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  1. Calvary? on Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a Biblical reference -- and at this rate it would take divine intervention.

  2. meanwhile googleupdate.exe is in the background on Google Chrome Is Getting Automatic Blocking of Malicious Downloads · · Score: 0

    So it already has a drive-by download installed and running. Just sayin'.

  3. Vlad's Synth Blood Bank, how many I help you? on Artificial Blood Made In Romania · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just used my last karma point on the pen-testing post, but I was thinking similarly.

  4. a decade or two on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 2

    It's an every-day activity for some of us, with the scare being when the mask comes off or her hand goes into the treat bag.

  5. Dell:Pothead :: Lenovo:Kutcher on Lenovo Want Ashton Kutcher As More Than Just a Pretty Face · · Score: 2, Funny

    Instead of "Dude, you got a Dell!" it's "Dude, you got punked with a Lenovo!"

    A computer to appeal to its older users, heh heh.

  6. thanks for the list of 21 sites!! on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that was nice, don't tell us what all is affected.
    (MP3Skull will be no big loss, never saw a downloadable file ever.)

    And I'm betting if KAT was on the list we'd hear about it.

  7. Tinfoil hats on HP Sues Seven Optical Drive Makers Over Price-Fixing · · Score: 1

    [HP] alleges the companies used industry events, such as CES, as cover to communicate competitive information and hammer out anticompetitive agreements.

    I can picture coded messages and secret rings in use. Like those in charge couldn't just call each other to make deals, mano a mano, rather than geeks in polos with women in Lara Croft outfits nearby doing the corporate espianage mole work? (I've never been to a CIS, I just assume it's geeks and sexy girls.)

  8. Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Zeus handed her a line of bull to land her.

  9. They should make a time capsule for the event! on Celebrating a Century of Fossil Finds In the La Brea Tar Pits · · Score: 1

    INCEPTION

  10. Re:4chan, craigslist on Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet · · Score: 1

    Too bad I used all my mod points up... you are exactly correct.

  11. and it begs the question on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What imaginary guns were they looking for? Where'd the intell saying there were imaginary guns come from?

  12. I smell a lawsuit here on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A raid to steal a reporter's notes (verses a Watergate sneak-theft)? That crosses the line into jackboot thuggery.

  13. Re:Amazon isn't the "everything store" until... on Book Review: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon · · Score: 1

    And by some twist, Sears is flailing and on life support because people buy from Amazon now.

  14. According to a song by The Frantics, Roots has everything... including gimp masks and branded dildoes.

  15. Re:Potatoes on Facebook Faces PRISM Data Investigation In Ireland · · Score: 1

    Someone mistook a steaming turd for a baked spud. Do not offer me your mashed potatoes, thanks.

  16. yet the only technology I ever noticed on Computers and Doctor Who · · Score: 2

    was that in programming the TARDIS in some Who iteration (I'm not a Whovian so know zilch about which) he typed coordinants on a 1940s typewriter. Who knew the TARDIS was an analogue device?

  17. This has been done since the 1980s on Fighting Paralysis With Electricity · · Score: 2

    I recall when I was in high school watching video of people with similar setups, where electrodes were going to the muscles or spine, and little jolts would make the legs move. It was very jerky and reportedly very draining to the person (since every motion was a sudden thrust).

  18. consider the source on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    the Google exec who wrote the no banner ads promise was Marissa Mayer, now CEO of Yahoo.

    That says it all, really. She has a knack for these things.

  19. context on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 4, Informative

    He broke his collarbone twice while racing and had two crashes on a mountain bike

    Okay, you get the win on this one. Slashdot description is deceptive; thanks for the clarification these injuries were not in the street use the article is about.

  20. only? on How Safe Is Cycling? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    he's only broken his collarbone twice and hip once

    Only? That sounds like proof of concept rather than a proof of overstatement.

  21. bonk on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 0

    That's what I was going for: I knew several versions of Mac's OS were costly even if the very latest couple were not, that's where I was coming from.

    Post as Flamebait? Heh, only if you're an Apple fanboy. ;-)

  22. $20 bundle on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 1

    ...compared to free,

    Today's caviat is that I admit not knowing how much OS X 10.8 cost off the shelf. Do know that previous versions cost well above that, and when I was looking up 10.4 for a blueberry iMac it cost more than 10.8.

    Also, I stick by what I was trying to say: any price > free and thus the whole premise of competition regarding a free upgrade to an OS you paid for (X 10.9 or Win 8.1) to the truly free-of-charge is kind of silly.

  23. the second dose is free on Torvalds: Free OS X Is No Threat To Linux · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...but Apple users had to pay a bundle for the OS that they're upgrading to Maverick from, remember.

  24. does not work the other way around on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    which he says is good for consumers who are 'accustomed to paying for what they use'

    Such as paying $72 per month for cable despite never turning on the TV? No, sorry, my issue with this statement is that while they mean those who use more will pay more, they do not mean that those who use less will pay less.

  25. it's like he was psychic on Germany: We Think NSA May Have Tapped Chancellor Merkel's Cell Phone · · Score: 3, Funny

    President Obama 'assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor' her communications.

    The NSA had informed him that she was going to ask him if she was being monitored.