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  1. Re:Return to a space suit design of the 1960s on NASA Testing Lighter Space Suits For Asteroid Work · · Score: 1

    Spent money like water, came up with the shortest path to "beating them Ruskies"

    Spend money like Wall Street, come up with the shortest path to "bankrupt the Nation".

    That sounds similar to what the government is doing now . . . except we don't have anything to show off for it . . .

  2. Re:How is Norway going to know? on Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For example, tax fraud is assumed to be low in Switzerland compared to its neighbor states.

    Tax fraud committed by Swiss citizens may be low . . . but tax fraud committed by citizens of its neighbor states in Switzerland is very high.

  3. Re:Two 45s are nice for a 100W on US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month · · Score: 1

    I watched for three minutes in one instance until the thing fizzed out.

    Well, they do last longer . . . a old regular bulb would have burned out in a few seconds, or so.

  4. Re:Something must be done on Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US · · Score: 1

    Just move 9/10ths of those people out of the cities and force them to live in rural counties.

    . . . or the other way around.

    There is plenty of room on the sprawling Kennedy Mansion estate in Hyannis Port for a trailer park. The Kennedy's are always talking about helping out the poor folks like me. I'm sure they wouldn't mind if I set up camp in my trailer on their front lawn.

  5. Re:I'm waiting for autonomous taxis being everywhe on Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've ridden in a lot of taxis recently in the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Greece. I would miss having a live driver to tell me all the gossip in the city. Taxi drivers are always the most informed folks in any city. They can tell you who the mayor is sleeping with and where he buys his drugs.

    The NSA shouldn't pay employees to play online games. They should have them drive around in taxis and talk to the drivers. Taxi drivers would make the best intelligence network.

  6. Re:Yes but on Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking of cats specifically.

    Actually, I was thinking more Monty Python "Four Yorkshire Men":

    "When I was a lad, we lived in a paper bag in the middle of the road . . ."

  7. Meanwhile, SETI has decoded a message . . . on Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . "Have Leak! Send Plumber!" . . .

    . . . believed to have originated from Europa . . .

  8. Re:Bahahahahaha on Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn · · Score: 1

    I have a related problem at the moment - a couple of years ago someone accused me of sharing some other porno film, again T-Online was involved. My wlan is wpa2 with a 63-byte random, generated mixed upper/lower string and it accepts only one Mac address, I have checked both PCs which were on at the time for Trojans / Virii with a bootable scanner and there was nothing.

    Did you have WPS enabled on your router? If so, there is a vulnerability that can crack access to your router, even if you are using WPA2:

    https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/

  9. Too late DHL! Amazon already has the patent! on Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone · · Score: 1

    "A Method and Process for Using Things to Deliver Stuff Through the Air in the Skies."

  10. Our government is telling us they can't afford basic shit like hospitals and education and welfare, but they can afford to pay dorks to play Xbox all fucking day.

    I'm thinking of sending a bunch of fiddles to Washington to our government for Christmas.

    They could play the fiddles like Caesar Nero while our country burns down.

  11. Re:Title Pedant on Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating · · Score: 1

    Well, nicotine patches can stop people from smoking . . . so maybe someone just needs to invent "food patches" . . . ? You know, just peel of the back paper, stick it on your shoulder, and the patch oozes some goo into you that makes you feel like you just gorged yourself on a deep-fried turkey. In bras, of course.

    Maybe the hardware in the Microsoft bra gives you electric shocks that create the same gorged feeling?

    Hmmm . . . do you really want to use the word "Micro" when talking about something for a female's tits . . . ? It might be taken in the wrong way. I'm not quite sure about the "soft" part either.

  12. Re:Sophisticated? on Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar · · Score: 2

    It reminded me of the brew that the Roman soldiers drank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posca

    Take bad wine and vinegar, and then spice and sweeten it up to make an ancient version of Coke.

  13. Re:Can we on Do Earthquakes Spread Like Wildfire? · · Score: 1

    (Yes, I'm aware that Pintos weren't in reality the blazing firetraps I'm using them as here. Artistic license ftw!)

    Well, the correct analogy du jour would use Teslas and Porsche Carrera GTs. But a lot of cars have problems when they have loose nuts behind the steering wheels.

    Maybe earthquakes spread like computer viruses . . . ?

  14. Everyone's a Cloud Provider these days. on In Three Years, Nearly 45% of All the Servers Will Ship To Cloud Providers · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you don't have "Cloud Provider" in your services portfolio, you're like, so totally last century. Nobody provides server hosting or IT services these days. Everyone does cloud, man. The same old IT department at your employer is now a Cloud Provider.

    If you have a server in your mom's basement . . . congratulations, you are a cloud provider!

    It's all so everyone can claim that they are doing Cloud.

  15. Re: Human error on About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, my mistake then.

    "If you like your mistake, you can keep it."

    Obamacare was rushed out, without any testing, and it's a new application for them. Of course it will have all the hallmarks of a version 1.0 release . . . like plenty of errors. Most wise IT folks always wait for the second or third release of a product before using it.

