What big data brings to the table is you can find that "A" is strongly correlated with "B" and have not even an inkling as to why.

If you scan all medical and personal records throughout history and find that everyone that owns a yellow Camero (no matter what year) at some point in their life comes down with liver cancer at 45. Sure you can make up reasons all you want but if there is no other correlation in the data, do you just ignore it? What if it's just 90% of the Camero owners? even 50% or 20% would still be a significant correlation to start asking about car ownership history.

The timing of these techs is really going to put me as the ~2050 headline "ArsonSmith 85ish, Last man to have to die of natural causes" Who am I kidding, If I make it to 2040 It'll be from some marvelous breakthrough.

Especially the DEA, I've been to a few gun shows, not a lot of dopers at them.

ohh yea, the invented copy and paste.

I thought systemd was "A Poop for Penguins"

Innovating the iPhone, perhaps. They did refine and polish a lot of the tech that had recently came out into a coherent product and a slick UI.

Make it bigger!!! 2010 innovation

Make it multiple sizes!! 2012 innovation

Make it tiny!!! 2015 innovation

yea...

The iPhone came out when it did mostly because the tech required for it to come out had recently developed to the point that it could. That is why there were so many "iPhone clones" that came out rapidly afterwards. Not because they were actual clones but because they were in development for years. Apple was just fastest. Of course they did a lot of great things and other products were modified to utilize a lot of the better ideas that Apple had. It wasn't something they invented, they were just first to market with a product many companies already had in development.

Taking a fee is the opposite of pro bono.

Pro bono
denoting work undertaken for the public good without charge, especially legal work for a client with a low income.

travailing near the speed of light would give you a long life and slow speed of thought, relative to the slow moving observers.

that was my first thought as well, until someone pointed out that it's not the cable to the motor that's the problem it's the up and over then attached to the counter balance that is the problem.

Your hatred of success is palpable.

I'm sure you said the same thing about cell phones in the 80s. Internet in the 90s. etc...

Two houses walk into a bar. Bartender says, "Aren't you guys kinda expensive?"

You didn't say it had to be a good joke.

It's a planned program of the government of course it works far more efficiently then an evil private company.

How many crimes do you commit before breakfast?

You might be surprised.