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  1. Didn't you see the movie? on AT&T To Decommission Pay Phones · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now where is Superman supposed to change? Superman has been dealing with this problem since 1978 at least... Remember? He tried to change at the payphone, but found that it didn't have a full booth around it... So he came up with other places to change, like in the revolving door, and in mid-air after jumping out the window, etc...
  2. This is the application's fault, why exactly?? on Microsoft Withdraws Vista's Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    a) New version of Nero are compatible with Vista
    b) That is a problem with his version of Nero, not Vista. OS upgrades tend to break compatability with older software, be it in Ubuntu, OS X or Windows. Well, yeah, and this is certainly true on Linux. I remember the living hell I had to go through when Linux dropped the ide-scsi driver, and I suddenly needed to swap out all my CD burning programs...

    But how do you figure this is a problem with the application? I mean, don't get me wrong, here, I don't endorse backwards compatibility if it interferes with progress - but isn't the basic problem here (in both cases) that the underlying OS made some design changes which the application writers couldn't have predicted or planned for? Their API was basically pulled out from under them by a change to the OS. Doesn't that make it the OS's fault, regardless of whether it was changed for a good reason?
  3. Re:She's only beginning to read at age 6?! on DS Games for Pre-readers? · · Score: 1

    Hardy Boys at age 6? Is that all? I myself read "War and Peace" at age 5. Yeah, but what about comprehension? Some people can read "War and Peace" and think it's just an adventure story... Other people can read the list of ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper, and unlock the secrets of the universe...
  4. Re:No Mom, It's MY Wii on Why You Can't Find a Wii for Christmas · · Score: 1

    Alright, I'm crawling back into my hole. I suppose you're taking a Wii into your hole, too, right?

    ("I've seen The Exorcist a hundred and sixty seven times...")
  5. Re:No Mom, It's MY Wii on Why You Can't Find a Wii for Christmas · · Score: 3, Funny

    she'd really like a Wii.


    Well then she'd better go and have one then - it's not good for the bladder holding it in like that.


    Sorry, I was waiting for an "I'd like a Wii" statement...

    Oh, good... 'Cause, you know, that joke just gets funnier every time I hear it.

    (Dude left himself wide open, even talked about his mom wanting a Wii, and best you got is that she had to go to the toilet? I woulda been all like "watersports" and such... You know, his mom doesn't have wii she needs to get rid of, she wants it... Such a waste...)
  6. One-way ticket to Mars on First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA · · Score: 1

    There are MANY ppl on this planet that would be willing to take a 1 way ticket to Mars. You'd better think that through, man. Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids: in fact, it's cold as hell, and there's no one there to raise them if you did... (The personal history of Mr. Valentine Michael Smith notwithstanding...)
  7. Re:Its welcome back on Voyager 2 Set to Reach Termination Shock · · Score: 1

    You know, I never could understand why Vger - an artificial intelligence with almost limitless power - never managed to figure out how to clean some fucking dirt off a metal panel in order to know the proper spelling of it's own name. Well, there was a lot of dirt there. It took some elbow grease to get it off. And, limitless power or no, V'Ger didn't have any elbows.

    Oh, and it's its its its its its its its ITS ITS ITS!!!
  8. Re:Picard on Gene Study Supports Single Bering Strait Migration · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that Captain Picard time traveled back to the 15th century only to be killed by his great-great-great-great grandfather, thus completing the paradox? Wow... Seven generations in 900 years? Those Picards are seriously long-lived... I'm trying to imagine how a 120 year old Picard could get any pre-menopausal woman to have his baby...
  9. Re:It's been done on On the Process of Effecting Mass · · Score: 1

    While deftly parrying a key story point is one way to go, giving the character a name (even if restricted to Shepard) gives you even more to grab onto to pull yourself into the story. It depends. If you do too much to determine the player character's identity, then the player may lose the ability to identify with that character... while if the player is free to imagine the character however they like, they may feel more comfortable in that character's role.
  10. Re:Comedy Central? on David X. Cohen of Futurama Talks About the Movie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Comedy Central != Cartoon Network.

    The show's been on Cartoon Network for the last 7 years not Comedy Central He was talking about MST3K.

    MST3K was on Comedy Central/Comedy Channel for seven years. It's the only show to survive from the network's launch that survived that long. So it's hard to understand how someone could use MST3K as an example of Comedy Central killing off good shows quickly...

    Granted, as the show went its timeslot got shifted around, it got split up into "MST Hour" format, etc. - and then the seventh season was remarkably short... But still, it ran seven seasons. It even survived major cast changes. So, yeah, it's not a great example of Comedy Central getting a good show and killing it off "quick"...

