* Posts by JustWondering

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WORLD CUP SHOCK: England declared winner in 2-1 defeat to Italy

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Joke

I heard ...

...that the English team visited an orphanage in Brazil. "It's heartbreaking to see their sad little faces with no hope" said Jose, age six.

FTC seeks DEFCON help to finger illegal robocallers

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Happy

Honeypot for robocalls?

Hasn't the telephone already been invented?

The cute things they say

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Facepalm

Not much hope

As long as the first thing I have to do with someone else's malfunctioning hardware is make sure it is plugged into a live socket, I won't be much surprised by what they say.

Google's driverless car: It'll just block our roads. It's the worst

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Re: Platooooooon - HALT!

I Like Heckling: "Drivers should be focused on the vehicle in front at lights, it's down to the person at the front of the queue to be aware of when the lights change."

How about everyone in the queue pay attention to the light, and also the car in front of them?

Titsup Russian rocket EXPLODES, destroys $275m telly satellite

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Unhappy

Uh-oh

It doesn't look good for the Eastern Ukraine. Putin will be looking for something to help restore his image.

US Supreme Court to decide if cops can search mobes without a warrant

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Meh

No big deal

I don't see the police stopping the practice, even if they get an unfavorable decision. All this decision will do is establish whether what they find is admissible in court.

Grad student creates world's thinnest wires – just three atoms wide

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Happy

Gosh!

I'll bet he won the Science Fair with that one.

Systems meltdown plunges US immigration courts into pen-and-paper stone age

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WTF?

Really?

Two weeks to ship it seven miles? They must be using the US postal service.

Internet is a tool of Satan that destroys belief, study claims

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Happy

Really?

What's that? Education and information are cutting down on cult members?

Eco-friendly fluid keeps SGI supercomputer cool and moist

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Pint

Excuse me ...

Would that work for beer?

How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example

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Pirate

Pay for XP?

I'm as open as anyone to new ideas but ...

Tornado-chasing stealth Batmobile set to invade killer vortices

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Happy

Well ...

... at the very least, this could improve the species. I'm sure the folks at the Darwin Awards will be monitoring this project.

GRAV WAVE TSUNAMI boffinry BONANZA – the aftershock of the universe's Big Bang

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Pint

Well, I've thought about this and ...

OW!! Beer me!

Not sure if you're STILL running Windows XP? AmIRunningXP.com to the rescue!

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Facepalm

Upgrade

Those unaware of which OS they might be running should be prompted to upgrade to the Etch-a-Sketch tablet. To reboot, just turn it upside down and shake it.

Woman claims she was assaulted in Google Glass 'HATE CRIME'

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Re: Strange comments here...

As long as you don't mind the possibility of being assaulted, you can be in the right any time you want. But don't expect much sympathy when umbrage is taken. Say by a person on a date with a person not their spouse. Or perhaps an independent entrepreneur dispensing joy. Or someone that just doesn't like having their picture taken. Seedy bars are one of the best places to find these types of people.

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Re: Good show!

Actually, any method of recording can cause problems in seedy bars.

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They may the least likely suspects but they are definitely the most annoying.

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Happy

Really?

""I am always going to wear them now," "

Maybe she should line up a proctologist now instead of later when she'll be in a hurry.

New FBI boss says cyber crime, not terrorism, is top of Feds' todo list

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April first already?

" But the internet is safe in the FBI's hands, he promised."

LOL!! That's the advantage real life has over fiction; real life doesn't have to be plausible.

Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning the devout from Mars One 'suicide' mission

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Hmmm ...

If a death warrant is issued, does that mean the assassin would take the next flight?

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WTF?

No kidding

"There is a possibility that an individual who travels to planet Mars may not be able to remain alive there, and is more vulnerable to death."

Funny that this doesn't stop suicide bombers.

Wanna change the world but need cash? Fret not: Billionaire Eric Schmidt has some spare change

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Underwhelmed

The guy has $8.3B and he is giving $1M? Did he find this in his couch?

Put me down for cheap publicity ploy.

Imprisoned Norwegian mass murderer says PlayStation 2 is 'KILLING HIM'

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Sure thing mate.

My unofficial response is "F*ck off". Give him nothing but a deck of cards with three missing.

IT'S ALIVE! China's Jade Rabbit rover RETURNS from the DEAD

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Happy

It's alive!

Get those engineers back from "motivational therapy".

China confirms Jade Rabbit lunar rover has conked out

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Happy

No worries!

A short stay in a motivational camp for the engineers and I'm sure the next effort will be successful.

