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  1. Cat tongue on Thousands of Gas Leaks Discovered Under Streets of Washington DC · · Score: 1

    Well, it's a good thing it's not a widespread problem

  2. Re:"according to the law" on US Government To Convert Silk Road Bitcoins To USD · · Score: 1

    DPR has already admitted the bitcoins are his right here

  3. Re:PHB's strike again on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 1
    Yes indeed. Someone objected to something on every flight.

    An astronaut knows what the mortality rates are going in... higher than giraffe tail.

    But there are few positions you can work in that make you a hero.

  4. Re: PHB's strike again on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 1
    Do you blame this path of development on habit?

    There seems a ubiquitous prevalence for the old ways among folks with little more to be proud of than years of service.

  5. Re:PHB's strike again on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 1
    I am listening to the song "Major Tom", by David Bowie.

    I would recommend you give it a listen after looking up it's origin story.

  6. Re:great news for nerds! on Adobe Adds 3D Printer Support To Photoshop · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right. Just be careful not to paint over all the screw holes.

  7. Re:X-Bees on Scientists Glue Sensors To 5,000 Bees In a Bid To Better Understand Them · · Score: 3, Funny
    Though not as catchy as The truth is out there,

    The truth is glued to your back will be the talk of the hive.

  8. Evert seen those CSI lights? on DNA Detectives Count Thousands of Fish Using a Glass of Water · · Score: 1
    You can scan a hotel room and the biologicals will light up like a 70's blacklight poster.

    Why would you do that to yourself, for Odin's sake, if you planned to ever sleep in a hotel bed again?

  9. I hate to post 84th. on Apple Will Refund $32.5M To Settle In-App Purchase Complaints With FTC · · Score: 1
    My unlucky number.

    I remember switching cellphone carriers multiple times after this or that premium service was exploited by one of the kids' failure to understand the minutes limit, the texting limit, or the data limit. At the time, I remember thinking I would keep looking until I found an honest cell carrier.

    Poor Diogenes.

  10. Re: They should require refund window on Apple Will Refund $32.5M To Settle In-App Purchase Complaints With FTC · · Score: 1

    I'm sitting at an intersection watching high school kids go by and at least 60% of the girls have a phone in their hand, which they are looking at.

    Just be careful where you gather data there brother.

    Because everyone is required to have a constant, always on internet connection tethered to them every moment of their lives?

    There is a sacrifice in personality development, but there is truth in what you say.

  11. C'mon now. Big Picture. on Carbon Nanotubes and Spongy Polymer Help Transistors Stretch · · Score: 2

    I want a friggin' cell phone I can put on in the morning like a slap bracelet.

  12. Re:Who's Not Irish? on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    Ah, you have them surrender their Irishness on the way out then... far and away the best strategy.

  13. Re:Holy journalistic spin, Batman! on Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt · · Score: 1
    This is exactly the argument your Senator will use when he signs the bill for you.

    Use the smell test.

    A major employer of nerds wants to import hordes of foreign nerds to work for less money than our local chaps during a prolonged dearth in the job market..

  14. Re:They're not even trying... on Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As painfully obvious as is the logic, it's a way to present a distasteful, wage-lowering piece of immigration reform in a positive light.

    Your Congressional representative can always use a positive spin to sign something favorable to large campaign contributors.

    For the children.

  15. Who's Not Irish? on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1
    22 of America's 44 presidents, from Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama, count an Irish ancestry.

    And let's be honest, Boston is more Irish than Cork.

  16. Re:Shut up drinky on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 1

    It is statistically likely to begin shortly after the shift from pints to whisky.

  17. Re:Shut up drinky on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 4, Funny
    If the rumors are true, and the Irish would rule the World if not for alcohol,

    well,

    I'll drink to that.

  18. No way it'll happen here in America on Irish Politician Calls For Crackdown On Open Source Internet Browsers · · Score: 2
    Our government encourages our assumption of internet anonymity.

    It's cheaper than actual freedom, and it makes keeping track of us easy as a cowbell.

  19. Even combat has a silver lining. on Low-Cost Morphing Robotic Hands Could Revolutionize Blue-Collar Bionics · · Score: 1
    The United States is on the forefront of prosthetics innovation, yet another of the seemingly endless societal benefits of keeping a working military.

    The secondary link in TFS highlights Michael Levin's work with tissue regeneration: interesting shit.

  20. Hmm on Lawsuit: Oracle Called $50K 'Good Money For an Indian' · · Score: 2
    There's an implication in Spandow's revelation, if it happened as it is being reported here.

    If the Indian's didn't work for less, would it disincentivize their hiring?

    Or is there also an expectation they will tolerate longer hours in a less hospitable work environment?

  21. Re:Mathematical Models? on Mathematical Model Helps Estimate Optimal Timing of Cyber Attack · · Score: 2
    Major Obvious called.

    Apparently, a penchant for the apparent is a promotable offense at his office.

  22. Re:"Patents for selling online and taking payments on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Newegg Patent Case · · Score: 1
    I paid for a subscription to Patent Office Times, and just like on /., I can see articles in the future.

    The next story out of the pipeline involves Google's patent for tangible contraption.

  23. Re:Since I'm in a generous mood... on Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Newegg Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Well done, sir, well done.

  24. Re:$3.2B on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1
    Google's disposable income, with annual revenue in the neighborhood of 50 billion $US, is surely enough to cover even the impulse buy of an over-rated wi-fi thermostat company.

    Thing is, occasionally the stars line up just right, and the Guys smart enough to charge anybody fifty thousand million dollars in one year's billings turn out to be right.

  25. Re:No, it means... on Google Buys Home Automation Company Nest · · Score: 1
    Bricks are like turtles if they're all the way down.

    From Nest, Goolgle will diversify further into a likely burgeoning home automation craze.

    Wi-fi-enabled-cellphone remote-controlled homes are the homeowner-have-to-have home improvement upgrade of the next few years.