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  1. Re:Testing is unnecessary. on A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 0

    Moo?

  2. Science as a Service on Harnessing EVE Online For Science (mmorpg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If they had an API to request an image and return the results, I'm sure quite a few mobile games would get behind building that in. Way better than click hammering for no purpose.

  3. Re: About as far as you can throw a strawman on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Given the circumstances, I'm erring on the side of get off my lawn.

  4. He wasn't cleared. He was vindicated.

  5. Re:+1 for privacy supporters -1 for gun control on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that last part is actually in the rule book, even though they might try.

  6. Re: About as far as you can throw a strawman on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    ...should I be able to shoot at the crop-duster flying over my neighbor’s soy beans because I can see it through my bathroom window?

    The neighbor's crop duster isn't hovering with a camera pointed in my backyard.
    Keep your [flying vehicle] out of line of site of my house and neither one of us will have a problem.

  7. Re:Can't wait. on Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Outta the way sheeple!!!

  8. Re:Stupid people are stupid on 9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb · · Score: 1

    +1 Insightful. (No points today).

  9. Re:Keyboards next to handle all the new buttons on Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' · · Score: 1

    It's too bad there isn't a way to indicate such on Mr. Zuckerberg's post.

  10. Re:Bear repelling rock on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    if only 50% of the subjects gets HIV does that mean sugar pills have a 50% chance of stopping HIV?

    No. It means that the other 50% of the subjects caught HIV from the sugar pill.

  11. Re:No more circumcision? on In New Study, HIV Prevention Pill Truvada Is 100% Effective · · Score: 1

    What are you doing that is putting "tiny scratches" on the one thing you don't want polished with any grit grade sandpaper ever?

  12. Re:Can You Say "Software Factory"? on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the web project that was handled so spectacularly.I don't think it was categorized as a failure, but I don't think anyone considered it a success. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

  13. Re:Multiple layers? on Solar Windows Could Help Power Buildings · · Score: 2

    Just so long as it doesn't arc onto my lawn.

  14. Re:Can You Say "Software Factory"? on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 0

    So, is that more or less than the ObamaCare project?

  15. Re:You didn't listen on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 1

    If you're not careful, a dolphin will screw you.

  16. Re:You didn't listen on 60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why · · Score: 1

    It's going to take a while, seeing as they can't hold a screw driver.

  17. Re:Probably will just make our jobs harder on Will a Tighter Economy Rein In Startups? · · Score: 1

    You're doing it wrong. Just work their hours and have your days to yourself.

  18. Re:Here's an idea on Dawn Drops To 1470km Orbit, Snaps Sharper Pictures of Ceres · · Score: 1

    That's a party line I can hang my hat on. That's a weird way to spell AMURICA though.

  19. Re:Eating is Dopamine on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I wasn't so depressed about being an American, I wouldn't be eating all these cheetos while watching British sitcoms trying to find some form of light in my shallow excessive existence.

  20. Re:Cell wear == Engine Wear ? on MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity · · Score: 1

    ...cows alone are causing more global warming than the poorest half of the population of the entire planet...

    At least I can eat the cows.

  21. Re:Wow. Go IBM. on IBM 'TrueNorth' Neuro-Synaptic Chip Promises Huge Changes -- Eventually · · Score: 1

    No. Cookies are for the kids that actually accomplish stuff; not for those that promise "eventually".

  22. Re:Cosby on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    Why does "posting it on the internet" make it okay? You most likely wouldn't say with your mom/kid in the room.

  23. Re:Feasible? Cue Inigo Montoya "You keep using..." on Mars One CEO Insists, Our Mars Colonization Plan Is Feasible · · Score: 1

    I'd still pay to see it, and for the right finders fee, I know a few people we could coerce to go.

  24. Re:Beaches without garbage have become rare. on Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean · · Score: 1

    Quit throwing crap in the ocean, because it's washing up on our beaches.

  25. Re:No microSD slot, no replaceable battery? NO SAL on Hands On Samsung's New Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Galaxy Note 5 At Unpacked New York · · Score: 1

    We will get lost; as in our sales will disappear. The non-removable battery and no SD card is why I left HTC for Samsung. Sounds like my next mobile device won't be a Note.