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  1. Dog days of summer / newspaper silly season on Google Sells Maine Barge For Scrap · · Score: 1

    Monorails are old and busted.
    Hyperloop is the new hotness.

  2. whence slashdot polls? on Ask Slashdot: Should I Fight Against Online Voting In Our Municipality? · · Score: 2

    This story is useless without a Cowboy Neal option.

  3. GOOD! on Judge: US Search Warrants Apply To Overseas Computers · · Score: 1

    This will finally give the IRS the tools it needs to crack open the books on all those shady Swiss & Cayman tax dodges and make the 1% pay their damn taxes.

    man, I crack me up...

  4. YUO == FAIL IT! on Inside BitFury's 20 Megawatt Bitcoin Mine · · Score: 1

    A gen- U -ine redneck wouldn't know that Asics is a brand of athletic shoe.

    They should have used these resources to research the Nine Million Names of God to immanentize the eschaton .

  5. well, when you put it that way... on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 2

    Not since Oliver North found Congress to be quite contemptible.

  6. HYPE THE MERCH on Nevada Construction Project Could Be Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory · · Score: 0
    You fools, this is happy fun reeducation camp #1 for Muskianity. This is where people judged to be unfit to join his new world order on Mars will be forced to build hyperloop components and cybernetic carbon sequestration modules. Expect the stolen NASA Space Shuttle to turn up there.

    A recent invention by a noted inventor, 49-year-old scientist Dean Kamen, is generating excitement and mystery. "IT", is so extraordinary, that it has drawn the attention of technology visionaries Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Steve Jobs (Apple) and the investment dollars of pre-eminent Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr, and Credit Suisse First Boston, among others. Those who have seen the two prototypes have been variously amazed, delighted, surprised and awestruck. Jeff Bezos is reported to have snorted uncontrollably (his laugh sounds like a pig snorting).

    Kamen, who was just awarded the National Medal of Technology (the highest such award in the US) has been called "a combination of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison". John Doerr, of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, the noted VC who funded the launch of companies like Sun, Lotus, Compaq and Netscape, says that he had been sure that he wouldn't see the development of anything in his lifetime as important as the World Wide Web - until he saw IT. Another investor, Credit Suisse First Boston, expects Kamen's invention to make more money in its first year than any start-up in history, predicting Kamen will be worth more in five years than Bill Gates. Jobs told Kamen that IT would be as significant as the PC (high praise indeed from Jobs, who feels that he originated the PC).

  7. open access journals, not F'in guilds on Vint Cerf on Why Programmers Don't Join the ACM · · Score: 1

    Yeah, knowledge should be freely disseminated.
    We've got a hard enough time keeping the brutals at bay as it is.

    What are these guys a bunch of scientologists?

  8. Re:I still don't get it... on How Gygax Lost Control of TSR and D&D · · Score: 1
    protip : surprisingly enough, /. properly renders < , > and & in comments.

    1371+40 < (2761-(1371+40))+700
    1371+40 < 1350+700

  9. Re:Get used to this... on The Misleading Fliers Comcast Used To Kill Off a Local Internet Competitor · · Score: 1

    1. The Fuck Comcast vote should have been enough to pass this in the first place.
    2. It doesn't matter how much our corporate citizens spend trying to educate the electorate if, in the end, they vote their own conscience.
    3. Those postcards are a hoot. It's like the worst parody of grandma-scaring (tm) GOP, ever. What sort of idiots would fall for that? Idiots that deserve to be raped by Comcast & SBC for eternity (or 99 years).
    4. Why can't the government just include suitable performance metrics and penalties for failing to meet them when handing out the franchise? Including a regular review cycle? Oh, that's right stupidity and greed, par for the course.

  10. you people think small on Stanford Team Creates Stable Lithium Anode Using Honeycomb Film · · Score: 1

    BAH!
    With Google on the cusp of self-driving cars, we'll just have just-in-time in-transit recharging. They'll just line up like baby ducklings following mama and plug into each other.

