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  1. not sayin Google is blameless here... on Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email · · Score: 1

    "Scroogled" sounds like something Jerry Seinfeld would come up with.

    sorry for any bad MS - Seinfeld associations that brought up, complimentary mindbleach on the table by the door.

  2. read your NOTAMs, bitches! on The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine · · Score: 1
    Aerostats are a real thing. They have the normal aircraft warning lights.
    This one time, an unalert pilot managed to hit the lottery and fly into the tether line of an aerostat. Darwin ensued (better formatted for easier reading here). One time. Ever. I'm not too concerned about those odds. Don't drink & fly. Alaska has enough bush pilots go missing already, who's going to notice one more?

    What do we do now sir?
    We die.

  3. you're making zombie Robber Goddard angry... on The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that'll never work.

    Fine, you found them out. This is actually just a stalking horse for materials testing for MIT's secret space elemavator protect. All the nerds are going to rapture to outer space to get away from the rest of us dangerously crazy motherfuckers.

    Slashdot sure does seem to have a lot of New York Times Editorial writers.

  4. WATCH OUT! SECRET SNAAAAKE! on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    We already got one

  5. Re:Um no on Introducing a Calendar System For the Information Age · · Score: 1

    pshaw!
    Try dividing something into equal fifths in your base 12.
    Any rational being will use a number base based upon the product of prime numbers 6, 30, 210, or someuch, Babylonians be damned.

    Or you could just use e as a base and get on with real work.

  6. "like"?, where's the "punch" button?! on Did Facebook Buy Oculus To Counter Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    This.

    I said when this story first broke out, the only way I'd join Facebook was if I could virtually punch people in the face. typical obligatory slashdot catcalls of internet tough-guy apply

  7. I read a draft of the screenplay, it stinks on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    the shitstorm

    please don't give 3D VR movie ideas to Sci Fi .

  8. the secret is to bang the rocks together on Physicists Produce Antineutrino Map of the World · · Score: 1

    that looks like a map of Civilization!

    yeah, you can take that as a slam against Alaska, Arizona, see if I care.

  9. PASCAL? Shoulda gone with LOGO! on NVIDIA Unveils Next Gen Pascal GPU With Stacked 3D DRAM and GeForce GTX Titan Z · · Score: 4, Funny

    LOGO would have been a better choice, since it's a graphically oriented language.
    Turtles all the way down.

  10. hopefully' he'll send them out free with "Wired"! on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    1. Zuck's wants to turn OR into a 21st century ::Cue::Cat! I predict many LULZ coming in the futar!

    2. Does FB really have the gumption to embrace VRs ultimate market, pr0n?
    Social porn apps would be a bad thing because I use porn specifically because I'm anti-social and can't stand the rest of humanity.
    antisocial apps, hmmmmm.... drone-based pizza/beer/lube delivery right to your basement.

  11. Kickstarter, I want my $3 back! on Facebook Buying Oculus VR For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    shut up or he'll buy that too.
    /not sure if a bad thing or not

  12. awww great... on SpaceX Resupply Mission To Launch March 30 · · Score: 1

    Now, not only do our brave astronauts go to space in a vehicle on top of 10,000 tons of highly explosive chemicals, built by the lowest bidder, now they also get refurbished components, too!

    I keed...

  13. kiss of the black orchid on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    I've seen enough spy movies to know that a guy with a name like Hugo Drax, err, Elon Musk, is secretly planning to kill off everyone on Earth and repopulate with carefully selected eugenically perfect specimens.

  14. MORE TINFOIL! on Your Car Will Soon Sense If You're Tired Or Not Paying Attention · · Score: 1
    Rockwell was right!

    I always feel like Michael Jackson's watching meeeee.....

  15. iEye* on Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 Ready For Pre-Order Today · · Score: 1

    Users experiencing minor projectile vomiting are wearing it wrong.

    iEye* user?

  16. OMG, GIFR! on Google Unveils Android Wear · · Score: 1

    No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame

  17. never above the waist! and don't cross the streams on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    oh god, those pictures! lolololololo! Definitely need to use one of those on my okcupid profile!

    Plus, everybody knows, the proper pad placement is where the crease of you buttocks joins your thigh.

  18. more light! on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    These Canadians claim they can alleviate migraines for some patients with a magic electrical headband. But who's going to trust Canananadians?

  19. self-trepanation is the shizznit! on Is DIY Brainhacking Safe? · · Score: 1

    The same thing we do every night, Pinky...

  20. OH GOSH & BEGORRA! ALWAYS AFTER MY LUCKY CHARM on Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Catch the leprechaun and he'll give you a pot of gold!
    Of course, the tradition has it he'll trick you and the gold will turn to worthless bitcoins after you've let him go.
    sneaky Japanese leprechauns!

  21. you know, brownian motion, for the kids on Weak Apple PRNG Threatens iOS Exploit Mitigations · · Score: 1

    The problem with the English is that they feel the need to tell you the whole history of the East India company just to get a nice hot cup of not-entirely-quite-unlike tea.

  22. I'm sure Linus reviews everything. right? on How the NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' of Computers With Malware · · Score: 2

    How do we know that the next update on linux is safe?

    I thought you said you were going to audit it.

  23. please proceed to the nearest termination booth on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 1

    I reported myself, too, just for good measure.

    Making a report automatically gets you reported.
    Self-reporting in such a situation is viewed as suspicious. At the very least, you will be logged as a brown-noser.
    Of course being aware enough to realize this is even more suspicious, and will get a note in your dossier as a potential troublemaker.

  24. how about a dose of common sense? on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 1

    Or, you could just actually use the access controls already built into your systems and train your people to not share their credentials.

    No, it's much better to go from criminally negligent and sloppy to overreacting and stomping all over everybody's freedoms.

  25. THIS time EVERYTHING is DIFFERENT! on Police Say No Foul Play In Death of Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke · · Score: 1

    What's the difference between 2008 and 1929?
    Not enough bankers jumping from windows.