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  1. Re: Rise of the "civil union". on Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It's Really Coming (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Robosexual.

    Finally we'll get to REALLY test that damn Energizer Bunny...

  2. Re:GAYmergate on GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... it's gates all the way down .

    With luck they'll be strong enough to hold the turtles back...

  3. While most people start thinking, "oh what a breath of fresh air, the government getting it right for once," I worry, "have aliens infiltrated our government? Because it seems like they are listening experts and making logical conclusions." ;)

    I must admit my basic assumptions about Congress were rattled a bit...
    but then I remembered that this is a very small subset of the legislative body overall.
    So, somehow they got the right people looking and listening to the actual experts...
    even lotto tickets hit sometimes...
    now back to business as usual.

  4. Re:The new Twitter model ... on Twitter Admits It Recently Overcharged For Ads (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    ... is to have an ISP scoop it up.

    "Exclusive to Verizon!! Twitter with no data cap! Move to our new product called "Vritter" and we will throw in a free Elf on the Shelf*. No, make that two."

    For reference, see AT&T Direct TV.

    * Elf may record and transmit video and audio for customer service enhancement purposes...

  5. Re:GAYmergate on GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    TIRED of all these retards ending anything that they disagree with with a "-gate."

    I agree. We should name this sentiment disagreement-gate or gate-gate so that we can all organize our disagreement with something catchy that the laymen will understand while being easily searchable.

    Oh Please No!!!
    Someone somewhere will decide that this is some sort of conspiracy and then you KNOW what happens...
    Gate-Gate-Gate!

  6. Re:Because on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Articles like this have already made me kill myself.

    Who ya gonna call?
    Ghost Poster!

  7. Re:The seas are NOT going to boil. on Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
  8. Re: Oxy-morons on NIST Asks Public For Help With Quantum-Proof Cryptography (securityledger.com) · · Score: 2

    Especially since Quantum Computing only breaks current public key encryption, not even some current shared key algorithms, and keys are much easier to exchange than giant pads.

    OK. First off, "giant pads" is at best a clumsy phrase, so let's not beat around the bush, just call them MaxiPads.
    Once that is done it should be no problem getting replenishment from a 7-11 "Flirtey drone".

  9. Re:White Hat? on White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts (polygon.com) · · Score: 2

    More like ASS hat.

    So... pasty beige with brown highlights?

  10. Re: First. But also, on Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    I, for one, welcome our silicon nanowire overlords.

    Wouldn't that be "innerlords"?

  11. Re:Well duh. on Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Dang, wikipedia has gone down hill son!

    Shine an anti-laser, get a black hole...

  12. Re:That inspires confidence on Google Releases Tool To Find Common Crypto Bugs (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Depending on where you live and work, you might get some medical marijuana and become depressingly happy...
    The happy part is you, the depressing part is for whoever else has to read your code.
    Until it's bots all the way down, then it's just depressing for everyone.
    At which point you qualify for medical marijuana, and Welcome* Aboard!
    *(bring your own cheetos, dammit!)

  13. Re:Don't forget on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually I would expect someone to make a malware product and call it Free PornBlock Remover, or something based on the name of the actual filter plus the words remover or uninstaller.

  14. Re:Waaah! on IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Tubes or Tunnels? on Next Big Thing From Elon Musk? It Could Be 'Boring' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea of a copter is great until you get to the 2 to 4 hours of maintenance for each flight hour.
    Then there's the glide ratio being roughly the same as a set of car keys... and auto-rotation is not so much gliding as it is praying a clutch will save you.
    I like how Global Security described helicopter pilots: "They know if something bad has not happened it is about to."
    And the best quote was right near the top of the page, "Helicopters don't fly -- they beat the air into submission."
    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/rotary.htm

  16. Re:Kind of consistent, isn't it? on Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I bet you are not using the same thousand year old donkey cart.

    I'm using Donkey Cart 987.4 and it works fine. It may have been a mistake to add nitrous as we gain no extra velocity and the donkey weaves around a bit... but he seems happy so I give him a whiff every once in a while. I have found load balancing to be important, but other than that no complaints.

  17. Re:very large boilers create steam this hot. on Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    typically used for industrial processes, but one local example may be the area hospital laundry facility, where they typically run in the 2500-2700 degree range at the boiler.

    You wouldn't think they would run that close to the melting point of the equipment...
    http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/melting-temperature-metals-d_860.html

  18. Re:Bad choice of title? on Uber Self-Driving Cars Hit the Streets of San Francisco (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems like using "self-driving car" and "hit" in the same sentence might be a bad combination.

    It's a 17 second clip from LA but this seems obligatory:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ZSGGTcE74

  19. Re:Deja vu on Bill Gates Announces A New $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    ...he seems to be sane and rational...

    OK, you can't be like that and hold high office!

  20. Will it also be a 3D printed prototype? Let's make a hype black hole!

    That's only acceptable if the unit is then delivered by a drone...

  21. Re:Here's a start to regain trust on Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter (backchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, but you have to realize that institutional cultures do not change overnight.

    They can change in one direction slowly -- that's the direction towards maximum decay and corruption. Any other change has to be "overnight" or the institutional forces pushing the other way will defeat it.

    The French nobility could not be reached for comment.
    Oh, right...

  22. Re:Should instead slow down to 5 MPH on Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    No no. You just collect them and then count them as a rider.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuW_sfaPk0

  23. It's a small bus
    In Finland, Moose Break Bus! (pretty much everywhere else too). It seems odd that these to animals would be in the same thread... Moose and Squirrel...

  24. I don't think that would hold up in this case. The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a full, voluntarily recall on all versions of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 on September 15, 2016. That makes it against Federal law to sell one of these, even as a private party.

    This patch is to deal with the 15% of units that have not already been made safe via the recall. By declining to release the patch Verizon has pulled themselves into the liability pool, and when it comes to court (and some of it will, you can bet) they may find that, if no other provider followed their course of action, Samsung "could" walk away clean, leaving Verizon holding the bag for any phones they failed to patch.

    Any extended reasonable notice should not be a legal requirement when a possibility of death and a danger to general public safety can be shown to be involved. In fact, delay resulting in serious injury might be addressed in a criminal venue.

    I don't think bricking the phone would remove it from recall eligibility, they still have to make good for defective equipment and the phones are cheap enough to be covered by small claims action if no other satisfaction is available. That would be a nightmare from a corporate point of view, anyone anywhere suing for less than it would cost to defend that suit... then they hire another guy two counties over to defend the same thing... rinse, repeat...

    One good result of all this is a greater awareness of Fire Containment Bags, great things to have when what is burning exceeds the melting point of the vehicle it is transported in... can't wait till they build that into a regular laptop bag.

    Hopefully designers also took note of of what happens when these volatile things get too thin... and compressed. I'm sure the engineers told them but hey, it's got to look great!

  25. Re:It must be nice... on AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Not even close. 88/2.7 rounds to 32.59. So, if Lawyers don't get any of that it's still three months cramming fees per person, and it went on longer than three months you can bet... someone should start a percentage based audit service and get some small claims action going. This was mandated by the FTC so I'd be shocked if it abrogated ones rights to seek further redress.