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  1. You get solar-powered ice cream.

  2. Re:Changing attitudes, i.e. brainwashing on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    File sharing is in fact so natural that my house cat just sent a copy of a Steven Demetre Georgiou album to the neighbour's cat.

  3. Re:So the idea is that.... on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 1

    Because parents in 2014 are cavemen who don't know how technology works.

    A simple phone call would be better. You get confirmation that the warning has been received and understood, you don't waste paper and you don't waste energy moving that piece of paper around.

  4. Re:"Will this result in more private lawsuits...?" on For Now, UK Online Pirates Will Get 4 Warnings -- And That's It · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The correct answer is, both.

  5. Sponge-like? on MIT Combines Carbon Foam and Graphite Flakes For Efficient Solar Steam Generati · · Score: 4, Funny

    SpongeBob Square Solarpanel?

  6. Re:Yet another reason to turn off Ecmascript on A New Form of Online Tracking: Canvas Fingerprinting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, but the Amish also don't receive telemarketing calls or email spam.

  7. How big is one billion dollars anyway? on Rupert Murdoch's Quest To Buy Time Warner: Not Done Yet · · Score: 1

    It's that big.

  8. Obligatory on The Loophole Obscuring Facebook and Google's Transparency Reports · · Score: 1

    All your data are belong to us, eh?

  9. Re:EARN TODAY on The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I got an even better deal: you can earn 300+ satoshi every hour, every day, starting right now!

  10. Re:Soylent News: By white people for white people. on The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast · · Score: 1

    I was waiting for an ironic "Pepperidge Farm Remembers" ending.

  11. Good work on "Intelligent" Avatars Poised To Manage Airline Check-In · · Score: 1

    Translate that work being done on "intelligent" avatars into the real world and we'll get more "intelligent" RealDolls(tm). Fuck yeah!

  12. Re:nice job on "Intelligent" Avatars Poised To Manage Airline Check-In · · Score: 1

    Or, in programmer terms: who here would spend his time trying to optimize code that takes 5% of the processing time instead of working on the other 95%?

  13. Re:But Bitcoin is traceable? on Critroni Crypto Ransomware Seen Using Tor for Command and Control · · Score: 1

    Yes it should be possible, if and when then cash it.

  14. Re:this is news? on Ars Editor Learns Feds Have His Old IP Addresses, Full Credit Card Numbers · · Score: 2

    You guys are stuck with a stupid two-party system, all you can do is vote for the lesser of two evils.

  15. Re:I owned one (several) on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 1

    Maybe the moderators don't like Hwil Hweaton.

  16. Re:Amiga 2000's are plagued with battery leakage on The Almost Forgotten Story of the Amiga 2000 · · Score: 1

    Here's a link to tracker-style music.

  17. Re:Snow Crash! on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 3, Informative

    Perhaps a link would have helped?

  18. Re:The main advantage of origami on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 1

    Yeah but if Apple ever needs to add wheels to one of their product, it's a perfect match since they're already paper-thin.

  19. Re:If they ever find water on Mars... on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 1

    They did find water on Mars.

  20. Dust, dust everywhere! on Researchers Create Origami Wheels That Can Change Size · · Score: 1

    He should have cleaned the floor before recording that fake rescue video.

  21. Re:they will always be MITM on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    NSA is Malcolm in the Middle?

  22. Re:Don't you want to be a traitor too? on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    cretin
    krtn / noun
    1. informal, offensive
    a stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).
    2. MEDICINE, dated
    a person who is deformed and mentally handicapped because of congenital thyroid deficiency.

    Well, if he is a cretin, you shouldn't criticize him. It's not nice to criticize the mentally handicapped.

  23. Re:Don't you want to be a traitor too? on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    Alright, but which day do you think it's going to be?

    Signed,
    your friends at the NSA.

  24. Re:So Slashdot... on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    Do something useful? Do you have any idea what it would do to Dice's profits?

  25. Re:Maybe he can help hide BUK launches on Snowden Seeks To Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies · · Score: 1

    Because in Soviet Russia, something something Dark Side.