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  1. OMG, I have like hundreds of stolen LINUS CDs!!!! on Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police · · Score: 1

    Somebody should set up a tracker just for legal p2p streams just for baiting^W edumacating idiots like this. It could probably be a self-funding foundation with all the counter-suits.

  2. I see FOUR lights! on Amazon Patents Bad Gift Protection · · Score: 1

    funny, I only see one wolf there.


    Can't we just shunt aunt Mildred's misguide gifts shunt directly to replenish the account of the ebay bot that sends me my weekly package4u ?

    omygawd!/valley

  3. Re:long term plans? on Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave · · Score: 1

    I guess we'll have to wait for the fully orbital SSx before we can have the VSS Minnow go on a "three hour tour"...

    Probably best to steer clear of any space ship named VSS "Ironman" or VSS "Capricorn" for that matter.

  4. Re:long term plans? on Construction On Spaceship Factory Set To Begin In the Mojave · · Score: 1

    never really thought about it before, but surely the war on terror has killed the hover car as anything but a plaything for the super rich. Can you honestly imagine our twitch-reaction governments allowing people to fly around in cars? I can't even board a plane that someone else is flying without letting them pat-down search me and look in my shoes.

    Honest Q : has the FAA changed commercial flight rules since that lone deranged "lone nut" teabagger flew his $150,000 private plane into the regional IRS headquarters?

    Here comes the troll : oh, that's right, we're only skeered of them foreign, brown terrerists.

  5. Re:Beowulf on Toy Robots Can Guard Your Home · · Score: 1

    Gene Simmons is going to luv this!

    Tom Selleck, not so much...

  6. the son of the Montauk Rainbow project, jr. on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    Obviously they were testing some time-traveling missile, and the test failed.

  7. Re:It's not a mystery, people are just dumb on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't try to confusle me with your high-falutin' words, it's pelicans, all the way up, same as in town.

  8. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1

    It also seems unlikely that the Chinese would be insane enough to engage in brinkmanship with nuclear capable missiles 30 miles off our coast. It's a dangerous enough game when the launches are announced ahead of time and conducted at established ranges. Doing it 30 miles off the coast of a nuclear armed state with earning warning systems and second strike capability? That's just crazy.

    Awwwww crap, so it's DPRK then ?

  9. all this pataphysics makes my head hurt, I think. on LimeWire Lives Again · · Score: 2, Insightful

    are piratical monkeys mortal enemies of robotic ninjas ?!

  10. go stick your head in a pig on The Placebo Effect Not Just On Drugs · · Score: 1

    eh, sometimes you might almost get a beverage almost, but not entirely, completely unlike tea...

  11. Howto : set up a clean-room project ? on $2,000 Bounty For Open Source Xbox Kinect Drivers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This kind of situation comes up all the time in the FOSS world.
    Is there some sort of guide on how to structure a reverse-engineering project to ensure it's done properly?

  12. ::cue::cat i-opener KEKE KEKE KEKEKE!!! !!!!!!! on $2,000 Bounty For Open Source Xbox Kinect Drivers · · Score: 1

    "Nice business model you have there." not!
    "It'd be a shame if bad anything happened to it..."


    Maybe, you know, properly license the thing if you're not willing to sell it ala cart. You've got lawyers, have 'em look it over. Don't be a bunch of overpriced retards.

  13. 4294967296 addresses should b enough for everybody on Will Netflix Destroy the Internet? · · Score: 3, Funny

    seriously, four billion addresses is almost enough for every man, woman and child on the planet (in 1969) to have one.

    You don't honestly believe we would have more computers than people, do you?!!!


    Plus, this whole electronic data processing thing is just a fad...

  14. Re:The Problem Casuing the Delay on Shuttle Launch Delayed Again, Possibly Until December · · Score: 3, Funny

    Technically correct, most computer problems are at one level, electrical problems.

    I'll have to remember that one for the excuse list...

  15. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The Republicans has twelve years to pass some sort of healthcare reform.

    They did shit .


    All while insurance premiums continually increased, leading to either a) higher employee premiums, eating up any salary improvements, or b) more employers deciding not to provide health insurance. Any way you look at it, that's bad for the Public and bad for Business .

    The Republicans were more interested in tax cuts for special interests and wasting time & money trying to impeach Billy boy for getting his wangdoodle slobbered on by an intern. They even prevented medicare/medicaid from acting as a group to negotiate drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies. (That's just not rational).
    That's what the Republican priorities were.

  16. hack teh gibson! fight the powah! on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    I predict these to be the latest in anarcho-geek fasc-ion.

  17. Re:even more reason to wait for the dvd on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    And here I was with the erroneous assumption that couples frequented the drive in before their kids were born. nudge, nudge, wink, wink

  18. Re:I'm sitting this one out on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 1

    Rick Scott -- a Republican that even the police are telling you to vote against.

  19. I DON'T TALK TO ROBOTS!!! on 'Cellphone Effect' Could Skew Polling Predictions · · Score: 2, Funny

    They keep robocalling our house and I keep telling them this is a private line and that I don't talk to robots.
    But robots don't listen.


    Although, if I ever get a political push-poll robocall that starts by asking "are there stairs in your house?" I will answer long enough to ensure them I am protected.

  20. as foretold by Al Jaffee on Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Look at it this way on Is the ISS Really Worth $100 Billion? · · Score: 1

    Advanced research is and always has been funded by governments. Right now, the average corporation is barely looking past next quarters returns. Anything that can't turn a profit this fiscal year is not done by average corporations. Even long term investments expect a return within 5 to 10 years at the most. If it wont produce profit in that timeframe, it won't be done. Government needs to finance theoretical and advanced research, otherwise new opportunities for applied research that private orgs are willing to invest in will rapidly dry up

    And (our) government is barely looking past the next election.

    We should have NASA set some long term goals, make a budget, and stick to a plan. Let congress decide if their priority is to put money into the pool to make that happen.
    Instead, our government has shamefully jerked them around in a different direction with each administration.

    Our society needs a better way of handling long-term projects.

  22. Re:Firsrt question on Oracle Shells Out $1B To Buy ATG · · Score: 2, Insightful

    my first question is what FOSS projects do they sponsor that are now going to get kicked to the curb?

  23. Re:Or at least it would have... on iPhone Alarm Bug Leads To Mass European Sleep-in · · Score: 2, Funny

    Clippy :
    "Your calendar looks pretty full, you've been working too hard lately.
    I've pushed today's schedule back an hour so you can sleep in and get some rest."

  24. those who forget history... on Has Christopher Nolan Turned the 3D Argument? · · Score: 1

    Last time Hollywood dragged out the 3D gimmick (& cinemascope & cinerama & vistavision & etc), they were afraid of losing audience to the new media television.
    Then it gradually faded away as they adjusted to new market realities.

    Do you really think this time is any different? Well, they are resisting tooth & nail making any adjustment to the new market realities ...

  25. Y2K APOCOLYPSO MUCHO?!!! on John Carmack On RAGE For iOS/Android · · Score: 1

    surely 01/01/01 (that's 2001) would be nine (almost ten!) years old, and therefore unable to read the article.

    honestly, I didn't die hunting down and exterminating mutants like you in the Ed Yourdon milita just to have to tolerate slurs like that!