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  1. Obligatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1860/

  2. Re:Dies... on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Will Windows 8.1 phones keep working? If so, then the phones aren't dead.

  3. Dies... on Windows Phone Dies Today (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    does not mean what you think it means.

  4. Google and Axa are on the edge of stupidity. The other three are ok.

  5. The word "maple" has to be paired with another word to sound right.

  6. People are too embarrassed to buy from companies with names like that.

  7. Obligatory Futurama reference on 'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't Date Robots!

  8. Re:Surely I'm not the only one who sees the proble on Broadcom Gets Green Light From Feds To Buy San Jose's Brocade For $5.9 billion (bizjournals.com) · · Score: 1

    they will be subject to oversight from the regulator

    If Cisco upper management has any sense, they've started looking for a new source of chip designs.

  9. What is evil is Google doing against Yelp? on Yelp's Six-Year Grudge Against Google (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I see Yelp quite often in Google search results.

  10. I'm pretty shocked. on China's Rocket Fails After Liftoff (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    first Chinese launcher to fully use liquid propellant.

    China (and seemingly India, though wikipedia's usage of "booster" and "second stage" without a first stage confuses me, since I expect SRBs to be strapped next to a liquid propellant first stage) still use solid motor rockets for their first stages???

  11. Re:Are They Sure It's a Hack? on Heritage Valley Health System Target Of Cyber Attack (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's a hack. (I got spam yesterday with a link deep down in their website.)

  12. The obvious solution is... on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    to kill all kangaroos.

    (If I were Bender Bending RodrÃguez, the obvious solution would be to kill all humans, but since I'm not Bender Bending RodrÃguez, that's not the solution.)

  13. Re:Um, good luck on 'I'm Suing New York City To Loosen Verizon's Iron Grip' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    There's nothing to stop one of the EIGHT AND A HALF FUCKING MILLION PEOPLE in NYC from suing Verizon, instead of having to rely on someone who lives 3 hours away.

  14. Re:Um, good luck on 'I'm Suing New York City To Loosen Verizon's Iron Grip' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    it turns out the courts are helping to open things up a bit. So far, so good...

    No. That's a horribly bad thing, since it will set a precedent which will destroy the US legal system.

  15. Re:Um, good luck on 'I'm Suing New York City To Loosen Verizon's Iron Grip' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That was my second thought: "Harvard is in (well, close enough to) Boston, and that's 220 miles from NYC."

    First thought was, "Oh God, yet another whining activist."

  16. Re: Plant a tree, save the Earth... on Los Angeles Tests Reflective 'Cool Pavement' On Streets (dailynews.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Idaho uses white asphalt.

    Without question, asphalt is black. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt

    That Oregon road is aggregate (aka "little rocks") bound together with bitumen, whereas the Idaho roads are just aggregate.

  17. Re:Wonderful on Los Angeles Tests Reflective 'Cool Pavement' On Streets (dailynews.com) · · Score: 2

    Isn't "heat" just slightly longer waves of red light?

  18. Re:Linux is still an issue for me... on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    Calc still has problems with complex xlsx files. Pivot tables seem to be the worst (and they seem to be popular where I work).

  19. Re:A surprising bug in Linux on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 1

    He got the operating system wrong, you ninny.

  20. What should really surprise Linus is... on Linus Explains What Surprises Him After 25 Years Of Linux (linux.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    a week without dupes on /.

  21. What interests me... on Chinese Satellite Breaks Distance Record For Quantum-Key Exchange (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    is that they're publishing it in Science.

  22. "Those Evil Americans tried to bribe us!!!" on US Intelligence Agencies Tried To Bribe Our Developers To Weaken Encryption, Says Telegram Founder (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe. Or maybe you're just *saying* it to make yourself look better while bashing the US.

    How will we ever know for sure?

  23. Re: Doesn't that present an obvious solution? on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The SCOTUS unanimously disagreed in Wickard v. Filburn (the stare decisis of Gonzales v. Raich), and all but one of the Justices who voted in that case were appointed by FDR, who's law it was that Filburn broke.

    So... blame the Democrats for Gonzales v. Raich.

  24. Re:Doesn't that present an obvious solution? on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But is it a fine when it's a private corporation collecting fees for its own profit?

    Are you asking me, or accusing me?

  25. Re:Doesn't that present an obvious solution? on FCC Can't Cap the Cost of Cross-State Prison Phone Calls, Court Rules (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Very good point. But you'll have to ask the lawyers who argued the case for the convicts.