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  1. Is it the 1990s again? on $1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment (gsa.gov) · · Score: 1

    You mean sell it at a loss? I suppose they could make it up in volume...

  2. Re:Genetically Blacks are dumber on New vs. Old: a Comparison of 23andMe's Health Reports and the Raw Data (enlis.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you could make an IQ test that would show Black people smarter than whites.

    That's trivially easy but it proves nothing. But would that test be a valid yardstick or predictor of ability & success within groups?

    If you wrote the test in French, for example, it would make French people look a lot smarter than Americans. But would it be able to distinguish smart French people from their less intellectually gifted compatriots?

    If the answer is no, you aren't testing what you claim to be testing. Some old tests did have this fault, which is perhaps why some people claim they're general knowledge tests. Modern tests don't have questions like "yacht is to ____ as chukka is to polo".

  3. Some have p-souls, some have q-souls, but ... on New vs. Old: a Comparison of 23andMe's Health Reports and the Raw Data (enlis.com) · · Score: 1

    Humans are different because they have souls.

  4. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's worth pointing out that in the U.S. there is absolutely no requirement in the Constitution for a postal service.

    It's also worth pointing out that the article is about the UK.

    The constitution doesn't explicitly mention roads either, so if you think Ike was a goshdiggitydarned cormanust don't nobody's forcing you to drive on the interstate.

  5. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Really? Like women have in Saudia Arabia?

  6. When did parents give up responsibility for raising *there* kids to toy *manufactures*?

    13.7 milliweeks after they stopped teaching them how to write.

  7. Re:Girls just wanna have fun on Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google · · Score: 1

    Ladies, gentlemen, and others may I present ... BarbaraBarbie.

    In business terms it makes total sense. Don't go for one sale, go for a recurring one. Aftermarket tits-n-bits, you know it makes sense.

  8. Re:Political correctness has no bounds on Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google · · Score: 1

    Well why not, they gave you +1 fanny (British English meaning).

  9. Sometimes the FDA does good things and sometimes the FDA does bad things.

    But it never does anything out of the blue.

  10. Re:Fundamental right????? on Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a good comparison. The Post Office has to serve everywhere, from big cities to remote islands, and at the same charge.

    Of course while you probably see that as one of those things needed to keep a society running, others see it as the first step towards death panels and compulsory gay marriage.

  11. Re:This is what you get. on The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink (juliareda.eu) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This comes up every six months. It never gets beyond a proposal.

  12. Re:Ob on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    It does now, but it certainly didn't earlier. Maintenance?

    P.S. Since I've neither installed nor removed any extensions in the meantime the AC higher up can fuck off.

  13. dee du dee du doo de doo, dum dee dum dee dum ... on Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't want to live in a world where you can't 'drive for fun', and I know I'm far from being alone in that sentiment.

    Do you have an uncle with a country place that no one knows about? Perhaps a former farm?

  14. Re:That's nothing on Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone who has to decide between the parade and the tree in a split second will probably avoid the tree out of sheer instinct.

    More likely they'll try to miss the tree, but overcontrol and end up in a skid and hit anyway, sideways. Or clip it, spin, and hit the parade too.

    But if you're in the situation where you have to make that decision haven't you already crossed the border into Fuckupland?

  15. Re:Something something question in headline equals on Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    engineers who program should be called targets

    FTFY

  16. Re:Ob on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1

    This one came up first when I googled shredders. http://www.staples.com/InfoGua... But it wouldn't let me link to a specific product, just a list. Just picked it out of the history and now it's showing a printer.

    Just refreshed it & it's showing

    {"pricing":{"id":"StaplesUSCAS/en-US/1/CL167883/1781826","listPrice":99.99,"finalPrice":59.99,"savings":0,"nowPrice":0,"instantSavings":40

    ... and much more of the same.

  17. Ob on Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? (teleread.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Much cheaper, same functuionality

    P.S. If anyone from Staples is reading, your website is a bag of arse.

  18. Re:If you think I'll allow a Google chip in my pho on Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, because it's totally as easy to change the CPU as it is to install cyanogenmod.

  19. Re:ABS releases cyanide when heated on 3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos (universityofcalifornia.edu) · · Score: 2

    And cyanide is liquid at room temperature.

    WHAT cyanide, you dick? Cyanide isn't a free standing thing.

    And before any pricks start hitting Google, I know what cyanoogen is, thank you very much, and it's not the same thing.

  20. Re:Black boxes ? on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if it was a bomb, it might not have been put on in Egypt. It could have been there for days or even weeks if a rogue maintenance guy hid it behind a panel.

  21. Re: It's either that... on UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Have you seen a French SOMUA S35? The Germans saw plenty in 1940.

  22. My thoughts exactly. If the cable's not captive then what's to stop you mixing them up?

  23. Re:What would it take to replace Mars's atmosphere on NASA's Maven Mission Solves the Mystery of Mars' Lost Atmosphere · · Score: 2

    Venus: too much atmosphere, too hot.
    Mars: not enough atmosphere, too cold.

    The answer is so simple even a hipster twat who paints himself blue and has a shaved head and a silly beard could work it out.

  24. Re:Summary missing information on NASA's Maven Mission Solves the Mystery of Mars' Lost Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Once? Where?

  25. Re:This is all well and good on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Make them in pink with pictures of Violetta.