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  1. Old dogs can't change their spots on FCC Giving Away Wi-fi Routers For Broadband Tests · · Score: 1

    the routers are actually infected with Syphilis.

  2. Take it to the bank on Google Fiber Comes To Kansas City · · Score: 1

    All the Googlers will be living in Johnson County which is next door to KCKS. Johnson County has frequently been on the list of the most affluent counties in the entire US and a few times ranked number one.

  3. Assuming on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    this permission wasn't granted deep in the EULA boilerplate.

  4. Suevertisement on Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel · · Score: 1

    Suing just for the publicity, as the website name 'teslavstopgear' clearly points out. Might as well go all in and have Judge Judy officiate.

  5. Re:Officer! on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    "Yes, yes, but it was a viciously sharp piece of mango, wasn't it? - Capt. Blackadder

  6. Re:Better quiet down on Plastic Made From Fruit Rivals Kevlar In Strength · · Score: 1

    In fact, your the idiot now

    I see this a lot nowadays; are 'smart' phones autoincorrecting this?

  7. Would anyone be surprised on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    if the code also included cc: RIAA, FBI, NSA...

  8. Clarification on RIAA Lobbyist Becomes Federal Judge, Rules On File-Sharing Cases · · Score: 1

    How are the thousands of defendants supposed to do anything when they don't know who they are yet? Who was the opposing lawyer? Was there even one at all?

    You're making the classic mistake of confusing extortion for justice.

  9. I'd love to see on Amazon Releases Cloud-Based Music Service · · Score: 1

    Amazon nut-up to such brinksmanship with all things Sony no longer found on the biggest online retailing website. Sony versus Amazon: who is the dog and who is the tail?

  10. and by the by on Are the Days of Individual Security Over? · · Score: 1

    - one of the best quotes ever, from Benjamin Franklin, 1775

    and one heeded less and less. Soon both police states and helicopter parents fretting over precious snowflakes may ban the quote altogether as blatant pre-9/11 thought crime.

  11. What a waste of ICE's time! on Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay · · Score: 1

    Piddling around with this irrelevant stuff takes ICE away from the far greater threat to the US of A: IP theft!

    /snark

  12. What the hey? on Fighting Fires With Beams of Electricity · · Score: 1

    in enclosed quarters, such as armored trucks

    This must occur more often than I realize.

  13. First they came for Blinky on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: 1

    and I closed all three of my eyes.

  14. Urban vs. Rural on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    I live in a town of 3,000 and drive ~20 miles (one way) to a job in a city of 16,000. No, I can't move to where I work. No, there is not an equivalent job where I live. I'm lucky to have the job I do have (though the pay is very low even with cost-of-living added in). Not everyone is a cool hipster with a smorgasbord of cool hipster choices.

    On topic: usage by miles seems theoretically fair, but can never be affordably implemented without opening a Pandora's Box full of privacy issues.

  15. Addtionally on MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Summary execution of CEOs that intimate Linux has stolen IP while never ever offering any fucking proof.

  16. Oblig on Futurama Renewed For 7th Season · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Good news, everyone!"

  17. That also on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    explains damn near every sports writer- Jason Whitlock being the primary example.

  18. Re:hmmm on New FBI System IDs People By Voice, Iris, More · · Score: 1

    Define suspects.

    You.

  19. Tangent! on My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Serious question: I would love to know the percentage of people (broken down by age and country) still eat at a dinner table at all. I don't even have one.

  20. Yet on System Measures Stress In Emergency Callers' Voice · · Score: 1

    ...but, there's a reason why polygraphs aren't admissible in many places in court yet

    The theocrats and 'law and order' crowd haven't got to that agenda bullet point yet .

  21. Screw that! on University Switches To DC Workstations · · Score: 1

    I want to retain the ability to arc-weld with my computer if need be!

  22. Ahh, smell the freedom! on Mini Drone Detects Breathing and Motion · · Score: 1

    But take small, shallow breaths and don't move.

  23. Corporate Lawyers on Microsoft Continues Android Legal Assault · · Score: 1

    I wonder how they sleep at night. Coffins must be more comfy than they look.

  24. Re:Dear Amazon on Amazon Stymies Lendle E-book Lending Service · · Score: 1, Troll

    Therefore the trusting will go elsewhere...

    Such as the Public Library...soon to be closed by budget-slashing consevatives to fund the Defense of the Wealthy Act of 2011.

  25. Literary solutions on A Look At the World's Dwindling Food Supply · · Score: 1

    Both Jonathan Swift and Harry Harrison solved this ages ago.