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  1. Re:Hey California, I have a solution for you on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    sudo killall politicians

    Oh shit, sorry, I wrote your name in the last time I voted. The killbots are on the way.

  2. Enjoy it while you can on Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dear Netflix and Youtube watcher,

    Our customers have reported stuttering, loss of signal, blackouts, and insertion of pornographic images and video into their streams. We are doing everything we can to fix this problem. In the meantime you might consider upgrading to Xfinity streaming service, which we guarantee will not be hit by these glitches.

    regards,

    Comcast

  3. Re:This is relevant to my interests on Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely · · Score: 1

    Fake newsletter. Send fake money for a subscription.

  4. It comes from the change in power on Where Does America's Fear Come From? · · Score: 1

    Back in the days when General Electric and General Motors were the dominant influence in Washington, fear was bad. Fear might keep Americans from buying a new car or a washing machine. So fear was a bad thing for politicians to use as a hammer. Now that the dominant influence in Washington is the military-industrial complex, fear is good. Fear keeps the public monies flowing to Halliburon and Raytheon and Lockheed. So fear is a good thing for politicians to run out.

  5. This is relevant to my interests on Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a fake investor, I will follow this development closely.

  6. Meaningless on Sochi Olympic Torch Taken On Historic Spacewalk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is the flame which represents the continuity with the ancient games. An unlit torch doesn't qualify as anything but a gold plated unlit torch.

  7. Re:Both good and bad on Don't Call It Stack Rank: Yahoo's QPR System For Culling Non-Performers · · Score: 3, Informative

    HR should be about compliance, benefits etc. They have (as a group) proven themselves incompetent to hires techs or engineers and should not even be involved with the hiring process.

    I had the same job for many years, read a lot of resumes to fill many positions. Then I got laid off. One of my severance benefits was advice on resume building and such, which I had not done in decades. I was pretty surprised to find that the modern scientific resume has to pass an HR filter before a scientist even sees it.

  8. Re:I'd love to give it a try on Credit Card Numbers Still Google-able · · Score: 2

    I have had the same Amex, Visa and MC credit card numbers since around 1999. I have not once received a fraudulent charge. Where am I going right?

    Herd immunity.

  9. Rifled and tapped? on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 2

    In the video, they show a part being tapped after forming. If the barrel of the gun can be rifled internally during manufacture, why can't a part be cast with a tapped hole?

  10. edit on Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol · · Score: 1

    3D Metal Printing has less porosity issues than an investment cast part

    fewer

  11. As Professor Ned Braden would say, "Is the answer Jesus?"

  12. It's not about me on Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates · · Score: 1

    I want robot cars because I am pretty sure that one will not pull out backwards from an angled-in spot WITHOUT LOOKING BACK or start forward at a red light BEFORE MAKING SURE THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU IS MOVING or sideswipe a parked car in Brooklyn at 3 am going 80 MILES AN HOUR ON A TINY ONE WAY STREET.

    Thanks for listening to these true stories. I have to go call the body shop to see if my car is ready.

  13. Re:It's a shame homophobephobes won't see it on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's a shame so many people will reject this movie because the author doesn't share their views or beliefs.

    I "reject" this movie - in that I won't go see it - because I read the book and thought it was not very good.

  14. Re: locations on Why There Shouldn't Be a Chess World Champion · · Score: 2

    You do realize American Football is a very intellectual game and is probably the closest physical sport to chess. I very highly doubt you know anything about it. Each play is carefully choosen to outwit the opponent

    I will state without fear of contradiction that Bill Belichick could lecture on the cover zero, cover one, cover two, and the necessary gap responsibilities and after about three hours of that any chess snob would be no masing out the door.

  15. Re:huh? on Tesla Model S Can Hit (At Least) 132 MPH On the Autobahn · · Score: 1

    I took the hill down into Wabuska in a 1973 Ford Courier at over 100 mph. Stock. Beat that.

  16. Re:A risky gamble on How Elon Musk Approaches IT At Tesla · · Score: 1

    My former CEO crowed it was "The Cadilac System" and spent millions on it. What a friken waste..

    My former employer spent $10 million and counting on an SAP upgrade. I wondered if we went back to using index cards if we could ever be $10 million less efficient.

  17. Re:Americans CAN NOT DRIVE!! on Atlanta Man Shatters Coast-to-Coast Driving Record, Averaging 98MPH · · Score: 2

    I visualized his arm automatically going up in a palm out salute towards the end of his rant.

  18. Re:If you don't like the game, change the rules on Why Johnny Can't Speak: a Cost of Paywalled Research · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you don't like the fact that the current journals charge the rates that they do you have to take your research to a new journal that doesn't.

    What is the incentive for me to do this if I am an academic who is trying to get tenure or move to a better position at another university or compete for grants? The major ammunition in the CV of anyone trying to do these things is publications in big name journals.

  19. Re: All Hail Glorious Leader Obummer! on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference is in prior presidencies, the people doing this crap were fired, or arrested all the way up to the president resigning. Meanwhile, this joker keeps blaming everyone else and playing his golf.

    Seriously? Did you just beam in?

  20. Re:over-reaction? on UK Police Seize 3D-Printed 'Gun Parts,' Which Are Actually Spare Printer Parts · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm hearing every comment in this thread in the officious voice of the late Graham Chapman.

  21. Re:But can you trust xavier2dc? on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, but how do I compile xavier2dc? Is the source even available?

    Step 1: Find his mother

  22. Re:How Does One Become an Editor? on Wikipedia's Participation Problem · · Score: 1

    I think the problem with Wikipedia is basically described by Animal House.

    You fucked up - you trusted us. My advice is to start drinking heavily.

  23. Re:For an archive of his account on White House Official Tracked Down and Fired Over Insulting Tweets · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think he's saying that you go to Twitter with the troll you have, not the troll you might want or wish to have at a later time.

  24. Re:What could possibly go right. on Automakers Struggle With Pairing Smartphones To Car Infotainment Systems · · Score: 2

    Those same applications, might provide life saving guides in event of an accident, or warn of a collision ahead, preventing further loss of life. disable or take over controls of car in event of the driver being intoxicated, drugged, asleep, heart attack. Limit car to preferred drivers. Or even the boring things we are used to like sat nav, or internet radio

    There is a whole field of industrial psychology which studies how information in an airline cockpit is used by the pilot. This applies to driving a car, too. It turns out to be really easy to overload the operator with information so that the really important data gets submerged in the mundane.

  25. Your Verizon bill is now available on Laser Communication System Sets Record With Data Transmissions From Moon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately, NASA went over their 7 gigabyte data limit with this experiment and owes Verizon $50 per additional megabyte, a total of $4,573,994.01.