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  1. Re:28,000 not 2,800 on NSA Adds Kahn Collection To Cryptologic Museum · · Score: 1

    It's a direct quote, guys, literally copied and pasted from the article. How could anyone mess THAT up?

    Cover story?

  2. Re:Just goes to show on UK Twitter Users Declare 'I'm Spartacus' · · Score: 1

    Albrett was arrested after the White House Correspondence Office received a message on May 14 that read:

    "This is not a joke. Inform the FBI, CIA, U.S. military and DOJ that I am going down to D.C. to blow the brains out of Obama unless he vacates the White House and I am going to shoot up the place and Rahm if I see him...This is not a joke...I am going to leave Mara at home with water and some food..."

    That's pretty different from a tweet.

    Too long?

  3. Re:DUDE! on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 3, Informative

    Balloons and gliders predate powered flight.

    Alexander de Seversky proposed an ionic drive that would need most of that altitude to work.

    http://www.rexresearch.com/desev/desev.htm

  4. Re:DUDE! on Paper Airplane Touches Edge of Space, Glides Back · · Score: 1

    Balloons and gliders predate powered flight.

    Alexander de Seversky proposed an ionic drive that would need most of that altitude to work.

  5. Re:I don't care. on Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808 · · Score: 1

    I assumed it was from the same stealth sub that crippled the Carnival cruise liner.

    Subs are all about stealth.

  6. Re:Kinesis Foot Switch on Microsoft Patents Foot Computing · · Score: 2, Funny

    An obvious shoe in.

  7. Re:Autumn Leaves on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    So, what happens when autumn comes and the leaves fall...

    Then the perpetual mo-shine machine comes to a halt.

  8. Re:When I Was a Kid on Gold Nanoparticles Turn Trees Into Streetlights · · Score: 1

    Uneasy the (tree) crown that wears a filling.

  9. Re:Now That's Bizarre on Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam · · Score: 1

    I'm paranoid but am I paranoid enough?

    Even paranoids have enemies.
    Henry Kissinger

  10. Re:Larry Ellison's character on What's the Oracle Trial Against SAP Really About? · · Score: 1

    Loneliness is being surrounded by psychophants.

    With enough corporate income, one is fairly doomed to sycophant overload.

    --

    I for one welcome our new sycophant overlords.

  11. Re:Obvious Explanation on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    Al Qaeda in the Baja Peninsula, to try to implicate China.

  12. Re:Developers...developers...developers on Steve Ballmer Reveals His Secret Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    No, that's "Developers!" 12 times....

    More than that with macros.

  13. Re:Meh. on The Queen Joins Facebook · · Score: 1

    That's Reverend Spooner to you, young element.

    My bad.

  14. Re:Meh. on The Queen Joins Facebook · · Score: 2, Informative

    "G-d bless our queer old dean" - some albino guy

    William Archibald Spooner - some Albian guy. It was a reference to Queen Victoria, "Our Dear Old Queen."

  15. Re:Well, that's no ordinary rabbit... on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 1

    That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!

    Do not look directly at his eyes.

  16. Re:Science on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 2, Funny

    We could use them to counter nuclear proliferation.

    iWanian Wabbits FTW

  17. Re:Rabid Radioactive Rabbits with Herpes! on Researchers Race To Recover Radioactive Rabbits · · Score: 1

    Why would a rabbit need Hair Piece?

  18. Re:No surprise on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    All of which might make a cynic question what was really important to Microsoft — public education, or a $2B state income tax-free payday for its CEO?"

    Yes.

  19. Re:Rocketman!!! on Rocketman Takes Off In Custom-Made Wingsuit · · Score: 1

    He's his own wingman.

    He could stay aloft longer with bungee cords.

  20. 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.

    Just as long as he can't describe it.

  21. Re:Another Leak??? on Another Leak Delays Final Discovery Launch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is it sad that this was my first thought, too? It seems that there is nothing we can't blame on WikiLeaks...

    Gates, Jobs, Ellison...

  22. Re:Single DS-3 Bandwidth on Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net · · Score: 1

    According to a BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11693214 , the country of Burma has 45Mbps connectivity to the internet. That is a single DS-3 connection and 50 broadband connected PCs can flood that type of connection ... until the firewall guys start blocking those specific IPs.

    In related news, a bot net of 50 machines has declared war on Burma. Wikileaks is silent on the subject.

  23. Re:It could be worse. on Harry Potter Blamed For India's Disappearing Owls · · Score: 1

    What if they were all getting pet Alligators, and then when they got bored, flushing them into the sewers?

    What horrors!

    Bored alligators are very dangerous.

  24. Re:Finns Flash AMD salty chips walking something on Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI · · Score: 1

    I saw Swedes running across a sandy bridge that their spies ("Intel") had just discovered and "UEFI" being some sort of Ultimate Fighting thingamaroo

    Fear not. The agreement with Wikileaks halts any disclosure about Sweden.

  25. Re:Soviets just bought western technology on Soviet Image Editing Tool From 1987 · · Score: 1

    OK, so the Soviets could by western hardware (Pericolor drum scanner and an Apple ///). Big deal.

    That's Yabloka Tre, you insensitive clodski.