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  1. Twitter: Trust us on Twitter Yanks Tweets That Repeat Copyrighted Joke · · Score: 1

    Taking down this joke is for your own good.

  2. Hurt Google? on Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Revealed In MPAA Emails · · Score: 1

    I did a search for information about Mississippi and all that came up was a couple of web sites with crappy mobile homes and pickup trucks on cinder blocks.

  3. Re:The article should use "ridiculous" 0 times. on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    force you to buy stuff?

    Medical insurance.

  4. It's about time on Firefox Will Soon Show You Which Tabs Are Making Noise, and Let You Mute Them · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever the boss comes by, I can switch to a work related tab. But if my browser keeps making porn sounds, he gets kind of suspicious.

  5. Re:Skynet on A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones · · Score: 1

    No. But it will allow law enforcement to spoof a drone or group of drones and send out instructions to fly into the side of a mountain.

  6. This just in ... on Police Not Issuing Charges For Handgun-Firing Drone -- Feds Undecided · · Score: 1

    .... killer Roombas spotted. News at eleven.

  7. Slide rule on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    n/c

  8. Re:THEY CAN SMASH THEM ALREADY on California Legislation May Allow First Responders To Take Out Drones · · Score: 2

    what is needed is a way to take out drones quickly.

    Lets see how well a drone can cope with a 5000 lb air drop of fire retardant.

  9. Re:custom kernel? on Red Star Linux Adds Secret Watermarks To Files · · Score: 2

    Most North Koreans don't have access to the internet.

    This sort of thing is aimed at government employees who might become disaffected and begin working for some western intelligence agency. Your office PC watermarks every document on its way to the thumb drive (or floppy disk). In the event the media is intercepted on its way out of the country, they know whose desk to visit.

  10. Re:What's the point? on LibreOffice Ported To Run On Wayland · · Score: 1

    Upsides:

    You don't have to listen to gamerz whine anymore when an occasional CPU cycle is used for something other than rendering cartoon hookers in GTA.

  11. Re: Hogwash! Poppycock! Rubbish! on Haiku OS Will Get New Service Manager · · Score: 1

    List all the dependencies then,

    I started counting Gnome apps but I gave up.

  12. Re:Useless in wartime on Report: US Military Is Wasting Millions On Satellite Comms · · Score: 1

    able to protect their SATCOM assets in orbit?

    This.

    China/Russia can probably take down the Iridium and Globalstar systems easily. The DoD owned satellite systems are probably better protected. But when you go through the DISA, what are you getting? A military system up/downlink? Or time leased from a commercial operator which will most certainly go off the air in a conflict with a capable enemy?

  13. Re:Mimicing on UK Government Releases Rules To Get Self-Driving Cars Onto Public Roads · · Score: 1

    So, if I juggle my iPhone, a cheeseburger and a cigarette while my car is driving itself, for all intents and purposes I am mimicking the majority of other drivers. On the other hand, looking ahead with two hands on the wheel could freak them out.

  14. Opus wakes up ... on Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years · · Score: 1

    ... after 25 years. Berkeley Breathed's first decision is whether or not to syndicate his new work in newspapers. Opus isn't the only one who has been asleep for 25 years.

    Hey Berkeley. Remember hearing about that thing called ARPANET?

  15. Re: Hogwash! Poppycock! Rubbish! on Haiku OS Will Get New Service Manager · · Score: 2

    That's the other major problem with it. systemd has turned Linux into such a tangled mess of interlocking dependencies specifically because it gets into everything from logging to GUI lib dependencies.

  16. Re:"Replace large-scale coal generation"? With WHA on Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles · · Score: 1

    California: "Two or three nuclear power plants in someone else's state".

    And then they can go forth in all of their environmental smugness.

  17. Re:Fourth Amendment on Data Store and Spying Laws Found Illegal By EU Court · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well yes. But this is a protection against government snooping. It's my understanding that the EU right extend to protection against private entities spying. Like what Google/Facebook may or may not collect.

    In the USA, the loophole has been to declare all metadata to be the sole property of the telecom. So it's not individuals' data the government is collecting. And the telecoms are very cooperative.

  18. Re:Avoidable? on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    The Google cars need a bumper sticker that reads: Driver is a T-1000. Back off!

  19. Re:Tail lights are wrong on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    Thankfully as more cars are designed for global market, rather than just US - 3 different uses for a light seems to be fading from use.

    Nope. They opened a Maserati dealership near me. The new Ghiblis are rolling off the lot and are all over the local roads. Guess what? The US versions have red rear turn signals. Same for US spec Porsches, BMWs and other high end vehicles. So this isn't a case of some cheap vehicle manufacturer trying to save a buck or two on colored plastic*. And since the EU versions must have amber rear turn signals, this means uniques part numbers, engineering drawings and spares costs. So there's something else going on here.

    *It's actually not plastic, as all of the vehicles I've cited use LED turn signals. The color of which is neutral when the lamps are off.

  20. Re:Ironic on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 2
  21. Re: Mini ice age? on Mini Ice Age: Nothing To Worry About · · Score: 1

    average and pleasant.

    Oh Noes! We are experiencing increasing AGM (Anthropic Global Moderation). Do something! Anything!

  22. Re:National Security on Why a Chinese Buyout of Micron Is Not Likely To Succeed · · Score: 1

    potatoes are big business in Idaho

    I know. I always wondered if Micron was just a misunderstanding. When J.R. Simplot told the board of directors that they should go into the chip business, did they get it wrong?

    "No, YOU tell him we're not making potato chips! I'm not getting fired over this."

  23. National Security on Why a Chinese Buyout of Micron Is Not Likely To Succeed · · Score: 2

    Additionally, the U.S. government considers chip technology vital to national security,

    Potato chips, that is.

  24. New Law of Physics on LHC Discovers Pentaquark Particles · · Score: 1

    The harder you hit things, the more pieces they break into.

  25. Do not ... on Google Accidentally Reveals Data On 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    ... think about elephants.