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  1. Can you get disbarred on Copyright Infringer Tries To Shut Down Reporting On Her Infringement · · Score: 1

    For repeated demonstrated incompetence?

    Seriously, this woman's supposed to be a lawyer?

  2. Re:I'd like a pony while we're at it. on Hollywood Agent Ari Emanuel Wants a Magic 'Stop Piracy' Button · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just get your pony off BitTorrent.

    "You wouldn't download a pony"?

    Fuck that, of course I would.

  3. Let me get this straight on Using QR Codes To Save Lives · · Score: 1

    You want people to give you confidential information to perform an encoding they could just as easily do on their own? The confidentiality of your proprietary software does not trump the confidentiality of medical data.

  4. Missing the point on NC Planners May Be Barred From Using Speculative Sea Level Rise Predictions · · Score: 2

    Instead, they should simply pass legislation that forbids the sea from rising. On penalty of fines or whipping. Problem solved.

  5. Better rate than me on How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha · · Score: 1

    They get harder, and these days I'm four for five at best.

    Maybe I'm just a machine dreaming I'm human?

  6. Re:And the jokes just write themselves... on Ore-Sniffing Dogs Rediscovered By Mining Industry · · Score: 1

    Does it have to be a fat cat?

  7. Re:Meanwhile in China... on Ore-Sniffing Dogs Rediscovered By Mining Industry · · Score: 1

    > the minor miners
    *rimshot*

  8. Confused on Ore-Sniffing Dogs Rediscovered By Mining Industry · · Score: 1

    while offering a Google-like working environment for staff.'"

    How do you offer a dog a Google-like working environment?

    20% of your work time is free for burying bones?

  9. Re:uhh... on NASA, ASU Team Finds a New Test For Osteoporosis · · Score: 1

    Conveniently, this is also an extremely efficient test for concussion and bone fractures. Never a false positive. Or a negative.

  10. Re:The naivety of a young religion on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    Preemptively attacking people who say you're wrong doesn't make you less wrong. It just makes it obvious that you already know you're wrong.

  11. Adorable optimism on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    sometime in the next 15 to 30 years ... even the skeptics can accept it. ... has no animosity toward religion.

    Must be new here.

    There is no amount of evidence that could convince these people, because their minds don't operate like that. A scientist observes and builds a model of reality to explain observations. The creationist doesn't need to observe, because he already has a perfect model of reality. Any observations that contradict it are to be ignored, lied about, or dismissed. When a creationist claims to ask for evidence, his intention is not to learn, because he already has perfect knowledge. His intention is to ensnare the audience in a web of lies. This is a discipline called apologetics, in which the only objective of a debate is to score points by hook or by crook. Feeding evidence to them is to feed an endless abyss that spits all of your information back at you, distorted, that listens only to find ambiguities or gaps in your knowledge, to fill them with religion. Give them better evidence, and they will not thank you - they will be angry at you, because you're making them work harder to twist and refute you. Annoy them enough, and they will attack your character personally and professionally.

    Once Mr. Leakey realizes this, he will no longer lack animosity toward religion.

  12. Re:FAQs /.ed on Flame: The Massive Stuxnet-Level Malware Sweeping the Middle East · · Score: 1

    before 2021.

    Paging John Connor...

  13. Re:It's Just Gigawatts on Germany Sets New Solar Power Record · · Score: 1

    I guess they meant gigawatt hours per hour. :P

    In other news, the speed of light is one lightyear annually.

  14. Soooo.... on Facebook Releases Instagram Clone, Two Months After Acquisition · · Score: 2

    ... they spent a billion dollars on something they already had.

  15. The state department tore down a poster on US State Department Hacks Al-Qaeda Websites In Yemen · · Score: 1

    Hung up by Al Quaeda.

  16. I don't get it on SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme · · Score: 0

    Doesn't the VP of a company as huge as SAP make enough shitloads of cash without robbing a toy store? $30k, isn't that like two months' salary or something?

  17. Absolutely harmless to humans! on Inventor of the TV Remote Control Dies · · Score: 1

    That's... an oddly specific assurance.

  18. Gonna plead Not Guilty of copyright infringement on Depressed People Surf the Web Differently · · Score: 1

    By reason of depression.

  19. UK fraud case on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    Against the MPAA, of course.

    Right?

  20. MegaUploads: The other unspoken hurdle on Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle · · Score: 2

    Namely, the increased risk that your data will become collateral damage in the War On Piracy.

  21. More BS from the BS Association. on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the drivel they emit?

  22. Bribery on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Leaving aside the question of how morally wrong this is (very), isn't it completely illegal?

  23. "J*******k" for unrelated contexts on Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak" · · Score: 1

    Someone at A***e has their h**d up their a*s.

  24. Re:Prediction on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 0

    I'm predicting 37.000038567.

  25. dominant, universal mechanism on World's Subways Share Common Mathematical Structure · · Score: 1

    "Carry the most passengers as fast as possible for as little money as possible" sounds quite universal, and dominates in the long term over investments like the cost of new stations.