The crow shrieked "Corn! Corn! Corn!" until the researcher, one J. Snow, Wall Cmdr, tossed some corn its way.

Screw credit monitoring: what we need is some CongressSockPuppets with enough nerve to pass restrictions on the credit bureaus. For starters, they could require all negatory information to be redacted upon receipt of a notarized sworn statement from the account holder (until the credit bureau can provide proof to the contrary, said proof not being based on random letters from banks or collection agencies, etc). The current situation, which is essentially "prove a negative," is worthy of the Courtroom of the King&Queen of Hearts.

After that, there are plenty of smaller things to fix. One example: I lost a few points because my monthly spending on one credit card was over 75% of my limit *on that card* . Never mind I always pay on time and in full, or that I happen to have another card with 5 times the credit limit. The lack of logic in the ratings algorithms is appalling.

Did you beat the horse with a wood, steel, or Cesium club? And does a horse carcass throw sparks?

"Hey, we were going to *use* that horse head!" -- The Godfather.

They gonna call it the "uber-cloud" ?

Or maybe the "mother of all clouds" ?

Anyway, once Cisco's got it up & running, just imagine a Beowulf cluster of them. Or don't.

I believe Scotty would like a word or two with you. Are you the same fellow who called his ship a garbage scow?

Here's hoping I recover some nerdcred after yesterday's Sherlock/Mycroft disaster:

"We Analyze Nothing."

Plastic surgery FTW, eh?

Ok, in seriousness, I could see this as a great tool for anthropologists, but so far as crime-solving goes, it's just about guaranteed to have a false- positive rate about 100x the true positive rate. OTOH, that works for the TSA...

mea culpa.

I hearby turn in 2^N nerd cards.

Turn in your nerd card, as you obviously don't understand that Sherlock can easily launch moon boulders into ballistic trajectories whose CEP is sufficiently small to wreak havoc on Earth cities.

RU serious? Have you not seen the electric car flying over buildings, or the (Hyundai?) sedan flying up a ramp, landing on an elevated commuter train, then jumping into the parking lot?

From a mathematical perspective, "solving" the cube means generating the command sequence. Physicallly manipulating the cube is unrelated. So what's the big deal here. Is it:

a) an algorithm which comes up with a solution of 22 moves every time?
b) an algorithm which does (a) in much less elapsed time than previous algorithms (or CPUs)?
c) Some cool shiny robotic manipulators which can twist a (well greased, well-aligned) Rubik's cube faster than previous manipulators?

Here come the mosquitos with frikking lasers strapped to their heads!

Or,
Can we adapt this to identify hot female humans? (and not zap them)

Or,
ahhh,, nevvamind

Well, yeah, if you define "this time of year" as 1 January through 31 December.

Snark-snipe all you want, but think how much easier things might have been if we did in fact annex Iraq. Big local buffer for Israel (which seems to be ultrahigh priority in DC), all the middle-Eastern military bases we want, a major OPEC player becomes part of the USA,... . And all we'd have to worry about is some minor (hah) backlash from a few other countries in the region. Heck, Putin might never have noticed Crimea if he were concentrating on the new US state of Texiraqas.

Merci.