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  1. "...but most of their posts get +5 instantly"

    Sometimes, one of yours gets modded up to zero.

  2. Re:Only 10,000 times lower? on Prescription Meds Get Trapped In Disturbing Pee-To-Food-To-Pee Loop (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm surprised the concentrations are high enough to only be 4 orders of magnitude off from a person actively taking the medication. I would have expected it to dilute a lot more than that over the course of irrigating a field of crops, picked, processed, cooked, and finally ingested.

    In fact if this study is accurate, then homeopathy must work.

  3. Now how about more of you merchants finally move forward with contactless payments?

    Most of the new EMV-capable terminals also have the near-field chip. You and the merchant will often be equally surprised to find that your smartphone payment system will work on such terminals.

  4. "...Means that the transaction is no longer actually singed by the card..."

    If they would put in a proper heat sink, any scorching of the transaction would be avoided.

  5. Inhumane treatment, Norway style on Anders Behring Breivik, Norway Murderer, Wins Human Rights Case · · Score: 1

    Peeling veneer in the sauna, questionable lutefisk in the smorgasbord. Mass killers just don't get the respect they once did in Scandinavian penal resorts.

  6. Re:Honor and glory? on Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So has autocorrect.

  7. Re:CLINTON 2016 on Warmest March In Global Recordkeeping (wunderground.com) · · Score: 1

    Clinton is a square shooter.

    It is well known that the cause of that was Peyronie's Syndrome.

  8. Re:Honor and glory? on Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the ship was struck a glancing blow that gashed the side of the hull, flooding several compartments at once. It was like that moment at Fukushima when the local fire department tried to connect one of its pumper trucks to the reactor coolant circulation as instructed, only to find that they were issued the wrong connector to attack their hose.

  9. Re:Honor and glory? on Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "The only upside is that many of the people who were killed were among the wealthiest elite of the time, and that it lead to improved safety regulations as a result of who died."

    So you're one of those worthies who believes that all gains are ill-gotten. Some of those wealthy elite might have gone on to invent and discover things that would have increased the societal wealth available for your welfare payments.

  10. I'm glad this tech wasn't around in my younger days.

  11. I thought music streaming meant starvation? on Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    So the music industry is making a ton of money on streamed content, after all. Those artists who are objecting to getting a billionth of a cent on each streamed play should direct their ire at the nonproducing greedy hog middlemen, not at streaming technology.

  12. Re: US election on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    My definition of 'lost' is: we invaded, we threw in huge numbers of troops, which were worn down and eventually we had to withdraw the survivors, leaving the enemy in possession of the field and the Oppressed Peasants exactly as oppressed as they were before we invaded. What definition would you prefer?

  13. Re: US election on Sanders Campaign Accused of Trademark Bullying By Web Site (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    "Your paltry pistol ain't doing shit against a military arsenal."

    A "military arsenal" which performs well against other large armies in the open field but has not done well against armed civilian populations. It managed a costly draw against North Korea, lost to the Viet Cong, and lost even to the ragtag Taliban.

  14. Re:Soil surcharging on Two-Year Delay for SpaceX's Private Spaceport (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 2

    "They are on the coast so when a rocket goes crazy, it can go crazy in the sea. "

    That is also the attraction of the Brownsville site: it's like Florida but with better weather. Once the launch operation is up and running at Brownsville, there will be fewer storm delays.

  15. Re:But of course those Republicans... on Some Tumors Are Responding to A New Cancer Therapy (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    have outlawed further research into this.

    Read the article. It's a GMO technology, so only Republicans will use it.

  16. Re:avatar = ripoff on James Cameron Announces Four Sequels to 'Avatar' (egyptindependent.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly! Hollywood loves Hate Whitey plots. Avatar is a White People Suck plot applied to the whole human species:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

  17. Re:I have a better idea on MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    DVDs rented out by a service like Netflix incur a cost to store, mail out, and check back in. Yet Netflix keeps DVDs until they physically wear out. Streaming movies cost virtually nothing to maintain and backup on servers. The only reason they "expire" is Hollywood licensing rules.

  18. Re:I have a better idea on MPAA Wants ISPs to Disconnect Persistent Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How about the MAFIAA stop producing crap and expecting people to pay through the nose to see and hear it?

    And stop making it difficult to access content that we do pay for. Why in hell should movies that have gone to stream "expire?" Leave the movie on Netflix/ Amazon/ Hulu, so you can keep making money on it.

  19. Re:Nork Watch on US: North Korean Missile Launch a 'Catastrophic' Failure (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a friend that just returned from a trip to Asia. He visited both Koreas. His take, same thing with different propaganda.

    South Korea has some significant things that NK doesn't, like food and electricity,

    Look up one of those NASA composites of night shots of Earth from the ISS. What's that brilliantly lit island between Japan and China, you wonder? But look closer: it's really a peninsula.

  20. Far to go before this is like human delivery on Autonomous Robots Begin Testing For New Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    The UPS version will use a builtin T-shirt cannon to blast packages against your front door and then run. The Postal Service version will need a sound sensor that will allow the device to run away in abject fear if it detects a Yorkie inside your house.

  21. Re:Shut up Snowden! on Snowden Predicts Global iPhone Hack, Records Song (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    "Look, you did a good thing a long time ago, so thanks for that... but you and your opinions aren't front page worthy. "

    Especially when the hack applies to an old version of the iPhone. If the hack does 'spread worldwide' it will primarily affect stolen phones.

  22. Re:It all depends on whether we have to change gri on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Going nuclear would enable us to keep our current grid. It still needs upgrades, for such considerations as security and EMP resistance. But it wouldn't need a total redesign and we wouldn't have to allow utilities to control our appliances.

  23. Re:Makes sense on Apple Expects Users To Replace Their iPhone, Apple Watch After Three Years · · Score: 1

    It's technological obsolescence. After about 3 years, any computer, tablet or phone will be outclassed by some manufacturer's newest model. And I have heard the "they're intentionally slowing the old ones down with OS updates" argument used against every manufacturer in the market.

  24. Re:Fetishization on 'Record Store Day' Creates Vinyl Logjam (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    " A poorly mastered vinyl release will sound like shit compared to a quality mastering on CD or even an MP3."

    And a perfectly-mastered vinyl release will degrade a little every time you play it. Welcome back to the world of dusty needles and space-hogging turntables you thought you had left behind forever. So the hipster faddists are going to "rip" their vinyl to MP3, saving the actual vinyl until some hoped for re-re-revival of the format in their grandchildren's time.

  25. Re:It all depends on whether we have to change gri on Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased Out Worldwide In a Decade, Says Study (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, the truly controversial feature of Smart Meter is the going to be the upgraded version that controls your appliances. Though the version now being installed just monitors your usage, it has to transmit that information to the utility using (cue the spooky organ music) deadly radio waves!