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  1. Re:What's the adage? on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 1

    Lenin?

    Wasn't he some sort of communist marxist leninist maoist stalinist nazist hedonist anarchist fascist socialist agoraphobist philantropist philatelist?

    (threw a few of the less used Fow News keywords in there)

    Worse. He was a liberal.

  2. Re:What's the adage? on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless your competitor's rope is so shoddy that it will snap when they try to hang you.

    How strong is cadmium-impregnated melamine rope?

  3. Re:Just too bad on Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read that article and I think maybe they're trying to solve the wrong problem. Rather than training more priests to perform exorcisms maybe they need to stop looking for demons in everything.

    When all you've got is holy water, every problem looks like a demon.

  4. Potentially good news on Viacom To Sell Rock Band Creator Harmonix · · Score: 1

    This may lead to Tribe getting back together!

  5. Re:Less weird than it sounds on Military Uses 'Bat-Hook' To Tap Power From Lines · · Score: 1

    Most Air Force critters aren't pilots. Plus, Air Force Para-Rescue as well as Forward Air Controllers are specialized grunts who happen to work for the Air Force. The military is full of weird situations like this. For example, the Army operates 119 vessels (we're not talking about inflatable rafts here).

    As I recall, during WWII, the Japanese Army operated its own submarines because they hated the Japanese Navy too much to ask for a loaner when needed.

  6. Re:Hmmm .... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The end of the article says that some Ex Ambassador says that it MIGHT be a demonstration to China that US Subs can launch intercontinental missiles - since Obama is touring over there right now.

    That ability hasn't been a secret since the Nixon administration.

  7. Re:Obligatory "app for that" comment on Pee On Your Phone STD Test · · Score: 1

    You got the clap? There's an app for that.

    I'm seeing syntergy here. Postive test for an STD? Cook it out of your junk with laptop heat!

  8. Re:Google does the same on How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every time you use the acronym TL;DR ( Too long , Did not read. ) and then ask a question. The internet deity kills a kitten .. Why do you like killing kittens ??

    Just think about that for half a moment. Perhaps your question is answered already.

    No, tl;dr = toodle loo, digital rights!

  9. Re:Huffington Post on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 1

    In other words, in case you don't use Youtube or Facebook, you get to pay less for your Internet access. How is this bad?

    It won't be less. The basic tier will be the same as what I pay now. The good stuff will be extra.

    You know how I know you didn't go to business school?

  10. Re:Huffington Post on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Curious about where you live... You have only cable as an option, no DSL, no 3G, no satellite, no WiMAX? Just - cable?

    I'm not sure that even matters. Imagine a future where an ISP can charge you monthly and also charge Google/Facebook/etc. to get on their high-speed list. What other ISP in my area, no matter how they deliver the data to me, is going to pass on maximizing their profits by doing the same?

  11. Way down on my list on Nuclear Bunker Houses World's Toughest Server Farm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If things get so bad that Switzerland is getting nuked, then my data will be one of the least of my worries.

  12. Re:Huffington Post on Net Neutrality Supporters Hammered In Elections · · Score: 1

    Are we really linking to stories at the left-wing Huffington Post? I can't imagine people being okay with Brietbart editorials being linked here.

    It seems as if pro net neutrality just the assumed position at Slashdot or something. Not everyone here thinks alike or agrees such legislation was ever necessary.

    It's just that I don't want to have to get the Comcast - sorry - Xfinity Premium Super Latinum package to read Slashdot at more than dial-up speed.

  13. Nanook on Agloves Allow For Touchscreen Use On Cold Days · · Score: 5, Funny

    When snowblowing, I change selections and volume on my iPod Touch with my nose.

  14. Pikers on Fermilab Confirms Evidence of 4th Flavor Neutrino · · Score: 1

    Neutrinos again? Get back to me when they find something the size of a tennis ball:
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/36568510/A-Novel-and-Efficient-Synthesis-of-Cadaverine

  15. Re:Not much on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, you are really bad at math(s). I'd much rather have 8 euro change (5+2+1) than have 7.25 euro. (5+2+.20+.05) The .20 euro coin is almost the same size as the 1 euro coin.

    Rubbish. 7.25 euro from 12.75 euro is 5 crown, 10 and sixpence, with a ha' penny thrown in to account for the conversion to the Gregorian calendar.

  16. Headline is wrong on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    If there is a gene predisposing one toward a liberal view, then the lack of this gene leads one the other way? Seems like the headline should really have read:

    Genetic Defect Found To Be The Cause of Conservative Politics

  17. Re:Cat on The First Photograph of a Human · · Score: 1

    You're an AC, and probably joking too, but the earliest Daguerrotype pr0n was, according to livescience.com two years earlier than this:

    "Technology drove innovation in the porn genre. In 1839, Louis Daguerre invented the daguerreotype, a primitive form of photography. Almost immediately, pornographers commandeered the new technology. The earliest surviving dirty daguerreotype — described by Slade in a 2006 paper as "depicting a rather solemn man gingerly inserting his penis into the vagina of an equally solemn and middle-aged woman" — is dated at 1846."
    Source: http://www.livescience.com/culture/pornography-history-erotica-sexuality-101011.html (no, no pictures, PSFWUYWFAR)

    Greatgreatgrandma?????

  18. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    Just to put another spin on it, if you base your purchases by the level of return you get, you too would be pissed if you had to give up millions of dollars when your Govt give you back nothing near what you put in.

    Your Govt spends a lot of time and effort making sure the Russians and Chinese don't come walking in and take your millions.

  19. Re:Headline Is So Very Wrong on How Google Avoided Paying $60 Billion In Taxes · · Score: 1

    I do begrudge people from demanding that the rich pay even more taxes.

    With that said, I do begrudge the rich (companies included) that use tricks to hide their money from the government. That's what this is: hiding money. It should be illegal.

    Don't tax you, don't tax me. Let's tax that fellow behind the tree.

  20. I been there on Robots Guarding US Nuclear Stockpiles In Nevada · · Score: 1

    Having spent some time in that land, I can assure you that this robot will be covered with rifle bullet holes and shotgun pellet patterns within the month.

  21. Good news, everyone! on Carnivorous Swamp Beast Discovered In Madagascar · · Score: 1

    It lives only in Madagascar, so no matter how nasty it is, it will be extinct in ten years.

  22. Re:The real reason for this on North Korea Opens .kp Sites On the Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shut up, nerd.

    This day in history: October 9, 2010 at 4:15PM, Kim Jong Il makes his first contribution to the Internet, an anonymous posting on a once-popular website called "Slashdot".

  23. Re:What happens if you destroy it? on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 1

    Unless it's one of their cars. Soon as a judge finds one on his he'll raise a major fuss and declare it illegal. Especially if he found it right after seeing the mistress.

    No, it just means that if he leaves it on while visiting his mistress, the FBI then owns him. No fuss will be raised.

  24. appropriat.ly on Libya Takes Hard Line On Link Shortening Domains · · Score: 3, Funny

    dastard.ly

  25. Re:Once again.... on Ballmer Promises Microsoft Tablet By Christmas · · Score: 1

    It tickles me how Microsoft turned into a "me too" company.

    There is some "conventional business wisdom" out there that says first mover advantage is a myth whereas "Fast Follower" is a really good place to be.

    http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-with-the-arrows-in-their-backs/

    Goes into detail but the short version is, find something successful and copy it, means you don't have to spend a bundle on market research to find out what doesn't work. (Or something like that)

    It's the "second mouse gets the cheese" principle.