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  1. <insert insanity wolf here > on Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon · · Score: 1

    Terrorism is only effective against bed-wetting thumb-suckers.
    Just ask any Republican politician.

  2. Wonderful progress! on Encoding Messages In Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Next they can get to work teaching them to predict the future by zapping them with laser beams.

  3. stupid suckers on The Cable Industry's a La Carte Bait and Switch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cable?
    Is that where old people pay to get programming with ads?

  4. goddamit Lucas! on Tokyo Subway Gets Lightsaber Handrails · · Score: 5, Funny

    Han Posted FIRST

  5. Re:meanwhile... somewhere in a bar in California on The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Obviously these would be hard-paired to the person's bio-chip so the phone would notify them if they moved too far out of range. sheeesh!

  6. Re:IBM warning for cost overrun?? on Behind the Parting of IBM and Blue Waters · · Score: 1

    good grief man, if you're going to blaspheme, at least try to be funny!

  7. mmm fat consulting $$$$ (that's four dollar signs) on The NSA Wants Its Own Smartphone · · Score: 1

    The Android equivalent of SELinux and properly locked down phones?

  8. Re:The Google conspiracy on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    50 years after Kennedy was elected.
    just sayin'...

  9. mmmm CORN on Doritos Creator Art West Dead at 97 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Archer Daniels Midland has greater culpability.

  10. All Nippon Airways? on Boeing To Deliver First 787 Today · · Score: 0

    wait, I thought calling them Nips was non-PC these days?!!

  11. "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple." on The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy · · Score: 1

    Could this merely be a weak attempt at a joke rather than gross incompetence from the minister of Public Education and Scientific Research?

    But yeah, she's a politician, let's just twist everything around until we find some way to make it sound bad.

  12. Re:Can't be done. on MIT Working On Industrial-Scale Graphene Printing Press · · Score: 1

    excuse my French sir, but bullshit!

    I don't even need a multi-million-dollar government grant to determine that the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing corporation would have a hard time producing further Scotch brand tape once the roll had undergone gravitational collapse.

  13. pfah! on Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing · · Score: 1

    He spent his life in the ivory towers of government and academia, he never directly created a job in his life.
    Never ran a successful business either.

    By today's MBA-driven measures, an abject failure .



    /irony, just to avoid the inevitable conflagration of flamage

  14. Re:I Love you Neil on Neil Armstrong To NASA: You're Embarrassing · · Score: 1

    The Duchy of Grand Fenwick will get to the moon before the US goes back.

  15. misleading demo on Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind · · Score: 5, Informative

    The video showing the original source and "output" is misleading.
    The output is not synthesized directly from the fMRI data.
    Rather, they take a bunch of samples from youtube and try to find a sample that generates the closest match the fMRI data.

    Still impressively neat. It's just that they need to more explicitly explain what they're doing.

  16. FREE KEVIN! on FBI Arrests LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers · · Score: 1

    uhhhhh.... how does habeas corpus work for someone called " anonymous "?

  17. Re:So how do you pronounce it? on Demystifying UEFI, the Overdue BIOS Replacement · · Score: 1

    UEFI isn't as bad as a UFiA, but not by much.

  18. seems simple enough my mother can understand it on Microsoft Dumps Partner For Fake Support Call Scam · · Score: 1

    howzabout not giving confidential information, like your credit card number, any Jim, Lakshmi or Boris that calls you up ?
    Doesn't matter if there's a compootor involved or not.

  19. nomitave determinism, more frequent than you think on Julian Assange's Unauthorized Autobiography · · Score: 2

    Oh, come on, the guy's got Ass right there in his name, how much more warning do you want? Does he have to be named Julian as well for you to take proper caution?

  20. Re:Landmines on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    yeah, I know what mean dude!
    My grandfather was sitting in the park and a landmine walked right up to him and blew his ass off!
    totally random!

  21. the internet is made for porn! on Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    ... that CAMERAS can actually be used to take pictures of naked people?[1]

    Could you provide evidence of this wild claim?

    [1] the Internet

  22. cognitive dissonance much? on Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    yeah, by your logic, white people who steal .

  23. still an unfilled, erm, niche... on Gang Used 3D Printers To Make ATM Skimmers · · Score: 1

    Damn lazy nerds, what is wrong with you?!!!

  24. Re:Hardware only.. on HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO · · Score: 1

    if I remember correctly they stated that they will put it inside cars and other embedded devices

    Not Ford

    So that leaves GM or Chrysler. ie, the two companies that needed repeated bailouts to survive. A match made in heaven^W purgatory.

  25. grey screen of death: on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1