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  1. What is the best way to kill a small town? on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    Shut down the post office.

  2. Re:No names? on Mobile Carriers Impose Handicaps On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    How does this help me without naming names?

    How do you think they got paid back for their research?

  3. Re:who cares. on China Removes Cyberwar Video, Denies Everything · · Score: 2

    The video ran on Chinese STATE-RUN television. That means that some hack in the massive Chinese censorship bureaucracy vetted this video and decided to show it to the Proletariat anyway.

    And that hacks' kidneys, liver, and lungs are now available for transplant.

  4. Executive Summary on The Least Amount of Exercise Needed To Extend Life · · Score: 1

    Good Looking Corpse

  5. YMMV on NASA Creating Laser Communication System For Mars · · Score: 2

    I expect that they use LDPCC, not Reed-Solomon error correction these days. Good LPCCCs get amazingly close to the shannon limit. Just crank down the rate a bit and watch the BER disappear. GigE and greater also use LDPCC.

    LOLOMGWTFBBQ

  6. Massive Fraud Settlement? on Google Reaches $500 Million Settlement With Feds · · Score: 1

    It's more common than you think. Ask your doctor to be sure.

  7. Churches on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Soon, churches (mainly of the Southern, pentecostal sect) will begin offering to either underwrite public schools or help out in the class rooms as unpaid volunteers... in exchange for being allowed to proselytize in every class room as they desire and have a direct hand in the curriculum.

    This fits hand in glove with the implementation of public vouchers for religious schools. Hell, just cut out the middle man and take over public schools intentionally underfunded by the GOP statehouses! Killing critical thinking and indoctrinating the next generation of the right-wing in one fell-swoop! Little Madrassa on the Plains!

  8. Obviousness Test on Interview With 'Idiot' Behind Key Software Patent · · Score: 1

    'Obviously, this ridiculous patent is valuable to the huge filing corporation, so I'm green lighting it in exchange for a large stack of untraceable hundreds that will surreptitiously show up in my mailbox.'

  9. Unintended consequence on More Schools Go To 4-Day Week To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    That is really gonna cut into bullying time!

  10. 2nd Tweet on Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets · · Score: 1

    'Kill all humans'

  11. All that means on Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    A fair number of Chinese students seem to buy into the official party line, part and parcel.

    All that means is they still have family within the clutches of the Central Committee. Best to be patriotic in that circumstance and jump when told.

  12. Wrong on Does Religion Influence Epidemics? · · Score: 1

    But greed is at the heart of almost all killing and war.

    You are confusing a sympton with the disease. The desire for power is at the heart of almost all killing and war. The two most efficient transport mechanisms to accomplish gaining power is religion and triabalism / nationalism. This nicely explains both Stalin and the pope who said 'now that we have the Papacy, let's enjoy it'.

  13. Executive Summary on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    The White middle to lower middle class in the US cannot face the facts that they are demonstrably poorer and soon to be an actual minority.

    So, attaching themselves to intolerant piety (religious elitism) and actively rooting for apocolypse beyond their own personal experience becomes very attractive.

  14. Damn on Evangelical Scientists Debate Creation Story · · Score: 1

    Where's Spencer Tracy when we need him (again)?

  15. Re:No problem on Zombie Cookies Just Won't Die · · Score: 1

    And how many of those will get perpetually broken by Mozilla adopting speed-of-light updates?

  16. Overlooked the main reason on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 1

    Starting out 'back in the day', *everybody* pirated Photoshop and Adobe looked the other way - but only until their de facto monopoly was permanently entrenched. Autodesk did the same thing, to a lesser degree.

  17. To quote Jimmy Fallon on Using Tablets Becoming Popular Bathroom Activity · · Score: 1

    "Ew."

    But I am surprised he hasn't yet added an iPad to his desktop Apple store.

  18. Funny you mentioned prison on Why Amazon Can't Manufacture a Kindle In the US · · Score: 1

    The US military has a fair chunk of contract work being done by US prisoners for mere pennies on the dollar. One more reason so many in the Military-Industrial complex do no want weed legalized.

  19. Wow on American Grant Writing: Race Matters · · Score: 0

    A PhD in Eliteism.

  20. And a third rocket on RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon · · Score: 1

    to carry the harpoons.

  21. Think of the children on Wikipedia May Censor Images · · Score: 1

    ...but if someone else doesn't want to view pictures of genetalia on their respective articles, I can understand that.

    Especially the children of Gene Talia.

  22. I assume Sun Tsu on Chinese Researchers Propose Asteroid Deflection Mission · · Score: 1

    is not familiar with the phrase 'First, do no harm".

  23. P.A.D. on The Dark Side of the Tech Patent Wars · · Score: 1

    Patently Assured Destruction

  24. Or on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Or Westinghouse. Or Kodak.

  25. Re:meanwhile... on DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, screw Obamacare! We were so much better off when Dubya shipped over pallets of hundred dollar bills to Iraq. Twelve Billion of which promptly vanished into thin air. USA! USA! USA!