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  1. Overtake? on How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Maybe it had nothing to do with Apple. Maybe Microsoft just got lazy.

  2. Parallel on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those universes aren't what people usually mean by 'parallel'. Usually they're thinking of a universe which at some point in the past was identical to this one.

    These orthogonal universes obviously aren't going to have duplicates of anything here.

  3. Re:Wouldn't it be easier on How Gaseous, Neptune-Like Planets Can Become Habitable · · Score: 2

    Ten km of ice can help with the radiation, so Europa is likely quite capable of supporting life. But Europa is not *habitable* by human standards.

  4. Re:it's routine on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 1

    Hominins take decades to reproduce - maybe it's been done and we haven't noticed yet.

  5. Re:So.... on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're talking about mosquitoes. I'll accept the risk.

  6. Naming conventions on Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen · · Score: 0

    I know coming up with names isn't as easy as you would think, but, seriously, they called it cyanogen?

  7. Re: They said they weren't doing it.. on Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily · · Score: 1

    I think I'd rather put up with the madness of the court's evaluation of each individual case of liberty, and whether or not they compromise the rights of others, than to have certain ones crossed off the list to begin with.

    Madness is not what you want in a judicial system. Rights are far more likely to be undermined by courts making it up as they go than by Parliament.

  8. Re:"the privacy we are told that we have isn't rea on 'Anonymized' Credit Card Data Not So Anonymous, MIT Study Shows · · Score: 1

    This isn't actually privacy, and it's sad that people aren't clearer about what is and isn't privacy.

    Though still a bit troubling.

  9. Inflation on Why ATM Bombs May Be Coming Soon To the United States · · Score: 1

    Because they're desperately hoping to avoid the inflation that will start as soon as people notice how drastically they've devalued the currency, and changing the money would be too big of a clue.

  10. Re:I think they should make him fly coach on US Air Force Selects Boeing 747-8 To Replace Air Force One · · Score: 1

    And if there's a national security emergency, does everyone without clearance just have to step outside while he takes the call?

  11. Radical new technology! on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    It's, you know, things...

    But here's the twist: they're on the Internet!

    And, no, there isn't any more to it than that. In other words, what the Internet has been for the last 50 years with nothing original added except new marketing hype(tm).

  12. Re:Obviously didn't work so well... on Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily · · Score: 1

    They weren't looking for random hate crimes.

  13. Re: They said they weren't doing it.. on Snowden Documents: CSE Tracks Millions of Downloads Daily · · Score: 1

    The failure to use the the Notwithstanding Clause the way it was intended has made law arbitrary and unpredictable.

  14. Re:Saddest line ever on Young Cubans Set Up Mini-Internet · · Score: 1

    When your example of change is something that took over 300 years, it may be a less compelling example than you think.

  15. Re:outsider question: why the USA embargo on Cuba? on Young Cubans Set Up Mini-Internet · · Score: 1

    Cuba was a colony that was given sham independence, and then started acting like it had actual independence. And the US government is petty and vindictive.

  16. Re:Well... on White House Drone Incident Exposes Key Security Gap · · Score: 1

    Like it or not, the president is an irreplaceable military asset and the area around White House is military airspace (or effectively the same thing).

  17. Perspective on "Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    The weather prediction is about probabilities, not clairvoyance. It isn't incorrect simply because the actual weather is different from the expected.

    And with the way workers are (on average) treated by their employers, is is really such a bad thing that some people had a day off?

  18. Re:They come that cheap? on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 1

    But the 10 000 isn't for a specific purpose, and probably there will be no conclusive proof of corruption.

    It's simply that people who agree with the donors are the ones who receive money, and only people receiving money have any realistic chance to participate.

    In fact, almost all politicians are some combination of sincerely convinced of what they claim, too ignorant to understand what they claim, or simply mentally ill.

    Which means a tiny bit more money isn't going to change their mind.

  19. Re:I have a simple legitimate solution to the prob on Comcast Ghost-Writes Politician's Letters To Support Time Warner Mega-Merger · · Score: 1

    If everyone stops paying their bill, the stockholders will be eager to sell.

  20. Re:Not a career politician? on Fark's Drew Curtis Running For Governor of Kentucky · · Score: 2

    He clearly has less contempt for the masses that most other politicians, so he has that going for him.

  21. Re:Balderdash on Doomsday Clock Moved Two Minutes Forward, To 23:57 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Obama got it for not being Bush, which at the time was a major step forward for world peace.

  22. Re:What is credible in this context? on Bomb Threats Via Twitter Partly Shut Down Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport · · Score: 2

    A 'credible' real threat is not a threat to public safety, it's a threat can persuade gullible journalists that the public needs to be afraid in spite of the absence of actual threats to public safety..

  23. Re:Credible? on Bomb Threats Via Twitter Partly Shut Down Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport · · Score: 2

    Someone saying something on the Internet is now somehow "credible?"

    It worked, didn't it?

  24. Re:Good news on Disney Turned Down George Lucas's Star Wars Scripts · · Score: 1

    Lucas is a hands-off director.

    Isn't that a complicated way of saying he's an awful director who got lucky a few times with casting?

  25. Re:Is there something wrong with me that .,.. on New Nicotine Vaccine May Succeed Where Others Have Failed · · Score: 1

    Accepting help from other people or tools

    Tools like computers and websites and the Internet.