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  1. Re:Oh, just great on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    The real main 'off-label' use for Viagra is to prevent Whiskey Dick after clubbing all night.

  2. Re:This has all happened before. on BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled · · Score: 1

    If you mean prequels, then damn straight. If you have a compelling story, start at the BEGINNING - unless you're an idiot like George Lucas.

  3. Salad Bar Journalism on Microsoft Is a Dying Consumer Brand · · Score: 1

    "Windows 7 is a success? Sorry, I can't afford the article space to mention it."

  4. Absolutely! on Power Failure Shuts Down 50 US Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 1

    akin to the Crazy Ivan submarine manuever, our enemies have no idea what nutty thing we'll do next!

  5. Or on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    they didn't show up because flyers distributed in their neighborhoods listed the wrong date. Or a whisper campaign that the INS/FBI/TrafficCops/Creditors will be patrolling the polling stations.

    If I've missed any other tricks, just read a bio about Lee Atwater or Karl Rove.

  6. On the bright side on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    think of all the money they saved by going with the lowest bidder!

  7. Re:No no no no no! on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 1

    What kind of legal advisor could ever sign off on this?

    Now, virtually every one in the US Justice Department - regardless of which party is in power. Frankly, their continued use of that word should be in the form: 'Justice'.

  8. Painfully Obvious Correction on Oracle Needs a Clue As Brain Drain Accelerates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Abusiveness is a pastime of billionaires such as Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs.

    Yes, Bill Gates was guilty of many sins and while his self-rehabliliation may be self-serving, some good will come out of it.

    So tell me: outside of yet another Stanford building with his name on it, what is Steve Jobs doing with all that sheeple lucre?

  9. I'll bet money on Giant Lab Replicates Category 3 Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    the Weather Channel sends it's reporters into this thing to practice their in-storm broadcasts. And to test their toupees.

  10. Overreaction on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Konami code Easter Egg would have worked if needed.

  11. Re:And yet? on Linux 2.6.36 Released · · Score: 1

    Then how come mplayer works on every common Linux distribution, and has been able to do smooth fullscreen video for as long as I can remember?

    That's a bug they've been trying to chase down for years.

    I keed, I keed

  12. Closer to true than you think on Pirate Parties Plan To Shoot Site Into Orbit · · Score: 1

    today in the New York Times, a Pentagon official was justifying the Obama Adminsistration's plan to allow the US military to respond to 'domestic' cyber attacks (buh-bye, Posse Comitatus!). One of his reasons was (I am not making this up) 'protecting our Intellectual Property'. Check, please.

  13. I can't wait on Early Review of 11" Macbook Air · · Score: 1

    for one of these - or one of those pointlessly thin TVs - to suddenly roll up while making that 'twup-twup-twup' sound of a 1940's cartoon window shade; possibly also ensnaring a luckless house cat.

  14. Re:Nonsense on ACLU Says Net Neutrality Necessary For Free Speech · · Score: 1

    So...Twitter will be buying the Crystal Cathedral?

  15. Re:Way to prove their point! on China Now Halting Shipments of Rare Earth Minerals To US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the N80CB-1 says it's made in the USA

    using German, Japanese, and I bet even a few Chinese machines. And if there are any semi-conductors in this gun, I doubt they're coming in from Detroit, Pittsburg, or even off a domestic Intel campus.
    Don't look now, but your fig leaf is shrinking.

  16. Excellent! on UK-Developed 'DNA Spray' Marks Dutch Thieves With Trackable Water · · Score: 1

    Now the cops won't have to synthesize DNA for framing anymore; just get a matching sample of this stuff from the former cop co-inventor and boom! Case Closed!
    I beginning to realize, this is not the greatest time to be alive anymore and the future is looking effing grim as well.

  17. Never understood on US Elections Dominated By Closed Source. Again. · · Score: 1

    what's wrong with paper ballots - ignoring the pathetic wingnut canards about vast flocks of illegal aliens voting, of course. Helluva lot easier to change a number in an unprovable database than stuffing boxes with the requisite tens of thousands of fraudulent ballots.
    In short; after a brief (though hardly satisfying) two-year interlude, Idiocracy is returning next month; this time for good.

  18. Re:Wow.... on Ray Ozzie Quit... What Took Him So Long? · · Score: 1

    Yup. GMGruman = John Gruber, perhaps?

  19. Well... on Scientists Fight Back In Canada · · Score: 1

    How many universities (even land-grant ones) have professorships totally funded by corporations such as the Conoco-Philips Chair of Showing Oil is Cool, or the Con-Agra Chair for the Study of Corn Sugar Health Benefits? Remember the Deans' response to Mr. Wong's question "How much for Summa Cum Luade?": "How much you got?" Yes scientific research is very beneficial, but some are willing to pick up thirty pieces of silver funding - mainly because of questionably counterproductive tenure competition.

  20. Re:MIT = big news on MIT Unveils Portable, Solar-Powered Water Desalination System · · Score: 1

    Given that it's MIT, the salt water they used was probably provided by either Evian or Fuji.

  21. Re:A lesson in assymetric warfare on Assange Denied Swedish Residence On Confidential Reasons · · Score: 1

    Hustler probably would offer him a job as foreign correspondent just throw another middle finger to the US establishment. But given the main (ahem) thrust of this magazine, I don't think it would help Assange's claims of character assasination.

  22. Integrated CE devices = bad idea on Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface · · Score: 1

    A million years ago, my friend and I both received stereo systems from our parents. Each system was from the same store and both made by the same company; his was an integrated system while mine was comprised of separate components. His single box of parts started failing within two years. My receiver lasted thirty years. The takeaway: the display should be just and only that; add functionality with stand-alone (second-generation) components.

  23. Makes you wonder on Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These · · Score: 2, Interesting

    will car mechanics be gagged by the FBI from telling customers they found an odd box or two that don't belong?

    BTW, this particular device is a few generations out of date; now the Great Protectors of Our Rights have much tinier Boxes of Freedom that are surreptitiously powered via the cars' battery cable.

  24. Why on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 1

    I see no reason to actually pay for news online.

    Why did the acronym 'ACTA' suddenly leap to mind when I read this?

  25. Said before and said again on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Human sexuality terrifies Steve Jobs.