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  1. Re:What did hte *cats* conclude from this experime on Cats Can Recognize Their Own Names, Study Suggests (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    The mice won't allow it.

  2. Re:Non-Avian Dinosaurs on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I love the Amazon personality. I had a small one - a white-fronted - for 18 years.

    Now, I have a green-cheeked conure. Surprisingly, he is an better talker and, like an Amazon, so inteligent it's scary. One evening when he was a few months old, he realized that "I" and "me" mean the same thing, and he just thought this was wonderful. He was going, "I am me! I am parrot, me! I me me!".

  3. Non-Avian Dinosaurs on Scientists Find 66-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Day The Dinosaurs Died (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We still have avian dinosaurs - I have one trying to take apart the thermostat on the wall as I write this. Some of them are pretty smart.

  4. Mod parent up.

  5. Re:Off target effects on China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah... IIRC, HIV lives partly in various types of white blood cells and their helpers - it is like malware hiding in your anti-virus software.

  6. Re:Off target effects on China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Researcher He Jiankui claims to have altered the DNA of the twins to try to make them resistant to infection with the AIDS virus.

    So how are they going to test this? Expose them to HIV?

  7. Then we can start working on the mongooses.

    How about releasing 80,000 cobras into the wild?

  8. Parrots... on Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I had an Amazon Parrot for 18 years. He was a great talker, but didn't do it unless he knew for sure what he was saying. One morning... He had been saying (and understanding), "How are you? Good?" for years. That morning he said, "How are you? Good? Say 'Yup'."

    I now have a Green Cheeked Conure. Words are his favorite toys. Just one example..... One day, when he was a few/several months old, he realized that "I" and "me" mean basically the same thing. He just thought this was wonderful - he was all excited, going, "I am me! I am parrot, me! I, me, me!"

  9. Re:General pattern for ./ stories lately on Better 'Nowcasting' Can Reveal What Weather is About To Hit Within 500 Meters (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

  10. Another way of saying it is that Amazon has become more efficient. This is a good thing.

  11. Re:Why? Money. on Why Big Tech Pays Poor Kenyans To Teach Self-Driving Cars (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    No kidding. The invisible hand.... a business wants very cheap labor, so it ends up giving money to very poor people.

    The industrial revolution was partly about people having horrible jobs in factories instead of starving in a hut. But for the next factory to attract (better) workers, it has to pay a bit more..... and so on until even poor people have TVs and $100 dollar sneakers.

  12. Re:Not a problem on Are Touchscreens Robbing a Generation of Surgeons of Their Dexterity? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And why focus on surgeons? They are hardly the only folks that work with their hands.

  13. Re:Won't matter when the time comes on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck people that feel they are "excluded".

    People are included in the kernel "community" by contributing and having those contributions included in the kernel - a great honor in the world of software development.

  14. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    We have thousands of drivers so we can't enable all of them by default. This is especially true for new drivers that have not been properly tested yet and which are not known or used by a large amount of people. Please be careful about this in the future so we don't accidentally cause problems for our users.

    I think that what your version says is different than what Linus said. He didn't say be careful; he said don't do it.

    Your version also has more explanation that isn't, or shouldn't, be necessary for people that actually write drivers for the kernel.

  15. Re: Got a chromebook for mum. Also: Year of LotDT on New Zealand Chooses Google Chromebooks Over Microsoft Windows 10 For Education (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya gotta admit that Microsoft is really making an effort to catch up in the spying functionality.

  16. To get as much work done as you want....

    the choice

  17. So.... I find one and ride it to work. Someone else takes it elsewhere. How do I get home? Cab?

  18. What's Google+?

    It's a different version of Myspace.

  19. Re:No I would not on Google CEO Will Testify Before US House on Bias Accusations (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    ...a classless society of victims.

  20. Re:Bend over and grab your ankles.. on Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey! No orange-shaming!

  21. Maybe the parents of a failing student could get some friends to make $1M offers for their house. Ooh! This is even better...

    They could get their neighbours to pair up and each offer the other $10M for their homes. THAT would get those grades up!

  22. Re:No More Shuffling Around? on European Parliament Votes in Favor of Controversial Copyright Laws (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Fuck 'em.

  23. Love the beginning of the summary...

    A public spat between Amazon Sen. Bernie Sanders over workers' wages...

    Um... Bernie Sanders, the senator from Amazon, is having a spat with whom?

  24. Re:He's got reason to fear. on SAP Founder Hasso Plattner Fears the Scourge of Social Media (afr.com) · · Score: 1

    You can chose from *all sorts* of crazy now.

    Yeah - "crazy" as a noun. InfoWars produces news/crap with an extra large helping of crazy. It is scary how many people buy into it.

  25. Re:Can this be prevented? on Google Search Now Uses Service Worker For Repeated Searches (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks!

    If I understand this, I really don't like service workers.

    If I (still) understand the way the web works, I really like the concept: I connect to a website; the website can't connect to me.