 1

    Oh crap, the value of Bitcoin is below the cost of the electricity required to mine it - we're going to freeze to death!

  15. Re:PS3 as prior art on Energy Company Trials Computer Servers To Heat Homes · · Score: 4, Funny

    We always knew the PS3 wasn't cool.

    Signed, Nintendo and/or Microsoft fanboys.

  16. Colossus on Steve Wozniak Now Afraid of AI Too, Just Like Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Just don't connect the AI to your nuclear weapons.

  17. Re:Last week I tried to write a Win8.1 universal a on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 SDK · · Score: 2

    This is Microsoft, not Google. So it's going to last either a few months or a few decades.

  18. Re:PHP is fine on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You clearly never had to use ExpressionEngine. If you think PHP was written by very inexperienced programmers, you're in for the shock of your life.

    ExpressionEngine has something called "Global variables" which are in fact CONSTANTS. And that kind of nonsense is just the tip of the iceberg. Look up their "parsing order", it was created by insane people with no previous programming knowledge.

  19. First person shooter? on Magic Leap's AR Demo Video · · Score: 2

    Come on, we all know what we want: first person hookers.

  20. Re:Well it's obvious we need... on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    Women could write their own program. I'm in need of a Bidirectional Open Optical Bus Interchange Engine System.

  21. Here we go on FTC's Internal Memo On Google Teaches Companies a Terrible Lesson · · Score: 2

    After the banks and car companies which are "too big to fail", we've got Google/etc which are "too big to sue".

    U.S.A., land of the free*

    * if you have enough money

  22. Re:Telecom use? on How To Encode 2.05 Bits Per Photon, By Using Twisted Light · · Score: 3, Funny

    American and Israeli researchers have used twisted vortex beams to transmit data at 2.5 terabits per second.

    Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
    Peter Venkman: What?
    Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
    Venkman: Why?
    Spengler: It would be bad.
    Venkman: I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, "bad"?
    Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
    Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
    Venkman: Right. That's bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

  23. Re:I can't be the only one wondering on How To Encode 2.05 Bits Per Photon, By Using Twisted Light · · Score: 4, Funny

    And 42 would be so much funnier.

  24. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

    If you're going to write the name of the organisation, write it correctly.

  25. What kind of person did they study? on MRIs Show Our Brains Shutting Down When We See Security Prompts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did they test with dumb regular users who don't understand or don't know better, or did they test people who actually know what those security warnings mean and the real consequences of ignoring them?