Comment Will it burn? (Score 1, Funny) 89
Also the scientific method of formulating a hypothesis and performing an experiment to test it.
Comment ya'll a bunch of lazy slobs! (Score -1) 275
I can't help but notice that Wikipedia STILL doesn't have a list of people Neil Armstrong has punched.
Comment bald-faced blue-planet invader propeganda (Score 1) 25
I won't believe it until I read the official statement from K'breel, leader of the council.
Comment Re:So Alice kills Trolls and Zombies (Score 2) 92
If some guy named Bob plays a part in getting Citizens United overturned, you have proof that you are a character if a poorly-written novel.
NASA Inspector General Lobs Big Rocks At Agency's Asteroid Hunting Program 35
coondoggie writes Lack of money, management structure and staff are hampering NASA's ability to effectively identify and track comets, meteorites and asteroids that might threaten Earth. The space agency's Inspector General, Paul Martin, issued a scathing report this week that said while NASA's Near Earth Object program has done substantial work in identifying the sometimes massive rocks hurtling around the planet it is substantially behind in its goal of cataloging 90% of those 140 meters in diameter by 2020, among other issues.
ULA and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Announce Rocket Engine Partnership 19
An anonymous reader writes During an event at the National Press Club, Bezos announced an agreement with Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to continue development of a new rocket engine for ULA's Atlas and Delta rocket lines. From the article: "Called BE-4, the engine has been in the works at Blue Origin for three years and is currently in testing at the company's West Texas facilities. ULA, founded in 2006, has supplied rockets to the US Department of Defense and NASA and will now co-fund the BE-4 project to accelerate its completion. The agreement is for a four-year development process with testing slated for 2016 and flight in 2019."
Comment Re:Simple set of pipelined utilties! (Score 4, Funny) 385
hokey philosophies and ancient pipelines are no match for a modern java GUI IDE
-- Han Slowmo, Unix Wars, episode IV
Comment Romanes eunt domus (Score 1) 73
In all fairness, the Romes did get those guys to relinquish power, it just usually it was sort of a bumpy transition. :-p
Comment let's get Swiftian on their asses! (Score 1) 243
here's my counter-offer :
Internet is FREE (as in beer and as in born) and you jugheads pay US for the privilege of presenting advertisements for our consideration.
Internet is FREE (as in beer and as in born) and you jugheads pay US for the privilege of presenting advertisements for our consideration.
Comment "PC load jibs?!! WTF DOES THAT MEAN?!!" (Score 1) 92
No, John. You are the DDoS zombies.
Comment I find your troll verbose (Score 2) 418
The canonical troll for all 21st century privacy stories is:
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide.
-- some glib goddamned fascist, probably Benjamin Franklin
Comment oh noes (Score 1) 210
Your computer has performed an illegal operation
You owe a civil fine of $150, please to be sending to me C/O the Prince of Nigeria or I will have to be sending the police to your house.
Comment I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find gambling here.... (Score 4, Insightful) 462
everybody knows that in a banana republic the cops are all corrupt and will rip you off.
Just ask John McAfee.
Why are the Canadians surprised by this fact?
Just ask John McAfee.
Why are the Canadians surprised by this fact?
Comment what a lazy jerk (Score 4, Funny) 140
pheh! what a piker, you mean to tell me me didn't convert a bulldozer into an improvised tank, rampage across town and knock down city hall?![1]
Hell, he couldn't even bother enough to steal a tank.[2]
[1,2] Both of these things actually happened. And they weren't even in Florida. Look it up.
Hell, he couldn't even bother enough to steal a tank.[2]
[1,2] Both of these things actually happened. And they weren't even in Florida. Look it up.
Comment you forgot Poland (Score 1) 405
trademark abuse like this makes me want to abuse heroin
