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  1. Re:700,000 miles without a citation? on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    You're obviously not a resident of the Sunbelt. Tinted windows are a necessity, just like air conditioning.

  2. Vertigo or verisimilitude ? on How Virtual Reality Became Reality · · Score: 1

    yeah, they really oughta patch that vertigo problem at the Grand Canyon, it's horrible.

  3. moral hazard on Rising Sea Level Could Put East Coast Nuclear Plants At Risk · · Score: 1

    Just don't be stupid and sell them flood insurance.
    Or really, really stupid an give government subsidies for flood insurance.

  4. reading comprehension? or network "news"? on Google's Rogue Internet Balloon Test Spurred UFO Reports Nationwide · · Score: 4, Funny

    What I took from that was " Google terrorizes nation with gigantic UFO "

  5. they were unaware they were characters in a book on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would put it past them. "Elon Musk" is a monocle and a white cat away from being a Ian Flemming villain. Youse guys really ought to hire a better quality script writer for your reality down there.

  6. I blame consumer product safety laws on As NASA Seeks Next Mission, Russia Holds the Trump Card · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not enough idiots killing themselves, now we have a surplus of lawyers overrunning our gubbamint. Simple cause and effect.

    BRING BACK JARTS TO PROTECT THE FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC!

  7. The F4 Menace on The Lithuanian Mob Was Smuggling Cigarettes Into Russia With a Drone · · Score: 2

    begun, the drone wars have

  8. Adobe? on Adobe Creative Cloud Services Offline (Again?) · · Score: 0

    That sure casts the Firefox DRM decision in stark contrast now, doesn't it?

  9. Justin Playfair was right! on Comcast Predicts Usage Cap Within 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Time to split their nostrils open with a boathook just like we did to the Bell system. We did it once, we should do it again.
    I mean, that solved all our problems once and for all, right? That's when the internet started taking off for the public.

  10. sharing is slavery, rape is caring on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    But who would win in a fight? RMS or Ayn?

  11. Re:From Wikipedia: on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    As long as he's filling his pockets with bricks and hangs himself from a bridge...

    I've got a rusty machete under my shed I've been marinating in cat pee for 11 years...

  12. but we only seem to learn the hard way on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 4, Funny

    man, Americans are learning a lot of geography lately...

  13. Get a horse! on Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans As Antarctic Ice Melts · · Score: 1

    Why on Earth would anyone want a 3-cylinder "truck"??!!!

  14. DR Dobbs is educated stupid. on A 32-bit Development System For $2 · · Score: 1

    32 bits x (dollar / 8 bits) = 4 dollar

  15. Re:Pron on Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They really need to implement the banner injection mentioned. Make it CRYSTAL clear to these dipshits why their connection is slow.

  16. your music sucks, and you're stoooopid on Apple Reportedly Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Idiocracy is real, there's a page documenting this on Wikipedia.

    Exactly like what happened when we got cable news channels, with 24-hour coverage allowing us to delve more deeply into the important issues of the day.
    fsck, my sarcasm meter just broke.

  17. you ivory-tower physicists make me puke on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    I never saw a spherical cow,
    and nobody'll ever see one;
    But I can tell you, anyhow,
    I'd rather see than be one
    (being non-existant, and all...)

  18. Re:getting real sick of this on First Transistors Made Entirely of 2-D Materials · · Score: 1

    Flatland 2: Sphereland starring Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell.

    snrk.
    look it up yourself if you think I'm lying.

  19. no, Mr Bond, I expect you to fly... on NASA, France Skeptical of SpaceX Reusable Rocket Project · · Score: 1

    These NASA guys talk like this is brain surgery or something.


    You'd figure a guy with a name like Elon Musk would build a drone to simply grab the spent first stage out of the air and gently fly them back to the factory for evaluation & refurbishment.

  20. GOODTIMES will give you Dutch elm disease on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. quantity has a quality all its own on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    As has been pointed out numerous times before, things are a bit different when automation allows you to start doing things in bulk that before you could only do on a small scale.

    It's one thing for a police officer to check you tag as you drive by. It's a different kettle of fish when you have a tireless machine check every tag that passes by 24x365 and record the data so it can correlated with other electronic overseers all over town.

  22. my monkey says "hi!" on Police Departments Using Car Tracking Database Sworn To Secrecy · · Score: 1

    If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide...

  23. you probably drive an automatic, too on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 1

    It's 4040 lbs of deadly steel driven by fiery explosions, not a goddamned iPad!

    I guess a blue glowing "Start" button is acceptable for a Tesla, since that's all futuristic and stuff.

  24. Re:And with that yoiu get POWER! on California City Considers Restarting Desalination Plant To Fight Drought · · Score: 3, Funny

    easy, you merely convert the unwanted removed salt to energy. duh!

  25. we've decided to dispense with civilization on How 'Fast Lanes' Will Change the Internet · · Score: 1

    THE SYSTEM working exactly as designed - ex