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  1. Re:LulzSec? on United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage · · Score: 2

    Just you watch. They will admit to being hacked, and then tack on a $25 per seat "Digital Ticket Security Initiative" fee.

  2. Re:Hard to make sense of that. on United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage · · Score: -1, Troll

    If septuagenarian "Elizabeth Johnson" misses her flight, they wont pull her bags. But if 32yr old "Ahmet Imadinerjacket" misses his flight, the bomb squad is called and his bags are imploded.

  3. Damn Skynet. on United Airlines Passengers Stranded By Computer Outage · · Score: 2

    Instead of getting an AI that just wants to outright kill us all, we got one that just wants to fuck with us...

  4. Re:I call bullshit... on Japanese Scientist Creates Meat Substitute From Sewage · · Score: 1

    When you are on a spaceship hurtling through the void, you dont have dogs, cats, or pond-scum to recycle. But you do have plenty of shit.

    Like the childrens book says, Everybody shits.

  5. Re:20% of chernobyl's radiation. on Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate · · Score: 2

    To anybody with even a ..... ah fuck it.

  6. Its just viral marketting by Apple. on Pranksters Post Giant Windows Logo On Hamburg Apple Store · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since they are Apple's viral marketing team they can't use the Windows logo so they use a knock off. Notice in the article they don't mention it is the Windows logo.

    This:
            * Ensure that plenty of locals visit the store when it opens. "Hey, isn't this the store that had that wacky prank happen to them a few weeks back? We should go see if there have been any other shenanigans there within the last couple of days."

            * Subliminal reminder that Apple can now run Windows if you use Boot Camp.

            * It generally makes Windows users look desperate to Apple users, "Wow, they had to deface a store to feel better about their choice in OS". At the same time, it makes Windows users look funny and creative to other Windows users, "Haha! Stupid Apple store. This'll teach 'em! They're going to be so mad when they realize what we did!".

    I'll say this, I didn't know they were opening a new store in Germany but I sure as hell know now.

  7. Prototype escape pod? on World's Largest Amateur Rocket Prepares For Second Attempt · · Score: 1

    If you ignore the fact it looks like a coffin, this could make a good single-seat escape pod for future space stations or vehicles.

  8. Re:Umm, no... on Flight 447 'Black Box' Decoded · · Score: 1

    but because they don't know which way is up.

    This is why all the pilots I know tie a washer to a string and tape it to the cabin ceiling. No matter what an instrument says, that washer will point down.

    If you are buried in an avalanche you can use a similar trick to figure out what way the surface is, so you can dig yourself out.

  9. Like it matters. on Sony Music Greece Falls To Hackers · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Anyone who's ever visited Greece knows nobody buys music there. For 2euro an hour you can visit an internet cafe, get the password from the guy at the front desk, and connect to the cafes local file server. Last time I was there they had something like 20TB+ worth of movies, music, tv shows, games, and porn.

    They decided that since people download stuff anyways, might as well save on the bandwidth and store it locally. Any time you download a file its mirrored in the cafes file server, so others can copy it without having to re-download.

    And if you dont go that route, you can buy bootleg copies from any number of African immigrants on the street for just a few euro. Many times for better quality than available in stores for retail price.

  10. WTF? on New Bill Ups Punishment For Hosts of Infringing Video Streams · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why does an industry that offers so little in terms of value or innovation hold so much power over everyone? Why do we keep allowing these bullies to push us around?

  11. Re:Underwear? on NASA's Underwater Training Facility · · Score: 1

    I did rtfa, but this is still jokeworthy as it is quite plausible for a NASA program. ;P

  12. Re:Deepwater Drilling Emergency Station on NASA's Underwater Training Facility · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't that duty fall under NOAA though? NASA only does this because water is a suitable analog for the vacuum of space. For actual hydrological research, NOAA would be the logical administration to conduct it.

  13. Underwear? on NASA's Underwater Training Facility · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read the title as the "Underwear Training Facility". Damn, NASA sure are thorough in their training.

  14. FSM! on Judge Issues Gag Order For Twitter · · Score: 1

    They must be trying to protect the identity of that lady at the Royal Wedding with the pastafarian hat.

  15. 1984 on Ford Uses Google For a New Type of Smart Car · · Score: 2

    How soon until it beams all that data to your insurance company and the FBI?

  16. Re:Only a few left.... on Marking 125 Years Since the Great Gauge Change · · Score: 1

    With light bulbs running at 50Hz, you can see them flicker out of the corner of your eye. Its just at the edge of the range where yours eyes can tell the difference.

  17. High as fuck on Easily Distracted People May Have 'Too Much Brain' · · Score: 4, Funny
    or go into a supermarket and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy

    Smoke a few bowls, and you too can forget what you went into the supermarket to get.

  18. Re:Borg on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 1

    They are the masters of efficiency...

  19. Re:Cheaper than a predator on A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure they do. One moves a fat ass cross-country, the other moves a fat ass cross-country-club.

  20. Re:But why? on How Far and Fast Can the Commercial Space World Grow? · · Score: 1

    Our fleshy appendages arent barbed.

  21. But why? on How Far and Fast Can the Commercial Space World Grow? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    The real question is why do we need to go up there in the first place?

    Communication and physics research satellites seem to be the only thing people are launching. Until more tech that is space-only is developed, we really have no reason to go up there.

    Supply and demand. We have no demand, so therefore there is no supply.

    What we should be focusing on is how to create the demand.

  22. Re:LOL nigger joke... on Did Some Black Holes Survive the Big Bang? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Its grape drank, bitch.

  23. I get it! on Did Some Black Holes Survive the Big Bang? · · Score: 1
    The universe is actually a multidimensional doughnut, and black holes act as drains. Matter goes in, and exits on the other side of the doughnut, to repeat the cycle.

    We just cant comprehend it because of the complexity of the multidimensionality of it all.

  24. Re:Woah woah woah on Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' · · Score: 1

    Indeed. It seems that I was taught the details of one comet, while having it called by another comets name.

  25. Re:Woah woah woah on Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' · · Score: 2
    sunovabitch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale-Bopp

    Minneapolis public schools, this is an official fuck you. You liars.

    I was told it was discovered in the 1920's and that it came around every 70-80 years. Bastards.