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  1. RE: Microsoft Excel Can Now Turn Pictures of Table on Microsoft Excel Can Now Turn Pictures of Tables Into Actual, Editable Tables (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    I totally read that as edible tables.

  2. A good effort in principle but ultimately worthless, all websites/apps will do is add "you explicitly consent to allow X" in their TOS and carry on as usual. a firmer action would be to make any TOS that is over 1 A4 page long legally invalid.

    Precisely what I came into here to comment on. You nailed it. No teeth.

  3. Re:Extortion on Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    How is it really extortion? They are pointing out that if their Internet service is cut off they can't connect to devices connected to the Internet because their services is not active.

  4. It says not "standard panels" so we'll have to see on the day they announce it. Probably some sort of hybrid design that the cells are embedded in to possbly like sheets that form a roof sorta like the metal roofing I've seen around.

  5. Why.... on US Military Stepping Up Use of Directed Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    Why do we announce things of this nature? Wouldn't it be more in our interest to just keep this sorta thing like in an "Area 51" type logic. Sure we have the capability, sure we may or may not use it. I don't think we should just say, we are going to do more of it, so you other countries that may be our enemy now or in the future, get your shit together and raise your defense against energy weaponry.

  6. Sooo... on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    What reason are we going to make up to invade the arctic? -_-

  7. Re:Boron? on Chemists Build First "Buckyball" Made of Boron · · Score: 1

    The first time I read the headline I thought it said Chemists Build First "Buckyball" Made of Bacon .

    Boron's OK, I suppose, but bacon would have been way wicked cooler.

    Same here, I was just about to post that. Too funny.

  8. Free Speech on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, even photo copiers and faxes need freedom of speech.

  9. Re:What drugs and what protections from failure? on Massachusetts May Soon Change How the Nation Dies · · Score: 1

    It will probably be in single pill form - i.e. you can't take half of it unless you are seriously trying to screw yourself or the system.

    There are commercials on the radio, and they say it could be upwards of 100 pills. I know it's a political add, but there might and I say MIGHT be some truth to it being more than 1 pill.

  10. I for one... on Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads · · Score: 1

    ... welcome our dupe posting overlord timothy.

  11. I for one... on Cancer-Detecting Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms In Accuracy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our under wire overlords.

  12. Yeah but? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Didn't even Wozniak say that Siri isn't as good as the advertisements?

    Steve quoted on various news sites:

    I have a lower success rate with Siri than I do with the voice built into the Android, and that bothers me. I’ll be saying, over and over again in my car, ‘Call the Lark Creek Steak House,’ and I can’t get it done. Then I pick up my Android, say the same thing, and it’s done. [...] On the 4S I can only do that when Siri can connect over the Internet. But many times it can’t connect. I’ve never had Android come back and say, ‘I can’t connect over the Internet. [...] Plus I get navigation. Android is way ahead on that.

  13. Re:BMI is fucking useless on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 1

    Why you mad bro?

  14. Wow Verizon is around 2k? on Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance · · Score: 1

    This is FiOS, this is SLOW...

  15. Re:All this for a loser film? on US Copyright Group — Lawsuits, DDoS, and Bomb Threats · · Score: 1

    Maybe its a news marketing effort, because until right now I hadn't heard of this movie at all.

  16. Re:while disturbing to Assange on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Somebody should leak the pictures of that night through some kind of wistleblower site.

    You mean like /.?

  17. while disturbing to Assange on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 0

    While it could be fabricated it, could well be true. Let's see how it works out. People in touble almost always deny, deny deny, but in the end the truth wins out.

  18. Re:odd asymmetry on Zephyr Solar Plane Tops 7 Days Aloft · · Score: 1

    why is one wing shaped differently than the other, i wonder..

    You're right, there is a noticeable extra piece of wing on the right (looking from the rear)

  19. Long Range Scenario on Russian Man Aims To Reinvent "Taser" Technology · · Score: 3, Funny

    Punk : Dials 911
    911 Operator : 911 what is your emergency...
    Punk : Can you forward me to the cop chasing me!?!?!?
    911 Operator : Sure. One moment.. ... Annoying Ring Tone ... boom chicka wah wah ...
    Cop Answers : Wh, who is this?
    Punk : Don't tase me bro!

  20. .. if it doesn't pan out .. on Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next · · Score: 1

    From the write up:

    If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam

    So where does the bacon and spam come from the Pigs or the Zombie soldiers? :-/

  21. Re:Surgeon General's Warning on Apple Voiding Smokers' Warranties? · · Score: 1

    ..... particularly second-hand smoke which contains a Noah's Ark of nasty bacteria and pathogens. WHy is it such a surprise that it also kills sensitive electronic equipment?

    Cigarette smoke has bacteria in it?

  22. Re:Don't Call Me... on Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi · · Score: 1

    Shirley!

    Sorry. I am so sorry. I'll leave now. So sorry.

    Umm ok.

  23. Re:Depending on who you believe on Earth's Period of Habitability Is Nearly Over · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gorism

  24. Re:Have any of you actually used bing? on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    Odd. I searched the same term "hardwood suppliers" in google and bing and they are pretty much the same.

  25. Re:hmm on Does Bing Have Google Running Scared? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. It seems just like their old Live Search with new curtains.