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  1. Re:huh? on Famitsu For Beginners · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My Grandfathers didn't fight in WWII so I could learn Japanese. They fought so they Japanese would learn English.

  2. huh? on Famitsu For Beginners · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What good is a magazine i cant read? Am i suppose to just look at the pictures?

  3. Remember.. on The Dangers of Improper Cookie Use · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cookies go in the mouth not the nose.

  4. Re:Guys like you need to "emerge" from Ai. on I, Nanobot — Bionanotechnology is Coming · · Score: 1

    Life creates the very abstractions you are thinking about. You create them, when you think them. Abstractions don't create you, and abstractions don't create life.

    Sorry to break it too you but your a machine and your brain is a computer. Your thinking too abstractly. A computer is just the result of interactions between protons, neutrons, electrons, etc. Just like your brain, and everything else in the universe. You believe in god dont you?

  5. Re:Ah... on Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even assuming the cost of damages from malware exceeds the money spent on anti-malware doesnt mean the damages are ending up in someones pocket. If a company is crippled for days it may cost them millions but the person responsible for the damages doesnt necessarily get anything. Just as with spam. If you send out 100 million spam emails and make $10,000 the loss in productivity likely exceeds $10,000.

  6. Good Idea But... on China Readies Royalty-Free DVD Format · · Score: 1

    Even if 25% of the installed dvd players supported this it wouldnt be enough for many companies to release products using the format. I would however love to see a royalty free format. Every time I buy a dvd player, dvd software, or even a movie im paying a royalty. Enough is enough. They should focus on a next generation format. With their large percentage of the manufacturing base, they could have a lot influence. I cant believe im on China's side for once.

  7. Re:You'll shoot your eye out! on Equipment for A Perfect General Lab? · · Score: 1

    I'm currently getting a Fluke 43b meter to be the primary testing equipment and will be wiring the entire lab to every possible variation of AC and DC voltage.

    A knowlegeable person in the field would likely not have said this. This sentance implies to me that you're not old enough and mature enough to work with dangerous voltage & currents. Knowlege in electronics is a noble persuit. Be aware that it can be lethal.


    Yes everyone knows the pros use the Fluke 211g. Makes the 43b look like a toaster.

  8. Re:Ah... on Vista Zero-Day Exploit For Sale · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I dont think its that obvious. There are a lot of people out there that pay for security software. Not to mention the large corporations that spend millions on it. Not even mentioning the tech support jobs created to combat spam and hackers.

  9. Re:So the question is on The Unfriendly Side of German Game Development · · Score: 1

    They even raided the nearby private residences

    Germany has a complex over the whole Third Reich thing

    Raiding your neighbors for what you've done sounds like the Third Reich. Nevermind getting raided by sub-machine gun totting gestapo for making video games involving gun violence.

  10. Re:they've pretty much proven.. on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1

    If the terrorists get a hold of this information they could buy stock in the most reliable cell company and make millions. Then they'd have plenty of money for their nefarious deeds, duh.

  11. Re:Free Hans on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 1

    2 of us would sit in the passenger seat and one of us would sit/lay on the shelf behind the seats. Might not be legal, but we lived. -J

    You're lucky you lived!

  12. 0---- on Map of the Internet · · Score: 1

    You are Here. 0-----

  13. Re:Free Hans on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 1

    The CRX is a two seater. He couldn't fit two kids in the first place.

  14. Re:If you've ever seen how fast a fire moves... on Arson Science Rewritten · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know there was a case a few years ago where an "arsonist" in TX was executed for having killed his family, and within less than a year it was established that he was innocent.

    What? An innocent man was executed in Texas? I highly doubt that.

  15. Re:Lots More Pictures on NASA Finds Evidence of Recent Flowing Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    Of course, there are some pics that I wouldn't mind a little more investigation on. I happen to be interested in something I call Gulliver's Golf Ball, something that looks like a perfect sphere, roughly 200 meters across.

    heres an explanation http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/0503 29domedcraters.htm

    and http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/0511 16domes.htm

  16. Oblig on VOIP to be Made Illegal in India · · Score: 4, Funny

    If VOIP is illegal, only criminals will have VOIP.

  17. shed light on Solar Probe Films Plasma Loops, Sunspots in Action · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would you want to shed light on the sun?

  18. So this means... on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 1

    the aliens gave them cement trucks?

  19. Halliburton on New Email Rules Effective Friday · · Score: 1

    James Wright, director of electronic discovery at Halliburton Co.

    Is Halliburton getting sued so often they need a director of electronic discovery? I wonder how many people work in that department.

  20. Proprietary on Traveling with Too Many Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Companies like to make these proprietary connectors so they can sell you overpriced chargers, cables, etc.