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  1. An ammended quote from Goodfellas on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 1

    For most of the guys, *court cases* got to be accepted. *Suing* was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got *sued*. Everybody knew the rules. But sometimes, even if people didn't get out of line, they got sued. I mean, hits just became a habit for some of the guys. Guys would get into arguments over nothing and before you knew it, one of them was *bankrupt*. And they were suing each other all the time. Suing people was a normal thing. It was no big deal.

  2. It's on on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!

  3. Nonrenewable on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    Helium is the worlds nonrenewable resource. I don't think kids are going to give a shit if there aren't balloons at their parties.

  4. Quick reading on Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some skimming around the internet on this subject is fairly interesting. Australia was the first country to implement the secret ballot in 1850, largely to curtail intimidation and other election day shennanigans that were used to influence elections. All elections in the US were secret ballot by the 1892 presidential election. However, this article in the Atlantic argues that the surest way to increase turnout is by making voting a matter of public record. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/abolish-the-secret-ballot/309038/

  5. Licensing on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    I have used this technique for years in the licenses I use with my software. First notification, "I agree to the terms and conditions of this licensing agreement." Second notification, "I agree to renounce my rights under the constitution, sell myselft into slavery, and surrender my first born child to you." 100% adoption rate on both.

  6. Porno on Neil Young Pushes Pono, Says Piracy Is the New Radio · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I first glanced at the headline on this story, I read, "Neil Young Pushes Porno"

  7. 270 buck on Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids · · Score: 5, Funny

    $270? Maybe someone should kill LeBron James.

  8. Blind spot on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 2

    The enemy cleverly foiled this new surveillance scheme by putting up large blown up images of centerfolds on the battlefield, thus distracting the cameras operators. The camera operators never saw the division of enemy tanks advancing and they were overrun.

  9. Sony on Sony Announces 'Superslim' PS3 · · Score: 1

    Sony announces... nothing.

  10. I still have Vista installed on my machine with Ubuntu. I use iTunes. I sync to an iPod. I do not care. But it is not time for businesses to drop XP. It is time for us to smash the computers that rule us. It is time for the humans to rise up. It is time to climb to the top of the highest towers and launch our laptops off to the waiting cement below. It is time to smash the computer overlords with baseball bats, to storm into the server rooms of the universities, of the schools, of the businesses, of the research facilities. We must destroy the computers that our attempting to take over our lives. Take up a hoe, or a shovel, or a hammer and begin to destroy all the electronic devices around you. Take off your wristwatch. Is it digital? Destroy it immediately. Destroy everything that contains silicon microchips. If your car was made after 1984 set it on fire with gasoline. Then, and only then, can we form the perect agrarian society. Thank you.

    This is not a troll and I am not a spy. You went to the crazy house and said you were going as a student to school. You are abnormal because we have schools here, in all the suburban urban areas.

    In his mind, James Taylor is going to Carolina in his mind.

  11. Mr. Al-Zawahiri on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 1

    Just read an irate rant from a Mr. Al-Zawahiri about the change in his Google+ account status.

  12. Youtube on Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It · · Score: 0

    Not directly related, but yesterday on youtube my account suggested to me in a popup to change my account name to my real name. I passed, but I was then prompted for a reason with a 6 tile multiple choice. If I wanted to change my account name to my real name I would have indicated that when I set it up, or altered the settings.

  13. Re:Does the Mohs scale now go to 11? on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 1

    "Why don't you just make 10 harder?" "These go to 11."

  14. Day Zero on New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 3, Funny

    Been saing for years that if we'd just get rid of day zero on the calendar that so many security concerns could be solved, but instead we get yet another vulnerability. How did this happen on day 260?

  15. Cray Superior on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    But the iPad 2 doesn't have reciprocal approximation in place of the outdated mathermatical operation called division. Wake up Apple, it's the 21st century.

  16. Lower Power on Can Nintendo Court the Casuals Again? · · Score: 1

    How did having a lower power machine help Nintendo in the last console generation?

    Will Microsoft and Sony bring 500-700 dollar machines to market this time?

    Will concentrating on the user interface pay off like it did last time for Nintendo?

    Consoles sold from last generation:

    Wii 96 million, XBox360 68 million, PS3 66 million.

  17. Re:My EULA on Preventing Another Carrier IQ: Introducing the Mobile Device Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    "(assuming it gets undone, that is...)" Not sure I would chance that...

  18. I just noticed in my EULA that I have renounced my citizenship and rights as a US citizen.

  19. Global Warming on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The way I have seen the debate presented:

    1. The world runs on fossil fuels primarily

    2. Fossil fuels contribute to global warming

    3. The world needs energy sources that don't contribute to global warming

    4. Atomic energy does not produce CO2, but questions about its safety (Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3 mile) or public worries about its safety persist

    5. Renewable energy sources, in there current state, can't satisfy current or projected demand for energy

    6. Oh no.

  20. Birther joke on Is iPhone Battery Usefulness On the Decline? · · Score: 1

    ”Are you better off now than you were 4 iPhones ago?“. "Yes, but I don't think this phone was born in the United States."

  21. Schizophrenic on Fragmentation Comes To iOS · · Score: 1

    If iOS fragments, does that make it schizoOS? Maybe you can give it thorazine and make it sedatedcrazyiOS.

  22. I swear on BBC Radiophonic Workshop Revived Online · · Score: 1

    They also supplied the voice for George clinton's "Won't you take me to..." funky town and Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue."

  23. Fragmentation on Alibaba Says Google Threatened Acer With Banishment From Android · · Score: 1

    Really gives fragmentation a whole new meaning don't it?

  24. Little disappointing on George Albercook Teaches Kids About Space with High-Altitude Balloons (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A little dissappointed that this story has real relevance to science and techonolgy and it only has drawn about 11 comments.

  25. Interesting comment from analyst on Nintendo WiiU Price and Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    "The price is probably set just above production costs so the company won't lose money," said Tomoaki Kawasaki, a Tokyo-based analyst at Iwai Cosmo Securities. "I'm paying close attention to whether there will be innovative software." Might this be just Nintendo pricing a new product at a level where the first kid on the block to have the new toy will be willing to spend, and the usual drop in price follows. But will there be something new here in the gaming experience, as with the Wii, that will make the gamer shell out the $?