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  1. Re:The Poor Guy! on Segway UK Boss Dies After Driving Off Cliff · · Score: 1

    Crystal-clear from Bob Dylan. I only wish he'd have out-sourced the singing so more people would have heard his message.

  2. Re:Not a Reuters story on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yah; one can only hope that it's irony, as suggested.

    PS. I'd love to see a meat-space version of this discussion :D

  3. Re:Umm on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    I don't care who you are, if you can't show proof, I'm not gonna believe you.

    I'm disregarding your statement until I have proof of its veracity...

  4. Re:Not a Reuters story on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    I mean, seriously... who cares who writes things? What matters is whether the arguments are valid, and the evidence they're based on is sound.

    Omg; more craziness. Next you'll be suggesting that we extend your logic to politics where politicans would discuss policies and make arguments for their choices. That shit is never going to fly on this planet - weirdo!

  5. Re:Not a Reuters story on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    Newspapers used to have a position called a "fact-checker" and rather than just reprinting corporate and political press releases verbatim, they fact checked them first and would write a story about the release, pointing out any falsehoods. It isn't about book sales versus newspaper sales, it is about journalistic integrity.

    Mwahahaha! what planet are you from? Here on corporate-world, things have always been the same and there's never been such an air of suspicion that facts need checking before printing.

  6. Re:RTFA on Film Industry Hires Cyber Hitmen To Take Down Pirates · · Score: 1

    How long until Aiplex Software is knocked off the internet?

    Curious... www.aiplex.com seems to be slashdotted (or regular DDoSed)... :D

  7. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    The image of the all-night programmer needs to go away. (Ditto for other professions that call upon people to lose sleep, like medical residencies.)

    That seems likely to impinge upon the freedom of project stakeholders to string together sequences of last-minute and nonsensical changes-of-direction at a whim. Be reasonable man.

  8. Re:Experience is a Gift... on Tech's Dark Secret, It's All About Age · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. I have a plan. It involves a hacksaw, a boxcutter and some quicklime.

    You're gonna kill yourself then cut your body up and bury it in a shallow grave in the woods to escape your project manager?

  9. Re:LifeSize Express on Persistent Home Videoconferencing Solution? · · Score: 1

    Care to share some implementation details?

  10. Re:Horn? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    what? From the age I was allowed to cross the street, I was told to LOOK both ways

    Look both way? Muhahaha! Jeez, old-timer. Get yerself up-to-date. Today's crossing lesson goes like... "OK <insert child's name>, step to the edge of the curb; hold your i'Phone' loosely in your hand; start tweeting that you're about to cross the road then, without looking, step forwards boldly."

  11. Re:NO: nothing... (except possible pheromones) on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Mow it yourself then, dick!

  12. Re:You've got to be shitting me. on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People seem to be having a hard time understanding that members of the public are expected to willingly surrender themselves to the custody of an officer of the law so that the officer may dispassionately investigate whether they are involved in the crime.

    Perhaps because, often, arrest is abduction by thugs who operate outside the law whilst at the same time having the ability to falsely implicate their captive in non-existent crimes to enable them to more easily meet their quota.

  13. Re:You've got to be shitting me. on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 1

    Police: You're going to resist arrest, so we're arresting you for that.
    Person: I'm not going to resist arrest, you can't arrest me for that.
    Police: You are resisting arrest right now.
    Person: No, I'm not. Go right ahead and arrest me. (I'll just sue you for false arrest later.)
    Police/Person: *Tortures then hangs himself in cells rather than make recompense for his crime*

  14. Re:thoughtcrime on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I do believe/hope AEG might have just demonstrated a way of creating a negative Streisand effect.

  15. Re:Two from around Richmond on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    A local Amigos is advertising a food item for .99 cents. I should order one, give them a penny, and ask for a 1/100-of-a-cent-cash-value coupon in change.

    Please take a head-mounted video recorder with you :-)

  16. Re:less / fewer on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    Why retail gets this so wrong is beyond me

    Argh. My local supermarket is like night of the living dead. Abandoned people and trolleys/shopping-carts scattered near the checkout - effectively blocking the whole walkway down the length of the supermarket near the checkouts :(

    Only once have I seen this done well. In a Tesco Metro in Manchester city centre (UK) - a single queue feeding a double line of checkouts but they could get away with this kind of layout because it was basket-only.

  17. Re:He would be right at home on slashdot on The Great Typo Hunt · · Score: 1

    Nice flourish...

  18. Re:It'll be fun seeing on Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas · · Score: 2, Funny

    *sound of something flying overhead*

  19. Re:Offtopic on ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Plugins have been around since Netscape and are still called plugins. They have a different function than an extension (and divine intervention is what we would want in this case to fix the site's colours).

  20. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 1

    I guess the knife lobby doesn't have enough funding

  21. Re:"it's legal now!" on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    Can we get back on-topic please? The topic is "everyone bash Apple...".

    GO

  22. Re:I guess... on FBI Instructs Wikipedia To Drop FBI Seal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe our feathered friend meant the seal shown with the written threats at the start of DVDs ?

  23. Re:What the hell???!!! on Apps For Healthy Kids — Where PC Meets PCs · · Score: 1, Insightful

    you'll find exciting titles like Balanced Meal (6 votes), Blubber Blaster (9 votes), Calorie Quest (10 votes), and Count Peas (7 votes)

    Notably absent is "Stay Safe - avoid being sent to fight wars for your government".

  24. Re:Next up on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1

    "Whoosh"
    What's that noise?

  25. Re:You know? I think I'm okay with that. on Copernicus Reburied As Hero · · Score: 0, Troll

    So, in 500 years, when everyone involved is dead they can (a) do something about the paedophiles in their ranks and (b) disband their ranks because their whole game is a worldwide money-making scam.

    I'll wait with baited breath.