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  1. Re:And make believe occurs when? on Barbie Gets a Brain · · Score: 1

    They're trusting Friend Computer, and that worries me.

    Before Friend Computer, they had to trust Friend Grownup With an Agenda, Prejudices, and an Incomplete Grasp of the Facts.

  2. Re:Why does the FBI continue to engage in witchcra on Veteran FBI Employee Accused of Trying To Beat Polygraph, Suspended Without Pay · · Score: 3, Informative

    Homicide: Life on the Street - the book from which the series was made.

  3. Re:Not really related to Amazon. on Private Medical Data of Over 1.5 Million People Exposed Through Amazon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bigger story would be that Trump had a barber.

  4. Logic fail on Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public · · Score: 2

    "Comey explained that "venom and deep cynicism" prevented rational debate of his campaign for cryptographic backdoors."

    That's called poisoning the well. - Albert Einstein

  5. Okay - we will pay up on Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate · · Score: 1

    We will cut a check just as soon as the $5 trillion dollar payment the rest of the world owes us for protecting them from a Communist takeover is deposited.

  6. Ten years? More like ten days. on NASA's Ten-Year Mission To Study All the Ways the Arctic Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    Congress will cut the funding specifically for this effort as soon as they can.

  7. Re:Literally on Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? · · Score: 0

    "With the way literally is being used, quite literally it will soon have a new meaning added to high profile dictionaries."

    Which begs the question of how much corruption in usage you are willing to tolerate.

  8. Today's doodle links to Godwin on Report: Google Will Return To China · · Score: 2

    Google also announced that they were taking their new time machine back a few years to get into the German market, promising Mr. Hitler that they would block any Jewish-related content.

  9. Re:So this Japanese guy on Arro Taxi App Arrives In NYC As 'Best Hope' Against Uber · · Score: 1

    So this Japanese guy arrives at the airport, jumps in a taxi, smiles at the driver and says ...

    Goldberg? Iceberg? All same to me!

  10. Press release update on Researchers Grow Tiny Human Brain In Lab · · Score: 1

    The tiny brain just declared its candidacy for President of the United States. It will run in the Republican primaries, and two polls taken today report that 12% of likely GOP voters will vote for the tiny brain.

  11. Re:Amazing on Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas · · Score: 1

    "Just what do you think you have in the White House right now?"

    An intelligent, thoughtful person whose background gives him some insight into the problems of a wide swath of Americans.

    Not the answer you wanted? Then why the fuck did you ask it?

  12. Yay! on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    Comcast will still be sodomizing their customers - even faster!

  13. Anyone can be a rock star? on How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is everyone in porn a 'porn star'? Not everyone can be a star. Why are there no porn character actors?

  14. Re:The Forge of God on Death Star Science: The Physics Of Destroying An Earth-Sized Planet · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, I want this to be a movie.

  15. There is indeed a crisis on Federal Judge Calls BS On Homeland Security's 2008 STEM 'Emergency' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Large companies are having real problems finding skilled people they can pay minimum wage and treat like chattel.

  16. Jerk on Facebook CIO Discusses Zuckerberg's "Will You Resign?" Email · · Score: 1

    Only an asshole of a CEO would send out an email with that address line.

  17. Re:Microsoft on Behind the Microsoft Write-Off of Nokia · · Score: 1

    Elop backwards is pole. Nobody noticed this?

  18. Two way street on Sociologist: Job Insecurity Is the New Normal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some decades ago, the multinational I worked for was all excited to get us to work like the Japanese, who were so gungho that they gathered before work to sing the company song. We responded that we would gladly do that in return for guaranteed lifetime job security. (Crickets.)

  19. Re:Mickey Mouse copyirght extenstions... on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 2

    To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

    The above is otherwise known as the copyright clause of the US Constitution. Copyrights were not intended to be infinite. What you are thinking of are trademarks.

    1000 years is still a "limited Time"

  20. Re:Mickey Mouse copyirght extenstions... on "Happy Birthday" Public Domain After All? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Copyright should be renewable forever upon payment of a fee every ten years or so. If a property is so valuable that it generates income, fine. Keep paying the fee and keep the property. If nobody is making money from it and nobody can be bothered to make the payment, then the property falls into the public domain.

  21. Re:Ball tracking is not new on A Computer Umpires Its First Pro Baseball Game · · Score: 2

    technically it's cheating, but everyone has been doing it for the last 3-5 years.

    Catchers have been doing this since before there were catcher's mitts. And if there is no rule against it, it is not 'technically' anything, much less cheating.

  22. Re:11 rear enders on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    It was Google's fault! They should have dodged out of the way when they detected a stupid driver not stopping, lol...

    Giant springs underneath the car.

  23. Re: 11 rear enders on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 3, Funny

    the car was hit by another Google employee.

    It was hit by a Yahoo car.

  24. Re:11 rear enders on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    By default it's usually the other persons fault, but I have seen cars slowing down quickly or suddenly causing rear enders so maybe at "11" it is their fault.

    Ask your insurance company and they will tell you that damage to the front of your car = your fault. Damage to the rear of your car = not your fault.

  25. I got this one on What Will Happen When Cascadia Subduction Zone Slips · · Score: 1

    I already know what will happen. We will spend no time or money preparing for it but billions and billions and years and years paying for our lack of planning.