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  1. "Touch your toes, Winston!" on UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Smith!" screamed the shrewish voice from the telescreen. "6079 Smith W.! Yes, YOU! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You’re not trying. Lower, please! THAT’S better, comrade."

  2. I think Cubans have bigger worries... on US Forces Coursera To Ban Students From Cuba, Iran, Sudan, and Syria · · Score: 1

    ...than being denied particular coursework on an Internet they're not allowed to access anyway. Things like surviving on $20 a month and avoiding getting arrested for owning unauthorized shrimp.

  3. Amazon as Fat Tony on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 2

    "For legal reasons, the trucks are always rolling!"

  4. 0% on Accenture Faces Mid-March Healthcare.gov Deadline Or 'Disaster' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No chance at success. Just like the rest of ObamaCare, a misconceived piece of legislation that managed to take a market plagued by serial distortions of preferential tax treatment for third-party insurance and actually make them worse by larding on an individual mandate and even larger subsidies to insurance companies.

    And the worst is yet to come, when some 80 million additional employer-sponsored policies are cancelled.

    The failure of the website is just the cherry on top of incompetent conception, planning and execution all along the line. It can take Apple or Microsoft 6 months to fix the bugs in a major release to an X.1 release, and Accenture is supposed to take someone else's far-more-dysfunctional code-base and make it work in 8 weeks?

    Not going to happen, and just another example of the serial dishonesty and manifest incompetence of the Obama Administration.

  5. Just what those in gamer rage need... on Fighting Gamer Rage With an Arduino Based Biometrics Headset · · Score: 2

    ...another small electronic device to hurl across the room and smash into little bits!

  6. Nonsense! on 2014 Will Be a Big Year For Commercial Space Travel · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We all know that 2014 will be The Year of Linux on the Desktop!

  7. Dallas Police Massaged Crime Statistics on Dallas PD Uses Twitter To Announce Cop Firings · · Score: 2

    Interesting, because the Dallas Police Department was accused of massaging the crime statistics back when Tom Leppert was Mayor. /Note: I'm part of the vast right wing conspiracy, but those charges were leveled by a columnist for the the left-wing Dallas Observer.

  8. Shark Tweets on Western Australian Sharks Send Tweets To Swimmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Get in ma belly!"

    "#ChompChompChomp"

    "Check out Buzzfeed's 27 Best Feeding Frenzies"

    "This One Trick Helps You Catch Swimmers" #SharkSpam

    "You can't escape!" #NeverGonnaGiveYouUp

    "And my teeth are...pearly white..."

    "I totally loved Jaws, except for that downer of an ending...

  9. This is nothing a few big campaign donations... on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ...won't fix. Time-Warner and T-Mobil just need to pony up, and then the crony capitalist decision-making will kick in ala Solyndra, GM, CGI and Serco...

  10. The Solution is Obvious on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Microsoft should extend support for XP...but only on a cash-for-patch basis. Sell patches at $5 a pop for XP user's, or a one Year Security Update Subscription for $20.

    It's a win-win situation....

  11. Are you saying feminists can't take a joke? on GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language · · Score: 4, Funny

    This would not be the first time. Earlier this year, the Extremely Vocal Minority had Locus Online take down my April Fools piece.

    Original feminists had real complaints. Third Wave/Race Critical Theory/Victimhood Identity Politics feminists seem to believe that they have a right not to be offended.

  12. Today Antisemitism Comes From The Left on UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the United States, Antisemitism overwhelmingly comes from the political left, both the Occupy Wall Street crowd and the victimhood identity politics left that regard Islamists and Palestinians as protected species.

    There are also significant amounts of Antisemitism among liberal black politicians. Indeed, Jesse Jackson seems to have lost no political influence after calling new York City Hymietown.

  13. That's the first time I've ever seen... on The Climate of Middle-Earth · · Score: 2
  14. Is ID Doomed? on John Carmack Leaves id Software · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it.

  15. The Wreck of the MQ-9 Reaper Drone on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ontario, it is known
    Never gives up a drone
    When the winds of November come early

  16. I would totally buy this animatronic spider... on Webcam-Equipped Remote-Controllable Halloween Haunt · · Score: 2
  17. Hang Out in the Fark Scary Story Thread on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    It's an annual thing.

    Also hand out candy to kids, accompanied by my friendly hellhound, plus atmospheric music and lights.

  18. The $5,000 gets you... on Cadillac Unveils Pricier Alternative To Tesla Model S · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...to help pay for the heath and retirement benefits of union employees who already retired at 55.

  19. A group whose peace accomplishments... on Anti-Chemical Weapon Group Awarded Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...are on par with Barack Obama, which is to say non-existent.

    But at least they're better than Yasser Arafat or Le Duc Tho.

  20. Toward Egan/Wolfram Territory on When Does the Universe Compute? · · Score: 2

    I.e., the idea of the entire universe as constituting some sort of universal computational substrate.

    The idea is probably wrong, mainly because every "my conception of the fundamental nature of the universe based on just discovered science" is wrong, due to the time-bound nature of our perceptions.

  21. Your Statement is Demonstrably False on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 5, Informative

    Texas has added wages across all income levels.

    But no, you just keep quoting that 90% figure from the Institute for Numbers I Pulled Out of My Ass...

  22. Lower Wages for Gourmet Chefs? on The Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Why Tech Doesn't Kill Jobs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That depends on one question: Can we replace them with illegal aliens?

    Because the political establishment, along with business interests, have decided that a permanent underclass of illegal alien workers is just fine with them. This in turn has depressed the wages on labor-intensive jobs while making welfare a more attractive option than work for many.

    The unwillingness to enforce border controls has probably cost more Americans jobs in the last 20 years than any technological advance.

  23. I really hope it will run... on GNU Hurd 0.5, GNU Mach 1.4, GNU MIG 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    ...on my PowerPC 620...

  24. Why would they hire engineers? on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 0

    They wouldn't fit in the culture of insular, ultra-liberal, upper class Manhattanites that define The New York Times.

    Indeed, the only attribute that engineers as a group share with NYT staffers is that they're both extremely white.

  25. Re:Two stories taht really stick in my mind. on Sci-Fi Great Frederik Pohl Passes Away At 93 · · Score: 2

    While Pohl did frequently collaborate with C. M. Kornbluth, "The Marching Morons" is by Kornbluth alone.