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  1. They are in for it now on Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Tehran says it brought down using electronic methods to override its controls" Hey now. Espionage and sabotage are one thing, but that might be a DMCA violation!

  2. Re:It's Not ALL Bloggers on Bloggers Not Journalists, Federal Judge Rules · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This blogger does not rise to the level of journalist, because she fails to meet this list of qualifications we expect traditional journalists to have.

    When the Constitution was written, there were hundreds of small presses producing hundreds of often one-page fliers/newsletters/libels daily. This was the environment of the day, and this was the press whose freedoms were not to be infringed upon.

  3. Re:Legal fees on Supreme Court Legitimizing Medical Patents? · · Score: 2

    Shut you fact-filled face! Monsanto seeds and McDonalds coffee are memes now which everyone knows the truth about without having to know the actual details.

  4. Re:PR Giveaway on Facebook Tells India It Won't Help Censor the Web · · Score: 2

    If it is the "the easiest press release ever' then where are the other press releases from the other company's specifically Google? They have a stance somewhere Must be weighing heavily in the Google bureaucracy somewhere

    Ignoring it is the best press release.

  5. Re:New SETI business plan, courtesy of USAF: on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Our five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before so we can target them and take them out.

    If you're going to quote Star Trek, get it right. The plan was for Kirk to shag as many green and blue 3 breasted women as he could.

    Kirk: Our five-year mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
    Spock: Ah. The human obsession with rogering virgins, Captain?
    Kirk: Mr. Spock, have you forgotten already the pubic scorpions of Zednria VI?
    Scotty: Aye - I had ta divert all power ta tha condom shields and we nearla fell outa orbit.

  6. New SETI business plan, courtesy of USAF: on US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life · · Score: 1

    Our five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before so we can target them and take them out.

  7. Re:TV ain't broken? on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The Simpsons

    You lost your credibility right there, unless you're talking reruns that predate the second Bush administration.

    Simpson hipsters.

  8. Re:Without really knowing specifics.. on Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Without properly function high resolution gps, all of this falls by the wayside and back to fully manual operations they go...

    So, what you are saying is that Senator Grassley is against jobs for Americans...?

    He meant "fully Manuel operations".

  9. Re:Without really knowing specifics.. on Senator Uses FCC Nomination Process To Question National Wireless Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's funny, you keep saying that this guy is "owned", is a "slave" and he has been ordered to and bribed to "rip off" Americans, and you speculate about a quid pro quo conspiracy.

    Yet there is no evidence for any of that.

    He's a Congressman.

  10. Three words on Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling · · Score: 1

    Screwed. Blued. Tattooed.

  11. I don't even read these stories anymore on Permafrost Loss Greater Threat Than Deforestation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because 1. Man is influencing the climate, 2. Most of this change is going to be bad, 3. There is no political or social will to change our current behavior, and 4. Once shit hits the ecological fan, those with resources will shield themselves from the effects and those without resources will be fucked.

  12. Re:Trademarks? on Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks · · Score: 1

    Merck in Germany said in the filing that it entered into an agreement with Facebook on or about March, 2010 for the exclusive use of the web page. Merck said it assigned administrative rights to the web page to a limited number of people, who are its employees, or its external service provider for registration of domain names and social media user names.

    As I said above, it just shows what an agreement with Facebook is worth.

    What genius at Merck read Zuckerberg's backstory and said to himself, 'Now here's a guy we can trust!'?

  13. Re:Peh. on Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps you all should put down the Lysol and hand-sanitizer and let your kids out of the plastic bubbles to play in the fucking mud every once in awhile. That's how they get an immune system..

    You will recall that the Spanish Influenza of 1918 killed the people with the healthiest immune systems first.

  14. Just a bit too late on Making a Privacy Monitor From an Old LCD · · Score: 1

    This guy could have used it: (allegedly) http://tinyurl.com/cd5s57a

  15. Re:Be careful! on The Science of Humor · · Score: 1

    What's German for "whoosh?"

    Whooshenstauffe

  16. Re:A few less MBAs.... on The Sketchbook of Susan Kare · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergy Brin, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg

    One of these things is not like the others.

  17. Bakers don't own computers? on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    This is a problem well-known to those considering participating in Groupon. A minute on the web would have forewarned her that there could be a problem of scale. She could have limited the offering.

  18. Psych majors, too on How Ford Will Upgrade Owners' Display Screens · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There is a whole field in industrial psychology which studies the interaction between human and machine in terms of information flow and decision making. These guys and gals work for the CIA, NSA, FAA, NASA, DOD, etc.

  19. Re:Spacetime curvature on OPERA Group Repeats Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if there's an effect here, it should probably be related to neutrinos-through-matter vs neutrinos-through-vacuum

    That, or interaction with the gravitational field. Neutrinos from the supernova traveled through essentially flat spacetime, far from any masses.

    Neutrinos from 1987A traveled 168,000 light-years. Is there enough mass along that path even in interstellar vacuum to be the equivalent or more of going through a section of the earth?

  20. Why? on Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why tell potential targets how big a bomb you have and how deep it will penetrate? They can just go deeper and pour more concrete. What happened to surprise?

  21. Wrong job description on Now's Your Chance To Apply As an Astronaut · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The opening is for a deskonaut.

  22. Re:Simpler approach on Scientists Develop Super-Slippery Material · · Score: 1

    Peanut butter on the other hand is more challenging. Natural peanut butter tends to flow easier so is not as much of a problem. But the generic peanut butter is quite sticky.

    Just store the peanut butter upside down.

  23. Re:Can you handle the truth? on A Job Fair For Jobs In India — In California · · Score: 1

    Bleatings of a Judas goat.

  24. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Maybe then don't smoke joint?

    And don't shake hands with anyone who has ever smoke a joint or who has shaken hands with anyone who has ever smoked a joint.

  25. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 3, Funny

    While not necessarily going to jail, you'll at least be going on foot for quite a while in Germany as this will cost you your driver's licence. Yes, even if that joint was a week ago. They won't take the licence because you were under the influence, but because even thinking about taking drugs shows that you are morally unfit for driving. Godwin's law will be invoked in

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