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  1. Dark Fluid? What? Like Guinness Stout? on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1
    I could swear he's talking about Stout.

    Negative masses are a hypothetical form of matter that would have a type of negative gravity -- repelling all other material ...

    Like my date and her Coors.

    Unlike familiar positive mass matter, if a negative mass was pushed, it would accelerate towards you rather than away from you.

    Thank god for that.

    ... If a dark fluid exists, it should not thin out over time.

    Again, thank the gods.

    In the new study, I propose a modification to Einstein's theory of general relativity to allow negative masses to not only exist, but to be created continuously.

    Or at least since 1759 according to the website.

    ... I show that this assumed dark fluid is never spread too thinly

    And one more time, thank the powers that be.

  2. Put your keyfob into a steel box on Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "The other thing that you can do is ... put your key fob into ... a faraday cage ...or even a steel box."

    Like the car. Oh, wait.

  3. Are the lyrics to Jefferson Airplane's "Go Ask Alice" floating around in anyone else's head?
    (with mods....)

    One app makes you larger
    And our app makes you small
    And the ones that Vlady gives you
    Don't do anything at all

    Go ask Alice
    When she's ten feet tall
    And if you go chasing twitter
    And you know you're going to fall

    Tell them a hookah-smoking caterpillar
    Has given you the call
    Call Alice when she was just small
    When the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go

    And you just launched some kind of search
    And your device is moving slow
    Go ask Alice
    I think she'll know

    When opponents and reporters
    Have fallen sloppy dead
    And the orange knight is talking backwards
    And the Red Queen's lost her head
    Remember what the dormouse said

    Feed your head
    Feed your head

  4. Education? Classes?!?! I'm here to play football on Who'd Go To University Today? (spiked-online.com) · · Score: 1

    IMHO, many US institutions of higher paying have students forking out too much to build expensive box seats for alumni.

  5. Re:How're "ORANGE MAN BAD" idjits gonna respond? on Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't know / don't care / voted Libertarian. I guess that opens me up to even more a/c derision. Yippie-kai-yea.

  6. The people on the phones are the poor schmucks with advanced degrees that can't get jobs or H1Bs. I'm willing to let them off with minor time and fees. However, the responsible people running the show need to meet Mr Bonesaw in a quiet room in the Saudi Embassy.

  7. Re:How're "ORANGE MAN BAD" idjits gonna respond? on Trump Admin Takes First Steps To Overhaul H-1B Visa That Tech Companies Use To Hire Internationally (geekwire.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    How are all the ORANGE MAN BAD!!!! idjits going to respond to this?

    I'm grabbing popcorn!

    Great idea. Personally, I have a Masters in Pomposity and Self-Righteousness, plus a Doctorate in Grandiosity and Self-Aggrandizement, all by mail, all from Trump University, and all signed by The New Messiah, our Great Leader, The Donald Himsef.

  8. Are they competing for Guinness World Record holder? Yahoo got top spot... until now.

    Nothing will EVER top the OPM data breach ...

    And I got was this lousy t-shirt! ... I mean a year of free credit monitoring. Yay.

    Whoa. Dude. You got a t-shirt? Well I'm miffed. I'm getting the free MyIdcare.com credit monitoring. For the past couple years the only alerts I've gotten are for sexual predators moving into the neighborhood.

  9. Re:Betteridge is actually appropriate here on Does Switching Jobs Make You a Worse Programmer? (forrestbrazeal.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll bet that company used Word Perfect as their code editor.

  10. ...Like I was saying - Ginger Lime Diet Coke is to DIE for! I guzzle this stuff by the gallon... I simply cannot get enough of those delicious Coka-Cola products!!

    What a super-great personal tribute and totally non-commercial testimonial. I've got to try some of that. Lately I've been guzzling the Grande Curried Squirrel Brain Machiatto at Starbucks with their Haggis & Honey scones.

  11. Re:lol on The Graphic Art of 'Incredibles 2' (joshholtsclaw.com) · · Score: 2

    Are grown people supposed to talk about cartoon movies?

    Indeed. Currently, no laws against that. Perhaps a brief refresher is in order ....
    Avatar 1 and 2
    Half the footage of most Star Wars movies.
    Heavy Metal
    Fantasia
    Wizards
    Toy Story 2
    Another Bakshi producion, Fritz the Cat
    Yellow Submarine
    Ghost in the Shell
    And my list can't be complete without a couple from Nick Park & Aardman Animations, Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

    I'm obviously leaving off a few Disney epics and some Japanese cult classics. But yes, grownups can talk about animation.

