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  1. hey, it's not like I'm in Boston... on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 1

    Although, in real life, blowing people up is kind of dickish behavior, everybody loves watching a good mad bomber media fracas from a safe distance away.

  2. neither is "Ayn Rand" on One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police · · Score: 4, Funny

    "couldn't they use some kind of anaesthetic bullets?"

    BATMAN ISN'T REAL.

  3. a public service announcement: on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 2

    Zombie Vincent Price reminds you to beware of spinal parasites at this theater.

  4. Re:I think I'll wait for something Free on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"

    Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.

  5. Leap Motion+Kinet+red bull=gangnam style control? on HP To Package Leap Motion Sensor Into — Not Just With — Some Devices · · Score: 2

    makes you wonder exactly what PSY's printing out on his TPS reports.

  6. Re:I can see the conversation that happened.. on Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn't Like Direct Downloads of Census Data · · Score: 1

    that this was something forced upon a level-headed coder by some moronic middle manager.

    That describes 99.5% of all software written since the time of Noah.

  7. what monster sent these poison-pen letters?!!! on Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President · · Score: 1

    Enquiring minds want to know!

  8. Startmeup in Chicago! on Windows 8.1 May Restore Boot-To-Desktop, Start Button · · Score: 1
    Microsoft has a fine tradition of bringing us the best in marketing-driving UI stupidity for more than 18 years.

    flashback to 8/25/1995:

    waaaaaiiiitt.... to stop the computer, you click the "Start" button? duuuuuuuddddeee, wtf?!!

  9. have you tried it? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (first of all, inb4 all the jugheads calling me a M$ shill)...

    After using W8 for a few months (due to hardware support for a slide scanner) I don't see much basis for all the hate. Yeah, the UI is retarded and flashy and gets in the way of getting things done , but I've learned to adapt.

    What I don't get is why people aren't all raging about how broken window focus management has been since Windows 7. It used to be you could <alt>+<tab> and cycle through windows in a predictable manner, so you weren't required to remove your hands from the freakin' keyboard when you're working at 90 miles an hour. Or is this just a dual-monitor fsckup?

  10. you got chocolate in my peanut butter on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    holy shit, the gold reserves have been replaced with bitcoins!

  11. HEY, YA'LL, WATCH THIS! on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 2

    this sounds like a job for FLORIDA MAN !!!

    erm, then again, maybe not...

  12. Re:Yes please on Where Will Apple Get Flash Memory Now? · · Score: 4, Funny

    OH YEAH?!! Well, your favorite brand of pencil sucks. They don't even use sustainably-grown cedar!

  13. things are different this time... on BitCoin Value Collapses, Possibly Due To DDoS · · Score: 3, Funny

    au contrair, bitcoin is a raging success. it generates the <blink> LULZ </blink> every time some whiner bitches about what a useless waste of electricity it is.

    full disclosure -- I too enjoy slagging on bitcoin with cheap shots.

  14. Re:a tool for western spy agencies? on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 1

    Easily explained. Jobs died, the reality distortion field stopped working, the world stopped conforming to the TRUTH(tm) contained within Apple maps.
    You thought the RDF was just a metaphor, you silly person.

  15. it's thetans, all the way down... on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 1

    No, really, there were golden tablets! Given to me by an angel! You need a special magic stone to read them. The angel gave me one of those, too. Oh, well, I can't show them to you now, they, er, seem to have disappeared. I mean, only I can see them.

  16. ALL RIGHT we'll create our own Google Earth! on Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' · · Score: 5, Funny

    Without BLACKJACK!
    Or HOOKERS!


    or Israel.
    or gays.

  17. and five years of Windows 8 experience... on "Micro-Gig" Sites Undermining Workers Rights? · · Score: 1

    You've never encountered IT HR practices in the wild, have you?

  18. cabinboy, bring me my brown trowsers! on Yokohama Accidentally Tweets That NK Missile Is Inbound · · Score: 1

    more like "LAST POAST"

  19. whose paying these guys? on 25000 Books Proofread By Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders · · Score: 1

    proof that socialism is a failure.

  20. maybe it's TROUT. ? on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is Kevin Flynn, can somebody please run the TROFF subroutine on the particle accelerator in lab EC4328 on the fourth floor ? That'd be a big help. thx

  21. free iphones! on OpenWLANMap: Free WLAN-Based GPS Replacement · · Score: 1

    More likely they'd spoof that you're at Starbucks while in reality it's Muggers Alley.

  22. AMAZING X-MEN! gotta catch them all! on "Dark Lightning" Could Expose Airline Passengers To Radiation · · Score: 1

    Dark Lightning sounds like a great superhero name. His nemesis would be Heavy Early.

  23. +1, informative on Why Are We Still Talking About LucasArts' Old Adventure Games? · · Score: 1

    thanks man!

  24. Re:More ways to sped on Is $100 Million Per Year Too Little For The Brain Map Initiative? · · Score: 2

    we'll just ignore all the waste and fraud!

    Sciencemen don't waste and fraud.
    You must be thinking of banksters or politicians.

  25. Re:Ubuntu Core on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    RMS isn't angry.
    He's just very, very disappointed in the rest of us.