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  1. Re:What about on VIA Unveils $79 Rock and $99 Paper ARM PCs · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem is, you can't run with Scissors.

  2. Re:Batteries on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    This is the Internet, more to the point, Slashdot. Simultaneity of correctness is not possible, except in superposition. Once someone reads the post, the probability wave collapses, and only one ("There can be only one!") can be correct.

  3. Re:Batteries on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Grounded In US and EU · · Score: 1

    Boeing is the OEM of the plane, (The plane! The plane!) not the batteries, any more than they are the OEM of the tires, or the switches in the cockpit, or a million other components.

  4. Earth on Wikimedia Foundation Launches Wikivoyage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mostly harmless.

  5. Re:Has anybody said on Japan Grounds Fleet of Boeing 787s After Emergency Landing · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, the American way is to egregiously cut safety corners in favor of profit, until Something Terrible happens, and the girlymen rise up chanting "Think of the children", then we ban in-flight movies as a Magic Talisman so "nothing like this will ever ever ever happen again". Rinse and repeat.

  6. Re:Altitude Sickness... on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    It's the fuel/air *mixture*. As you go up in altitude, you're getting a lesser volume of air, but the same amount of fuel. Modern injection systems do a better job of adjusting for air pressure, but your engine still needs to be tuned for the altitude it's going to run at. I used to live in Reno (4500 ft) and every time I drove down to San Fransisco (sea level, obviously), my car would run like crap. In town, I'd always see California cars belching smoke from all the unburned fuel in the exhaust.

  7. Re:It's not dead. on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's just insulting. The back-office admin staff aren't the problem, it's those assclowns in sales and marketing. Trying to teach them anything new that involves thinking skills is a wasted effort.

  8. Re:The missing "A" on Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed · · Score: 2

    Actually, the missing "a" was inadvertently dropped when the Doctor spliced in the "You should kill us all on sight" bit.

  9. Re:McAfee is Malware, not just Crapware anymore! on McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Symantec and McAfee and both perfect examples of the cure being worse than the disease.

  10. He who controls the vocabulary controls the debate on McAfee Labs Predicts Decline of Anonymous · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meanwhile, patriot groups self-organized into cyberarmies and spreading their extremist views will flourish.

    Love the juxtaposition of "patriot" and "extremist".

    Because clearly, not wanting to live in a corporate dystopia is an "extremist" viewpoint.

  11. Re:Imperfect citizens on NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The same kind of people who dreamed up "Operation Enduring Freedom". At least they got the "Enduring" part right.

  12. Re:Why go to work for Facebook post-IPO? on The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have to remember though, that the film was a work of fiction, because he really is an asshole.

  13. Homeless planets in our neighborhood on Probable Rogue Planet Spotted · · Score: 1

    Great. Just great. Homeless planets orbiting around the neighborhood, pushing a giant shopping cart, talking to themselves, collecting cans, hanging around stoplights washing windows... Shit. There goes the neighborhood.

  14. Re:I wonder if it's He ? on Probable Rogue Planet Spotted · · Score: 1

    "For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky"

    or

    "Miramanee!!"

  15. Re:worse than rape on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1

    Prison sentences for rape are not uniform. A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 11.8 years, while the actual time served was 5.4 years. This follows the typical pattern for violent crimes in the US, where those convicted typically serve no more than half of their sentence.

    Must be God's will.

  16. Re:Virtually any assembly is better than x86 on Imagination Technology Buys MIPS · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thanks, I didn't realize that the MIPS architecture used the x86 instruction set.

  17. If you're victimized by this on PayPal Security Holes Expose Customer Card Data, Personal Details · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can always file a class action lawsuit. Oh. Wait.

  18. Re:Right on on Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because

    eval "Richard Stallman"

    returns 0.

  19. Re:I hereby tag this event: on Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm, Star Wars Episode 7 Due In 2015 · · Score: 1

    That is funny, but the dude who runs that site can expect a DMCA takedown notice the day after this deal closes.

  20. Re:I hate this on NASA Satellite Sees Black Hole Belching Out Hundred-Million-Degree X-rays · · Score: 1

    The Bears going to the playoffs has approximately the same odds as a high-energy X-ray cataclysm.

  21. Re:How does something escape a black hole? on NASA Satellite Sees Black Hole Belching Out Hundred-Million-Degree X-rays · · Score: 1

    This isn't Hawking radiation.

  22. Re:The title makes me weep for science journalism on NASA Satellite Sees Black Hole Belching Out Hundred-Million-Degree X-rays · · Score: 1

    That's just the Slashdot headline, not from TFA. So, yeah, no big surprise for facepalm-inducing editing. Meanwhile, TFA gets Extra, Extra, Extra Credit for the "Click to schwarzschildenate" caption.

  23. Re:Weathermen on Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter · · Score: 1

    If there's a hurricane right off the coast and you tell people there's NO CHANCE it's coming ashore, and it does, then yes.

  24. Re:The same way as everybody else. on How Google Cools Its 1 Million Servers · · Score: 1

    I thought the Facebook way was to blame it on the users misconfiguring things.

  25. Re:Maybe FedEx will deliver them on Canadian Space Agency Shows Off Prototype Rovers · · Score: 1

    Hint: NOT on Canadian boosters - which was the point.