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  1. ebay? on Alibaba Confirms Plans To Offer IPO In US · · Score: 2

    Well if this gives Ebay a run for its money, I'm all for it.

  2. Re:not a hero, not a villain on Snowden A Hero? Gates Says No, Woz Says Yes · · Score: 2

    They're the foot in the door for Big Pharma, in which both the foundation and Gates are heavily invested.

    Actually, he sold his big pharma investments in 2009: http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

    Maybe you should try reading the ingredients on the Kool-Aid before you drink it. >.>

  3. Re:Won't do any good. on Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't say it will do 'almost nothing', since the stats clearly show otherwise.

    Still, if police were *required* to submit video evidence for any trial that involves an officer or have the case dismissed, it would certainly cut down on police corruption. Police wouldn't be able to use the 'oh, my camera was broken' or 'I forgot to turn it on' as an excuse.

  4. Ed McMahon on Conservation Communities Takes Root Across US · · Score: 1

    'I hear from developers all the time about this,' says Ed McMahon.

    I thought he died...

  5. Tesla on What If the Next Presidential Limo Was a Tesla? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if Elon Musk would donate a Tesla as the presidential car. One the one hand, it could be great advertising. On the other hand, the thing might catch fire on the highway.

  6. Maybe. But don't forget that the analog to digital conversion is itself a lossy process, so the only REAL way to listen to music is to carry around a record player in a briefcase. That's what all the real audio hipsters are doing.

  7. Re:Bled Alive? on Horseshoe Crabs Are Bled Alive To Create an Unparalleled Biomedical Technology · · Score: 1

    At least he's not misusing apostrophes when making fun of someone's spelling. :)

  8. Re:Change on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Because duopolies generally are worse than monopolies.

    Interesting...why do you say that?

  9. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    I was referring to the 99.9% who eat mass produced eggs :) But your point is valid.

  10. Re: Why? on Asia's Richest Man Is Betting Big On Silicon Valley's Fake Eggs · · Score: 1

    We're talking about vegans here, though, and if they enjoy their breakfasts so much, why do they need fake eggs?

    Most vegans I know talk about how hard it was to give up eating meat (especially bacon), eggs, butter, etc. They do it because they believe that abusing animals for food is unethical. Not because they don't find it tasty. Fake eggs lack the ethical baggage, which is fine for ethical vegans who still want to eat eggs, or for the general population who continue to eat meat and animal products because they are so tasty, but feel guilty that animals are harmed in the process. If you had the option of choosing eggs which didn't result in harm to animals, would you, assuming that the eggs are identical, and the price was the same?

  11. Re:NOOOOOOOOO on Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO · · Score: 1

    Are you making fun of his stutter? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:That doesn't seem right. on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    That's not even remotely true. A couple months ago I attended a lecture by Paul Nicklen from National Geographic, and he talked about his experience photographing a female elephant seal (one of the most aggressive creatures on the planet). I would say more, but you could just watch this instead: http://gizmodo.com/5405892/nat... I'm willing to bet this is very common behaviour in the animal kingdom, especially with mammals who learn empathy because they have to raise their young.

  13. Re:A Microsoft Killswitch on Microsoft Remotely Deleted Tor From Windows Machines To Stop Botnet · · Score: 1

    Huh. I've never thought of it that way...using an antivirus program as a kill switch. *puts on a tin foil hat*

  14. Re:common carrier on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    try again.

    No thanks. I was pretty clear the first time.

  15. Re:common carrier on Federal Court Kills Net Neutrality, Says FCC Lacks Authority. · · Score: 1

    Common carriers CAN'T fuck with the packages

    Really? They seem to have no issue letting the NSA do it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nsa-intercepts-computer-deliveries-says-report-1.2478611

  16. Re:Why dump'em? on Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump · · Score: 1

    Igloos are so last century. We live in quinzhees now.

  17. Tarantula? on Hubble Telescope Snaps Images of Tarantula Nebula · · Score: 1

    Looks more like a giant squid than a tarantula. (Seriously, am I the only one that doesn't see it?)

  18. Re:TRUST NOBODY on Canada Quietly Offering Sanctuary To Data From the US · · Score: 1

    Trust nobody and you won't have to worry.

    , said the man in the tin foil hat.

  19. Re:Good news for me on China Lifts 13-Year-Old Foreign Console Ban · · Score: 1

    You're assuming they don't like basement boys. :|

  20. This announcement on Feds Announce Test Sites For Drone Aircraft · · Score: 1

    This announcement brought to you by Amazon Prime. Join today!

  21. Re:Well this is necessary on It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car · · Score: 1

    WOOOOOSH How could you not see the sarcasm? Same question to the mod.

    Have you considered that maybe this person is being so meta that none of us are getting it?

    Think about this for a second. They could be satirizing the effectiveness of online discourse by perpetuating an example of typical communication breakdown. In so doing, they are demonstrating (via example) the inability of humans to communicate effectively in the absence of the context granted from physical human interaction.

    He could be the next Marshall McLuhan, and we could be his puppets, dancing to his whims and falling into his traps.

  22. I wouldn't have cancelled the trilogy - there's a unique opportunity here for a twist ending. For example, the president of the NSA could be a cyborg. Or maybe the third book could be a satire - introduce a Snowden-type character into the novel and have him assassinated / kidnapped by the government, or start a war between the US and the country providing his asylum that ends in nuclear winter.

  23. Re:Upper limit on planets? Lower limit on stars on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 1

    My brown dwarfs are typically much smaller than that.

  24. Re:Attention! Mod parent DOWN! on Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work at Facebook. You do NOT see the date of which a person was born with said birthday notifications. I suggest you go home and do your homework.

    What's more distressing is that you, a Facebook employee, know that he's not at home. Dun dun dunnnn....

  25. I see this on a daily basis. My company is offering a SaaS version of our software on Amazon EC2, and we're frequently being asked for a hosting alternative outside of the US. The funny thing is, most of the time it's US organizations asking for the overseas hosting.