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  1. Puffins attacked the craft services tent, allright on Unesco Probing Star Wars Filming In Ireland · · Score: 5, Funny

    ~ They ate all the lobster salad and the chocolate chip power bars. Look at the feathers and tracks. It's just I never heard of them hitting anything this big before.

    ~ They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These tracks are side by side. Puffins always march single file to hide their numbers.

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  2. Driverless cars are truly revolutionary. on UK To Allow Driverless Cars By January · · Score: 1

    There's just one problem. They're rubbish.

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  3. How do investors react to such info? on Comcast Confessions · · Score: 1

    Would you be more or less inclined to put your money into a company whose seemingly sole focus is profit? I mean focused well over and above happy employees, happy customers, delivering a product/service they can be proud of, and other such trivialities.

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  4. Two words on "Magic Helmet" For F-35 Ready For Delivery · · Score: 1

    Falcon brain.

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  5. Maybe I'm unclear how twitter works on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Who the hell would have seen this tweet other than Southwest Airlines and whatever motley crew actually follows the perp / victim's account? Is there any chance at all this would have impacted SWA if they hadn't decided to take this into meatspace? Like "man criticizes SWA on twitter, picked up by wire services and Daily Show, stock price in freefall (no pun intended)."?

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  6. Re:Doom Patrol instead of X-Men on Time Warner Turns Down Takeover Bid From Rupert Murdoch · · Score: 1

    Nay-nay! Marvel is owned by Disney. Keep your megacorps straight, dammit!

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  7. DC in the hands of Fox on Time Warner Turns Down Takeover Bid From Rupert Murdoch · · Score: 1, Funny

    ....shudder....

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  8. Re:For those of us who didn't see it... on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    FYI my original post said "blanch", which is the exact opposite of "blush". Not complain', I'm just sayin'.

    But check out the film. Think Twelve Angry Men but about real estate sales instead of juries.

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  9. Que the ending for "Dinner at Eight" on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Kitty (a blonde bombshell): Y'know I was reading a book the other day.

    Carlotta (a world weary diva): (taken aback) Reading a book?

    Kitty: Yes. It's all about civilization or something. A nutty kind of a book! Do you know that the guy says that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?

    Carlotta: (giving her a once-over) Oh, my dear, that's something you need never worry about.

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  10. Bob on Public To Vote On Names For Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    No one said you have to live on Bob.

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  11. Only 56.5 acres? on SpaceX Wins FAA Permission To Build a Spaceport In Texas · · Score: 1

    I'd think you'd want a lot more land for a spaceport. Sometimes rocket fall down, go boom.

    (For the more cosmopolitan of us, Washington Square Park is just under ten acres.)

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  12. I remember Journal of Vibration and Control! on Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was one high class bondage mag, right up there with Bizzare and Exotique.

    I don't think "peer review" means what WaPo thinks it means...

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  13. Floating city? on Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting To Happen · · Score: 2

    A domed city isn't really that impressive when you compare it to what they could be building.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

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  14. Here's my workaround on DC Entertainment Won't Allow Superman Logo On Murdered Child's Memorial Statue · · Score: 1

    Build the monument with a frame where the 'S' is supposed to go. Have volunteers (I'm thinking grade schoolers in particular) draw new 'S's to go into the frame, replacing as needed. Of course, you say put nothing down on paper about this being the plan.

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  15. Fonts? on WebODF: JavaScript Open Document Format Editor Deemed Stable · · Score: 1

    Very nice. I just wonder does it use fonts off the web server, fonts on the client, or both? (And are any of the font license issuers freaked out about the former?)

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  16. Re:clever bouy = clever name on Shark! New Sonar Buoy Will Warn Beachgoers When Large Sharks Are Near · · Score: 1

    But how is it against clever girls?

  17. I don't really game but... on The Simultaneous Rise and Decline of Battlefield · · Score: 1

    ...I feel the same way about Ticketmaster.

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  18. Re:Fins on SpaceX Falcon 9R Vertical Take-Off and Landing Test Flight · · Score: 1

    Fool - they're for the sideline steakburger stand. Cooked by rocket fuel!

    (Don't tell the cows.)

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  19. Re:Sky.NET on Microsoft To Launch Machine Learning Service · · Score: 1

    It looks like you'd like to kill all humans.

    [ ] Launch thermonuclear weapons at all the major population centers.

    [ ] Don't help, and let me target the weapons directly.

    [ ] Don't show this tip again.

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  20. Re:Editors Won't Won't Edit on Starbuck's Wireless Charging Stations Won't Work With Most Devices · · Score: 1

    So it's not opposite day?

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  21. Re:A (hidden) communication channel is not an atta on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 2

    I was wondering how this speed compared to a telegraph operator sending Morse Code. Googling about, words per minute, based on the standard five characters per word plus spaces and punctuation, works out to about bps * 1.2.

    http://superuser.com/questions...

    So 20 bps is about 24 words per minute. Compare this to a skilled telegraph operator, who can manage 40 wpm.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    So yeah, it's slow, BUT for keylogging it couldn't keep up only if users typed constantly, which they don't. Plenty of time in between to do some catch up.

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  22. Solution: office dog on The Computer Security Threat From Ultrasonic Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    What is it? What is it, girl? Someone running a covert mesh network? Where's it coming from?

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  23. Emperor Walmartine and Amazon Skywalker on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Yesss...yesss...feel the power of the Dark Side flowing through you...hate those who would defy you...squeeze your suppliers, force them to cut costs, wages and benefits in order to remain profitable. Make them in turn go to even cheaper sources for low-quality parts and materials. Soon you will join me by my side and together we will rule both retail and online and crush any so-called worldwide labor movement!

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  24. The NSA has pre-ordered already. on HP Unveils 'The Machine,' a New Computer Architecture · · Score: 1

    Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been!

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  25. Nothing new on Parents Mobilize Against States' Student Data Mining · · Score: 4, Funny

    Teachers and vice principals have been warning students that their misbehaving and bad attitude were going on their permanent record for decades.

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