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  1. Re:With a budget of 74M ,,, on Mangalyaan Successfully Put Into Mars Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure they *might* be able to put together a little website with some animated cartoons of rockets. (Prolly end up having to get it redone after it fails to launch properly.)

  2. Re:When was gartner... on Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era · · Score: 2

    Many many years ago Gartner said it cost some ridiculous amount of $$$ to support a workplace desktop. A little over a decade ago they said it would cost $3K/yr to support a handheld. I've never paid attention to anything they've had to say since.

  3. Re:FTFY on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 1

    "Google or Facebook will eventually have to take up the task of making Tor scale up to millions of users as they sell the traversing information to anyone who will pay for it."

    FTFY

    Touché

  4. FTFY on NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers · · Score: 2

    "Google or Facebook will eventually have to take up the task of making Tor scale up to millions of users as they sell the traversing information to the NSA."

  5. "...will teach an MBA class..." on Professor Steve Ballmer Will Teach At Two Universities This Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guaranteeing yet another generation of assholes will be coming down the pike.

  6. So What's New? on EFF: US Gov't Bid To Alter Court Record in Jewel v. NSA · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Criminals in Congress (TM) have had the ability to retroactively "correct" the Congressional record forever...

  7. Welcome to the Privacy Free Zone on The Social Laboratory · · Score: 1

    Thank you for obeying!

  8. But... on Amazon Fire Phone Reviews: Solid But Overly Ambitious · · Score: 4, Funny

    "But if there's some cool, useful functionality to be had from super-aggressive, super-accurate face tracking, the Fire Phone doesn't have it."

    The NSA appreciates it tho.

  9. Ego on Google, Detroit Split On Autonomous Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The entire Detroit car scene has never been about transportation. It is a sales vehicle (sorry) for egos. I think Google, much as I dislike them, are looking at cars as transportation. Too mundane for the Detroit crowd... but much more practical.

  10. Re:Let them drink! on NYC Loses Appeal To Ban Large Sugary Drinks · · Score: 1

    ...you have to weed out those who are an excess burden on the body politic.

    Yay! Death Panels!

  11. Match.com, on Match.com, Mensa Create Dating Site For Geniuses · · Score: 1

    Mensa Create Dating Site For Pretentious Geniuses

    FTFY

  12. Your taxes at work on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 3, Funny

    Homeland Security will jump on this as the perfect opportunity to build a prison large enough to hold us.

  13. Re:Slow clap on NSA Surveillance Reform Bill Passes House 303 Votes To 121 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. Since King of NY and Rogers of MI - who have the NSA's hand so far up their backsides - voted YEA I'm inclined to say the NAYS are close to being Patriots.

  14. Re:Not me on Americans Hate TV and Internet Providers More Than Other Industries · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't blame them for doing what a business is supposed to do as much as I blame the politicians.

    Read "Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets" -http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Pockets/dp/0544103343

  15. Mayday PAC hasn’t said who will be doing the on Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly why it will be business as usual. Sorry.

  16. Re:Penis jokes aside... on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 2

    Exactly. When the Clinton "young uns" moved in to the White House after Bush One they made a big deal of the old phone system and low-tech offices.

    They upgraded to new systems and guess what? The WH started leaking like a sieve because it became easy to do. There was a reason the Bush White house was low-tech.

  17. "Misleading statements by agency officials to..." on Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean "lies" - FTFY.

  18. Re:Pretty cool but.... on Electric Bikes Get More Elegant Every Year (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    At that price it does nothing but scream hipster.

  19. Re:Shit... on US Secretary of State Calls Climate Change 'Weapon of Mass Destruction' · · Score: 1

    Now we're all terrorists.

    I guess I am if I throw another log in the wood stove today...

  20. Best Options For Ongoing Education? on Ask Slashdot: Best Options For Ongoing Education? · · Score: 1

    An open mind.

  21. New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted /. Beta on New Zealand Spy Agency Deleted Evidence About Its Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    I wish. it sucks.

  22. Unresurrect on Dried Meat "Resurrects" Lost Species of Whale · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the suck-y beta /. site.

  23. Re:Prairie home companion. on NPR Labs is Working on Emergency Alerts for the Deaf (Video) · · Score: 1

    Prairie Home Companion comes from American Public Media, not NPR.

  24. Given the penchant for drug use in this state I wonder how much would make it into the food stream?

  25. “Our primary goal is not to collect a fine.. on California Regulator Seeks To Shut Down 'Learn To Code' Bootcamps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    “Our primary goal is not to collect a fine. It is to drive them to comply with the law,” said Russ Heimerich, a spokesperson for BPPE. Heimerich is confident that these companies would lose in court if they attempt to fight BPPE.

    Sounds like a real charmer...