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  1. Re:Feels a bit ... too much on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That new triangle Star Desrtoyer main body of the upcoming 2017 Enterprise is a hideous betrayal.

    That is an actual fact.

  2. Re:Feels a bit ... too much on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At a minimum one testicle is.

  3. Re: Once again! on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In any case, Tesla will gain the ultimate advantage with full robot drive (assuming they get it right.) The need for the best crumple zones and whatnot plummets if you don't get into accidents in the first place, so Volvo's advantage in that will disappear.

    Of course Volvo may even have it first.

  4. Re:Russia would have nada If the US system was hon on US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The big hoopla in this incident was a journalist walking with them. That was the "innocent" one.

    No matter they were targeting a guy with a machine gun and another with a rocket launcher in the same tight group of people.

    Sucks to be that guy, but you take a risk walking with the devil.

  5. Re:This is serious business on US Beekeepers Fear For Livelihoods As Anti-Zika Toxin Kills 2.5M Bees (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    They targetted fine. Somehow this guy didn't get told so he could move his hives like all the other beekeepers did.

  6. Free as in Orange is the New Black on Fugitive Arrested After Using 'Wanted' Poster As His Facebook Profile Pic (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    One Twitter user jokingly suggested that the suspect should also be charged with copyright infringement -- for using the police department's photo without their permission.

    And you thought information wanted to be free!

  7. It also scares away people having good intentions.

    I'd rather walk than fly in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave".

    I just assumed that the 'Brave' the song mentions were the Native American warriors.

    God damn it, I just love the clever, Twainesque sarcasms of the witty on this site!

  8. Re:False positive [Re:The easiest idea of all] on Long TSA Delays Force Airports To Hire Private Security Contractors (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you missed the part where 67 of 70 test bombs made it through.

  9. Re:Mobile needs to improve browser on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Invert this. Html is designed for all platforms. There is no need for micromanaged detail in an app, especially when apps are stupid and do not allow pinch zoom.

    A return to 1990s web would be an improvement. Do you know why, youngster? Because a whole new generation of programmers is recreating stupid applications with all the old foibles from the 1980s intact.

    In short, they are making the same dumb mistakes.

  10. Re:It's Hillary time! on The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Go live in that shithole dictatorship in the 1970s and try again.

  11. 0.00001% chance of imagined success on Half Of People Click Anything Sent To Them (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    MileyAndTayTayDoingIt.exe

    Hmmmmmm...if it is true, worth it!

  12. Banking on it on Staff Breach At OneLogin Exposes Password Storage Feature (cso.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Why can't they get the money back? Certainly the receiving bank and any further transferred banks would be able to return it. Threats to cut off the bank or the nation's entire banking system would open some eyes, even in the most corrupt of countries.

  13. Re:What's the complaint? on Europe's Net Neutrality Doesn't Ban BitTorrent Throttling (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is a background distribution system. You are simply wrong that it should hog bandwidth "because, Homer, packets r packets."

  14. Re:I am not saying it's aliens. on SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kardashian Type II civilization -- that's when the silicone-injected ass becomes so large it encompasses an entire star, right?

  15. Re: you get signal on SETI Has Observed a 'Strong' Signal That May Originate From a Sun-like Star (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    He typed that in on a phone or computer that has had trillions of capitalist dollars dumped into improvements in over the past few decades.

    I hate capitalism, I mean daddy! He is so embarrassing when he talks to the cashier at the checkout at the supermarket! Gosh!

  16. Tax avoidance "schemes" must be registered?

    What happened to the concept of a free society where every citizen may demand of the government to know if a particular action is legal or not...before doing it?

    Government is not supposed to be able to rub their chin and retroactively apply law in new ways that they had no problem with at the time. This is one of the tools dictators use to deal with uppity opposition, along with general warrants, or no warrants, to filch through the opposition's stuff until they find something illegal.

    Doesn't apply here? So this isn't a political response to outrage over Apple's Ireland operations, at the demands of those in power, to assuage hoi polloi?

  17. What should have been illegal all along is government overreach, stripping of sovereignity, and politicians retroactively punishing for legal behaviors decades later.

    So much vomitous, vile smugness on the part of some citizens who enjoy their overlords wielding unlimited power to satisfy transient outrage.

  18. This is where citizens need to stand up and tell the new Federal United States of Europe to fuck off -- no such power was granted to these unelected officials sitting in back rooms to override sovereign tax policy.

  19. YASSSS! SMASH AND BREAK THE BACKS OF COMPANIES THAT INVENT GREAT NEW SCI-FI TECH FOR YOU!

    The hunter-gatherer mentality of theft sadly not only remains, but is institutionalized and applauded.

  20. They think invention magically grows on trees. A quick look at half the world shows it does not happen automatically because of the governments there.

  21. Re:Captain Kirk says... on 'Longest Living Human' Says He Is Ready For Death At 145 (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    "The problem with immortality is that it's boring."

    (There's an episode of the original series where a man gives up immortality to be with the woman he loves....)

    I've been saying for 25 years now that I may not wanna live forever, but 70 years or so is wayyyyy too short.

    I could live a few thousand years eating cheeseburgers and chocolate.

  22. It's licensing to use the software, not even buying a copy of it.

  23. Re:Google's reply? on EU Copyright Reform Proposes Search Engines Pay For Snippets (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    The EU could declare it discriminitory to exclude those sites and impose fines or whatever else is necessary.

    Which should get overturned as not wanting to pay for something you don't want can hardly be called discriminatory. In other words, it is not discrimination, in the evil sense, to decline services because you don't wanna pay their fee.

  24. Perhaps u missed the cleaning bit of housecleaning on Domino's Will Deliver Pizza By Drone and By Robot (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Now I just need a housecleaning robot who can get the pizza and feed the slices to me. Then I will never need to move again.

    Before a kibitzer responds I missed something, re-read my title.

  25. Re:Logic Says It Should Be Legal on US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Many on the left love protectionism...except when they don't.

    The FDA is no prize -- by being so tightfisted, they prevent politicians from having to explain why a drug hurt people, but this ends up delaying new drugs (and generics, as TFA shows) that trivially causes a lot more harm than they save being overly cautious.

    But you know, a death or two in front of the camera is a tragedy the likes of which 10,000 offscreen because of delayed drugs is not.