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  1. Re:Sometimes it's better to say on vs taking any j on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    my recent experience was that if I got a job that paid full time minimum wage I would have lost my house (and other stuff) because the benefits from UI would have gone away

    Eh? The whole point of U[B]I is that it doesn't go away.

  2. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, only in America

    ...and all the other countries where similar things can and do happen...

  3. Users don't need DRM on Adobe Releases Flash Player 24 For Linux Four Years After the Last Major Update (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and video DRMs. If users need these features

    No user needs the feature that is DRM.

  4. Can you think of another onomatopoeic word that ends in "sh"?

  5. Re:Sometimes it's better to say on vs taking any j on Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing you spent your UBI money on booze today.

  6. Re:hey, how about you don't do that on The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    now facing up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $250,000.

    Doesn't mean he's going to get exactly that.

  7. If drivers don't move their cars within 5 minutes of the car hitting 100 percent, the fee will begin to assess.

    It'll begin to assess what?

  8. Re: The foxtel muppet recons people don't use vpns on The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    ...what?

  9. Re:Smug video on Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Give it up. The word drone is now more commonly associated with small multi-copters than anything else. English isn't held to a standard by a committee.

  10. Re:Blanket policy at the border... on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't fit a truck in a tube, dummy.

  11. Smug video on Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It'd be easy to say "the sky's the limit." But that's not exactly true any more, is it?

    Says the smug-sounding voice over.

    Only it is the limit, because drones don't work outside an atmosphere, do they?

  12. Re:Blanket policy at the border... on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I know it's not. I was playing off the "out of the country" bit from the parent.

  13. Re:Blanket policy at the border... on 150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pfft. You'd need some kind of, I don't know, "International Network" to do that.

  14. Re:Subscription Slavery on Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I don't want to sign up to ten difference services so I can watch one series/sport on each one of them.

    Then... don't?

  15. You you you on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And if you keep using the word "you" in headlines, I'll get sick of the clickbait.

    I, for one, would certainly not keep working if I made a few million. But the kind of people who tend to make a few million are exactly the kind of people who work and make money for the love of work and making money, of which I am not one.

  16. I'm not a lawyer, but... on Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Section 56(1)(b) creates a legally guaranteed ability -- nay, duty -- to lie about even the potential for State hacking to take place, and to tell juries a wholly fictitious story about the true origins of hacked material used against defendants in order to secure criminal convictions.

    Doesn't it also say they may not present such evidence in the first place? ("No evidence may be adduced...")

    So how/why would they then be able to/need to lie about where it came from?

  17. If squirrels can't be fitted with jetpacks I don't want to live on this world any more.

  18. Their little paws are quite dextrous.

    Shuttle breaks

    Yes, unfortunately it did. Twice :(

  19. No it doesn't on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    If the makers really were promising infinite energy, I think the rest of their math woudl need to be looked at again.

  20. Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students

    I read "brakes" as a noun. I imagined rodents and students alike being fitted with little rocket packs to bring them to a stop when they're in danger.

    Disappoint.

  21. Re:White supremacists banned, Black ones -- protec on Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    while protecting the Black ones?

    Did you link the right story? I don't see what it had to do with Twitter.

  22. Re:What? on Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again (time.com) · · Score: 2

    There's been a last minute change to the colour of the uniforms.

  23. Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find

    How could they let this happen? Damn right they should be fined!

  24. Re:low quality on Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Round corners, not cut corners.

  25. Re:The 80s just called on Some Children's Headphones Raise Concerns of Hearing Loss, Report Says (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The 90s just called and want their "the *0s just called and want their * back" joke back.