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  1. Damn that idiot Columbus on In India, the Dot Dash Is Done · · Score: 2

    is this dot Indian or dash Indian we're talking about?

  2. Re:nothing new... on The Little Bomb-Detecting Device That Couldn't · · Score: 1
    you're overlooking the possibility that some of these operators have latent PSI bomb-detecting abilities and that the prop helps them to focus their special mental powers[1].

    And what exactly are the commercial possibilities of ovine aviation?

    [1] see what I did there?

  3. Re:The claim of first drone landing is incorrect ! on First Successful Unmanned Drone Landing On an Aircraft Carrier · · Score: 2

    Don't forget : Prescott stole Geronimo's skull, the source of all his family's power, thereby allowing them to break Tecumseh's Curse!

    I bet you think I'm making a joke...

  4. Re:Hmm are switches possible? on HP Keeps Installing Secret Backdoors In Enterprise Storage · · Score: 1

    Bah. Push a button? Your skills are weak unless you can call in and convince a manager to strip-search an under-aged female employee.

  5. Re:Free kick in the nards!!! on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 1
    hey, on the plus side, it looks like all this NSA kerfluffle has silenced those idiots that always trot out

    if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about.

  6. we're calling because your Microsoft has a virus on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 1

    What, India doesn't call you?

  7. PC LOAD FILAMENT, WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!!! on Microsoft Reveals Its 3D Printing Strategy For Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    Coming next September - Office Space 3D - How Lumbergh Got His Synergy Back

  8. DOJ, pay attention on Steve Ballmer Reorganizing Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Windows isn't done until Lotus won't run.

    Expect to see more undocumented syscalls for Office Apps, IE, SQL Server, SMB, etc, etc.

  9. Douglas Adams, meet Anonymous... on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 3, Funny

    Either Jesus will come back and end everything before climate change makes a difference, or God will never let us hose His perfect creation.

    The trouble is, there are folks in Congress who believe this and set policy based on it...

    Maybe it's just time to build Noah's Ark II.

    Also known as the /b/ Ark.

  10. Re:Who chooses the "dangerous" sites??? on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    no, you :
    1. anonymously list them in the database as a "dangerous gun owner".
    2. then you call in a domestic violence report to the police.
    at the very least, his door gets kicked in, his dog gets shot and he gets zip-tied and thrown to the ground with a boot on the back of his neck.
    If he IS a gun owner, he get shot dead.
    3. Lawsuit!

  11. The Last Lonely Man ? on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 0

    All guns are dangerous...
    aren't they?

    that's point.

    First Amendment > Second Amendment.
    Welcome to another fun facet of living in a fully networked world (see: Snowden, Apple/Google user stalking, etc, etc, ad nauseum)

  12. 1992 was TWENTY-ONE YEARS ago on Former Valve Hardware Designer Recounts Management Difficulties · · Score: 1

    augmented reality?!! weren't we all going to be gleaning the cube and having cyber-sex soon after the 90's? that's like millenia in computer years. hell, this is so stale the relevant patents have probably expired by now.

  13. survivor? of the class wars on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    Now we just need our safety nets to keep up with the fact that a large percentage of the population will probably be working less than 40 hours per week in the future.

    Welfare programs have to be paid for by taking money from somebody.

    I know, we can take some of gains from improved productivity and automation over the last 40 years and use that to shore up social safety nets while still reducing the average work week to 30 hours!

    Oh, wait, somehow every last bit of that got snorked up by capital, there's nothing left over for labor. How about "FUCK YOU" instead?

  14. Well, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the Hostess Cupcake Bakery that created stuxnet. But that's just the opinion of some guy on teh intarwebs[1], not a alleged rogue NSA cyberspy mastermind.

    Snowden strikes me as Walter Mitty, cyber-janitor.
    Has he revealed anything that anyone paying attention hadn't already assumed to be happening somewhere?

    Come on guys, isn't time for another episode of the wacky adventures of Where in the World is John McAfee? At least throw us a new bitcoin story for us to bitch and moan about.


    [1] see .sig:

  15. paging Dr Frink to the blue courtesy phone on Tech Companies Looking Into Sarcasm Detection · · Score: 1

    this is where skynet decides to kill all humans, isn't it?

  16. Re:Targeted ads are better than untargeted ads on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 1

    bah, you're just imagining improbable scenarios...

  17. Re:I'm Sparticus! on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 2

    only the real Sparticus would know that. Or his mother.

  18. I'm Sparticus! on Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting · · Score: 3, Informative

    to paraphrase Tyler Durden:
    You are not your cookie trail.

  19. yeah, but it was for research purposes... on Disney's Titling Problem With Its Star Wars Movies · · Score: 1

    Try downloading the torrent of the original theatrical release.

    WORST advice on /. evar! Yeah, just steal bread from the mouths of Lucas and the Mouse, that'll end well.

  20. Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels on Ask Slashdot: Permanent Preservation of Human Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it

    If they had only followed St L's directions, they would have recreated a civilized society.
    But who's Emma, and where is her home?

  21. Re:Or you could use rivers and dams for storage on Underground 'Wind Mines' Could Keep Datacenters Powered · · Score: 0

    here's an idea -- build reservoirs without blocking existing rivers and creeks. You just need the elevation change and the geology to support the reservoir.

    The reason existing dams span rivers was to harvest energy from the river flowing down elevation.

  22. good for the goose, good for the chief of staff on Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' · · Score: 2

    Capricious application of the law is a prime sign of corruption.

  23. the first one blew away. the second one sank into on Florida Keys Prepare For Sea Level Rise · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's all about the storm surge
    two thirds of Key West was underwater during Wilma.
    That used to be a once in a generation thing. Then it's going to be every 20 years. Then every 5. Even if it doesn't turn into New Atlantis, that's gonna put a real crimp in the island lifestyle.

  24. Re:And all I know... on Florida Keys Prepare For Sea Level Rise · · Score: 2

    More sophisticated societies ask Where shall we have lunch?

  25. thanks, Obama! on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 5, Funny

    so I need a FOIA to restore my backup now?