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  1. Re:Fairly clear on Editor of 'Reason' Discusses Federal Subpoena To Unmask Commenters · · Score: 1

    Here's a good rundown of the story.

  2. Re:The root cause : poor unit testing on Report: Aging Java Components To Blame For Massively Buggy Open-Source Software · · Score: 1

    if you don't test your code, you don't know if changes to it break it.

    And if you do test your code, you still don't know. But you'll catch some of them.

  3. Re:That's fine and all on Surface Pro 3 Handily Outperforms iPad Air 2 and Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    Look man, we are trying to boil it down to a mostly unimportant single number and then declare which is better! Your absurd idea of a series of difficult and useful comparisons is just plain crazy-talk.

  4. As someone who has lived for a long time in several non-English speaking countries, I can tell you that many don't bother to learn much of it after arriving, either. It's baffling.

  5. Re:Why? on Everyone Hates Harvard · · Score: 2

    Despite what the summary says, he didn't create the problem. He recognized it and took a position. He may not be a good guy, but it wasn't stealing.

  6. Re:So what you're saying is... on Google Releases Report On Autonomous Vehicle Accidents · · Score: 2

    "It's not as much fun" is a pretty tepid argument against self-driving cars. "Of course they'll be better in every other way. But think of the fun!" Just as there are places you can go ride horses today, there will be places where you can go drive a car.

  7. Re:Great tool for insurance companies, too on New Test Could Reveal Every Virus That's Ever Infected You · · Score: 2

    Nor is being 23 and male.

    Statistically, yes it is. 23 year old males are total idiots when it comes to their safety.

  8. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US · · Score: 1

    despite the fact he almost certainly has never heard of it before or had any reason to think it was faked.

    So then your notion is that it's perfectly reasonable to believe that a World Cup will suddenly be held starting the very next day. Are the teams frantically packing their bags and rushing to the airport in order to make the opening kickoff?

  9. Re:Lemme ask you this ... on Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote · · Score: 1

    Who is the one coming out asking the Congress to extend the Patriot Act?

    Dictators don't ask.

  10. Re:Easily fixed on Feds Bust a Dark-Web Counterfeit Coupon Kingpin · · Score: 2

    Basically, you're saying humans should be more rational than we are. But we're not. We could barely form civilization, and it's not yet clear that we can maintain it.

  11. Re:Love it on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 1

    That is what you have insurance for.

    There's litigation insurance that covers losses on suits the policy holder initiates?

  12. Re:Oh man on Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Lines · · Score: 1

    10 quid says the next mass extinction is the 1% purposefully "culling" the heard

    You can't be in the 1% without the other 99.

  13. Years ago Volvo invented and patented the three-point seat belt. But they found it to be such a boon to safety that they gave it away without royalties.
    Today, "pedestrian detection" costs extra?

  14. Re:Holy hell on Court Orders UberPop Use To Be Banned In All of Italy · · Score: 1

    If there is an absolute limit to the number of licenses, I could see companies hoarding them forever...

    Until Uber came along, buying taxi medallions had been a quite good investment. They're crashing now, though.

  15. Re:Why not just kill them all? on Sex-Switched Mosquitoes May Help In Fight Against Diseases · · Score: 1

    Is your wife a vegetable?

  16. Re:What is the difference of these 2 positions? on Apple Design Guru Jony Ive Named Chief Design Officer · · Score: 2

    What does he have to do to get 4 weeks?

    Become Chief Design Officer.

  17. Re:Creepy spybot on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 2

    Where's the adsense angle here though?

    At night, while your children are sleeping, it will whisper ads into their ears.

  18. Re:OK, we've seen this before on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    We know that your average principal has to check the school policy manual to figure out which leg to put in the trouser first. And then they mess it up half the time anyway.

    It might be as much as 3/4, as they also have to get the front/back oriented.

  19. Re:Thank you - just PR for his presidential run. on What Was the Effect of Rand Paul's 10-Hour "Filibuster"? · · Score: 2

    So for at least one weekend, there will be no NSA spying

    A more cynical person would find that to be +5, Funny.

  20. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    The rich live close while the poor have to commute

    It's funny that those living way out in the suburbs are "the poor".

  21. Re:Tolls? on Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax · · Score: 1

    Why not just tolls? That's a per-mileage solution

    That's exactly what this already is. It's as if there were a toll booth every mile, collecting 1.5 cents.

  22. Re:But...batteries? on Bitcoin Arrives At NYSE, Startup Aims To Tackle Micropayments and Easy Mining · · Score: 1

    the end user wouldn't notice or care about the electrical cost increase of 1-2 dollars a month. What they will notice is a subsidized or free device that can do things that other devices cannot do.

    If it's possible to offer some compelling new service for 1-2 dollars per month, why not just charge that directly, instead of the Rube Goldberg method?

  23. Re:Republicans and their unhealthy space obscessio on Robotic Space Plane Launches In Mystery Mission This Week · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the new product from apple, the iANAL

    I've been beta-testing the iAnal, and let me tell you, those rounded corners really pay off.

  24. Re:Disbar. on Prenda's Old Copyright Trolls Are Suing People Again · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately, what they're doing is (well, at least technically) legal, so disbarment is not much of an option. :(

    Not disbarred for this, disbarred for their previous shenanigans. .

  25. Re:The group identity bullshit remains the same on Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh stewardess, I speak racist. He said:
    Such a group of people I despise. The powers that be want the people to view any incident not in terms of the individual, but rather that person's group, as it is easier to control by group or type rather than many separate and rational individuals.