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  1. A bald guy with a shaved head as president... on Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Superman will not be happy about that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  2. Re:Never liked Vine on Twitter is Shutting Down Its Video App Vine (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Kind of like SNL in the late-2000s...

  3. Won't Someone Think of The Children?! on Twitter is Shutting Down Its Video App Vine (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Where are we going to get our "Best of Vine" Youtube Compilations now?!

    Oh, wait--

  4. Your statement assumes that there will be 1) humans or 2) some type of artificial intelligence or 3) aliens in the future that might care about "human" history at all.

    I'm skeptical of all of those ideas.

  5. Amazon is Hurting Itself Too. on Most 'Genuine' Apple Chargers and Cables Sold on Amazon Are Fake, Apple Says (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems like a lot of these knock-offs are directly cutting into the sale of Amazon's Basics brand as well. I've bought several of their cables and adapters over the years and had very good experiences with them. They aren't the cheapest cables, but frequently they are the cheapest cables that seem trustworthy.

    If I want cheap knock-offs, I'll go to eBay. I expect a little more from Amazon.

  6. Your car is not your car on Tesla Bans Customers From Using Autonomous Cars To Earn Money Ride-Sharing (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Give us a lot of money, and you get no ownership of anything. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow!

  7. Act now, supplies are not limited! on Access To Thousands Of Compromised Government Servers Selling For $6 On Black Market · · Score: 1

    This news forum is starting to sound like an advertisement for hacked services. Get it together, entire IT industry.

  8. No Surprise There on US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, it performs EXACTLY as I would have expected. :)

  9. That's just what a hologram would say! on Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    This is not the evidence you're looking for! You can go about your business! Move along!

  10. Catastrophic Failure? on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    FTFA: "Raytheon, the contractor that makes the blimps, says the cable is unlikely to break.

    "The chance of that happening is very small because the tether is made of Vectran and has withstood storms in excess of 100 knots," the company said on its website. "However, in the unlikely event it does happen, there are a number of procedures and systems in place which are designed to bring the aerostat down in a safe manner.""

    So what exactly happened? The cable broke, AND they are unable to get the blimp to safely land?

  11. "Overwhelmingly Unlikely" on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but still fun to wildly speculate about.

  12. I also own a video game museum... on America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up · · Score: 2

    It's called "my closet".

    I bet a lot of other people on here do as well.

  13. Oh great...Here come the Astroenvironmentalists... on Prototype Wave Energy Device Passes Grid-Connected Pilot Test · · Score: 2

    Just wait until Al Gore releases his next film about us stealing too much energy from the moon's angular momentum and slowing down the earth until it destroys all life on earth.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  14. Yeah, yeah, we see you up there... on James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look everybody, Canada is a country too! They have awards and everything!

  15. Eternal Vigilance on Kansas Adopts New Science Standards · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I suspect that this probably wouldn't have happened in the first place if people in that area had bothered to participate in their local elections before being humiliated on an international scale.

  16. RPM is pretty much the same as FAWM.org on Global Collaborative Music Experiment · · Score: 3, Informative

    February Album Writing Month > RPM. RPM is about recording, whereas FAWM is about actually writing quality material, much like NaNoWriMo.org. Since FAWM encourages their participants to record and upload their songs at the same time, I don't really see the point of RPM.

  17. Re:It's to focus on thier core business model on Clover Studios Closed · · Score: 1, Funny

    You just gave me a brilliant idea for the next Capcom game: Street Fighter vs. Megaman.

    Capcom, you owe me a million dollars.

  18. Re:Do you live on Gilligan's Island? on Mandatory Hardware Recycling Coming To US? · · Score: 1

    Still faster than AOL dial-up.

  19. A Different Approach on Mandatory Hardware Recycling Coming To US? · · Score: 1

    Instead of creating huge new regulations, why not simply force manufacturers to stop making machines that contain toxic chemicals? Is it really not possible to make a computer that doesn't contain lead, mercury, or cadmium?

  20. Actually... on Sopranos' Creator Doubtful of Game Meaning · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess I'm in the minority here, but I completely agree with that. I prefer games that have specific goals and an end. I like the feeling of accomplishment I get from beating the final boss, jumping over the flagpole, etc.

    Waiting around a game for something to happen, aimlessly collecting money, fighting endless boring monsters to gain experience, none of these things really feels like "fun" to me.

  21. Re:Great White Hope? on Next-Gen's Top 20 From Tokyo · · Score: 0

    My apologies, this is the correct link to the article I was pointing out.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Hope

    The implication is that "white" needs to somehow gain superiority, as if there is something inherently wrong with some "other" color having gained an advantage.

    It's definitely a racist term. Racism still exists, but pointing it out isn't very popular.

  22. Great White Hope? on Next-Gen's Top 20 From Tokyo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's kind of a racist term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White_Hope/

  23. Surprising? on Cable VoIP Sounds Better Than Some Landlines · · Score: 3, Informative

    In my little hometown they still use the original ancient phone lines that leak signal like crazy. In fact, you could easily hear other conversations if you paused while talking on the phone. I'd guess that a majority of towns are using lines that are at least 30-50 years old still.

  24. Finally! on Napster On the Block · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm glad someone is finally sticking it to that sell-out Che Guevara. His marketing campaign drives me nuts.

  25. Re:Why would we expect anything else? on Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 4, Funny

    You raise a number of valid points, and while I...

    Wait a minute... Did you say lasers !?!