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  1. You're working for the clampdown on Content-Centric Networking & the Next Internet · · Score: 1

    “We can sit here and speculate about where the tollbooths will go, but to me, it’s more about whether there are pockets of money out there ready to address problems that people have now. The tollbooths will go where they need to be.”

    I'm pretty sure where the tollbooths will be - embedded in your local ISP. They will be put there by the music and movie industries so that when you in this new future request a tune or a clip by name rather than by IP address you can be either billed or denied.

  2. Re:But first.. on Wired Writer Hack Shows Need For Tighter Cloud Security · · Score: 2

    What? The previous article was about Gizmodo editor Matt Honans. This is about Wired writer Mat Honan. Obviously two completely different people.

    He's not fooling anyone.

  3. well, then, come and get me, copper on Facebook Abstainers Could Be Labeled Suspicious · · Score: 1

    I refuse to participate in that clusterfuck circlejerk analprobe that is Facebook.

  4. screw him on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    I am offended that he and his kind pretend to be scientists.

  5. I hope you don't think this changes anything on Koch Bros Study Finds Global Warming Is Real And Man-Made · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Step one was to deny it was real. Now we are on step two: admit it is real but that it is too expensive for us to fight it. Step three is to build another mansion on higher ground and put in larger A/C units.

  6. Greenlight that baby! on Face To Face With the 'Human Barcode' · · Score: 1

    The whole body is now the password? I think this will kick that Weekend at Bernie's 3 development into high gear.

  7. Re:Aliens!!! on Discovery Channel Telescope Snaps Inaugural Pictures · · Score: 1

    According to the Discovery channel the telescope was funded by aliens looking to contact their home planet. Or am I mixing that up with the History Channel? In that case the sequels will be Housewives of Astronomers, Flip this Telescope, Telescope Road Truckers, Most Dangerous Telescopes in the World.

    Hmmm. Have your agent set up a meeting. - Discovery Channel Development VP

  8. Or, as we used to say in the laboratory on Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Should Be Shared · · Score: 2

    What's mine is mine, and what's yours is ours.

  9. I read this post in the voice of Obi-Wan on Facebook and Wal-Mart Join Forces · · Score: 1

    "Facebook meets with Wal-Mart - it is a wretched hive of scum and villainy."

  10. Re:Just as sure on Plan to Slow Global Warming By Dumping Iron Sulphate into Oceans · · Score: 1

    as you are that a problem does exist. Really does it? Ready to turn the world's economy on it's head to to fix this supposed problem? Of course you are, because you are SURE.

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    http://i.imgur.com/yQwlx.jpg

  11. Re:Happy Friday from the Golden Girls! on Plan to Slow Global Warming By Dumping Iron Sulphate into Oceans · · Score: 1

    It's confidant, not cosmonaut, dumbshit.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

  12. No on Patents On Genes: Round Two · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Genes themselves should not be patentable. Make a different sequence synthetically, yes. Come up with a new way to sequence it, yes. Find a way to fix it if it's defective, yes. But the gene itself? No.

  13. Verizon can suck it on AT&T Introducing Verizon-Style Shared Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Last week I went in to make a minor change and they offered me the great option of a new plan where we could share 5 GB!!!!!!! I told them that the several devices we had now had a total of 7 GB, unshared, and they said BUT YOU CAN SHARE!!!!!!! Then I asked how much the over charge was. Turns out to be a measly $1.99 per MB. BUT YOU CAN SHARE!!!!!! Then I said $2 GRAND A GB????? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???!!! I declined their offer.

  14. Fill me in, eh on Canadian Supreme Court Entrenches Tech Neutrality In Copyright Law · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In Canada, does their Supreme Court make laws? Or did the court just interpret an existing law which will be quickly altered to void this inconvenient decision?

  15. servers are down on Rob CmdrTaco Malda AMA On Reddit · · Score: 1

    /r/gnaa traffic melted the line

  16. Repost from 1896 on How NY Gov. Cuomo Sidesteps Freedom of Information Requests With His Blackberry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink." - Martin Michael Lomasney

  17. Re:As I pat my virtual pocket to check on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 1

    1. Thief steals wallet from car.

    I can choose not to leave my wallet in my car. I can't choose whether the bank leaves my virtual wallet in their virtual car with the virtual doors unlocked.

  18. Re:As I pat my virtual pocket to check on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 1

    The main difference is : I can't remotely kill my wallet if I lose it or if it gets stolen. Plus, there is no password on my wallet.

    I thought the main difference was that I can keep my actual hand on my actual wallet and know it is safe. How many Russian mobsters are going to have access to my virtual wallet before I even know it is compromised?

  19. As I pat my virtual pocket to check on Canadian Banks Rushing To Offer Virtual Wallets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is great news. Now I no longer have to wait to lose my physical wallet to go through the agony of canceling and replacing credit cards. It can be lost more efficiently in the cloud.

  20. Slow news day? on What's Wrong With American Ninja Warrior? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hear the Higgs boson was seen with Katie Holmes in SoHo.

  21. Open mike on Is It Time To End Our Love Affair With the QWERTY Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    My design has only one key. You press it while yelling the letter you want it to type."H!"..."E!"..."L!"..."L!"..."O!"

  22. Slight difference on Steve Ballmer: We Won't Be Out-Innovated By Apple Anymore · · Score: 2

    Apple has always shown the willingness to cannibalize its own product line. Microsoft has not.

  23. Re:Citation needed on IT Salaries and Hiring Are Up — But Just To 2008 Levels · · Score: 5, Funny

    What these comments are dancing around is that if 0bama is reelected, businesses will continue to face the same disastrous approach to the economy we have now, along with a massive tax hike. The US will likely continue with the Great Depression II in that case.

    On the other hand, if Romney is elected, the country has a fighting chance to recover.

    Translation: You are in a coma after being shot in the head. Doctor A's treatment of IVs and drugs and stuff isn't having you up and back to work in a week, so your family panics and brings in Doctor B, whose treatment is to shoot you in the head again.

  24. Re:Anonymous Coward says on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers · · Score: 1

    if we wanted to go to Cheers we would have gone to Cheers rather than our local.

    Except that there is no Cheers. It's a made up bar, a fictionalized version of the Bull & Finch pub in downtown Boston.

  25. Re:One small caveat on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've met lots of scary fundamentalist Christians and none of them would strap a bomb to his/her chest and run into a crowded market.

    Yes, now they wouldn't, because they are part of the ruling class. Wait for the day when they reside in someplace where an Islamic army is the occupier.