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  1. Clap clap on Osama Bin Laden Didn't Encrypt His Files · · Score: 1

    Nice headline.

  2. Thank you, Soulskill on Bug Busters! OpenBSD 5.1 Released · · Score: 1

    You know, you can write a robust, rumbunstious, attention-grabbing headline without being a deceiptful troll-weasel (cough sanzem-something), like soulskill has done here.

  3. But there is more! on Congress Wants To Resurrect Laser-Wielding 747 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 747 can then also fingerprint conflict minerals.

  4. samzenpus on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver a Step Closer To Reality · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    samzenpus is a troll, and not a very funny one.

  5. Dear Hugh Pickens on The Science of Handedness · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Stop posting pseudo science "studies".

  6. Dear Hugh Pickens on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 2

    Stop posting these psychobabble.

  7. Re:We're not dead, but an old server is. on Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! · · Score: 1

    Yo man, are you the deadhead I'm thinking you're supposed to be?

  8. Re:What happened to Patty boy? on Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! · · Score: 0

    Somebody tell the mofo to brush his teeth once in a while.

  9. What happened to Patty boy? on Slackware: I'm Not Dead Yet! · · Score: 0

    I know he got sick years back, but ... is the dude ok?

  10. Re:Retraction != Fraud on Studies Suggest Massive Increase In Scientific Fraud · · Score: 1

    Where do you draw the line between fraud and negligence?

  11. Re:PJ has her own biases on Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and we all wanna know if she's hot or not. Or is she on those "internet girls" (50-year old fat slob or FBI on pedo hunting)?

  12. Re:Props to Slashdot Coders on Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github · · Score: 1

    While I'm at it, I also like how this "lamer" dude is selecting/summarizing stories, unlike that troll clown samzenpus. :-)

  13. Props to Slashdot Coders on Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't do this often, but massive props to the slashdot web monkeys - that story icon is just awesome. Actually, your whole last site overhaul is pretty neat.

  14. Re:One Of The Most Expensive As Well on The Apple II Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1

    Apple operated with shrewdness. They pumped their machines into schools with discounts, and managed to con our parents that they were THE educational tool unlike Commodores and Ataris which were "merely" game machines and toys sold at K-mart.

    However, Apple II was indeed superior with their open architecture even while lacking in graphics and sounds.

  15. Re:Props to Eric the Half a Byte! on The Apple II Turns 35 Today · · Score: 1

    Back in those days, half a byte was called a nibble.

    Man, I dearly wish we kept it, the green monitor, floppy disks and all, if only so that we can play Lode Runner, Hard Hat Mack, etc.

  16. This "3D Printing" thing... on Restoring China's Forbidden City With 3-D Printing · · Score: -1

    How many actually give a rat's ass? That shit comes up every other day here and twice on sunday. Someone less tolerant (like some other people than me, for example) would think them spams.

  17. Re:I'd like to see.. on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 3, Funny

    They are Japanese - I hear they're pretty open-minded about these sorta things, you know, claws and tentacles and stuff.

  18. Astrophysics for fun on Fomalhaut's Exoplanets Have Orbits That Defy Theory · · Score: 4, Funny

    Astrophysics seems to be an entertaining field - a surprise every other week. Sure beats particle physics.

  19. Rating inflation on Book Review: The Information Diet · · Score: 1

    Ambiguous non-recommendation gets an 8. I guess the scale is some sorta inverse logarithmic?

  20. Re:Danger Google on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    That's my question. Google is a devil we know. I don't get DuckDuckGo. How are they supposed to stick around?

  21. Re:No Incom Tax on Amazon Pays No UK Income Tax, Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    Shut the fuck up AC!

    Check out the Norfolk twins' video.

    "My Bad Sister"

  22. No Incom Tax on Amazon Pays No UK Income Tax, Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    No income tax no VAT... these twins are adorable.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH9GuJROrck

  23. Re:Grants-whores and publicists in academia?!?!? on Majority of Landmark Cancer Studies Cannot Be Replicated · · Score: 2

    Mod this AC up.

    Medicine is not your typical science, it's a beast of all its own with huge political, financial, and industrial apparatus. Look up the share of public research grants taken up by NIH for instance - NASA's budget is a mere mosquito bite in comparison.

    Throw in the Big Pharma, the insurance industry, AMA, for-profit (and nonprofit) hospital industry, and no wonder scientific integrity is a mere footnote in medicine.

  24. We all know why on Does Higher Health Care Spending Lead To Better Patient Outcomes? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have a medical-industrial complex. Money's gotta flow.

  25. Re:Paranoid? on Samsung Says Their TVs Aren't Really Spying On You · · Score: 1

    This "wanker", as the name implies, is just ... you know ... wanking. He was just joking. There is no camera and/or microphones or any of that stuff in light bulbs.

    Ok, then. Carry on. Have a nice day.