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  1. Re:Stop it on North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China · · Score: 1, Funny

    Atomic weapons glow enough to be seen from space.

  2. Re:Actually, the tea is... on Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Douglas Adams · · Score: 1

    That's wrong and you should stop doing that forever. The possessive form of a proper name that ends with s is a singular apostrophe. You got it from the Interweb or from a bad computer program. Stop it. It's wrong.

    source: my real name ends with an s and I am a friggin' expert at spelling my own name correctly in all its forms.

  3. Re:Non-rounded, often obscure and "deathdays"... on Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Douglas Adams · · Score: 2

    Where?

  4. Re:Marvin on Google Doodle Celebrates Birthday of Douglas Adams · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, the TV and movie Marvin are the same. Marvin keeps getting all his parts replaced, given that he's several times older than the universe itself.

    New chassis, new interface, new hydraulics, everything's been replaced several times in different tech levels and different planets...

    (except for one bank of painful diodes on the left side. )

  5. Re:Why so serious? on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see Hamill as the Joker. He's great as the voice.

  6. Re:But on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the book, everyone else in the cantina starts backing away because they knew how foolish it was to let Han get his hands under the table.

    Everyone else in the story knew that Han was going to shoot Greedo except Greedo. That made his death hilarious. He went after a guy with a bounty without even doing his homework.

  7. Re:He was misunderstood on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Face scan? on The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal · · Score: 1

    Frank Herbert did it.

    Of course, that was SCIENCE FICTION in DUNE.

  9. Re:An Old Discussion on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Meh, the woman was a lesbian and they have an "understanding" about "business trips", "poker nights with the guys", "lacrosse trips", and "separate bedrooms".

  10. Re:Your plan in action on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "We got your wallet back. Looks like there was a little cocaine in there. Well, maybe the mugger had it, maybe he didn't."

    *handcuffs*

    "Now I can get a warrant to search your phone and house. You have receipts for all this music?"

  11. Re:Cops too. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Thank you, I came in here to post these videos.

    The only information to give to the police is your lawyer's name. Ideally, let your lawyer tell them that too.

  12. Re:Not yet on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 2

    That's why we generally call it "Best Korea" online.

  13. Re:build in some power storage on How Power Failures Corrupt Flash SSD Data · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well, throw in one supercap and you'll solve this problem.

  14. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 2

    Right, except they all use QoS* to make sure when you do a speed test you get awesome results.

    "Hey, every other website in the universe is getting 1Mb/s."

    "Network conditions. Nothing we can do."

    You want a real speed test? D/L a Linux distro with 1000+ peers. That's your real D/L speed.

    *Even the ones that say they don't, do this.

  15. Re:I can think of a few rea$on$ on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    This was 16 years ago. At the time she was my fiancée; we're now separated and divorcing in 4 months and 17 days.

  16. Re:I can think of a few rea$on$ on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 2

    Yeah man, I remember getting one of the first 1MB/s (8Mb/s) connections up here back in 1998. Playing UO and being able to outrun people on horses was pretty cool.

    My now-ex-wife and I picked places to move based on where the service was available.

  17. Re:Translation: We Don't Have Gigabit Fiber on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not that.

    It's that if they offered gigabit Internet, then they'd have to upgrade all that other stuff to handle the bandwidth. That's why they put caps on, that's why they overcharge. It's because they can make tons of money now for the shareholders.

    They're a US utility. They don't upgrade. They wait until it falls apart and then they replace as little as possible.

  18. Re:All bark, no bite on Six-Strikes System Starts In U.S. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Assume any encrpyted traffic is a copyright violation.

    After all, if you didn't have anything to hide, you wouldn't be using TERRORIST TOOLS.

    You fucking scumbag.

  19. Re:cry some more on Federal Court OKs Amazon's System of Suggesting Alternative Products · · Score: 1, Funny

    You just don't tip.

    If I wanted suggestions I'd ask for suggestions. I PLACED AN ORDER NOW HOP TO IT MEATBOT.

  20. Re:Vegas Trip on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have a buddy who's an expert on Nobel Prize for Medicine medals. Let me give him a call.

  21. Re:Everyone was thinking it, I Just said it. on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Have you seen the mess we're making of the place? We'd be better off with The Ancient Ones coming up to shake some sense into us.

  22. Re:so what? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    What I don't understand is why he didn't just make a note on the document then sign it.

    Probably because this isn't fantasy land; out in the real world, you can't magically fuck with government forms and giggle like a simpering idiot after the fact.

    As a professional engineer, that's exactly what I do to get moenys.

  23. Re:How about bricking them? on Apple Now Working With the NYPD To Curb iPhone Thefts · · Score: 1

    In NY, no, they don't:

    http://gizmodo.com/5986233/apple-theft-is-so-bad-that-the-nypd-has-a-dedicated-itheft-division

    Apple theft is so bad the NYPD has an iTheft division.

  24. Re:Time flies like an arrow on Fruit Flies Medicate Offspring With Alcohol · · Score: 1

    That was pretty good, cogno. Nicely played.

  25. Re:so what? on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    That's why I don't sign off on things at 5:30 in the morning. ;)