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  1. Think quantity on Studios Push for $50 Early Home Movie Rentals (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Think about having a watching party for a new release combined with party/barbecue or something. Maybe you could get your friends to pitch in and watch it on a 100" projection screen. The cost quickly becomes a non-issue.

  2. Tektronix/Xerox already did the fixed nozzle printers in the 1990s with the Phaser series, however they sprayed pigmented wax instead of ink. The heads were about $1000 to replace but the printers were several times that in cost.

  3. Re:This happens to dumb cars as well... on Used Cars Can Still Be Controlled By Their Previous Owners' Apps (wtkr.com) · · Score: 1

    I unlocked and started my Aunt's Dodge Neon once using my Mom's key from her Jeep. I did it just to see if it could be done. I put the key in and jiggled it a bit and it worked.

  4. There are two kinds of country in this world. Those that use the metric system and those who have put men on the moon.

  5. Where have we heard this before on Scientists Propose Plan To Re-Freeze the Arctic (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Scientists have missed every prediction on global warming since then whole craze started.

  6. Re:Skilled labor? on H-1Bs Reduced Computer Programmer Employment By Up To 11%, Study Finds (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I worked with someone from Bangladesh and he said "guys from India/Pakistan/Bangladesh are all mamma's boys who are served by their moms. They live in the house until they get married. Mom cooks and cleans for them. When you separate them from their mother, they become useless until they can figure out how to live on their own, which is why so many just get married as soon as they can." Those were his words.

  7. All the statists here on A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months · · Score: 0

    OMG Gumbermints! Help us!

  8. Daleks run on wheels, but they have a weakness, stairs. (Well except until they learned to levitate) Wheels need a flat surface whereas walking legs do not.

  9. Re:Aww . . . did 'ums get 'ums feewings huwt? on Scientists Find 'Oldest Human Ancestor' -- A Big-Mouthed Sea Creature With No Anus (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Looks like his detractors are fare more triggered than his supporters.

  10. Wasn't that already tried in the 1930s and 1940s?

  11. Brennan takes orders from Obama on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Comey said that Brennan takes his orders directly from Obama. Lest us not forget, the CIA was caught spying on their own senate oversight committee.

  12. Just have it do a pop-up every 5 minutes telling you the phone has been recalled.

  13. Solution for critical illness during pregnancy? on Researchers Successfully Achieve Suspended Animation With Mouse Embryos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    So lets say the Dr. finds something wrong with pregnant woman that requires treatment, but the treatment has to be completed before the baby is born because the stress of pregnancy along with her ailment might kill her. This might be just what they needed. Put the baby in a suspended state until the treatment has finished. Perhaps this could also be used in a situation where they baby might die as a result of its own body processing the treatment. If it could be suspended, it may survive.

  14. Re:Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you replace cancer with something else? Nope.

  15. Re:Do you now realize why Trump won? on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    When your doctor removes cancer from your body, do you ask him what he is going to replace it with?

  16. What is their mail admin being paid to do? on The NHS's 1.2 Million Employees Are Trapped in a 'Reply-All' Email Thread (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    We had something similar happen at a previous employer. They took exchange down for 2 or 3 minutes while they did some sort of cascade delete and all traces of the e-mail were gone from the entire company.

  17. Related TEDx talk "The Ugly Indian" on India's New Delhi Now Most Polluted City on Earth, Air Quality Well Beyond 'Hazardous' Level (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    The Ugly Indian The speaker makes the point of India can't expect to consider itself a world class country until it cleans itself up. He goes into the culture of "someone else will deal with it" so he organizes cleanup events that target the worst areas so that people see how nice an area can become and then start to take pride in keeping that way.

  18. It's not freezing... on More NFL Players Attack Microsoft's $400M Surface Deal With The NFL (yahoo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's just taking a knee for civil rights.

  19. Louis Rossmann had a theory on Samsung Could Face Second Recall As US Probes Burnt Phone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    His theory was cheapo amazon or chinese usb c cables.

  20. Something wrong with your right eye? on Apple, Google, Microsoft: We Have No Government Email Scanning Program Like Yahoo's (vocativ.com) · · Score: 2

    It looks like it's twitching almost like a wink, when you say that.

  21. It's just how easy you want to make it... on Which Programming Language Is Most Popular - The Final Answer? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    People who primarily program in C are probably not writing the same kinds of programs that people who program in PHP, Java or C# are making. C people are writing for performance, compactness, an embedded system or for an OS. PHP people are probably mostly web services type people. C# makes it very easy to put together something to stick in front of someone's face. For example I recently put together a GUI front end in C# that makes calls to a REST based API on a web based management tool, because it was hosted off site, slow and required a lot of navigation to get what you wanted. The clicking, and wait 10 to 15 seconds then click again was replaced by a series of combo boxes in a windows form so that you could select what you wanted to do, type in a parameter that gets input validated before the web call is made and hit submit. Things that were on separate web pages were all front and center. Of course Java is for portability, serverlets, and Android applications. If you know Java, you can pick up C# and vice versa. I've converted simple applications C# to Java and simple Java to C# by pasting the Java code into visual studio as-is (or the C# code into Netbeans as-is) and started doing find and replace for most of the obvious stuff. Hit compile and see what error came up, ok need to replace "string" with "String", Console.Write with System.Out.Print. Replace a TryParse with a parse and a Try/Catch. In the end they start to look more and more alike. If your IDE is a fairly helpful kind, it will auto-fix silly things like capitalization along the way. Heck I love how easy it is to decompile C# and Java so I can see how other people do stuff when it's a closed source application.

  22. Re:The U.S. ain't perfect, but... on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The last we need is the ICC trying to enforce some kind of decency laws on the internet. (I mean beyond the blatantly illegal, like kiddie pr0n.)

  23. Re:Does anyone care what Trump thinks? on Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I feel the exact same way about Hillary.

  24. Re:Good and bad on Netflix Wants 50% Of Its Library To Be Original Content (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not conflicting with THEIR interests.

  25. Not "exactly" humane on How Cities Are Using Dry Ice To Kill Rats (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Carbon Dioxide suffocation is pretty bad. It's basically the only form of suffocation your body is designed to violently react to. When killing rodents industrially for reptile feed, nitrogen suffocation is generally considered humane because they just fall asleep.