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  1. Re:Better yet.... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If the news used "Christian terrorists" to refer the general act of Christian extremists attacking abortion clinics, do you have any problems with such usage?

  2. Name change? on Tech Jobs Are Replacing Tech Jobs in Silicon Valley · · Score: 2

    They are going to have to change their name from "silicon" to something code-ish.

    How about Recursion Valley?

  3. Re:Better yet.... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Better yet.... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Quantity has nothing to do with a vocabulary question.

  5. Re:Better yet.... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    doesn't have the balls to say "Islamic terrorism"

    Only if we can call KKK and abortion clinic bombers "Christian terrorists".

    If you are going to be rude, be equal opportunity rude.

  6. Re:Better yet.... on Lasers Could Hide Us From Evil Aliens (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Darth Trump

  7. Re:The Real Question on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Does it run Linux?

    Most, yes, except the pussy runs Windows: that makes it more like an actual wife.

  8. Re: Is it, uh.... on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Anomalocaris Nataliea Portmus

  9. Re:Androgenous nomenclature on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    [named Mark 1] Isn't Mark a male name?

    Maybe that's what "she" did to his back

  10. Re:from scratch [Kit?] on Man Builds 'Scarlett Johansson' Robot From Scratch (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Are they customizable? I'll order 3 of these.

  11. Use analog technology instead on Futuristic Suit Lets You Feel What It's Like To Be An Old Man · · Score: 1

    Instead of expensive tech-suits, just let somebody beat the shit out of you. The next morning you will feel 100.

  12. What else has been dropped? on CIA Left Inert Explosives On School Bus After Exercise (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hey Bobby, look what I found under the seat! It says, 'Area fifty one time portal module 7'. And a button! I wonder what happens if I pr [ZZZZERRRRRP]..."

  13. Future: iGlasses and/or iBorg on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Some critics think that Apple is boring now, setting itself up to iterate on its successes and lock customers into their services with products that are very good...but not those eye-popping leaps we've seen before.

    We don't really know what they are working on in their labs.

    I suspect the next leap with be some kind of "iGlasses", somewhat similar to Google Glass, but using hand-gestures in the air. The goggles will use 3D (stereoscopic) movement and image detection to understand the gestures.

    Google has already filed related patents (below), but I imagine Apple is experimenting also. They have too much money to ignore the possibility.

    http://phandroid.com/2013/10/1...

    Either that, maybe direct brain control of some kind where an implant is made that allows one to use thought control as an interface. Experiments are gradually leading to less intrusive implants (see below). iBorg?

    These are my best guesses as an amateur futurologist as to what the next logical device/UI leap is. If they play their cards right, Apple's deep pockets will allow them to be early-to-market players in these.

    They better hope they have somebody akin to Steve Jobs so that they get the equivalent of an iPad instead of say the poorly executed Microsoft Tablet of 2000. Steve knew to say "no" to (most) stupid ideas and implementations, even if it meant expensive delays. Microsoft's half-ass ways and addiction to desktop Windows burnt them. Sometimes you gotta eat your own children.

    http://fusion.net/story/266187...

  14. Re:Apple is boring? on At 40, There's Never Been a Tech Company Quite Like Apple (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Boring? Just wait for the Apple car. It will blow you away.

    iPinto?
     

  15. Re:Vertical farms on Berlin Gets First Taste of In-Store Vertical Micro-Farms (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    That makes for a 27 degree angle, by my calcs.

  16. TFA: "It works with 97% accuracy"

    So hackers only have to try about 30 places on average to get in.

  17. Re:Vertical farms on Berlin Gets First Taste of In-Store Vertical Micro-Farms (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    cows are going to have a hard time

    They'll have to de-criminalize cow-tipping

  18. Re:New unit of measure... on Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    But how many Library-of-Congresses in one Denmark?

  19. Maybe we need a new term for it all. "Language kit"?

  20. I can't register, the registration form's been hacked

  21. Re:Well that proves it on Feds Used 1789 Law To Force Apple, Google To Unlock Phones 63 Times (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    which means Android is a leaky pile of [bleep]?

  22. Re:Apple? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Not the Apple

  23. Re:Apple? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    iHave5more

  24. Apple? on Company Creates Gun That Looks Like a Cellphone (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    iShoot

  25. Re:got one of those a few days ago... on US Federal Court: This Year's Scams More Aggressive and Sophisticated Than Years Past (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    but the thick accent...gave it away

    They should hire native-born Americans, perhaps a B1H, who lost their jobs to an H1B.