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  1. Re:Thank you, Slashdot... on Space Station Saved By a Toothbrush? · · Score: 3, Funny

    MacGyver

    In

    SPACE
    SPACE
    Space
    Space
    space
    space

  2. Re:Finally tried real pay-for-it microsoft support on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 2
    YMMV

    Personally with all of the Enterprise level support I've dealt with (e.g. IBM, EMC, HP, Dell, Oracle, CA, etc.) Microsoft is among the best.

    (I'm talking Enterprise support, as in paying 7 figures/yr for licensing and support. Not calling an 800 number to India for someone to tell you to reboot your computer as you would get from a el-cheapo Wal-Mart laptop.)

    Don't get me started on Oracle. Most of the time the problem I'm calling about is less painful than dealing with Oracle support.

  3. Re:Note to Romney: "Jesus" not acceptable answer on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why he gave "Obama is destroying America" for every answer instead. I only wish I where kidding...

    He's saying "Obama is destroying America, That should be my job".

  4. Re:Fuck me. Romney has a case of.. on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not what he said. In fact, this is pretty good news: both candidates actually admit the reality of AGW. He said the size of the effects hasn't been nailed down, and that the science should inform the political solutions rather than dictate them. Pretty sensible, for a politician.

    Translation: The polls show that denying global warming would cost more votes than acknowledging it.

  5. Re:We should know this already... on Nuclear Powered LEDs For Space Farming · · Score: 2

    The pigs are already in space. Just look for the Angry Birds and you will find the pigs nearby. Plenty of bacon for everyone!

  6. Re:Hmm... on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 1

    Unintended, but hardly unforeseeable, so why would there be mudslinging?

    'Cause that's what politicians and demagogues do.

    Now you can blame your least favorite politician of the past 30 years for "allowing this to happen".

    Just 30 years? I want to blame all of them at least back to Nixon.

  7. Re:In the wild ... on Frankenstein Code Stitches Code Bodies Together To Hide Malware · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA:

    Although the Frankenstein system is only a proof of concept, and the code created just did some simple tasks, sorting and XORing, without having the ability to replicate, computer scientists from University of Texas, Dallas, have certainly proved that the method is viable. And who knows, it might even be out there in the wild. After all, one of the main advantages of the method is that it hides malware more effectively.

    While I have to profess that I do not know of any existing Frankenstein-code in operation, I can't discount the possibility that, buried in thousands and thousands closed-source software fragments there are things that we have absolutely no idea what they are Even in a totally open source environment, hiding code fragments isn't that hard to accomplish either And who knows? Maybe TPTB already got the Frankenstein codes installed in all our machines

    Let me check...

    Directory of C:\
    ...
    08/28/2012 11:37 PM 904,704 abbynormal.exe
    ...
    I think you might have a point.

  8. Re:Just don't ask about Gitmo on Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe · · Score: 2

    Congress shut down Obama's attempts to close Gitmo and forbade him from using any federal funds to do just about anything with it. While I wish he'd tried harder, he did attempt it. I'd be more concerned about the continued NSA wiretapping. The President is not a dictator. People tend to radically overestimate how much the President can really do.

    He could sit on his hands and not approve any legislation until it was shut down. Perhaps he would get overridden from time to time, but it would send a clear message.

    Here's an idea, Congress not passing any legislation in protest of the President not approving any legislation!

  9. Re:Fuck you Apple your phone sucks! on Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List · · Score: 2

    Seriously.... The iPhone sucks....yes it is popular but it is a pain in the ass to use for people who are not super computer literate.

    I see a marketing opportunity here: "Blackberry: So easy a CEO can use it!"

  10. Re:The Problem lies in the brain on Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass · · Score: 1

    I found that around the fifth glass or so they start to multiply making it hard to count.

  11. Re:So researchers have finally found out... on Drinking Too Much? Blame Your Glass · · Score: 1

    Next research mission; Do those free peanuts and pretzels make you thirsty for more beer, too?

    Where can I volunteer for that experiment?

  12. Re:The whole thing is insipid. on Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn't Say · · Score: 1

    Yes, but the lawyers for both sides are getting richer. That's what's important.

    No. That is just the side effect.

    Not to the lawyers.

  13. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    'Tapped' the maple syrup reserves?

    (Laugh, it's a joke.)

  14. Re:Maple Syrup Strategic Reserve? on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 5, Funny

    News Alert! The Strategic Waffle Reserve in Belgium has been robbed. Police believe the crimes may be related.

  15. Re:The whole thing is insipid. on Pinch-to-Zoom and Rounded Rectangles: What the Jury Didn't Say · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the lawyers for both sides are getting richer. That's what's important.

  16. Re:typo on Kindle Fire Is Sold Out Forever · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Kindle Fire 1" could fit in an eye. Prior art against Google glasses!

    And they could call it the 'EyePod'.

  17. Re:It is abused but I think this sets too high a b on Is Innovation the Most Abused Word In Business? · · Score: 1

    Hollywood innovation: Making the same TV cop show they previously made, but set in another city.

  18. Re:Hey now, on Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict · · Score: 5, Funny

    O.J. agrees, and says "thank you".

    If the software don't fit, you must convict.

  19. Re:Also known as on A Modest Proposal For Sequestration of CO2 In the Antarctic · · Score: 1

    the sweep-it-under-the-carpet method of trash removal works great for the inlaws, the planet? not so much

    Where did you think all the carbon from man made CO2 came from? We're just putting it back in the Earth.

  20. Re:It has been a long time since I left college on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 2

    and I am very happily married man. But I can definitely see an advantage for men having women in college. In fact, not having women is, well, kind of odd.

    Particularly with there being no homosexuals in Iran...

  21. Re:Looks like Metro tiles on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 1

    Actually, Clippy would call an ambulance after taking the users complete medical history and description of the injury in minute detail.

  22. Re:And if a hurricane wipes out the GOP... on Hurricane Could Make a Mess of Republican Convention · · Score: 1

    It would rake care of half of the problem ...

  23. Re:Looks like Metro tiles on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 0

    Microsoft innovation at work:

    Windows phone user: "Clippy, call me an ambulance! "
    Clippy: "Ok, you are an ambulace."

  24. Re:That's nothing. on Cheap Four-fingered Robot Hand Edges Closer To Human Dexterity · · Score: 2

    Larry Ellison, is that you?

  25. Re:We no longer regulate ads and mail order produc on Should Medical Apps Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    Most normal people don't have $200K in student loans to repay.