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  1. Re:No arguments here on Scientists Call For Global Moratorium On Gene Editing of Embryos (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of a project involving a genetically enhanced organism, supplementing it with access to an implantable artificial intelligence, and since it's NIMH, have it start questioning the nature of mental health and sanity, giving up, and creating a networked cyborg intelligence that tries to take over the world.

    Or maybe I'm thinking of the sequel. Either way, I say go for it.

  2. Tech support? Let's start with the FCC on Kamala Harris Introduces Bill To Send Millions To Local Governments For Tech Support (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Can we hobble established Internet providers when they try to shut down municipal Wi-Fi/fiber efforts? $15 million a year just to support those problems would probably make more of a difference than anything else techy that money would be put to.

  3. Always refer back to the classics on Kids Have 'Math Anxiety' Thanks To Parents and Teachers, Report Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Once, I think it was the first day and he picked on me, and I just kind of burst into tears because everybody was staring at me and I didn't know the answer.

    Not quite the same thing but there's no crying in Mathematics!

  4. Ah, youth on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    For adults, pornography is a big driver of technology. For kids, it's about finding all kinds of new ways to communicate with and about your peers.

  5. Re:Brexit no brexit on Tim Berners-Lee Says World Wide Web Must Emerge From 'Adolescence' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What sort of idiot country would put an issue that big, with that big of an (entirely negative) economic impact, up to a public vote that only needs 50%+1?! That's totally insane. A more rational idea would be to do something that extreme if you got over 2/3 of the vote.

    This is exactly the scale of an 'alternative history' concept that I would expect to show up as a comic book limited-series premise. Like Kal-el landing in Nazi Germany, or the South winning the civil war and/or seceding -- not something you'd expect to see in real life.

  6. Re:Fair Value of Antivirus for Andriod on Two-Thirds of Android Antivirus Apps Are Total BS (tomsguide.com) · · Score: 1

    In all fairness, the other third of the antivirus apps also keep dangerous animals at bay.

  7. Re:They are making things worse on New Mexico the Most Coal-Heavy State To Pledge 100 Percent Carbon-Free Energy By 2045 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus it's so done. I'm looking forward to mod my car to start Rollin' Nuclear.

  8. Re:thanks but no on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    All right! It's now a bidding war!

  9. Tight margins, huh? on Vizio Wants Next-Generation Smart TVs To Target Ads To Households (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a cutthroat industry. It's a 6-percent margin industry, right?

    I'll give you 10% extra if you replace that hardware and software with a couple additional DVI and DisplayPort adapters. You could even make it a swap-out-able module.

  10. Simplifying support for competition? on Google Quietly Adds DuckDuckGo as a Search Engine Option for Chrome Users in About 60 Markets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Most notably it's expanded search engine lists to include pro-privacy rivals in more than 60 markets globally.

    How dare they help level the playing field a little! Why do they hate America?

  11. Re:Daylight Saving Time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Um, yeah, you are -- how else are you planning to pay it back once November rolls around?

  12. Re:"Perhaps it is time to take a fresh look at..." on QuadrigaCX Allegedly Traded Against Its Own Customers Without Assets To Back Them (ambcrypto.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I really hope these stories *do* continue. I'd like to find one of these middlemen willing to violate as many financial laws as possible, so general education gets into the news cycle as to why investment regulations exist in the first place.

    In addition, it would be great if it covered how each of these violations is currently playing out nearly identically to the way it did at the time in history when/prompting enactment of these regulations. A few months of this and I think even the get-rich-quickers will understand the point.

  13. Re:About damned time on Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time (thehill.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And he said 'Saving' instead of 'Savings'. I'm suspicious.

  14. Re:Great for roughly zero percent of type 2 cases on 23andMe Plans New Genetic Test on Risk of Getting Diabetes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You probably want to use the waist-to-height ratio instead.

  15. Re:Dependance on vendor service bites users in ass on Less Than a Month To Go Before Google Breaks Hundreds of Thousands of Links All Over the Internet (greenspun.com) · · Score: 1

    I hear they're offering refunds.

  16. Re:Buy online, not in store on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's probably because of what you have to go through to get that $50 in their currency.

  17. Re:7$ vs 300$ sunglasses on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is there a test you can run yourself on a pair you buy to check a cheap pair of sunglasses? Maybe with a full-spectrum light source (or sunlight + IR + UV LEDs) and a few sensors?

  18. Re:Crashless society on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously not. They don't take Discover -- Mastercard and Visa only. But you get a couple egg rolls free from the attached restaurant, because you're such a good customer.

  19. Re: cashless transactions == tax on stupidity on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Foregone conclusion? Sleep walk? The millenials are born into a digital world where a cell phone gives them more reach than anything the previous generation had at their age. This isn't something they need to be convinced to accept -- it's reality from day one.

    By the next generation, anyone who didn't have some digital dirt in their childhood may just be treated as a late bloomer or someone who lost their virginity later in life, not much beyond something of a curiosity.

  20. Re:The cashless society is a mistake on USA Today Tech Columnist: Millennials Will Live To See a Cashless World (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the ones that do have something to hide -- but where the inconvenience of hiding purchases outweighs its benefit.

  21. Yeah, I wouldn't eat it on Genetically Engineered Seafood Coming To a Restaurant Near You (indianapublicmedia.org) · · Score: 1

    That's just asking for trouble. Predicted over 18 years ago, too!

  22. As with all stories, the details are a little more nuanced. She acted on her own agency in good faith, but finally submitted to and received the corporal punishment she was due for her actions.

  23. They'll fix that on the next pass. I hear they're tweaking the retrovirus on the cloning tank and v.2 will be ready to present venture pitches sometime early fall, with improved science experience and slighly bigger eyes.

  24. "company-wide, business-optimization initiative aimed to leverage a more centralized organization to maximize profitability and, through key investments in technology, lay the groundwork for the company's digital transformation to drive revenue growth."

    Can't they start by replacing the MBAs with robots?

  25. "I don't like it here. It's 110 degrees and there's very little oxygen."
    "Shut up and hoot."