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  1. Re:Landing pic? on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 2

    That was the first low res thumbnail through the yet to be jettisoned lens caps. Have to wait for the dust to settle.

  2. Re:Fails Compared to the Moon Landing on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    Are you fuking serious? I know geeks like to think they are the super geniuses of the world (in the style of Wyle E. Coyote), but this is beyond ridiculous.

    Well, shit, there sugarcube, maybe you should mosey on down to JPL and set those folks straight.

  3. Re:Wow. on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    As big as a Mini Cooper they said, which seems a bit of an oxymoron, truth be told. ;-)

    A Winnebago on mars would be the safest meth lab in the system. Distribution of product is a bitch, though.

  4. Re:Steering on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I think JPL is up to speed on that.

  5. Woot on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sky crane for the win. I had images in my head of hovering Eagles from Space 1999. :-)

  6. Ok on Is Your Neighbor a Democrat? There's an App For That · · Score: 1

    That's the last push I need to start the Mindyourownfuckingbusiness Party.

  7. Re:What would it take... on Senate Cybersecurity Bill Stalled By Ridiculous Amendments · · Score: 1

    You can't do anything. The alpha sociopaths are in complete control of everything. People like you raging on about the constitution or changing the system are just a giggle to them.

  8. Re:senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing on Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish we had that. I'd be High Potentate And Head Muckety Muck.

    No, wait... SENIOR High Potentate And Head Muckety Muck.

  9. Wat? on FDA Wins Right To Regulate Adult Stem-Cell Treatments · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quick! I need an ideological purist to tell me what to think about this!

  10. Re:Wait till they factor in Autotune on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 2

    Ever heard 4'33"?

    Has anyone?

  11. Re:Wait till they factor in Autotune on Study Finds New Pop Music Does All Sound the Same · · Score: 3, Funny

    All music is converging until it consists of single, steady tones.

    Heard a great song today. It was B flat for three minute.

    Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....

    It rocks!

  12. Find ALL the hidden variables on The Increasing Role of Predictive Analysis In Police Work · · Score: 1

    Wasnt this an episode of Numb3rs?

  13. Sweet bouncing feathery baby jeebus... on How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? · · Score: 1

    ...does even playing a game have to be a world shaking ideological decision?

    Cripes, I'd sell the whole lot of you out to invading aliens in a heartbeat.

  14. Re:How does Android affect software freedom? on How Will Steam on GNU/Linux Affect Software Freedom? · · Score: 1

    They're currently on version 6 with no letup in sight so it's hard to say they are "clean" if they have to keep updating it all the time.

    o.O

    You're kidding. You're kidding, right?

  15. Re:News For Nerds??!! on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 5, Funny

    The caliber of stories is really down overall. Can't imagine what triggered this story. They're really shooting blanks some days. Or maybe I'm just going off half-cocked. Who knows?

    I deserve every down mod I get.

  16. Telepresence! on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Just have every employee work remotely while inside a virtual reality pod. In the VR world, everyone is just an amorphous grey blob with a genderless, monotone voice. The software will also filter out potentially offensive words (for example: "meat", "tight", "hot" and "pony").

    I hope this helps.

    Where to get VR pods? I dunno. Google it or something. I can't solve *all* your problems! Sheesh!

  17. Re:laws on Ask Slashdot: Preempting Sexual Harassment In the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    Jars or neckties? o.O Are jellybeans involved?

    At my employer we just have an annual video with such grossly exaggerated examples it's actually entertaining.

  18. *sniff* on The Rise of the Junkweb and Why It's So Awesome · · Score: 2

    This article needed more haughty sniffing.

  19. Re:Prophecy! on Apple Blames Earnings Miss On iPhone 5 Anticipation · · Score: 1

    Wow, was what I meant that hard to grasp? All I meant was why is it a failure of the company and not a failure of the analyst who made the estimate? How do I know they don't intentionally overestimate to knock the stock price down?

  20. Re:Dyslexic much? on Skydiver Leaps From 18 Miles Up In 'Space Jump' Practice · · Score: 2

    Or just don't open the chute.

  21. Re:No more DVD rentals? on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    Just unlucky, I guess. :)

    Obviously, I exaggerate. A tad. Generally I get what I want once I get to the "used DVD" stage. Only thing I tormented recently was Dexter season 5.

  22. Um, duh? on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    I said this from the very start. Remain calm, and carry on inventing. Try not to fuck up the economy with panic measures so there's money for research both private and public. Sadly, the alpha sociopaths fucked up the economy, but still human ingenuity ticks away.

  23. Re:Naturally on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    He's in over his head. Kudos to him on getting it going and succeeding, job creation and all that, but I think he's just been overwhelmed. Personally, I would have sold it off, invested the proceeds in something really boring and safe, and taken up a ludicrous and expensive hobby. Never understood the alpha mentality to work until they die even after they have more money they could ever spend. My goal is to work hard, retire as early as possible to someplace nice in the mountains, and tell society and the rat race to go fuck itself diagonally.

  24. Re:No more DVD rentals? on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    Media houses too greedy to make it happen ... yes.

    That was, in fact, the undoableness I was referring to. :-)

  25. Re:No more DVD rentals? on Latest Netflix Earnings Report Mixed · · Score: 1

    Was that a joke?

    Unless it's pretty new and/or popular, I get get one seeder in Ulaanbaatar providing a copy encoded in some Ukranian format that Google Translate tells me is "Yuri's Really Fine Codec Purple Monkey".