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  1. Bad Analogy Warning on Man Arrested In Greece For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 2

    This could be construed as "incendiary", like in Holocaust denial laws in Germany, or yelling "fire" in a crowded theater (bad pun intended).

    Getting fined in California for selling foie gras, or jailed for growing grass strikes me as far more absurd.

  2. Out, damn'd spot! out, I say! on Book Review: Digital Forensics For Handheld Devices · · Score: 1

    Is there an app that will make my phone smoke and melt into itself, a la Mission Impossible, taking all of my pr0n with it? I wouldn't want that stuff to fall into the wrong hands. Like my wife.

    Thanks for clearing up what Lady Macbeth was referring to!

  3. Easy on Cheap, Portable Ultrasound Could a Be Lifesaver . · · Score: 2

    I'm not sure how you address famine by increasing the rates of overpopulation.

    The same way you eliminate bugs by not writing software in the first place.

  4. Obligatory Ice-T on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

    The game being IP.

  5. They are complementary opposites on Inside Look At Eastern European Vs. East Asian Hackers · · Score: 2

    dark and light, female and male, low and high, cold and hot, water and fire, earth and air... Brin and Yang and all that jazz.

  6. Close, but no cigar on Fusion Power Breakthrough Near At Sandia Labs? · · Score: 2

    You will never actually reach production with things like this, for the same reason you will never reach a wall by moving in increments of 1/2.

    Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox has a resolution. This is more like the Rockefeller Contraction (apologies to Hendrik Lorentz).

  7. Re:Strengthen your passwords on Wireless Analysis With Monitor Mode On Android · · Score: 1

    Use AES with a very long random gobbledigook password. Write the password down on the back of your router.

    My handwriting constitutes a higher encryption level than AES-256, you insensitive clod!

  8. That's about right... on Warp Drive Might Be Less Impossible Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    I would happily throw 90% of the human race under a bus for a working warp drive.

    Discard the rest of the male population and keep just the top quintile of the women.

    Hmm, on second thought you can keep your warp drive, I'm staying here!

  9. Re:A word to the wise on Paypal Users In Argentina Can No Longer Make Domestic Transactions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Game the system, pay the price...

    You were referring to the Argentine authorities, right? Price-fixing/rationing has always been a disaster. But it's not just Argentina, the most important price of all--the price of money (interest rates)--is still being fixed all around the world, with nary a peep from people, or indeed economists who should know better.

    If people knew what money is and saw what is passed off as "money" these days, there would be a revolution overnight.

  10. Use a Sponge Bob Happy Meal toy on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 2

    To bad i'm very much tone deaf

    Get all the details in next quarter's 2600!

  11. Bent Spear, Broken Arrow? on Radioactive Tool Goes Missing In Texas · · Score: 1

    I propose a new term for this category of nuclear incident: Lost American

  12. URL or hyperlink? on Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement · · Score: 1

    Did the site actually link to the content or merely reported its URL? Would such a distinction have mattered?

  13. It's even worse... on Germany's Former First Lady Sues Google · · Score: 5, Funny

    Turns out Bettina Wulff is Barbara Streisand's half-sister!

  14. Re:Boo frickin' Hoo on It's Easy To Steal Identities (Of Corporations) · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll accept that a corporation is people.

    Even if it's the Soylent Corporation?

  15. Re:One more reason on FBI Launches $1 Billion Nationwide Face Recognition System · · Score: 1

    One more reason to not post stuff on Facebook.

    Au contraire, flood DoS, anyone?

  16. Truth in Marketing... finally on Apple Reportedly Planning Streaming Music Service · · Score: 1

    The iTunes store has always been a streaming service, except that you had to pay to actually store the music yourself.

  17. Performance art on Most Torrent Downloaders Are Monitored, Study Finds · · Score: 1

    I was stunned when I watched the Hunger Games Blu-ray this weekend as what I thought was the lead up to the main menu in fact lead to a large message: "Previews for Your Mandatory Viewing".

    To get you into film's authoritarian dystopia.

  18. Music != Melody + Lyrics on Music Memories Stored In Different Part of Brain Than Other Memories · · Score: 1

    Does this mean you store text in non-song form in a different location than text in song-form?

    The guy in TFA is a cellist, so I assume the music he remembers does not have a text component.

    I have a somewhat different handicap. While I can easily memorize melodies, I can't for the life of me reproduce the "text" of the lyrics. My version invariably comes out as a paraphrase of the meaning of the lyrics.

  19. Now that's what I call... on After Hacker Exposes Hotel Lock Insecurity, Lock Firm Asks Hotels To Pay For Fix · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I had to do was press "lock" twice to enter supervisor mode then 999999 and it opened the safe bypassing my code.

    "six-nines" availability!

  20. Hi-Res? on Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth · · Score: 1

    Curiosity has a high resolution color camera on it.

    1200x1200 hardly qualifies as hi-res, heck it's not even HD.

  21. Truth or Dare on Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange · · Score: 2

    I really don't think a disclaimer is necessary when it's pretty clear who I am. How many others here whose identities are hidden have undisclosed affiliations/jobs/etc. which may influence their opinions?

    Truth: Do you personally agree with all your employer's talking points?

    Dare: If you don't, I dare you to publicly state which ones you don't agree with and why.

  22. Re:Here come the drones! on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1

    What's really so mysterious about controlled flight into terrain under bad weather/visibility conditions? It's not like it's the first time that sort of thing happens.

    Funny how often CFIT happens when the US Govt. sees fit

  23. Oblig. on The Pacific Ocean Is Polluted With Coffee · · Score: 1

    Ill-Tempered Sea Bass!

  24. Agree, but small nitpick on Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research · · Score: 1

    Instead, they make the phone they, themselves want to use.

    What Steve himself wanted to use.

    FTFY

  25. Someone send this guy a DVD of "Weird Science". I'd go to that theme park.