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  1. This proobably explains why on How Long Can the ISS Last? · · Score: 1

    This probably explains why Pan Am has been postponing my trip to the station since 2001.

  2. Re:CEOs and Weather Forecasters on Nokia's Elop Set To Receive $25 Million Bonus After Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Don't leave out the weatherman. That's almost daily!

  3. We could call it something else on Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux · · Score: 1

    We could call it kernel-open-OPEN -source-for-all-you-douchebags-this-ones-for-you-rc1 or something

  4. Re:Right tool, wrong managers on NYT Publisher Says Not Focusing on Engineering Was A Serious Mistake · · Score: 1

    good god, a time traveling comment poster who hasn't heard enough about cars to make a more recent analogy

    The fall of /. is complete.

  5. Imagine? on Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? · · Score: 1

    a lawyer who also runs a popular sexual fetish podcast

    OMG! It's like, I have a twin!

  6. Re:Decades late to the party... on Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops · · Score: 1

    Don't call them 'odd'; you could hurt their sensitivities. Let's call them talented.

  7. Re:So.... on Japan Controls Rocket Launch With Just 8 People and 2 Laptops · · Score: 1

    But if I called just one of them on their cell phone, and asked him for directions to North Korea., will the new headline read '5 people launch missile to Pyongyang'?

  8. I would have signed up but on Final Mars One Numbers Are In, Over 200,000 People Applied · · Score: 1

    I heard you still have to take off your shoes during pre-boarding.

  9. Re:A screen on California Legislature Approves Trial Program For Electronic Plates · · Score: 1

    oh well, I was worried that our ex cons have nothing to brag about anymore. See that one right there? I did those plates, the way I made the R's look just right

  10. Re:This Was News Yesterday on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    what he meant with documented reckless behavior was an earlier YT clip (sorry) of him flying a similar model close to his friend on a park picnic table.

  11. Re:Always wear a helmet! on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    Where would he put it on?

  12. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 1

    Torn groin from a bad landing? I say Mission accompilished, Mr Darwin.

  13. First they tax our internet purchases on Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back · · Score: 1

    ...then they track our internet purchases. Can't they just stick with our landlines and our 1040 EZ's like they used to?

  14. Re:The playbook is now written on Court Orders Retrial In Google Maps-Related Murder Case · · Score: 1

    Oh, c'mon, just because the lead happened to be the good-looking Bradley Cooper

  15. Re:Naturally, they now DO have that video logged on Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail · · Score: 1

    And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how dupes at Slashdot get started

  16. Re:Linux for Workgroups 3.11 on Linux 3.11 Released · · Score: 1

    That's right, the f stands for 'for' and is not, as you would like to believe, a description of what Linux was doing to those Workgroups

  17. I hate to sound like *that* commercial on John Scalzi's Redshirts Wins Hugo Award for Best Novel · · Score: 1

    ...but it's really science fiction or fantasy, because there is a difference.

  18. Re:opportunities available on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    So, what are we seeing? Massive underemployment and massive increases into the disability programs. We the US are becoming a nation of retail, fast food, and medical workers - the rest are too old to do anything. We are becoming a nation where one part of the population is serving food and cleaning the bedpans of the other part.

    Two words: Fight Club.

  19. Re:Out of jobs? on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Lower the work week to 32 hours

    It already is, at most retailers, you'd be lucky to reach 32.

  20. Re:Or... on The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise · · Score: 1

    well, they most probably did try googling for a solution

  21. Re:I love scientists. on NASA Scientists Jubilant After Successful Helicopter Crash · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you knew anything about helicopters you'd know that 30mph is VERY relevant

    Let's not forget what's important here. With this data, they will be able to determine the type of paint that will prove most resistant to impact damage from wayward shopping carts.

  22. Re:scif channel can use extras in a B movie on Great White Shark RFID/Satellite Tracking Shows Long Journeys, Many Beach Visits · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they've promised Sharknado 2

  23. We need an app on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    where the sender also feels the impact of the collision that he caused, airbags or not.

    Why should Darwinian evolution be applied only on one end?

  24. Re:oh please please please on Death of the Car Salesman? BMW Makes AI App To Sell Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    What the article failed to mention was the scumbag dealer switch, which is a lot closer the dealership experience in real life: it even holds your car keys hostage while he goes away and "talks to his manager" to see if it sounds "do-able". Even the beta testers decided to "forgetabout it promised to return".

  25. Any *self paying* cars in your future? on Nissan Plans To Sell Self-Driving Cars By 2020 · · Score: 1

    nt