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  1. Re:CGI wishes on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's an awsome idea, why hire a wedding photographer when you can outsource it to a chinese 3d rendering company, and the results will be so much better!

  2. Re:Mobile Data cant exceed capacity on American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum · · Score: 1

    Mobile data in this case means "my ridiculous annual bonus".
    "Innovation" means the "bi-annual yacht purchase and opulent coke, whores and champagne party"

  3. Re:roadrage demonstrations. on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    We could simply stage an unlawful protest at a masquerade the politicians attend to, being lawful cititizens we would of course not bring masks ourself.
    Also, every year during halloween.

  4. Re:roadrage demonstrations. on Wear a Mask During a Protest In Canada: 10 Years In Jail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bring a motorcycle and a helmet(it's not a mask, it's a safety feature demanded by law) and drive around inside goverment buildings, trying to run over the lawmakers behind this atrocity.

  5. Re:hard AI on US Metaphor-Recognizing Software System Starts Humming · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone would code anything in something that is an anagram for meat froth.

  6. Re:junk science on Methane Producing Dinosaurs May Have Changed Climate · · Score: 4, Funny

    Another recent study suggests the dinosaurs died off because they couldn't stand the smell.

  7. It have to be said on Researchers Model Pluto's Atmosphere, Find 225 Mph Winds · · Score: 1

    That blows.

  8. Re:paranoid nanny state on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 2

    Well, they could use something along the line of a nuclear tipped ballistic missile interceptor, that ought to properly vaporize the plane mid-flight.

    Although I guess there's that other problem with this particular solution.

  9. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Do they still collect knives and pointy stuff in huge containers to be used as shrapnel for any terrorist walking by with a few pounds of semtex(as detailed in Transition(the Ian Banks book, good read there))

  10. How wonderful on Brain Scan Can Predict Math Mistakes · · Score: 4, Funny

    A patronizing system that tells you that you've already failed before you've actually done so that gives you amateurish problems so it can see you succeed.

    I hope it comes with a robot arm that tears the test paper out from under your pen, pats you on the head and give you a first grade replacement problem. Bonus for cheering with a nonenthusiastic voice whenever you pass a problem.

  11. Re:TSA on New Sanctions To Target Syrian and Iranian Tech Capacity · · Score: 1

    Although I guess they are strongly convergent and will be synonymous ina year or two. The United Security Agency, sounds good yes.

  12. Re:TSA on New Sanctions To Target Syrian and Iranian Tech Capacity · · Score: 5, Funny

    you mean the USA

  13. Re:FULL universe simulation on First Full Observable-Universe Simulation · · Score: 1

    We just do bulk simulations of everything when no one is looking at the details.

    Which means that we just need to simulate one really stupid human instead of an individual most of the time.

    We had somewhat of a crisis when genius scientists were around and people wanted to observe the universe and every second required several clock cycles. We solved that with a really nice optimization patch; all the visionaries and scientific geniuses died of pancreatic cancer, entertainment media got a lot better and most people got a lot more stupid, nowadays we do several years per cycle as opposed to just a few days.

    It almost got to the point where we had to simulate actual planetary bodies and celestial mechanics instead of just displaying a high-resolution animated skybox. Now of course if you start to measure it doesn't work out properly but it's not like anyone will have funding for doing anything accurate enough to blow our cover anytime soon.

    Meanwhile, we're watching you masturbate.

    Sincerely.
    The God Commitee.

  14. Re:A bad idea that "sounds good". on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    And then you wake up from your masturbation fantasy and realize that a 500 ton asteroid is tiny.

    Assuming it have a density of 2000kg/m^3 we're talking about a 4meter radius sphere here.

    So it plummets into a major city, most burn up in the atmosphere and then it hits an empty parkinglot, destroying a few cars and creating a dustcloud that makes an uneducated redneck like you shout "TERRARIST ATTAKK!!"

  15. Re:Launch vehicle by NASA? on In Google's Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning · · Score: 2

    I'd recommend that google leases a bunch of spaceX heavy rocket, fills it with all the contestants vessels and drop them off in LEO to let them race eachother to the moon in a no-holds-barred robotic deathrace.

    Televised in glorious full HD of course.

  16. Re:truer words on All Hands Active in Ann Arbor is a Makerspace for All Ages (Video) · · Score: 1

    Children could learn to be responsible and start innovating, can't have that now can we, please arrest this freedom hating child molester!

  17. Re:Prevention cheaper on When Big Brother Watches IT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If us bosses don't monitor the minions, how then should we know when they're onto our kickback schemes and other fraudulent privileges they are not entitled to know of us having?

  18. Re:*Facepalms* on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    Quitting jobs and moving across the country may be valid for 18 year old extroverts that feel lost in life and have a excessively padded bank account to fall back on and no real responsibilities to haunt them. For anyone else. Not so much.

    Lifestyle adjustments are a lot more relevant, but the compliance for such adjustments are very low, even more so in depressed people that may feel very weak drives to do things.

    Pharmaceuticals are very easy to administer, thus they are used a lot, they do however leave a lot to be desired. Transcranial magnetic stimulation is probably a good candidate for replacement, being noninvasive and capable of pretty much instant improvements. But due to being new technology it's reserved as a last ditch effort for resistant cases.

  19. Re:Mixed feelings on Treating Depression With Electrodes Inside the Brain · · Score: 1

    Stimulation addiction are not just fiction. It happened with some women that were given the controls and were allowed selfstimulation.

    The obvious solution is to either stimulates areas that will saturate immideatly and not gain further pleasure as stimulation is cranked up. Or simply precalibrate the device for automatic operation.

  20. Re:The problem is chicken little on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The economy is hardly working as is. Add regulation to reach a 20% reduction in CO2 and we break its back.
    And that 20% reduction would only be symbolic anyway.

  21. Re:How cool. on Audi Gives Silent Electric Car Synthetic Sound · · Score: 2

    I see your nyan cat and raise you a screaming car.
    Flavours to chose from: terrified female, suffering male, 'little girl on christmas', tarzan and 'last minute of a burning passenger plane'. Although that last one will probably be relabled 'rollercoaster'

  22. Also, when someone asks what your son is up to, you'll make it appear as if he's a welladjusted teenager, as opposed to endangered by his reckless father.
    "oh my son,he's playing with [a] Python" *gasp*

  23. Re:Python on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have him learn Ruby. On any OS.
    With this book: http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

  24. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope you're for being thrown out of hospitals with sick your child(ren) too.

    Because that's starting to happen when they show up with their unvaccinated little plaguebearer that sends everyone immunocompromised(which are quite a lot, including pretty much everyone elderly) scrambing for the emergncy exits.

  25. Re:Revoking Credentials is a Bitch on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 1

    If someone steals your hand, I think your bank account is the last thing on your mind.