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  1. Little Known Fact on When Algorithms Control the World · · Score: 4, Informative

    Algorithms, in general, were invented by Al Gore. Being a humble public servant, instead of naming his invention directly after himself, he instead spent his valuable time developing the very word "algorithms", a portmanteau of the words "Al Gore Rhythms".

    Don't be misinformed.

  2. My old motorola on iPhone 4 Survives Fall From Skydiver's Pocket · · Score: 1

    My ancient motorola flip-phone has survived several bicycle crashes, being thrown through an interior wall, plenty of rain and sweat, and I once lost it in a mall parking lot in the winter where it got buried in snow for a week, then later found by someone and turned in to the local cops, where it and I were eventually reunited. Still works great.

  3. Re:Since US wants to play it this way on US, UK Targeting Piracy Websites Outside Their Borders · · Score: 1

    You there! Call us "the good guys" or we'll shoot you with our many guns! Choose!

    I thought so.

  4. Re:nuclear can be safe; short term profit preferre on Engineers Find Nuclear Meltdown At Fukushima Plant · · Score: 1

    Here's a lovely pic of a "clean coal" plant's emissions that I took just yesterday. Yummy. http://i.imgur.com/6Xaos.jpg

  5. Re:Forgive me if I'm off topic here... on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site's just slow, keep hitting reload!

  6. Re:Good! on First Electric Cars Have Power Industry Worried · · Score: 1

    The new power grid is hanging out with the national fiber network, drinking martinis and lighting cigars with $100 dollar bills.

  7. awesome on US Presidential Nuclear Codes 'Lost For Months' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nice! It doesn't really matter if nukes work or not anyway; they are not intended to actually be used, and this just helps them stay that way.

  8. You can have my Mr. Microphone on FCC To Open Up Vacant TV Airwaves For Broadband · · Score: 5, Funny
    when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

    Hey good lookin, we'll be back to pick you up later!

  9. survey says... on Survey Says Most iPhone Users Love AT&T · · Score: 1

    Good answer, good answer!

  10. USA ROCKS! on FCC Dodges Pointed Questions On US Broadband Plan · · Score: 3, Funny

    >as if he believes we currently are.

    Whut? The USA is the best, most freest country in the world. We're #1 at everything without even trying! USA! USA! Anyone who doesn't think so is a damn dirty hippy fag druggie terrorist communist and can get the hell out!

    Thank you Jesus! Amen.

  11. healthy enough already = ? on Look At Sick People To Give Your Immune System a Boost · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My immune system is currently plenty strong and I never get sick; if I look at sick people and boost it even further, will I get an autoimmune disease?

  12. Ebay is your friend. on Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Start off small. Pick up some used Cisco stuff off Ebay at 1% list. Maybe a 6500 with a couple of SUP2s for your core switch, a couple or four 7200s for the upstreams/customer facing bits. Make lots of money, upgrade to newer stuff as needed.

  13. what could possibly go wrong? on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1
  14. killer app on Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics · · Score: 5, Funny

    The killer app for this will of course be a Timex Sinclair 1000 emulator.

  15. great on Artist Not Allowed To Stream His Own Music · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This song kicks ass. I haven't heard it in years, but the guitar part will probably be in my head for weeks just from reading this story. He should have won awards for this song.

    Might as well mention that I just lost the game.

    Good day.

  16. Re:Nothing to do with the Segway on New Zealander Invents Segway Alternative · · Score: 1

    It has the same problem though--where do you use it? It's not street legal, and most bike/walk paths prohibit motorized vehicles... it will fit in well once we start redesigning cities to accommodate the Segway... has that started yet?

  17. details that were omitted on Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Sony 3D TV will only play back Beta tapes and DRM-ed content off Memory Sticks(TM), and it will install a rootkit on every device in your house before committing seppuku.

  18. don't be so picky! on New Logitech Dark Field Mice Operate On Glass · · Score: 5, Funny

    >The first laser picks out imperfections in the surface of a tabletop while the second laser focuses on microscopic imperfections highlighted and uses those to direct the cursor.

    Anybody doing retail sales has surely encountered couples like this. I'll bet the second laser demands a discount for the imperfections that the first laser found.

  19. neat on Relativistic Navigation Needed For Solar Sails · · Score: 1

    I hope I live to see this, and that it looks exactly like the one in Tron. C'mon reality, don't let me down again!

  20. incumbent telcos on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 1

    They pretty much need to die and just become infrastructure companies--they can make good money renting their copper loops (they get ~$10/mo for reselling dry loops, depending on which state you're in), fiber, colo space, etc, to CLECs and other interconnect companies and the like. They wouldn't have to do much in the way of direct customer service, which they are so famously good at...

  21. you wanna know about my mother? on Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face · · Score: 1

    Maybe he's a replicant. He doesn't have time to mess around.

  22. Re:There must be something I'm missing on First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Goes Live · · Score: 1

    > Clearly there's something to this article that I'm not seeing...

    Did you see the bit about it being ON THE INTERNETS? There's the difference! When you put something ON THE INTERNETS it becomes more than just the sum of its parts, it becomes a new, unique, and patentable thing; a technological piece de resistance of intellectual property!

  23. reasonable people? on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "words that many reasonable people might find upsetting or objectionable"

    These are not reasonable people. These are people looking through a dictionary in order to be offended.

    Fuck those people. Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfuckers.

  24. Re:Single entity on Inside the Rise of the Domain Name System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember when ICANN routed all unassigned IP space to a helpful web page full of advertisements, breaking many other things in the process?

    Me neither.

  25. screw Oz anyway on DHS Pathogen Lab To Be Built In "Tornado Alley" · · Score: 1

    Who cares what happens to Oz? They need do something about all those flying monkeys, this might just do the trick. Then it'll finally be safe to vacation there again.