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Comment replaced by a shell script. a simple shell script (Score 1) 80

by Thud457 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:30PM (#49270621) Attached to: SXSW: Do Androids Dream of Being You?

"Yes, an electronic brain," said Frankie, "a simple one would suffice."
"A simple one!" wailed Arthur.
"Yeah," said Zaphod with a sudden evil grin, "you'd just have to program it to say What? and I don't understand and Where's the tea? Who'd know the difference?"
"What?" cried out Arthur, backing away still farther.

Comment like Lucy with a football (Score 0) 169

by Thud457 on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:14PM (#49269313) Attached to: A Mars One Finalist Speaks Out On the "Dangerously Flawed" Project

How's this any different that Barack Obama telling us we're going to Mars?
Or George W Bush?
Or George H W Bush?

They know you're all a bunch of suckers.

Comment CHEMTRIALS! (Score 2) 31

by Thud457 on Monday March 16, 2015 @01:54PM (#49268735) Attached to: Laser Imaging Drone To Hunt Out Unexploded Bombs In War-Torn Nations

easy peasy--
simply spray herbicide from jets to defoliate the forest then the drones' LIDAR can easily find the military ordinance.
What year is this?!

Comment learn data processing in your spare time! (Score 1) 305

by Thud457 on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:07AM (#49266333) Attached to: Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders

Waitaminute, isn't that how Superman 3 started?!

Comment useless plastic junk (Score 0) 132

by Thud457 on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:12PM (#49250945) Attached to: New Molecular 3D Printer Can Create Billions of Compounds

Unless this 3D printerer can perform forging operations, the molecules aren't going to have the proper crystal grain and will just be weak junk that won't be anywhere near able to transfer the torque even from a puny Toyota engine.

Comment "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman (Score 1) 389

by Thud457 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @03:13PM (#49243829) Attached to: Swatch Co-Inventor Predicts Apple Will Bring an 'Ice Age' To Swiss Watch Market

Watches are a tool of the oppressor.
Do you see dolphins wearing digital watches? NO. Because the concept of Time is unnatural.

Comment Re:Do Not Be Alarmed Brethren (Score 3, Funny) 139

by Thud457 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @01:58PM (#49243133) Attached to: Google's Pricey Pixel Gets USB-C and a Lower Price

Being superstitious is bad luck.

Comment plastic's old and busted, hot metal is new hotness (Score 2) 230

by Thud457 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:01PM (#49241995) Attached to: Man 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission For Toyota Engines

geeze, just print the parts in wax and then do green sand or investment casting of whatever metal is suitable.
You savages are capable of melting metal, aren't you?!

Design of a open source robot to automate the metal casting process is left as an exercise for the student.

Comment false advermatizing (Score 1) 230

by Thud457 on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:50AM (#49241873) Attached to: Man 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission For Toyota Engines

You know, for a site called "Thingiverse", they don't seem to have very many 3D files for printing plastic dongs.

Comment you're all horrible people and should be punished. (Score 0) 163

by Thud457 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @05:04PM (#49236689) Attached to: Man Claiming Half Ownership of Facebook Is Now a Fugitive

Surely someone from that group should be convicted?

D. All of them.

Comment all your imaginary friends are crazy assholes. (Score 1) 163

by Thud457 on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:43AM (#49233373) Attached to: Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power

Better a Yahoo than some damn dirty Houyhnhnm.

Comment the open discussion of ideas: (Score 1) 366

by Thud457 on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:41PM (#49226553) Attached to: State Employees Say Rules Prevent Open "Climate Change" Discussion In Florida

Teach the contreversy
Since my raving loon superstition is just as valid as your scienmatific theoretory.

Comment a PSA from your friendly Republican party: (Score 1) 315

by Thud457 on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @01:04PM (#49226203) Attached to: Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating

Don't forget to vote November 9th!

Comment catch and (maybe) release (Score 2) 66

by Thud457 on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @12:59PM (#49226147) Attached to: Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them

A bigger drone trailing a Kevlar ribbon.
Next.

Comment Re:Great, now we can all act... (Score 1) 145

by Thud457 on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:12PM (#49189227) Attached to: A Critical Look At CSI: Cyber

Hey, Person of Interest is on CBS, that does a good job of dramatizing the AI Eschaton. And the protagonists are working against the corrupt powers that be, to boot.

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