Comment slow news day (Score 1) 51
I wrote one in 10 minutes, 10 years ago:
document.write((Math.floor(Math.random()*3656158440062976-1)).toString(36));//36^10 = 3656158440062976
Too easy. This is not a major new feature.
Comment storm trouper armor (Score 1) 44
Conch shells are white. Storm trouper armor is white. I have an idea...
Comment Please stop. (Score 1) 389
Please stop normalizing click bait style headlines.
It's not a homage. It's not cute. It's not funny.
Comment Googleish (Score 1) 578
Google will invent a new language with no synonyms to improve searching. Also, every word will have one form. Past tense and future tense will have adverbs. Plural and possessive will have adjectives.
Comment Licorice time (Score 1) 387
I'm going to buy some licorice and get civilized. The liquorice plant is native to southern Europe and parts of Asia. Is that where ancient art and tools are found?
Comment time for a new public licence (Score 4, Interesting) 197
free to use unless you intend to kill people.
Comment Gods punishment (Score 0) 127
for botching that execution ;->
Comment pump and dump (Score 1) 246
I need to learn the exact algorithms they use to front run stocks, so I can design my pump and dump scheme to trick front runners into running up the stock price. I'll win. They'll lose.
Alpha Centauri Has an Earth-Sized Planet 152
The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have announced that the nearest star system in the sky — Alpha Centauri — has an Earth-sized planet orbiting one of its stars. Alpha Cen is technically a three-star system: a binary composed of two stars very much like the Sun, orbited by a third, a red dwarf, much farther out. Using the Doppler technique (looking for very small changes in the velocities of the stars) astronomers detected a planet orbiting the smaller of the two stars in the binary, Alpha Centauri B. The planet has a mass only 1.13 times that of the Earth, making it one of the smallest yet detected.However, it orbits the star only 6 million kilometers out, so it's far too hot to be habitable. The signal from the planet is extremely weak but solidly detected (PDF), giving astronomers even greater hope of being able to find an Earth-like planet orbiting a star in its habitable zone."
Comment Oh NOOOO (Score 1) 266
no no, I am not a psychopath. I just work with a herd of alpha males and have to speak fluent alpha to interact with them.
Comment prediction (Score 1) 2416
I predict that the insurance companies that now negotiate x% discounts with hospitals and doctors will now demand x% secret kickbacks instead and will quickly make their 85%.
Millions of Jellyfish Invade Nuclear Reactors 280
oxide7 writes "A nuclear reactor in Japan was forced to shut down due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish near the power plant. A similar incident was also reported recently in Israel, when millions of jellyfish clogged the sea-water cooling system of a power plant."
Comment Re:there's more (Score 1) 3
The struck though text would stay readable forever. Readers would understand that the mod down was for the part that was struck out. The poster would understand that first impressions count and that the first mod stands.
Of course this means that everyone would have to learn how to "read" the original post by reading the stuck through parts and skipping the bracket parts.
The part where everyone would have to learn something is the weak part of the plan.
