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  1. Windows? They won't have seats on The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows · · Score: 1

    The plane of the future will pack in the human cargo like rail cars to Auschwitz. There will be straps from the ceiling to secure the human cargo. Windows will of course be eliminated, so will overhead lighting and a pressurized cabin. Human cargo will be given a face mask type oxygen supply. Human cargo will be charged for waste removal, eg. the 'lavatory'.

  2. Ban high capacity volcanos on Lava Flow In Hawaii Gains Speed, Triggers Methane Explosions · · Score: 1

    And assault lava.

  3. Be as awful at driving as people. on What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? · · Score: 1

    Just today I was behind someone who for no obvious reason took both hands off the wheel, waved them out the window for about 30 seconds, veered out of their lane and hit a stopped car. Robo-cars I think have to be able to be no BETTER than that for acceptance. I think they're on the wrong track with trying to be BETTER than humans. They should aim for being just as terrible because people don't want to feel the machines are mocking them.

    Clearly no one cares who dies right now so that's not a problem.

  4. Except not really on Black Swan Author: Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin · · Score: 1

    so other than being completely wrong, he's on to something.

  5. All Hail Dear Leader on Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer · · Score: 1

    Leave your baggage on the platform it will catch up with you after you are relocated to the east.

  6. Re:90% of all MS products lose money on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 1

    That's kind of the point. Just because Amazon doesn't rake in the cash from every line of business is largely irrelevant.

  7. Outlaw all education for males on Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment · · Score: 1

    And put all the men in concentration camps.

  8. The US is finished, lower the flag on First Commercial Mission To the Moon Launched From China · · Score: 1

    We are officially done. Welcome to the second tier status of states, like Argentina, Iran, Greece and so forth.

  9. The Clippers is not a 'real' business, Steve on Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron · · Score: 2

    According to your own words. Funny though how when I pointed out that most MS products don't earn a profit I was downvoted as flamebait.

  10. I blame George Bush on Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes I am executive at MSNBC

  11. 90% of all MS products lose money on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 0

    Almost every product in every division of MS loses money. Office and Windows on the desktop are about the only lines that make their budget or show a profit. So Ballmer needs to wipe his sweaty brow and shut the ever loving fuck up.

  12. need permission to LOSE money? on Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review · · Score: 2

    If the government has any objections then the government should buy it.

  13. Kind of funny when you think of it on Microsoft, Ask.com, Oracle Latest To Be Sued Over No-Poach Deal · · Score: 1

    Because all they're talking about is maybe 500 senior executives. None of those companies are hiring below the executive level in the United States.

  14. Hide all the settings, change all the controls on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Because when your customers scream that the #1 problem with your software is the endless massive changes you implement that obscure all the common and easy to do things requiring them to approach every new release like it's a completely different product and waste endless frustrating weeks relearning everything.....

    Then by all fuck means do more of that harder.

  15. The People's Republic of Failure on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    Albeit they have a GOP governor, Michigan is the bluest of blue states. Let's all watch the fucking ship sink beneath the waves together.

  16. Never in North Carolina on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    Maybe other states as well but I know it will never happen here. Why? Because the state has their hand in your pocket as part of the 'benefit' of the state owned reinsurance pool. This gives them the 'right' to unilaterally change your insurance coverage, drop you or raise your rates to whatever they want, apart from what the insurance company wants. In fact the state of NC can drop you on their own w/o telling the insurance company and then if you get a ticket? Oh well you're driving uninsured. So if you think that driverless cars are ever going to be allowed here where their precious power could be put at risk you're wrong. If anything, the state will simply decree that driverless cars need super mega extra through the sky insurance rates. Because that's what they can do.

  17. Digital Divide is codespeak on Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? · · Score: 1

    For how can we tax the middle class to give something they don't actually have, to poor black people. Sorry but that's it.

  18. Regulate and criminalize everything on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 0

    Kill them all until we live in a perfect shiny world where only the government knows best. About everything.

  19. Jeez just double the fines on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 0

    And double them again. And make all out of state drivers pay $10,000.

  20. Bigger fuckup than John Akers on IBM Pays GlobalFoundries $1.5 Billion To Shed Its Chip Division · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ginni is a bigger fuckup than John Akers. She and her cronies are fucking pirates running IBM like it's a stolen treasure box and they will personally enrich themselves until there's nothing left. Roadkill 2015 was the plan and everyone knew it was 100% bullshit. At this point all they can do is fire everyone who's not an executive, in the US, re incorporate in a developing nation and sell off the entire company piecemeal. IBM is a poorly run investment fund that simply buys and sells smaller companies to dig as much cash out of them as possible then tossing them away.

    Paying someone to take a division off your hands? Are you fucking serious? THAT's better than simply taking that money and investing it into the division? Holy the server division just sold to Lenovo must be happy. They'll have a viable business with actual jobs whereas IBM is too busy borrowing money to buy back stock price with no revenue to pay off the debt.

  21. You could say this about anyone on The Woman Who Should Have Been the First Female Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Shoulda been the first black astronaut, shoulda been the first gay astronaut, shoulda been the first handicapped Muslim Mexican astronaut and so on. But that's not how the world works.

  22. But it sues for tomorrow! on Apple Doesn't Design For Yesterday · · Score: 1

    Litigation over Innovation.

  23. Sprint announced a new feature on Gigabit Cellular Networks Could Happen, With 24GHz Spectrum · · Score: 1

    "Dial Tone". Sprint announced that in 20-25 years you will be able to move 'data' on the network too. Speeds are estimated to be 100 bits per second.

  24. But we can still decaptitate people. on In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    Whew. I was worried there for a moment. We can have imams actually scream for genocide and call for people in Britain to kill infidels and topple the entire nation and that's entirely fine. In fact we can allow people to illegally sneak into the country, illegally get national benefits, commit crimes and do all those other things and THAT's subject to muttering approval. But bitch slapping someone on twitter will get you locked up.

    And oh by the way, the gang that raped 1,400 kids over a ten year people with local police protection is still openly out and about.

  25. bbbut racism.... on Canada Will Ship 800 Doses of Experimental Ebola Drug to WHO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am keeping my fingers crossed that MSNBC screams that black people are being used as guinea pigs