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  1. why else do you think he was never caught? on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    age is no concern for a time traveller

  2. how to phrase without coming off as racist?... on Google To Train 2 Million Indian Android Developers (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    "Two million Indian Android Developers" something something and "will eventually generate the complete works of Shakespeare".

    More likely 1,999,999 impoverished developers resorting to creating shoddy malware.
    And incessant calls from "Joe at Android" warning me that my phone is sending an IP address and he can fix it if just only I give him remote access.

  3. those days, monsters walked the land on Third Tesla Crashes Amid Report of SEC Investigation (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific says that corporations love a good tummy rub. Your silly non sequitur is at odds with the law of the land.

  4. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED! on Infected Pokemon GO APK Carries Dangerous Android Backdoor · · Score: 2

    I heard if you go into the alley on 34th street at 11PM, you can find a wild MISSINGNO who will kill you and rob you of your smartphone.

  5. pish posh on Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? (npr.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    DC fixed this back in 1986.

    And in 1994.
    And in 2005.
    And in 2008.
    And they're fixing it now.

    I tell you what, from what I've seen, the script writer on this version of reality is a hack of the lowest caliber. And lately he stumbles from one ridiculous crisis to another without resolving anything.
    I mean, have you seen that storyline about the tech billionaire that is single-handedly remaking both space travel and the auto industries? Preposterous!

  6. That's not how this works.
    That's not how any of this works.

  7. Re: loyalty is a two-way street on Ask Slashdot: Is It Ever OK To Quit Without Giving Notice? · · Score: 1

    We need an escape goat to ride away from this mess on.

  8. it's a feature, not a bug on Wendy's Says More Than 1,000 Restaurants Affected By Hack (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Minimum wage register jockies can only steal from one customer at a time.
    Replace them with automatation because minimum wage went up, and now haxxors can steal from ALL YOUR CUSTOMERS!

    Still better than eating at Chipolte.

  9. form before function, gonna get punctured... on Student Makes 'Shazam For Fonts', a Gadget That Detects Fonts and Captures Colors (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Google actually has a tool to do just that.

  10. who stole my purple Nikes?!! on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple! Apple! Apple!
    iPhone! iPhone!...
    PHEH!
    Who am I fooling here, the cult just hasn't had their heart in it since Dear Leader ascended to a higher plane, abandoning us this vale of tears.


    Elon! Elon! Elon!
    Spaceship! Spaceship! Spaceship!!!

  11. SOME people MAY say... on Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I heard if you go into the bathroom, turn off the lights and say "Windows 10" three times it appears in the mirror and tries to consume your soul.

  12. with apologies to Theodor Geisel on Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Would you like free Windows 10 ?

    I do not want free Windows 10 ?

    Would you like it here or there ?

    I would not like it here or there.
    I would not like it anywhere.
    I do not like Windows 10.
    I do not like it, Microsoft man.

    Would you like it in your house?
    Would you like it on your mouse?

    I do not like it in my house.
    I do not like it on my mouse.
    I do not like it here or there.
    I do not like it anywhere.
    I do not like Windows 10.
    I do not like it, Microsoft man.

    Would you use it on Xbox?
    Would you use it to run Firefox?

    Not on Xbox.
    Not with Firefox.
    Not in my house.
    Not on my mouse.
    I would not use it here or there.
    I would not use it anywhere.
    I would not use Windows 10.
    I do not like it Microsoft-San.

    Would you? Could you?
    In your car?
    Use it! Use it!
    Here you are!

    You WILL LIKE IT.
    You will see.
    You WILL LIKE it
    in a tree.

    I would not could not in a a tree.
    Not in my car! You let me be!
    I do not like it on XBox.
    I do not like it running Firefox.
    I do not like it in my house.
    I do not like it on my mouse.
    I do not like it here or there.
    I do not like it ANYWHERE!
    I do not like Window s10.
    I do not like them Microsoft man.

    &etc...

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  13. hey Microsoft - here's how to bump those numbers: on Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just follow the proven industry standard of hiring some sweatshop in Bangladesh to simulate active daily users?

