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• Nov 13, 2014 @ 04:02pm

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  on UK's Home Secretary Says Terrorists Will Be The Real Winners If Country's Cell Coverage Dead Zones Are Fixed

  Zombies can't use cell phones.

• Oct 27, 2014 @ 01:54pm

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  on Guidelines On Who Might Be Suspicious: Too Nervous? Too Calm? Blending In? Standing Out? It's All Suspicious

  ..the TSA officers..

• Aug 20, 2014 @ 03:49pm

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  on There's A Reasonable Debate To Be Had About Showing The James Foley Beheading Video, But Claiming Its Illegal To Watch Is Ridiculous

  Later they added: "Don't worry, we will find something to charge you with."
  
  ..by looking through your last 10 years of emails and phone calls.

• Aug 06, 2014 @ 03:07pm

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  on President Obama Says He's Against Fast Lanes On The Internet, But FCC Proposal Would Allow Them

  What about fast pipes and slow pipes?!

• Aug 06, 2014 @ 03:01pm

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  on Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  Exactly. Who puts a £5000 camera down and turns their back with monkies about? Has he not seen Monkey Trouble?

• Jul 30, 2014 @ 07:19pm

  Re: Re: Easy to beat

  on Keith Alexander: I'm Worth $1 Million Per Month Because I'm Patenting A Way To Stop Hackers (Which I Didn't Tell The NSA)

  Then put it on the internet and get another patent!

• Jul 30, 2014 @ 04:13pm

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  on 24 Hours Left To Support Our Crowdfunding Campaign On Net Neutrality: Now With Stretch Goals

  New stretch goal:
  
  $80,000 - To avoid ever having to see the Dark Helmet thong-back bikini calendar.

• Jul 28, 2014 @ 03:37pm

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  on Spain Likely To Pass 'Google Tax'; Makes Paying For News Snippets An 'Inalienable Right' And A New Bureaucracy To Collect It

  And then maybe the federal government will be able to start fixing your bridges!

• Jul 17, 2014 @ 03:24pm

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  on Copyright Office To Aereo: Quack All You Want, We Don't Think You're A Cable Service

  Go tell their parents then.

• Jul 15, 2014 @ 07:16pm

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  on Techdirt's Comments To The FCC On Net Neutrality And Preserving An Open Internet

  Pot...Kettle.

• Jul 14, 2014 @ 03:55pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Efficiency isn't always the most valuable thing in the world

  on France Passes Anti-Amazon Law Eliminating Free Shipping; Amazon Responds With 0.01 Euro Shipping Fees

  Jobs are changing, sure.
  
  This.
  
  I don't know why it's so hard for some people to understand. Maybe the booksellers don't find new jobs straight away but most likely someone else somewhere does so only because of the closure of book stores.

• Jul 08, 2014 @ 04:05pm

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  on DHS Cites 'Credible Threat' As Reason For Forcing Travelers To The US To Hand Over Powered-Up Devices To Airport Security

  +1 for getting to talk about ghetto blasters.

• Jul 07, 2014 @ 02:37pm

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  on Want In-Depth Coverage Of Net Neutrality? Crowdfund Our Reporting – And Double Your Impact

  Worked for me in NZ.

• Jun 26, 2014 @ 02:12pm

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  on Australian Police Confiscate Pastafarian Man's Guns Because He Posed For His ID Card Wearing A Colander

  ..as it is in all sane countries.

• Jun 24, 2014 @ 09:12pm

  Re: Moral of the story

  on Pro Tip: If You're Going To Break And Enter Someone's Home, Don't Log Into Your Facebook

  I agree. Facebook did not go far enough in protecting Wigs privacy.

• Jun 09, 2014 @ 03:26pm

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  on No, A 'Supercomputer' Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better

  He's not from Russia...yet.

• Jun 03, 2014 @ 03:26pm

  Re: How long before we learn...

  on Everyone Go Crazy: Prepare To Blame The Internet For Murder-Inducing Ghost Stories

  Maybe Google could remove all the crazy from the internet.
  
  The right to not have to read crazy person rants.

• Jun 03, 2014 @ 03:26pm

  Re: How long before we learn...

  on Everyone Go Crazy: Prepare To Blame The Internet For Murder-Inducing Ghost Stories

  Maybe Google could remove all the crazy from the internet.
  
  The right to not have to read crazy person rants.

• May 20, 2014 @ 02:25pm

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  on Google Trademark Bullies Obviously Non-Commercial Parody Site

  Damned if you do, damned if you don't..
  
  Figures.

• May 11, 2014 @ 05:17pm

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  on UK Parliament Finally Admits That Snowden Revelations Reveal That GCHQ Oversight Is Broken

  Why do you think they are arse holes?

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