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  1. Re:NEW SOUTH WALES, you insensitive clod! on 17-Year-Old Radio Astronomy Mystery Traced Back To Kitchen Microwave · · Score: 1

    Thar she blows! Typo off the starboard bow! Give it the trusty nitpick, er, harpoon...

    Close. It should be "Nuke the Whales"

  2. Re:oh the fun on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    Now I feel left out, the Commodore PET's we had in school did not have mice, or hard drives, or usb. Just a keyboard and a 5.25" floppy drive. :(

    Me, too. Our computer was an IBM 360 model 25. Only so much you can do with that.

    Although there was a certain card deck that could print out racy pictures on the line printer....

  3. Re:Try the seafood platter, etc. on Two Gunman Killed Outside "Draw the Prophet" Event In Texas · · Score: 1

    PIty that they max out scores at 5. Another +1 from me.

  4. Re:king frosty the first on Facebook Launches Internet.org Platform and Opens Up To More Developers · · Score: 1

    And that's what he is, the King of Refuse. So bow down to him if you want, bow to him. Bow to the King of Slime, the King of Filth, the King of Putrescence. Boo. Boo. Rubbish. Filth. Slime. Muck. Boo. Boo. Boo.

    (Apologies to William Goldman)

  5. Re:Grandma, stop Facetimeing me! on Apple, IBM To Bring iPads To 5 Million Elderly Japanese · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're only going to use them to post to /. : "Get Off My Rawn!"

  6. Re:Worse? Probably not! on ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through · · Score: 1

    DirecTV does too, last I checked. That's how it does the billing. Also how it gets video-on-demand, which is funny because if everything was available over VOD, the dish on the roof would be pointless.

    Odd, my DirectTV receiver doesn't have a WiFi connection. It does have a phone line but it doesn't use it much. I left it disconnected for the better part of a year and it kept working fine.

  7. Oblig cartoon reference on US Successfully Tests Self-Steering Bullets · · Score: 1
  8. Re: anon on UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists' · · Score: 1

    "Bailiff, whack his pee-pee!"

  9. Re:ummm on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    But it's just an hdmi dongle right? I assume you can't hook up a keyboard and mouse to it? I'm not sure how this is better than the roku stick for instance...

    TFA says there's a USB port for attaching a keyboard/mouse.

  10. I wonder... on The Car That Knows When You'll Get In an Accident Before You Do · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the car will do when the camera catches me looking at her cleavage...

  11. Re:Beginning of a movie on Transforming Robot Gets Stuck In Fukushima Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Or a lighting strike... Well that and an animal rights nut job named Stephaney to befriend you.

    Stephanie change color.

  12. Re:Insanity on Florida Teen Charged With Felony Hacking For Changing Desktop Wallpaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    And what state do you live in?

    Denial.

  13. Re:Flawed on MIT Debuts Integer Overflow Debugger · · Score: 1

    The one problem with their method is that it can only detect overflows in one direction.

    Harry Styles just had an overflow...

  14. Huh... on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    My dice just came up with:

    35356
    43231
    12551
    65212
    46355

    Now I gotta look up the words, right?

  15. you should set this up

    Why the hell would I want to give your wife the ability to erase my phone?

    Just in case the OP finds out about you and his wife.

  16. Re: Strong public relations on NZ Customs Wants Power To Require Passwords · · Score: 1

    No, they were rich. They had the maid drop him on his head.

  17. Re:New name? on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 0

    I'd say "Dung" to match with its search strategy.

    So the question is if the name change will be the entirety and the code will still suck and cause web developers to rip out their hair in frustration.

    FTFY.

  18. FTA: Bricked? on Panda Antivirus Flags Itself As Malware · · Score: 1

    Yet another word misappropriated by less-than-savvy journalists.

    Actually, the phrase "less-than-savvy journalists" is redundant. Apologies.

  19. Re:this genie is out of the bottle on Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them · · Score: 1

    and flying around...what is your wish, master?

    I wish for the Nile.

  20. Re:Oh God No... on Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    The Usenet Oracle would be proud. *sniff*

  21. Re:not fit for human consumption on Banned Weight-loss Drug Could Combat Liver Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    "Is DNP right for you? Ask your doctor. May cause seizure, coma, death and erections lasting longer than four hours."

    In that order?

  22. Re:History of the cone icon? on VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release · · Score: 2

    Why does VLC use an orange traffic cone for its icon? It has always seemed misplaced to me.

    On the wiki page for VLC:

    The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association.[12] The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon[13] to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by Richard Øiestad.[14]

  23. Re:Why would anyone want to watch videos in 16 col on VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release · · Score: 1

    The Windows RT port is stupid. Why would anyone want to watch videos in 16 colors on a crapp?

    People used to watch video in two colors.

  24. Re:Just checking the date. on Apple Patents Head-Mounted iPhone · · Score: 2

    How the heck does it take 7 years to approve a patent, especially when the approval decisions are of such low quality.

    You must not have tried to apply for any patents. I'm still being awarded patents for work I did with my previous employer whom I left 7 years ago The patent application date was in 2004.

  25. Re:So to cicumvent the screen locker... on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of my university days...

    When someone walked away for an extended period without locking their terminal, one of us would sneak over and do a quick 'xhost +' and then wait for them to come back.

    Once they sit down and start working again, we would run 2 dozen copies of neko on their terminal, resulting in a mass of little animated kittens chasing their mouse cursor.

    Ah, the lost days of innocent fun.

    We'd run `xset s 1` so that the screen saver would kick in after one second of inactivity.