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  1. It's about time on Engineers Create a Robot That Can 'Imagine' Itself (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Skynet was supposed to become self-aware August 29th, 1997.

  2. Re:Change curriculum first on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Chip, Chad. Its just so hard to keep track of which knuckle-dragger my daughter is pepper-spraying this week. They grow up so fast ....

  3. Awww! I want someone to leave me a cute kitty in a cardboard box.

  4. Re:School shootings on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets say some kid goes bannanas and pulls another Columbine.

    You hide until the police arrive and clear the room. And if you DO have a cell phone with you, you just pray that your mom doesn't see the news and call you. So the crazy guy with the AR-15 doesn't hear the ring tone coming from the coat closet.

    An big earthquake collapses the school building, and kids are stuck in 'air pockets'

    We have cadaver dogs for this.

  5. Re:Change curriculum first on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You can always bring a book to read if you finish early. It could even cover next years curriculum. But skipping ahead isn't going to happen. Because Chad's parents will be upset that he will be shown up by some smart kids and not get into an ivy league school on a lacrosse scholarship.

    I can see allowing cellphones as fine

    But what about that book? And studying ahead? You are just asking to drag yourself down to Chad's level.

  6. Re:Phones Not Allowed On Premises on Schools Are Locking Students' Phones Away to Help With Concentration (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    A school for Juggalos?

  7. 35 days later

    More like: 15 minutes later

    ISS ... Baikonur. We have a problem.

  8. because of higher payload mass capabilities of US launch vehicles

    Thank you, Elon.

  9. Re:nuclear power ? on Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Makes Progress, But Questions Loom (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That power plant shares nothing more than the name Hanford with the waste site. Its spent fuel handling is separate from the weapons production byproducts.

  10. They then stand a chance to be #2 behind Google.

    TFS says MS is giving up its own engine and switching to Chromium's. Leaving Firefox/Gecko as the only major alternative. It would then be a team of Microsoft/Google against Mozilla (skipping the minor players. I'm sure Microsoft would rather have a two way stand-off once Mozilla is gone (embrace, extend, and exterminate) than get caught in a three-way competition. You never know who's got your back.

  11. At least, someone should tell them to "learn to code."

  12. So, order screws that are used to assemble bathroom stall partitions.

  13. Re:Supply Chain on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't expect to go to a factory with a custom product design and expect to have a huge volume of them manufactured for reasonable cost without any lead time.

    Or, you know, just order from China.

  14. Re:Maybe if they used these kinds of screws on A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won't Be 'Assembled in USA' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    But you could never export them from the USA. Because of ITAR.

    Can't let that screw technology fall into our adversaries hands.

  15. Re: Best minimalist phone on Is the iPhone SE the 'Best Minimalist Phone' Right Now? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Punkt MP02

    For $350???

    How about an LG B470? $50 at the AT&T store.

  16. Oldest rock on Earth's Oldest Known Rock Was Found On the Moon (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Keith Richards?

  17. Re:where/when on Earth's Oldest Known Rock Was Found On the Moon (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2

    Perhaps PP was referring to deformation within the rock itself. Shocked quartz is evidence of meteorite impacts. And it has been found in core samples around Chicxulub.

    Lucky that the Apollo mission found this one lying on the surface.

  18. Who knew that computers could be used to model such complex and beautiful processes when they are not busy mining Bitcoin and playing vidya games.

  19. Re: Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    positive thinking

    I'm allergic to that.

  20. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, Clark County is in the middle of Washington's opium country. Don't trust those vaccinations made by 'the man'. But hand me the needle with some unknown mixture of heroin and Fentanyl.

  21. Re:And the other shoe drops. on Party Is Over For Dirt-Cheap Solar Panels, Says China Executive (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Now is the time to buy a house in California before the solar roof prices drive everyone to live in tents in the city parks.

  22. TFA said that the nature of the defect has not been disclosed by Huber+Suhner. So, no way of knowing if it met the spec.

    It might have failed a version of the "Idiot drives off with the nozzle still in the car while yapping on the cell phone" test.

  23. Re:Uh, hello? on FBI Arrests Three More Men Who Hired 'SWAT' Perpetrator (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    KILL YOURSELF NOW.

    PP needs to commit Sudoku.

  24. So ... on Spotify Data Shows How Music Preferences Change With Latitude · · Score: 1

    ... how does this explain Bjork?