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  1. Re:To higher ground? on How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea · · Score: 2

    because that would:

    a) cost way more than the GDP of the country.(only $170 million).
    b) simultaneously kill their GDP, as it largely depends on people coming to their island for the beaches. who wants to sit at the top of a wall to get their sun?

  2. Re:Odd or even? on To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive (thehindu.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes. You aren't allowed to drive either day.

  3. Re:Buy two cars? on To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive (thehindu.com) · · Score: 1

    Cheaper to register same car twice.

  4. Famous Ban Ki-moon Quote on FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist (ftc.gov) · · Score: 0

    "Here's to you....sucking my dick!" - Ban Ki-moon

  5. Re:Famous Churchill Quote on FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist (ftc.gov) · · Score: 2, Funny

    yeah, he would always copy what Winston did and insist he did it first.

  6. Re:Doesn't make sense on Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a click-bait title.

    Porsche, like a whole bunch of other manufacturers, are working on developing electric cars to meet new regulations w.r.t. emissions in various parts of the world. It is beyond unlikely that anybody would bother making an electric-only car only because Telsa is making one. The ONLY thing that probably any manufacturer looks at with Tesla would be their specs, like battery pack size, how long it works under what conditions, power ratings, weight of vehicle. The normal stuff you would consider when you design any vehicle.

  7. Re: Missing a target with a laser weapon on Science-Fictional Shibboleths (antipope.org) · · Score: 1

    powered by methane. you recharge it after a meal of bean-paste.

  8. Re:Canada's communter train service on Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    A communter is a commuter going to a commune. So, yes, they do have something for that specific subset of all commuters.

  9. Re: It's time... on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    So, are you saying that Donald Trump is essentially Hitler v2.0?

  10. No warning in alberta. License and vehicle are gone for 3 days the first time, then it goes up after that. And appealing to the court is pointless because the law was written so that your license is suspended until the appeal is over, which is 6-12 months later...so it's ripe for abuse, as the cop gets to be prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.

  11. Re:Possible use on Airbus Patent Shows Modular, Removable Aircraft Cabins (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ...only to quickly submerge in the frigid ocean waters...

    Hey, is that a shark fin?

  12. Yeah, here in Alberta, Canada, the level is down to .05 and you can get your license suspended for 3 days and your vehicle impounded just if the cop feels like it, no evidence needed. And your insurance gets notified of it as well, so your rates go up.

  13. Re:Tax cheats should be drawn and quartered!! on IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Like speeding tickets. Some countries make the fine based on a percentage of your income...

  14. Re:Tax cheats should be drawn and quartered!! on IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Evidently, there isn't any actual law and/or precedent indicating how to use Stingray's. It is a POLICY decision. This week, we happen to choose to get warrants to use it. Next week, who knows. There might be an emergency situation.

    But even if it were, hypothetically, "illegal", the only entity that can do anything about it is Congress, and they won't.

  15. Re: Troubling? on Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The constitution really only applies to things that existed when the document was written. Things invented since then, particularly the internet and wireless communication aren't covered by it.

    The President and the NSA told me so. They have a secret legal opinion of an interning lawyer that says so. And they only had to get 12 of them written before getting the one they wanted.

  16. Re:No shit. This is why we all have our "lucky" D2 on Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis (markfickett.com) · · Score: 1

    no, it's super-fast, because you know the result before even rolling... It's either 0 or 100 every time.

  17. Re:The TSA does this every day on DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Bankers are big on BSDMbsdm

  18. Re:But on Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator (space.com) · · Score: 0

    yes. just keep wrapping it around her neck, tighter and tighter...

  19. and of course, part-time and/or contract staff, such as janitors, kitchen helpers, etc, can suck the Zuck as well.

  20. Re:2 planets on 2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways · · Score: 2

    Only if you don't spring for the two-person space suit.

  21. It just seems bad because of the news cycle. on How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The news started with
    "these are the 5 worst things that happened in our city"
    then it became
    "these are the 5 worst things that happened in our state"
    then
    "these are the 5 worst things that happened in our country"
    and now it's
    "these are the 5 worst things that happened on the planet"

    And every day, somewhere, something really bad happened.

    And people have trouble determining how likely that event is going to happen to them anytime soon [normally, a lottery ticket is more likely to hit].

  22. Re: Bullshit.... on NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "..court order...to enable monitoring of call records of specific people or groups for up to six months"

    I would think that every single telephone company in the US has received a court order today, enabling the monitoring of call records for every single customer/phone that the company services.

  23. Re:All the Leaves Are Brown! on LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals (rollingstone.com) · · Score: 2

    The gov't puts LSD in the water, just so people will stay in Minnesota.

  24. Re:Recent story on Swedish Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Ban the Pirate Bay (thelocal.se) · · Score: 1

    yes, comcast, for failing to obey the never-ending demands of big media.

  25. Re:Gold into foam you say? on Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 1

    This will make it even more profitable to salt mines before leading "investors" through...