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  1. and just in time on Idaho Law Against Recording Abuses On Factory Farms Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    because I really need to tell people that these Monsanto Triffids(tm) are really getting out of hand!

  2. TAE, thou art vindimicated! on Giving Up Alternating Current · · Score: 1

    but but but...
    If you use DEADLY ALTERNATING CURRENT you run the risk that your pets might get electrocuted!
    no, I am not a looney either...

  3. here's a radical idea on Hackers Exploit Adobe Flash Vulnerability In Yahoo Ads · · Score: 1

    stop outsourcing your webads to third parties so you have control of what gets served to your visitors.

  4. oh, wait, I see they already are... on Lennart Poettering Announces the First Systemd Conference · · Score: 1

    be a terrible shame if somebody added ISIS to the guest list...

  5. do unto others... on San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine · · Score: 1

    Pisonme-pisonu - isn't that a animal from Doctor Doolittle ?

  6. Re:Page loading has always been far slower with ad on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    doing a good job, and not being an asshat

    But that's beyond most people's abilities.
    Plus, paying for advertising is easier.

  7. 10 is one better than 8 on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    9? But this one goes to 10!

    STONEHENGE!

  8. LOL, managamers... on Interviews: Dr. Temple Grandin Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    well, my workplace scores 0/5 !

  9. unfortunate comparision on Currently Quantum Computers Might Be Where Rockets Were At the Time of Goddard · · Score: 1

    Currently Quantum Computers Might Be Where Rockets Were At the Time of Goddard

    So the New York Times thinks it's a bunch of bunk, then...

  10. cyborg union just protetcting their turf on Musk, Woz, Hawking, and Robotics/AI Experts Urge Ban On Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    Hawking's just worried about the AI's horning in on cyborg territory.

  11. REPENT HARLEQUIN! on US Court: 'Pocket-Dialed' Calls Are Not Private · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the Stasi's wildest fantasies, they'd never imagine that people would be stupid enough to carry around a sophisticated electronic digital listening device with recording capability.
    And pay $600 for the privilege.

  12. KILLBOT 9000 on Tallying the Mistakes and Malfunctions of Robot Surgeons · · Score: 1

    electrical arcing of instruments

    electrical arcing of instruments?
    electrical ARCING of instruments?

    No thanks, I'll take chances with Roberto. He may be crazy, but he just wants to stab you, not stab and electrocute you.

  13. No better proof of Betteridge's law.

  14. See this movie before... on Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord · · Score: 2

    Hans, Hans, you're breaking my balls!

  15. Re:Country run by oil barons does nothing!!! on How the Biggest, Most Expensive Oil Spill In History Changed Almost Nothing · · Score: 1

    "proper safeguards" == cuts into profits.
    A fatal flaw with nuclear power, too.

  16. dog in the manger on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 1

    honestly, what do you expect of a 100EUR / week hotel room?

  17. Re:Sunk cost fallacy on European Agreement Sets Up Third Greek Bailout · · Score: 2

    Surely the enter the EU there are certain prerequisites that need to be met. Such as :
    1. retirement age properly in line with demographics
    2. transparent and mostly non-corrupt government
    3. mostly fair and enforced tax system
    4. reasonable spending on military

  18. don't need no steenkin' computers to drive Boston on Google's Driverless Cars Now Rolling In the Heart of Texas · · Score: 1

    The Japanese figured out all the algorithm you need to drive in Boston way back in the 60's.

  19. DO NOT WANT! (?) on Robot Performs Prostate Surgery Inside an MRI · · Score: 1

    no no no no No NO NO!

    They got the headline wrong, should read : ROBOT ATTACKS PROSTATE of MAN TRAPPED in MRI with NEEDLES

    I'm sure the younger generation will accept this as a beneficial advancement and not some of the scariest parts of the major motion picture "Prometheus".

  20. Ron Paul was right. on Glitches: United Airlines Grounds All Flights, NYSE Suspends Trading · · Score: 2

    IT'S HAPPENING!

    We'd all be safe from this calamity if the traitor John Snowden hadn't sold our country's secrets to the Soviets.

  21. ERROR : Xzibit overflow on Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak · · Score: 1

    Yo dog, I heard you like backdoors. So I backdoored your backdoor so you can get p0wned while you p0wn!

  22. Re:The fickle finger of fate..... on Hacking Team Scrambling To Limit Damage Brought On By Explosive Data Leak · · Score: 2

    As the Bataman said, "the world only makes sense when we force it to".
    That's why we all morally obligated to track down evildoers and punch them in the balls. I'm pretty sure Thomas Jefferson wrote that, somewhere.

  23. Re:1 sec time change? on Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found · · Score: 1

    ixnay on the pluterday talk, you'll get the 1%'s whining about class warfare again.

  24. It's Ken Thompson on San Francisco Fiber Optic Cable Cutter Strikes Again · · Score: 1

    Long-distance electrodes shot into the pinion pituitary glands of recent dead.

  25. Re:No rear camera? on Test Pilot: the F-35 Can't Dogfight · · Score: 1

    wait, I thought that was one of the bells and whistles they were flogging with this.
    So why does the pilot need to turn his head to see behind the plane? He shouldn't even need to set down his beer.