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  1. I predict the winner of the job search! on NSA Posts Opening For "Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer" · · Score: 1

    Col. Flagg of MASH, or his life-a-like

  2. one-eye wonders are not a 3D TV market on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1

    and there are millions of us out here. my 02 model 54-incher is juuuusssssttttt fine, thank you.

  3. when Icahn says "value" he means "plunder" on Icahn Abandons Bid To Prevent Dell From Going Private · · Score: 1

    the guy is a greenmailer, pure and simple. other men, better men, say instead, "nice place ya got here, shame if anyting would happen to it, cabish?" while flicking ashes on all the papers on the desk.

  4. that's silly. on GameFly Scores In Longstanding DVD Mailing Complaint · · Score: 1

    if you pack your stuff to survive the mail/UPS/FumblesRus, then it will be bulkier and should cost more.

    another blow to common sense. can't they argue they have added value and get it on the back end?

  5. woo! new kickstands! on Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand! · · Score: 4, Funny

    hey, honey, I'm taking down the retirement account and getting me two of them Surface 2s with the high-wattage kickstand! it has TWO positions! AND they have Windows 8.1 with the start button!
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    why are you packing everything? oh, it's only my stuff?

  6. I thought Pink Floyd already did that on Ministry of Sound Suing Spotify Over User Playlists · · Score: 1

    and it fell flat in court. the copyright order of songs in an album pertains to that album.

  7. no, flux capacitors on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    and the speedometer has to be marked -2000 to +10,000 years, not in mph

  8. so glad for the solution on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    we'll start making LiON batteries from carbon, zinc, and magnesium dioxide, then.

    the lithium/rare earths mine in California is going to have to start exporting to China.

  9. Prior Art Exists (tm) (c) (marca registrada) on Microsoft Seeks Patent On 'Quieting Mobile Devices' · · Score: 1

    Kindles already have a time-limit feature for the kiddie accounts.

  10. House Space Committee hearings asked on NASA's LADEE Rocket Mission To Launch September 6 · · Score: 1

    if the LADEE was a boondoggle, particularly the Dust Analysis module which had an exorbitant cost. to which the NASA administrator replied, "Well, LADEE DA..."

  11. it all depends on who's spying department on Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications · · Score: 1

    most tin-star sheriffs don't want anybody else doing their snooping. lot of that going on in the InterClouds these days.

  12. disclosure? unpleasant? Japanese government? on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    surely you jest. that's three lies in one thought.

  13. Japanese government doesn't look good, either on Why the Japanese Government Should Take Over the Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the International Nuclear organization's crisis teams and resources should be brought in, given a drawer full of blank checks, and set after it without any more interference by the hacks that caused this catastrophe in the first place.

  14. california outages in 2001 (?) underscore this on US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure · · Score: 2

    particularly when a forest fire burned one of the transmission lines, and another got so hot it sagged and shorted out. we had 24 hours of battery backup in the DA Hotel in San Jose, and when the Liebert went down, so did our service for 3 or 4 days. rotating blackouts for several weeks.

    take any two lines down into any city, and you'll have the same thing anyplace. any two. even a piddly little 40 KV feeder.

  15. that's 1-1/2 Barr to you on Aiming For a Commercially Available Submersible · · Score: 1

    ouch

  16. gosh, my schedule is full then on Aiming For a Commercially Available Submersible · · Score: 2

    thanks anyway, I can't make it to 3000 meters deep that year. unless I make enemies in Joisey...

  17. I wouldn't trust TEPCO with a backyard grill on Fukushima Actually "Much Worse" Than So Far Disclosed, Say Experts · · Score: 1

    those guys are woefully uninformed liars who have proven over and over they just don't get it. it's really time to cut the Japanese authorities out of it, except for writing checks, and bring in the RANET team of the IAEA to overhaul the whole containment/cleanup effort. it's really two years too late.

  18. extra, extra! news orgs don't learn! extra! on Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times · · Score: 2

    news of the day: they restored backups and didn't close the holes. special edition, 50 cents, read all about it.

  19. now THAT is damn funny on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    mod up to 11

  20. curious, as Oracle has its challenges growing on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    resentment over the sky-high support fees, snaky sales pitches, bait-and-switch product lineup, and failure to patch Java holes has never been (climbs on ladder, out window, up fire escape, stands on chimney, raises hand) higher...

  21. Clippy as the failsafe to global thermonuclear war on Microsoft Is Working On a Cloud Operating System For the US Government · · Score: 1

    "I see you would like to stop the missle countdown. May I help?"

  22. I bid a buck if I can have the SMT parts on BlackBerry Officially Open To Sale · · Score: 1

    always short of resistors...

  23. Slashdot. best damn site on the Internet. on Why You Shouldn't Trust Internet Comments · · Score: 1

    informative and good coupons. best cat videos.

  24. big deal, I have unlimited memory on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 3, Funny

    write-only memory has an infinite density.

  25. that's going to be corporate suicide on Fearful of Reader Reaction, Facebook Delays Video Ads · · Score: 1

    get'Facedbook is already stomping the users (uh, the product) left and right, and the mass has been growling. forced video ads that burn up the mobile bandwidth will be the last straw, and get'Facedbook will go down hard if they put that crap into practice.