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  1. Re:Just a matter of time... on PayPal Spaces Out With Paypal Galactic · · Score: 1

    ...annihilate us all

    Before that happens we can dispatch Jeff Goldblum with a Sony CD to install a rootkit in their mothership. If that fails, we can have AT&T add executive bonus recovery charges to their wireless bills so they can't afford dark matter pellets to power their planet killer. Corporate excess saves humanity!

  2. Re:Middlemen: the official plague of the modern ag on Tesla Faces Tough Regulatory Hurdle From State Dealership Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    The average person is barely above being an idiot...

    I admire your optimism.

  3. Critical Component on Cray X-MP Simulator Resurrects Piece of Computer History · · Score: 2

    The plush toy in the photo makes the computations go faster.

  4. Re: That's nice on Proof Mooted For Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 2

    It's just pining for the fjords.

  5. Re:Start your own on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No shit. cangrejoinmortal has a simplistic moralizing view of the world that experience will fix, eventually.

  6. Re:The reason it is still used is simple. on Join COBOL's Next Generation · · Score: 2

    ...annoying, but not much more than BASIC

    I'm sold!

  7. Re:scrutiny is normal on The IRS vs. Open Source · · Score: 1

    *Nobody* expects the FISA Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our *two* weapons are fear and surprise, and lack of oversight. Our *three* weapons are fear and surprise and lack of oversight and an almost fanatical dedication to the show Firefly. Our *four*... No... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, sur- I'll come in again.

  8. Re:Valid Reasons on The IRS vs. Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    The IRS wants to collect taxes...

    More correctly: the IRS is required by law (written by congress and signed by the president) to collect taxes and make determinations of status related to taxing.

  9. Re:The current government is doomed. on Australian Government Rejects Data Retention Law After Report · · Score: 5, Funny

    Voters are idiots

    Are you saying you don't vote, or that you are an idiot?

  10. Re:You'll just call attention to yourself on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? · · Score: 1

    Always use coffee shops and other places not attached to you

    Starbucks never stocks my brand of hand lotion, and they're so crowded it's hard to concentrate.

  11. Re:but why? on GCHQ Tapping UK Fiber-Optic Cables · · Score: 3, Informative

    The people in charge and their rented politicians need power and money.

  12. Re:borat on Samsung Launches 3200x1800 Pixel ATIV Book 9 Plus Laptop · · Score: 1

    very nice, how much?

    And when will it be available to test the claimed specs? Hopefully soon, I'm looking for an upgrade for my Windows laptop and this could fit the bill if the price is not bonkers and the performance is as claimed. I've grown accustomed to the portability of my Macbook Air and would like my Windows machine be as light. If Samsung really has leapfrogged Apple with the display, maybe that will prompt Apple to get back in the game after their "silent" year of minor bumps to existing products.

  13. Re:Car Braklights!!! on Ask Slashdot: Does LED Backlight PWM Drive You Crazy? · · Score: 1

    ...car LED brakelights have been driving me ***CRAZY** for years!!!!

    I see what you did there, and it gave me a headache.

  14. Re:Given the UN's track record in Africa... on Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's clear the spreading of disbelief is the real motivator here. Kill in the name of God.

  15. Danger! on Latest Target In War On Drugs: Google Autocomplete · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A government official is looking for a moral crusade to fill his time and justify his paycheck. Mississippi Jim, on patrol!

  16. Re:This is great on Next SurfaceRT To Come With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, LTE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Inspired? [tries to imagine consumer pie eyed with admiration for Surface RT]
    Ha ha ha ha, good one.

    That shill needs another month or two at the MS reeducation camps.

  17. Re:I cut my teeth on that CPU on PDP-11 Still Working In Nuclear Plants - For 37 More Years · · Score: 1

    That sounds like hell for a job and heaven for a nostalgia project. You should have dressed up 70s corporate style [1] and had someone take a black and white photo of you at the machine.

    [1] Either white dress shirt, short hair and pocket protector OR long sideburns and disco suit, depending on the corporate culture.

  18. Re:Pure economics` on Microsoft To Start Dumping Surface RT To Schools For $199 · · Score: 0

    Not for the schools if they waste time on a doomed platform the MS abandons in favor of the normal Windows Surface.

  19. Re:the children liked it on Man Of Steel Leaps Over Record With $125.1 Million To Mixed Reviews · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nope, just Gigli and Ishtar.

  20. Start from the facts on Officials Say NSA Probed Fewer Than 300 Numbers - Broke Plots In 20 Nations · · Score: 2

    It's been established the US government does not want to disclose domestic surveillance programs. They said so in front of cameras, "national security, blah blah".

    Now I need to evaluate the claims of a government official regarding domestic surveillance programs... hmmm. Not very comforting.

  21. Re:Forged video evidence during antitrust trial on Microsoft Antitrust Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Dead at 76 · · Score: 1

    ...it was doctored in a bad, amateurish manner

    That must have been where Bill started quoting Peter Gabriel:

    I don't remember
    I don't recall
    I have no memory
    of anything at all.

  22. Bloody Romans! on Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture · · Score: 5, Funny

    All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

  23. Re:Concept of Ownership on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 1

    Game of Thrones may have affected my normally sunny disposition.

  24. Concept of Ownership on Woz Compares the Cloud and PRISM To Communist Russia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ownership follows power. If you don't have more brute force strength than the next domestic house ape, you own nothing. Scribbles on a piece of paper like the constitution are not power.

  25. Candidate Number Seven on 26 New Black Hole Candidates Found In Andromeda · · Score: 1

    Interviewer: What would you say your biggest weakness is?

    Black Hole: Dumb fucking question! [spaghettifies interviewer]