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  1. Re:Pick up a penny, of course! on Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies · · Score: 1

    I thought lollies were illegal in Australia.

  2. Re:Thanks Canada on Canada ISPs Not Subject To Content Rules, Court Says · · Score: 2
    In other words:
    • "It's old man Mort!"
    • "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!"
  3. Re:P.S. First! (sorry, I couldn't resist!) on Battery Turns Saltwater Into Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Thanks for making me read that entire paragraph in Christopher Lloyd's dramatically hurried voice.

  4. Re:Of course it matters on Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Wherever a joke flies overhead, a woooosh ROFLCopters by.

  5. Re:Content, not the Technology on Tapeheads and the Quiet Return of VHS · · Score: 1

    Ro ots and anal g panty s ots wi h drop uts

  6. Re:Down with America on Nascent Graphene Institute Makes Steps Toward Transistors · · Score: 5, Funny

    He didn't even bother to initialize the variables. I sure hope t != 0.

  7. Re:Something to replace commemorative stamps? on Philatelists Push Petition For Pluto Probe Postage · · Score: 2

    $75 commemorative coins.

  8. Re:What if we go there? on New Exoplanet Is Best Yet Candidate For Supporting Life · · Score: 1

    RTFQ? Does not compute!

  9. Re:Rebooting without the keyboard on Microsoft Releases Kinect For Windows · · Score: 1

    Most cases I've seen in the last couple decades have a tiny, inset reset button. Do you have a tack duct taped to your boot?

  10. Re:Wrong way around on Science Panel Recommends Censoring Bird Flu Papers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or staple together said millions of copies and submit them to the House/Senate as a bill.

  11. Re:But... on AMD's New Radeon HD 7950 Tested · · Score: 2

    In my experience (OpenSuse, though, not Ubuntu), install first, add extra monitors later, especially if they run at different resolutions. If you use the official/proprietary drivers, be sure the open drivers are completely removed from your system or you'll have a conflict.

  12. Re:Congratulations on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was thinking Bullet Bill.

  13. Re:c:\ erase /S *.* on Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon · · Score: 2

    So we just need Anonymous to DoS their servers first?

  14. Re:Achilles Heel on Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake · · Score: 1

    It's not the ones and zeros but the data they represent—they're just an encoding. There are lots of codecs, each with its own set of variables, so that even one photo will have an indefinite number of different possible 1/0 strings which can represent it. We have copyright to help the 'author' recover the cost of time and effort to arrange the bits/photons/molecules into something that interests us, not just to get a particular representative bit string into your hands.

    It's like paying for a performance, except it happened before you heard it. But if you did go to a show, it would cost the performers nothing to distribute those photons/sound waves to your head, yet you'd still have to pay some fixed price, not the cost to create the show divided by the number of attendees.

    Music, movies and games should cost as much as the creators can get away with, which means finding the balance between giving it away for free and everyone taking it for free and accepting the fact that the population subset who won't 'play by the rules' will never go away but can be minimized by picking the 'right' price.

  15. Re:Achilles Heel on Jailbreaking the Internet For Freedom's Sake · · Score: 1

    most people won't want to use their bandwidth to act as a router for anonymous traffic

    or worse, be an exit node for anonymous traffic.

  16. Re:Misleading to call it "non-copied" on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    A giant query string that Australian Google seems to ignore, leading to the front page; must be session-dependent.

  17. Re:Yo Dawg! on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 2

    We heard nobody liked Vistas but we put Windows in your windows so you can play flash games with your neighbors while you play Flash games with your 'Friends'. At least, until the cops show up: "This window has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down immediately!"

  18. Re:I suspect there is an additional handling charg on TSA Makes $400K Annually In Loose Change · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "a" few "agents" "stealing" "abandoned" pocket "change \"pales \\\"in\\\" comparison\"".

    "Fixed" that for "you".

  19. Re:Prices ARE different on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    Why would I drink a 32+ oz coke right at the beginning of a 2-3 hour movie?

    To give the janitor job security.

  20. Re:Amazing pic on Astronaut Photographs Comet Lovejoy ... From Space · · Score: 2

    These costs—would you say they're...astronomical?

  21. Re:How Is This an Add-On? on Coders Develop Ways To Defeat SOPA Censorship · · Score: 1

    In that case, we'll considered society trolled and call it a night.

  22. Re:Anyone who thinks they can predict the future.. on IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years · · Score: 1

    Thus, in the future, giving somebody the finger will be a good thing!

  23. Re:Why? on Nightingale Media Player Preview Released · · Score: 1

    Nope. Not at all! Your client simply formatted it the way you wanted it to.

  24. Re:We could learn a thing or two.... on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    We just need to drive turbines with all the hot air, like a solar tower but with congressmen at the base.

  25. Re:This is being whitewashed from the white house on LightSquared Disrupts 75% of GPS Connections In Government Test · · Score: 1

    Isosceles eaters circling the perimeter to sinus up for circumcisions—circumscriptions—to an irrational number of circulations.
    Oh wait, you said good.