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  1. Re:Do not underestimate... on Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Search · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do not underestimate...

    ...the stupidity of the crowd.

    If slashdot is any indicator of mass stupidity, the would-be-spammer are going to be buried under an even more overwhelming amount of comments of doubtful usefulness.

    Like "yes" "no" "omg" "lol" "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" "goodluckwiththat"
    and "ponies"....

    Fine by me. lolcats is still infinitely preferable to any "parked" domain that masquerades as a search engine or offers dubious products or services.

  2. Re:CALL OUT THE DOGS on Locked iPhones Can Be Unlocked Without Password · · Score: 2, Funny

    Quick, to the Apple-bashing-mobile

    Holy annoyed fanbois, Batman!

  3. Re:Ahoy, GlaDOS! on Examining Portal's Teleportation Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting on the drunken lawyer version, Port

    -Rowley Birkin, QC

  4. Re:right up till... on Carbon-Neutral Ziggurat Could House 1.1 Million In Dubai · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone crashes a A340F full of explosives into it. Or sets fires in it, or... Well you get the idea. Good idea but a great target.

    This got modded insightful? I guess we should all go live in small huts that are impossible to hit by airliner? Oh wait, there's always small prop planes. Guess we're fucked.

    Mods are getting super-retarded around here.

  5. Re:Service Pack? uhhhh.... on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 1

    Actually, the big transition for the non-corporate types was from Windows 9x (pick your flavor) to Windows 2000. Windows XP was an upgrade to 2000, really.

    Oh yeah, absolutely, and the same for us more techie home users as well. Point still stands though, and Twitter's really getting creepy isn't he?

  6. Re:Service Pack? uhhhh.... on Jerry Seinfeld Will Plug Vista · · Score: 0, Troll

    to the pain of transition between Windows 98 and XP.

    What the hell are you smoking? Replace XP with ME and you might have a point, but XP makes 98 look like pisswater. And I'm pretty scornful of MS and its products in general.

  7. Re:breaking news! on Kansas Nerd Uses Net To Shake Up Political Fundraising · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Once again, /. is right there, breaking news, reprinting from Digg 3 weeks late.

    Seriously, this is a month old. I gave him $10 back in July.

    Anybody who comes to /. for the "scoop" is an idiot. What you come here for is the discussion with fellow geeks.

    You must be new h- *checks UID of parent* -you really ought to know better by now.

  8. Re:oook on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 1

    Sarcasm missed. :/

    Only 'cause it was crap to begin with ;)

  9. Re:Obviously not on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    Science and Religion are not mutually exclusive.

    Maybe not, but the trend lines sure seem to point to a future where they are.

  10. Re:$4.4 million is almost enough ... on Military Spends $4.4M To Supersize Net Monitoring · · Score: 1

    $4.4 million is almost enough to cater the meetings to discuss the project.

    No kidding. Factor in another $4 mil for hookers and blow, and then we can worry about actual money going to curb our civil liberties.

  11. Re:Danish??? on New Map of Carved Up Arctic · · Score: 1

    Santa isn't a pikey

    Funniest thing I've read all day. Shame about your Flamebait mod.

  12. Re:Obviously on A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered · · Score: 1

    How the hell is this 'Informative?'

    The same way your post is informative - not at all. Welcome to /. moderation ;)

  13. Re:Obviously on A Hidden Loop In the Carbon Cycle Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    The solution is obviously to cut down more trees and make more deserts, right?

    Sure, as long as you don't skimp on the sandworms.

  14. Re:Start drillin'! on Hot Water, Hot Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    That reminds me of an old joke:

    There's this oil fire going on, so they call Red Adair up and ask him how much it will cost to put it out. Red, being the world-famous guy that he is, rattles off a number that's much too expensive, so they end up going with one of his cheaper competitors.

    So, these guys show up, get briefed, and then proceed directly in their truck right to the heart of the fire. There they stop, and all the guys jump out and start stamping on the fire with their feet! They do this long enough, and what do you know, they put the fire out.

    Of course, the oil guys are just completely awestruck, and ask the heard fire chief guy if they're off to celebrate another job well done. The head fire chief guy replies "Hell no. First thing we're going to do is fix the brakes on the truck."

  15. Re:Higgs on First Definitive Higgs Result In 7 Years · · Score: 0

    the technocracy

    Tinfoil hat on a little too tight? I bet you're one of those people who thinks the moon landing was faked.

  16. Re:A Wing Commander Replacement? Maybe Not on Spaceflight Sim Dark Horizon Set for Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Argh! I meant Freelancer! Freelancer's combat sucked. Guess I have to try out Privateer, though...

  17. Re:A Wing Commander Replacement? Maybe Not on Spaceflight Sim Dark Horizon Set for Release · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand the Privateer love. In general, the game was well-written and thought out. But when it came time for space combat, I was bored to tears.

  18. Re:WTF is this "education" worship going on? on Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism" · · Score: 1

    what makes you think adding *MORE* government is going to help anything?

    Typical strawman. GP said nothing about adding more government, he wants to add more 'school'. Thanks for playing, though.

  19. Re:New York Times on NYT Explores the World of Internet Trolls · · Score: 2, Funny

    HEY BUDDY I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR PROBLEM IS maybe you are STUPID but the NEW YORK TIMES is a good newspaper you should LEARN TO READ instead of being a fat nerd clearly you thought it would be FUNNY to make a joke like that i really hate people like you. right now my daughter who just learned to read is CRYING because of what you postedL

    Soooo, you're an NYT subscriber then?

  20. Re:Sex is bad, mmkay? on Spore Almost Ready for Production, Complete With "Sporn" · · Score: 1

    The U.S. is, at least in several ways, quite a lot more liberal about sex than several Islamic countries.

    That's a bit like saying regular people are smarter than retarded people. It might be true, but it's a completely useless measurement.

  21. Mod parent up on Foreign-owned Hotels To Install Firewall In China · · Score: 1

    casualsax3 wins the thread.

  22. Capitalism on Foreign-owned Hotels To Install Firewall In China · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -Incompatible with liberalism
    -Incompatible with conservatism
    -Incompatible with human rights
    -Incompatible with human nature.

    Somebody please tell me why we're still fisting Adam Smith's very dry corpse?

  23. Re:Vista and Mac OS? on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't surprised if they hadn't bothered in the case of Apple hardware, both due to the hardware itself and the tiny userbase.

  24. Re:18k? 8k? on Delivering 8K VFX Shots For the Dark Knight · · Score: 1, Funny

    Thousand. Duh. Context is everything.

  25. Re:Why do the even HAVE tickets? on Craigslist Forced To Reveal a Seller's Identity · · Score: 1

    Is Heath Ledger on that list and can his ticking be giving away? Dose the family have to pay the death tax on there cost?

    Wow, that sentence has so many different levels of suck, I don't know where to begin!

    FAIL