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  1. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree about Star Trek but this isn't bad at all.

    I missed seeing the Tom Cruise War of the Worlds in the theater because it was an abomination of the story.

    But as an action movie it was sweet as hell. I should have gone.

  2. Re:Not my money, yet on Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > tosses out canon

    Ahhh the real problem for you is revealed.

    Who the hell cares about that except an infinitesimal fraction of sales? If I were paying 4 billion, I wouldn't wanna be hampered by a hundred stories, many of which would not make good blockbusters themselves, or you'd have to write around.

    No, they are the tails that do not wag the dog.

    This was so much better than the prequels -- compare vs. the character "development" of Annakin and the needless focus on the political machinations, ineptly done at that.

    This is freaking Casablanca compared to that.

  3. Re:make it user-selectable on The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get sued either way. A buddy's wife got sued when a car of frauds deliberately pulled out in front of her and she hit it. (They had done this several times in the past,)

    Anyway, their lawyer claimed she had the choice to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid it (said traffic, of course being deliberately sought out by the frauds precisely because most people would not prefer that worse accident, and they would plow into the car filled with frauds, as designed and engineered by the frauds.)

    Telling was one of the two insurance companies wanted to settle to save money but the other had a policy of fighting fraud tooth and nail. I don't know how the case turned out, but I hope the plaintiff attorney was sentenced to death from suffocation by way of having his head rammed up a hippo's ass.

  4. Re:2 Evil Forces against the good on Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Many of these bleats are just redescriptions of advancing quality -- caps...while speeds continue increasing and the cap levels keep increasing. Phones-as-only-internet with the attendant observation there exist Internet surfing smart phones...that the poor can afford.

    Jesus H. Christ, what sophistry. The only real concern are encryption issues, and in the US anyway, encrypted speech is protected speech all by itself, independent of the speech being encrypted.

  5. > Those who take part in "geeky events" are more likely to have an "elevated grandiose"
    > level of narcissism, according to a study conducted by the University of Georgia.

    And now that we know this, we are perfect.

  6. Re: What happened to political correctness?? on NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes cities and even governors move Halloween, which they cannot do according to the First Amendment, either.

  7. Do as I say, I say. on Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    > who say it limits users to a walled garden populated solely by Facebook's partners.

    It's interesting how socialist governments that specialize in forcing walled gardens of services, making illegal competition by the private sector, suddenly get bent out of shape over it when a private co.pany offers voluntary participation.

  8. Re:Lack of regulation is not a bug... on Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies (schneier.com) · · Score: 1

    ...goes to human history.

    This is a rare chance to lock down freedom from the hands of the power hungry, ye, even unto democracies ruled by the seductive-tongued.

    Of course it is reasonable to limit things that offend the masses.

    Of course it is reasonable to regulate to prevent lèse majesté.

    Of course it is reasonable to filter news to stop the population from getting upset.

    There is no limit a charismatic leader can convince The People of. There is more to proper government than infinite power in the hands of a transient 51% majority.

  9. Re:Ah, the rubber bible on Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    And that Hustler we found out in the woods.

    You Internet punks, get offa my lawn.

  10. Re: What happened New Zealand? on Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    You'd be doing real well now if the Soviet Union was the only superpower.

  11. > They were flying to Los Angeles on a trip to visit Disneyworld.

    Disneyworld is in Florida. Disneyland is in Los Angeles.

    They were right to be suspicious. Disneyworld is much better. Disneyland is tiny and dusty and cramped in comparison.

  12. Re:Not "cultural" on Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case it's more like the guy who owned your house 3 owners ago let someone pay him to dig around and keep whatever he found.

  13. Re:Cold fusion is psuedo-science on Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap (aeon.co) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Cold fusion "researchers" head first to popular journalists, not research journals.

    The current issue (Nov/Dec 2015) of Skepical Enquirer notes how this, "N rays", and the newer EM drive (the real focus), adopt the language of snake oil salesmen i.e. pseudo science, in order to keep hope alive. They stop doing tests of falsifiability and start doing experiments to "study effects that may be interfering" and so on.

  14. Re:Schooling, perhaps? on Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is closer to the truth. Family emphasis on scholastics outweigh anything else. When Dems and Republicans argue TEECHER UNION MORE/LESS, they are both missing the point.

  15. Re:Short term: change title from programmer to dev on US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    An actual pharmacist still needs to sign on the bottom line as a professional for pill delivery.

    One could argue this is needless government-required cost (especially when it could be replaced by pre-filled bottles, cheaper) but it will be there for the forseeable future.

  16. Re:Lighter than air craft? on DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle (defenseone.com) · · Score: 2

    The government versions of those $3 million blimps cost $45 million each. Before cost overruns.

  17. Re:Weed... on Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor · · Score: 1

    The politicians see the handwriting on the wall as these law changes steamroller throug the country. Good luck.

  18. comma space chapter 12 on Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub (thenewstack.io) · · Score: 1

    Novels were submitted as Issues on the event's GitHub repository, and this year saw intriguing titles like "The Hero with Arbitrarily-Many Faces," "THE CYBERWHALE – a cyberpunk version of Moby Dick," and "Terms and Conditions – a Legal Thriller."

    Wake me up when it generates "Lorelai and Rory: When The Love Goes A Little Too Far".

  19. I assume, crazily, it was a guy. on Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Can't he just rub his penis just to see what would happen, like everybody else?

  20. Assuming there is one on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    > Microsoft Fails Windows Phone *Fan* Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile

    FTFY

  21. It is unlikely the domestic audience will listen much as they prefer the illegal exchange rate. Official exchange rates are to allow the government to keep the vast bulk of hard western cash value, trading it for very few units of worthless domestic paper.

    "The People" down there know this and realize what a scam it is and what a disadvantage they are at.

    Speaking of which, are all our H1b buddies from India required to convert all their dollars back to rupees on return at horrible official exchange rates? Another trick in this scam is to forbid keeping the dollars.

  22. Re:It's not Apple's fault on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The "benefits of the country" moved from legitimate to bread and circuses about $3 trilion ago. Freeloaders? Why, when times are better than ever before, is government defining half he population as poor 8n some sense so as to give them vote-buying handouts?

    Your statement is true for the first trillion and a half to two trillion, at best.

  23. No, seriously on NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots (nsf.gov) · · Score: 1

    > co-robots

    As usual, let porn drive the tech. Where's that robot hand, put a rubber covering and heating coils in it.

  24. Re:That's Not Pre-Crime on Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    There are laws forcing credit agencies to respond to complaints and mistakes. Where is that here?

    They have every right to do this. They do not have a right to distort or lie.

  25. Netflix offers a handful of patterns based on the company's popular shows — including "BoJack Horseman," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "Bloodline," "Master of None" and "House of Cards."

    What about Orange is the New Black where Piper and Alex are making love sweet love in the shower?