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  1. One DVR to rule them all on DVRs, Cable Boxes Top List of Home Energy Hogs · · Score: 1

    There should only be one DVR: at the cableco local plant. Then my programmed shows are merely a shopping list for quick retreval.

    Bonus: Forgot to set the DVR? Bam! Cableco didn't!
    Bonus 2: HD capacity is a thing of the past.
    Bonus 3: EPA gives an Energy Star rating to providers for not wasting massive amounts of energy, and maybe a bit of a kickback from the power companies for lessening the burden.

    And the Content Lords can go hang their mouths on a hook; the Cablevision decision by the Supremes green-lights this in toto. Plus, now they will be against power savings and the environmental argument too.

  2. Real fines on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 2

    How about this: If illegal workers are found at an employer, they are sent back home by airplane with all expenses paid by the employer - along with a month's worth of pay equal to the average legal workers' wages. Talk about disincentive.

  3. Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant on LulzSec Posts First Secret Document Dump · · Score: 1

    You mean like when he gets pulled over and the police man asks for his driver's license? Yeah, that never happens to white people.

    Yes, constantly being pulled over for 'driving while white'.

  4. The Republican in the White House on Politics: Paul-Barney Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Federally · · Score: 1

    would never sign it.

  5. And on Apple To Start Making TVs? · · Score: 1

    John D Rockefeller was a swell guy too!

    Water-carrying apologist.

  6. Pollyanna hopes on Vint Cerf Says Fix the Net With More Pipe · · Score: 1

    Google buys Cox and makes the KC experiment national. Suck it, Comcast, TWC, and AT&T.

  7. This will be on next years OED new word list: on Winklevoss Twins Finally Give Up Fighting Facebook · · Score: 1

    Winklevi

  8. Seems appropriate on "Expert Body" To Decide Which Sites To Block For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Britain came up with the Star Chamber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_chamber, didn't they?

  9. Anonymity is a direct threat on How the Web's Relationship With Anonymity Has Changed · · Score: 1

    to police states - with an exception for the security organs and death squads, of course.

  10. FYI on Microsoft's SkyDrive Drops Silverlight · · Score: 1

    The CEO of Netflix is on Microsoft's board of directors. And this is why Netflix will never be allowed to work on Linux.

  11. The elder Bush on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 1

    had a phrase for such behaviour, but I can't quite remember it...

  12. Doing it wrong! on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    According to the GOP platform, if you're poor and sick, you're supposed to die!

    Get with the program!!

  13. No on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and it needs to be stopped by the people voting w/their feet

    It needs to be stopped by a real FCC that doesn't have a crotch that looks like a Ken doll.

  14. Re:An expert comments on Soldier Re-Grows Leg Muscle After Experimental Procedure · · Score: 1

    He has no mouse controls...

    Touch pad?

  15. nom nom on SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched · · Score: 1

    stupid divalopers only eat candle bars.

  16. Re:In My Opinion, Protocol Patents Are Much Worse on Bittorrent and uTorrent Sued For Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    Software patents need to die. End of story.

    I can't access the article but

    /Head explodes.

  17. Misguided on LulzSec Teams With Anonymous, In Operation AntiSec · · Score: 1

    Which seems a more likely outcome of all their Lulz?
    1. The 'Powers That Be', have the scales fall from their eyes and turn over a new leaf of openess, honesty, and truth in all things.
    2. The Internet is turned into a Panopticon, with every transaction pre-approved by the security organs of the State and anonymity is a crime punishable by death.

  18. Channeling Rumsfeld on AP Investigation Concludes US Nuke Regulators Weakening Safety Rules · · Score: 1

    You can adress the 'known unknowns' with a high Factor of Safety and when more research and experience bears it out, those FOSs can be justifyably lowered.

    It is the 'unknown unknowns' that can jump up and bite you - especially if the lazy and greedy are allowed to extend the service life far beyond what any competent and moral Engineer would ever agree to; aka, 'test to failure'.

  19. Regulatory capture. It's inevitable. This is my biggest worry. I'm not at all sure how the problem can be fixed either.

    Just privatize the regulating bodies, silly!

  20. Another defendant on Best Buy Flexes Legal Muscles Over "Geek" · · Score: 1

    will be the Greek nation. However, Best Buy may instead opt to buy them out for 200,000 Euros.

  21. Corn = Evil on US Senate Votes For Repeal of Ethanol Subsidies · · Score: 1

    It takes massive amounts of water, massive amounts of fertilizer (runoff), massive amounts of herbicide (runoff 2 and death to butterflies)... for the large majority of US corn, the soil is just there to prop up the plants.

    And don't forget the other big use of corn: feed for cattle to fatten them up just prior to slaughter. But since cattle weren't 'Intelligently Designed' to eat corn, it makes them sick rather quickly. Here comes the last massive: massive doses of antibiotics to keep the cattle from keeling over before auction. MRSA, ahoy!!

  22. Kansas State University on 11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research · · Score: 1

    is now building the replacement institute for what was on Plum Island (emphasize ISLAND). This building is within eyesight of the university rec center, basketball coleseum, and football stadium.

    Yet again, pork barrel politics and money addicted higer learning institutes may soon have a body count.

  23. I'll put my money on five years on New Android Malware Attacks Custom ROMs · · Score: 1

    until every platform, OS, - hell, everything smarter than a toaster - is rendered insecurable.

  24. Am I the only one on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1
    who read this as:

    If you asked a bunch of librarians to design a digital currency...

  25. Probably on $500,000 Worth of Bitcoins Stolen · · Score: 1

    was the Federal Reserve.