    (As an MST3K fan it was hard to understand a decision like that when the 7th season ended - Comedy Central pulled MST3K in favor of... what, exactly? So they could run crappy low-budget unfunny Bill Maher movies? Mind you, this was when The Daily Show had just barely started and South Park hadn't. But TV shows gotta end sometime, right?)
  11. Re:|sed s/her/him/1 on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    In post-Soviet Russia, "Valeri" (vah-LAY-ri) is man's name to YOU! Damn, I really didn't check my facts. I suppose next someone's going to tell me Joel has never even been in outer space...
  12. Re:You mean "affect" on On the Process of Effecting Mass · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To 'effect' something is to make it happen, or being it into existence. Since they are creating a game called 'Mass Effect', I guess maybe they know what they are talking about after all.

    Learn what words really mean before you try to be a grammar nazi. Good god, did no one actually follow the link I provided in my post??

    whoosh....
  13. You mean "affect" on On the Process of Effecting Mass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, what is with these spellening errors. Clearly you mean is affecting...

  14. Long-term effects of spaceflight? on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you suffer any significant loss of bone mass as a result of your long-term spaceflight? (Are you aware that you currently hold the record for the longest continuous space flight? By a human I mean. Some would give that credit to Valeri Polyakov but you seem to have her beat by about four years...)

  15. Re:How's it feel when people quote decades-old jok on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    Allovertheworld!


    Hikeeba!


    MITCHELL!

    ...And some French-fried potatoes! 'Cause the giant turtle called Gamera is destroying the city! In the... Robot Holocaust.

    See also this XKCD Comic. We love when somebody does something cool, original, and funny - are we missing the point by fixating on it like this?
  16. How's it feel when people quote decades-old jokes? on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MST3K is still popular with its fans after all this time: people still watch the show, mimic it, repeat the jokes, build robots, etc. What I'd like to know is, how does that feel? Is it fun to think that people enjoyed something you did enough to stick with it after so long, or is it just strange to think that people fixate on it?

  17. Re:Rifftrax & The Film Crew on Ask MST3k Creator Joel Hodgson · · Score: 1

    What do you think about the other efforts led by Mike Nelson like Rifftrax & The Film Crew? Is there a reason that you, Pearl, TV's Frank & Dr. Forester have split from Mike, Brain Guy & Tom Servo? I'm overjoyed that there are multiple efforts but why? I think these days they go by their other names: you know, Mary Jo, Trace, Bill, Kevin, Josh, etc...
  18. The movie star... on Dan Geer On Trusting PCs In Botnets · · Score: 1

    Mixed up Robinson Crusoe and Lemuel Gulliver.

    At least I didn't get Gilligan and the Professor in the mix.

    Please, his professional name these days is "and the rest"...
  19. Re:Judges. on Judge Rules That I Own Slashdot · · Score: 1

    If you are about to have a child out of wedlock in Wisconsin and you are receiving state benefits, get married. Regardless of whether you intend to stay married or not. Get the license, have the kid and flip the State the bird as they foot the bill and get to ask for a dime back. (note: this is not legal advice!)

    -Rick Man, I love this whole mentality, which drives people to hand out legal advice, and then insist that it's not legal advice. :D
  20. Better encoding doesn't imply better videos... on High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No matter how good the encoding is, most of what you'll see on Youtube will never be "high quality video"...

    I mean, how many inane video blog rants does the world need? How many crappy video editor projects capitalizing on some weak meme, repeating the gag (with/without stutter, slow-mo, upside-down, etc.) until it has lost any hope of being at all funny? And how many poorly-produced copycats for any given video on the site?

  21. I'm not a lawyer either on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    I just wanted to add, I also am not a lawyer. Please take that statement as legal advice only to the extent that I am advising you not to rely on what I've said in legal matters.

    So if your court case depends on whether or not I am a lawyer, my advice is to not listen to what I have to say about it: you may well decide that I am a lawyer and that you should take my advice, in which case you will know that you shouldn't.

  22. Re:they assume? on Loophole in Windows Random Number Generator · · Score: 1

    Although they only checked Windows 2000, they assume that XP and Vista use similar random number generators and may also be vulnerable. The full text of the paper is available in PDF format."

    And what happens when we make assumptions? we make an ass of me, and you make more money Uh, no... When you make an assumption, you make an ass of you and Mption...
  23. Might be hard to pilot an AT with it, but... on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics · · Score: 1

    ...it's more than good enough to strangle that bastard Pailsen!

    (OK, will anybody at all get this one??)

  24. HAVA... on NY Rejects E-Voting, DOJ Trying to Force the Issue · · Score: 1

    Hava nagila venis'mecha!

  25. Re:In other news on Hard Drive Prices Hitting New Lows · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clinton remains unelectable. Hey, now, that Lewinsky chick said his election was just fine!