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  1. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you genuinely believe that the US ships that happen to be nearby, and all the Delegation's land security, as well as the assistance provided by the US agencies warning of toothpaste terrorists, are free?

  2. Re:Not Obsolete At All on Do Hypersonic Missiles Make Defense Systems Obsolete? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Senkaku, Taiwan, Phillipines.
    Three reasons for the Chinese to have a nice toy that scares the shit out of US carrier groups.
    Anyone closer than Okinawa will be likely to get sunk, and missiles are a lot cheaper than carriers.

    The journalist isn't playing chicken little, the military complex wants funding to prepare for a significant threat to the US hegemony.

  3. Re:Buckfeta on Major Internet Censorship Bill Passes In Turkey · · Score: 1

    Dice will be surprised to learn that you didn't just get slashdot for TFA.

  4. Re:Sensitive information? on Anonymous Slovenia Claims To Have Hacked the FBI and Posted Emails To Pastebin · · Score: 1

    It it's short.
    But if nobody uses nukes, then the US will quickly find itself unable to source enough raw materials locally.
    If the war starts early in the winter, invading Canada won't be much help, and Mexico isn't easy terrain...

  5. Re:Sensitive information? on Anonymous Slovenia Claims To Have Hacked the FBI and Posted Emails To Pastebin · · Score: 1

    Cue the turf war with Silicon Valley. Illegally collecting American's data is their job. Releasing it to the public for free is just plain un-american.

  6. Re:£10 says.... on Apple Reportedly Testing Inductive, Solar and Motion Charging For Its Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    That's what we'll get from Apple.
    I don't believe they will go for the samsung-like tiny screen, they'll provide a much better interface by making it half the length of your forearm. And it will be much better for the fanboys to show off, and to sell customization products.

  7. Re:In other shocking news... on Pwn2own 2014 Set To Hunt Unicorns · · Score: 1

    Probably because I've never met a plumber who looked anything like a porn star...

  8. Re:What about the copies? on Now On Video: GCHQ Destroying Laptop Full of Snowden Disclosures · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nope, through computum entanglement, destroying the south bridge of the PC which had held the hard drive also destroyed all the copies.
    Quantum mechanics is a bit too complex for us peons, just trust the govt on this one.

  9. Re:Relocating the Palestinians .. on Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing · · Score: 1

    The comment right above, about relocating Palestinians to the moon was modded funny.
    The comment right below, about relocating Israeli settlers to the moon was modded troll.

    Can we meta-mod the mods?

  10. Good luck on Israeli Group To Attempt Moon Landing · · Score: 0

    Let's wish the first Israeli moon probe a better landing than the first Israeli astronaut.

  11. Re: Project Vulcan on World's First Magma-Based Geothermal Energy System · · Score: 2

    The crust under Iceland is really thin, it's a divergent continental plate boundary.

  12. Re:Weather? on GPM Satellite To Usher In a New Era of Weather Observation · · Score: 1

    Well, the upper midwest has the two seasons: winter and road constructions
    California used to have two seasons also:wildfires and mudslides, but is working hard at eliminating the latter.

  13. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Not more than Americans would, if someone walked in what they believe is their house and locked them in the closet :)

  14. Re:Generalizing much? on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 2

    Next week we'll teach you how the first car above 100km/h was electric.
    Stay tuned shortly afterwards for the amazing discovery of DNA...

  15. Re:No. on Startup Out of MIT Promises Digital Afterlife — Just Hand Over Your Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll take "Cool, all the promiscuous girls are down here!"

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 1

    You want it gone? Trigger it newcaster's cars... Over and over again.

    Because nothing is as important as the things that affect journalists directly. Negative coverage every day as story number one, on every channel and print, is how you make politicians run in fear.

  17. Re:Want privacy? on Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts · · Score: 1

    I'm glad this is currently modded insightful rather than funny.
    I'm really calling for a Scary/Sad tag though...

  18. Re:I have HAD it... on Flying Snake Mysteries Revealed · · Score: 1

    You're a few years late. Let me handle that one for you:

    SNAKENADO!!!!!!!!!

  19. Re:Asset stripped.. on Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory? · · Score: 1

    At least Google didn't saddle Motorola with their own $12B acquisition price (how can that even be legal?).

  20. Re:ouch! on Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, owning Moto put them in an uncomfortable situation with the other Android phone makers.
    If Google doesn't make hardware phones, there's less incentive to go fork your own android.

    So they paid 10 billions for patents, give Moto to someone who can both invest in it and leverage the Chinese market, and avoid a war with their customers.

    Decent deal.

  21. Trying to offset... on 20% of Neanderthal Genome Survives In Humans · · Score: 2

    I may be 20% neanderthal, but I'm statistically 0.5% Genghis Khan...

  22. tracking-safe... on Why We Need OpenStreetMap (Video) · · Score: 1

    Sure google/apple won't know which map you are looking at...
    They'll just know everyting else about your trip, from researching information on logistics to points of interest. And that's before you go there and get tracked in real time. Then when you're back, they'll have all the extra comments you attach to your pictures, just in case your best friend is going around phone-free.

  23. Re:New IP slogan... on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    Considering the amount of data required to print DNA, it would only take a few centuries' worth of bandwidth caps...

  24. Re:Great news! on Edward Snowden Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    True, but Kissinger was sitting in a nice office, unlikely to get shot, regardless of the outcome.

  25. Re:Wow on Asteroids Scarred By Solar System's Violent Youth · · Score: 1

    What they obviously mean is: the sunscreen retailers are all orbiting Jupiter.