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  1. It looks strangely familiar on NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona · · Score: 1, Funny
  2. cross marketing.. on Amazon Kindle Endorsed By Oprah · · Score: 0

    She's also on an infomercial selling it as a weight loss device.

  3. How should I respond to this? on Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. I am shocked!
    2. I am outraged!
    3. I am indignant!
    4. Tubes, what tubes?
    5. This is why I wrap all my important body parts in tinfoil.
    6. Why didn't we know about this sooner?
    7. If it's not on BoingBoing I don't believe it.

    Please, someone in authority with intelligence tell me what to think about this. Oh.. wait... that's never going to happen is it.

  4. Re:Just add beer... on The Walking House · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And a great story to tell when a house stumbles into you!

  5. Just add beer... on The Walking House · · Score: 5, Funny

    This alters the playing field of going home drunk considerably.

    You can either have your house follow you.

    Or your house could just not be there when you go home.

  6. mission control transcript on Indian Moon Mission Launched · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This is Chandrayaan-1 we have a problem."

    "You have reached mission control. Your call is very important to us. Please hold and the next available representative will be with you shortly."

    "This is Chandrayaan-1 we are losing thrust and are off course."

    "Remember, mission control is here for you. Have you heard about our latest service pack upgrades and special licensing agreements? Press one now if you'd like to hear more. If not, continue holding and your call will be answered in the order recieved. Thank you for calling mission control!"

  7. Tuesday is my Fat-Heart group... on Stem Cells From Fat Create Beating Heart Cells · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the plan was to get the entire world to bulk up and then sell their fat back to them as a means to save them...

    the first rule of stem cell research is you don't talk about stem cell research.

  8. Fat people... on Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is like two fat people drinking diet coke with their supersized double cheeseburger meal.

  9. oldest disk drive... on Build a Cheap Media-Reading PC? · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you want to start at the bottom...

    figure out how to read the oldest disk first...

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

  10. Paranoid... on Microsoft Bids To Take Over Open Document Format · · Score: 3, Funny

    Putting this just above the article on paranoid Linux distro seems like there's a conspiracy.

  11. Re:Sensationalist Much? on "Dark Flow" Outside Observable Universe · · Score: 0

    They originally were calling it Colored Matter but for some reason that got changed to Matter of Color. Now it just shows you got lab cred if you call it Dark Matter.

  12. astonishing? on Report is Critical of US For Dumping E-Waste Overseas · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This would only be astonishing to those people same people who believe the elections aren't rigged and that cars would fly by 2k.

  13. Re:If your good it wont matter on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 0

    Other examples are people who find it difficult to distinguish between your and you're.

  14. Reverse Testing on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 0

    Can we test potential employers? Why do we take their word that it's "a great place to work." And certainly why should we believe stuff like "we work as a team."

    Interview the potential bosses and test them on commonsense and ability to be a decent person to work with/for.

    Besides just raw data research, I've always found it critical to ask questions and look around meeting people and talking to everyone I can. If you ask the lowest people in the system how they are treated, that's a very fair assessment of the overall health of the social environment.

  15. FFS on Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers · · Score: 0
    Get the fuck over yourself Apple. Before we know it you'll try to take control of the following words since they all appear in your products:
    • air
    • book
    • keyboard
    • screen
    • click
    • user

    If someone OWNS an object they can do whatever they want to with it. Play in your own box and leave others alone.

  16. And less exploding... on Sony Pledges More Accurate Laptop Battery Figures · · Score: 0

    Or at least less figures of recalls and potentially exploding batteries.

  17. Re:Rudimentary on Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier · · Score: 3, Informative

    [sarcasm]I'm sure there are plenty of inspectors to enforce that law as well.[/sarcasm]

    Mad cow disease, just so you understand it, is prion based. It does not just randomly happen. It is impossible for the brain to just make up prions. It must first come in contact with them by consumption or injection. Considering the fact that no one goes around injecting the bovine population with syringes filled with prions we must conclude a cow get's them by ingestion. That would mean that a "mad cow" infected animal got that why be eating the brain or spinal tissue of another MAMMAL.

    http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1629

    http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/silence51104.cfm

    http://www.goveg.com/ABD_madcow.asp

  18. Rudimentary on Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Considering that we force feed cows and chickens the meat bi-products of the industry, we're actually causing a great deal of this to happen. In a perfect world we'd not feed herbivores rudiments and accelerate this type of process. But then again, garbage in garbage out, we deserve what we get.

  19. Freed of SP**CH! on Facebook Blocks Users From Mentioning BugMeNot.com · · Score: 0

    That like so sucks that u kn0w, ur fr33dom of sp33ch has been taken away from U!

  20. It was the best of 74 69 6d 65 73 , on The Electronic Bastille · · Score: 0

    it was the worst of dGltZXM= .

  21. Article Summary on To Boldly Go Where No Mento Has Gone Before · · Score: 0

    I have too much time and money and I don't know what to do with either.

  22. Room Service on Best Western Loses Details On 8 Million Customers · · Score: 0

    I wonder if the burglars will leave a mint on my pillow when I go on vacation.

  23. Re:More proof Google is evil on Google Says Complete Privacy Does Not Exist · · Score: 0, Funny

    Wouldn't that be "foogle?"

  24. What about NeXT? on Apple After Jobs · · Score: -1

    Seriously if Jobs is the Shit why did NeXT go belly up so fast? That was his baby. Apple is a complete entity. NeXT was not.

  25. He's the Architect on The Father of Multi-Core Chips Talks Shop · · Score: -1

    He's got this crazy room full of monitors!