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  1. why does congress hate free markets? on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IT workers propose bill requiring citizen referendum on any congressional pay raises

  2. I'm better than Leonardo daVinci in that being still living, there's still the non-zero probability[1] that I could further the advancement of society. daVinci, being dead, can not[2].



    [1] granted, probably not that high, since I'm posting on slashdot...
    [2] discounting the discovery of any lost works.
    [3] j/k

  3. conditions in steerage were deplorable, I've heard on A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups · · Score: 1

    oh, great, naturally they'll use obsolete rustbuckets to cut every corner imaginable. I can't possibly imagine any potential problems with that scheme.
    oh, the humanity!

  4. aim directly at foot, pull trigger... on A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups · · Score: 1

    meh.
    Take a look at the problems GA & AL are having finding agricultural workers since they've passed their new immigration bills.
    I'll grant you, Americans would work construction. But I expect wages have been inflated the last 7 years due to the housing bubble. I doubt they will pay as well when they come back. Or that there will be as many as there used to be.

  5. so that's it on 'Alternative Medicine' Clinic Attempts To Silence Critics · · Score: 1

    Dr Bob, DC has turned to the dark side.

  6. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy on Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran · · Score: 1

    A Red Dawn game could be pretty cool. Hey, look, we have an opportunity for one coming up next year!
    There was a Fortress America board game, but that's about all I could come up with.

  7. Re:Custom back. on iPhone Auto-Combusts On Australian Airplane · · Score: 0

    No, I don't think that's Steve's silhouette on the logo.

    But that does lead to the question, when are we going to start seeing Jobs showing up on tortillas on teh intarwebz?

  8. you go FB! on Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks · · Score: 4, Funny

    wise like king Solomon.

    No, I can't believe it either.

  9. Re:Pretty bad when EA seems more appealing on More On Why It Stinks To Work At Zynga · · Score: -1, Troll
  10. Re:One problem... on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 1

    Nah, I'm pretty sure it was One Step Beyond.
    It was the episode with the actor that played the Riddler on the 50's Superman tv show.

  11. old, old, old, joke on Earthscraper Takes Sustainable Design Underground · · Score: 1

    WTF?! My god, it sounds like a teenager who found his first thesaurus.

    Ahhh, I remember well the first time my father took me nighttime hunting and I bagged my first onomasticon. It was a real beaut, weighing in at over three hundred pages.

  12. Re:No on Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13's Plutonium From the Ocean · · Score: 5, Insightful

    6Km under the ocean is probably the safest place for it.

    Putting it on the Moon would probably had been safer.

  13. do not look at shark with remaining eye on Terahertz Wireless Chip Will Bring 30Gbps Networks · · Score: 1

    ...it's more like a laser than a signal...

    A laser is a signal

    Any sufficiently powerful laser is a signal that you want something destroyed, Mr Bond.

    Any insufficiently powerful laser can still make a amusing cat toy.

  14. missed market opportunity on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    If you sell a tablet that uses a stylus, you have a built in repeat market for replacement styluses. You just need to include some built in RFID dohickey to enforce lock-in in your design.

    Think Marketing.

  15. or maybe the Yes men... on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 1

    LSD in the water in the board room.

    Now that would be LULZY. Come on OWS!

  16. Occam's razor on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 1

    Maybe there's something about webOS and printers that HP knows and the rest of the world doesn't."

    Or maybe HP mismanagment is so technologically clueless that they fundamentally misunderstand what webOS is.
    My bet's on the latter.

  17. Re:Password not the problem on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    what's wrong with using physical keys for this kind of situation -- proves you're there at the console, proves you've been entrusted with access (or took a wrench to somebody who had been entrusted with access).

    Everybody understands keys. And what happens if you lose them.

  18. HDMI, how quaint! on Dual-Core Android PC Now Comes On a USB Stick · · Score: 1

    Why no wireless DTV transmitter?!! I mean, really, been the twentyfirst century! for like, a decade, now! Why the hell do I need to hook things up with wires or plug them in except for matters of security or power?!!

    you benighted savages disgust me.

  19. Re:All I want to know is.... on Experts 'Convinced' Duqu Work of Stuxnet Authors · · Score: 3, Informative

    How the heck do you pronounce " Duqu "?

    It's pronounced : "for God's sake, keep Lucas away from writing any more Star Wars"

  20. Re:Many regular people own MSFT on Microsoft Shareholders Unhappy After Annual Meeting · · Score: 1

    Somebody should write something like PROMIS for managing sockpuppets. They'd make a killing.

    wait, there's somebody at the door...

  21. it started in 2005 on Doctor Who To Become Hollywood Feature Film · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They've been trying to add romantic interest since the 2005 reboot. Look at Rose. And Amy. And River. And...

    One of the things I liked about Dr Who was that he was old enough to be cool and detached. He thinks his way out of a problem, not shoots his way out.

    Now it's all "RUN!" and zapping things with his magic wand, err, sonic screwdriver. And sublimated smootchy-face that would embarrass booger and Mrs diPesto.

    I've liked the story arcs with Amy, the way they try to enmesh every single goddamned little thing back into the big story. I just remind myself this isn't Dr Who, it's Han Solo with a Time Machine and a British accent.


    Oh, and apparently they're trying for some sort of record on how fast they can turn over doctors.

  22. only thing to do when trolled, go all in on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1
    I call bullshit.
  23. obviously alien technology on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    How did they build that green arrow so it always looks the same no matter how far you zoom in? It looks like it's ~25 feet tall when you zoom all the way in, and ~800 miles when zoomed all the way out.

  24. hey, I remember that story! on Schools Buy .xxx Domains In Trademark Panic · · Score: 1
  25. the Wednesday Effect: on Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code · · Score: 1

    obviously Duqu was written by ultraterrestrials.