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  1. Two cows were grazing... on Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas · · Score: 1

    So, two cows were grazing and chatting...

    "Did you hear about that 'mad cow disease' thing?"
    "Yeah."
    "Aren't you worried?"
    "No. Why should I be? I am not a cow. I am a helicopter!"

  2. Re:This is so 1990s on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released · · Score: 2

    The thing about KDE was that 4.0 was still very incomplete. It should have been called "beta" until 4.2 came out.

  3. Re:Many topics (Heath, Home, iOS...and Metal) on Apple WWDC 2014: Tim Cook Unveils Yosemite · · Score: 1

    Billy G is not a pioneer at that either. Home automation was already commercially available back in the 1980s. Pic related.

  4. Re:Seriously... on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    In Korea, only old people still tell beowulf cluster jokes!

  5. Re:I cooled off on Samsung... on A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z · · Score: 1

    Being owned by Google

    Not anymore, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo not long ago.

  6. Re:If it can run Oregon Trail... on Apple's 2014 WWDC Keynote Will Be Streamed Live; Hopes For a Microconsole? · · Score: 1

    That game is on the Google Play store as well, so the anon GP could just as well get any Android device. However, tons of reviews say this game is utter shit: even though it is paid, it still takes a ton of microtransactions to get any good. Of course, you could run the original on an emulator... oh wait, Apple does not allow emulators on their store. Google does.

  7. Re:Steve is channeling his inner Cuban on Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Buys the LA Clippers For $2 Billion · · Score: 1

    thatsthejoke.jpg

  8. Re:Bubble of $23,600 per user on Apple Confirms Purchase of Beats For $3 Billion · · Score: 2

    As others have mentioned: it's not the users, it's not the shitty headphones -- Apple wants the licensing deals that Beats already has.

  9. Not the right way anyway on Google Unveils Self-Driving Car With No Steering Wheel · · Score: 1

    Driver or automated, that's beside the point: personal automobiles are the wrong way to go. They take too much room and fuel to transport, usually, only one person at a time. That's a waste. What we need is more and better public transportation: buses, subways, trams, railroads...

  10. Re:Seriously. on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Someone mod that up, please! That was very informative, I've been tying my shoes wrong all my life!

  11. Re:Control a platformer with a flat sheet of glass on Microsoft Doesn't Have Plans For a Dedicated Handheld Gaming Device · · Score: 1

    How else would you do it?

    Something like the Xperia Play.

  12. Re:WTF Is A "Feature Phone"? on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    Not using anaglyph glasses, maybe?

  13. Re:Is the US becoming a corporatocracy? on Finding the Next Generation of Teachers With "Innovative Microsoft Ads" · · Score: 1

    >becoming
    >implying it isn't already

  14. Re:Will this effect markets? on Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt · · Score: 1

    *affect

  15. Re:Not a design flaw on The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    No, still a design flaw. This risk would not exist if they had used a more traditional design. If that church made it impossible to do so, they should have bought the church and demolished it, or built elsewhere, instead of risking lives with that less secure design!

  16. Re:Architects on The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper · · Score: 1

    A "simplification of design" that would certainly kill a lot of people counts as an error, no?

  17. Re:The sad part here... on Nokia Had a Production-Ready Web Tablet 13 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    To put it more precisely: Microsoft knew tablets would be big someday... but rather than make a new lightweight OS that was adequate to a tablet, they tried to cram clunky old Windows into the new format. The result was those x86 tablet PCs that were huge, ran crazy hot, and had a completely inadequate interface.

  18. Re:Parents fault on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 1

    I wonder who raised them?

    The television did.

  19. Re:Their changes were perfect! on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 2

    Perhaps people who give a shit will fork it.

    Like this? http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/

  20. Re:Here's hoping. on The GNOME Foundation Is Running Out of Money · · Score: 3, Informative
  21. Re:Stupid to use Windows in the first place on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 1

    Several governments around the world have moved to free software, or are in the process of doing so. If they think free software is viable...

  22. Stupid to use Windows in the first place on IRS Misses XP Deadline, Pays Microsoft Millions For Patches · · Score: 0

    Why the hell are they using Windows? Government agencies should not be allowed to use proprietary software in the first place. Let stupid private companies throw themselves into any vendor's lock-in, but the people's data should not be subjected to it, ever!

  23. Re:Why do companies buy then shutdown something on GameSpy Multiplayer Shutting Down, Affecting Hundreds of Games · · Score: 0

    Which is why I think, maybe companies should not be allowed to buy or merge with other companies. If you're not good enough to live alone, you die, period.

  24. What about InfinitEye? on Michael Abrash Joins Oculus, Calls Facebook 'Final Piece of the Puzzle' · · Score: 3, Informative

    After the FB/Oculus news, I looked into alternatives and found about this InfinitEye project from France that claims to do 210 degree of horizontal FOV, fully covering the human peripheral vision (while the Rift only does only 90 degrees). I'd pay attention to this one now.

  25. Re:He calls Facebook the final piece of the puzzle on Michael Abrash Joins Oculus, Calls Facebook 'Final Piece of the Puzzle' · · Score: 1

    IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!

    [ insert epic synthesizer intro here ]