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  1. Oblig. XKCD on Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech · · Score: 1
  2. Re: Can we close the gate... on Arrangement With Science Publisher Raises Questions About Wikipedia's Commitment To Open Access · · Score: 1

    WikiWall instead of -Gate?

  3. First Tentacle! on Morphological Computation: The Hidden Superpower of Soft-Bodied Robots · · Score: 5, Funny

    We all know where this is heading...

  4. Re: I support space research. on Whisky Aged On NASA's International Space Station Tastes "Different" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Star board aged port? You'll have your hands full with confused seamen.

  5. Re: NodeJS on PHP 7.0 Nearing Release, Performance Almost As Good As HHVM · · Score: 1

    How's learning Mandarin going then?

  6. Disconcerting coincidence... on Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 · · Score: 1

    ... my GF and I were watching Awakenings last night.

  7. Re: The reason they're doing better than others... on Tim O'Reilly and the 'WTF?!' Economy (Video) · · Score: 1

    Your math is off; it should be:

    S = 1 - 1/(N+1)

    At N=0, S=0. As N increases, S approaches, but never reaches, 1.

  8. Re: Third Possible Fate on Galactic Survey: The Universe Dying as Old Stars Fade Faster Than New Ones Are Born · · Score: 2

    Heat death we might be able to fight for a bit, converting matter into energy. Big rip might just tear our molecules apart...

  9. Re: I have tape over my video camera on Google Pressured To Police Stolen Webcam Videos On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Because car analogies Grandpa can understand.

  10. Watching House taught me one thing... on What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough? · · Score: 1

    ... chop the damn useless thing off!

  11. Re: Blunting on Common Medications Sway Moral Judgment · · Score: 1

    You still phrased yourself like the "just get over it" idiot crowd that anyone with depression have run into, in your previous post, with that homeopathic health nut feel. Positive thinking and exercise? Makes it very hard to take your so called personal experiences serious in the least.

    Agree that SSRIs suck, though. NSSRIs seem a tad better, but at the end of it all, I feel like the medications are being tossed at the wall to see what sticks. Random mixing of cocaine and LSD probably would have just as good a a statistical average as half the current regular meds...

  12. Re: The short answer is nothing on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Hold Onto Your Domain? · · Score: 1

    Please explain how IPv6 renders domain names obsolete. Are we switching to cute hexadecimal leet speak for our new URLs after the switch? That'll be a rather geeky land grab / gold rush...

    Hmm, wonder how much getting the 80.0.8.255 subnet would cost?

  13. No tea for me, thanks.

  14. C&C?!? on The Words That Indicate Malicious Domain URLs · · Score: 1

    There's a new Command and Conquer coming out? Hmm, or am I being scammed?

  15. Re: Problems causing Video effects? on Unreal Engine Code Issues Fixed By Third-party Company · · Score: 1

    If it is on the stack and it had been destroyed, then you've popped that stack frame already... And can null it out.

    Hell, memset SP+1 up to the end of the memory available for your stack on each function, filling it with 0xdeadbeef... Hmm, that rings a bell.

  16. Re: TCOC on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 1

    Hehe, will try to post as AC/DC next time...

  17. Re: TCOC on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 0

    Huh? Me is swooshed.

  18. Re: TCOC on Malware Attacks Give Criminals 1,425% Return On Investment · · Score: 1

    Not to mention whitewashing. What rates do Saul offer nowadays?

  19. Re: USA in good company... on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty In Boston Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    There is no dichotomy or hypocrisy in *wanting* revenge when it happens to your close ones, and *advocating* a more ethical position when you have the luxury of distance.

    The first is adrenaline, hormones and your lizard brain; the causes for most of the mayhem through the ages. The latter is our eternal struggle to make a society which is better than the sum of its parts.

    If you want revenge in both cases, you will lead us down the path of a blind world. If you have the calmness to seek only justice in both cases, you're probably a sociopath. Feeling the rage in the first and the frustration in the second case; that is to be human.

  20. Re: That's it? on MacKeeper May Have To Pay Millions In Class-Action Suit · · Score: 1

    Aren't this distinction likely to become a moot point soon anyway? Like the old geography maps we used when I was in school...

  21. Re: Technology allows on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    1 woman != 1 family... So, if the total statistical rate is with all women, then the family rate must be higher, since not all women are married or has kids?

    BTW, do they have polygamy there? That ought to really funk up the stats.

  22. Re: She has a point. on My High School CS Homework Is the Centerfold · · Score: 1

    Thanks a lot! Now I'll spend the day trying to come up with a lewd joke involving linoleum... Lie oiled on 'em? No... *wracking brain*

  23. That explains Doom 3... on Space Radiation May Alter Astronauts' Neurons · · Score: 1

    Brain goes back to basics, semi zombies go nuts.

    Also, Quake 4. Implants to offset the damage hooked up to central computer creates collective hive mind.

    Suggest they put up a live feed for the inevitable madness to recoup some of the cost of the planned manned flights to Mars.

  24. Re: false positives on Results Are In From Psychology's Largest Reproducibility Test: 39/100 Reproduced · · Score: 1

    Your momma is so fat, her shadow reversed global warming!

  25. Re: Well... on Russian Cargo Spacehip Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    Any self-respecting nerd on this site can count to 31 on one hand. Assuming a few fingers means 2 to 3, that increases to 128 and 256 respectively... Not a good ballpark nor trackrecord.

    "So, how about, I give you the finger... And you give me an actual damn number and a source citation? "