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  1. Hogan's Heros on Involuntary Geolocation To Within One Kilometer · · Score: 1

    With this method, they could have finally found that coffee pot.

  2. Shout it to the heavens on Appeals Court Affirms Warrantless Computer Searches · · Score: 1

    every time a site is selected, it should be explicitly pointed out that this is the reason the US was not selected. Be sure to cc the US Chamber of Commerce, and the US Hotel and Airline lobbyists.

  3. Missing the point on Tennessee Bill Helps Teachers Challenge Evolution · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Right doesn't want an educated populace, but an ingnorant, compliant, god-fearing one. On this facet, every fundamentalist religion is in complete agreement.

    If it weren't for the invention of the con game known as Religion, we'd be travelling amongst the effing stars by now.

  4. Wrong on Feds Prep For E-Gov Shutdown · · Score: 1
  5. Betrayal on Pandora App Sends Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Weren't these the same plucky underdogs who begged right-thinking, savvy freedom lovers to come to their defense against the evil MAFIAA trying to shut them down though usurious fees? And this is their reward? Thanks for nothing (and all the ads).

  6. Re:Proving once again on Epsilon Breach Used Four-month-old Attack · · Score: 1

    Your users are children. Treat them as such.

    This is why IT guys are so universally loved and respected.

  7. Look up the history of the word Okay on Getting L33t Into the Oxford English Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Very much a confused provenance.

  8. Huge Icons on GNOME 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Here, here. Seemingly every OS is supersizing their icons to properly show the world how they are oh so clever and artistic. Icons have slowly changed from utilitarian shortcuts to arthouse exhibits with all the arrogant pompousness that entails.

  9. Lie down with dogs on Mono Comes To Android · · Score: 1

    get up with blood-sucking, litigious fleas.

  10. 110 fig leafs on iPad Just Another TV Set? · · Score: 1

    Either right before or in conjunction with yet another price increase (mainly due to premium channels and ESPN), the cable company proudly announces you will be getting new exciting offerings such as The Balsa Wood channel and Test Pattern HD en espanol.

  11. Cards get lost or taken away on Interpol Wants a Global Identity Card System · · Score: 1

    how about something more permanent like a tattoo?

    ...what?

  12. Consider midlevel 3D CAD on Bashing MS 'Like Kicking a Puppy,' Says Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    both Autodesk Inventor and Solidworks run only on Microsoft Windows and also require Microsoft Excel for full functionality. Double lock-in.

  13. Has KDE grown up yet? on GNOME vs. KDE: the Latest Round · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked, the OCD mandate of every program having a K in the name was still in full force. Not much different than the Walled Gardens' love affair with the letter i, IMHO.

  14. Things will have to get far worse on House Votes To Overturn FCC On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    (read: after the next election cycle) before the massively destructive and venal actions of the GOP and their corporate buddies finally penetrate the thick trogoldytic hide of the average US voter.

  15. Exactly on 10,000 Shipping Containers Lost At Sea Each Year · · Score: 1

    Do they 'fall' or are they pushed?

  16. Re:Correlation is not causation on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    The oil change in my boat was quoted at 80$ an hour and cost me a total of $700, since the mechanic had to move a battery, remove the alternator to get around at things.

    And how much of that $700 did the actual worker recieve? And how wonderful is his health insurance?

  17. Revisionist History Achievement Unlocked! on California Library's Plan: Get Rid of Books · · Score: 1

    Helluva lot easier to alter the 'truth' in a database than in millions of dead trees.

    The phrase 'Separation of Church and State' not found.

  18. Fat Irony on Arizona Governor Proposes Flab Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The moralistic folks chastising the 'weak-willed' for being fat (and even worse: poor) are the very same who have no problem with corporatized, industrialized everything - including food. Fat Poor: No!. Fat Cats: Yes!

  19. Irony on NYT Paywall Cost $40 Million: How? · · Score: 1

    Follow the money.

    So if history is any guide, the Times will have to wait and read the story in the Washington Post.

  20. UMC on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 1

    ...or have enough money left after taxes to take their kids on that vacation...

    Versus the rapidly expanding LMC:

    ...or have enough money at all...

  21. The modern American sucess story on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    Profiting from the tools of torture.

  22. Re:Ah, the Republican Party ... on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    This was in fact mentioned on Fox News as well as CNN and others.

    Really? I always watch NBC News, and I didn't know about this at all for some reason.

  23. Ding Ding Ding on Man Creates "Creepy" Stalking App · · Score: 1

    If he (or someone else) went one more step and had live feeds of politicians' locations, boom: Terrorist.
    Though I think such feeds for the top 50 wealthiest CEOs would be more interesting and satisfying.

  24. It is tellingly sad on Samsung Keylogger Stories a False Alarm · · Score: 1

    that corporations have become so powerful and governments so blase about the rule of law that a goodly chunk of even this crowd accepted this story as quite possibly true.

  25. Reed Hastings on Microsoft Files EU Competition Complaint Against Google · · Score: 1

    He's also on Microsoft's Board of Directors, hence no Netflix for Linux.