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  1. Re:Europa? on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    It's funny when Eurotrash tries to make an American look uneducated and only succeeds in revealing their own lack of culture.

    Here's a hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010:_Odyssey_Two

    1) I'm neither European nor American.
    2) The 2010 quote is not to land on Europa.
    3) I got the 2001 quote. I noticed the 2001 album in A Clockwork Orange. I still think that Saturn was the "right" planet. I've got a monolith on my doorpost.
    4) You confuse my lack of culture for your lack of integrity in your own.

  2. Re:I dont know what is an 'oops' situation if this on Google Slams Viacom For Secret YouTube Uploads · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    isnt one.

    A wedding picture with the tampoon string hanging out. Definite oops. Or this.

  3. Re:Proof he owns the moon. on Lord British's Lost Lunar Rover Found, After 37 Years · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid, I threw a rock so high it didn't come down. I'm pretty sure it landed on the moon.

    You owe me a window since 1977.

  4. Re:Europa? on Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice · · Score: 1

    I thought we were not allowed to explore Europa?

    You are aware that those Yuropeeins discovered America, right?

  5. Re:Medical... on Why Are Digital Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Also, perhaps pass a law that it's illegal for a third party payer (including medicare) to include contract clauses that restrict the provider's ability to set rates for other patients not covered by that third party. Thus, providers would be free to offer whatever deal they wanted to individual consumers.

    Just image what the software world would look like today if that were illegal in all fields.

  6. Re:Time Travel? on The Dark Side of the Web · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If someone asks you when you were born, you don't say:
    "1964, 22nd, May", you say, "May 22nd, 1964" - which is the American format. Enough.

    I would say the 22nd of May, 1964.

    When someone asks you for the time, do you tell him in HH:SS:MM format? The units must be ordered either from least to most significant (dd-mm-yyyy) or most to least significant (yyyy-mm-dd). I don't care which you chose. But don't put the least significant unit in _the_middle_!!!

    See this horrible Open Office bug on the subject:
    http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5556

  7. Re:I hope it's optional in settings on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 1

    Maybe she saw a flashy ad? The salesman told her she needs one? It was a gift?

  8. Re:YRO on Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out · · Score: 2, Funny

    Botnets are NOT content.

    They are after a cigarette.

  9. Re:More Google Control on Google Opens Apps Marketplace · · Score: 1

    This is seen as Google's competitors are well represented in the Google Apps Marketplace, such as Zoho.

  10. Re:Link to the marketplace. on Google Opens Apps Marketplace · · Score: 1

    They call this a mobile app marketplace ?

    No, this will be the Synaptic of Chrome OS. They are getting the bugs out, and more software in, before the OS is launched.

  11. Re:Always Innovating on Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP.
    I had not considered sucking it up, but now that I'm sucking I feel so much better about myself. Thanks!

  12. Re:Just be careful with their Crossover Games prod on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 1

    They sell a supported version of Wine that includes their own in-house developed tools for administering it. Sort of like what RedHat does with the Linux kernel.

  13. Re:Uh on Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked · · Score: 4, Informative

    You mean this:
    http://xkcd.com/240/

  14. Re:What about instrumental piano CDs? on US Eases Internet Export Rules To Iran, Sudan, Cuba · · Score: 1

    Completely off topic, I'd like to point out to other /.ers that I've requested and received the Geometric Visions disc that the parent sends. It's solo piano and although it is not my type of music, I do play it every so often to change pace. I definitely recommend picking up a copy.

    Thanks, Michael!

  15. Re:Little attention was given. Read Consumer Repor on Toyota's Engineering Process and the General Public · · Score: 1

    The last American car my parents owned was a GM.

    Toyotas are American cars too, in everything but name. They are assembled in America, and have no more foreign parts than do GM or Ford.

    By the way, I loved this quote from TFS:

    "The human motor system is not perfect, and it doesn't always do what it is told."

    Right, because Toyotas' motor systems _are_ perfect, and always do as they are told! (full throttle! faster! faster!)

  16. Re:Been a newegg.com customer for a long time on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 1

    Why is this modded troll? This is my sentiment exactly! Damn, I _have_ mod points but I've already posted a stupid joke in the thread.

  17. Re:Dropship? on Some Newegg Customers Received Fake Intel Core i7s · · Score: 1

    I can happily say that one is in Memphis, TN. Gotta love getting things next-day. :)

    Last time I was with a girl in Memphis, I also got something the next day. You Tennessee people actually _like_ that?!? I had no idea!

  18. Re:What's a Paypal? on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 1

    Pay them what you owe?!? Freeze the account! Why should the pendulum swing only one way?

  19. Re:What's a Paypal? on PayPal Freezes Cryptome's Account · · Score: 0

    Somehow an AC who cursed at you gets some +Insightful mod, and you are continually modded troll. Hell, I think you're wrong, but at least you are making a sound point that as a private business, Paypal should have the right to decide with whom they do business. But on /. business is teh evil, paypal doubleplus so.

  20. Re:shuttle may not make 2015 on Shuttle Extension & Heavy Launcher Bill Proposed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For the same reason people no longer use crossbows?

    The crossbow had successors available, which displaced the crossbow gradually. I could name three crossbow replacements, each specialized in a way that the crossbow was generalized. What Shuttle replacements/successors have you?

  21. Re:Negatively strange anti-hypernucleus? on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    Particle physicists have basically been fucking with us for years, haven't they?

    http://xkcd.com/451/

  22. Re:I hate you, Register. on First Creation of Anti-Strange Hypernuclei · · Score: 1

    A building analogy?!? Is that where one might park his car analogy?

  23. Re:Just be careful with their Crossover Games prod on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 1

    However, if you are running a 64 bit distribution, you WILL have problems...
    snip
    The issues you WILL have on a 64 bit system if you try to play a Windows game are continuous random crashes due to running out of memory.

    You mean to say that those are the issue YOU have. I don't have those issues.

    Oh, and CodeWeavers is not a re-seller of Wine. If that is what you think, then I doubt that you are even a customer of theirs. Go buy your Wine somewhere else, if that is what you think.

  24. Re:Bummer... on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sony Vegas and a couple other video editing apps.

    Write to them and ask when they will either have a native Linux port, or have Wine as a supported platform:
    http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/contacts.asp

    Seriously, do it. If they don't know that people _want_ ro run their software on Linux, then they will never port it or write it in a wine-compatible fashion.

  25. Re:Always Innovating on Asus Takes Another Stab at Revolutionizing Netbook Market · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I never heard of that device! I just tried to order one ($400 is reasonable for the model with keyboard) however they have _every_single_ country on their list except Israel. They even have the Palestinian Territories listed, so logistics is not the issue. Too bad, I would have really liked one.