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  1. Re:and found to be delicious on First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 2

    Why do you think there's only a bit of tail left?

    It's like eating ramen, sometimes a little bit of noodle doesn't get slurped down and falls out! It's not likely dinosaur had good noodle slurping lips.

    Great, now I got an image of a T-Rex trying to use chopsticks stuck in my head... great...
    still, not as bad as a T-Rex trying to play chopsticks... dammit!

  2. In a proper least authority environment, [...] your user would have been rightly suspicious of any program requesting access to so many files.

    This is extremely hilarious. Have you seen what people agree to when installing Android apps?

    You know, that would make a great contest for developers!
    See who can get the most clicks on egregious terms and consensual surrender of rights...
    maybe have sub-categories for most first born children promised, body parts at time of death, percentage of pension or retirement payments, etc..
    Stick in a severability clause and a disclaimer regarding the contest sections of the EULA and have a security firm monitor and tally the clicks... also maybe send a text to the user saying "Did you know you just promised someone you never met items x, y, and z ?"

  3. Re: Lies and propaganda on Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the president of the Flat Earth Society is an evolutionist.

    That's on THIS side of earth...
    On the other side (they don't like being called "bottoms" for some reason) the President of the Flat Earth Society is a Pastafarian that DJ's bar mitzvahs on the weekends...
    BTW, the people of both sides that live on the edge don't mind being called edgy.

  4. Re:iPhone 8 on Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    >iPhone 8 is going to have TWO screens. One on the front and one on the back.

    So its screen will break two times as often

    No, because you won't be able to pick it up...
    Touch Disease Everywhere!
    Now to train Siri to say
    "Don't Touch Me!"
    "Stop Touching Me"
    "MOM!!!"

  5. Re: in all honesty on Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's No Moon!

  6. Re:Shocking on Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not just minimum. Below minimum or none at all.

    Intolerant tolerances will not be tolerated!

  7. Re:The marketing options are endless!! on Mercedes Unveils Digital Headlights That Project Street Signs, Markings Onto the Road Ahead (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    STOP AHEAD!
    For our delicious pepperoni pizza...

  8. Re:What ??? I was assured... on Four New Elements Finally Get Their Official Names, Added To Periodic Table (universityherald.com) · · Score: 1

    ...that HomerSimpsonium was a viable name.

    It was passed over as it is a single use element...
    You can only use it to make Doh!

  9. Re:IRS is illegal on Bitcoin Exchange Ordered To Give IRS Years of Data On Millions of Users (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Jefferson Clause of the United States Constitution...

    Is that the one that talks about a guy and his wife that are movin' on up (movin' on up) to the East Side (movin' on up), To a deluxe apartment in the sky?

  10. Re:What would Trump do? on Nokia Dials Back Time To Sell Mobile Phones Again (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No no no! If we're dialing back time for Nokia then we have to bring back the AMC Pacer...
    All that wonderful glass, it was where all bugs went to die... and then dry out... crusty bug heaven...
    OK, I may have been a bit buzzed back in the day...

  11. Re:I don't understand on Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with Trump.

    They should change this site to trumpdot.org!

    Hey, that's not fair. Only half the stories are Trump-bashing. The other half are Facebook or Reddit bashing.

    Geez, way to feel Microsoft marginalized...

  12. Re:Don't give him ideas on Trump Will Get Power To Send Unblockable Mass Text Messages To All Americans (nymag.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:The government is trying to hide the truth on 'DroneGun' Can Take Down Aircraft From Over 1.2 Miles Away (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    spelt:
    British
    past and past participle of spell.

  14. It should be that the user HAS to have purchased the item. Why would you do it any other way?

    I would be happy if I could just filter reviews based on a "verified purchaser" tag. They already mark the verified purchaser reviews with that exact text, so make it a sub-option on the review display options...

  15. I rate the above comment 1 star... Only because there is no 0 star rating. The aforementioned comment was not worth reading at any price.

    You forgot the "I received the above comment in exchange for my fair and unbiased review of the comment" part...

  16. Re: Carbon monoxide detector on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you know the average smoker is killed 17 times per day?

    OK, I don't mind the 17 times thing, but what is the cost of resuscitating this poor soul just to off him again?
    Also, is it the same smoker day after day or do you pick a new smoker everyday?
    And if it's the latter, is there a nomination process or is the selection random?
    Lastly, is this occurring near a medical supply company so the participants can cash in on Black Friday savings on things like defibrillator gel and EKG leads?

  17. Re: Good riddance! on Fidel Castro Is Dead (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, Francisco Franco is still dead.

    I just checked on this and it is true!
    Victor Frankenstein was not available for comment...

  18. Re:A great big "Meh!" on Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would there be purebred iguana groups?
    Is there someone out there breeding iguana and something else like, say, alligators?
    Don't get me wrong, alliguanas would be awesome looking but I don't want them roaming the streets...
    Something that can climb a tree and has any of the traits of and alligator creeps me out.

  19. Re:And yet it leans conservative sometimes ... on Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds (thedenverchannel.com) · · Score: 1

    Four cats would have done a better job, but they would have spelled the whole thing much worse...
    But either way it IS worthless.

  20. Re:Works for California DMV offices on Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I just clicked on a local store in maps and got a bar graph for any day of the week plus the real time congestion highlighted... nice. I know they know where my phone is, I'm over that as there really is no option that does not involve making my own hermitage...

  21. Re:20C huh? on Sea Ice In Arctic and Antarctic Is At Record Low Levels This Year (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WTF is a pseudoskeptic and how do they differ from psychochickenlittles?

    Fake skeptics don't actually disbelieve, they just pretend to for political or financial gain, or amusement.

    And psychochickenlittles kill you if you don't accept that the sky is, as they state, falling.
    Of course it does not matter if the sky is in fact falling, just don't argue, nod your head and then fake a text or something...

  22. Re:Dumb title on 'Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    On the inverse, I guess kids should stop playing high school football since the number of kids playing football in HS rarely translates to a professional career in football.

    Actually I think they should stop because it is a sport of repeated small brain traumas with an occasional large trauma tossed in here and there.
    https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160425143653.htm

    The problem I have with social media is that you become what you do... 10,000 hours of social media usage comes down to less than a decade for normal users and 5 years or less for an addict. So, at the end of that period you have a bunch of people trained to read click-bait and thinking what they read on fB is actually "news" because it resonates with what they think already. So instead of growing and becoming a world changing force many are getting transfixed by a digital mirror that really adds nothing to the person themselves.
    If you aren't growing you're dying.

  23. But on the actual topic: is it possible that said "uneregistered domains" in the binaries are there as a convenience for dns-spoof exploits? I.e. if they resolve, the phone software knows the mitm state is active?

    That's not a bad end run for activation...

  24. Will the companies be fined? If not, they won't change anything.

    In a better universe where ponies grow on trees the companies would get class action sued...

    Also, no one would picnic under trees...

  25. Re:Curtain on Feeding Seaweed To Cows Eliminates Methane Emissions (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    "Please pay no attention to all the extra emissions from growing, harvesting, processing, and transporting!"

    You have to think outside the box!
    Fantastic growth industry teaching cows to swim and chew food with a snorkel in their mouth...