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  1. LA? They have a subway? on LA To Become First In US To Install Subway Body Scanners (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha. 2000 an hour. Go ahead. Put a few in the Times Square station in New York. Watch hilarity ensue.

  2. Re:I gotta believe this is hurting Oracle on Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's hilarious, considering that Java was originally created for that very purpose:

    http://www.ashleyellis.com/201...

  3. Re: his troll-fu is weak on Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Or BSD?

  4. Yes they do, but will they take that same pounding the next day, and the next and the next...?

  5. What's their plan. son? Russians don't take a dump without a plan?

  6. Re: In Europe I can confirm on Idaho Wants To Establish America's First 'Dark Sky Preserve' (idahostatesman.com) · · Score: 2

    I was 19 or 20, a New York City kid. Went up to the Finger Lakes region of New York State for a family wedding. Went outside one night, noticed that the moon was so bright that I could read by it, looked up...

    no moon. It was the starlight that I could read by. Just. Blew. My. Mind.

  7. Somewhere, Leo McGarry... on US Interceptor Missile Successfully Intercepts Test ICBM, Says Pentagon (go.com) · · Score: 1

    ...is smirking at Jed Bartlett.

  8. Re: Maybe this opens up a market for modular lapto on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And the same laptop in luggage can't be remotely triggered from the cabin with a cell? Or on a timer? Sleep until gps reads 31000ft for 30 minutes. Boom.

  9. Total effing bullshit. on US Might Ban Laptops On All Flights Into And Out of the Country (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What's to prevent the same laptop with explosives, banned from the cabin, from blowing up in the cargo hold on a timer?

  10. What is this clown smoking? on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    And can I get some?

  11. Jones Beach was built with access roads whose overpasses were purposely built too low to accommodate buses with poor people. He only wanted rich enough people to afford a car. The cross Bronx destroyed neighborhoods. I could go on. Do some googling.

  12. Just sent my email

  13. What probably happened is that one of the higher uppityups got a stick up his ass because he couldn't reach the person he wanted one day and made a big stink about it. What a freaking joke.

  14. Re:Haiku for the Oscars on Why Typography Matters -- Especially At The Oscars (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    You are one syllable short on line 2.

  15. .. Or do you keep thinking LEGOs were involved every time you read a headline about this?

  16. So disappointed on Scientists Hope To Attract Millions To "DNA.LAND" (nature.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's The Double Helix roller coaster?

  17. Was it... on Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died · · Score: 2

    a wonderful life?

  18. UNTESTED?! on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    You go into a major competition in a suit you haven't used at all? Who's completely jackass idea was that? The same guy who wrote the test plan for the Obamacare website?

  19. Re:yawn on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 7 Slow? · · Score: 1

    Have you managed to upgrade the OS on that phone? Of does it have exactly the same features now that it had back then?

  20. Of course they shot down "Vulcan" on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    They didn't want to piss off the Vulcans

  21. Re:I wouldn't mind it if... on Lawmakers Try To Block Black Box Technology In Cars, DVR Tracking · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind getting an insurance break either. I'd do all the speed limits to save money.

  22. Re:When will it be open-sourced? on HP Discontinue OpenVMS · · Score: 1

    Take it from an old fart who was there - any Unix of the last 15-20 years is definitely not your father's Unix.

    It's not ANY UNIX - It's Linux. :-)

  23. Re:Dictator hating free speech, news at 11. on Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." · · Score: 1

    But you can recover from those by voting the other way, in theory. Voting to go to a non-voting system is the last vote ever.

  24. Re:Dictator hating free speech, news at 11. on Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." · · Score: 1

    Except that when you vote away your right to vote, if you change your mind, your screwed.

  25. Once a geek... on Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style · · Score: 1

    ...always a geek. Since this article was on /., I thought it would be about how a new computer language would allow you to inflict harm on yourself, as in : http://howto-pages.org/shootfoot.php