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Comment On the brighter side of things (Score 1) 180

by dysmal on Saturday January 31, 2015 @01:21AM (#48944935) Attached to: George R. R. Martin's "The Winds of Winter" Wiill Not Be Published In 2015

That's one more year before a Stark dies!

Comment Re:For some reason, when I first saw the headline. (Score 1) 83

by dysmal on Saturday January 17, 2015 @08:17PM (#48841817) Attached to: What Africa Really Needs To Fight Ebola

Ditto. The summary started out like one of his weekly rants.

Comment click bait (Score 0) 328

by dysmal on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @01:03PM (#48696847) Attached to: Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes

A Dice.com link from Nerval's Lobster.... THAT's never happened! Any time now we should see a post from Bennet H...

Comment My prediction (Score 1) 176

by dysmal on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @03:22PM (#48661761) Attached to: Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release

This will be the most pirated movie

Comment DMCA violation (Score 1) 360

by dysmal on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:03PM (#48655135) Attached to: North Korean Internet Is Down

You've got it all wrong. It wasn't the US or China or even PRC ineptitude that caused this. It was Sony lawyers using DMCA'ing them into the dark ages for all of those copies of Baywatch they were caught downloading.

Comment Obviously (Score 0) 68

by dysmal on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @05:39PM (#48612323) Attached to: Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars

Mars has gas!

Comment Re:Is there any competent web coders today? (Score 1) 334

by dysmal on Thursday December 04, 2014 @05:59PM (#48526171) Attached to: Aliens Are Probably Everywhere, Just Not Anywhere Nearby

I second that. Not all of us work for companies that are sophisticated enough to have wide screen monitors!

(Viewed on a Dell 19" 4:3 monitors at 1280x1024)

Comment Re:Who the fuck is Bennett Haselton (Score 1) 132

by dysmal on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:00AM (#48522067) Attached to: Twitter Should Use Random Sample Voting For Abuse Reports

Much like how Haliburton is a frequent contributor

Comment Re:the (Score 1) 50

by dysmal on Monday December 01, 2014 @12:24PM (#48498075) Attached to: Open Source Craft Brewery Shares More Than Recipes

Someone set us up the bomb!

Comment Re:First.... um... (Score 1) 152

by dysmal on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:27AM (#48472665) Attached to: Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case

I wish i had mod points so that i could mod this up!

BTW, Benny needs to go find a nice quiet field where he can ponder all of his BS he wants to "submit" to Dice... er.... /. and then take a hammer and hit himself in the face. A lot.

(NOT posted as AC)

Comment Re:Presumption of innocence vs privacy issues (Score 1) 152

by dysmal on Thursday November 27, 2014 @03:21AM (#48472645) Attached to: Clarificiation on the IP Address Security in Dropbox Case

Unfortunately (in the US) your IP address is more than enough to prove your guilt if the accusing parties happen to be the RIAA/MPAA

Comment Payment methods (Score 5, Funny) 119

by dysmal on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @02:55PM (#48412551) Attached to: US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins

Will they accept bitcoins?

Submission + - Can a kitty litter box help predict earthquakes? (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by Obscene_CNN on Monday November 17, 2014 @02:56PM

Obscene_CNN writes: Can kitty litter boxes help predict earthquakes? A company has produced a a scale that sits beneath a kitty litter box and monitors the cats activity and weight. It then can be monitored via a smartphone app. A NSF grant is using it to see if pets can predict natural disasters.

Comment Meantime in Redmond (Score 0) 132

by dysmal on Thursday November 13, 2014 @03:13PM (#48380309) Attached to: Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images

Microsoft marketing reps are crying because the media cares more about a comet surface than their Surface.

Comment Re:Big deal... (Score 1) 132

by dysmal on Thursday November 13, 2014 @03:06PM (#48380225) Attached to: Comet Probe Philae Unanchored But Stable — And Sending Back Images

If the History Channel has taught me anything in the past couple of years, whatever the puzzle is, it was Aliens.

Ten years ago, History Channel taught me it was all about Hitler

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