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  1. Dear space organization in India, There is a new target for you. Please fire at will. A space billboard already is space junk.

  2. You are aware that the futurists grew into the Italian fascists?

  3. Re:Patent is not "work" on Amazon Is Working On Hot Air Balloon Drone That Approaches Homes Silently (slashgear.com) · · Score: 2

    It might be news because the blimp drones have been out of stock on ThinkGeek for about a decade now. This means that the prior art is a bit old. This patent should never have been granted.

  4. Re:Socialism is Easy on Over Half of Norway Car Sales Are Now Electric (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Socialism is Easy when you are an oil-rich country with a low population.

    Surely you are talking about the USA?

  5. Is this the next release of the standard "IP over Avian Carrier"?

  6. "Spiritually, I want it to make us better, faster, cheaper, more transparent, more, you know, none of those things."

    There, fixed that for you.

    Dear Cathy,

    You can abolish the whole concept of usury today. As we speak. You know, charge a fee for actual work, like all real economic activity out there. That alone would instantly achieve all the goals you lied about. Oh, and if you want to be transparent, stop calling it "that what is in between" in latin.

  7. Or maybe something absurd as, say, open-source drivers?

    Well, if you call it a MATEbook, I expect it to run Linux with the MATE desktop environment.

  8. Re:Goodbye suckerberg! on Europe Passes Controversial Online Copyright Reforms (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    Facebook is lucky, as it is not a European company. It can just laugh and walk away. Companies in Europe must cause a blackout themselves or be blacked out.

  9. Re:How hackable? on 750,000 Medtronic Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacking (startribune.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably. Even without getting the device out of a person first.

  10. So? Is Huawei a black pot or a black kettle?

  11. Syndrome on Facebook is Down · · Score: 1

    Facebook is Down

    If you take that as a definition, I see a lot of people who suffer from a facebook syndrome.

  12. USB 4 will once again ... on USB 4 Will Support Thunderbolt and Double the Speed of USB 3.2 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And USB 4 will once again be obsolete by tomorrow, when TSB 27 will be announced. TSB is not a typo, but Temporary Serial Bus fits the name so much better.

  13. Re:Wait a minute.. on Probe From NASA's InSight Lander Burrows Into the Soil of Mars (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Musk? We need the Thunderbirds! They have a way better Mole. Jokes aside, weight is worse than a swearword in space travel. The hammer is probably as light as possible, or weighted with local rocks, because otherwise it would not have reached the red planet at all. So yeah, you need more blows with a light hammer.

  14. Now I can shout out to the world in silence.

  15. ..., getting the green light on Nanotechnology Makes It Possible For Mice To See In Infrared (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Hot things would look green, cold things would look... less green.

    Could that also mean that some green things no longer stand out, so you would become a bit colour blind?

  16. it's already a given that e-mail is not an encrypted protocol

    Not in its original design. But I think most e-mail servers use TLS or SSL nowadays for their connections.

  17. ... , but called the conversations "punctual and limited."

    In other words: "No".

  18. Kitchen table on Israel Launches Spacecraft To the Moon (npr.org) · · Score: 5, Funny

    it's about the size of a kitchen table.

    It that a metric or an imperial kitchen table?

  19. If you pay them for a sustainable product, yes. If you pay them for the cheapest product imaginable, no. The Chinese can make great stuff, but like everyone else you have to pay them for it.

  20. Real terminators. on The Weird Rise of Cyber Funerals · · Score: 1

    "You have just been erased"

  21. Re:"Flat Earth conventions have begun popping up a on YouTube To Blame For Rise in Flat Earth Believers, Says Study (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    All over the disc, that is. I wonder if their compasses have directions named H (Hubwards), T (Turnwise), R (Rimwards) and W (widdershins) as well.

  22. Features that make developers smile on Researchers Use Intel SGX To Put Malware Beyond the Reach of Antivirus Software (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I clearly recall Internet Explorer being announced with "Features that make developers smile". I think this was IE6 And yes, it made all hackers laugh out loud. It made developers cry off course about the new load of attack vectors. "SGX has been promoted as a solution to a range of security concerns when a developer wants to protect code, data, or both, from prying eyes." It does not take more than two seconds to realize that this "feature" is far more beneficial to malware than to user-approved software. Intel is the new Microsoft. IE6 seems to have become a feature of the processor.

  23. Re:More than cyber-safety issues on Xiaomi's Popular Electric Scooter M365 Can Be Hacked To Speed Up or Stop (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you checked the speedometer, you can lock it by parking into a tree.

  24. Well, suppose every passenger on a certain route does this. This means that they would have to fly with an empty aircraft. The aircraft still has to fly, because of the planning. Once the news gets out that they are flying with empty aircraft, this would be a huge drawback on their imago with respect to sustainability. Mind you, that imago is not that positive to begin with. Off course the real problem is their pricing, so they are to blame for needless pollution. They do not want that to come out.

  25. Re:what a load of bull on Tinder-Style App For Cows Tries To Help the Meat Market (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    what a load of bull

    That is the whole idea