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  1. Robots are not made in God's image on Machine Intelligence and Religion · · Score: 1, Interesting

    so this preacher is talking about creating idolatry. he is, of course, goofy.

  2. I'll tell my insurance company to get right on it. on The Peculiar Economics of Developing New Antibiotics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Congress might fund NIH, if they could agree on anything, including whether to have Coke or Pepsi in the Senate Dining Room.

    the immediate beneficiaries would be medical insurance companies, but the short-term is all they think about. if they say NO! now, they don't have to say NO! a thousand times, ten thousand times, when somebody is rotting out from infection by the minute and a doctor tries to prescribe a new $10,000 antibiotic.

    if we had single-payer insurance, and ponied up along with the other developed nations, all of which are single-payer, a share of the prize, we might get someplace. I like the idea, but not its chances.

  3. the stars say: bring out yer dead... on Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP · · Score: 1

    "But I'm feeling better..."

    "You are Sagittarius, dammit, you're dead." bonks him with the crystal ball.

  4. what's the point? it can't work on Amazon Files Patent For Mobile 3D Printing Delivery Trucks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how fast is 3D printing? slow as death by clean living. so that's one notch in the handle.

    can you 3D print in a moving truck? the platform and system have to be stable like a $6000 turntable. notch 2.

    is a 3D print product pretty? flexible? neon colors, black, and white are what you have, assuming you are not slinging molten metal or concrete, the other two mediums in use. not flexible. notch 3, fashionistas in revolt.

    so far, it looks like three strikes and Amazon is out. they spend more time on slick PR releases than thought there.

  5. get creative. talk to a judge. get a warrant on NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data · · Score: 1

    just like you had a reason to look at stuff, ya goofballs

  6. there is no reason any more for them to go to MOA on Al-Shabaab Video Threat Means Heightened Security at Mall of America · · Score: 1

    because they would not renew the lease of Famous Dave's BBQ. thus, it's no longer a destination

  7. you're in luck! on Apple Launches Repair Program For Longstanding 2011 MacBook Pro GPU Problems · · Score: 1

    free Apple stickers.

  8. Prior Art Exists (tm) on Apple Patent Could Have "Broad Ramifications" For VR Headsets · · Score: 1

    I have seen gag pictures on the web of portable TVs strapped to people's heads for years now. same thing, just sleeker. I don't think you can patent "sleeker."

  9. mot all moneygrubbing is benign on Superfish Security Certificate Password Cracked, Creating New Attack Vector · · Score: 1

    so, we have a for-profit load of a known attack system with name = password from Lenovo.

    what was the trade name of this series of laptops, GOTCHA? "New, the GOTCHA from Lenovo, because we want your other financial information, too." great tag line. when do the TV ads start?

  10. I looked up before you did. send me money. on The Burden of Intellectual Property Rights On Clean Energy Technologies · · Score: 1

    lots of it, I own the sun.

  11. yeah, well, get into ham radio, then on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    800 volts on the plates of all those old heathkit transmitters using 6146 tubes. 3000 on most linear amps. ooh, and dig those metal-ceramic power tubes with beryllium oxide ceramics, or the insulator blocks for conducted cooling tubes being beryllium oxide.

    or hunting. those .22 rifles can put an eye out!

    scouting, perhaps? axes, knives, and pack saws, not to mention building fires.

    I won't even start with farm kids, all those types of poo, power take-offs, barn roofs, tools, welders...

    and this texting and Facebook thing, well, get somebody riled enough to punch you into Jello.

    there is always a way for a kid to get into trouble. don't leave them to the TV, be around and guide them.

  12. you're supposed to buy them first, asshole on LG Exec Indicted Over Broken Samsung Washing Machine · · Score: 0

    and bust 'em in the privacy of your own company's labs.

  13. couldn't we just send Congresscritters? on Mars One: Final 100 Candidates Selected · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to more than quadruple that list for the purpose...

  14. flip-floppery on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Christie got savaged, and rightly so. so he pulled the ultimate GOP sin, and flip-flopped.

    actually, there is lots of choice... you can get many vaccines from Merck, or GSK, or Pasteur...

  15. doesn't do a thing for DNA mutations on Telomere-Lengthening Procedure Turns Clock Back Years In Human Cells · · Score: 1

    so the slowly-sickening cells live longer. a new boon to geriatric medicine, a new torpedo in the side of Medicare and Social Security.

  16. "the only way to win is not to play." on UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit · · Score: 1

    somehow I think there is a huge divide here between "right skills" being "I am a Wikileaks poster" and "I have all your passwords and financial records, did you do anything to piss me off today?"

  17. Comcast is a huge video game on Comcast Employees Change Customer Names To 'Dummy' and Other Insults · · Score: 1

    they are playing you all for suckers and trying to shoot you off the couch. accede to the force, cut the cord, and stream.

  18. the answer is as plain as the DVDs on your shelf on How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Next up from Apple, half-trillion dollar business and more... Implants.

    your sci-fi Borg chip. some say they're already doing it, but that's Alpha 0.11.

  19. investor returns, perhaps? on FCC Officially Approves Change In the Definition of Broadband · · Score: 1

    many of the countries with 100 Mb and gig to the home almost universally do not have for-profit privatized telcos.

    they have nationalized telcos, and if the leader of their administration says "run fiber, not wire," they get the money and power to do that.

    the rest back up "requests" to speed it up with subsidized dollars to make it work.

    in the US, if you can't make your dividends and trench down fiber, the fiber doesn't happen.

  20. first, FCC has to pave the way for wireline yank on FCC Fines Verizon For Failing To Investigate Rural Phone Problems · · Score: 1

    it's been 3 or 4 years since several telcos petitioned the FCC to set out the guidelines for making VoIP replace copper, and take care of all the legal aspects in the separate states. until that happens, NostrilDrippus Predicts! (tm) there will be precious little formal abandonment of wireline cables and service. it's still possible to make a buck on the copper, but increasingly the way that works is to cut the ranks of the techs who repair it.

  21. we could build a spaceship for that... on Davos 2015: Less Innovation, More Regulation, More Unrest. Run Away! · · Score: 1

    or, to hear them whine, if we tax them a dollar more, they will shrivel up and POOF! a wisp, and nothing. end of the uber-rich.

    we can call it the Freedom Levy, and let's write our Congresscritters (a division of Big Money, Inc.) ... uh... geez, on to plan B.

  22. Captain, ve haf ein Problemm... on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Ve haf not yet a system zu Look in ze Minds of all ze Peasants...

  23. so ask the truck driver where he got his stick on U.S. Gas Stations Vulnerable To Internet Attacks · · Score: 2

    and start manually sticking the tank to figure out manually how much gas is in there. station managers used to have to do that twice a day. the drivers stick the tanks to see whether they can take the amount of gas that was ordered, always.

  24. it's Jack Daniels, he did it on Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut · · Score: 2

    or Old Overshoe or homebrew or whatever... there is always a fringe group of wackos that self-appoint themselves as avengers, just as soon as they get a little numb and it's dark enough...

    those guys will eventually spill the beans to a buddy over a cold one. cops might solve a quarter of their cases that way, working their way in to being that buddy.

    dating back to the original assassins, who had to get hopped up on a little hash before doing their tasks.

  25. it would start a war on Illinois Students Suspected of Cyberbullying Must Provide Social Media Passwords · · Score: 1

    not only would I take them to court and file a civil rights compalint with the Department of Justice, I'd blog every step of the fight, with the phone numbers and home addresses of those pinhead dictator school board members.

    and if my kid HAD cyberbullied, they would be so grounded. I'd take the smartphone away and they'd have a Jitterbug like Granny.