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  1. This is dumb, you pay what the market will bear on The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    People put rocks on sale for $500 and other people buy them. If you can convince somebody to pay you a monthly salary to write a single script for them, go for it, buyer beware.

  2. with lots of high def video!

  3. Jurassic Park on Empty Landscape Looms, If Large Herbivores Continue to Die Out · · Score: 1

    It's time to clone the Mammoth. We've waited long enough.

  4. Windows wasn't always considered junk? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I thought that's never been a consideration before.

  5. Re:Maybe... on Is Santorum's "Google Problem" a Google Problem? · · Score: 1

    I don't want my 12-year-old daughter to see that definition

    Please don't perpetuate your prudery into the next generation.

    Please do not dictate how I should raise my children.

    Please leave my society. As long as you are living in it, your children are as much my responsibility as yours.

  6. Re:The ocean frontier - not on Remembering Sealab · · Score: 1

    Diamonds are actually a worthless gemstone in terms of true scarcity. If not for the DeBeer's cartel, they would be worth the same as topaz.

  7. Re:The ocean frontier - not on Remembering Sealab · · Score: 1

    Actually, it's commonly thought due to various imaging evidence that Titan basically has vast seas of petroleum sloshing around on it.

  8. Re:I'm sure they're on North Korea Says War With South Would Go Nuclear · · Score: 1

    literally insane.

    Last I checked, the US could make all of the North's soil uninhabitable with just a handful of bombs.

    I think the North Koreans have already beat them to it.

  9. Re:Viruses? on Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria · · Score: 1

    So, they'll still be prone to bacteriophage viruses right?

    I think those will now be referred to as patches.

  10. Re:Can't resist urge to make bad pun.., on Scientists Create Programmable Bacteria · · Score: 1

    In this case: Norton Virus

  11. Re:Anonymous releases are possible on Wikileaks Competitor In the Works · · Score: 1

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD

  12. Somebody has on Google Earth Adds 3-D Trees · · Score: 1

    too much time on his hands...

  13. Re:Clueless on Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens · · Score: 5, Interesting

    By that same token, you might consider their site offering you a page of data an implicit agreement to YOUR contract (the one that says you own all data that is given to your browser and expect royalties), no?

  14. The blackberry on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 1

    also has no warnings against sticking it up your nose, yet WHY didn't she attempt this, eh?

  15. Why not just make all stock prices go up? on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 1

    Make it impossible to sell for less than the stock was bought, have a circuit breaker that kicks in anytime a stock drops by even a penny. Everybody wins, yay money is fiction!

  16. I used to work for yelp on Yelp Founder Says "No Extortion — Just a Misunderstood Algorithm" · · Score: 1

    Jeremy is right, that algorithm is so convoluted and complicatedly random that they COULDN'T rig the votes, even if they wanted to. Nobody understands how it works anymore. BUT the story is right too... The sales people DO make those claims.

  17. they STARVE genius if they don't see Miley Cyrus on Scalpers Earned $25M Gaming Online Ticket Sellers · · Score: 1

    wut?

  18. Re:Consistent Histories? on Physicists Discover How To Teleport Energy · · Score: 1

    In this case, you have to "measure" the particle in a particular way to retrieve the energy, and that way depends on what happened to the particle on the other side while the energy is being "pumped in" (so you cannot know in advance).

    So you take a trillions and trillions and trillions of particles, and start measuring them randomly at once... Eventually you get lucky, and one of them gives you a return on energy. Poof, instant information transfer, but without having the data that you "needed" to do it. No waiting in line!

  19. Re:Hmm, this seems illogical. on US DOJ Says Kindle In Classroom Hurts Blind Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "it is a recognition that we do not leave people behind"

    unless they are poor

  20. Re:Distributed Post! on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 5, Funny

    R.......

  21. Re:Distributed Post! on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 5, Funny

    Crap, stuck at 99%!

  22. Re:Linearization on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    It's because closer to the bottom of the gravity well, the planck length actually decreases. It's hard to visualize, but imagine a set of gridpoints that must always exist, and when you drop a ball of mass into it, it pushes the gridoints near it closer together, since it can't cover them up. The distance between those points gets closer together. Things can only travel from planck point to planck point (nothing can exist outside of one of these points), and since the ones near the mass are closer together, there is a tendency for things to strike those points more often, and thus the motion of the object appears to bend towards the mass.

    I just made that up last night. Nobel prize please!

  23. Re:Linearization on Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    So, you are saying the event horizon, CREATED BY GRAVITY, will stop gravity itself from propagating? Gravity is so strong at the singularity that even gravity can't escape itself? I wonder how that works...

  24. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 1

    Whadda I know.... I just sit in my office designing / validating psychologically sound tests all day...

    You sound angry. Tell me how you feel about this.

    Does it please you to believe that I sound angry tell you how I feel about this?

    Do you feel that I should be pleased to believe that you sound angry to tell me how you feel about this?

  25. Best response... on Don't Copy That Floppy! Gets a Sequel · · Score: 1

    Some one needs to make the response video: Greedy RIAA representatives being hauled in front of the guillotine...