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  1. Cluttered mess on China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer · · Score: 1

    I love being pounded by not one, but two autoplaying video streams that evade my Adblock Plus. Doesn't help that the rest of the site is a nightmare to look at. At least present us with a site with far less elements to deal with.

  2. Re:DEVELOPERS! on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1

    DeVelOpERs! deveLOpErS! dEVLopeRS! deVelo....

    I hope I wasn't the only one trying to translate a hidden message within.

  3. I work with a cancer genomics group... on Genomics Impact On US Economy Approaches $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Genomics booming? News to me. If anything, we've only been feeling a vast reduction in grant approval lately. We're lucky to even get the expected 1 out of 15 submissions approved. The diabetes genomic group we work with is also feeling the heat.

  4. No on Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? · · Score: 1

    I mean yes... I mean... Help me Lord Betteridge!

  5. Shadows of Oblivion! on Avatars Help Schizophrenics Gain Control of Voices In Their Heads · · Score: 1

    I can see this being very effective. If I had to deal with a bunch of those ugly mugs from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion all over again, I'd want them out of my head and out of my life too!

  6. Re:How to save your company on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    Please do. I love the thought of seeing a bunch of sysadmins standing in front of their KVMs flailing their arms and legs around in the cold isles.

  7. Re:Am I the only one? on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    "Engine halted. Firmware update in progress. Please wait."

  8. Re:Nice heading on AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's · · Score: 4, Informative

    For those unfortunate to not get the joke: Ask Mr. Lizard

  9. Re:qualitay on Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage · · Score: 1

    Hey, maybe the holdup is because they are trying to take it, but are stuck in an endless loop!

  10. Re:Not new... on Smithsonian Releases 128-Year-Old Recording of Alexander Graham Bell · · Score: 1

    Yes, well over a decade.

  11. Re:doctoral student on Low Levels of Toxic Gas Found To Encourage Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    Given the nature of the experiment, I'm pretty sure his name was Melvin "Toxie" Junko.

  12. Re:Isn't it obvious what these glasses are for? on Not Even Investors Know What Google Glass Is For · · Score: 1

    Glassholes.

    If these glassholes are irritable, would they be called glass cannons?

  13. Re:Already tarnished for me on Poking Holes In Samsung's Android Security · · Score: 1

    Given your animosity, I say you would want to touch it with a ten foot poleaxe.

  14. Re:Game of Thrones on Apple Hires Former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, Destroyer of iPhones · · Score: 1

    We don't need to see them in bed to figure where this is going, do we?

  15. Standards on Where Can You Find an Electric Vehicle Charging Network? Estonia · · Score: 2

    So, is that an average cost of $3.25 per gallon of amps? Or $3.25 per litre of voltage?

  16. I think I'm going to ask for all of us when I say on Cyber Squatters Grab Up More Than 600 'Pope Francis' Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Did they grab popefrancis.xxx?

  17. Re:Biometrics are not secrets. on Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers · · Score: 1

    I really thought you'd go out on a limb for your friend here and actively demonstrate to him why this is such a bad idea.

  18. Re:Not a huge surprise... on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's because it was most likely reviewed by a copy given to publishers and other reviewers prior to retail. There was no stress to bear on their cloud when it was just a few reviewers testing the product, so everything went smooth. But when it came time for the floodgates to open, the cons of their cloud-centered setup got exposed. This is one those situations where when it works, it's all fine and dandy, but when it doesn't, it crashes and burns for just about everyone.

  19. The Old Republic... Again. on Halo Developer Bungie Reveals Destiny and Its Vision of MMO Gaming · · Score: 1

    Approach is akin to the story-driven TOR. I see nothing particularly special or original about what they've expressed so far outside of the setting.

  20. YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: 0

    SEE?! BIGGER BUDGET = MORE SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS! CUT FUNDING AND YOU CUT SCIENCE! SCIENCE! YOU'LL REGRET THIS!

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    Filler cuz caps lock is evil. yaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayaddayadda

  21. Hidden Camera Footage on UK Apple Shop Forced To Change Its Name · · Score: 1

    Footage of one of the incidents has been discovered.

  22. Meanwhile, at Myriad Genetics: on Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene · · Score: 1

    CEO Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the Senator.

    MANAGER I take it he was agreeable?

    CEO He didn't really have a choice.

    MANAGER Has he been infected?

    CEO Oh yes, most certainly. When I mentioned that we could put him on the priority list for the vaccine, he was so willing it was almost pathetic.

    MANAGER This cancer -- the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.

    CEO Why contain it? Let it spill over into the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to save them.

    MANAGER I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.

    CEO Of course they're desperate. They can smell their death, and the sound they'll make rattling their cage will serve as a warning to the rest.

    MANAGER Mmm. I hope you're not underestimating the problem. The others may not go as quietly as you think -- intelligence indicates they're behind the problems in Paris.

    CEO A bunch of pretentious old men playing at running the world. But the world left them behind long ago. We are the future.

    CEO We've had to endure much, you and I, but soon there will be order again, a new age. Aquinas spoke of the mythical City on the Hill. Soon that city will be a reality, and we will be crowned its kings. Or better than kings. Gods.

  23. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    Friend stayed in Russia for several years. He also claims women there are hot, until they are traditionally beaten with an ugly stick at the age of around mid 30's.

  24. Re:I worked at MS... on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    I take it the conversation started with a comment about the stability of Windows?

  25. Re:Gimp on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    [ for the impaired, GIMP does and this version of photoshop does not, and noone outside the print industry gives a damn ]

    You're partially right. I'm part of a genetic research group, and I've had to work with people that need to make CMYK materials to send to publishers because apparently the print industry they work with requests it so the publisher demands it from us. So there is a trickle down effect in some cases. The print industry itself may not be large enough to give CMYK attention, but when you consider all the clients they have...