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At least they were clever enough to reserve the right to pick the final name themselves. That way they get what they want: a few serious names and some media coverage due to the silly names. Not the worst outcome for such a voting.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Mon, 21. Mar 16, 17:11

On the subject of naming...

"Dear Internet,

..."

NEVER ask Teh Interwebz anything.

'Boaty McBoatface' Dominates Poll to Name Polar Research Ship

Post by **CBJ** » Mon, 21. Mar 16, 17:19

You do realise that's the exact same situation my link was about?

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Mon, 21. Mar 16, 17:26

CBJ wrote:You do realise that's the exact same situation my link was about?

Absolutely!

It's karma. It's the Universe trying to warn us about something...

Suddenly, it's as if a billion voices cried out in pain, then were silenced forever when gamer Spiffy McSpiffypants chose to name the planet "Ceti Alpha Anal Wart."

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Thu, 24. Mar 16, 21:05

Bwah ha hahahaha!

After racist tweets, Microsoft muzzles teen chat bot Tay

Sounds like it was a huge success and performed exactly as intended...

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Thu, 24. Mar 16, 23:30

Well, Ultron only spent a couple of minutes on the internet, before he decided to extinguish the human race. Tay managed to "survive" almost a day. In the end, this just proves the real threat to people are people.

Morkonan · Post by **Morkonan** » Sun, 27. Mar 16, 20:21

So, I guess this is going to be "a thing" pretty soon:

Drone Delivers Package to Residential Area for First Time

What happens when a drone doesn't make it all the way and someone's half-a-case order of "Strawberry Flavored Vaginal Wart Creme" ends up in their neighbor's front yard?

kondor_be · Post by **kondor_be** » Tue, 29. Mar 16, 13:33

All your drones are belong to us.

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Tue, 29. Mar 16, 17:11

Most of the arguments against delivery by drones applies to delivery by a vehicle and a person too, while some are only specific to either of both - there are certain technical obstacles only relevant to drones, while the human component is a big potential source of problems for delivery nowadays. In either way you'll have to find solutions.

Morkonan wrote:What happens when a drone doesn't make it all the way and someone's half-a-case order of "Strawberry Flavored Vaginal Wart Creme" ends up in their neighbor's front yard?

Then that neighbor hopefully has the decency to not open the package, but either call the delivery company or bring it to the recipient directly. Also I would expect that there is some kind of monitoring device, which makes sure that drones do reach their target, and if not, does something about it.

clakclak · Post by **clakclak** » Tue, 29. Mar 16, 22:29

Recep Erdogan is a really sensiable thin skinned cry baby.

Here is the satire song all this fuzz is about. English subs need to be turned on, bottom right corner of the video.

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Wed, 30. Mar 16, 22:21

Two amateur astronomers record comet impact on Jupiter
vid#1 and vid#2

Linux command line, Bash, is coming to Windows 10 this summer
Link to The Verge article

Microsoft's Kevin Gallo wrote: The Bash shell is coming to Windows. Yes, the real Bash is coming to Windows.
This is not a VM. This is not cross-compiled tools. This is native.
We've partnered with Canonical to offer this great experience, which you'll be able to download right from the Windows Store.

Edit: Typo

OmegaKnight · Post by **OmegaKnight** » Thu, 31. Mar 16, 15:54

Ronnie Corbett died aged 85
The Two Ronnies: Mastermind sketch

also

Maker of some of the worlds prettiest bikes MV Agusta Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Post by **X2-Illuminatus** » Thu, 31. Mar 16, 16:47

OmegaKnight wrote:Linux command line, Bash, is coming to Windows 10 this summer
Link to The Verge article

More importantly, it represents Microsoft's refreshing stance on open-source development.

I must have missed something: What do they mean, when they write about "Microsoft's refreshing stance on open-source development"?

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