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  1. How about a Macintosh SE/30 and Cyberdog?

    I'm only half serious.

  2. Re:Uber Fresh? on Uber CEO: We'll Run Your Errands · · Score: 1

    Ironically, they are actually doing something similar to this in some Asian countries (well, minus the "copter" part), as "McDelivery".

    They trialled this in Australia a while ago and people carried on like it was going to end western civilisation - oh, wait...

  3. Re:Good luck. Nice knowing you. on Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Cell Phone Company For Blocking Google · · Score: 1

    Yes, just like that.

    Wait—were you making a joke?

  4. Re:first explosion on 3 Decades Later, Finnair Pilots Report Dramatic Close Encounter With a Missile · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you mean Whaam!.

  5. Re:Paywalls on News Corp Australia Doesn't Want You To Look Closely At Their Financials · · Score: 1

    Add the following rule to AdBlockPlus:

    ||fairfax.com.au^

    Result: no more paywall for all Fairfax sites. The paywall's not terribly sophisticated.

  6. Re:Iceland is also moving - Bárðarbunga on Magnitude 6.0 Quake Hits Northern California, Causing Injuries and Outages · · Score: 1

    . . . but nobody seems concerned that maybe the Earth could bust apart at its seems.

    Seams okay to me.

  7. And thus: on UK Police Warn Sharing James Foley Killing Video Is a Crime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And thus, the natural extension of "possession of child pornography" laws begins.

  8. That's how citations work: on Geneticists Decry Book On Race and Evolution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, nearly 140 senior human population geneticists around the world, many of whose work was cited in the book, have signed a letter to The New York Times Book Review stating that Wade has misinterpreted their work.

    Guys, he can "misinterpret" your works as much has he likes, that's the whole point of "original research" and "original opinion". He takes your works and forms is own conclusions. It's him, not you. As long as he cites you.

    Hell, you don't have to agree with him. Obviously.

  9. Black Fly in your Chardonnay, etc, etc... on John McAfee Airs His Beefs About Privacy In Def Con Surprise Talk · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's somewhat ironic that after his rant against Google, I go to sign up for brownlist.com and I see a "Login with Facebook" link, along with pages and pages of 'Terms of Use' buried in a pdf file.

  10. Re: Not Ubuntu to blame on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    A follow up-follow up: I'm on Ubuntu 14.04, and Skype was updated to [ 4.3.0.37-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 ] a few days ago via the "Canonical Partners" repo (check it in the "Other Software" tab via the "Software Sources" panel). Surprised the hell out of me as Skype on Linux seriously hasn't been updated in a long, long time (makes me wonder what NSA junk they needed to add into it).

    Also, Skype loaded up and connected fine ("online") just now, before I started typing this out.

  11. Re:Sponsors on Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors · · Score: 1

    You forgot one:

    "Given our success in the "War on Child Pornography", we should declare war on rational thinking."

  12. Re:None of them. on Which Is Better, Adblock Or Adblock Plus? · · Score: 1

    The right app you're looking for is AdAway, but you won't find it on Google Play, for damn obvious reasons.

  13. Re:Too long on Microsoft's Missed Opportunities: Memo From 1997 · · Score: 1

    "And then finally, tell it to me like I'm five year-old who's been given three double espressos and a new kitten to play with."

  14. Re:Some more info: on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 2
  15. Some more info: on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 2
  16. Re:Well here we go again. on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    Comes with that rack of Pentium IVs in the closet.

    I wonder why? It's so trendy to be a gay Pentium right now.

  17. Re:Why is location irrelevant for some groups? on Geographic Segregation By Education · · Score: 2

    I'm not an American, by the way, [...] If that hurts your feelings, bugger off.

    I think we've worked out your nationality. Cobber.

  18. Re:NOT ME !! on The Future of Wearables: Standalone, Unobtrusive, and Everywhere · · Score: 2

    These watches from the 1970s have since been ridiculed because they were actually dumb, as I expect we will conclude again with the current offerings, once the madness dies off.

    I believe this is actually the origin of Douglas Adams' point of referring to Earth as "an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." --remember, he wrote that in the 1970s.

  19. It's the darkness... on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 2

    Guess what teenagers like to do in the dark, away from the teacher's supervision?

  20. As my Father used to say: on Kingston and PNY Caught Bait-and-Switching Cheaper Components After Good Reviews · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As my Father used to say:

    "You're not actually sorry for doing it, you're just sorry for being caught doing it."

  21. Re:NO it does not. on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 2

    Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

    -DNA

  22. Re:I'd like a VPN in to China... on Behind the Great Firewall: What It's Really Like To Log On From China · · Score: 2
  23. It's a little like Fight Club... on Behind the Great Firewall: What It's Really Like To Log On From China · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As soon as you talk about how to get around the Great Firewall of China...

    ...that method suddenly stops working.

    (Somewhere in Beijing, a Zman adds "*.astrill.com" to the blocklist.)

  24. Repost on Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Increases Clocks By 500 MHz, Lowers Temps · · Score: 3, Informative