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  1. Re:Two words: Star Wars on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1, Informative

    Three words: Han shot first

  2. Re:apple on The Future of Web Video At Stake In Comcast-NBC Regulatory Review · · Score: 1

    Right. Because Apple, which had less than 10% market share, has had 0 effect on the computing market, and other related markets, in the last decade, because of a

    Run-on sentence?

  3. Re:The land is under water... on A Lost Civilization Beneath the Persian Gulf? · · Score: 1

    because of global warming.

    -- BMO

    Or alternatively, because we are not amidst a severe ice age.

  4. Re:Fedora, here I come... on Preview of Ubuntu's Unity Interface · · Score: 1
    Not so fast...FTA

    That's changing now. Fedora, Red Hat's community Linux, is joining Ubuntu in switching its graphics stack. Others may soon follow.

  5. I'm a tip traditionalist on Advent Calendar For Geeks · · Score: 1

    Animated paper clips, or be gone.

  6. Re:follow the money on Causing Terror On the Cheap · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't forget Bruce Schneier.

  7. Odd indeed on Botnet Spammer Gets Just 18 Months For Being Odd · · Score: 1
    From TFA...

    He carried out the crimes from a PC in his mother's living room

    Basement living room?

  8. Re:Cha-ching! on When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone · · Score: 1

    Tell them to pay you $10,000 for your troubles or you will be suing them and pressing criminal charges for hacking your phone.

    Great idea. Unless of course the company has a legal department, or access to an attorney. There is a reason you have to sign a contract, agreeing to the terms/policies of your employer.

  9. LoC on Wikileaks Vows Release '7x the Size' of Iraq Leak · · Score: 0

    "Times bigger than the Iraq War Logs" is a ridiculous metric. How many Libraries of Congress is this going to be?

  10. Re:Isn't the largest satellite... on US Launches Largest Spy Satellite Ever · · Score: 1

    That's be Jupiter. Except the Sun is a satellite of the galaxy's core, and there are whole dwarf galaxies orbiting ours...

    Don't be pedantic, lest someone else out-pedant you.

    That'd be "That'd" be Jupiter.

  11. Re:Treasure Act of 1996 on Boy Finds £2.5M Gold Locket With Metal Detector · · Score: 1

    Constitutional monarchy, for the loss.

  12. Re:Body scans for good bodies on Bruce Schneier vs. the TSA · · Score: 1

    Where do I sign up for one of these TSA jobs?

    usajobs.gov

  13. Re:Newsflash! on Like Democracy, the Web Needs To Be Defended · · Score: 1

    Inventor of World Wide Web says World Wide Web greatest invention ever.

    He also has a lot to say about global warming. We are talking about Al Gore, right?

  14. Re:Is it needed? on Life Found In Deepest Layer of Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    What is the point of the bacteria there and what would happen if it was not there?

    Don't get me started about the ape-like bipeds on the top of the crust. What is up with those things?

  15. Re:You mean... on Emergency Broadcast System Coming To Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    That is one shitty anecdote.

  16. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 4, Funny

    The end of the article says that some Ex Ambassador says that it MIGHT be a demonstration to China that US Subs can launch intercontinental missiles - since Obama is touring over there right now.

    Indonesia, China. Same thing.

  17. Re:sweet !! on Scientists Overclock People's Brains · · Score: 1

    Too bad coffee taste like cat piss,

    I find it interesting that cat piss is a taste you can reference.

  18. Re:hmm on Microsoft Outlines Windows Phone 7 Kill Switch · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this seems baiting....

    ...until someone points out that Apple and Google did this before M$

  19. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 2, Funny

    2. Has anybody (other than pundits from the major parties) proven that "the vast majority of 3rd part(sic) candidates" are the lunatic fringe? How much time have we spent studying their views, talking to them?

    You know what, the rent may be too damn high...

  20. Re:Why not just scarp US Intelligence on Annual US Intelligence Bill Tops $80 Billion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Take 10 Billion have a massive pizza party for all of the US

    You obviously haven't seen Americans eat...might want to add a significant figure or two.

  21. Re:The northern lights are on my "todo" list. on NASA Working On Solar Storm Shield · · Score: 1

    There was one of these solar storms in the 1850s, I think, and it set telegraph wires alight, causing fires. Imagine what it would do today.

    What hath God wrought?

  22. Re:Nope. It is not the games. It is you. on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    Then how do you explain those of us who own their oen homes, have families go to sports event for the kids and still kick ass at games?

    Statistical outlier.

  23. Yes on Can Wikipedia Teach Us All How To Just Get Along? · · Score: 1

    [citation needed]

  24. Re:1 dimension? on Physicists Say Graphene Could Create Mass · · Score: 1

    Now, imagine a diameter small enough to limit movement to that along the length...such as what is possible with a carbon-nanotube.

  25. Re:Doesn't this legitimize Google Docs big time? on Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365 · · Score: 1

    You don't, but businesses will.

    From TFA:

    Google offers its hosted Google Docs and Gmail for free to consumers, and many small businesses use the free services. Google also sells a business version, known as Google Apps, for $50 per user per year.