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  1. Re:We're saved! on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Guess what fusion reactors produce? Still think we will eventually run out?

  2. Re:Handy for my future airship on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen, baby!

  3. Soon to be a non-issue on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    As soon as we get cost-effect fusion energy, we'll have all the helium we could want. Inhale all you want, we'll make more! Long term, I see no real need to stockpile helium.

  4. Re:That's nothing... on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    That's me! I'm STILL waiting for you to respond to my friend request! (Back in my day, we didn't have any Facebook like you spoiled kids. If we wanted to stalk somebody, we had to actually go over to their house and hide in the bushes!)

  5. Re:GPS can be faked on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    The Secret Service would like to have a word with you...

  6. Re:Facebook is bad on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    LinkedIn is even worse... I'm pretty sure it lies and sends a message to the people you are stalking telling them that you want to "connect" with them...

  7. For some reason, a bunch of strippers are know showing up as "People you may know" on my Facebook account!

    My teenage daughter says nobody uses Facebook anymore anyway, since all their parents are on it now...

  8. Re:How do you know if a guy doesn't have a TV? on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    We don't hate people that don't watch television... we just can't find anything to converse with them about!

  9. Well, yeah... on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm still watching a lot of TV, but I'm streaming most of it over the internet, and 20% of it is porn anyway...

  10. Re:Nine things that iDon't on 'Godless' Apps, Some Found In Google Play, Root 90% Of Android Phones (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Donald Trump is obviously not a real person!

  11. You misspelled "fleshlight"...

  12. (Checks Phone). Running 6.0.1... not seeing what the issue is.

  13. Correlation does not prove causation on Doubts Raised About Cellphone Cancer Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're confusing cause and effect: people with serious brain cancer are more likely to be talking on their phones all the time!

  14. Re:Wow, Osborne Effect much on Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless they build a modular console, which is not so far-fetched, they are now building modular smart phones so that you can upgrade a piece at a time instead of buying a new phone every 2 years.

  15. Re:Wow, Osborne Effect much on Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    More like $1000, which I'm pretty sure I can build a decent game PC for.

  16. Re:Wow, Osborne Effect much on Smaller Xbox One Coming This Year, More Powerful Xbox One In 2017, Says Report (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much, yes. Other than cost reduction, a "smaller" XBox is pointless. The logical next step is 4K video support with a graphics card that can compete with a GTX 1080. And if that comes out in 2017, yes I will buy one. I just bought a used XBox One to tide my daughter over until then. She loves GTA V, which is hilarious to watch, and I would love to see them do a 4K version of GTA next tool. RockStar does games more like movies.

  17. A fully-automated restaurant would require robots capable of cleaning up vomit and other bodily fluids, cleaning the restrooms, restocking toilet paper....

  18. Re:Even at $7.50, they still will save money... on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    But, will the robot arm at the drive-through window still sell me drugs?!?

  19. A McDonald's can run on a single employee. on Former McDonald's USA CEO: $35K Robots Cheaper Than Hiring at $15 Per Hour (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    McDonald's already has touchscreen systems where customers can touch pictures of food and run their own card to order, I suspect these will be quickly rolled out in any jurisdiction that raises the minimum wage to $15/hour. Using pictures also gets around language problems. Fully automated, you would still need someone to load the raw materials into stacks and watch the customers, but far fewer employees would be necessary. Using a touchscreen in the drive-through would be an improvement over talking over the intercom, but multiple stations would probably be necessary since people are slow.

  20. Re:It's a real problem for some parents. on The Average Age For a Child Getting Their First Smartphone Is Now 10.3 Years (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Get the right software, and you can track every place your son goes to with a smartphone, They are unlikely to take the chrome book with them everywhere. As someone who worries when I don't know where my daughter is, I prefer she carry a smartphone. However, she also owns an iPad and a MacBook, because "both" is always a choice too.

  21. It means your sons will never have the experience of losing a bar bet, because they can always google the correct answer first!

  22. There are statues of women with big boobs dating back thousands of years... yes, porn has been around forever! I believe they have found 1000 year old dildos as well.

  23. Welcome to the world of "I have to turn my ringer off at school, and I never remember to turn it back on after school, so I never answer the phone when you call anyway!"

  24. Would you like me to tell you how many phones my kids has lost and broken? If you can afford to give your kid a new phone every few months when they screw up, then more power too you. (Strangely, she's had the $600 iPhone for about 2.5 years now without breaking it. She has lost it and used Find My Phone to track it down more than once, though, Once dropped it out of her purse on the sidewalk, but apparently nobody picked it up.

  25. Damn. You're forcing your kids to download porn OUT ON THE STREETS?!? That's HARSH!