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  1. "Fashion Institute of Technology"? on Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger · · Score: 1

    As our robotic overlords often put it - "does not compute".

  2. Obligatory. Also relevant, as it happens. on Apple vs. Google, Who Will Control the iPhone? · · Score: 1

    This is off-topic.

    You must be new here.

  3. Reference farm. on Amazon, MS, and Yahoo Against Google's Library · · Score: 1

    Fending off wild humans living with the Houyhnhnms allied with mythical female warriors, all while battling multiple sclerosis? Only you, misspelt ten raised to the hundredth power.

  4. But without landlines... on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 5, Funny

    how do you get back out of the Matrix?

  5. Re:Not even possible on Will Silicon Valley Run Out of Data Center Space? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the demand is for unrealistically cheap service, then that's not real demand.

    Yes, it is. You can't know what's 'unrealistically cheap' unless you've pushed the envelope and actually negotiated for a lower price. In a down economy, and with enough buying power looking for low prices, you might even be able to wrangle an unprecedented discount.

  6. Re:Honestly: be honest, and stick together as a te on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    Some of them have to literally be retaught.

    Go on, slip her a red pill.

  7. Re:Homemade music is best on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 2, Funny

    It won't seem so special once wives are downloadable.

  8. Re:Wrong on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 1

    Recommendation implies liability.

  9. Re:Pedant Warning! on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 1

    English? America? I fail to see the connexion.

  10. I see what you did there. on The Music Industry's Crisis Writ Large · · Score: 1

    'Track record', eh? Tee hee. Very clever.

  11. FIFO? LIFO? on Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated · · Score: 1

    The first link says FIFO; the fourth implies LIFO. Which one is it?

  12. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    Sorry I misunderstood you. It's all fine :)

  13. Re:Distressing on Games Fail To Portray Gender and Ethnic Diversity · · Score: 1
    How about 'the social studies (Sciences? Spare us!) are bunk and have to stop making a political point out of every situation that lends itself to statistical analysis' ?

    Brown Hindu atheist here, telling all white people to stop blaming yourselves for the sins of (some of) your forefathers. The rest of the world doesn't hate you for being white. That's just racist.

  14. Re:Just to be a wikipedian dick.. on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    My point is that on the internet, you can claim anything you want.

    I'm the secret multizillionaire who invented and runs the Internet from his secret lair in the [CENSORED], and I'll sue you for insulting my invention!

  15. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up.

  16. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1
    In my school, they did confiscate your phone. If you needed a phone for after school, you could leave it locked at a supervised location and collect it later. Never had the distraction of texting in class. Stop thinking every reasonable restriction is a step away from repealing the First Amendment. It isn't. It's part of the social contract, like traffic lights and queueing for the bus.

    PS. For the curious, this was an Indian school in the United Arab Emirates, where the obsession with cellular phones is aeons ahead of North America.

  17. Re:back in my day on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    brain-melding in class or something...

    Sure, blame the Vulcans. It's always blame the Vulcans. Nerds always get blamed for everything. You just don't understand.

  18. Re:Lesson Learned on RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial · · Score: 1

    I'd mod you up, but lacking that ability - bravo! *pat on the back*

  19. Re:everyone's doing it. on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 1

    G-A-N-D-H-I. It's not difficult, really.

  20. Can he prove his homework? on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    This may sound a bit like a 1984 paraphrasing, but how can he prove the existence of the homework, and the value of it?

  21. It's a very good idea. on Arizona Considers Selling Capitol Buildings · · Score: 1

    They're selling their own office instead of cutting back on education, health care, road maintenance, the fire department, &c. I think it's better for lawmakers to inconvenience themselves instead of the public. It's even mildly noble.

  22. Re:Pakistani citizen on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree, the Taliban wasn't created to bug India. That would be the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

  23. Re:everyone's doing it. on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 1

    Cf. Athena guiding an arrow to graze Menelaus, and Apollo guiding one to Achilles' heel. 'God(s)-willing' seems to be the dominant strategy in the Trojan archery corps as well.

  24. Chemical, n. on UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food · · Score: 1
    I'm a little disappointed by the misappropriation of the word 'chemical' to mean 'toxin' in this forum. If you want to say 'artificial fertiliser' or 'factory-manufactured pesticide', say so. Don't be scared stiff by the mention of the word 'chemical' like some ill-informed political science major.

    Reminds me of a snack table put out by our chemistry department that had little signs that said 'these food items are made of chemicals'. Or the episode of 'Yes, Minister' where voters concluded that since dioxin was poisonous, meta-dioxin must be too.

  25. Re:everyone's doing it. on Pakistan Used Google Earth For Military Targeting · · Score: 1

    To be pedantic, 'Insha'Allah' only means 'God-willing' in Arabic. I'm not sure an Insha'Allah mentality would lend itself to actively fighting....