  12. ...Lotti recalls the investor saying that if she wanted Lashify to succeed, quality didn't matter, nor did customer satisfaction -- only influencers. And they didn't come cheap. She was told to expect to shell out $50,000 to $70,000 per influencer just to make her company's name known, an insane amount for a new startup. There was no way around it; that's just how things worked.

    Welcome to the gig economy. By day, Lyft driver. By night, paid shill for Infowars, Walmart and Monsanto.

  13. Re:If we don't stop lighting fires ... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    If we don't stop lighting fires, the seas will rise and our land will be isolated from the continent! We must stop our runaway consumption of meat, that needs frying, or face the wrath of the offended spirits.

    — Shamans in Tasmania, about 12000 years ago.

    Obviously some folks didn't get the irony or read the referenced article. Tasmania, last I heard, is an island and is isolated from the continent.

  14. Re:Long Island City is at sea level... on Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    yet property values are going sky high! It's almost like liberals don't believe their own hype since they all seem willing to pay millions for property on the coast. If people really believed global warming then property at sea level wouldn't be more expensive than ever.

    Folks are waiting until the last minute. Article from Bloomberg: The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners

    On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered when climate change would bring it all to an end. He figured it would involve a boat.

    “These boats are going to be the canary in the mine,” said Cason, who became mayor in 2011 after retiring from the U.S. foreign service. “When the boats can’t go out, the property values go down.

  15. Samsung needs to look at Apple on Samsung's Upcoming Galaxy S Phone Will Sport Six Cameras and Support 5G, Report Says (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's latest top-of-the-line iPhone is not experiencing the sales frenzy that prior models enjoyed. Lackadaisical sales seems to be affecting their stock price. Admittedly, both of these can be short-term events or rationalized by pointing to "market conditions". However, an over-the-top approach like Samsung is suggesting seems like a bad idea.

  16. Re:If you want to speed up the framework on Google To Pay JavaScript Frameworks To Implement Performance-First Code (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU.

    snipsnip

    But some of us do. I do. I am betting you do. And when you DO have the chops, you can produce something that is faster, cheaper, and better, yourself.

    I'm not sure I do. It would be fun to give it a whirl, yea. Unfortunately paychecks depend on product out the door. We don't have the bandwidth or time to develop a multi-OS, multi-browser, multi-browser-version library.

    (and also, the major browsers comply MUCH better to standards than they did even ten years ago, so the religion is outdated, too).

    I'm guessing you're on the mark here, but you would not believe how much legacy code we've got that depends on jQuery. Again, no time or butts to convert it to anything else. If it ain't broke big-time, don't fix it.

  17. Turn transport layer over to AT&T on 'The Internet Needs More Friction' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Want to slow down the internet? Let AT&T handle it. Pay to play. Pay more to play faster. Pay even more to make your competition play slower (not a real option yet). Damn. I love a free market.

  18. Give you 10 euros for the bar on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    He, mes amis. Ten euros for that old, outdated slab of metal. No good to you anymore, no? Merci.

  19. +1

    I'm still waiting for my flying car and jet pack as promised by Popular Science.

  20. Mr. Dyson has made great, historic achievements in marketing and technobabble.

  21. Can it spot the alien DC-8s that have been circling earth for millions of years? Many without stewardesses or working restroom facilities. Really terrible service, that. It's enough to upset any tenhat alien. And make 'em hungry. Which explains why they've taken to sucking out the brains of our smartest politicians.

  22. Not sure I'm comfortable with that on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 0

    Smart assistants will creep into every aspect of our lives ...

    Creep being the operative word. When you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. That includes your voice and contact list. With AI-driven voice simulation technology reaching the point where, given samples of a person's voice, it can craft a reasonable facsimile thereof, won't it be possible for Alexa to call someone, spoof your phone number, and threaten that person using your voice and mannerisms?

  23. Re:Organ banks on Corneas Could Be the First Mainstream Application of Bioprinting (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The sentence for illegally entering the country is to become an organ-donor / organ-bank

    I wonder how this would fly in maga-ville given the intolerance for abortion and "respect for life"?

  24. Re:Don't worry about a shortage of body parts on Corneas Could Be the First Mainstream Application of Bioprinting (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    We plan to put our printers in eye banks," says Precise Bio CEO Aryeh Batt

    You'll probably have to pay Apple for the use of the term "eye banks".

  25. Don't worry about a shortage of body parts on Corneas Could Be the First Mainstream Application of Bioprinting (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The assumption is that there will be a shortage of traffic fatality-induced body parts. I propose that we'll make up for that as we Americans slaughter each other over trivial opinions and political differences. Obviously I have more faith in the power of the Iranians, N. Koreans, Russians and Chinese to push hot buttons via social media than I do in the ability of Americans to tell when they're being manipulated. sigh.