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  1. That is why they try to go to that particular court if they sue for copyright infridgement.

    Man, that's cold.

  2. Sans lyrics, please on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    I can't really concentrate on a task if music with singing is playing; I find myself either listening to the lyrics if they're unfamiliar or thinking about them if they are. In such a scenario, I have to switch to my Pandora (irony!) Brian Eno station.

  3. Bean Counter Effect on In Letter To 20 Automakers, Senator Demands Answers On Cybersecurity · · Score: 1

    I suspect - just like most industries providing consumer goods - the automotive engineers knew about and pointed out the potential of such vulnerabilities, only to be ignored by their PHBs and their R&D budgets for said issues zeroed-out by the true bosses: Bean Counters.

  4. Worthiness on Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring · · Score: 1

    We have to ask: is the current American populace truly worthy of the ignored warnings of both Benjamin Franklin and Edward Snowden?

    Honestly, how do you save people that don't want saving?

  5. Simple solution on How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? · · Score: 1

    Before writing a single line, the customer must enact the entirety of what they want using only Punch & Judy marionettes.

  6. Re:Young massive and hot. on Three New Exoplanets Seen In Direct Photographs · · Score: 2

    The OP was talking about planets, right?

    Or Honey Boo-Boo in August.

  7. Corollary on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    Cars don't kill actors. Porsches kill actors.

  8. Oh good on Harvesting Power When Freshwater Meets Salty · · Score: 1

    Another method to diminish the amount of fresh water - we have far too much of that useless fluid.

  9. 'All but' on Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' · · Score: 1

    With this supra-legal coven, 'all but' can easily mean a drone, a Chavez Special, or Gitmo.

  10. Man on FDA Tells Google-Backed 23andMe To Halt DNA Test Service · · Score: 1

    Sending back everyone's spit is gonna suuuck.

  11. Great Wikipedia reference on Many UAVs Vulnerable To Directed-Energy Weapons · · Score: 1

    The link takes you to Directed Energy Weapons; the only instance of HERF is a link to an empty page that takes you back from whence you came. There is no definition of the acronym on either page.

    So thanks for the enlightenment.

  12. Re:won't help for Samsung note 2 on Not All USB Power Is Created Equal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed they do. If the charger says "I can supply 1.5A" but due to thin wires in the long, cheap cable that results in a significant voltage drop the device backs down to a lower level.

    This is why I build my own USB leads using #00 welding cable.

  13. Coming soon on Texas Drivers Stopped At Roadblock, Asked For Saliva, Blood · · Score: 2

    To a TSA line near you; especially the DNA sampling part. #Gattica

  14. Where to start on Affordable Blood Work In Four Hours Coming To Pharmacies · · Score: 1

    When I think of Walgreens, I instantly think of airtight, impervious security and attentive employees obsessed with getting detailed work dead solid perfect the first time, every time.

    Meanwhile, on planet Earth...

    This info (I mean the 70% of it that is kept with the correct customer) will be hacked within two months. And buried deep within the 1-point EULA you have to agree to is permission to share all this information with every health insurer - especially your current one. In fact, the order will be: first your rates go through the roof, *then* word is passed along to you by the snail-est of mail that they found something in your tests.

  15. It had to be called panspermia, not panovumia, right? Right.

  16. I need to have my feet on it on Explorer Plans Hunt For Genghis Khan's Long-Lost Tomb · · Score: 1

    Says the white explorer of European decent. That should sit well with the locals.

  17. The Fifth Element on Why Letting Your Insurance Company Monitor How You Drive Can Be a Good Thing · · Score: 2

    "You now have one point remaining on your license."

  18. Which begs the bigger question on How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy · · Score: 1

    When it comes to hardware in terms of company and/or country, who can *anyone* trust?

    And evoking Reagan 's speech writer, how the hell would you verify anyway?

  19. Wanted on Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud · · Score: 1

    A crisply-produced short commercial of a Three Card Monte game involving Dollars, Pounds, and Euros backed by a jaunty piano soundtrack.

    Apple. Steal Different.

  20. Breathe Deep on US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    Smell the Freedom(TM)!

  21. Ah, the lightbulb goes on! on The Second Operating System Hiding In Every Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    Back then security experts advised to remove the battery before you discussed secrets in a corporate or government setting, in order to avoid falling victim to espionage.

    And now I realize the main motivator for non-removable batteries in phones (and laptops for that matter).

  22. Mr. Kafka to the White Courtesy Phone on WikiLeaks Releases the Secret Draft Text of the TPP IP Rights Chapter · · Score: 2

    At the current rate of insanity, it would not surprise me if individuals with photographic memories will soon be rounded up and imprisoned for IP theft.

  23. By-products on Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results · · Score: 1

    I've never understood what happens to the salt (and a none-too-pure salt at that) from large-scale desalinization processes.

    Let me guess: it's either dumped back in the sea or left as a slurry and pumped underground as they do in the oil patch.

  24. It pains me to write this but on Sweden Is Closing Many Prisons Due to Lack of Prisoners · · Score: 1

    you can accomplish quite a lot societally if the populace is essentially homogeneous. When you neighbor is on the dole, it's fine if he's from the same 'tribe' as you, but if he 'different', that's when all the lizard brain hatreds come to fore.

  25. Cut out the Middle-Man on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Where is my droud?