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  1. Re:While no one was looking on Alibaba Engineers Fired for Mooncake Hacking (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There are not 400 cakes. The 400 cakes are a lie.

  2. Needing the dofull on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Three of the top Android Wear smartwatches maker

    Garbage.

  3. Re:Sucks to be her I guess on A Woman Is Suing Her Parents For Posting Embarrassing Childhood Photos To Facebook · · Score: 0

    Children are not property.

    Unless you want to leave them at risk from preventable diseases. Or let them die when a blood transfusion would save them. Or do a bit of carving on their shagging tackle.

    But it's only OK if you do it because an invisible man in the sky told you to.

  4. Re:Unearthed Plague on DNA Confirms Cause of 1665 London's Great Plague (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    I wasn't aware that the brexit vote rewrote biological history. Clearly I'm not as smart as you.

  5. I felt a disturbance in the force. on None of Your Pixelated or Blurred Information Will Stay Safe On The Internet (qz.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    The algorithm doesn't produce a deblurred image

    I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if a million Japanese porn fans cried out in disappointment.

  6. Re:Why do people continue to believe alarmist crap on The Sixth Mass Extinction Will Hit The Biggest Animals The Hardest, Says Stanford Study (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mankind wasn't around when the Chicxulub one hit. As for the ice age, by some accounts it was a close-run thing.

    The most dangerous thing of all is complacency.

  7. Re: Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    How about going out and re-stealing all those countries we stole in the 1800s and then gave back?

  8. Re:Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the 1st of January. "Look", says the chief turkey, "the farmer's coming to feed us!"
    It's the 2nd of January. "Look", says the chief turkey, "the farmer's coming to feed us!"
    [ ... ]
    It's the 24th of December. "Look", says the chief turkey, "the farmer's coming, but the silly bugger forgot to bring the feed bucket! Hey, what's that shiny pointed thing?"

  9. Re: Uses onboard radar on Hacker George Hotz Unveils $999 Self-Driving Add-On (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    No risk, no fun.

  10. Re:Another way to look at this is.. on Robots Will Eliminate 6% of All US Jobs By 2021, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    we have this thing called supply and demand that says their labor is reallocated towards the next-best end.

    Which is what, pray tell? There's plenty of unemployed people right now who don't seem to be undergoing any "reallocation".

  11. Re:Cut the bullshit, facebook. on Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On 'Napalm Girl' Photo: 'We Don't Always Get it Right' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    44% isn't a monopoly.

    In some jusrisdictions it's almost two.

    Don't use Facebook. Problem solved.

    Except you have to drive down the same streets as those who do, and be governed by the same politicians elected by those who do...

  12. Re:Invaders from Earth !! on Should We Seed Life On Alien Worlds? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume they are smarter than us?

    For the same reason midgets assume people are taller than them?

  13. Re:Why not? on Should We Seed Life On Alien Worlds? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Exactly like if you replace "there" with "in Australia" and "Earth" with "Europe".

  14. Re:The world doesn't owe anyone anything. on When Your Boss Is An Algorithm (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I can in theory reverse engineer an algorithm and game it.

    You can't, in theory or practice, kick an algorithm in the groin until it vomits. Then stamp on its ankles and knees.

  15. Re:What is this even talking about? on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How many homes have "Sys-Admins"? Other than ones where "Sys-Admins" live, of course.

  16. Re: Old school reflective lcd on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A friend gave it to me for a beer.

  17. fiction becomes reality on When Your Boss Is An Algorithm (ft.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re: Old school reflective lcd on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have you actually tried this? I've got a case fan with them and I tried multiple layers of different kinds of tape and they're still shining through.

    The darn things aren't recessed either so there's not much clearance to stick a big blob over them without fouling the fan. Plus they glow on both sides, which is an issue because the case is one of those 733t ones with a window in it. I suppose I could fit it with blinds.

    I will add that I can't actually find one of the side panels now. I was installing a new HDD and toying with changing the heatsink. How I can lose something that's half a yard square is a mystery. Should probably tidy up the lab...

  19. What happens in Vegas... on China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    Conferences. In Las Vegas.

    In fact, forget the conferences!

  20. There were no switches. Unless you are talking about the jumpers so you should of said jumpers

    A jumper makes or breaks a connection. Even if you're a total aspie and don't think that makes it a switch, I have an old Asus MEW board right next to me and it's got DIPs on it so just fuck off.

    P.S. s/should of/should have/

  21. Re:At what point? on DNA Confirms Cause of 1665 London's Great Plague (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever you do, never just move the headstones.

  22. Re:Unearthed Plague on DNA Confirms Cause of 1665 London's Great Plague (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    those of European descent are thought to be resistant to it.

    I thought it was about London?

  23. Re:Clickbait troll much? on AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't trust *any* physicians. I can treat myself better using the googles. They gave my gran six months to live and she lasted nearly seven, and their handwriting looks like upside down Arabic.

  24. Re:So, considering the next presidential election. on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to say that nobody would be stupid enough to design a voting machine with a publicly exposed USB port.

    Then I remembered who makes voting machines.

  25. Re:As the saying goes... on The USB Kill Stick, Priced at $56, Is Designed To Destroy Laptops, PCs, TVs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Fair point, but if you don't see the magic smoke coming out and/or the look of surprise on the idiot's face there's not much lulz in it. Not sixty bucks' worth, anyway.