User: Hognoxious

Re:Bricks and Mortar can't compete

On: America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com)

because the stuff I could buy from a local retailer is generally 1/3 the cost if I get it direct from China

And as long as more than one in three of them works you're coming out ahead!

Re:Boom times ahead

On: America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning (bloomberg.com)

It doesn't have to be "easy credit," it could just be more disposable income for the middle class.

Not for the working class though. That would be corminizzem!

Re:Flying taxis won't be landing in your driveway.

On: NASA: We're Not Building Flying Taxi Software For Uber (theregister.co.uk)

needs to generate down-thrust greater than it's mass

Weight, not mass.

And "its", not "it's".

Re:It's clear

On: Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks (bloomberg.com)

DeBeers manipulate the market to push up the value. If something happens to them, it'll plummet.

Blockchain Capital? Like, whatever!

On: Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks (bloomberg.com)

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where they
came up with that name.

But I've, like, watched a few episodes of W1A or something and I suspect it's totally a close substitute.

Re:Surprised?

On: 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com)

You dont get a fake degree for playing sports over here.

Land Economy at Cambridge? A bit of a misnomer since they spend most of their time rowing boats.

Re:Mad money

On: 'We Can't Compete': Universities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists (theguardian.com)

I'm pretty sure if you look at university balance sheets you can see that furniture, office supplies, student activities and landscaping aren't that big of a portion of universities' budgets.

Plus it's the UK, so there probably won't be a premier-league class sports stadium either.

Re:A chat application. wow. amazing. yawn.

On: A Huge Redesign Is Coming To Snapchat (theverge.com)

At this rate there will be an APP to bang two rocks together

If you suffer any pain it's because you're holding them wrong.

Re:Democrat wins VA governorship

On: 'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion (futurism.com)

people went to church every sunday

And to a picnic every labor day.

Re:This is already avaliable

On: Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com)

Alternatively ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvs...

Re:What could possibly go wrong?

On: Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com)

Is a low-res copy of the image a "hash"? I'm willing to call it one, but it grays the line.

I see what you did there. If I squint a bit.

You can't get the staff

On: Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool (theregister.co.uk)

Superfluous comma after "Claburn".

Re:Why not just a hardware random generator ?

On: How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet (zdnet.com)

3. You can actually SEE that the thing is working correctly, unlike a radioactive source.

You can hear it. It makes a clicking sound. Have you never seen a movie?

Re:xkcd my arse

On: Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today (techcrunch.com)

Do we walk into a bar, and the bartender is Creamer?

Re:Some articles should neither be read nor writte

On: New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted (bloomberg.com)

Should you be really fat or incredibly thin? Probably better to be somewhere in the middle, claims report.

xkcd my arse

On: Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today (techcrunch.com)

Is that you, Gabe?

2008? Really?

Re:Won't matter

On: Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today (techcrunch.com)

... under the current constitution.

Re:This is already avaliable

On: Facebook To Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance (bleepingcomputer.com)

Since TFA is from bleepingcomputer it could be almost anything. They might think it's a very cold casserole.

Re:To properly *secure* Windows 10, one has to ...

On: Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

Zoiks! Soon even switching it off won't be enough.

Re:says the guy with something to sell

On: One in Four UK Workers Maliciously Leaks Business Data Via Email, Study Says (betanews.com)

Might I interest you in same wax?

Re:Everyone is getting an MBA

On: The Disappearing American Grad Student (nytimes.com)

Hit a nerve, did I?

A lot depends on the company. It's almost a rite of passage in some consulting outfits. Having said that, many of the ones I encountered weren't very good. I suspect they'd gone too early, before getting any real experience.

Re:It's got imanges and video clips anyway

On: Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet (engadget.com)

Bring back the blink tag!

Re:The limit

On: Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet (engadget.com)

What's that, 2.6K per character? Probably not enough the way emojis are going. Just wait, they'll be embedding sounds in them next.

Re:To properly *secure* Windows 10, one has to ...

On: Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)

Hey, if it can't start it can't be hacked.

Re:Terrible idea.

On: Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers? (vice.com)

My oh my, roman_mir (or cayenne8) got out of bed the wrong side this morning!