  11. non sequisquirrel on Linus Torvalds: "GCC 4.9.0 Seems To Be Terminally Broken" · · Score: 2

    You're at the club and some jackass compiler spills variables all over your girlfriend? Of course you're gonna be an asshole and get in their face. It doesn't matter how many optimizations he has turned on.

  12. your reality is ludicrous on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 2
    No joke.

    The Famous Senate Restaurant Bean Soup Recipe

    2 pounds dried navy beans
    four quarts hot water
    1 1/2 pounds smoked ham hocks
    1 onion, chopped
    2 tablespoons butter
    salt and pepper to taste

    Wash the navy beans and run hot water through them until they are slightly whitened. Place beans into pot with hot water. Add ham hocks and simmer approximately three hours in a covered pot, stirring occasionally. Remove ham hocks and set aside to cool. Dice meat and return to soup. Lightly brown the onion in butter. Add to soup. Before serving, bring to a boil and season with salt and pepper. Serves 8.

    You are correct, they like it with a lot of pork. /snrk

  13. bigger than Steve Jobs. ? on Two Cities Ask the FCC To Preempt State Laws Banning Municipal Fiber Internet · · Score: 0

    Did you see dear leader on The Colbert Report last night?!!! /swoon

    I'm sure that story will wander its way to /. in a few days.

    (Just poking fun at /.'s mancrush on EM. I think it's nice that a few billionaires are willing to spend a little of their money on nerd projects like Musk, Bezos, Cameron.)

  14. recoiling in disgust is not the same as apathy on Two Cities Ask the FCC To Preempt State Laws Banning Municipal Fiber Internet · · Score: 2

    Then run for office yourself.

    EEEEEWWWWWW
    Have you seen the caliber of psychopathic nimrods that run for office?
    That's beneath me.
    /jk

  15. whence slashdot tags? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    I went to tag this nerdrage story as slashdot's daily 2minutesofhate and couldn't find where to tag it anymore. Is that something they broke for slashdot beta?!!

  16. dial IBM model M for MURDER on A Warm-Feeling Wooden Keyboard (Video) · · Score: 1

    Remember old black and white detective movies where a IBM model M was used as a murder weapon?

    neither do I.
    Must've been somebody else.

  17. got his spherical organs mixed up on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 2

    If you go in for Lasik but they end up operating on your balls, I think there's a real problem there.

    That's why not Zoidberg. That right there.

  18. fortress Kamchatka on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    still waiting for the President of Madagascar to shut down everything.

  19. know them by their acts on Dropbox Head Responds To Snowden Claims About Privacy · · Score: 1

    Fair and balanced, mon frere...
    Journalistic integrity requires we present both sides of the story: the facts, and my distortions, half-truths, propaganda and outright lies.
    It's only fair.

  20. my LASER's bigger than yours! on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    QR codes are write once and take a lot of processing power to read, the article is talking about reusable, electronically accessible memory.

    Obviously written by someone without a powerful enough LASER.
    All you need is a webcam, a LASER and proper archival media.

    CHA

  21. Re:Is this an achievement? on Autonomous Sea-Robot Survives Massive Typhoon · · Score: 1

    What good is an autonomous submersible on a full moon night in the Rocky Mountain winter? This whole story is ridiculous.

  22. Re:When I can play Asteroids on the back of a box. on Researchers Print Electronic Memory On Paper · · Score: 1

    Man, don't be disregarding the tween-deterring visages of Isaac Asimov, William Shatner or Bill Cosby.

  23. ahhh Hans, wry are arways you bleaking my barrs??! on Why Are the World's Scientists Continuing To Take Chances With Smallpox? · · Score: 1

    I just verified that Thinkgeek doesn't have smallpox

    ahhh, nostalgia!

  24. once again, White Christans fuck over everybody! on Why Are the World's Scientists Continuing To Take Chances With Smallpox? · · Score: 0

    ain't gonna fall for that blanket trick a second time, white devil!