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  1. only "decades" of pain? so it'll stop being painful in under a hundred years? that's good to know.

    It's better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.

  2. At first i thought this meant James Cameron would be making sequels to "Avatar", forever.

  3. "We.. are the cyclists." (Monkey Dust) on Cycling To Work Can Cut Cancer and Heart Disease (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Huh? What? on Diet Sodas May Be Tied To Stroke, Dementia Risk (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Why take any risk? Check out the articles on what causes stroke, heart disease, cancer, any kind of illness, take the advice to heart and never eat or drink or do anything ever again. Just typing this probably gave me RSI.

  5. Re:Your headphones are spying on you. on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I truly pity the NSA operatives assigned to keep track of my doings. "Good lord, how many hours of minecraft can one person play before their skull caves in?"

  6. Your headphones are spying on you. on Bose Headphones Secretly Collected User Data, Lawsuit Reveals (fortune.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Paranoid yet?

  7. Re:Coolness on StarCraft Is Now Free, Nearly 20 Years After Its Release (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm a little less jazzed to find that it installs Bonjour, without telling you, and it doesn't provide a visible uninstall option unless you do some research and learn that there's a command line uninstall. My system's performance dropped sharply and only recovered once i'd managed to pry Bonjour out of it.

  8. Can't think of one I'd call "good", so - on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie? · · Score: 1

    - I'll watch the five extant episodes of "Dynamo", by karmapirates, and pretend it's a short film. And hope the next episode is out soon.

  9. it works for some people. it never worked for me. i always felt like i was in an IRC channel by myself, and i had to keep chatting and getting no reponses until the surly priest supervising us was satisfied.

    isn't there a clinical medical diagnosis for people who talk to imaginary voices, and who hear a response?

  10. Re:Sounds like their parents aren't parents, on Children As Young As 13 Attending 'Smartphone Rehab' As Concerns Grow Over Screen Time (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    consider the difference between addiction and habituation. being addicted to morphine is different to being too lazy to find any other avenues of entertainment or socializing than snapchat or twitter.

  11. Re:Seeing is believing on New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    and something like if there is 300 liters of water present in the air to begin with.

  12. Re:What about if he donated to the wrong ideology? on Drupal Developers Threaten To Quit Drupal Unless Larry Garfield Is Reinstated (drupalconfessions.org) · · Score: 1

    The Two Minutes' Hate is traditionally implemented by the employers, not the employees. The employees have to make do with the Two Minutes' Bitching Around The Coffee Machine.

  13. Re:Stolen Goods on Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    the way to get back at them is simply to not watch the movies or listen to the music.

    And flunk out of school because you got a 0 on homework assignments to view and analyze particular films.

    Or undertake something a little more essential to helping solve the problems we face than "filmic" studies (never understood the distinction between "filmic" and "cinematic").

  14. Re:Go, Poker, Chess, Jeopardy... on AI Wins $290,000 in Chinese Poker Competition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    AlphaGo taught itself Go by playing millions of time with itself.

    ... but it had to be taught that there is such a thing as Go. It didn't discover the game by itself, and some would argue that it still doesn't know the game exists.

  15. It is for this reason that I propose a random small amount of time (say, 30 sec to 2 min?) be added to all trades.

    I'd like to see the code for your random number generator.

    "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John Von Neumann

  16. Re: "visible in small optical telescopes" on Large Near-Earth Astroid Will Fly Past Earth On April 19 (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    I always cringe when I hear people claiming they saw a planet or a meteor.

    (looks down)

    Hey, I saw a planet!

  17. Re:What if you don't dream? on Scientists Identify Parts of Brain Involved In Dreaming (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Supposedly everyone dreams, but after 44+ years I have no recollection of ever dreaming.

    Try a vitamin B supplement after breakfast. I've found it promotes vivid dreams.

  18. Re: Only apps can app apps! on McDonald's Is Now Accepting Snapchats As Job Applications (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 2

    MOOOOOOOOOO! You forgot to say MOOOOOOOOOO!

  19. it's not an in-game economy on Microsoft's Minecraft Set To Launch Its Own Currency (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
    from the article:

    "The new coins can be bought via any supported device that features an app store, such as iOS, Android or Windows. "

    So you can't earn these coins by playing; only if the kid knows their parents' credit card number. When a server has a mod that allows in-game currency, like Towny, older players have a huge advantage and can often automate the means of production of whatever sells - at the expense of newer players, leading to the sorts of imbalance we find in the real world - a few insanely rich people selling things to a mass of poor who can't afford food. Although I never got very rich selling steak to new players, principally because they never had any money. I usually ended up giving them away.

  20. Re:"perfect storm" on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    "Oops! Something went wrong. Please scroll down to find your content." I did. Six pages later, still didn't see it. I searched the site for "perfect storm" and "eocene"; still couldn't find it.

  21. "perfect storm" on We're Creating a Perfect Storm of Unprecedented Global Warming (popsci.com) · · Score: 0

    I would be more prepared to take the article seriously if the link had gone to the actual article and not just to page three of the Australian PopSci website, and if the words "perfect storm" had been replaced with, oh, anything. It smacks of laziness to jam such an over-used term into a headline. "Yeah, 'perfect storm'! That sounds cool."

  22. Re:Is this is still the obnoxious 1st april prank on HTC Introduces Eye-Tracking 'VR Ad Service' (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    "If there's a silver lining here" no there isn't any. Advertiser knowing more about us is not a silver lining it is an invasion of our privacy.

    It's an invasion of privacy if your attention is being tracked by their software.

    And if you're wearing one of their VR helmets.

    And if anybody bothers to create any content for their VR system.

    And if people actually buy it.

    And if they aren't using a cracked version that has the ad-tracking software disabled, or fudged to make their software think you have an unnatural obsession with one particular advertisement.

    That's a lot of ifs.

    For the rest of us in the mundane quotidian real world, it's not so much a privacy issue as something to laugh at.

  23. Got three words for you - on Robots Could Solve the Lionfish Ecological Disaster (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Manshonyagger, Mark Elf.

  24. Re:Seems about right. on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    If he was serious about becoming a martyr, then he should have actually bought 4chan, instead of bragging about how he was going to.

  25. Re:Suck on it, MILLENIAL BeauHD! on Smartphones May Be To Blame For Unprecedented Spike In Pedestrian Deaths, Says Report (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... of having their products reliably MURDER those poor wittew miwweniaw pedestrians merely minding their own business.

    Go home, Elmer Fudd, you are drunk.