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  1. uh, you paid a studio and expect returns? on Kickstarted Veronica Mars Promised Digital Download; Pirate Bay Delivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the same folks who cheat their producers and stars day in and day out for over a hundred years?

    my friends, I don't always sell a block of Bitcoin stock, but when I do, it's from a moving car...

  2. bought a piece of pie this morning on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 2, Funny

    tasted like chalk dust. how'd math professors get a holiday, anyway?

  3. if the market goes away, they shut, too on Environmentalists Propose $50 Billion Buyout of Coal Industry - To Shut It Down · · Score: 1

    so since the squillionnaire coal owners claim to be market-based fans, we can attain the same attrition by sticking to our guns in enforcing the upcoming regulations on cutting back emissions. the cost moves to the users, which will probably find natural gas cheaper anyway.

  4. make comcast's DNS second or third on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    use something like OpenDNS or the aforementioned Google DNS at 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4

  5. layoffs, man on Is Traffic Congestion Growing Three Times As Fast As Economy? · · Score: 2

    layoffs in good jobs where you had to go in during rush hours. night managers at the Burger Doodle, not so much.

  6. because devils on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    all the silk road gang who never got their stash or their BiteCon back are going to think he's hiding their BiteCon under the pile of unicorn crap in the living room.

    dude.

  7. maybe it would be better for Oracle to have left on Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website Woes · · Score: 1

    since they left a festering mess behind. and then Oregon could sue for all the money back.

  8. 11 percent, then, are truly f*cked on One In Ten Americans Thinks HTML Is a Type of Sexually Transmitted Infection · · Score: 1

    and didn't know they were carrying The Web.

  9. what's the frequency, Kenneth? on NASA Forgets How To Talk To ICE/ISEE-3 Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    and the mode of 256 bit encoding? might be able to whack some sense into a little program and PSK the thing. "2 GHz" is a little vague.

    I think they could get some 8-foot dishes, 2-axis rotors, and put a backyard array of 8 or 12 antennas together for less than the cost of a fleet car. repurpose some microwave test equipment from one of their labs, and slap together a ham-worthy hack within a month. good project for the mossy Valued Fellows and a few interns, keep them out of the beancounters' way.

  10. "I can't define pornography... on Child Porn Arrest For Cameron Aide Who Helped Plan UK Net Filters · · Score: 3, Funny

    "but I know it when I see it," says the US Supreme Court. Rock is obviously a diligent researcher...

  11. one con in the BiteCon on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    there will be others.

  12. think of AM/FM radio as a free product on NY State Grants $9M For Upstate Broadband Projects · · Score: 1

    if the haters shut off rant radio and tune in music, raising the ratings, more stations will go back to rock jocking. radio programmers are sweating little furry squirming kittens as listenership continues to tail off, whatever they try. only one way to prevail: tune out the talk and turn up the tunes.

  13. we tried the slack approach in Minnesota on Why Is US Broadband So Slow? · · Score: 1

    and what happened is, the cable division of Xcel Energy drilled through a gas main of the gas division of Xcel Energy in St. Cloud.

    BOOM!

    the 811 number for "call before you dig" is much busier now.

  14. how about detector poisoning? on Making Sure Our Lab Equipment Isn't Tricking Us · · Score: 4, Interesting

    a much simpler explaination... the detector material is still groaning from the last collision and doesn't have its calibrated act together for the next one. you detect subatomic particles, after all, by watching what happens when they distort a known material, and extrapolate from the distortion what whacked into it. whacking things causes them to go off kilter. from black bands and reduced light in fluorescent light tubes to bright-bloom in old TV cameras to getting wacky when you leave a dark room and are sun-blinded, this has been a known phenonema as long as we have been around.

  15. TMZ/blackmail on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? · · Score: 1

    and the answer is... don't frickin' do that shit, and it won't matter.

  16. translation: we can't even pay the staff on Silk Road 2.0 Pledges To Compensate Users For Stolen Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    buh-bye

  17. doctors don't see those charges on Apple Rumored To Be Exploring Medical Devices, Electric Cars To Reignite Growth · · Score: 1

    and when my first cardiologist looked through my itemized bill, he was agahst. "$50 for THAT?!?" $40 for this? $32 for aspirin???" they are not taught in medical school the overhead costs of having this shot of morphine and that bag of D5W right at hand in the operating room, and not in some deadbeat's arm in a linen closet.

  18. AN internet, not The Connected Internet on North Korean Business Park Getting Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Glorious Leader permitting all searches including the terms "best" "Korea" "Glorious Leader" and "harmony." any other keyword, or connection to other sites, stunning "ocsic" router of Pyongyang Research and Cloning Institute will reject.

  19. revenge of the 99.9999 percent? on More Bitcoin Exchanges Forced Out of Sync After Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    perhaps a preview of the War on Wall Street, coming someday soon before we all die?

  20. every telco thought this was low-hanging fruit. on Verizon Discontinues Home Automation Service After 2 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and it hasn't been.

  21. why? because NSA on DARPA Seeks the Holy Grail of Search Engines · · Score: 2

    FBI M-O-U-S-E. next best thing to surfing along looking over your shoulder, taking notes, texting the US Marshals Service what they need to subpoena before driving over and clapping on the leg irons.

  22. fact is, you have two different rulebooks here on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 1

    which is why it's going to be a mud-wrestle.

    on the one hand, you have observable science, discovered facts, and theories that have been verified by science for possibly hundreds of years.

    on the other hand, the yardstick is the Bible as God's own inspired word with many scribes.

    and they do not coincide. put it down to divine mystery if you prefer, or stubborn obstinacy if you prefer, but at some point there will be a wide divergence that Science answers with theory, and Religion answers with a smile and faith.

    I'm not taking my beartrap into that minefield and testing it after it's set. just saying, no minds will be changed...

  23. I am reminded of pigs and engineers here on Watch Bill Nye and Ken Ham Clash Over Creationism Live · · Score: 5, Insightful

    an engineer should never get into a mud wrestling match with a pig. everybody is going to get dirty, but only the pig enjoys it.

  24. prior art exists on Argonne Lab Grows Chia Pet Style Hairy Electronic Fibers · · Score: 1

    two words: tin whiskers.

  25. patent time! on Virtual Boss Keeps Workers On a Short Leash · · Score: 2

    Hitachi has invented the RoboToady. now, the only reason to keep brownnoses around is to fill out the foursome at golf.