    Except with Obamacare, it's the law that you have to use the 1.0 buggy release.

  16. Re:Not restrained by law? on Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In · · Score: 1

    How is the NSA not restrained by law when operating outside the USA?

    The same way that the USA is not restrained by law when operating outside the USA.

  17. Re:Interfacing 2 languages that are C *is* easy on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 2

    I just tried working with a codebase that had the same arrays storing both ints and pointers, and doing index arithmetic all over the place. The really horrifying thing was that it actually compiled 64bit, and just behaved differently.

    Well, as Bill Clinton so eloquently said:

    "It depends on what the meaning of the word ints ints"

  18. Re:Stealing an Amazon Drone on How To Hijack a Drone For $400 In Less Than an Hour · · Score: 1

    'round my parts, a horde of kids will be chasing them drones with Louisville Sluggers, while chanting:

    "Pinata! Pinata! Pinata!"

    "Hey! Mine had an iPhone in it! Cool!"

    "Su Madre! Mine had yet another copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" . . .

  19. Re:i-Phone, i-Pad on How Much of ISON Survived Its Closest Approach To the Sun? · · Score: 3, Funny

    iSon may have survived a close encounter with the intense heat of the Sun . . . but it won't survive the intense heat of Apple's IP lawyers.

  20. Re:Overrated on Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally, I think Salinger's best, and most accessible, work is "Nine Stories". Have a go at that, if you are interested. How can you resist such titles as, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor" . . . ?

    A story about a whiney teenager with too much money for his own good ?

    A lot of famous literary works can be summed up in simple sentences:

    • "Romeo and Juliet" - Kids from the wrong families want to get married, and things go terribly wrong.
    • "The Da Vinci Code" - People solve puzzles and find stuff.
    • "Crime and Punishment" - Guy kills a loan shark, and worries about it later.
    • "The Metamorphis" - Dude turns into a cockroach, and his family freaks out.
    • "Jane Eyre" - Poor chick grows up, and gets married.
    • "Goethe's Faust" - Guy cuts a bad deal with the Devil.
    • "The Bible" - God creates humans, and claims to be good and loving, but spends most of his time making life miserable for humans.
  21. Re:Extremists? on UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The United States of America was founded by armed political extremists.

  22. Re:Don't! on Ask Slashdot: Top Black Friday Tech Picks? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't stress out, don't skip spending time with your family and friends, don't become part of a violent mob.

    . . . spending time with my family and friends is becoming a part of a violent mob . . .

  23. Re:The real news on Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kennedy killed

    Kennedy shot himself.

    And Snowden has the documents to prove it!

    But Jackie immediately jumped out of the car with Kennedy's DNA on her dress, so she could be quickly transported to Area 51, where Wernher von Braun (Eva's brother) was filming the trips to the moon with Stanley Kubrick, and other Operation Paperclip scientists, who combined JFK's DNA with Martin Luther King's DNA to create Barack Obama, so he really is American, even though he doesn't have a birth certificate, because both his fathers were American (Chew on that, Fox News!), and Stanley Kubrick was so impressed with what was going on in the German test tubes, that he filmed Obama's birth and used it in 2001 for that last scene in the film that nobody understands, but the CIA wanted to cover up his suicide, because they were afraid of looking weak to the Russians, so they pumped Hunter S. Thompson full of LSD, mushrooms, and gave him a case of Jack Daniel's to take the edge of a bit, and then he ranted and raged out loud, while the NSA wrote all the crazy conspiracy theories down, so they could leak them to the public over the years, so the public would be distracted from the NSA and CIA's really evil long term plans for subverting control of the government of the USA . . .

    . . . and it all would have worked, if it wasn't for that meddling Snowden!

    . . . Snowden, and the three secret holders of the secret decoder ring, who will reveal the secrets if Putin gets bored of Snowden, which he won't, because he likes sticking a weed up the US governments ass, and he is also afraid that Snowden's Secret Stash contains information about what (and who!) he was doing in East Berlin, while supposedly working for the KGB, but was really a tool of OPEC and de Beer's controlling the USSR's diamond and oil reserves, oh, and nickel, Russia has that, too, just like Canada, where aliens landed a spacecraft built of it in Sudbury, Ontario, just like the spaceship that crashed in Siberia, but was never found, because the Russians hid it to keep the nickel for themselves, and are currently testing the alien space technology on the International Space Station, where secret scientists are also working on . . .

  24. Re:How does he do against computers? on 22-Year-Old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen Is the New World Chess Champion · · Score: 3, Funny

    Computers have moved on to more intellectually challenging games . . . like Jeopardy.

    I wonder how Watson would do playing "Wheel of Fortune" or "The Price is Right" . . . ?

    . . . and a "Computer Family Feud" . . . priceless!

    "The Raspberry Pie was the first to hit the buzzer, before the iPad!"

  25. Re:Dream job on BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite was Oprah's troll:

    "I just LOVE my new Microsoft Surface!!! I'm bought 12 for Christmas!!!

    "-- posted from my iPad"

    If you're on the top of the trolling heap . . . you can afford to pay assistants to troll for you . . .