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  1. Sorry, I tried to resist... on New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache · · Score: 1

    Any computer running a late-model Intel microprocessor and a Web browser using HTML5...is vulnerable to this attack.

    Which brings a whole new depth of meaning to "Intel Inside". ;-)

  2. I wonder... on Automakers To Gearheads: Stop Repairing Cars · · Score: 1

    A cynic might suspect that this is the automakers' response to the coming of the electric car, with its much lower maintenance costs.

  3. Re:Lefty-totalitarian banning idiots should be ban on Powdered Alcohol Banned In Six States · · Score: 1

    Horseshit!

    A lot of Democrats knew perfectly well refusing to support the Iraq Invasion, having been handed cherry-picked intelligence apparently proving what we now know was deceitful nonsense, would be an electoral death sentence. And you know perfectly well the CIA was screaming bloody murder about the phonied-up garbage coming from Bush and his neo-con chickenhawks.

    Are you always this dishonest, or do you have to work at it?

  4. So five thousand dead soldiers later... on Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley · · Score: 0

    I just wanted to ask the post-Mission Accomplished George Bush: How's that "fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here" strategy workin' out for ya, Sparky?"

  5. Re:The Future of Top Gear: HBO or Film on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Sadly, you've completely forgotten one of the most important elements of the show: BBC is commercial free. This gave the hosts incredible range to slag any car they didn't happen to like.

    Try that on a show where just about all of the advertising revenue is coming directly from the auto industry and see what happens.

  6. A question: on Ford's New Car Tech Prevents You From Accidentally Speeding · · Score: 1

    Does it come pre-hacked, or does each individual police force in your area have to rape it separately?

  7. This won't end well... on Windows 10's Biometric Security Layer Introduced · · Score: 1

    "The software analyzes input from such hardware as fingerprint scanners and infrared sensors to make sure that you are you and not some impostor, and then signs you in without requiring you to enter a password.

    Fabulous. So in the Brave New World of Windows Hello, a "hacker" is a guy with an axe and a microwave.

    And I'm the one they call "Lefty".

  8. Am I the only one who's noticed? on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Funny how often these articles come from the country that brought "sox", "labor", "dialog" and "liter" to the English-speaking world. ;-)

  9. Re: HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    As long as you're the first, I can live with that.

  10. Re:HOWTO on How To Execute People In the 21st Century · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Nice job of cherry-picking, or simply devising a situation out of nothing.

    Meanwhile, why don't you tell us how many innocent people should be put to death who would otherwise have been exonerated...even decades after their conviction? One? A dozen? Where's your cut-off point? And what penalty should be paid by law enforcement officials who hide exculpatory evidence?

    Because these things have happened in reality a lot more often than the hypothetical case you describe.

  11. Medically... on Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    Does a huge spew of vomit count as one instance of feedback, or do they count the chunks and derive a more realistic number?

  12. Re:Mercy! on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    1. Yes.

    2. I know. We call these minor omissions "typos". I tend to make them when I'm in a hurry, because my right index finger contains a transplanted tendon and doesn't work very well.

  13. Re:Mercy! on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    I heard that when five WoW's (Women of Walmart) accidentally manage to synchronize their steps, seisometers as far away as Tierra Del Fuego register the disturbance. Also, dogs howl and cows stop giving milk.

  14. Great machines...for a while on Ultralight Convertibles Approaching Desktop Performance · · Score: 1

    I'm sure these computers are fabulous. I'm equally sure they'll burn out in two or three years...or less. Meanwhile, I've got a seven year old desktop PC that has never been shut off for any length of time, only rebooted.

    It's fine. Yes, I have a more up-to-date machine, which I use when I need it. It will eventually take its place as my reliable backup, when the old one finally croaks...if it ever does.

  15. Mercy! on Sewage Bacteria Reveal Cities' Obesity Rates · · Score: 1

    Please, for the love of god, do NOT test Walmart's sewers.

  16. Re:Welcome to the real world on The US's First Offshore Wind Farm Will Cut Local Power Prices By 40% · · Score: 1

    Considerably less than the cost in lives of all the American soldiers who have died protecting the "rights" of US-based oil companies in the Middle East.

  17. Ultimate Safety on Statistical Mechanics Finds Best Places To Hide During Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    I should think the safest place to hide would be among fundamentalists.

    No large concentration of brains there to attract hungry zombies.

  18. Re:Sounds about right on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    I'd still pick Silicon Valley, but yeah. Good answer. :-)

  19. Sounds about right on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 2

    Where would one find a large, concentrated population of the most selfish, inconsiderate, greedy, preening, risk-loving, egotistical, psychopaths on the continent?

    Bingo!

  20. A different countdown on NASA Launches Satellite To Observe Soil Moisture · · Score: 1

    Cue the Global Warming Denier trolls who infest this place in three...two...one...

  21. This sounds serious! on Adobe's Latest Zero-Day Exploit Repurposed, Targeting Adult Websites · · Score: 2

    So do action shots of me in my Captain Cocktastic costume (girlfriend's crotchless panties, Captain America helmet, red cape, and big, hairy winter boots), leaping to the attack over a suspiciously-shaped beanbag chair, constitute pornography, comedy or educational material?

    If the first is true, should I worry that I may fall victim to this security threat should the pictures accidentally become public?

  22. Re:Your Tax Dollars At Work on US Government Lurked On Silk Road For Over a Year · · Score: 1

    Thanks for an interesting perspective on this.

  23. Re:Your Tax Dollars At Work on US Government Lurked On Silk Road For Over a Year · · Score: 1

    You proved your opinion is worthless, and you know exactly how. So I'll repeat myself: fuck off. You're a shill, probably paid by some government enforcement agency one way or another.

  24. Re:Your Tax Dollars At Work on US Government Lurked On Silk Road For Over a Year · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your comment isn't worthy of a serious response.

    Fuck off.

    There are adults here, and you don't belong.

  25. Re: Let's ban all guns! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Would I be correct to assume I'm seeing evidence of yet another conservative American somehow managing to raise himself momentarily up from the fetid swamp of willful ignorance and blind, vacuous stupidity that is his home to excrete more evidence of the decline of a once-proud nation onto the public stage?

    Dude, you should just post a link to a YouTube video of a dog having a dump and save everybody time.