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  1. Wow... on Crab Robot Helps Remove Stomach Cancer · · Score: 0

    I read that backwards. I thought it said, "Stomach cancer robots help remove crabs." That would be useful to me right now.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN... oops, it's the story on Dutch Supreme Court Sees Game Objects As Goods · · Score: 1

    Very low AC from a t-shirt as well.

  3. Set up a dns server or proxy that blocks halv of whar he does and repale the sitea with takedown notices. Route him through it secretly and see how he responds. (on mobile and do not feel lile scrolling, so.sorry if thia has been said)

  4. Is slashdot included? on Inside the Museum of Nonsense · · Score: 1

    The code is decidedly low tech, and most of it is nonsense!

  5. Re:Obviously on Tenative Ruling Against Kaleidescape in DVD CCA Case · · Score: 1

    Or youhavedowloaded.com style logs of Zoophilia downloads. Do you think that judge really wants hos relationship with sheep exposed?

  6. No Eric Idle (yet) on Monty Python Crew To Reunite For Movie · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    At present, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, and Michael Palin are all signed on to the film. “Eric [Idle] knows about the project” but isn’t confirmed yet, said producer Chris Chesser.

    Why no Idle?

    Maybe he is stuck in Cardinal Fang's Comfy Chair

  7. Don't worry on North Star May Be Wasting Away · · Score: 2

    For celestial navigation after it has waned away, you can use the new spiffy Dark Matter Detector 5000 (Copyright Garmin). It points whichever way the scientific wind is blowing.

  8. Re:WTF on DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer · · Score: 1

    So, you are going to drop a stale box of Triscuits from a drone into a break room. What technology performs that miracle?

  9. Yeah.. on Mars-Bound Probe Serves As Radiation Guinea Pig · · Score: 1

    And when PHOBOS heard this it GRUNTed.

  10. The reason why is. on White House Chief Technology Officer Steps Down · · Score: 1

    He got tired of administering (ignoring) the We The People petition site. That is a hard job.

  11. The original name for RAMBUS on USPTO Declares Invalid Third of Three Critical Rambus Patents · · Score: 1

    Was RAMBUTTS, as that is what they did with their bogus patents. However the Board of Directors though the name might be to telling so they dropped the T's.

    Many PC builders and customers are still sore today.

  12. WTF on DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you drop it from a drone? Some retard is going to say oh, look a free carbon monoxide detector. I need to plug this into my mud hut next to my poppy field, how convenient! If you have to have them plugged in, why not just send them with the troops?

    If we can make tracking devices that we use on whales, sharks, bears, etc, that are self powered, unobtrusive to the animal, and auto-upload to satellite or base station, we have to rely on some twerp plugging in the device -and- for free WiFi to be available for a military device? Pshaw.

    And people complain about dropping DARPA funding. With idiotic projects like this we damn sure should.

  13. Re:Used to collect gifts from Shai-Hulud on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    You leave the little makers out of this. The Lisan al-Gaib has spoken.

  14. Wow! on AT&T Threatening To Raise Rates After Merger Failure · · Score: 3, Informative

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    Is this a case of a government agency actually turning down big business when it is supposed to, or was there an even bigger backroom deal with another company?
    */

    In all reality, I had a cheap AT&T prepay phone, and it was terrible. I know little about how GSM networks handle voice calls, but it seemed obvious that I was getting extra compression on my calls. The sound quality was so bad as to be almost unusable. I have since switched to a secondary reseller that operates on Sprint, and the quality is good, I have yet to have a dropped call, and there are no surprises. Of course, I use a different phone as well, so the phone could have had something to do with the sound quality, but it sure sounded like excessive digital compression to me, which screams network function, not phone function.

  15. Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? on Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives · · Score: 1

    But where oh where does a Chaotic Neutral asshat like myself fit in that arrangement?

  16. What we need... on NASA Releases New High-Definition Image of Earth · · Score: 2

    ...is for every politician and corporate bigwig to have an image like this permanently tattooed onto their retina. Maybe then they would realize how small, fragile, and insignificant we really are in the grand scheme of things. It's nice thinking but it seems that greed and short-sightedness win the day most of the time.

  17. Kids.... on Amateur UAV Pilot Exposes Texas River of Blood · · Score: 1

    ...get the charcoal and the rope swing. We's gonna have us a party.

  18. Re:Does it work... on Embryonic Stem Cell Retinal Implants Seem Safe, So Far · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Flamebait mod? Really? Learn sarcasm.

  19. Re:This is truly good news on Embryonic Stem Cell Retinal Implants Seem Safe, So Far · · Score: 1

    Long term health effects need to be known. As it is stem cells, what if they reproduce incorrectly? This would essentially be cancer, and right at the optic nerve which is really an extension of the brain. Pretty much too close for comfort.

  20. Does it work... on Embryonic Stem Cell Retinal Implants Seem Safe, So Far · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...on the blindness of our leaders, politicians, and government?

    It won't get any public grants then.

  21. Re:Talk or else! on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    No one expects the Spanish inquisition!

  22. Not Surprising on Sun Blasts Another CME At Earth and Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 2012 baby. The end is nigh!

  23. Re:Well, looks like the TSA got their wish on Hackers Manipulated Railway Computers, TSA Memo Says · · Score: 2

    What logic is there in body scans and pat downs to protect against hackers?

    'Sorry ma'am, please take of your shoes so we can check for a flash drive with root kits on it."

  24. Re:trust is the key element on Alternative Android Market To House Banned Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    particularly if an app's been downloaded 5 million times.

    Really.. that is not a good judgement. What if the app is a popular one, you decide to trust it, use it for 6 months, then get alerted to an update. You download the update, through the market, only to realize that your precious mission critical (to you) app, no is either ham-strung or personal info reporting malware. Basing an apps security off of it's popularity is not wise my friend. Hell, Melissa and ILOVEYOU got downloaded millions of times!

  25. I believe it already exists... on Alternative Android Market To House Banned Apps · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if they continue to host 'banned apps', but slideme.org is an alternative marketplace that seems to have a lot of stuff. It is ostensibly for those in countries who are banned from the market or those who don't like the Google TOS.
    I used it briefly as I could not get the market running on my new phone at first. It would not associate with my Google account on WiFi or data using any of the ordinary means. It was not until I logged into YouTube that I got the association working. Even the gMail app would not log in until then. Isn't that strange. You would think Google would have their shit together better than that, but I digress.
    My brief experience with slideme.org lead me to think that many of the apps are older, or cracked and possibly mal-ware, security problem laden versions, but I don't have enough experience to qualify that judgement well.