Canadian spookhaus says airport Wi-Fi slurp didn't invade privacy

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If we are doing as well as we are, our current government deserves no credit. We are still stuck with the "If you aren't with us, you are with the child pornographers" crowd. It is because of citizens that we still have the illusion of privacy.

Ex-NSA guru builds $4m encrypted email biz - but its nemesis right now is control-C, control-V

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Meh

As far as I can see, the only people that would trust this guy with their emails are those who don't really care who sees them, obviating the need for this service.

That's one of the problems of hanging out with a poor crowd when you are younger, your reputation follows you.

Mystery 'doughnut' materializes in front of Mars rover: 'OH MY GOD! It wasn't there before!'

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Happy

Excuse me

Why is no one concerned that it appears this rock is resting in an area covered with paving stones?

Amazon patents caches for physical goods

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Re: Errr this is not new

Weren't there people hundreds of years ago doing this? I believe the term for them was pedlars. Horse or donkey and a wagon.

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Re: How is this an invention?

Drone deliveries? Out here in the colonies, we're calling that skeet shooting with prizes.

Antarctic ice shelf melt 'lowest ever recorded, global warming is not eroding it'

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Re: Lest we forget

Indeed! It's strange their models didn't predict this.

JAILBREAK! US smut spam king Kilbride flees minimum security prison

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WTF?

Do the math

If he was sentenced to six years in Oct of 2007, maybe he thought his sentence was over. I know I would. Any ideas why he was apparently doing eight years?

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Re: Confused about time frames

According to the original story for which a link was provided, the two vermin were sentenced in 2007.

Parents can hide abortion, contraception advice from kids, thanks to BT's SEX-ED web block

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If you are going to give in to all of your children's demands, I can see why you want the government involved.

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Re: "tasteless" jokes

Government related tasteless joke? Over here in the colonies, the mayor of our largest city is Rob Ford. You may have heard of him.

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... or the product thereof.

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FAIL

Keep them dumb

I guess the concern is that if kids have access to accurate information, they will find out sooner that what their parent have been telling them is at variance with reality.

Google: Surge in pressure from govts to DELETE CHUNKS of the web

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Re: Does anyone else take issue with that wording?

I would feel a lot better if they had said, "when forced to by the law".

HOLD THE PHONE, NSA! Judge bans 'Orwellian' US cellphone records slurp

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Meh

I'll bet!

Now that the NSA has been suitably chastened they will cease and desist from any further behavior of this sort. Sure they will. /sarc

Drawers full of different chargers? The IEC has a one-plug-to-rule-them-all

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Joke

Ummm ...

The solution is you buy another charger?

Bitcoin cred boosted by $25m cash infusion into Coinbase

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I dunno

This sounds like an ePonzi scheme to me

Bitcoin value breaks $1,000 barrier in FRENZIED HYPEGASM

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Meh

Re: Value

The only reasons I can see for bitcoins is to buy dope or get your data back. Right now, touch wood, I need neither.

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Meh

I find the government script dodgy enough. A "currency" that has increased its value by a factor of five in six months? I don't think so. Where do you go to throw a brick through their window when it goes sideways?

'Best known female architect' angrily defends gigantic vagina

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Happy

Just maybe

One can only hope the G spot is clearly labeled for a change.

HEADS UP, text-flinging drivers! A cop in a huge SUV is snooping on you

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Unhappy

Just Sayin'

First off, texters are a menace. But holding your phone to talk is no more hazardous than hands free. It is the talking and listening that distracts the driver.

It's no surprise people can't drive when distracted. They can't drive at the best of times. Where I am, the education and testing is a sham; a joke. Around the block, parallel park and you are unleashed on an unsuspecting public.

Obamacare website 'either hacked or will be soon', warns infosec expert

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Really!

It's bad enough when the government has all this information about their citizens without finding out they're not very good at retaining it. Who does the government think they are? A credit card company?

SECRET draft copyright treaty LEAKED: Meet the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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WTF?

Wait a sec ...

"including “biological processes for the production of plants and animals.”"

They are going to patent screwing?

Denver robocops fit Nasal Ranger to perceive potent pot puffing pollution

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What the ...

I thought one of the benefits of legalization would be that the police could spend more time fighting crime. Will police with this apparatus be spending their time lurking outside of windows? Of course, if they can make $2000 a time ... how many speeding tickets is that?

Will this affect the usual festivities on April 20?

FLIGHTMARE! Inflight cell calling debuts, dealing heavy blow to quality of life

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Happy

Boost for business

I'll bet proctologists can't wait for the boost in business.

Smut-spreading copyright trolls told to return cash extracted from victims

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Pirate

Huh!

So, who are the pirates here?

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