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  1. The last common ancestor of Triceratops horridus, Passer domesticus, Diplodocus carnegii, and all of its descendants.

  2. Re: Holy negation Batman! on Roadside Cameras Infected with WannaCry Virus Invalidate 8,000 Traffic Tickets (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It means someone went to public school.

  3. Re: If true paying damages not adequate on Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Cutting Competitor's Wires To Put It Out of Business (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nuremberg defense.

  4. Re: they can just pass the blame to subcontractors on Lawsuit Accuses Comcast of Cutting Competitor's Wires To Put It Out of Business (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    But *I* didn't kill my wife, the guy I paid to did!

  5. Re:Huh? What? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair, it's only "very well-known" by people who know how to use browser tabs, which rules out 99% of my family, cow-orkers, and (I'm guessing through extrapolation) the population at large.

  6. Re:Petition on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    Yep, just like every person in the world uses Latitude and Orkut.

  7. Re:Noisy annoying environment on Why Working Remotely Needs To Make a Comeback · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes. You must sit in a cube farm all day within earshot of the eleventy hens cackling about their kids.

    Otherwise, whom will they pawn their work off upon?

  8. Yeah, but how long on Decade Old KDE Bug Fixed · · Score: 1

    has the "ksirtet is no longer in kdegames bug" been ongoing?

  9. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It goes further than that. Nurses frequently work with in a field that primarily concerns itself with increasing overall health and wellness. If their religious sensibilities are upset by that, they probably do need to find a new job.

  10. Alligator-Powered Servers Are A Thing Now on Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator · · Score: 1

    Mr. Slate could not be reached for comment.

  11. Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. on Shut Up and Play Nice: How the Western World Is Limiting Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Because Nazism wasn't a "Political Philosophy of Peace"?

  12. Re:Why civil? on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 1

    No. They're turtles that were handled by a person immediately prior to incorporation.

  13. Re:Why civil? on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 0

    CEO:Employee Pay Ratio is utter bullshit unless all CEOs make the same level pay.

    Or would you seriously have us believe that everyone's better off when everyone makes $8K/yr, but the CEO is only pulling in $300K, like some Latin American socialist paradise, versus America where the CEO makes millions but the average drones have to make do on $45K?

  14. Re:Wait, what? on Earliest Americans Arrived In Waves, DNA Study Finds · · Score: 1

    The other spectators at the llamaliztli courts, followed shortly be the ones directly to their left.

  15. Re:Not hiring the unemployed on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    I'd believe you if HR departments weren't full of competent professionals who actually know how to do stuff and instead were staffed by 19 year-old girls who--

    Oh. Well played.

    But seriously, there's a good reason to follow that strategy. If you only hire people with no loyalty to the hand that feeds them, (a) you don't need to be loyal back to them, and (2) if you're lucky, they won't stick around long enough to get vested in your pension.

  16. Re:But but but but... on Little Health Risk Seen From Fukushima's Radioactivity · · Score: 2

    It's true. If they don't nuke you now, they will nuke you la'r.

  17. Re:destruction of property is a crime on US Justice Dept Defends Right To Record Police · · Score: 2

    Haha, quaint.

  18. Re:floppy disc on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    Old woman!

  19. Re:Indeed! on Verizon To Begin Offering "Text To 911" Service · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because 911 operators need people to communicate with them intelligibly?

  20. Re:Even a broken clock on Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug · · Score: 1

    I'll understand if you're under some kind of legal nondisclosure agreement, but I'm morbidly curious: what was the correct answer to the haunted-house question?

    I mean, most of use would hope for a "no", but there's some wiggle room in the word "thought". Like, what happens if someone taking the test saw a ghost in her house, and was certain of it? Or what if she was only visiting a friend's haunted house, but spent the night, but thought the purpose of the question was to gauge on-the-job-equivalent experience, because I know we're not supposed to profile people based on their colour, but let's face it, we all know those translucent devils are the ones we really have to watch out for.

  21. I call BS on Study Suggests the Number-Line Concept Is Not Intuitive · · Score: 1

    I'm sitting next to a recently-opened bottle of Gatorade. Because the plastic is transparent, and the liquid not, I can see exactly how full the bottle is.

    I just took a sip, and guess what? I watched the level go down! If I did the exact same thing, but in two dimensions, it would look exactly like a gas gauge or battery monitor.

    If that's not "intuitive" in your culture, there's something wrong with your culture.

  22. Re:Headline = Misleading on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    Hell, I misread (in parts thanks to the missing hyphen) it as "for using" and was giddy with excitement that the government would be shut down. On tax day.

    Imagine my letdown.

  23. Re:Only if they reported it. on iPhone Users Sue AT&T For Letting Thieves Re-Activate Their Stolen Devices · · Score: 1

    This is important; because if you can't validate the owner with 100% certainty, then you open the door to situations where person A falsly reports persons B's phone stolen and gets it bricked. ... or sells it on Craigslist -- cash -- and then gets it back two days later.

  24. From FUD to Ad Hominem Condescention on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    OR, someone who doesn't want to shell out two grand for a computer that will run iTunes just for the privilege of being able to spend $500 on an iPad, when I can just plug a USB cable into my phone and Linux box. It's exactly the same functionality as plugging in a flashdrive, and yet I'm the one who gets downvoted?

  25. Re:Coming Soon on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they have USB ports or SD card slots (or any other way to get files into them -- seriously, what's the point of 64GB that you can't put a single mp3, much less a movie, in?) like my Android phone, they ARE 200% (or more) better than iPads.