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  1. Re:Because on Company Creates a Self-Making Bed · · Score: 1

    Y'all need a new wife. And you can't have mine.

  2. Re:ethernet dongles (likely at added cost on $2k+) on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've had such shitty experiences with Apple, I honestly think that they survive because no one will admit having trouble with something they willingly overpaid for.

  3. Re:So what? on Apple News From WWDC and iPhone 5 Rumors · · Score: 2

    If the whole of civilization collapses (thanks to the Great Apple Riots of 2034 when the iPhone 61 was released for the low low price of 2 billion dollars each), I rather think that no one will be at home sitting on the internet browsing old tech sites while their granfathers work off that flab by pedalling for electric power.

  4. Re:WTF would Apple do? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I see you have never been to an Apple store.

  5. Re:So... uh... on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    This is simple to explain. One idiot eager to please everyone who does the actual work. One power-tripping boss that everyone is afraid of. And several dozen yes-men/women. QED.

  6. Re:Microsoft and music on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    can't get no satisfaction? oh wait, no... although it's a better fit.

  7. Re:Or Vagina? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    This is why you should never let marketing departments write song lyrics... and then pass them through the legal department.

  8. Re:Nice try on Flame Malware Authors Hit Self-Destruct · · Score: 4, Informative

    Er no, this is infected machines being remotely instructed to clean themselves up by the person controlling the "virus". It has nothing to do with you doing anything to your machine. They sent the virus an instruction, and the virus is removing all traces of itself from a machine.

  9. Yeah on Earth Approaching Tipping Point Say Scientists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good luck with that. Humans will continue plodding along exactly the same as they always have, until they start dying off suddenly once the reserve is gone and some minor catastrophe or other strikes that is just too much to deal with, pushing everyone over the edge. After all that's how disease happens. You're fine until the day you're not. This will happen because everyone thinks it's someone else's problem. Witness people - not even only lower class uneducated peasants but middle class supposedly educated people - gladly boasting of having 5 or more kids even today. Now consider the undevelopped world parts of which are still growing at rates like 6% (which means doubling in size every 12 years). I'd say a few generations is too generous.

  10. Re:If the Chinese can make this on "Oil Strider" Device Mimics Water Strider Insects · · Score: 1

    Then you are possibly referring to a sailboat? Seriously bath salts are bad mmm'kay?

  11. Re:If the Chinese can make this on "Oil Strider" Device Mimics Water Strider Insects · · Score: 1

    It's called a drone, maybe you have heard of them?

  12. Re:Hard to feel bad for them on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    Since these booths are trying to do that, they are unethical.

    These booths are not doing anything worse than your employer does to you. What do you think you are to your boss? Or to his boss' boss' boss? A number, a salary, a work quota, an item on a payroll, a part of a department, etc. No one gives a damn about you - the person. They give a damn about what you can bring to the business - production, sales, work, reports, whatever. Hiring models is the same thing. No one gives a damn about the girls. They are there to sell product because men like young pretty women, and it works. It's an idea that pays for itself. But really there's no malice towards the models - any more than there is towards you the employee. They have a function and they are expected to fulfill it.

  13. Re:Hard to feel bad for them on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to be a model but I don't want people to look at me.

  14. Hang on on Flame Malware Hijacks Windows Update · · Score: 1

    If this malware is part of a cyberwarfare effort by the US against Iran + Co, then isn't Microsoft - a US company - borderline committing treason by offering to patch the security hole?

  15. Re:Disappointment on Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York · · Score: 1

    Except this is the Enterprise, which has never been to space and was only ever used to test landing parameters from relatively low altitudes.

  16. Re:Obligatory question on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are a blind man asking to be able to see. And until you open your eyes you will never see. Therefore you will never understand. Further discussion with you is useless because you will always find a way to believe your superstition above actual reproducible verifiable facts. Why you go to the hospital when you are bleeding to death instead of staying at the scene of the car accident, praying, and accepting the fate chosen for you for your god, however, remains a mystery.

  17. Re:Dear Australian Government, on Aussie Government Brings Back Piracy Talks · · Score: 1

    Oh they don't want to control your life - they just want to control your computer.

  18. Re:So let me guess... on Aussie Government Brings Back Piracy Talks · · Score: 1

    They will claim this is irrelevant, you see, because they _could_ have made more...

  19. It doesn't work that way on The Link Between Genius and Insanity · · Score: 1

    For every idiot savant you show me, I can show you 1,000 "geniuses" who in fact are just idiots. Of course they are kings in their subjective worlds. But saying that some highly intelligent people are not sane does not mean that all insane people are highly intelligent and creative.

  20. Re:I'm sure SpaceX would be happy to launch them on NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yeah go ahead and criticize a company that can actually deliver results, unlike Solyndra and the like. The government did not start SpaceX, took no risk building SpaceX, and deserves no credit for SpaceX's success. They have earned every penny. Be glad the US now has a contractor capable of putting stuff in orbit instead of having to go begging to Russia. The problem with your type is that you think that the government paying for something entitles you to ownership. This infers that you think everyone except you should be working for free.

  21. Re:Quite Obvious, Even to Me on What Struck Earth in 775? · · Score: 1

    Oblig southpark: We didn't listen!

  22. Re:Who? on New Evidence Indicates Amelia Earhart Survived For a Time on Pacific Atoll · · Score: 5, Funny

    She is the most famous pilot ever

    She is in no way Snoopy.

  23. Seriously on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1

    If you are taking 300 pictures a day, every day, you're not having "fun" anyway. Put the fucking camera away, dude.

  24. Re:Canada on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    Cannabis, like all plants, contains clorophyll. Therefore under this law, preparing a THC analogue synthetically should carry the same penalty is preparing synthetic clorophyll, since they are both cannabis derivatives.

  25. Re:Declare the compounds on How Chemistry Stymies Attempts To Regulate Synthetic Drugs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that will stop it.