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  1. Re:Good job on behalf of the hacker on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 1

    Why not just go ahead and make it all verifiable?
    Coercion. An employer or union boss can easily make sure their people vote the "right" way if they want to keep their jobs.

    Please don't fire me. I voted for him. I could not make my daddy vote for him. From the '30's.

  2. Re:Pathetic. on Calling Out GE's Misleading Data Visualizations · · Score: 1

    ala wind subsidies

    With as much wind as we have, one would think that it needed no subsidies, but it is somehow believable that it is.

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    When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, and scream and shout.

  3. Re:GoDaddy Girls on GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group · · Score: 1

    I've used GoDaddy for many years but have started to shy away from them recently due to the girls being just a little over the top for a professional business

    And those commercials with the elderly lady doing a strip tease did not do anything for me.

    Real soon now: GoGranny.

  4. Re:Acoustic Levitation on Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest · · Score: 1

    Phallus jokes aside. It would be great to understand how this works. We've somewhat recently started looking more closely at the notion of acoustic levitation for solving all manner of problems. Particularly containerless manufacturing. It's been suggested based upon various ancient texts that this may well have been the means by which so many of these massive megaliths far exceeding modern engineering capabilities were transported and placed. The ability for something so small to produce such a relatively massive acoustic pressure definitely helps bolster the case.

    The bug does not use wings. It props itself up on three legs (a tripod), points its propulsion unit at the ground, and levitates.

  5. Re:Post-quake Japan? on How Japan's Data Centers Survived the Earthquake · · Score: 1

    Tsunamis, however, are a bugbear they are not really prepared for... did any data centers in the wet zone survive?

    Data centers and such can be built on a mountainside to put it out of the reach of most tsunamis.

  6. Re:First Post on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    The OP forgot to mention which HDs they were trying to overclock...

    How big is your hard disk?

    He replies with hand gestures.

  7. Re:An hour? on Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau · · Score: 1

    I've got an old Seagate 2.1Gb SCSI Barracuda that's been running since the 1950's.

    You start it with a pull-cord, like an old lawnmower. Sounds about the same, too.

    I'm not sure I can read that in under an hour, though.

    Will it run Stuxnet?

  8. Re:just sour grapes on Lawsuit Claims LegalZoom Is Practicing Law Without a License · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Now that lawyers realize that they can be replaced with a script, they are pissed.

    Script pissies.

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    It puts the law on your side; not on your back.

  9. Re:Population on Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation · · Score: 1

    Methane is an energy source, and methane from shit can be used to replace fossil fuels.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=methane+digester

    Methane biogas is the future, baby! Renewable, far more cost-effective than nukes and obviously more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.

    Sadly, your major point is still right... it's unlikely we can continue to increase our population forever without triggering some kind of extinction event.

    it's unlikely we can continue to increase our population forever without triggering some kind of population crash event.

    FTFY

  10. Re:Don't Panic on Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you're wrong. It's Farcebook.

    Talk to the hand. Its Face Palm: A well known backup site.

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    Instead of phase out say Face Out.

  11. Re:SUBLUXATION RESEARCH! on New Top Tier Science Journal Announced · · Score: 1

    Paging Dr. Bob, paging Dr. Bob.

    Please pick up the red courtesy phone...

    Does AFLAC offer insurance for quackery?

  12. Re:Go bannanas on Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys · · Score: 1

    just sayin'

    Go primative first.

  13. Re:Would somebody declare a War on Supidity? on Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers · · Score: 1

    Can you provide citations for this statement?

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705355601/Homeland-Security-Secretary-Michael-Chertoff-benefiting-from-scanner-sales.html

    These machines remind me of a revolving door.

  14. Re:This is bad because? on Gray Whale, Southern-Hemisphere Algae Seen In N. Atlantic · · Score: 2

    Is the North Atlantic supposed to get half a whale before it gets a full one?

    No, don't be ridiculous.

    One whale is supposed to get right to the northern edge of the South Atlantic and verrrrrrrrrry slowly put first a fluke, then a bit of its tail, and eventually its whole body across the line, as though it's getting into a hot bath. Which, effectively, it is.

    The Gray or Schrodinger's Whale is sometimes observed doing the hokey-pokey.

  15. Re:Red herring on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    This story sounds like a red herring.

    What surprized me is that the levees are such exceptionally feeble things.

    Herring is a salt water fish.

    If one sets a panel on a bad foundation, then when the ground gets wet, it falls over.

    Afterwards go back with the legacy design to save on vellum.

  16. Re:What they're really using it for... on Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash · · Score: 1

    duh, why do you think they are using a difficult to track mesh network?

    That is the reason for the helpful directions.

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    The amnesia epidemic has been forgotten.

  17. Re:Cleary also suffers from agoraphobia on UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like the UK Government are going to help him with his fear of open spaces.

    Socialized medicine again?

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    The amnesia epidemic has been forgotten

  18. Re:Saving the planet on Long Now Clock Advances With Bezos Cash · · Score: 1

    This is important, by starting our own 10,000 year clock we should have plenty of time we can use once the Mayan calendar runs out.

    Get ready for Y10K, or the Chalam Balloon..

  19. Re:This is Ballmer's idea on Microsoft's Virtual Skywriting Patent App Features the Real Thing · · Score: 1

    I bet he imagines a Beowulf cluster of chairs at least once a day.

    FTFY

  20. Re:Comcast has a service that does the same thing on Fonolo Lets You Bypass Company Phone Menus · · Score: 1

    Yet Another Login - yeah, great.

    I would have thought caller ID would be enough. You call them, it logs your number and calls you back.

    If you're hiding your number for some reason then it can record DTMF tones of you typing your number (or whatever...use your imagination). There's no excuse for having people sitting on hold these days.

    Caller OD is enough.

    FTFY

  21. Re:Maybe... on Is the Rise of Wearable Electronics Finally Here? · · Score: 1

    And maybe 2012 is The Year Of The Linux Desktop...

    And maybe 2012 is The Year Of The Linux Wrist ...

    FTFY

  22. Re:Denver capitol gold dome, too on Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks · · Score: 1

    The capitol building of Denver has the dome covered with 200 ounces of 24 carat gold, and it needs replacing about every 40 years. That means it's losing several ounces per year, and most all of it is coming off in rainwater that ends up dumping through the drainage spouts down the sides. People tried to collect it, like this guy. I've been told, but can't find an online reference, that collecting rainwater from the Capitol Building was made illegal to prevent mayhem, so now it goes down the sewer.

    Does it make gold bricks?

  23. Re:Correction on Man Mines Midtown New York Sidewalks · · Score: 1

    Man used to mine streets of NYC for $1,000 a week until he decided to tell his story to a reporter and droves of unemployed new yorkers decided to get in on the action themselves.

    Get off my mine.

  24. Re:Clouds... on Amazon's Cloud Is Full of Holes · · Score: 1

    I don't know, the cloud looks like a safe to me..... or a pad lock.

    Oh, and that cloud looks like a shark.... and that one next to it looks like a worm....

    And next to it is a cloud that looks like a bird.

  25. Re:Whats what you get for not going vegan on The Iceman's Last Meal · · Score: 1

    He eats meat and a few hours later he's dead. That's what meat does to you.

    If you won't think for the animals, think for yourselves! Of course, I've got a little more time to think. Being a raw foods-only vegan means I'm going to outlive you all by years.

    It was the iBEX that got him then?