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  1. Re:Why not just fix it right on Google Chrome To Disallow Backspace As a 'Back' Button (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A window to ask if you really want to leave the page... nope, can't see any websites exploiting that.

  2. Re:Good on Pfizer Blocks The Use Of Its Drugs In Executions · · Score: 2

    Isn't a patient someone who can be healed/rehabilitated?
    If they're up for execution, hasn't a decision been made about whether this is feasible?

  3. Wait a minute... slow down... on Connecting Everyone To Internet 'Would Add $6.7 Trillion To Global Economy' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    There are people who aren't connected to the internet yet!?
    Are all the ports full?

  4. Re:Go MathCounts! on Seattle Seventh Grader Wins National Math Bee (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up!

  5. I'm waiting until there's so much oil being produced that they pay me to accept a barrel or two.

  6. Machine learning or machine hacking? on Uber Plans To Kill Surge Pricing With Machine Learning (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why not just follow people to determine where they are by logging phone data?

  7. You Can't Skip on YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But you can hit mute and look out the window for ten seconds to do some thinking.

  8. Did he remember... on Scientist Shrinks Arduino To Size Of An AA Battery (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Did he remember to give it a retarded connector configuration to make it incompatible with Veroboard and anything regular engineers would design?

  9. Coming soon: The smart kitchen table.

  10. Re:Having worked for NASA during 8 COTS years on How George W. Bush and NASA Saved SpaceX From Financial Ruin (blastingnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many COTS are used in a rocket that is used for a COTS mission to transport COTS to the ISS?
    Hmmm. Really makes you think.

  11. Oh great. So now we're going to need even more guns.

  12. By "low accessibility", do they mean that normally you don't touch someone's butt, or that the robot was in a position that made it harder to touch it's but?
    They should repeat the test with the robot standing.

  13. Or are they saying it WILL have ads? I've never seen any.

  14. Thrilling Viewing on DARPA's Latest Grand Challenge Takes On The Radio Spectrum (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't wait to watch this competition unfold live on YouTube!

  15. Now I can print all kinds of low-res plastic crap on a whim at the beach and send it straight into the ocean where it was headed anyway.

  16. Backdoor on US Army Developing Encrypted Radar Waveform (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI have already asked for a back door.

  17. 16yo? on Blizzard Issues Update For 16-Year-Old Diablo II · · Score: 1

    Wow... I really feel old.

  18. Re:Motion sickness. Motion sickness everywhere. on Valve Announces New Portal Content For Virtual Reality (roadtovr.com) · · Score: 1

    Relax. The VR system will be sold with a vomit bag as standard issue.

  19. Re:gotta get the encrypted data first on MIT's New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today's Encryption Obsolete (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly what the summary says: "you probably don't want to publicly store your secrets".

  20. Turing on your phone is consent.... Who thought up that silly idea?
    Everyone knows the consent is given by choosing to live in a "safe" country.

  21. This thing is rubbish. on DARPA Moves Ahead With Radical Vertical Take-Off Aircraft (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It was shaking on takeoff in the video. Whoever designed this thing needs to have their head checked.

  22. Nautical Drone Network on A New Algorithm Could Protect Ships From 'Rogue Waves' (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Drone measures "rogue wave" -> Generates radio wave -> warns ship.

  23. The one positive is that Australia's not diverting attention from a gun problem to an encryption problem.

  24. Re:Confused on Google Cleans Up Search Results By Ditching Sidebar Ads (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. I've never noticed the ads.
    Or am I not meant to tell the advertisers that?

  25. Explanations! on Study: Mice Gain Weight In Cold Temperatures Due To Gut Changes (economist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This explains why I gain weight when pouring beer after cold beer into my gut.