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  1. Job while in HS sent me to college on Taking a 'Gap Year' Before College Is a British Tradition That's Becoming a Big Trend In The US (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I sorted boots for the first Gulf War while still in high school. It was a good experience but not one that I wanted for the rest of my life. Though I do have to say that anyone who wears a size 18+ Army boot probably doesn't need a gun to kill you.

  2. Identity and law on Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant (newsweek.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On the off chance this actually works, he will have the fingerprints and DNA of the donor. Will he be responsible for children fathered by the body donor prior to the surgery? What about afterwards? Just a few thoughts off the top of my head. But it would be interesting to see how it would play out.

  3. Application style "port knocking" on Microsoft Flow -- An IFTTT Alternative -- Aims To Connect Your Online Apps (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like application style "port knocking". What is available depends on what you are doing or have already done.

  4. Root of the problem on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The root of the problem is instant gratification. Back in my day, ie 80's, we had Saturday morning cartoons. That was the only solid couple of hours of cartoons on TV at the time. You might get one or two shows the rest of the week. You looked forward to Saturday for those cartoons. Now you have channel after channel on TV and streaming sites for instant cartoon gratification. Millennials never learned how to "look forward" to something. They want anything they just want instant gratification in cartoons, careers, education, and economic freedom.

  5. Spades AI Lies on AIs vs Humans - Next Battle: Starcraft (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    The spaces AI on many online versions of the game are good at lying. Especially if they say they will cover you when you, their partner, goes null.

  6. Hey you left out the biggest threat... on Google Fiber Drops Free Basic Service In Its Original City (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey you left out the biggest threat...Godzilla!

  7. Facts smacts on White House Redirects $589M In Funds To Fight Zika Virus (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "You can prove anything even remotely true with facts." Homer Simpson

    These days, you can't even get two sides to agree on what the "facts" are. Each side has their own "facts" that support their position.

  8. Re:In other words ... on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    It was a joke about a major difference between Ubuntu and its parent distro Debian. If I had really wanted to start a flame war, I would have mentioned Emacs, my favorite OS, and Vi.

  9. Re looks nice on Scientists Propose Biodiversity Lab To Redeem Guantanamo Prison Camp · · Score: 1

    Time to free the Sandwich islands eh? But we get to keep them awesome rolls right?

  10. Easy to know when people are smarter than you... on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    Easy to know when people are smarter than you...Because they tell you they are smarter than you.

  11. Re:In other words ... on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    sudo shut up

    There, spoke your language.

  12. Driving is a skill on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    You probably know how to drive a car or even a reasonable sized truck. Driving a large rig requires even more skill and a special license to measure that skill. I do not see how it would not be seen as skilled labor.

  13. the Case is a modem on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    My wife is a teacher. Other teachers were always calling the case/tower a modem. Even when the computer didn't have a modem in it I heard this again and again. I didn't understand why until one day I was in the "teacher store" with my wife getting supplies. There was an "educational" poster about computers and it had the tower labeled as a "modem" with an arrow pointing to where expansion cards would be in a case.

  14. what percentage of heroes? on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    We will never know the small percentage that rise up as heroes and save the other subject and end the villainy of the evil researchers permanently.

  15. Shared rides? on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    Do you think people will consent to sharing "their car" with others? If you are waiting for a "car", maybe you could wait for an autonomous bus instead.

  16. Re:Not really on America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges · · Score: 1

    LSD

  17. Re:Crap units of measure on Damage Report: LA Methane Leak Is One of the Worst Disasters In US History (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Give that to us in usable units of measure. Like X million cow farts.

  18. $1000 rolls of currency on soft paper on It's Time To Kill the $100 Bill, Says Larry Summers · · Score: 1

    I have said money should come in $1000 rolls of currency on soft paper. That way you know your money is at least worth a ....

  19. Amazed by cost of living on Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I live in the southern US. I am amazed at the cost of living in big cities. I pay around $1000/month mortgage on my 3000+ square foot home on almost 4 acres of land. I can't even imagine paying that for something smaller than my laundry room.

  20. Re:RAID, let them fail on Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purpose of RAID is to keep data available for a purpose. You have some level of redundancy measured in terms of number of disk that can fail before you have a data loss for the array. Once a disk has an impending failure smart alert, you no longer have full confidence in that disk. If you leave it to fail, what if another disk in the array happens to fail. You now have an array with a failed disk, possibly in a degraded mode. You also have a disk with a better than normal chance of failure. It just makes sense to be proactive and fix the issue before it escalates into a failure.

  21. Re:Math is fine! on An Advanced Math Education Revolution Is Underway In the U.S. (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I often said that if you use them round fat bottom two's, it should be approximately equal to 5.

  22. Coming soon anyway on Drone Racing League Wants To Be the Next NASCAR (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Coming soon to an Amazon delivery drone near you!

  23. We only have one rule.... on Comets Can't Explain Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    We only have one rule....is that you obey the laws of physics in the house. My kid is so bad about bouncing off the walls, literally.

  24. Re:Nano straw to Earth on NASA Safety Panel Finds Concerns With the Journey To Mars (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    These comments have gone from suck to blow!

  25. Nano straw to Earth on NASA Safety Panel Finds Concerns With the Journey To Mars (examiner.com) · · Score: 0

    If you had a "nano" straw to Earth from the moon, could you sip air from it?