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  1. Look who knows so much... on 'Partly Alive': Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This pig is only mostly dead.

  2. Bring a GPS?

  3. Re:Yay but nay on EU Parliament Votes To End Daylight Savings (dw.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU is to big to have on timezone, if you mean that with "uniform".

    Earth Standard Time. One time zone.

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

    Why? Air Force; Space Force. It's what the Russians called their agency (well, in Russian).

    I've always been partial to Star Force. Is it too late?

  5. Ho ho ho, now I have a machine gun on Using Data To Determine if 'Die Hard' is a Christmas Movie (stephenfollows.com) · · Score: 2

    It doesn't get more Christmas than that

  6. People still send memos? I don't think I've sent a memo since 1995.

  7. All digital devices should have a 2nd passcode that will wipe the device on the first successful attempt. That will probably cut down on passcode requests for fear of wiping the device.

  8. Why wouldn't it be counted as work? on Emails While Commuting 'Should Count as Work', Researchers Say (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    But more importantly, what difference does it make? Who gets paid for every hour of work worked? So it means I work 70 hours in a week instead of 60. I'm still only getting paid for 40.

  9. Timely justification for the space force... on US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But seriously, who came up with that name? Can't we instead call it the Star Force?

  10. If anyone needs me... on Tesla Is Building Its Own AI Chips For Self-Driving Cars (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll be in the basement hiding from the cars

  11. Bring back the fax machine? on Supreme Court Rules States Can Require Online Retailers To Collect Sales Tax (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking the solution is to dust of the U.S. Robotics 56K Fax modem and on-line retailers can accept fax orders.

  12. FPGA == Field Programmable Gate Array, not "floating point gate array"

    You can't say that FPGA != "floating point gate array" due to limited precision.

  13. Oh really? on Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey (linuxjournal.com) · · Score: 1
    Come back to me when Vim can read Usenet.

    alt.vim.die.die.die

  14. I do miss the Nextel. On my desk I had a line of batteries and chargers. Just pop in a new one. Instant recharge.

  15. I, for one... on FCC Ends Decades-Old Rule Designed To Keep TV, Radio Under Local Control (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... welcome our regulation free media overlords.

  16. obligatory dilbert on Early Nintendo Programmer Worked Without a Keyboard (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2
  17. Re:Sucks, but derivative work on Court Rules Fan Subtitles On TV and Movies Are Illegal (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Um.. no. Just like you can't just re encode a movie, you can't do a sentence by sentence translation, as the original material is copied in a form.

    I have been learning a foreign language over the last few years and the one thing I have concluded is that translation is an art form. One must convert the original language into a concept and then restate that concept in the target language in a natural way that makes sense to the target audience. The translation may look entirely different than the source material. And two people may translate the same material very differently. Transcription may be one thing but I would think translation would be protected.

  18. This really makes me nastolgic on Internet Archive Adds Early Macintosh OS and App Emulators (macstories.net) · · Score: 2

    This takes me back to the time of my Mac 512 and the book Basic Computer Games. This was a better time for computing.

  19. Every time you fill the tank... on It's Official: Apple is Testing Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    ... you must press and hold Command - Option - P - R while turning the key.

  20. Give me twm and a stippled root window any day.

  21. Can't we go back to the 4s? on Apple Cites 'Courage' As Reason To Remove 3.5mm Headphone Jack (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO the 4s was the best iphone and it has been going downhill ever since. They made the phone more difficult to hold and got rid of a perfectly good connector. I never had the old style connector wear out but I have thrown out more lightning cables then I can count. Now I need to plugin my headphones into it? I've always felt locked into apple because of the investment in apps and music, but now with this latest move I believe iphone won't be my next phone. Looking forward to Xiaomi.

  22. Kind of lite on details on France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Ban on companies sending email outside of work hours"

    What does that mean? That I as an employee am not allowed to send email to another employee outside of that employee's defined work hours? Or that the company will queue mail until that employee comes to the office? Or that employees are not required to check their email. If the latter that will be about as good as saying "don't come to the office when you are sick". But then guilt employees for staying home causing them to come to the office sick anyway.

  23. Again, why are we still TODAY writing critical core libraries in what is probably the lease secure language next to raw assembly? Go, Java, even Python would be much better alternatives.

    Right, cuz Oracle isn't pumping out a security fix for java every other week.

  24. Giant Bubbler on Oceans Could Soon Not Have Enough Oxygen To Support Marine Life (iflscience.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    I propose the installation of a giant aquarium bubbler at the bottom of the ocean.

  25. Netflix responds to reports of shrinkage on Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years · · Score: 0

    "Cut me some slack, I just got out of the pool"