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  1. Re:Good luck on President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Er - Afghanistan was attacked the very night the towers fell. Iraq was NEVER about 9/11.

  2. Re:I tried to get the patch on Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a MS in computer science and 30 years experience. And yet you allow Windows 10 on your computer. 'nuff said.

  3. I will hazard a guess on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    This technology is expected to be fully developed and commercially implemented in.... 20 years. I've been hearing that one for the past 40 years.

  4. The Microsoft business plan on Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Trying to figure out if Microsoft wants to eventually extinguish the cell phone or the PC... judging by the amount of sense they've been making lately, it's probably the PC.

  5. It usually means dump your bitcoin now, it's about to crash.

  6. Re:Opportunity Cost + Retirement Fund on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If he was smart, he wouldn't break the law in the first place. Criminals think they won't get caught.

  7. Re:Opportunity Cost + Retirement Fund on Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In prison. Although the damage will still be done.

  8. Real News Definition on Reuters Built An Algorithm That Can Identify Real News On Twitter (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing Reuters defines "real news" as anything reported by Reuters. Everything else is of course "fake news". Pretty simple algo, really.

  9. Two can play that game on Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump says he will nationalize Twitter if they ban him.

  10. Shitposting ftw.

  11. Don't try to outsmart them. Any "system" you try to impose will be corrupted and subverted. You merely create a class of specialists who figure out how to extract the maximum benefit from such a system at the expense of everyone else. Doesn't matter what it is - capitalism, feudalism, communism or bureaucracy. You think you are doing a good thing but you are not. My philosophy of government is: LESS is MORE.

  12. Because it generates exactly this response.

  13. How about re-doing the statistics with manned space launches.

  14. "Science" on Microbiome Changes Drive the Dieting Yo-Yo Effect, Study Finds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1, Redundant

    the authors found that the particular bacterial population that thrives in the high-fat regime persists in the gut even once the mice have returned to normal weight and normal metabolic function after a dieting cycle. This leaves them more susceptible to weight gain

    Because this is why people get fat. From eating fat. In other news, eating sugar causes diabetes.

  15. Are you claiming that multiple news sites decide to report on it this week out of sheer coincidence? I'll bet you think the Facebook movie came out just a few months before the Facebook IPO by sheer luck, too.

  16. It means fake, as in not real, you know fake.

    Exactly. Like when someone is pushing an agenda across multiple "news" sites. Like the sudden outbreak of stories about "fake news" stories.

  17. The fact that "fake news" is such an issue this week is - fake news.

  18. (2) on a Sunday (no conflict with work)

    Confirming that absolutely NO ONE works on Sundays.

  19. Defamation, slander and libel laws are already on the books. I'm sure Mr. Musk can and will take care of himself.

  20. Re:the cause of this sudden decline on US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't reject it. I just don't believe it until I see more data supporting it. Not believing is not the same as rejection. It's more like "keeping an open mind".

  21. Re:the cause of this sudden decline on US Dementia Rates Drop 24%, New Study Finds (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Funny - first thing that jumps to MY mind is "bogus study/experimental error/statistical outlier". Critical thinking ftw.

  22. Re:I hope they don't cripple it on Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some pretty major changes have been going on since Satya took over.

    Like buying companies like Nokia and then firing everyone then dropping the product(s). Yeah. Big changes.

  23. Re:I hope they don't cripple it on Microsoft's x86 on ARM64 Emulation: A Windows 10 Redstone 3 Fall 2017 Feature (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is Microsoft. Crippling it is part of the plan.

  24. Re:Great possibilities on Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Unintended consequences - air burst are usually more deadly than ground bursts.

  25. Modern warfare on Flying Robot Ambulance Finally Takes Its First Flight (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    hovering above any dangers on the ground below.

    I hope they built it tough enough to withstand RPG and ATGM hits... especially if they plan on doing a lot of "hovering".