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  1. Re:What's the prize for first posts? on A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Zoiks! I've seen Midnight Express.

  2. Re:I don't think it matters at this point on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't presume to tell me what I'm confusing, asshat.

  3. Re:Translation on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you mean something like the prohibition-era instructions on fruit juice: "On no account allow yeast (such as from bread or rotting fruit) to come into contact with it, and if it does don't leave it in a warmish place for a few days..."

  4. Re:I don't think it matters at this point on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 1

    The gig economy is nothing new. from Victorian times up to the 1930s crowds of men would push and jostle in front of the factory gates hoping to get lucky that day.

  5. Re:No sex between rulemakers. on Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    If they arrange a meeting by old fashioned letter writing does that create a liability for Parker, Basildon Bond & The Royal Mail?

  6. Re:That's the best reason to buy bitcoin on Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Requirements for banks to report questionable transactions became a lot more serious _after_ the change to Euro was completed.

    That's bollocks. I was living in France when it happened and there were strict limits on changing Francs to Euro well in advance of the actual switch; they knew there was plenty of money stuffed in mattresses & teapots.

    It caused a short term boost to home renovation & antiques market.

  7. A cheap energy source would facilitate:
      a) the synthesis of POL - like WW2 Germany did,
      b) replacements for oil (hydrogen, fuel cells).

    Neither of those is what oil companies want.

  8. Re:Knowing the IQ at DHS ... on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    Them Russkies got a Georgah too? Gashdarnit, they can change the name. We had ours firstest!

  9. Re:More likely medical practice, not evolution on Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Do some research, you fat dago idiot. Start by googling "false teeth 21st birthday".

  10. Re:"Feel forced?" on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    OK genius, how do they fail in the first place?

  11. Re:"Feel forced?" on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    hanging onto depreciated business models

    Straight line or declining balance?

  12. Re:Slashvertisement on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Windscale in a milk pail. Chernobble in a bottle.

  13. Old news on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The technology has been workable since the 1960s, but big oil ,.&*(
    no carrier

  14. Better hope your health insurer doesn't get it.

    Claim denied - self inflicted due to unhealthy diet.

  15. Re:Not regulated ... on Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've had that as long as I can remember.

  16. Re: Clearly Global Slowing is a problem that must on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that the slowing down side or direct effect is effecting climate?

    No. Climate would happen anyway.

  17. Re: Welcome to the Trump future... on US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I assume that's on top of something else and they can't just drop out of HS and do it?

  18. Re: Are we sure this is Russian? on Zeus Variant 'Floki Bot' Targets PoS Data (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    What double i?

  19. Real news about a post-truth demo.

  20. Re:Jurassic Park? on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    It was potentially viable science. However since nobody had actually done it then it's fiction by definition.

  21. Re:Clearly Global Slowing is a problem that must b on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The bit where Australia isn't.

  22. Much more accurate on Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again (time.com) · · Score: 1

    ''Always ten years away'' sounds much more accurate than ''always five years away''.

  23. Re: Seems like on Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Imaginary benefits of social media advertising on Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math (marketingland.com) · · Score: 1

    Obviously a tranny. Everyone knows girls don't fart.

  25. Re:Bluetooth. on Bluetooth 5 Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never owned one that worked.