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  1. Re:fuck this on Judge Refuses Apple Request For Samsung Ban, But Denies New Trial, Too · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like a character from The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins and Sammy Mobes set out on an adventure.

  2. Re:Prisoners are getting used to being sodomized on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That sums it up. Nothing in the article about people liking or preferring the New Windows Order. Just the limp pronouncement that people who must use Windows are finding ways of grinding through the experience.

  3. Re:Dear Mr. President on Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are asking the president to justify Congress' inaction, and I doubt he thinks it is justified. As he said, he is bound to enforce the laws they write. He could phrase his opposition more clearly than "de-emphasizing" enforcement, but that would cause a distraction from other more immediate issues.

  4. Re:you read the set of permissions. on California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yoda's wisdom that is.

  5. One Higgs, Two Properties on ATLAS Results: One Higgs Or Two? · · Score: 5, Funny

    One is the Happy Higgs, the other an Angry Higgs. Being angry adds 3GeV.

  6. Re:And what about our feudal overlords? on Is Technology Eroding Employment? · · Score: 2

    The real Terminator won't come from the rise of the machines. It will be sociopathic CEOs commanding robot armies.

  7. PBS on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    PBS in Austin is terrible with the volume of "commercials", which are usually segments promoting PBS. After the PBS News Hour you have to be quick on the remote or get blasted with twice the volume. I expect this from a commercial channel, but even the public channels are pulling this stupidity.

  8. Re:Opportunity on Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...a patch today that scraps Apple Maps and replaces it with Google.

    This whole exercise demonstrated maps are a critical service and relying on a direct competitor for a critical service is a problem. As a result of Apple's actions, they have their own map service they are improving and Google's map service with features previously withheld. Win win for Apple, there is no going back.

  9. Re:Attack vector? on Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases · · Score: 3, Informative

    They are attacking the profits of Metro app developers. All of them :-P

  10. Tourist Gold! on Kazakhstan Wants Russia To Hand Over Their Baikonur Space City · · Score: 1

    When they are done building the new launch center, turn the old one into a tourist destination. Space geeks from around the world would flock to see that and the Borat World amusement park next door.

  11. Re:Truly a 1st world problem on FCC Chief Urges FAA To Ease Airplane Electronics Ban · · Score: 2

    I want to be able to put on my headphones to tune them out.

    You could drown them out with a belching contest. Be sure to fill up on diet coke before boarding.

  12. Re:Awesome on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the parrot cuts you off in traffic, does he give you... the bird?

  13. Neocon View on How Yucca Mountain Was Killed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The author Adam J White, is a lawyer specializing in fighting federal regulation and is a contributor to the neocon rag The Weekly Standard (founded by Bill Kristol). This piece places the failure of Yucca mountain singularly on president Obama while saying worshipful things about Reagan every other paragraph.

    So take this "article" with a grain of salt. Any federal regulation is wrong to this neocon and everything is the fault of the current president. There was plenty of controversy and challenges to Yucca before Obama became president.

  14. Re:Car on Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' · · Score: 1, Redundant

    He drives one of those Fred Flintstone cars where you propel it with your bare feet. Using a modern car you can't totally control is the first step to a global dictatorship and loss of all freedoms.

  15. Re:2016? on Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution · · Score: 1

    Snow Dogs 2. Netflix is reportedly paying $300 million/year for the deal. That means squeezing out other content or raising prices to accommodate the excrement flowing from Disney's orifice. That's their choice, when it happens it is my choice to drop them.

  16. Makes you wonder... on Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds · · Score: 1

    Industry titan hits tough times and sells HQ. Apple is doing well now, but you have to wonder if we might see the new "mothership" on the block at some point.

  17. Breaking News! on Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead · · Score: 0

    Another Linux kernel release candidate. OMG!

  18. Re:Democrats said, "We will not tax the Internet!" on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    FTA: "Senators Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican"

    Two Republican senators and one Democratic senator.

    Having heard, with my own ears, Democrat Senators and Congressperson tell the whole country that they would never support a tax on the Internet...

    Was that Democrat you heard with your own ears Dick Durbin? No? Then your comment makes no sense. You did not mention 2/3 of this group are Republican which makes even less sense.

    I guess the cost of "Obama Phones" is more than expected.

    Ahhh. Obama Derangement Syndrome. Now it makes sense.

  19. Re:Nothing new for CTO on Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America" · · Score: 1

    ... requires a heat gun, numerous guitar picks, and the patience of Jove to not damage anything.

    Sounds like a comic super hero: Have no fear, IT Guitarman is here!

  20. Re:Sorry, but... on McAfee Was Not Captured · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe Ford could sponsor a White Bronco for mister "looking for the real killer" to slowly drive around Belize.

  21. Re:Not yet... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if it would help to engrave a pair of fabulous tits on the new dollar coin.
    Hmmm... George Washington, tits. George Washington, tits. It could work.

  22. Re:Not interested on Flexible Phones 'Out By 2013' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, you cracked the screen on your last 2 phones because you are careless, so much so that they cracked in spite of being made of gorilla glass.

    I know people like this. Occasional accidents happen to everyone. Frequent and repeated damage is not an accident. Those who frequently smash gorilla glass will end up destroying a floppy phone just as quick. Oops, I dropped it in a blender. Oops, I dropped it on a burning grill.

  23. Conspiracies Everywhere! on Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    FTA: "So, most likely in response to that judge's ruling..."

    No evidence, no reasoning, just one persons unsubstantiated opinion that these two items are connected. Combine that will biased language like "tantrum" and you get a content free piece of click bait. Congratulations.

  24. Re:America's hand is being forced... on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 1

    We have history!

    Yes

    There were no masses of homeless poor.

    I guess you missed that part of history called The Great Depression.

    Now, we're here. On the brink of economic and social collapse.

    No, we are not. Claims of impeding doom have been used to scare people into dismantling safety nets since the safety nets were put in place. But we are still here.

  25. Re:Easy on With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Drunk people give themselves away when they vomit on the cop's shoes.
    Stoned people? "Are you going to finish that doughnut officer?"