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  1. [#(%@! [$(@! obviously, followed by \)@#$ \$&^ and ]^#$^ ]~#(.

  2. On one hand I'm not too keen on these exclusive deals. On the other hand at least Disney isn't opening their own streaming site and making their content available only through them.

  3. Re: Not optical, not fast, not 3DXP on IBM's Optical Storage Is 50 Times Faster Than Flash, And Also Cheaper (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 2

    I once suggested that for Earth Day, the St. Louis Post Dispatch could state they are going green by wrapping copper wire around the corpse of Joseph Pulitzer and powering their printing presses by him spinning in his grave.

  4. Re: Not optical, not fast, not 3DXP on IBM's Optical Storage Is 50 Times Faster Than Flash, And Also Cheaper (prnewswire.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I once suggested that for Earth Day, the St. Louis Post Dispatch could state they are going green by wrapping copper wire around the corpse of Joseph Pulitzer (founder of STLPD in addition to having journalism award named for him) and powering their printing presses by him spinning in his grave.

  5. Re: Meh. on Oregon ISP Now Forcing Cordcutters to Sign up For TV to Avoid Caps (dslreports.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I expect that soon cable companies will just increase the price of internet service by the amount a basic tv subscription costs and say that basic tv service is "free" with an internet plan.
    Don't want tv? Fine, but it won't lower your bill.

  6. Re:Look on the bright side on Canonical To Release Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS 'Xenial Xerus' Tomorrow (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Look on the bright side - two more and they'll be out of letters.

    After that The Artist formerly known as Prince will get a Ubuntu disto named after him.
    Fortunately Zebra will be getting that honor before Prince.

  7. Re:That breaks down to... on TSA Paid $1.4 Million For Randomizer App That Chooses Left Or Right (geek.com) · · Score: 1

    $413 dollars in developer time to create the app and $336,000.59 in corporate overhead and bloat, the additional $1,000,000 is just for Evil

    Much more than that. The requirements document was probably several thousand pages and required a dozen rewrites before it finally met specs.

  8. Re:And in other news, Satan buys a down jacket... on Microsoft Brings SQL Server To Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have been doping for quite a while.
    Linux is actually pretty important for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
    Did you know that Microsoft even has a Linux certification? They do

  9. Re:how would we know? on Where Do the Presidential Candidates Stand On Encryption? (windowsitpro.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    So what? Americans vote based on how the candidates look anyway.

    Good, I can relax now. I was worried that Donald Trump was going to get elected there for a minute.
    Unless he somehow finds a better looking toupee before November we're all safe.

  10. Re:Open source SCO on SCO vs. IBM Battle Over Linux May Finally Be Over (networkworld.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you ever used SCO?

    I have. It wasn't a bad system. I didn't like it as well as Solaris, but it was stable and reliable and pretty well documented. For a long time, they had a good product and supported it pretty well.

    It was kind of like Debian stable but not nearly as cutting edge.

  11. Easy to do, don't connect it to a network.
    Plug in a Roku or similar device instead.

  12. Re:oh no. not that. on Microsoft Teams With Automakers To Put Windows, Office In Cars (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    13. You will press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.
    I already do this. Technically, it's a 'start/stop' button, but I do this.

  13. Re: When they outlaw cash... on Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It · · Score: 1

    Illegal stuff?

  14. Re:That bad... on Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    mv Justin_Beiber /dev/null

  15. Not much of an achievement as Windows 8 set Windows UI back 20 years.

  16. Re: So vague is has to be true? on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 2

    Don't forget Regan and Nixon.
    California is very diverse politically.

  17. Re:Wait, wait, what? on LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a high quality version of Expendables 3 in existence?

    Where? More importantly, how is that possible altogether? Did the pirates reshoot the movie, maybe even with actors? And a script that's longer than a letter page?

    Not exactly outside the realm of possibility. I'm sure there was a teenager with a cellphone and video editing software who saw it and said, 'I can do better than that.'.
    20 years from now he'll be accepting his Oscar and in his acceptance speech he'll thank everyone behind Expendables 3 for inspiring him.

  18. Re: A rose by any other name... on After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Adobe Crash.
    It even rhymes with Flash.

  19. Re: Next stop, outsourcing drone pilot on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Next stop, SKYNET

  20. Re:Lost in Space? on Netflix Remaking Lost In Space (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    You may be confusing quality with intrinsic value.

    Yes, the mutant carrots and aluminum space suits were camp, but there's still the possibility of a decent story being made from the bones of the work.

    It will really depend on how they handle Doctor Smith. If they can have him sabotage the craft, enough to make a good attempt, but fail to do it as he wanted, but come up with a good explanation as to how he was trying to fix things, well, then that'll show they're working at it.

    They probably won't be able to cast an actor as good as Jonathan Harris or Gary Oldman, but they may get somebody able to do it halfway decently.

    Bill Mumy (Will Robinson) once expressed interest in playing Dr. Smith in a reboot.

  21. Re: If you don't like the textbooks, on Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Or will become brain surgeon presidential candidates who think the pyramids of Egypt are grain elevators.

  22. Hollywood can't make realistic protrails of actors writers and directors. What makes you think they could accurately portray science.

  23. Re: its not odd on Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine (ajc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nothing new. TV has been doing this for decades. 'This substance WILL kill you. And it's in YOUR home right now. Information you need to save your life and the lives of your family... After this commercial break.'

  24. Based on results of the wars on drugs, poverty, crime, etc. We need a president to declare war on intelligence. I have high hopes for President Trump or Carson on this.

  25. Re:Corruption, thy name on US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 (dailydot.com) · · Score: 2

    No, just Politician. Corruption knows no borders.