  14. right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doin on US Efforts To Regulate Encryption Have Been Flawed, Government Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once the FBI started subverting TOR (developed by the Naval Research Lab to promote FREEDOM), hacking people's computers without warrents and demanding user data from ISPs without warrants, the US became a bad internet citizen and a de facto rogue state.

  15. Re:WHO THE HELL SUBMITTED THIS? on Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    details straight from Project Zero

    TIL that blogger was bought by Google in 2003...

  16. WHO THE HELL SUBMITTED THIS? on Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets' (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fortune?!!
    There's an authoritative source for complex technical issues.

    All the software acumen of Forbes, without the malware-bearing advertisements.

  17. farming instead of hunting & gatheringing on Rolls-Royce Eyes Autonomous Ships, Expects Remote-Controlled Cargo Ships By 2020 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    Or maybe we could stop the Japanese, Chinese and Filipinos from strip-mining the Somali & Yemeni fisheries so the local fishermen didn't have to resort to piracy.

    Maybe by teaching them to properly manage their own home fisheries.

  18. I hope you step on a block on Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 (polygon.com) · · Score: 0

    Everything is awful
    Everything sucks when you're part of a team
    Everything is awful when it's written in java

    Everything is worse when we stick together
    Side by side, you and I gonna lose forever, let's party forever
    We're the same, I'm like you, you're like me, we're all working in disharmony

    Everything is awful
    Everything is sucks when you're part of a team
    Everything is awful when it's written in java

    3, 2, 1. Go

    Have you heard the news, everyone's talking
    Life is sucks 'cause everything's awful
    Lost my job, it's a new opportunity
    More free time for my awful community

    I feel more awful than an awful possum
    Dip my body in chocolate frostin'
    Three years later, wash off the frostin
    ' Smellin' like a blossom, everything is awful
    Stepped in mud, got new brown shoes
    It's awful to win, and it's awful to lose (it's awful to lose)

    Everything is worse when we stick together
    Side by side, you and I, gonna lose forever, let's party forever
    We're the same, I'm like you, you're like me, we're all working in disharmony

    Everything is awful
    Everything is sucks when you're part of a team
    Everything is awful when it's written in java

    Blue skies, bouncy springs
    We just crafted two awful things
    A Nobel prize, a piece of string
    You know what's awful? EVERYTHING!

    What do we get when we combine these things?:
    Dogs with fleas, allergies,
    A book of Greek antiquities
    Brand new pants, a very old vest
    awful items are the best

    Trees, creepers, clogs
    They're awful
    Rocks, blocks, and socks
    They're awful
    Figs, and jigs, and twigs
    That's awful
    Everything you see, or think, or say
    Is awful

    Everything is awful
    Everything is cool when you're part of a team
    Everything is awful when it's written in java

  19. John Henry was a steel-driving man on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    you talk like this is news. We've known how to crash flying saucers by zapping them with RADAR since the 1940's.

    Also, is it a really a good idear to teach AIs to shoot down human pilots? Because I'm pretty sure that's how you get skynet.

  20. proper motivation on Google Launches 'Project Bloks' Toys To Teach Kids To Code (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    whatever happened to giving them a stream of encrypted porn and letting them have at it?
    Kids these days are soft.

  21. Petfinder is just a blind for the egg council. on You Are Still Watching a Staggering Amount Of TV Every Day (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    oh man, and how

  22. location, location, location on Sergey Brin: Don't Come To Silicon Valley To Start a Business (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    payroll's a bitch when your employees have to be millionaires to afford their very own hovel.

  23. fuck all them fuckers on Leaked Docs Provide An Unprecedented Look At Income Of Uber Drivers (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 2

    It says on the cover "Human Resources"

    It's a cookbook.
    A COOOOOKBOOOOK!!!!11!!!

  24. Re:Why does it keep happening? on 154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    You're a real nasty piece of work.
    I like the way you think.

  25. Tim didn't forget about Dre on 'Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives' (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why would Apple make such a stupid anti-consumer change?

    Beats me.