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  1. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate to pick on people, but seeing your command of English seems generally good here goes... irregardless is not a word. It's either "irrespective", or "regardless", not a redundant mash of the two as that would be redundant. (Yeah, that last bit was on purpose.)

    Inconceivable!

  2. Re:And yet,... on Next Gen Intel CPUs Move To Yet Another Socket · · Score: 1

    Pointing out the obvious, it was obviously not necessary to point that out.

  3. Re:I do not get it... on The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer · · Score: 1

    Are we there yet?

  4. Translation on Maybe the Aliens Are Addicted To Computer Games · · Score: 1

    Translation: Geoffrey Miller: "ZOMG, I hope we run into an alien civilization that can teach me how I can play World of Warcraft all day without having to work!"

  5. Re:First Post? on New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah if only I had mod points. Reference: Atari Video Game Burial .

  6. Re:Wrong E.T. on New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET · · Score: 1

    No, my best guess is that's its a complicated and doomed-to-fail scheme to find pirates of the ET movie.

  7. Re:Very telling post on Adobe Flash CS5 Exports Animations To HTML5 Canvas · · Score: 1

    See attachment.

  8. Re:Hmm on Scrabble To Allow Proper Nouns · · Score: 1

    Jhusd'hui.
    Pronounced exactly like you spell it.

  9. Re:Bye, bye freedom... on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    I believe you forgot: ???? Profit!

    Unfortunately, it seems that once elected, everyone soon remembers that last step, and forgets everything that came before it.

  10. Re:Why not "strangelets"? on First Collisions At the LHC · · Score: 1

    Just to provide a bit more substance

    Don't add too much - very dangerous in the case of black holes.

  11. Re:Slaves on NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System · · Score: 1

    Pubic service is voluntary. It happens by directly applying for a position, appointment, or being elected.

    That misspelling, combined with the words "position" and "elected" with an engrish slant has the potential for a great joke.

  12. Re:Dunno on Battlefield Earth Screenwriter Accepts Razzie · · Score: 1

    Just to back that up - I love bad movies - I have several Uwe Boll DVDs that I actually enjoy for their total camp bad-ness.
    Battlefield Earth is one of two movies I couldn't be bothered finishing, it's so devoid of any redeeming feature. It's on the same level as Moulin Rouge.

  13. Re:Just one more reason why Global Warming rocks! on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    Aww, come on, I'm sure Global Warming has the BEST of plans for us!

  14. Re:Cherenkov radiation on Bill Gates May Build Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    I thought that said "Infidell" for a second.
    Which somehow seemed strangely appropriate in the context.

  15. Re:Choice?! on IE Not Faring Well In the EU Ballot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When Windows doesn't work there's about +1 trillion places to go for help.

    And most of them will say "have you tried reinstalling windows yet?".

  16. Re:What good could come from invisibility? on Invisibility Cloak Created In 3-D · · Score: 1
    They might if they were invisible.

    That's the point.

  17. Re:I Am Shocked! on UMG To Price New CDs Under $10 · · Score: 1

    I understand their role in promoting and paying upfront cash for studio time but their role as publishers is leech at best.

    They only need to front studio money because they colluded with the major studios to ask for OBSCENE amounts of money for any kind of time in there. Really, it's NOT that expensive these days for acceptable quality, if you're not one of these people that absolutely wants to use 'vintage' technology for their 'warmth' and 'character'.

    For a few thousand € you can get a very acceptable recording setup and practice yourself until you get good, there are plenty of like-minded people online to give you great advice and hints, and you can still send your stuff off to a "big name" to master and/or mix it if you want to do some name-dropping.

    As far as promotion goes, if you're not Britney Spears, don't get your hopes up with a label. "Promotion" often means "we'll put your CD at the back of one of the flyers we'll send to record stores".

  18. Re:I still don't understand on Opera Sees "Dramatic" Rise From Microsoft's Ballot · · Score: 2

    Microsoft is a *convicted monopoly abuser*. They are being forced to provide a fair alternative to Internet Explorer on installation to make sure they cannot continue unfairly leveraging the monopoly they have (as decided by a court) to make IE the dominant browser.

  19. Re:This SOUNDS Like A Breakthrough! on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Typical for you Americans, always assuming the rest of world has the same Laws of Thermodynamics.

  20. Re:Oh great, Sony on I Want My GTV · · Score: 1

    With all this "beta" stuff, you'd think it was a Google product.

  21. Re:How did a 3-year old pull the trigger? on Accidental Wii Suicide · · Score: 1

    Yes it does, because roughly half of the people are of below-average intelligence.

  22. Re:Swell... on An Early Look At Civilization V · · Score: 2, Funny

    My girlfriend got me CivIV and later Beyond The Sword as gifts. She's still proud of picking them out, even after I've spent many a night staying up real late playing those games. I'll put Civ 5 on my birthday list for this year :)

  23. Re:Implement some things yourself on Whatever Happened To Programming? · · Score: 1

    The saying goes "XML is like violence. If it's not working, you're not using enough of it."

  24. Re:Glad to know... on Ubisoft's New DRM Cracked In One Day · · Score: 1

    They might be running the risk of "18 and life" too though.

  25. Re:Calculus Gang on Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control · · Score: 1

    Modern geeks would use a 20-sided die.