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  1. 10 PRINT "Your code sucks."
    20 GOTO 10

  2. Scenario on Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices" · · Score: 1

    Photoshop someone burning a Koran.
    Upload to YouTube.

    The End.

  3. Re:Car copycats on The Copyright Battle Over Custom-Built Batmobiles · · Score: 1

    I think that was Toyota, with their Mega Cruiser. Sad, because its suspension, steering and drive system was quite a bit more advanced than that of the Hummer H1.

  4. How much ... on Connecticut Group Wants Your Violent Videogames — To Destroy Them · · Score: 1

    .... for a Bible?

  5. Re:Magnetic Fields on Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains · · Score: 1

    Or some sort of ion drive. Configure it to repel the charged particles as well as push the spacecraft along.

  6. Re:What about the trip to the moon? on Trip To Mars Could Damage Astronauts' Brains · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its all about exposure time. The longest Apollo mission lasted about two weeks. Mars missions will last many months, possibly a year or more.

  7. Re:Say it ain't so on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 1

    My wife seems to enjoy it.

    Hey! That's a new role playing game. Lets play 'Patent Litigation'.

  8. Say it ain't so on TSMC Preparing To Manufacturer A6X Chip As Apple Looks to Ditch Samsung · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could sour the cozy relationship between Apple and Samsung.

  9. Time to... on Antivirus Software Performs Poorly Against New Threats · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... bring John McAfee out of retirement and put him to work on the problem.

  10. Re:Dear America, on 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US · · Score: 1

    Drugs. And broadband.

    Oh, and maple syrup. We're sending a raiding party up to capture some.

  11. Re:Dashcams on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    Unless its a contractor operating a red light camera for the city. That's exactly how they do it. A violation was committed with a car registered to you. Either you tell the cops who you loaned it to, or you get the ticket.

  12. And in 14 years ... on Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months · · Score: 1

    ... you'll have a robot teenager.

  13. Re:Pandacea? on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    Pandemic!

  14. Re:Irony for the Chinese? on Panda Blood May Hold Potent Assailant Against Superbugs · · Score: 1

    So, we'll export them and kill them here.

    Death penalty for killing tigers? Watch the Chinese scream about not being able to get their boner medicine.

  15. Rough Road? on NASA Faces Rough Road In 2013 · · Score: 2

    Well then, fly!

    That way, you'll encounter severe turbulence.

  16. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    With virtually no incidents tied to RF interference from handheld devices.

    That you know of.

    I went to this page, entered 'Passenger Electronic Device' events detected by 'Aircraft Other Automation, Flight Crew' and found 54 incidents (ACNs).

  17. I wish them luck on Intel's Rumored TV Plans Would Compete With Apple, Google · · Score: 1

    The reality is that the cable companies consider themselves to be the gatekeepers of broadcast television content. And since they control the primary broadband pipe used by most people in this country, its not likely they will allow that to change. If Apple/Intel/Microsoft/Google manage to break the stranglehold that cable holds over the broadband last mile, that would be great for the rest of us wishing to offer services over it.

  18. Re:Pilots... on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. You can use your iPad, Kindle or whatever during cruise. As long as it is in airplane mode. That means disabling RF transceivers.

    Pilots can be trusted, as professionals, to operate their devices in the correct modes. Passengers, not so much. And the cabin crew can't be expected to police the situation and figure out who is using their iPad to read a book, play online games or download porn. So there's a blanket rule: Shut the damned thing off during the most dangerous flight modes (takeoff and landing).

    If you can't exhibit that small amount of self control, then don't fly.

  19. Re:burden of proof goes the other way on FAA Device Rules Illustrate the Folly of a Regulated Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Liberty ALWAYS comes first.

    ... he says as the TSA agent slips on that rubber glove.

  20. Re:have you never seen this? on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    Looks just like the hobos jaywalking all around Bellevue Washington.

    That guy blocking the BMW at around 2:55 looks like he's trying to carjack it. That could get you shot in these parts.

  21. Re:Dashcams on Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam · · Score: 1

    USA here. These would be great to document liability for the extremely infrequent accident. But I'd like to take videos of our village asshats and submit them to the police. But I'm not certain they'd do anything with them.

  22. Re:Why bother? on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 1

    Because people are anticipating the market failure of Windows RT and the subsequent appearance on the used market of a lot of capable (except for the lockdown) and very inexpensive hardware.

  23. Re:Might be worth trying on Republicans... on China's Controversial Brain Surgery To Cure Drug Addiction · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Located in the head of a very small penis.

  24. I see Fail in their future on Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default · · Score: 1

    Users, though, "will still have control of the name displayed by altering their 'full name' in their settings,"

    OK, my full name is Hugh Jardonne.

  25. Only 3 minutes!? on Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Even Pakistan has better broadband than we do.

    [Sigh]