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  1. Re:Impractical to who? on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would the need to sell our demographic information to advertisers? They are a company that offers free profile pages to plus one enthusiasts.

  2. Drone's Last Words on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am Not an Animal!

  3. semi-hitchhiker's on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    The equivalent of a diode, with billions of apps and micro adapters, warp cores, micro-nuclear power generators and packs a punch that would cause more damage than all of this little planet's resources combined.

    The war in space will be the smallest race.

  4. Re:I've been doing this for years on Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do this as well. It's called Booking Ahead, as in Hit The Gas. Beats the red light everytime.

  5. change of heart? on FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls · · Score: 1

    Two months ago, legislation was due to be voted on that permitted robocalls to cell phones. Now the FCC imposes new laws, which are essentially the laws as they were intended when passed in 1991. The real question is, will anyone actually enforce them? I already got a call to lower my energy bill and an important call about my current credit card account this evening, both on my cell.

    Do Not Call and reporting to the FCC? Hasn't done squat to slow down these phone number jacking, robocalling, dinner-interrupting, law dodging a-holes.

  6. Re:Recapping recent stories on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 1

    You forgot the pot.

  7. Re:The Slash Fanfic People Will Love This... on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Considering who most computer users are these d on Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All of my corporate clients have iPads, yet even the least informed immediately realize the limitations of not being able to run any real desktop or access the company files.. While consumers could care less, businesses will adapt anything that improves productivity while conforming to security's infrastructure.

  9. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Not to mention a great deal of government food safety roles are held by former Monsanto employees FDA and NOT your interests

  10. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Eat HFCS much? Add smoking and cocaine. You'll be fine, Whitney.

  11. oh vey on Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need · · Score: 2

    Researchers have developed a version of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) that involves one minute of strenuous effort, at about 90 percent of a person's maximum heart rate (which most of us can estimate, very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220), followed by one minute of easy recovery. The effort and recovery are repeated 10 times, for a total of 20 minutes and the interval training is performed twice a week.

    That's way more than I was willing to commit to memory, let alone perform

  12. Re:I hate to defend Monsanto somewhat, but on 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's barely a question of cheapness or theft. What's at stake is the right of a corp to patent a hybrid seed and then force farmers that purposely or inadvertently have copies of that material to settle lawsuits by the patent holder.
    99% of farmers are obliterated by lawsuits claiming $100 million in damages. And meanwhile, these seeds are about as healthy as dioxin.

  13. Re:Bizarre and Confusing Summary on Major Bitcoin Exchange Ceases Operation · · Score: 3, Funny

    A trading firm that never actually trades, with non-existent competitors, trading a currency that doesn't exist, has gone out of business due to massive losses!

  14. Re:Bill Gates has kids? on Google's First Employee Departs · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the cool kids used Alta Vista.

    You weren't one of them. We used Asta la Vista

  15. Re:jetzt on If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language · · Score: 1

    Your baffling language is infecting you with the plague of stupidity. We need to make the cleansing again. Yes I am using your dumb language to infect you and make you fatter and more broke you stupid English and Greek forward-tense bastards.
    Heinrich

  16. step 3) profit on Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or maybe volume is shrinking because Google has gone from an actual search engine to a giant shopping, friendfinder, news aggregator and becoming less useful by the minute.

  17. Re:Free lunch!!! on Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Getting in the door with an internship is quickly becoming the best way to not get paid to do something you weren't hired to do.

  18. consider this on Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads · · Score: 3, Informative

    In all your yapping about who's right, wrong or has to support big pharma think of this:

    Number of Google employees that the government considered sending to prison: 0
    Number of people selling less than 1 ounce of marijuana sentenced to federal prison: 5,452
    Number of drug arrests per minute in the USA: 25

  19. evil is as evil does on Google Consolidates Privacy Policies Across Services · · Score: 1

    Of course the article is a tad negative, Google's new unprivacy policy sucks. Facebook sucks too, doesn't matter who's president of which corp.

    But I will be nice and point out that this happened at the same time FB's Blakeboy blasted Google for being evil.

  20. Re:Well, there goes *that* heroin shipment on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 4, Funny

    No one expects the Aqua Buddha!

  21. Re:no pictures on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 1

    A “disk,” a “black flap” and a “scorpion” walk into a bar....

  22. Re:WWCSD? on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one, welcome our new disk, black flap, and scorpion overlords.

  23. mirage on Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or easily explained by the distortion of a lens by heat in desert conditions - this one a scathing 1k F.

  24. Re:U.S. law is the new international law on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most will confuse this with a SOPA action, which will make it that much easier to hype.

  25. Re:Uh oh on A Planet Literally Boils Under the Heat of Its Star · · Score: 1

    Built-in sauna with every tract.