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  1. It's a Trap! on Microsoft Brings SQL Server To Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    just ask the devs for Fable for Linux

  2. Re:Fable 2 PC on Sweeping Changes At Microsoft Studios Kill Lionhead Studios and Fable (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Have to agree. If they had ported the Fable 2 PC port, or made a Fable Linux port, they might have had a chance.

    I'd say half of my game purchases this century have been Lionhead games.

  3. Re:Thank god we're all safe now on Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Users To Set Other Users' Passwords · · Score: 1

    Almost 90% of people do not use that passcode.

    What I don't understand is why so few people use 8068. It's a perfectly good passcode, but it's the least chosen one.

    I always use 8077. Better chipset.

  4. Thank god we're all safe now on Facebook Fixes Bug That Allowed Users To Set Other Users' Passwords · · Score: 1

    And we can go back to using "1234" as our password.

    Nobody will ever guess that.

  5. Technically we already do this in the US on China Tries Its Hand At Pre-Crime (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's in all the Fed newsletters.

    The fact that we haven't told you about doesn't mean we don't use it, just that we don't tell you you're sheep.

  6. It's shift code, not nonsense code on DNA 'Knockouts' Reveal Genes Humans Don't Need (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    God, you boomers are so out of it. miRNA, circRNA, sRNA, mRNA all show that our genome uses environmental triggers to shift express different proteins to adapt to different environmental conditions. You've even got tertiary metabolic pathways that express when you suppress the first two pathways with medications.

    Look, it's not noise DNA. It's there for a reason. You just aren't in the environmental conditions needed to cause it to express itself.

  7. Remote Telepresence in Remote Communities on Robots May Soon Put Surgery Into the Hands of Non-Surgeons (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    There are small communities of less than 1000 people once you get north of the US border. It's fairly difficult for them to get doctors. Some of them might be lucky to get skilled Nurse Practitioners.

    For places like these, along power lines where you can deliver Gigabit internet, having a robot surgeon like this might be a really good idea if the nearest doctor is two hours away if the road was open but it just snowed 3 meters and there are at least five avalanches along that road that won't be cleared for 5-7 days.

    Provided the buried power line is functioning or the satellite is functioning.

    In places like this, robots are a heck of a lot better than dying.

    Places like this exist in the US too. And places like Scotland and Norway.

  8. Re:Negotiation on Buffer Sees Clear Benefits To Transparent Employee Salary Policy · · Score: 1

    What would you do without my keen insight into topical issues? You would be left with StartsWithaBang spam and people who post about HOST files.

    I'll settle for the Internet that existed when we created it and it was just for military and research universities.

    Ah for the days before USE*NET spam ...

  9. Re:Negotiation on Buffer Sees Clear Benefits To Transparent Employee Salary Policy · · Score: 1

    We would all be happy with this decision.

  10. Re:Is it truly renewable on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Call me back when the scientist come up with a way to harness the power of magical ponies and rainbows. Then we will have true renewable energy.

    We did. There's a giant fusion reactor in the sky. Solar and wind are how you harness the output.

    Unless you're wasteful and want to use the stored solar energy, but that has lots of pollutants in the conversion process from oil or coal.

  11. Re:Great Scott! on Renewable Energy Shows Strong Gain In U.S. (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    We are building 1.44 Gigawatts of solar just on this campus.

    Fission is for last century. Adapt.

  12. May be? on Facebook Hit By German Antitrust Probe Over User Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    More like is.

    Data privacy is the law.

    By the way, just because I'm American doesn't mean I don't have rights from another country, like Canada with strong privacy in the Constitution or any EU country.

    Enforceable by Treaty. Which the US didn't have to sign.

    But did.

  13. Why is this here? on Israeli Troops Who Relied On Waze Blundered Into Deadly Palestinian Firefight (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sod it all, I want tech or geek news.

  14. Re:Can you smell the lawsuits? on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I've served on juries.

    I stand by my statement.

  15. Pretty sure this was in Perry Rhodan 1960s on Sony Patents Power Glove-Like Motion Controller For PlayStation VR (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure this was first described in the Perry Rhodan space novels in the 1960s.

    Which means it's a German invention.

  16. Re:Maybe not about North Korea on South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows the Lunar Festival is a Chinese holiday!

    Even the monkey in the moon admits that!

  17. Can you smell the lawsuits? on Google Self-Driving Car Might Have Caused First Crash In Autonomous Mode (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 0

    I know I can.

    No jury would find against the human and in favor of the robot.

  18. Count all the lawsuits over robots killing kids on Autonomous Cars Could Be Worse For Carbon Emissions · · Score: 1

    I smell massive lawsuits.

    Parents with dead kids never give up when robots kill their kids.

    Ever.

    One of the interesting thing in terms of carbon emissions is that higher MPG cars have not reduced miles driven, but increased them.

  19. Re:Party Elites trying to shut down insurgents on Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, the success of both the Trump and Sanders campaign are ample evidence that people are getting pretty fed up with this kind of bullshit. People don't like being TOLD who to vote for! This was the same phenomena that got me elected Student Government president in college; the corrupt dorm manager told everybody working for him and everybody living in the dorms to vote for his hand-picked candidate -- so they all voted for me instead!

    Surprisingly, I was elected to SFU Student Council on the same kind of feeling. There were all these people running, and I made fun of how serious these PoliSci people were running to fill a general or Minor position on council.

    Elites create the conditions that remove them, without realizing it.

  20. Party Elites trying to shut down insurgents on Did Twitter Exec Censor #WhichHillary In Advance of Sunday Fundraiser, Key Primary? (dailykos.com) · · Score: 1

    In both GOP (like the fake attack on Trump by Cruz/Rubio) and the Democratic Party (by Clinton surrogates).

    It won't work.

    It is/was intentional.

    America hates the Beltway Elites and their non-functional Congress.

  21. Oh please on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    It's fairly simple to deal with this, just handle it the way you handle any insurgency.

    I find you non-mil people amusing sometimes, you don't get how everyone hates the Elitists.

  22. Re:How about no? on Drones Under 2kg May Be Set Free Under Forthcoming FAA Rules (suasnews.com) · · Score: 1

    How much did the the pressure cooker bombs used in the Boston marathon attack weigh? Finding, capturing and prosecuting the perpetrators of that attack was bad enough. Let's not give any potential copycats the benefit of remote attack capabilities.

    Not sure. You can ask my first cousin. They took one of the pressure cooker fragments out of her leg that they used to prove who did it.

  23. We like big drones and we can't deny
    those other fellows might get by
    with an itty bitty drone with no heft or strength ....

  24. How long were the Google exec jail terms again? on France Seeking $1.76 Billion In Back Taxes From Google (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    (waits)

    Fines won't help you
    Praying won't do you no good
    Fines won't stop them
    Paying won't avoid further theft
    When the Google steals, you must jail them now

    Oh oh woah

    Come back when you're serious.

  25. Re:Understated nuclear fission capacity on Global Wind Power Capacity Tops Nuclear Energy For First Time (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you understand what happens during quakes above factor 7, storm surges of 250 meters, or tsunamis like the ones that scoured giant islands on the Pacific Coast.

    I'm not saying they're not "safer".

    I'm saying it doesn't matter, because all the systems will be impacted simultaneously.

    And that will be happening more and more in shorter and shorter periods for the rest of this century.

    You can make them as safe as you want them, but that won't matter.