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  1. Are they sure? on Solid Buckeyballs Detected In Space · · Score: 1

    Might just be bubble tea...

  2. Real news on Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only · · Score: 1

    would be if Adobe completely open sourced Flash, but 'cold dead hands', yadda-yadda.

  3. ask a psychic mechanic on Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? · · Score: 1

    I recommend Toyota because they haven't changed much of their designs/parts (under-hood) for the past thirty years, and they are fairly rock solid--save for oil seal problems on older model 4-cyl motors.

    I can back that up: just had a rear main seal replaced on a 1996 Camry. Still have a pesky valve cover leak though. Coming up on 259,000 miles, btw.

  4. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1

    In the 200 years before the Department of Education was established, the fine public schools of our country produced millions of brilliant scientists, artists, and freethinkers.

    Nearly all of them white males from the gentry class, but don't let mere fact get in the way of your utopia.

  5. Floaters on Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes · · Score: 2

    I just hope someone is working on 'floaters' in eyes as well; I have one already before the age of 50 and was told by an opthamologist nothing can be done about them.

  6. Single point of failure on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 1

    What's a mailbox? I don't have a single bill that shows up in my mailbox. It's all paid online.

    You better pray like hell nothing ever goes wrong, Mr Buttle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film)

  7. More likely on Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago · · Score: 1

    More likely the real reason is to weed out the troublemakers by bleeding their parents to the point they have to drop out, leaving the unquestioningly compliant who will do as their told to avoid going back to the nearly un-funded public schools due to white flight or under-funded due to the UMC whining about property tax rates.

  8. Ahem on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 0, Troll

    There is an expectation of privacy on your own property.

    Ahahahahahahahahahaha....

  9. Sadly on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The lab is powered by hamster wheels.

  10. Old habits on Study Says E-prescription Systems Would Save At Least 50k Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    If the doctor could log in and select the medication and have the pharmacy read the prescription it would, on it's own, prevent a lot of errors that happen from misreading prescriptions.

    And in keeping with tradition; the doctors would write them in COBOL while the pharmacy writes in BASIC.

  11. Re:164 feet? on Successful Test Flight and Landing for Xombie Rocket Lander and GENIE · · Score: 1

    The vehicle reached an altitude of 0.248548477 furlongs in roughly 2.48015873 Ã-- 10-5 fortnights

    Using how many hogsheads of mead?

  12. The Agony and The Ecstacy on SCO vs. IBM Trial Back On Again · · Score: 1

    "When will you make an end?"
    "When I am finished."

  13. Whore Street Journal on Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls · · Score: 0

    Quite the set of prostitutes for Apple, Inc. - with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg being the Co-Madams of this particular whorehouse.

  14. Re:Scientists Charged For Not Being Psychic on US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case · · Score: 1

    Where I live (the Midwest),...

    Please tell me you are West of the Mississippi at the very least. The folks in Indiana, Ohio, etc. who still use that phrase apparently were never taught about the Louisiana Purchase.

  15. Re:Genesis 6:3 on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    Or Eze 23:20, if you swing the other way.

    Wow, Easy-E was more talented than I thought.

  16. Re:I dunno why so many are AGW on Leaked Heartland Institute Documents Reveal Opposition To Science · · Score: 1

    The Canadian fishing industry is a good example. Those folks who lost their jobs are hurting, but they are alive and there is some chance that the fishing will reopen.

    Indeed it will: in the ever increasing Arctic Ocean.

  17. French or Latin on Megaupload Co-Founder Allowed Bail · · Score: 1

    The FBIs legal attache program ...

    Whenever a Western governernment wants to pull some legal shenanigans that are abject bullshit, they always turn to French or Latin to give it that cachet of legitimacy.

  18. Re:Duh...... on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Still the images that come out aren't much to look at.

    "I'm with the government; I wouldn't possibly lie about Security Theater."

  19. Re:And yet on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 'Win Ben Teller's Money'; funny stuff.

  20. Lifetime achievment in Greed on Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Grammy · · Score: 1

    I assumed it was just the MAFIAA's admiration of His Steveness to develop a cult-like following literally willing to stand in line to overpay for product. Given that the MAFIAA takes about ninety cents of every dollar earned by an artist - then sues grandmothers to make up for that dime - he was cut from the same gruesome cloth as they.

  21. US Corn on Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry? · · Score: 1

    Massive amounts of water; massive amounts of fertilizer; massive amounts of herbicide; massive amounts of pesticide. The dirt is mainly there to keep the stalks upright.

    ...did I mention the massive amounts of subsidies and massive amounts of corporate ownership?

  22. I used to work with a Texan a million years ago. Didn't matter what the topic of discussion was; 'In Texas...' was his constant contribution. Until one day, a fellow co-worker turned on him: "If things are so goddamn great in Texas, why are you here?"

  23. Re:Visio import FTW on LibreOffice 3.5 Released · · Score: 0

    Is there a non-crossing line tool in Draw? :)

    It's probably a bullshit Microsoft patent :(

  24. Re:You will all be watched ! Question here. on Stanford's Francis Fukuyama Builds Personal Surveillance Drone · · Score: 1

    And soon, wearing clothes or having opaque walls will be capitol offences.

  25. Meanwhile Apple on White House Wants Devastating Cuts To NASA's Mars Exploration · · Score: 1

    has an effective tax rate less than even Oil Barons. Yeah, that seems progressive. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/21/BUIJ1M2635.DTL