Comment Re:Dice Blamed for Beta (Score 1) 357
Hey, as long as the shot put, hammer throw, and Greco-Roman wrestling require some kind of apparel, I'd be cool with that.
Comment Re:Radio Shack Ad Best So Far (Score 5, Insightful) 347
I want the Radio Shack of the 80s back. Really, anything would be better than the abomination it's been turned into.
Comment Re:Windows 8.1 (Score 3, Insightful) 162
The implementation of which (if you can call it that) is just as useless as not having one at all. MSFT basically said "fuck you" and gave us a useless little button that doesn't do anything new.
Comment Windows 8.1 (Score 0, Troll) 162
Fail. Enough said.
Comment Re:That's easy.... (Score 4, Interesting) 162
Healthcare.gov? That's a junior league fuck-up... I nominate the NSA for getting pwned and punked by one Edward Joseph Snowden who walked out of their secure computer facility with all of Americas dirty laundry on a USB stick.
Too bad it's pretty much amounted to nothing positive thus far. The president hasn't done shit to change anything, congress critters NEVER do shit (except contribute massive amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere), and the general public pretty much doesn't give a shit. Don't get me wrong, Snowden's a hero in my book, but the revelations really haven't had a significant impact on US society as a whole, sad as that may be.
Comment Obligatory (Score 5, Funny) 162
The year of the Linux desktop. But, dammit, 2014 is DEFINITELY going to be THE year!!!
Comment All of the above (Score 0) 162
Let's face it...BB is circling the toilet bowl, the Facebook skin was DOA, and the Healthcare.gov launch was a farce. They're all shit...the only difference is the smell.
Comment Small...very small moon. (Score 4, Informative) 39
The dimensions of this moon is only 13.4 × 11.2 × 9.2 km. Pretty tiny, it seems to me, for a planet the size of Mars.
Comment Re:Wow. What a moon. (Score 1) 39
What a crappy black rock.
Okay, I was wrong...the photo was black and white. It would have been nice if they shot it with a color camera (unless, of course, that's coming later).
Comment Wow. What a moon. (Score 1, Interesting) 39
Not to take anything away from the orbiter team, but damn...that moon looks almost as exciting as a lump of coal. What a crappy black rock.
Comment Depressing job (Score 2, Insightful) 308
I'm not going to comment on whether or not this is a good idea or not. However, I will say that 200 Google employees had to code and test this. That has to be one of the shittiest jobs I can think of. Maybe it could be rewarding in some way, but damn.
Comment Re:Hyperbole, anyone? (Score 1) 233
Seriously, though. A big RC plane can carry enough explosives to cause chaos in a crowd, perhaps even severe injuries.
I don't deny that (it'd have to be a fairly big RC plane, though). It's the "state-threatening" part I take issue with.
Comment Re:Hyperbole, anyone? (Score 5, Funny) 233
Unless the model plane is the size of a 747 or the explosive is anit-matter, how is that a "... state-threatening act of violence." Is Germany in such dire straits that a single model aircraft can topple a whole country?
Exactly what I though when I first read TFS. I mean seriously, a bomb-laden RC plane couldn't take out a random balcony. They'd be better off strapping C-4 to a bunch of swallows (European, of course).
The Glorious Return of the Twinkie 528
A user writes "The geek food staple the Twinkie is coming back. The sturdy main component of the foundation to the geek four food groups of sugar, fat, caffeine and bacon — with rumored shelf life on the order of the time span to cool a white dwarf to room temperature — the Twinkie, along with Ding-Dongs, Ho-Ho's and Cupcakes, will be returning 15 July 2013 to the shelves under new management of Apollo Global Management and C. Dean Metropoulous & Co which paid over 400 mega dollars (U.S.) for the brands."
How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented 252
New submitter frost_knight writes "Travel blogger Turner Barr discovered that his entire brand, image, and web personality has been hijacked by a multi-billion dollar company for use in a marketing campaign. 'The video for their marketing campaign was particularly creepy for me, as even my age and personality didn’t escape the level of detail spent on creating this doppelganger (they used a paid actor of course). ... I’m no longer even the first thing that comes up when you Google my brand name. I’ve turned down work opportunities and put on hold any future travel job plans to deal with lawyers, long distance phone calls, corporate executives and other such nonsense — all along feeling misled and patronized. This situation has been extremely confusing for not only myself, but also for participants in company’s marketing campaign who message me thinking that I am am part of the company.'"
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