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  1. They only want access this one time for this one investigation.

    Orwell is looking pretty prescient today: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."

  2. Isn't this a first world problem? on Why Do We Work So Hard? (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    What is this work you are complaining about?

  3. Re:Why stay? on Some Root For a Tech Comeuppance In San Francisco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the rich assholes come in, drive us out, and we're left trying to find another shithole to convert.

    Did you buy into the underdeveloped area when prices were low? Did your peers cash out as soon as the area became more desirable? If the hipster art community which made a crappy area into a desirable one owns the buildings, how are they driven out?

  4. Exodus 33:20 describes his mug on Why You May Not Like Ted Cruz's Face, According To Science (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

  5. Re:sounds horrible on Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why not just give me an injection, knock me out, and stuff me in the cargo hold?

    US Patent 56,885,322

  6. Re:Nice on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All he said was accepting people to tougher schools than their academic records justify, to fulfill an affirmative action quota, may be harder on them and less rewarding, in the end.

    He said that as he glanced to his left.

  7. Baseline? on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    How many died prior to GPS from just getting lost?

  8. Does Roomba have the patents locked up? on Google Working On Wireless Charging For Self-Driving Cars (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not just have the car back into a charging station and make physical contact? A self-driving electrical car could drop you off at the front door and go over to a remote part of the parking lot and hook itself up.

  9. Re:It's their network, they should be able to on Verizon's Mobile Video Won't Count Against Data Caps -- but Netflix Will (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they get too heavy handed with it, people will bail.

    Damn straight. If Comcast pulls this shit, I will dump them for Xfinity.

  10. Re:Yeah, automated tweeting to PR mouthpiece... on How the Raspberry Pi Can Automatically Tweet Complaints About Your Slow Internet (ibtimes.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    New product opportunity?

  11. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you need to look up the difference between being an "atheist" and being "not religious".

    They are not remotely the same thing.

    To many voters representing lots of electoral votes, they are exactly the same thing.

  12. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Claiming that there is more than one party is already borderline hilarious.

    And that, boys and girls, was how we got Supreme Court Jesus.

  13. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason that this election is different (Sanders and Trump) is because people have seen through the BS on BOTH sides of the US Government.

    This election is not different. As a matter of fact, no votes have even been cast yet, so there is no 'election' to discuss. This campaign season seems different only if you have not paid attention to the last 50 year of American Presidential politics. There is always a sensational new candidate coming forward with a horde of passionate loud and often young supporters. Nader? Perot? Clean for Gene?

  14. Re: What a load of BS on US Gov't Confirms Clinton Emails Contained Top-Secret Information (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Either Trump or Cruz is the next Goldwater, no matter who the Democrats run.

    Goldwater was a conservative Southwestern Republican who ran against a conservative Southern Democrat. If Goldwater had been matched up against a Northern socialist atheist Democrat, he would have been elected rather easily.

  15. Re: Meet the new boss on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Speaking of confirmation, where is Netcraft with the obituary?

    Netcraft is melting down in a masturbatory Diet-Coke-and-Mentos display of packet-switched sizzling ejaculate on the news that iPhone sales are slowing.

  16. Re:Fools think this is horrible. on EFF: License Plate Scanner Deal Turns Texas Cops Into Debt Collectors (eff.org) · · Score: 2

    Tipstaffs and sponging houses - here we come.

  17. Did anyone else know the answer at once? on How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    I am thinking that a couple of G notes would get the kids excited. Depending on how the parents have spoiled them so far, of course. It might take some promissory notes and a sports car.

  18. Re: The internet started with DARPA on The Clock Is Ticking For the US To Relinquish Control of ICANN (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    By the numbers the people most responsible for saving Europe from WW2 was Russia.

    Learn history

    OP is correct that without the US Army on the other bank of the Elbe, Stalin would have ordered his troops to keep on going.

  19. Stop it on Gambling State Says the Solar Gamble Is Over · · Score: 1

    That is not 'begging the question'

  20. Damn autocorrect on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    A man received the following text from his neighbor:
    I am so sorry Bob. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess. I have been helping myself to your wife, day and night whenever you're not around. In fact, probably more than you. I do not get it at home, but that's no excuse. I can no longer live with the guilt and I hope you will accept my sincerest apology and with my promise that it won't ever happen again.
    The man, anguished and betrayed, went into his bedroom, grabbed his gun, and without a word, shot his wife and killed her.
    A few moments later, a second text came in:
    Damn autocorrect! I meant "wifi, not "wife" . . . . .

  21. As attorney of record for the honeybees, I ask you to stop construction using their proprietary honeycomb technology until such time as the two parties can come to an agreement on licensing fees.

  22. Congress up in arms on Obama Proposes $4 Billion Investment In Self-Driving Cars (transportation.gov) · · Score: 0

    The House Republicans have responded with legislation (the Keep God-Fearing Pedestrians Safe From Godless Autonomous Terrorists Act) that requires every vehicle to be driven by a licensed Christian. Every vehicle must also have a plastic Jesus statue on the dashboard.

  23. Technical problem on North Korea Expands Retaliatory Loudspeaker Propaganda (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    They didn't spring for the Audioquest Everest cables with Counter Spiralling Geometry and Spread Spectrum Technology. Only 21 grand, American.

  24. A little voice in my head on Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works."

  25. I was there on Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed Fits Inside a Human Hair (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sadly, the printer ran low on magenta after ten printings and I had to drive down to Staples and pick up a new cartridge. $69.95 seemed a bit steep.