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Comment Re:Gee, just fork it. (Score 4, Funny) 163

by Kenja on Thursday February 13, 2014 @02:11PM (#46239561) Attached to: Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services

You're right, the Apple license to allow me to use iOS and Apple apps on my own phone brand is MUCH more open. At least according to my unicorn lawyer.

Comment I agree with the claimed motives... (Score 1, Troll) 380

by Kenja on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @06:10PM (#46232915) Attached to: Rand Paul Files Suit Against Obama Over NSA's Collection of Metadata

but man is that guy a douche... I think I'll have to be against him on this just due to general principals and because I doubt the sincerity of his motivations based on past nonsense.

Comment Re:Pretty Much. (Score 5, Insightful) 387

by Kenja on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @02:57PM (#46230873) Attached to: Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again

Which is even more baffling, I usually associate free market to republicans. Dems are usually supporters of bigger government.

That's what Republicans claim, but there is very little recent evidence of this.

Comment Science should not be taught as fact. (Score 2) 665

by Kenja on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:30PM (#46220657) Attached to: South Carolina Education Committee Removes Evolution From Standards

It should be taught as science.

Comment Re:Move to Canada! (Score 2) 578

by Kenja on Friday February 07, 2014 @07:24PM (#46191087) Attached to: US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online

Naw, easier to just spoof a CA IP address.

Comment Re:It's incredibly frustrating... (Score 4, Insightful) 535

by Kenja on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @03:33PM (#46153259) Attached to: US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality

It's simple, while I may not be rich now, tomorrow I could be! And then I won't want my hard earned money going to poor people like I was.

Comment You fools! (Score 2, Funny) 224

by Kenja on Monday February 03, 2014 @12:34PM (#46141323) Attached to: First Evidence That Google's Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All

You changed the outcome by measuring it!

Comment No valid distribution method... (Score 1) 39

by Kenja on Friday January 31, 2014 @06:45PM (#46124327) Attached to: Proof-of-Concept Malware Captures Every Tap On Smartphones Or Tablets

The article even says it would be unlikely to pass the various store security checks. So the moral still remains to not install software from an unknown and untrusted source. This is more or less a universal truism regardless of platform.

Comment Weather? (Score 3, Funny) 31

by Kenja on Friday January 31, 2014 @03:58PM (#46122805) Attached to: GPM Satellite To Usher In a New Era of Weather Observation

Living on the west coast, I just assumed we had gotten rid of that stuff.

Comment And for the rest of us? (Score 1) 192

by Kenja on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:10PM (#46113457) Attached to: LibreOffice 4.2 Busts Out GPU Mantle Support and Corporate IT Integration

Unclear if I can get a copy without all this unwanted bloat.

Comment (sigh) we all know what's coming. (Score 4, Insightful) 234

by Kenja on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:14PM (#46103779) Attached to: 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate

Admit it, the first thing we're all going to print is genitalia.

Comment Re:Very funny. (Score 2) 140

by techsoldaten on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @01:39PM (#46101445) Attached to: <em>Journal of Cosmology</em> Contributor Sues NASA To Investigate Mars "Donut"

This reminds me of the time Julia Childs sued Neil Armstrong because he bring back samples of the strain of cheese composing the moon.

Comment Re:Why is it so cheap? (Score 3, Insightful) 155

by Kenja on Monday January 27, 2014 @02:18PM (#46082833) Attached to: $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video)

By comparison, their filament is around three times as expensive as others (more if you just get bulk rolls) at ~$46.67/kg.

Comment Re:Bigness destroys companies (Score 1) 113

by Kenja on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:03PM (#46061755) Attached to: Gmail Bug Sends Thousands of Emails To One Man

Hipster gMail user had an account before it was mainstream.

Comment Re:DOOOOOOOMED (Score 1) 222

by Kenja on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:03PM (#45967343) Attached to: Doomsday Clock Remains at Five Minutes to Midnight

sporangium (sp-rnj-m)
n. pl. sporangia (-j-)
A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case.

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