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  1. No I didn't like this on Twitter Testing Non-Chronological Timelines (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It keeps doing this on my timeline. When I change it, it asks "Did you like this?" No matter how many times I hit no...they just keep doing it. I miss the days when services were something you paid for, and you were a customer instead of a product.

  2. Re:Incrementalism on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also pretty helpful if you wrap your car around a tree and are too busy bleeding out to call for an ambulance.

  3. Re:Thank you judge on Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Redditors aren't people.

    Then again, neither are we by those standards.

  4. Re:While the Government might promise that it woul on Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh just kiss already

  5. Re:so we classify thoughtcrime now? on Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you even read the summary instead of just the summary title, you'd know that's actually what they said.

  6. Re:what about elevation? on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 1

    This is mostly a solution for disorganized places where unit labels don't already exist. If they exist (that high rise building), use them. Doubt you're going to be stacking scrap-metal shacks more than two or three high, and even in that situation you're still identifying a small enough group of people that you can probably talk to all of them at the same time (unlike multiple floors of a high rise) to find the person you're looking for.

  7. Re:Not that much better on Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words (mondaynote.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Besides, everyone can use a healthy reminder not to decorrugate their aura.

  8. Re:Netflix on Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com) · · Score: 2

    Realistically though--they can steal some personal information, like name and probably your billing addresses, and they possess a username that is likely to be in use somewhere else. With a username, real names and a billing address, you have enough information to start socially engineering your way into other things.

  9. Re:Netflix on Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com) · · Score: 1

    They could rate things weird and make you see all kinds of bizarre recommendations.

  10. Re:well, we have several things.. on If Climate Change Is a Problem Then Lunar Helium-3 Fueled Fusion Is the Solution (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    You can find answers to your questions here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    But in summary... The "waste" is Helium-4, which is also called "the normal everyday helium we have on Earth". Not enough would be produced to be meaningful in any way compared to the value of the electricity produced, but fusion in general can be considered clean; its output is generally safe stuff. We do currently produce Helium-3 industrially, and value has recently raised from $100/L to $2000/L; this value would probably increase more if we actually used it for electricity, but we don't right now, and we would quickly outstrip supply (I think we only get it as a side effect of doing other nuclear stuff and we can't ramp that up for more Helium-3). There's more of it on the moon because the moon doesn't have the kind of magnetic field the Earth does, so it gets nailed by all the nasty space radiation that we are spared from.

  11. Okay, so where's the Paris news? on If Climate Change Is a Problem Then Lunar Helium-3 Fueled Fusion Is the Solution (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm having trouble finding any news on any network about the Paris climate talks. If someone has a link that actually covers what's been going on there in depth, I'd appreciate it.

  12. Re:Recent mass shootings on The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Secretive Trade Negotiations (Video) · · Score: 2

    Much like a cheap lock on your door, of course gun laws won't stop someone determined. They just make it less likely that someone who's deranged is going to have one within arm's reach when they snap.

  13. Well, define excessive. If the tickets for improper HOV lane usage were lower, I'd probably be that asshole who uses it with no passengers all the time. Risk has to be greater than reward for disobeying.

  14. Re:Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    CNN is reporting they were "AK-47-type" weapons. I'm really curious if that means genuinely full-auto stuff (which takes some real effort and licensing to get ahold of, or smuggling) or if they mean like... an SKS (semi-auto, civilian-legal, easy to get anywhere, uses the same caliber as an AK-47)

  15. Re:heh on Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock (csoonline.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah except he's not hitting it "hard" like you're thinking. "If a hammer isn't an option, a screwdriver handle works just as well." -- it's not like he's using a sledgehammer here. This isn't an attack on the structural integrity of the lock itself, it's more unlocking it like a bump key, and you can re-lock it without leaving evidence you messed with it.

  16. I really want to build a d6 tester, now. Once while working at a tabletop-game-related company I decided to test out the randomness of my Chessex d6 batches, and I swear my red d6es averaged something like 3.7 or 3.8 over several hundred rolls...but I was rolling a whole box worth at once (like 36), and that's still a pretty small sample size.

  17. Re:So, Wood Filler on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 2

    Same reason people drink diet soda.

  18. Re:Is it soaked on Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood · · Score: 1

    Come back to imgur, I don't think memes are meant to spread like that :l

  19. Re:Games from discs on Sony Quietly Adds PS2 Emulation To the PS4 (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Frustrated now. I was about to buy a refurbed PS2 off ebay or something (interior components of the controller ports on my last model literally crumbled apart, which is apparently not uncommon) to get my Katamari and DDR on again, but now I'm not sure if I want to wait and get a modern console instead.

  20. Re:All Google cares about is hits on YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse · · Score: 2

    And starting places are starting places.

  21. Re:The trouble is they're right on ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    I was going to bring up the 4th amendment, since encryption and ciphers are certainly part of being secure in one's person, house, papers and effects, but it does explicitly say you're protected against unreasonable search and seizure--not ALL search and seizure. I couldn't confidently argue one way or the other about what the founding fathers' opinions on effectively-unbreakable encryption would be.

    Then again the 2nd amendment also talks about guns in the context of well-regulated militias, so who even knows.

  22. Grammar anyone? on NASA Selects Universities To Develop Humanoid Robot Astronauts (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Come on, article writer, if you're going to give something named "Valkyrie" a gendered pronoun, maybe "he" isn't the right choice.

  23. Re:They can save my TRS-80 tapes? on Tape Disintegration Threatens Historical Records, But Chemistry Can Help (nautil.us) · · Score: 1

    Oh man, please do share. I did a lot of my earliest coding on a VIC-20.

  24. Re:How much harder would it be on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My way too many hours of Kerbal Space Program make me highly qualified (joke) to say that bringing something back is way harder than just putting stuff there. If you make a later stage twice as big, you need to make every stage leading up to it twice as big as well. Getting samples back up to orbit adds some nontrivially bigger engines and more fuel, even moreso when you think about landing that extra load, and making the orbiter come back to Earth may or may not need bigger engines but will certainly need more fuel. You could get rid of some of the lander's instrument packages and just process things back home, but that's risking an awful lot on a ton of new things that could go wrong... liftoff could fail, rendezvous could fail, anything could fail along the way home, and there's lots more radiation you have to eat.

    On-site analysis is much cheaper and more reliable.

  25. Why not Tabletop Simulator? on Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Comes To VR Through Partnership With AltspaceVR (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 2

    If Tabletop Simulator supports VR (and if it doesn't, I'm surprised) then I can't see a need for any other VR-based Dungeons and Dragons thing. Okay, maybe it'd be nice having tools designed specifically to fuss with character sheets and help newbie players manage their spell lists, but 5e seems surprisingly light on the bookkeeping. Handling the rolls manually is part of the fun, it's pretty lightweight, keeps players involved, and lets the DM fudge things where appropriate.

    The times I've done Tabletop Simulator for other games (like Settlers), it's felt very close to playing it in person.