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Comment Re: Just to catch covid when their kids bring it h (Score 1) 81

by katchins on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:05PM (#60355723) Attached to: Google To Keep Employees Home Until Summer 2021 Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Kids are immune...itâ(TM)s true!

I saw it in a Star Trek episode âoeMiriâ
https://g.co/kgs/9w9hPB44

Comment Re:Breakfast has no mystical powers. (Score 1) 300

by katchins on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @01:43PM (#52172531) Attached to: Sorry, There's Nothing Magical About Breakfast

What do you mean? Breakfast DOES have magical powers!

It's also made McDonalds, Burger King, and even Taco Bell a pot of gold.

McDonalds even "double down" on the bet, with an "all day Breakfast" menu.

It's 1:30, and I'm now heading to McDonalds for some pancakes and McMuffin! So Delicious!

Care to join me? :-)

Comment Nuclear Rocket Motor? (Score 1) 174

by katchins on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @01:35PM (#47100807) Attached to: Organic Cat Litter May Have Caused Nuclear Waste Accident

So, if we get too many of these "containers" together, and they burst/explode, will we have a Nuclear Rocket Motor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
(apologies to Space: 1999)

Comment Protoculture (Score 1) 340

by katchins on Saturday April 06, 2013 @12:33PM (#43379217) Attached to: Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape

So...is this the beginning of Protoculture?

Surely the Robotech Masters and the Zentraedi are not far behind!

Comment Good artists copy...great artists steal! (Score 2) 1184

by katchins on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:53PM (#41119573) Attached to: Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion

I guess Samsung should have used this quote for their defense and they would have won...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

As Steve Jobs said himself,

"Good artists copy...Great artists steal".

"We ... have been SHAMELESS at STEALING GREAT IDEAS."

Then just claim Samsung is a great artist like Apple. Case closed!

Comment Once again... (Score 1) 200

by katchins on Saturday January 15, 2011 @02:08AM (#34887392) Attached to: Russia Moves To Universal ID Card

...we will hear "Papers Please!" in Soviet Russia!

I just hope your papers are in order. It's cold in Siberia this time of the year!

Comment As Morpheus said... (Score 1) 237

by katchins on Monday July 05, 2010 @05:51PM (#32803470) Attached to: A Look Back At Bombing the Van Allen Belts

but it was _us_ who scorched the sky...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvKp_CcrI94

Linux Turns 17 Today 285

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:54PM from the hippo-birdies dept.

Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Jobs Rumor Debacle Besmirches Citizen Journalism 286

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @07:35PM from the unverified-is-not-the-same-as-unfiltered dept.

On Friday someone posted a false rumor that Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack on CNN's unverified citizen journalism site, iReport. Apple's stock price went vertical, losing 9% before Apple stepped in and denied the rumor; the stock then recovered most of its loss. The SEC is investigating. PCWorld looks at the hit taken by citizen journalism as a result of this incident. "[The] increasingly blurred line between journalism and rumor is a serious concern for Al Tompkins, the broadcast/online group leader at The Poynter Institute — a specialized school for journalists of all media forms. 'How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your [CNN] label unless you have blazing billboards that say, "None of this has been verified, we've not looked at any of this, we have no idea if this is true"?' he asks."

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