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  1. Monty Python. on Hacking Team Hacked, Attackers Grab 400GB of Internal Data · · Score: 5, Funny

    We apologize for corporate and govt data breeches. Those responsible have been
    hacked.

    ---

    We apologise again for the data breeches. Those responsible for hacking
    the people who have just been hacked,
    have been hacked.

  2. Designer Orgasms on DARPA Is Already Working On Designer Organisms To Terraform Mars · · Score: 1, Interesting

    on Mars would be awesome! Then I reread the headline more closely...

  3. The worst managers on On Managing Developers · · Score: 1

    Judge employee performance only by meaningless metrics that can be looked up in Jira in 2 minutes, as opposed to actually looking at some the code their subordinate wrote.

  4. harriet jones on Ubuntu Software Center Criticized For Mixing Free and Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    I feel the need to introduce myself. I am Tony Mobily.

    Yes we know who you are.

  5. I, for one, on Cute Or Creepy? Google's Plan For a Sci-Fi Teddy Bear · · Score: 2

    welcome our new teddy bear overlords.

  6. Re:So what do we learn... on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1

    +5 Funny if I had mod points...

  7. Re:An Old Story on Criticizing the Rust Language, and Why C/C++ Will Never Die · · Score: 2

    It was actually 31 years ago. And your octal's kinda rusty.

  8. Poker? on Humans Dominating Poker Super Computer · · Score: 1

    You brought her; you poke her.

  9. Re:"...crammed into a dongle about 10cm long..." on Intel 'Compute Stick' PC-Over-HDMI Dongle Launched, Tested · · Score: 1

    I'd bet you'd touch it if it was 20cm longer.

  10. Take a dump of your password on Swallowing Your Password · · Score: 1

    And put it into a pipe. Unless it's really big and nasty, then the garbage collector has to dispose of it.

  11. Snake oil on How Security Companies Peddle Snake Oil · · Score: 0

    Historically, Snake oil often contained high proof alcohol, narcotics, or cocaine. For McAfee anti virus to be comparable to snake oil, it has to support pornographic minecraft set to illegally downloaded music.

  12. Because on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    Capitol Hill is no place for fellons.

  13. Re: Landing vs splashdown on Longer Video Shows How Incredibly Close Falcon Stage Came To Successful Landing · · Score: 1

    Like most pieces of hardware, the phallic rocket will be on top of your busy box.

  14. Dark And Stormy Night. on First 26 Pages of Neal Stephenson's New Novel "Seveneves" Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." sounds a lot like a sci-fi version of "It was a dark and stormy night."

  15. Apple made G4's 15 years ago on LG's Leather-Clad G4 Revealed In Leaked Images · · Score: 1

    LG is so behind the times.

  16. Thought Experiment on Stars Form Near Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Scientists used to believe that no life would exist at the bottom of the sea around hydrothermal vents do to the kack of light, high heat, and toxic chemicals. Then they visited the hydrothermal vents in subs and found them teeming with all sorts of crazy life, violating their expectations in the most extreme way possible. Perhaps the same holds true for planets near supermassive black holes. And that that's where most of the life is in the galaxy. And that Earth is a bunch of intra-galactic hicks living out in the sticks. Which is why we haven't found any evidence of extra-terrestrial life yet.

  17. Those four states an epicenter on America's Methane Mystery: NASA Set To Investigate Hotspot Over the 4 Corners · · Score: 2, Funny

    of tex-mex food.

  18. China was so used to stealing secrets on China's Foreign Ministry: China Did Not Attack Github, We Are the Major Victims · · Score: 1

    That the though using 'git clone' never occured to them.

  19. Side effects on Citizen Scientists Develop Eye Drops That Provide Night Vision · · Score: 1

    May include one or more of the following:
    -- sleeping 20 hours or more daily
    -- hydrophobia
    -- sudden violent disposition to pieces of string
    -- self-licking of genitals
    -- tuna addiction
    -- sudden urges to defecate in your neighbors kid's sandox
    -- sexual activity lasting 60 seconds or less
    -- trying to gain the affections of friends and loved ones by bringing them dead rodents

  20. This is madness! on Microsoft Is Killing Off the Internet Explorer Brand · · Score: 1

    THIS IS REDMOND!!!

  21. Re:Sounds about right on Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow, after about 70 posts that are either anti-semitic/israeli trolls or troll counter-trolls, we finally get our first post that addresses the actual article topic. Slashdot's set a new record.

  22. I don't always own a deadly pet on Giant Asian Gerbils May Have Caused the Black Death · · Score: 0

    but when I do, I prefer gerbils.

  23. Wouldn't it cause a massive plankton die-off? on What If We Lost the Sky? · · Score: 2

    And more omninously, make bikinis go out of style?

  24. Dammit Jim! on Carnegie-Mellon Sends Hundreds of Acceptance Letters By Mistake · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm a PhD in CompSci, not a software engineer!

  25. Sky Of Orange on NASA Releases Details of Titan Submarine Concept · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Sky Of Orange".
    And sea of polyethyline.
    "Sea of polyethyline".
    In our Titan
    "In our Titan".
    Submarine
    "Submarine"