Optimal Cynic - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Here's What Will Happen (Score 1) 382

by Optimal Cynic on Thursday March 13, 2014 @08:03PM (#46478829) Attached to: Engine Data Reveals That Flight 370 Flew On For Hours After It "Disappeared"

All subsequent critical thinking is conspiracy nut batshit tinfoil hat wearing wacko pluck-your-banjo-with-your-single-tooth teabagger loony.

Maybe if that wasn't actually the case, the "critical thinkers" would get a bit more respect.

Comment Embedded player (Score 5, Insightful) 66

by Optimal Cynic on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:03PM (#46420899) Attached to: Getty Images Makes 35 Million Images Free For Non-Commercial Use

Getty Images will serve the image in an embedded player

Yuck...

Comment Re:Exposure .... (Score 0) 95

by Optimal Cynic on Monday March 03, 2014 @10:42AM (#46387305) Attached to: How Japanese Scientists Are Monitoring Fukushima Babies For Radiation Exposure

Your optimism is a triumph, it really is.

Comment Re:Cometh (Score 1) 168

by Optimal Cynic on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:08AM (#46386229) Attached to: The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction

"of course"... fucking autocorrect.

Comment Re:Cometh (Score 1) 168

by Optimal Cynic on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:07AM (#46386225) Attached to: The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction

No, it's "what's grey and comes in buckets." The answer, of cause, being "Ron Jeremy".

Comment Cometh (Score 5, Funny) 168

by Optimal Cynic on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:28PM (#46382971) Attached to: The Mammoth Cometh: Revive & Restore Tackles De-Extinction

The Mammoth Cometh

I'll get the mop.

Comment Lucky (Score 3, Insightful) 137

by Optimal Cynic on Saturday March 01, 2014 @10:57AM (#46375463) Attached to: Using Google Maps To Intercept FBI and Secret Service Calls

He's one lucky bastard to get away with that. A less forgiving agent would have had him in custody for months, "just in case".

Comment Re:This Hotel in Belgium Is Shaped Like a Giant An (Score 0) 56

by Optimal Cynic on Saturday March 01, 2014 @05:22AM (#46374465) Attached to: Belgian Barrels Reveal History of Human Gut Microbes

Sufficient fibre in the diet and a regular, open minded sexual partner.

Comment Re:Take pictures, press charges. (Score 5, Insightful) 921

by Optimal Cynic on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:13AM (#46357227) Attached to: Woman Attacked In San Francisco Bar For Wearing Google Glass

Assuming your device survives the experience.

Comment Misread (Score 1) 61

by Optimal Cynic on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @04:22AM (#46332163) Attached to: Meet the Developers Who Want To Build the Next Snapchat

I misread the first sentence as "Our lives online come with penis", which given that they're talking about snapchat would have made more sense.

Comment Re:finally (Score 2) 160

by Optimal Cynic on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:35AM (#46292605) Attached to: Another Possible Voynich Breakthrough

I can't even think of any other comparison similar to this.

How about Piltdown Man?

Comment Re:World of Tanks anyone? (Score 1) 669

by Optimal Cynic on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @06:23AM (#46284371) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Yep, I love WoT. I've got nine tier X and I'm saving up credits for number 10 while it's on special.

Comment CN (Score 3, Funny) 112

by Optimal Cynic on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:57AM (#46218099) Attached to: IBM Employees Caught Editing Wikipedia

"(if less entertaining)" [citation needed]

Comment Re:Umm, guys... (Score 4, Funny) 212

by Optimal Cynic on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:42AM (#46217929) Attached to: Para Bellum Labs Will Attempt To Make the RNC a Political-Analytics Player

"Ante bellum" was just a bit too obvious so they went with something a bit obfuscated.

Comment Re:But we weren't there so SEE... (Score 1) 120

by Optimal Cynic on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:52PM (#46203145) Attached to: Britain's Eastern Coast Yields Oldest Human Footprints Outside Africa

http://abstractfactory.blogspo...

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