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  1. Any "cryogenically frozen brain" is damaged beyond healing or repair.

    So it will work fine on our overlords.

  2. Memories? More like nightmares. Trying placing a male brain in a female body and see what happens.

    Once they discover multiple orgasms they'll never leave the bedroom. Like a rat that constantly presses a button to get the pleasure part of its brain stimulated (or some gamers), they will ignore everything else - even eating - and starve to death.

  3. This isn't life extension. Someone has to die to have a donor body available. I think potential donors would rather that everyone work on extending their lives instead.

  4. He's already had some very public success. Just look at how he transplanted a whole human onto and orange squirrel's butt!

  5. Re:Yay, more Deepwater Horizons! on Trump Order Helps Offshore Drilling, Stops Marine Sanctuary Expansion (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why did Trump take the visitor logs to the white house out of public view, if lobbyists are "so powerless?"

  6. Because even if they were exempt from all liabilities, new off-shore drilling (especially in the arctic) is just not cost-competitive. Plus, there's the longer lead times that tie up capital that could be put into other wells that have a more immediate return.

  7. Re:No way! on Italian Police Say Amazon Has Evaded $142 Million of Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If they're not paying taxes, then yes, Italy is better off without them. Let other businesses that are willing to pay taxes fill the void. Otherwise, taxpayers (individual and business) are indirectly subsidizing Amazon because they have to make up the tax revenue shortfall.

  8. Re:BeauHD, can we get some programming subs? on Italian Police Say Amazon Has Evaded $142 Million of Taxes (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Anonymous coward wrote:

    I'd submit this news myself, but the submission system here is very broken. It says I need to create an account and log in to submit a story, which I refuse to do. I'm not going to create yet another online account just to submit content here to you for free!

    There's a reason you have to create an account - there's already enough bots using dummy accounts to submit spam. Besides, if you don't care enough about it to log in, why should we care what you say?

  9. Remember the good old days? on Hacking Group Is Charging German Companies $275 For 'DDoS Tests' (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Remember the good old days when anyone could run a free ddos test just by getting slashdotted?

  10. Re:You got your closed market place on Apple Cuts Affiliate Commissions on Apps and In-App Purchases (macstories.net) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that's a picture of a typical American. I'm neither typical, nor American. :-)

  11. Re: Give it to the Iranians to run! O gave 'em nuk on The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    The US had no legal grounds to keep holding the money. Continuing to do so would just make it look riskier to do business in the US. A LOT of that money is coming back to the US via orders for Boeing airplanes. That's almost 100,000 well-paying jobs.

  12. You got your closed market place on Apple Cuts Affiliate Commissions on Apps and In-App Purchases (macstories.net) · · Score: 0

    Quasi-monopolies breed abuse. Film at 11.

  13. Re:Give it to the Iranians to run! O gave 'em nuke on The EPA Won't Be Shutting Down Its Open Data Website After All (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The $150 billion was always Iran's money - money that the US had frozen.

  14. Re:Interesting Philosophical Question: What is a P on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re: How many Chromebook buys are accidental? on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Many transsexuals never go on cross-gender hormones, never mind turning the outsie into an insie. For them, the social transition is as far as they can go. It could be because of lack of access to a doctor willing to write the prescription, or they may not be healthy enough to undergo a physical transition, or their spouse draws the line at hormones and they value the relationship.

    So no, hormones doesn't enter the picture. Neither does age of transition. But showing someone who hasn't even transitioned going on a date is just encouraging dangerous behaviour. At the very least, there's public humiliation, because you can be damn sure it will make Facebook. And it could cost you your job; every year it gets a few people killed.

  16. Re: How many Chromebook buys are accidental? on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My criticisms have zero to do with age or taking hormones or facial hair removal, or boobs, or surgery of any sort. It portrays transsexuals as having totally unrealistic expectations - such as going out on a date when you don't even have the guts to go full-time, never mind the experience to no longer be self-conscious. That's a good way to get publicly humiliated, and anyone transitioning is going to be aware of the risks. Encouraging people to go on dates before they've completed their social transition is irresponsible. It might work in California, but it sure as hell won't play the same in Texas.

    Go big or go home - in this case, that means transition completely, and make sure you have enough experience so you don't look like a man in a dress, before you try to date someone who doesn't know, because if you haven't transitioned, you'll still be self-conscious of who you are in each roll; it won't be second nature. It's a good way to get the sh*t beaten out of you, or worse. Trying to go on dates when you aren't passable and haven't even finished your social transition is nutzo dangerous. Acting like a woman part-time is not the same as living as one full-time and not needing to put on an act because you've had the time to get comfortable with your real self, as well as unlearning the male mannerisms that get you clocked.

    When the only time you even think about being a transsexual is when you go online or see bs like transparent, you've arrived.

    There are those who are unpassable, and that's unfortunate, and age has nothing to do with it. In fact, aging makes it easier to pass, because people don't have the same expectations of appearance for senior women. Then again, there are genetic women who are unpassable as women. Same as there are women who are particularly hirsute. Even with hormones, they have to shave. You have to deal with what nature gave you, same as everyone else in the world.

  17. Re:Environmental Hypocrisy on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Use a magnifying glass? Most people don't carry a magnifying glass around, and most magnifying glasses don't magnify as much as a smartphone camera can. Plus, if you take a picture, you don't have to trust your memory for a part number or whatever. Hence the expression "Take a picture - it will last longer."

  18. Re:Huh? What? on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    Why take the possible risk? Diet soft drinks taste like crap if you haven't had one for a few weeks, and they may make you stupid. Regular soft drinks definitely make you fat.

    Mind you, if you get dementia, you won't give a shit. Pick your poison.

  19. Re:will shut down on April 20, 2017 on Plastc Swiped $9 Million From Backers, Now It Plans To File For Bankruptcy and Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You could say their plastc cards hit their credit limit.

    No chip and no near field transactions - why carry this around when you already carry around a smartphone that can mimic a credit or debit card?

  20. Re:Environmental Hypocrisy on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    They make the model and serial numbers too small for a human to read.

    Take a picture and zoom in. It's about the only way to read some coin-style battery numbers, cooking instructions on packages with small white text on orange backgrounds, etc. Sometimes you don't even need to take a picture - zooming in with the camera on your phone can be enough.

  21. Re:User's need to take responsibility too. on Apple Forces Recyclers To Shred All iPhones and MacBooks (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Might as well wipe shit all over your food, then wash it and say it's clean food.

    The president likes your idea and wants to appoint you to head the USDA and FDA. The savings from less regulation will be HUGE.

  22. Re: How many Chromebook buys are accidental? on Are Chromebooks Responsible For PC Market Growth? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    He looked and acted (the walk, that man-walk with the head and shoulders leaning forward, walking clunk-clunk like he still had his steel-toed workie boots on, the unrealistic expectations of going on dates when he wasn't even living full-time as a woman) like a man in a dress, not a successful transsexual, or even one seriously trying. In other words, he looked and acted like a drag queen having a weekend adventure.

    Jill Soloway is 51 today, She came out at 44, nor 70+, so wtf are you thinking of. She has never been 70+. The show was a success because it played on stereotypes - stuff people can relate to. The truth is much messier, and for many, alien.

  23. Well, they ARE switching back to Gnome ... hence no need for the Unity folks.

  24. FreeBSD-based fork named Darwin, not linux-based. (same as the PS3 and PS4 are based on FreeBSD)