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  1. Bad Headline on Google Glass User Fights Speeding Ticket, Saying She's Defending the Future · · Score: 1

    Google Glass is irrelevant to the speeding ticket, she's "defending the future" as part of her fight against the other ticket...another solid performance, Slashdot.

  2. obligatory on Lawsuits Seek To Turn Chimpanzees Into Legal Persons · · Score: 1

    I, for one, welcome our new chimpanzee overlords.

  3. Try this search on Yahoo! Liable In Italy For Searchable Content · · Score: 1
  4. I for one... on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 1

    welcome our new dolphin overlords.

  5. Our tax dollars at work... on Microsoft Lays Claim To Patent On 'Fans' · · Score: 1

    I think US citizens should have the right to sue assholes that steal our tax dollars by doing stupid crap like this. Of course, I'm claiming the patent on that one.

  6. The real problem is parents. on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 1

    I know there are plenty of bad drivers out there, but we should probably spend time writing laws against parents letting their kids run around parking lots. How about instead of cars being required to have cameras, parents are required to put their kids on a leash?

  7. Re:Biggest paradox of all on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    But Biff couldn't return after Doc and Marty successfully fixed the timeline because had Biff gone to Alt-1985 like he should have, they never would have gotten the Delorean back to go back to 1985 (and then 1955) to fix everything. Mind. Blown.

  8. Biggest paradox of all on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    Why didn't Biff return to the alternate 2015? If Doc and Marty would have gone to an alternate 2015 had they gone back, shouldn't Biff have gone there as well on his return to the future?

  9. Re:ISS on You're Never More Than 115 Miles From McDonald's · · Score: 1

    theirs would be a larger unit.

    That's what she said.

  10. Deep Thought on Solving an Earth-Sized Jigsaw Puzzle · · Score: 1

    I thought Deep Thought already did this. The answer was 42.

  11. Why not... on Like Google's Chrome, Mozilla To Silently Update Firefox 4 · · Score: 1

    Why not ask whether you want to be notified once it gets ready to update for the first time? This way, people who don't want to be notified in the future can elect not to (make this the default choice), and those that do can uncheck to box easily. Everyone's happy.

  12. I'm pretty sure... on Counting the World's Books · · Score: 0

    Steven King has written at least that many.

  13. ticketsnow.com on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 0

    Doesn't TicketMaster own TicketsNow.com, a "resale marketplace" (read scalper website)?

  14. Last time I checked... on The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software · · Score: 0

    Last time my boss bought software, he wasn't concerned about fancy things like TCO, ROI, or whether the software he was buying actually did anything that was useful to us whatsoever. He thought it looked pretty, and that was all the criteria he needed to go on.

  15. Re:This is news? on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 0

    To do those things with no job can be quite difficult.

    Which is exactly my point. You may have to work at a grocery store (which sucks, trust me) to get through college, but to say you couldn't go to college because your parents didn't have money, just means you're lazy.

  16. Re:This is news? on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 0

    after I graduated high school my parents still didn't have the cash to help me in college

    Which should have made it easier for you to pay for college. With the vast amounts of student aid available to low income families, there is no excuse for you not going to college if you wanted to go. My parents actually made quite a bit of money, but refused to help me out at all, which screwed me because the amount of financial aid that I could receive was limited by their rather large paychecks.

    So, what happened? I worked 40 hours a week and went to school full time. Was it fun? No. Was it worth it? I guess so, I work for an awful company, but they pay me an awful lot of money.

    To say that you couldn't go to college is a load of crap, you didn't want to, and now you're paying the price for it.

  17. Re:depends... on Are We Searching Google, Or Is Google Searching Us? · · Score: 0

    You can't judge a place you've never been, that's what people in Russia do!

  18. What I'm waiting for... on Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader · · Score: 0

    I'll start buying e-readers when they start printing the words "Don't Panic" in large friendly letters on the cover.

  19. Re:Not always on The Red Team Wins · · Score: 0
    To be fair to the study though, from wikipedia:

    Throughout the years, the Cowboys' blue jersey has been popularly viewed to be "jinxed" because the team often seemed to lose when they wore them. This curse purportedly became popular after the team lost Super Bowl V, when they were forced to wear their colored jersey because they were the designated home team.[12] Since then, the rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey. Most of the time, Dallas will wear their blue jersey when they visit Washington, Miami, or one of the handful of other teams that traditionally wear their white jersey at home during the first half of the season due to the hot climates in their respective cities. Occasionally opposing teams will wear their white jerseys at home to try to invoke the curse,[13] as when the Philadelphia Eagles hosted the Cowboys in the 1980 NFC Championship Game.[14] Although Dallas has made several tweaks to their blue jerseys over the years, Schramm said he did not believe in the curse.[15] The Cowboys seem to do better in their white jersey (and it is their preferred jersey) even though it contains blue.
  20. Delta Force on Chuck Norris Backs Down On Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    In Soviet Russia, government backs down to Chuck Norris after watching Delta Force marathon on cable.

  21. What about... on Prototype EU Airplane Spy Cams Watch For Facecrime · · Score: 0

    I'm always angry when I have to fly, mainly because I'm really tall and the seats are really close together. And then some jerk that's 4 feet tall somehow manages to get the exit row and I'm stuck with my knees stuck in the back of the tray table in front of me because the jerk in front of me is too inconsiderate to sit up for a little while.

  22. Almost there... on 1TB Blu-Ray Compatible Optical Disc Announced · · Score: 0

    Finally, I have somewhere than I can store 0.0001% of all the internet's pr0n!!!

  23. Re:Thank goodness that is settled on UK Prosecutors Say 'Cult' Acceptable · · Score: 0

    You can't judge a place you've never been to, that's what people do in Russia!

  24. Re:Won't that mean... on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 0

    I was thinking more along the lines of "The best way to keep Windows from getting a virus, is to not install it in the first place"

  25. Won't that mean... on Microsoft Patents 'Proactive' Virus Protection · · Score: 4, Funny

    that the Windows set up will refuse to allow you to install Windows?