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  1. Re:Other IM services on Revived Lawsuit Says Twitter DMs Are Like Handing ISIS a Satellite Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Twitter DMs are like two spies standing on a bridge in Prague exchanging packets. For that matter, the same thing happens when Grandma "likes" a picture of your cat.

  2. Re:You Tar Sands, Me Thane on NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    What's next, worms and spice?

    The oil must flow.

  3. What is it called? on Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    My guess is Microsoft Embedded Enterprise Linux for Workgroups 2015 Professional Edition Service Pack 1 Update 2

  4. Re: 15? on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    Windows for Workgroups 3.11 had the same 32 bit disk manager. Along with Win32s it was basically Windows 95 without the new UI.

    Or Win95 is basically WfW3.11 with the TCP/IP stack built in, a hardware manager, and a new UI.

  5. Re:it doesn't matter if it's not warp drive... on No, NASA Did Not Accidentally Invent Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    So it's on the order of solar radiation pressure, but it doesn't fall off with the square of the distance from the sun. Alpha Centauri flyby in a matter of decades.

  6. Re:Oh good. on Canonical Launches Internet-of-Things Version of Ubuntu Core · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Great, now systemd can be the init daemon of things.

  7. Re:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sequels? on Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever" · · Score: 1

    Hell Get JJ. Abrams on board and add a bunch of lens flare.

    I gotta fever, and the only prescription is more lens flare!

    Star Wars 7 Trailer, Lens Flare Edition

  8. Re: Time To Change That Windows Icon on Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark · · Score: 1

    Firefox is absolutely fucked up now. Now it has a UI that's as bad as Chrome's (which is pretty damn bad!), but Firefox's performance and memory usage still suck, whereas Chrome's aren't as bad...

    Ah yes, but Firefox has one great thing going for it, which is that it doesn't come with Flash pre-installed. So I use the chromebox hooked up to my TV to watch the latest Sia video, and I use my lappy with Firefox to surf blogs. Life is good.

  9. Re:Flawed Understanding on Most Planets In the Universe Are Homeless · · Score: 1

    Maybe Dark Energy equals Dark Matter times the speed of light squared. Just sayin'.

  10. Re:Not Planets on Most Planets In the Universe Are Homeless · · Score: 1

    Any body that is sufficiently massive enough to pull itself into a reasonable facimile of a sphere, yet not massive enough to generate energy from fusion, is a planet, whether it orbits a star or not. And there's your missing "dark matter".

  11. Re:So What? on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 1

    Catholicism has taught that the evolution and big bang theory are right in sunday school for ages now..

    Maybe a modified version of those theories. For instance, the modern synthesis of descent with variation has no supernatural guidance, but the Catholic version does. The big bang theory indicates that time began to operate 13.7 billion years ago, the Catholic version insists that the words "cause" and "effect" had meaning prior to that.

  12. Re:Not going to change much on Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right · · Score: 2

    Well, there will be one change at least, a Darwin fish on the Popemobile.

  13. Re:Bull on Microsoft Exec Opens Up About Research Lab Closure, Layoffs · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is making more profit off Android than they are off their own phones.

    Samsung is cool with that since they haven't challenged Microsoft. The bottom line of the cost-benefit analysis says go ahead and pay the Redmond tax, obviously. The offering from Google is free, and their own operating system never got any traction.

  14. Re:The wave of the near future on Microsoft Exec Opens Up About Research Lab Closure, Layoffs · · Score: 2

    They simply allow other companies to take the expense and the risk, then buy them out.

    Or in the case of Doublespace/Drivespace, they let Stac Electronics do all the heavy lifting, then just walk all over their patents.

  15. Re:Bone a Neanderthal on Oldest Human Genome Reveals When Our Ancestors Mixed With Neanderthals · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Someday they'll figure out "Neanderthal" is a completely artificial distinction, like "White Aryan", and the scientific consensus will be that Neanderthals R Us.

  16. Re:Environment Variables on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    Add fonts? You drop the .TTF in the Fonts folder. Done.

  17. Re:If we're lucky... on The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone · · Score: 1

    No worries, you will be able to get Stardock's Control10 for only $5

  18. Re:Finally, some sanity on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    Tell the car you wanna see the Gateway arch, and it takes you to EAST St. Louis just like the Grimwalds...

  19. Re:Wrong distance away on Two Exocomet Families Found Around Baby Star System · · Score: 1

    In five years, Kay, the Beta Pictoris Exocomet family will be totally legit.

  20. Re:Roundabout on First Evidence of Extrasolar Planets Discovered In 1917 · · Score: 0

    Captain Picard, the tanglon particle flux is down to seventy percent! The warp core must be jettisoned in thirty seconds!

  21. Re:The closest? on First Evidence of Extrasolar Planets Discovered In 1917 · · Score: 2

    Van Maanen's star is the closest white dwarf that's all by its lonesome, that's what the article meant.

  22. Re:Creativity vs Common Sense on Isaac Asimov: How Do People Get New Ideas? · · Score: 1

    Temperature/mass ratios are not the issue, the issue is that the structure of any galaxy we look at implies that the mass is not concentrated at the center and falls off with the square of the distance but rolls off along a kind of plateau to the suburbs of the galaxy before it starts to roll off, and dark matter is inferred from this.

  23. Re:WTF, the antarctic gets FO before me? on Fiber Optics In Antarctica Will Monitor Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    Is that the one that's shrinking due to geothermal effects? Perhaps if we ban plastic bags in grocery stores, the magma god will be appeased.

  24. Re:Aero yet on Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10 · · Score: 0

    Naturally Explorer lacked those features in Windows 3.1 since that version used WINFILE.EXE, or File Manager, and you could easily set up to panes, Norton Commander style, then hold Shift and "EXIT" to save the configuration.

  25. Re:WTF, the antarctic gets FO before me? on Fiber Optics In Antarctica Will Monitor Ice Sheet Melting · · Score: 1

    That's great, you don't even know that the extent of the icepack this year is as stated, 7.6 million square miles, something you can find on Google News, but you require a formak data set, in Latex format no doubt.