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  1. Re:Erh... folks? You're going the wrong way. on Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, a whole bunch of them were founded on the guiding principle that a fool and his money are soon parted.

  2. Re:Toyota has always had this problem on Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    but not too many trucks, because then they'll seem way more successful than you, by the fact they are trading in all these trucks for newer ones...

    Really, you can just do one, and then you have to get it photographed in the hands of terrorists. I guess you could just take a picture of it in your front yard, as we are all terrorists in the eyes of the NSA and DHS.

  3. Re:Stephen Wolfram's Blog on Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace · · Score: 0

    nailed it.

  4. Re:Well that's a town to avoid. on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Murica!

  5. Re:Lie? on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they don't directly send you to jail. Or directly tax you.

    They get the gov't to do that for them.

  6. Can they really be "amazon women", given that they never have been anywhere the Amazon?

    But they are hot. Definitely "bang".

  7. I happen to love those domineering moon-women.

  8. Re:egregious misrepresentation on Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates · · Score: 1

    Yes, that why FBI agents also carry guns.

  9. Re:Dear Mr FBI on FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That and the idea that they are supposed to representing your interests.

  10. Re:So once again (and again and again)... on Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or help prove the opposite.

    Go out and kill someone happy today. And tomorrow. And the next day. Maybe do it every day for the next couple of months.

  11. Re: oh wow really on FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That would be "following the rules". Just like it has been decided that it is better that some criminals get away with their crimes by shredding their documents in the safety of their home, rather than giving the police the right to barge into any house they want to and search for something illegal.

    What's obnoxious is that the Justice dept has the idea that there is no legal rules for using a Stingray or the zero-days. That the only thing they have that can cover it's use is a "policy". Basically, it would be nice if you follow these rules, but you don't have to.

  12. Re:Comic Chat on Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer · · Score: 1

    We must merge them...you will fear Clob.

  13. Re: Read: "Warner avoids massive class-action laws on "Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Why would it be invalid? License agreements for patents between corporations are generally like that [anything paid for a royalty/license fee is non refundable, even if patent is later found to be invalid]. Hell, just recently the precedent was set that patent holders can't force royalty payments for time periods after the patent has expired [patent runs out in 2 years, but holder says you pay royalties for 5 or 10 years or you have to wait].

  14. Re:Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    whoosh.

  15. Re:Destination on Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The way I read the summary, it amounts to "we are researching how many minke whales we can kill before it becomes unsustainable". So basically they will stop doing it once the population no longer can sustain itself.

    Japan will know the minimum number of minke whales needed for a sustainable environment. Unfortunately, we won't have that minimum number here on Earth.

  16. Re:Translation on Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to break that puppy up into two '.cp' files.

  17. Yes, you give it back and give them another $1500 and they give you a $1500 "forever" watch.

  18. Re:Clippy returns! on Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    More like "if your credit score is below X, please disregard this call and hang up immediately."

  19. Re:This is getting stupid on Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    assumes a basic fact with no evidence. there is no evidence Samsung worked on ANYTHING like either iOS or the original iPhone prior to the iPhone being announced.

  20. Re: I like how they lie and call this homegrown on California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is TOTALLY the situation that BLM and Obama are complaining about.

  21. Re: Still sounds like a needle to me! on Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Omni Corp didn't seem particularly "successful" to me. At least not from the 3 documentaries that I watched. Their attempts at new businesses seemed to be spectacular failures. Only the original 'Products' company seemed to make money hand over fist...

  22. Re: Still sounds like a needle to me! on Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    Those are just letters in the Alphabet...

  23. Re: If you are a chinese hacker. on Hackers Get Lazy, Build Trojan On Top of Android Rooting Utility (softpedia.com) · · Score: 0

    In Russia, as both a cost-saving measure and an extra deterrent, instead of firing the bullet into your head, they get an already-used bullet, and press it into your head with a vise.

  24. Re:"Just a Flesh Wound" on Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain (neurosciencenews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is, pain is remarkably important to humans. It tells us we are too close to the fire, or our finger is broken, or someone has just plunged a knife in our back.

    Sure, there are some people who are constantly in pain that this could held with, and you want some pain relief while you are healing, but even when healing, you don't want the possibility of pain gone [ie, broken arm, you get up to go to the washroom and stub your foot, breaking your toe, you want to find out right then it's broken, not later when doctor tells you to just live with it like that.