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  1. Re:Whatever happened to common sense? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 2, Funny

    let's suggest the head instead of an arm.

    She'll have to get it out of her ass first!

  2. Re:"Value Added" on Telcos Waking Up To the Value of Your Location · · Score: 5, Funny

    My guess is they sell this data to the corrupt motherfuckers who are running our country so they know exactly where any miscreants are as soon as the do something remotely questionable! Bastards! Wait . . . there's someone at the door . . . I'll be right b

  3. Re:800-Million pound cost on UK Home Office Set To Scrap National ID Cards · · Score: 3, Funny

    (PS: Got my data from World Bank / ukpublicspending.co.uk / HMRC statistics / other reliable sources).

    I work for a research science group and I so, so wish I could cite reliable source when writing up!

  4. Re:Save the aliens! on Weird Exoplanet Orbits Could Screw Up Alien Life · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In fact, weird exoplanet orbits may be the deciding factor as to whether extraterrestrial life can form or not.

    Not sure the word 'fact' belongs in that sentence with the rest of the wild speculation. I do however want to donate to your fund but only when facts become the endpoint of extra-terrestrial flavoured cosmology and not the spark for futurology!

  5. Re:And nothing of value is lost on UK Newspaper Websites To Become Nearly Invisible · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah it's a bit stupid but then dinosaurs always did have small brains.

    I agree it's stupid. But usually stupid stuff is comprehensible or funny - this is neither. I am absolutely incredulous that a multi-million dollar organisation like News International has surveyed the current situation regarding the provision of news and decided the best thing for it is a paywall. It just beggars belief. How the fuck do these guys even feed themselves let alone run a business!?

  6. Re:stupid on Scientist Infects Self With Computer Virus · · Score: 1

    It's the University of Reading.

    Ahh yes how very imaginative. Mine was called the University of Slacking Off Drinking Beer. I guess they get better marks at the University of Reading, sounds more useful anyway.

  7. Re:ignore them and show it anyway on Decency Group Says "$#*!" Is Indecent · · Score: 1

    and recite pi to one hundred places, one hundred times.

    Have you been reading Anathem

  8. Re:Sounds unreasonable on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 3, Funny

    This also happens to be exactly why I keep my Facebook free of anyone from work.

    I take this one step further by not having anything to do with Facebook. That's after I've made sure I have no friends of course. That'll learn 'em!

  9. Re:OBT is not breaking any laws on Swedish Court Rules ISP Must Reveal OpenBitTorrent Operator's Identity · · Score: 1

    What's happening with Sweden recently? Have they been nobbled?

  10. Re:I can't wait. on Toyota Partners With Tesla To Make Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Electric and hybrid car batteries depend on rare earth elements, of which 97% are mined in China. Why are we replacing one foreign controlled energy source with another?

  11. Re:The Wrong Way on Wine 1.2 Release Candidate Announced · · Score: 1

    I've already sent an e-mail asking for my mistake to be reversed.

    Just post a comment in the discussion (under your normal UID) and your mis-mod will be nuked. Unless of course your really, really need to mod that comment, but honestly it ain't that important!

  12. Re:Apple. on Ninth Suicide At iPhone Factory · · Score: 1

    In capitalist utopias we prefer '' to your egalitarian square brackets . . .

  13. Re:Cue on Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers · · Score: 1

    who for some reason are determined to purge the natural human desire for privacy that has existed since the dawn of human evolution

    mmm maybe privacy meant something different back then but I'm sure in all those 'caveman' films the dudes were walking around in the buff . . .

  14. Re:Well... on iPad Steering Wheel Mount · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this is just a joke. Nobody would ruin a perfectly good iPad by attaching a car to it.

  15. Re:matrix on 10,000 Cows Can Power 1,000 Servers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    er hate to break it to you dude but you didn't make it up the food chain. Unless, of course, you were complicit not only in your own birth but that of a few dudes before you!

  16. Re:Talk to a lawyer on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    Well as a starting point Wikipedia is good enough. You say 'when this gets to court', which is far from likely given the scenario outlined in the summary. I get the impression that the summary poster is just fishing for pointers not recruiting a legal team ;)

  17. Re:High Bar on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    You mean taking words to be logically distinct categories can be erroneous? Actually that explains quite a lot . . .

    But to push the 'joke' further: No, not all people are equally fat - but 'more than fat' is by definition not 'fat'. It might be obese, or humongous, but it is not 'fat'. Obviously what constitutes fat is subjective but the point remains . . .

  18. Re:Talk to a lawyer on Can Employer Usurp Copyright On GPL-Derived Work? · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia can help too!

  19. Re:High Bar on Google Defends Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    Er no. Better than shitty is by definition 'Not shitty'. If it were shitty it would be 'shitty', plain and simple. Better than shitty may simply be 'better than shitty', or it may be something more prosaic, like 'acceptable', however what it definitely isn't is just 'shitty'. Less than one is be definition not one.

  20. Re:File management on Canonical Bringing an Instant-On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    what the fuck are 'files'?

  21. Re:A real hacker... on Researchers Demo Hardware Attacks Against India's E-Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Yep I guess that's true. But a real 'internet' hacker, with inbuilt faux machismo, would also ferret out anyone who says the voting machines are are 'tamperproof,' 'infallible,' and 'perfect,' and give them a slap. And then another one.

  22. Re:don't forget squeezebox on When Internet Radios Get Affordable · · Score: 2, Funny

    Most people have a few spare xbox's kicking around.

    May I suggest a walk outside. The fresh air is lovely.

  23. Re:It's Always the Chess Players on Russian Officials To Investigate Regional President's Alien Abduction Claims · · Score: 1

    More pertinently Ilyumzhinov is up for re-election as President of FIDE soon and is currently in a battle with former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov for the Russian Chess Federation's nomination. This couldn't have come at a better time for Karpov. Roll on a new era in chess administration and please lets put an end to Chess Grand Prix's and other prestigious tournaments being held in the back of beyond to satisfy some curious regional egotism!

  24. Agility on CBS and CNN Could Be Making News Together · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, because what we need more of in this face, paced online environment is an old media behemoth to bring ingenuity and inventiveness to the scene!

  25. Re:One question on Austria Converts Phone Booths To EV Chargers · · Score: 1

    Well that's comedy and programming off the list. Fireman? Fighter pilot?