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  1. Re:Yes, The Kids are All Right on Are the Kids All Right? These School Surveillance Apps Sure Want To Tell You (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    Who are you?

  2. I see what you did there.

  3. Real News(tm) on Japanese Spacecraft Drops Explosive On Asteroid To Make Crater (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    One must keep a balance...

    "So far, Hayabusa2 has done everything as planned, and we are delighted," mission leader Makoto Yoshikawa said earlier Friday. "But we still have more missions to achieve and it's too early for us to celebrate."

    ...and know where one has been...

    Hayabusa2 successfully touched down on a small level area on the boulder-strewn asteroid in February, when it also collected some surface dust and small debris. The craft is scheduled to leave the asteroid at the end of 2019 and bring the surface fragments and underground samples back to Earth in late 2020.

    ...and to place a thing within its context...

    The asteroid, named Ryugu after an undersea palace in a Japanese folktale, is about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) from Earth.

  4. Re:wrong tree on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting post.

  5. Re:Then what on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Then parsecs

  6. Re:Then what on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    King's Quest

  7. Re:Translation on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the info. It's interesting that wikipedia doesn't have any analyses or critiques listed. I'll do further research.

  8. Re: Translation on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    France. Bonaparte III et. al.

  9. Re:Everything old is new... on Ban Fortnite, Says Prince Harry (gamespot.com) · · Score: 2

    50 Years ago...

    "[TV] shouldn't be allowed," he said. "Where is the benefit of having it in your household? It's created to addict, an addiction to keep you in front of a [TV] for as long as possible. It's so irresponsible. It's like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down." He also suggested that [tobacco] is "more addictive than alcohol and drugs."

  10. This is good.

  11. Re:Exciting headline on Google's Bad Data Wiped Another Neighborhood Off the Map (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Much better than “Simple error leads to neighborhood being inadvertently mislabeled on some maps”.

    Rand and McNally must be rolling in their graves..

    Or Rod Serling. When he loses a neighborhood, it *really* gets lost.

  12. Re:That's funny. Lots of climates in Texas. on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    All of the places that I've had the fortune to visit in Texas were flat and sandy. The flat screws up my sense of direction. In Cal there's generally mountains or at least some hills in the distance. I never realized how much such landmarks helped me until I got lost at noon around San Antonio. I walked miles in the wrong direction. I lerned me a new way of reckonin' right quick.

  13. Re:That's six bedroom, 6,500 SQ feet in Dallas on San Francisco's Rent Hits a New Peak of $3,690, Highest in the US (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's cheap housing in California if people want to leave all the good, built up places and live in a climate like...Texas :)

  14. Re:Music inspires Joy in any Genre on Death Metal Music Inspires Joy Not Violence, Study Finds (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Death Metal and Disco are the same.

    "Death Disco!"

    I could get behind that.

  15. Good one! Right up there with "The Right to Bare Arms" or "The Right to Arm Bears".

  16. So this is why operating systems are getting harder and harder to use, with more and more obscure commands to remember and not a single way of getting a quick overview of the stuff you usually use and need?

    No, I think that's typical creature feep, with a side-helping of design-by-form (over function). Or visa-versa. It's endemic in the software industry.

  17. QFT: "Well that's the classic computer problem right there, you should have known it was wrong when it was "so easy". Anything easy is almost always not permanent, anyone who has been using computers as long as he (or I) have should know better about how long "Easy" lasts."
    Also called "The Unix Way" :)
    Finally, it's apparently a new meme to insult you, so go _____ a(n) _______. Filling in the blanks will be left as an exercise for the troller(s).

  18. Re:robocalls getting earlier? on John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ditto

  19. Re:robocalls getting earlier? on John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    "Is this happening to anyone else?"
    My wife is starting to get that this week. And ofc it doesn't matter what location the phone shows as that is trivially spoofed.
    I can't imagine that anyone thinks this is a good sales technique. FarmersOnly dot com clients perhaps.
    NEwayz I think they are scouting for phone nums with real peeps on the end so they can sell verified fon lists to the folks who *do* want to sell the latest penis enhancer or whatever.

  20. Re:Now there's an old tradition. on Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    Is good retort, Ivan. Will be extra kopek in pay pouch.

  21. 20 GOTO 10

    Can you imagine the conversation in the prison cell?
    "What are you in for?"
    "Javascript popup, you?"
    "A goto command in basic"
    "Goto?! you monster!"

    You think *you* had it bad. I was an ALTER boy!

  22. Re:Applebee’s vs Guantanamo on Starbucks' Music Is Driving Employees Nuts (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    What was that one comedian/actor? "Is there any way to get a coffee-flavored coffee in this place?"

  23. Re:Maybe not a bad idea... on Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Good responses.

  24. Re:I'm done with mice, trackballs for me on Logitech is Relaunching the MX518 Gaming Mouse (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I started w/ a trakball back during the mice/trakball wars. I thought turning the trakball upside down was the wrong way to go.

    I maintained competence with the mouse, of course, and later, when FPS's came out, I found the mouse to be better for gaming.

    So I have the two side-by-side, more or less. Mouse for games n graphics, Trakball for everything else.

  25. Re: Have better evidence on Emoji Are Showing Up in Court Cases Exponentially, and Courts Aren't Prepared (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Any fact could be proven true. How badly do you want to prove it

    True enough. "If the emoji fits, you must acquit!"