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  1. Bing it on! on Chinese State Media Declares iPhone a Threat To National Security · · Score: 1

    because iMaps had citizens crashing into military buildings.

  2. Animals on Mars (One) Needs Payloads · · Score: 1

    Let's send up chimps like we used to.

  3. Re:Spinning your wheels, and your brochure on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    Tsk tsk, Hipsters ;-)

  4. Inliers! I'm shocked! on What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The results, surprisingly, are mixed

    Why is that surprising?

  5. Re:Unsafe at any speed (above 100 MPH)... on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    Uh, I don't see a lot of halfies in your link. A front engine block may be preventing an outright split, while in a Tesla the "engines" are more distributed. Whether this means gas cars are "safer" or not in practice is another matter.

    Maybe the distributed nature of Tesla's engines means that side impacts are safer at the expense of front impacts.

  6. Re:Thrown from the vehicle on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    Two half-people dying equals one whole person dying.

    except on Tuesday during Fizbin games.

  7. Spinning your wheels, and your brochure on The First Person Ever To Die In a Tesla Is a Guy Who Stole One · · Score: 1

    Elon Musk can no longer say that no one's ever died in a Tesla automobile crash [because a thief died stealing one].

    Don't underestimate the adaptability of a good marketer:

    "No owner has ever died in a Tesla crash"

  8. Windows on Child Thought To Be Cured of HIV Relapses, Tests Positive Again · · Score: 1

    That sounds more like Microsoft Windows

  9. A very novel novel on Hints of Life's Start Found In a Giant Virus · · Score: 1

    "Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie were used to finding strange viruses..."

    Is this the modern version of, "It was a dark and stormy night..." ?

  10. Re:Chen? Sounds Chinese on Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted · · Score: 2

    He is from Taiwan, not China.

    You sure about that? Maybe he lied on that also. Hell, maybe he's not even Asian, or a "he".

  11. No, Microsoft's MIDI renderer is complete shit. Or did you mean on Linux? True, one can install replacements.

  12. 30,000 years? on Hints of Life's Start Found In a Giant Virus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The sample being 30,000 years old doesn't seem significant because it's quite recent relative to the history of life, and even primates. The same kind of virus or a close relative is probably still around and the sample age probably has nothing to do with its size, but rather a happenstance of observation in that we tend to study old things harder than we do current things, and thus notice more.

  13. Re:Yet another proof creation doesn't work! on Hints of Life's Start Found In a Giant Virus · · Score: 1

    God likes 'em big

  14. We need cannon fodder on Today In Year-based Computer Errors: Draft Notices Sent To Men Born In the 1800s · · Score: 1

    If dead people can vote, they can go to war also.

  15. Re:Sue me! on A Brief History of Patenting the Wheel: What Goes Around Comes Around · · Score: 1

    ...underwater in a thunderstorm while blindfolded.

  16. Re:"Very Long Time?" on Study: Why the Moon's Far Side Looks So Different · · Score: 1

    I think "YEC" is quite fitting.

    Or perhaps:

    CRAC - Creationists Rationalizing Age Creatively

  17. Re:"Very Long Time?" on Study: Why the Moon's Far Side Looks So Different · · Score: 1

    Luna 3 was an amazing mission for the time. Give the Soviets credit where credit is due.

  18. Re:Already been done on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 1

    Your Freudian slip suggests you need a vacation.

  19. Music Hobby on The Lovelace Test Is Better Than the Turing Test At Detecting AI · · Score: 1

    I've written music generators that produce "pleasant" music from scratch (by following time-tested harmonic, chord, and rhythm patterns and ratio's). The music may pass the Lovelace test, but will probably never win any awards.

    The machine's designers must not be able to explain how their original code led to this new program.

    So if we finally figure out how the human brain works, it will fail the Lovelace test just because we know how it works? A silly rule.

  20. Reminds me of an old joke: on The Future of Wearables: Standalone, Unobtrusive, and Everywhere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Jerry Sanders (Heads of MicroSoft, Intel, and AMD, Advanced Micro Devices) were in a high-powered business meeting. During the serious, tense discussion, a beeping noise suddenly is emitted from where Jerry is sitting. Jerry says, "Oh, that's my beeper. Gentlemen, excuse me, I need to take this call." Jerry lifts his wristwatch to his ear and begins talking into the end of his tie. After completing this call, he notices the others are staring at him. Jerry explains, "Oh, this is my new personal communication system. I have an earpiece built into my watch and a microphone sewn into the end of my tie. That way I can take a call anywhere."

    The others nod, and the meeting continues.

    Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Andy starts beeping. He states, "Excuse me gentlemen, this must be an important call." Andy taps his earlobe and begins talking into thin air. When he completes his call, he notices the others staring at him and explains, "I also have a personal communication system. My earpiece is actually implanted in my earlobe, and the microphone is actually embedded in this fake tooth."

    The others nod, and the meeting continues.

    Five minutes later, the discussion is again interrupted when Bill emits a thunderous fart. He looks up at the others staring at him and says, "Somebody quickly get me a piece of paper... I'm receiving a fax!"

  21. Re:Cosmic Baking on Study: Why the Moon's Far Side Looks So Different · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I like my buns crispy on top.

    uh, don't read too much into that.

  22. I invented the "One Click" wheel.

  23. Bright future on Study: Why the Moon's Far Side Looks So Different · · Score: 1

    Earth used to be a cute little sun.

  24. Re:Is Silicon Valley taking advantage of the naive on US Tech Firms Recruiting High Schoolers (And Younger) · · Score: 1

    But you are thinking logically, not like a PHB.

  25. Same thing, different name on The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane To Nowhere · · Score: 1

    Military = Republican Welfare