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  1. Re:Biggest Attraction on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode."

    Nonsense. The biggest attraction of private mode is that hotteennymphosexkittens.com doesn't show up in the suggestions when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.

    If you want real privacy you shouldn't be trusting a web browser privacy mode.

    Youtube might be more relevantly incriminating than Hotmail.

  2. Re:Pandemic? on Gene Mutation Caused 2009 H1N1 Virus Spread · · Score: 1

    As was Mad Cow, Hoof and Mouth, Y2K, Terrorists, Avian Flu, and a half dozen other incidents in the past couple decades.

    Y2K didn't pan out? Sonofabitch...I guess I can leave my bomb shelter.

  3. Re:They should made so the only way to lose it was on EVE Player Loses $1,200 Worth of Game Time In-Game · · Score: 1

    They should made so the only way to lose it was trade or useing it for time this opens the door for the law to come in and for real world jails and courts for in game stuff.

    Nothing here was done illegally. Odd design and user oversight combined to create the situation at hand. Read TFA.

  4. Re:Airships simply will not be practical, sorry on The Second Age of Airships · · Score: 1

    Otherwise, passengers and freight get off, thing heads rapidly skywards. Not good.

    Oh the humanity!

  5. Re:If you're a Happy Sys Admin... on Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    ...and you know it, clap your hands!

    Now stop dicking around and go reboot the load & performance box.

  6. If C++'s complexity has him vexed on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd like to hear what he thinks about Perl.

  7. Re:Momma dont take my kodachrome away on Last Roll of Kodachrome Processed · · Score: 0

    Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colours They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

    If you took all the girls I knew when I was single Brought 'em all together for one night I know they'd never match my sweet imagination Everything looks worse in black and white

    Ah...I see what you did there. Good job.

  8. Re:55%, not 110 proof on The World's Strongest, Most Expensive Beer Served Inside a Squirrel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?

    Jack, Jim, Jose, et al

  9. Re:Perch? on Micro Plane That Perches On Power Lines · · Score: 2, Informative
    The 'perch' is actually quite bat-like. FTA:

    The MIT engineers' answer is to send their 30-centimetre-wide micro air vehicle (MAV) into a controlled stall, pointing its nose up at just the right point in its trajectory to collide with and hook onto the cable.

    Once it hooks the cable, it is a passive system. Check the video...it hasn't been /.ed (yet.)

  10. Re:Why does playboy still exist? on Playboy Launches Safe For Work Website · · Score: 1

    I suppose they broke new ground in the late 1950s, and stayed semi-relevant until the 1980s.

    But now?

    I feel the same way about the USSR.

  11. Re:Priorities on Warships May Get Lasers For Close-In Defense · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nice. So, we don't have money for the unemployed, for the ill, or even for veterans benefits, but we can afford laser systems to shoot down planes for imaginary invasions.

    Valid point. Perhaps Raytheon could instead develop a means to launch the unemployed, ill, and benefit-needing veterans at incoming airborn objects.

    I think I'll remain both a non-socialist and proponent of science, and back the laser system.

  12. Re:Will the debris be a problem? on China Shoots Down Another Satellite · · Score: 2, Funny

    You just "shot down" my joke.

  13. Re:Will the debris be a problem? on China Shoots Down Another Satellite · · Score: 1

    The title clearly says that they shot said satellite "down." I imagine its remnants will burn up upon reentry.

    Nothing to see here.

  14. Re:Obligatory King Of The Hill paraphrased quote on Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Prepare your PC for razzle-dazzle!! .

    I don't think you know what obligatory means.

  15. Medical Usefulness Overstated? on Mobile Medical Lab — the $10 Phone Microscope · · Score: 1

    Most data from body fluids is ascertained via chemical tests, not optical means. This thing would be killer for diagnosing leukemia, anemia, or malaria...but at the end of the day, this phone microscope suffers from the same limitations as microscopes in general do.

    I could see this being pretty useful in other realms. Material science, geology, forensics...

  16. Re:Suffering ? on Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why are we suffering from it since so ?

    I did not read the article, so I don't know if it's answered there.

    +1 blatant

  17. Re:But even doing that can cost alot just for the on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    But even doing that can cost alot just for the hard where.

    The 'hard' is where? And why does it cost so much?

    You didn't think you'd walk away from that did ya?

    I think the where is hard...I'm confused about the denomination 'alot.'

  18. New Deal 2K10 on New US Broadband Projects Get $795 Million In Funding · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    The top goal for the grants and loans "is to put Americans back to work immediately, managing projects, digging the trenches, laying fiber-optic cable, and stringing up those utility poles," said Gary Locke, secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the parent agency of the NTIA.

    I thought that the New Deal actually worsened the pre-WWII economic situation in retrospect. Not sure why this seems like a good idea now.

  19. In that case... on What Bilski Means For Biotech Patents · · Score: 1

    ...I'll let you in on my method to cure the common hangover. Four ibuprofen washed down with a can of sugar-free Red Bull. You're welcome.

  20. Re:Wouldn't it be ironic on Things You Drink Can Be Used To Track You · · Score: 2, Funny

    If this method could tell us if it rained on your wedding day?

    Nope...that would be a coincidence. Still. Fifteen years later.

  21. Re:Doesn't Matter Anyway on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 1

    Oblig. car analogy: If I was arrested trying to break into someone's car, would the police let me go if I told them I was just moving it so the nice chap who owns it doesn't get towed for parking in a fire lane?

    You're doing it wrong. Your 'car analogy' was a crime analogy, involving a car.

  22. Re:Joke of the day on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    They still make tons of money. How are they in bad shape?

    The 'buying power per ton of money' ratio has shrunk significantly in recent times.

  23. Re:About time! on Movie Studio Finally Sees the Light On Rentals · · Score: 1

    You're missing the point of buying DVDs: start a co-op with 19 of your friends. Take turns buying new movies as soon as they are released, and share them with friends. You're not paying the overhead of a for-profit distribution company like Netflix, and it's perfectly legal.

    Prerequisite: 19 friends w/o Netflix subscriptions

  24. Ashton to the Rescue on Chatroulette Working On Genital Recognition Algorithm · · Score: 1
    FTA:

    Only recently has it become easier to cut off offensive users; a New Yorker profile last month noted that Ternovskiy made some changes after Ashton Kutcher berated him about what his stepdaughter had seen on the site.

    I'm not sure who was actually Punk'd here...Demi's daughter or Ternovskiy.

  25. Re:Whaazzaaaa? on How To Destroy a Black Hole · · Score: 1

    When are they planning to do this? December 21st, 2012?

    Seeing as we are roughly 1600 light years away from the nearest black hole, I'd say that is quite unlikely.