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  1. Re:TL;DR on Appeals Judge Calls Prenda an "Ingenious Crooked Extortionate Operation" · · Score: 4, Funny

    You work for Sony Pictures, don't you?

  2. Re:Any chance on Internet Customers Surpass Cable Subscribers At Comcast · · Score: 1

    You clearly don't understand business. Not like an MBA does.

    / Worked for an MSEE/MBA who couldn't design his way out of a paper bag, and thought the solution to low revenue from low sales due to high prices was to bump his per-sale margin from 200% to 300%. I questioned this move and that was the answer I got.

  3. Re:Unbiased article? on Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business · · Score: 1

    This is China we're talking about. If you grease the right palms, it's the Wild West (East?).

  4. Re:Bulk Collection? The Air Waves are Free on NSA Reform Bill Backed By Both Parties Set To Pass House of Representatives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Secret law enabling secret courts to charge and try you, in secret, and no one is allowed to say anything without thus becoming criminals themselves.

    That ain't American, but that's where we've been for 13+ years now.

    The National Security State will arrive, not with tanks and guns, but wrapped in the flag and carrying the word 'TERRORISTS!'

  5. Re:A subset of first-world problems... on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 0

    A tragedy is when I get a paper cut.
    Comedy is when you fall down an open manhole and die.

  6. Re: I like this guy but... on Rand Paul Moves To Block New "Net Neutrality" Rules · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When you can afford the very best (and totally amoral) marketing ...

  7. Re:These are not space ships. on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 1

    If Voyager, MRO, Gallileo and Rosetta are spaceships, so is this busted pickup truck. .. or is the distinction you wish to draw between spaceSHIPs and spaceCRAFT?

  8. Re:uh... on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    then Verizon is even sleazier than TFA indicates.

    We already knew that. They make the Koch brothers look honorable.

  9. Re:If they were really concerned... on Feds Say It's Time To Cut Back On Fluoride In Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Who can afford better lobbyists, the ag industry or the dental?

  10. Re:Shopped! on Hubble Turns 25 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right on - you can hear what, seven octaves?
    You can _see_ less than one, and there's lots of useful information outside that range. If some fundie complains that it's all lies because it has the word 'false' in it, ask them whether they believe infrared cameras show 'real' image. Same color-mapping principles.

  11. Re:Humans are the gross, worst spieces ever on Newly Discovered Sixth Extinction Rivals That of the Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    Face it. We're a virus with shoes.
          -- Saint Hicks

  12. Re:Some Chimps use tools to hunt on World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered In Kenya · · Score: 1

    More evidence humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor.

  13. Re:Humans are Human on Can Civilization Reboot Without Fossil Fuels? · · Score: 1

    A lot of fat in those (North Americans and Northern Europeans) who don't starve to death.

  14. Re:Changing the Royalty rules on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    Skim all they can until radio stations are suddenly very affordable as label-exclusive marketing arms ... as if they're not 90% of the way there already.

  15. Re:Taller men get more girls the world over on Did Natural Selection Make the Dutch the Tallest People On the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Successful Dutch men must, on average, be very tall and have executive style hair.
    / Dilbert referencee

  16. Re:Bah, cue the evil ... on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Of course they won't. Caring about the peons doesn't maximize shareholder value.

  17. Re:Jamming not Hacking on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could strap a remote pilot into a seat that's rigged to do something painful/fatal if the plane crashes. My objection echoes one above - there's a lot a pilot can feel about how the craft is behaving that no set of sensors can replicate remotely.

  18. Re:If you demand all your supporters be flawless.. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    If anyone knows hypocrisy, Fiorina qualifies.

  19. I'm doing my best to cure Virgos.

  20. Re:Wow, I knew they were big on Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Could Land At Ellington Space Port Near Houston · · Score: 1

    As awesome as that sounds ... probably not a great idea.

  21. Re:Duct tape on Hertz Puts Cameras In Its Rental Cars, Says It Has No Plans To Use Them · · Score: 1

    Orange you glad Sunkist citrus products have stickers, then?

  22. Re:Nipples and terrorism? on Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content · · Score: 1

    As it was closing an era in this part of North America in which unpopular political speech was greeted with torture, imprisonment and death, it was understood to apply to political speech being restricted by the politicians.

    Of course, at the time. speech in general was a tad more civil - norms and mores more closely observed in public rather than flouted for attention-seeking effect.

  23. Re:Nipples and terrorism? on Nipples, Terrorism, and Sexual Descriptions - Facebook's List of Banned Content · · Score: -1

    The First Amendment says political speech may not be regulated, constrained or punished by the government.
    Non-political speech may, hence regulation on commercial speech (advertising, OTA broadcasts, etc)

  24. Re:A Language With No Rules... on Why There Is No Such Thing as 'Proper English' · · Score: 1

    And proscriptivists are antiquarians?

  25. Re:*facepalm* on Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Out in the boonies, or in a reception-poor building in the 'burbs, SMS can take literal days to get through.
    That would be an inconvenience up with which I would prefer not to put.

    Now, an app that works like one of those SecureID fobs, so I'm not dependent on the vagaries of wireless reception? That would be pretty cool.