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  1. Re:What're you gonna do? on NSA Spying Hurts California's Business · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, the ancient sport of looking down on Americans as uncultured slobs.

    I wouldn't call it a sport. Sports require skill.

  2. Can somebody please rein in California? on NSA Spying Hurts California's Business · · Score: 5, Funny

    All this caring about what foreigners think sounds Unamerican to me.

  3. Re:Chek your speling on An Interesting Look At the Performance of JavaScript On Mobile Devices · · Score: 2

    I like the comma before "lol." Write sentence, little pause, bellylaugh. Classic.

  4. Re:In Russia, Yandex searches YOU on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not living in either country, both the US and Russia are foreign competitors with a shady track record on business ethics and human rights and politics, so it really doesn't make a difference to me. Both nations have wasted a decade bombing Afghanistan, you're both prosecuting dissidents. I have serious trouble telling you guys apart.

  5. Re:Usual Slashdot trolling on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    The weekend sure does bring out the crazy. You know these days your paranoid delusions are bland and boring compared to the shit going on in consensus reality. Seek help.

  6. Re:100% serious question on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 2

    When was the last time you searched for something and found it using a commercial search engine?

    Three minutes ago.

  7. Re:I didn't start using DuckDuckGo for privacy on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 1

    Obviously. The scary form is 27B/6.

  8. Re:In Russia, Yandex searches YOU on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 2

    Yes! I believe in free and fair competition so the obvious step is to let the Russians snoop on me as much as the Americans do.

  9. Re: FTFA on DuckDuckGo: Illusion of Privacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard it got loose and is living in a capsule hotel in a Moscow airport. Which further proves my theory that we're living in a cyberpunk novel.

  10. Re:This sounds as great news in 30+ years on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    Safer? The bad taste is a feature. It tells you your food is no longer fresh and possibly unsafe to eat.

  11. Re:The President should be pleased on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    I think you nailed it. It really does taste of decomposition. I love broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage but Brussels sprouts make me retch. It's like gnawing on dirty socks pulled off a corpse.
    I disagree with you assesment of the evolutionary significance though. Those who are forced to make do with scraps need a keen sense to avoid bacterial infections by only eating the safe garbage.

  12. Re:Generation Y on Smartphones May Help Reduce Traffic In the Near Future · · Score: 1

    It doesn't. You go to a local store on your way from work and pick up supplies for the day. Not for the whole month. Leaving out unhealthy goods like soda and milk will seriously cut down on the amount of hauling you have to do. To be fair, this probably is easier when you aren't stuck in a suburban sprawl. If you are, you have my commiserations.

  13. Re:Generation Y on Smartphones May Help Reduce Traffic In the Near Future · · Score: 1

    Just stick them on your bike. One seat on the handlebars and one in back. Or get a cargo bike. Most young parents around here seem to manage fine.

  14. Re:Amazon needs their head read. on Are Amazon Vine Reviews of Technical Books a Joke? · · Score: 2

    Also, I've noticed that some sellers have "shipping estimates" that they don't always adhere to.

    Do you know what an estimate is? hint: It doesn't mean "guarantee" or "goal".

  15. Re:Fire everything! on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 2

    Yes both of them. Kevin and his pet spider Colin.
    Colin says hi.

  16. Re:Great! on Kenyans Will Soon Be Able To Send Bitcoin By Phone · · Score: 1

    If you haven't intercepted those by now you're not the real thing.

  17. Re:Fuck 'em on Researchers Now Pulling Out of DEF CON In Response To Anti-Fed Position · · Score: 1

    Why do you apologists always so desperately want the US to be compared to the greatest shits on the planet?

    But if you insist: When compared to the reign of Idi Amin, Pol Pot or Hitler, the US government isn't the worst offender.

    Happy now?

  18. Re:Physical bug needed on Russian Federal Guard Service "Upgrades" To Electric Typewriters · · Score: 1

    *diaphragm.

    Unless your windows are decorated with annotated drawings of microphones. Which would make you my hero.

  19. Re:Ground effect on Aerovelo's Human-Powered Helicopter Wins $250,000 Sikorsky Prize · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who cares? It's human powered. It hovered. The thing looks like it's escaped from a Laudanum dream. Give the cyclist a stovepipe hat and a suit and reclaim steampunk from the dorks that think gluing a couple of gears on a USB stick is something to be proud of.

    Now go back to plane spotting and leave us alone with this awesome contraption.

  20. What? on Microsoft Reveals Its 3D Printing Strategy For Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    No integrated Bitcoin support yet?

  21. Re:Phobos? on NASA Wants To Bring Back Hunks of Mars In Future Unmanned Mission · · Score: 1

    Just be careful of the Leather Goddesses.

  22. Re:They say: "Do it!" on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 2

    So before you joined the agency, did you see yourself more as a Dale Cooper or as a Fox Mulder?

  23. Re:"duh" on 50-Year-Old Assumptions About Muscle Strength Tossed Aside · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on! Even in the '70s in every clip you could hear Arnold shouting "Ze Myocin tugz at Shahpahh angles!" Of course he was stoned out of his gourd when he said that.

  24. Re:Really? on Data Storage That Could Outlast the Human Race · · Score: 1

    It doesn't and they can't.

    Roughly 2500 years ago two thinkers, Herakleites in Greece and Gautama Siddartha in India most likely independent of each other came to the conclusion that permanence doesn't exist in the world. Both used their insight to lay the foundations of philosophical traditions that informed Western and Eastern thought to this very day. In the 19th century the laws of thermodynamic more or less confirmed those insights. despite all that many people still stubbornly try to beat the inevitable and dream of their legacy lasting forever.

  25. Re:But is it... on Data Storage That Could Outlast the Human Race · · Score: 2

    They could never keep up their schedule of yearly security breaches for millions of years.