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  1. Re: Aww hell. on Disney Bans Selfie Sticks · · Score: 1

    Disney is just testing the waters for a rollercoaster/shooting gallery. Your ride picture at the end has your accuracy stats.
    You really only need to be armed for the parking structures and the ball road/disneyland drive intersection.

  2. Re:Off topic on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 1

    I know you guys like to roleplay being a human, but come on. The brave lizards of the infiltration squad wiped out all those monkeys years ago.
    Drop the skinsuit and enjoy the surface world.

  3. Re:How is this news for nerds? on Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A determination of "Water is wet" would be an 8-1 decision by the court with Scalia writing a scathing dissent that forcing the ruling on americans destroys democracy.

  4. Re:Nuclear? on The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy · · Score: 1

    According to my coworker who grew up in phoenix. Asphalt, miles and miles of asphalt.

  5. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 2

    I'm not quite sure, but adding an extra one to two thousand pounds of rotting packaging to your illicit product may impact your possible shipping channels.
    Plus sawing through a neck instead of the much thinner horn would be a wee bit slower.

  6. Re:Love the idea on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They aren't introducing Diet Horn here, they're trying to poison the supply chain.

    The poachers probably aren't big proponents of a verifiable, traceable supply chain. They don't laser etch a serial number in the things after a kill. So you insert these fake horns into the chain and you dis-incentivize the poaching by driving prices down. Plus you get the witchdoctors questioning whether their supplier is selling them real of fake horns, which can lead to trust breakdowns and stop some purchases.
    And hey, the smarter witchdoctors know it's all bullshit they're giving a polish to. So they'll secretly purchase completely legal and probably much cheaper fakes straight from the source and keep giving their victims a show.

  7. Re:The next Jurassic park movie on 3D Printing Might Save the Rhinoceros · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Run! We only have 37 days before the t-rex finishes printing and comes to get us!"

    "We call it the Cartridge Contingency. If the dinosaurs become uncontrollable we just stop replacing the cartridges in the printer and no more dinosaurs. Much faster than the Lysine Contingency of the first island."

  8. Re:CRISPR second generation medicine on Editing DNA For Fame and Fortune · · Score: 2

    Charisma is just one SPECIAL you can raise with this. I'd personally be more interested in Luck.

    I wonder how many caps it'll cost per treatment?

  9. Re:Hmmmm .... on Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless you have a cameraphone. Then stand straight up and film as much as you can because it's gonna make you internet famous!

  10. Re:Happy Thursday from The Golden Girls! on Video Games Can Improve Terror Attack Preparedness, Even If You Don't Play Them · · Score: 2

    I wonder, is this effect as strong with other forms of video media?

    Did watching golden girls as a child heighten AC's awareness of sex crazed octogenarians and lead to his obvious fetish?

  11. Re:$100,000,000 on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    A week of revenue? Hah, that's a week of hidden fee revenue.
    Or atleast it will be starting tomorrow.

  12. Re:I do not consent on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can find it or make it yourself, go ahead and eat it.
    This just means you can't get FDA approval for a recipe if you use trans fats in it. And without FDA approval you cannot sell the resulting food in a store.

  13. Re:Excellent. Now how about High Fructose Corn Syr on FDA Bans Trans Fat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I doubt the Oil Partial Hydrogenators Union has the same pull on capital hill as the Corn Growers Association.

  14. Re:Bandwidth is high on Cuba's Answer To the Internet Fits In Your Pocket and Moves By Bus · · Score: 2

    Roughly 13mbps download speeds with a 4 terabyte limit for $40 a month. With that limit you're hard pressed to hit overages.
    Cuba has better internet via physically shifting bits than the majority of the US.

  15. Re:Poor summary on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 1

    Sheer word space. The two Fallout sentences are barely one quarter the actual space of the summary. Plus the title doesn't even mention it.

  16. Poor summary on Bethesda Unveils New Doom Game, Announces Dishonored 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is the Fallout 4 stuff a minor footnote at the end?
    I'd hazard a guess most of us watching the live stream just tuned in for the Fallout stuff.

  17. Re:Death takes Death on Actor Christopher Lee Has Died at 93 · · Score: 1

    Youtube to the rescue.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Soul Music is what go me interested in Discworld, and Sir Christopher's portrayal of Death was a big part of that.

  18. Re:speaking as a backer... on LightSail Wakes Up After Silent Spell and Tries To Spread Solar Sails · · Score: 2

    Correction, they had the elastic from Bill Nye's loafers.
    It's what gave them the knowledge to get his far. But then the Warehouse agents got a ping about an engineer being haunted by a disembodied voice saying his name with every step he took. Now the elastic sits on a shelf between Don Herbert's chemistry set and Jamie Hyneman's beret.

  19. Re:Does US have any real jurisdiction over FIFA? on Indicted Ex-FIFA Executive Cites Onion Article In Rant Slamming US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.

    But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial.
    If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.

  20. Re:I Mean, on Hacking Your Body Through a Nerve In Your Neck · · Score: 2

    Battery cartridges made by HP's inkjet division.

  21. Re:Ya, it's this simple on Florida Hospital Shows Normal Internet Lag Time Won't Affect Remote Robotic Surgeries · · Score: 1

    It's a form of quantum encryption. Someone snooping will change the bits, causing errors. Once you detect errors you can shift garbage data down the line till they give up.
    The idea came from observing teenagers talking to each other as a parent walks by.

  22. Re:Win some, Lose some on Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Patent Troll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Declaring a patent invalid yourself and trying to do the courts job pretty much guarantees you end up in the "lose some" catagory.

  23. Re:modern gameplay renaissance? on How Cities: Skylines Beat SimCity At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    But adding more people and more money does let them churn out sequels like kleenex. All they had to do was get the bare essentials down to hook the newly opened "Bro" market and they can sell yearly rehashes with record profits.

    EA is the mcdonalds of the gaming industry. Poor quality and no one with any self respect would admit to liking them. But every once in awhile you end up going there to satisfy a craving.

    So yeah, not really a Dark age but more of a Fast Food age.

  24. Re:bye on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Ms. Manners Guide to Civilized Computing?

    "One should always keep a clean and tidy desktop so as not to offend the sensibilities of one's guests. Remember Sir Cupertino's rules for icon placement: editors on the left, utilities on the right, and games tucked away in a neat folder to the right of the desktop center to provide easy access without drawing too much attention. Unless, of course, LAN Party rules have been invoked. At which point the editors must be placed out of view and the games spread out in colorful yet tasteful folders sorted by genre.

    If one finds one's self visiting another's desktop then one should to bring a gift for one's host. A vintage RTS of a good year is thrifty but always welcome.
    Endeavor to avoid cookies or reading materials of the fanfictional variety."

  25. Re:Or they're just proxying their connections on Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably more like 7% reduction in people who pirate. And most of those would be kids who lost their in room PCs when mommy and daddy got the notice.

    People don't all pirate the same amount, so changes in infringer numbers don't equate to an identical change in traffic amounts. The industry knows this and uses both interchangeably depending on whichever supports their case the best.
    Here, as always, there is little to no context so we don't know the actual effect of the notices. We just have to take them on their word.