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  1. WEP on ESA Discovers Unexpected 'Haze' of Microwave Transmissions · · Score: 1

    This haze was discovered by Planck's predecessor, the WMAP satellite

    Anyone else first read that as WEP satellite?

  2. Umm on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1

    One button just means it (rather, the massively overpriced circuit board beneath it) will wear out or break far more quickly than multiple buttons would. But rest assured; the board will not fail until one week *after* the warranty does.

  3. Re:Curious... on Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application? · · Score: 1

    Plus, it's healthcare; they have money to burn.

    Oh, spiffy.

  4. Repurposed on NASA Unplugs Its Last Mainframe · · Score: 1

    With the mainframes gone, one would expect they'd close down Slidell, but no. Instead, they're building a big museum and PR center there.

    these mainframes will be repurposed for the advanced study of Porkbarrel politics.

  5. 18 of 19 on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    18 of the 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

  6. Delaying on Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Meaning either they're too busy counting how many pitchforks and torches are headed their way..

    or...

    they are merely waiting for the mafiaa to sweeten their payoffs.

    I am not aware of any country involved in the inital back-room negotiations that has announced their unequivocal refusal to sign ACTA, full stop.

  7. Re:About time on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Using more energy is a good thing because its a sign you are capable of things that require that much power.

    Or a sign of inefficiency.

    Or a sign of fatness.

  8. Rest assured on TomTom Satnavs To Set Insurance Prices · · Score: 1

    the insurance industry is brib^H^H^H^H lobbying to get real-time surveillance to be a legal requirement.

  9. Still on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 1

    I believe he should use the immunity the Queen granted him as a Knight of the Web, and slay this fucking troll.

  10. Middleman on RIAA Chief Whines That SOPA Opponents Were "Unfair" · · Score: 2

    That's what this whiny loser is: a middleman. Can he play one musical instrument? Can he carry tune without using a bucket? Can he act his way out of a paper bag? Write something worth reading? Of course not; he is no artist. His creations are only those of greed, paying the truly creative pennies on the dollar; a leach in an Armani suit.

    The comedian Louis C K spent around $200,000 to record a special and put it up for sale with no DRM but simply a plea not to pirate it. He cleared a little over $1 million for his efforts. A creator working directly with his most ardent fans with no middleman required.

    Go back though the NYT archives and I'm sure we could also find a buggywhip manufacturer whining about the destructive nature of the horseless carriage.

  11. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    While a valid point, I am more than a little concerned about police forces never having to worry about what they are saying (or planning i.e., covering up). This combined with their propensity to confiscate and erase the devices of anyone recording them publicly does not a democratic society make.

  12. Re:NOW they develop this... on Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days · · Score: 1

    'Your leg is all healed up now, champ, so get back in the game for some more brain damage! Go Team!'

  13. I want a bill on Proposed Law Would Give DHS Power Over Privately Owned IT Infrastructure · · Score: 3, Funny

    that criminalizes assigning lame-ass, lying acronyms to bills.

  14. They're for anything that spreads FUD to help tighten their grip on power. No doubt in my mind that it took every fiber in Karl Rove's being not to dance a fucking jig on 9-11, knowing all the power and profit that would flow from that tragedy.

  15. Re:I didn't have to wait. on Google Starts Running Fiber In Kansas City · · Score: 1

    Don't worry; crack heads can easily tell optical fiber lines from copper and leave them be.

  16. What could possibly go wrong on Water Droplets In Orbit On the International Space Station · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...into wild orbits around a knitting needle in the microgravity environment of the ISS

    Could be worse I guess; ridged potato chips, for instance.

  17. Religion on Indian Court Orders Google To Remove Content · · Score: 2

    ruins everything.

  18. Re:Heck yeah! on ACTA's EU Future In Doubt As Poland Suspends Ratification · · Score: 1

    Voting for either D or R is throwing your vote away. The only vote that counts is one for a third party.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000

  19. Voter ID = Poll Tax on Using Crowdsourcing To Design More Accessible Elections · · Score: 1

    The most prevalent US ID is a drivers license - if you don't have one, you probably are poor and left-leaning, so we don't want you voting. Just get a state ID, you say? The same folks who dreamed up Voter ID laws also made sure the process of getting a state ID requires a not insignificant amount of time and money to further suppress the working poor from exercising their voting rights. Only rich whites should vote; based on most of our history, what's more American than that?

  20. Close, but not quite on RIAA Wants To Scrap Anti-Piracy OPEN Act · · Score: 5, Insightful

    due process is so Hard!

    Due Process is so expensive. Can't let an irrelevant thing like 3,000 years of developing the Rule of Law get in the way of all the Benjamins, now.

  21. Entertainment on Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call · · Score: 1

    Entertainment is becoming increasingly vital to the American proletariat - the more idiotic and banal, the better - in order to take their mind off the fact that their lives are devoid of meaning and their country is for all practical purposes fascist. Massive amounts of anti-anxiety meds are vital to blocking out this pain as well. They are most willfully - even fanatically - Neutral, for that is all they can do to maintain their sanity.

  22. Karma, line three on Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call · · Score: 1

    maybe they found the keys to an NSA-required backdoor in some Cisco equipment.

  23. Hey on Chinese Boy Claims To Have Cat-Like Night Vision · · Score: 1

    The spice must flow, and all that.

  24. Perfect on Alzheimer's Transmission Pathway Discovered · · Score: 1

    The possibility of a very welcome (and no doubt staggeringly pricey) maintenance drug. But not a cure. Never a cure. No. Not yours.

  25. They made a simple mistake on Credit Suisse Traders Manipulated IT Systems To Hide $500m Losses · · Score: 1

    Their fraud was too small. If they had gotten into the mid-billions, they wouldn't have been punished, and We the People would never have heard the grisly details we will be paying out for perpetuity.

    Go Big or Go To Jail.