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  1. Re:Prior Art on Microsoft Patents the Mother of All Adware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apart from Google can't make it an integral part of your Operating system.

  2. Re:Bzzt! Wrong. on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    I agree with H2 on this. An innate fear would be something that's correct along the whole board ie, all cats are afraid of dogs, all humans are afraid of fire etc.

    To suggest that fears are passed along as a genetic trait is a very weird suggestion. Are you saying that either you or their mother has a genetic fear of Vacuum cleaners, a moderately new invention?

  3. Re:PHYSICS: Why skin tight may be a bad idea on MIT Team Designs a New, Sleek, Skintight Spacesuit · · Score: 1

    So, inside the capsule, you're facing 32 Psi minus the 16 psi pushing out from inside you, so you're only against the 16 psi tension of the suit. I imagine it's like breathing with an ace bandage (or, like, a bra) around your chest - more difficult but certainly not impossible. To have that kind of experiance or comparison, I have to assume you're a cross-dressing Astronaut.
  4. Re:this is news? on Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America · · Score: 2, Funny

    I keep a normal life on my CC, metrocard, etc. but I also keep cash in a shoebox along with a cash only metrocard in the event I need to escape. Along with your three different passports under different names etc.
    Bond, is that you? Shouldn't you be posting anonymously?
  5. Re:Sony is back to square 1 on Microsoft Readies Cheaper 360 · · Score: 1

    And we could make it so that you can program your own content, and people could buy it! With fake money from a currency exchange.. I'm suprised no-one thought of this before.
    Oh... wait..
    Having a bunch of people dressed up as Furries, Footballers etc would be terrible. It'd be like if Salvadore Dali and Stanley Kubrick had a child, beat the child, made him into a game programmer and gave him LSD.

  6. Re:no zfs. no gpl 3 on Linux 2.6.22 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Linux has been crafted from so many hands, some of them now dead, GPL3 looks highly unlikely for Linux. That and Linus' dislike of the GPL3.

  7. Re:Why not ignore it. on Dell Warns of Vista Upgrade Challenges · · Score: 1

    I'm curious, do you dual-boot into XP? Because I've never really seen the need to have anything more than my Nvidia 6600 GT, which can run Beryl etc, so why would you need a 8800 GTX, primarily a gamers card? Trying to set up Ubuntu for most commercial games is too much of a pain for me to consider, so I dual-boot into a small XP partition. How I wish I could free myself from the XP partiion without hastle. Bring on ReactOS.

  8. Re:Next.. on UK Proposal To Restrict Internet Pornography Sparks Row · · Score: 1

    You like the ring of it?

    I see what you did there.

  9. Re:ok answer this question. on UK Proposal To Restrict Internet Pornography Sparks Row · · Score: 1

    So, if it's a foregone conclusion, what do you think suppressing and jailing the BDSM community will do for everyone? I hear they like that.
  10. Re:Guess I'm too young on The Mainframe Still Lives! · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightning?
    [Galileo?]

  11. Re:I was worried about this on Singles, Not Albums, Define Music Industry Success · · Score: 1

    For a great concept band and album, listen to Armor for Sleep, especially their "What to do when you are Dead" album. It's a concept album, with 12 songs, starting with a mans suicide. Then each song after that travels through his experiance of his death, and what brought him upto that moment. It's a really fantastic concept album, that unravels with each track. It also uses the "5 stages of grief" model, with denial, anger, bargaining etc.

    It's the best new concept album I've heard, and it's a fantastic story.

  12. Re:sounds good to me on Auction Site To Sell Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Yeah because until now, all the nefarious companies who are evil enough to release a "Resident Evil" type scenario upon the world havn't been able to hire "In-House" developers, and this "eBugBay" just answers their dreams.

  13. Re:Wrong conservation law on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 1

    My last name is Slack, you insensitive clod!

    No seriously. It is. And my parents created me.

  14. Re:uh oh.... on MPAA Sets Up Fake Site to Catch Pirates · · Score: 1

    Apart from it's not stolen. It's the equivalent of someone giving you a flyer which leads you down to an ally with various items, and then you proceed to copy it. You're not depriving someone of the item, you're making a copy of it.

  15. Re:Not so Definitely on Autism Reversed in Mice at MIT Lab · · Score: 1

    Actually, he was a gifted student before he got Lou Gehrig's disease.

    Also, after finding out he had the disease, he didn't see much point in getting a PhD and was going to drop out of Cambridge University, until he married his first wife. So if it wasn't for his social relationships, he probably wouldn't have found the will to continue on with his amazing career.

  16. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And yet, we're still humbled by simple virus and bacteria. Sure, we've defeated some of them, but they still kill many people. So sure you can shoot a bird, but you can also die from disease, spread my microscopic, simple and basic organisms.

  17. Re:what you just said can be turned on its head on Internet Defamation Suit Tests Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    On a mildly related note, I beleive that here in the UK, you're entitled to know why you weren't offered a job.

    I'm not sure how widely it is practiced, but I think that you can.

  18. Re:hmm on EA Reorganizes Into Four Labels · · Score: 1

    But Madden is a huge franchise. Kind of like Mario. Everybody loves Madden.

    Don't tell me you've never played Madden: Commentator Pro 2008?

    I personally can't wait for EA Sports Imus NCAA 2007, with racial overtones.

  19. Re:Gears of War on Games They'd Like Us To Forget · · Score: 1

    If Gears of War seriously is the worst game you've ever played, I think you're damn lucky.

    I think Gears of War is one of the best FPSes. I can't really testify to the multiplayer, but having played it single player and co-operative with friends, it really is a fantastic game.

    But considering you've gone AC, you're probably just trolling for flames.

  20. UK Health care on Michael Moore's New Film Leaked To BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    People are saying that the UK health system isn't perfect, and you can be damn sure they're right.
    HOWEVER - You don't HAVE to use it. We have private health care, too. But what the NHS does provide is a health care service for people that wouldn't be able to pay for it, elsewise.
    People may (and have) argue "Well why would I pay tax that goes towards the NHS if I'm also paying for Private Health care?" But again, I think a free health service is vital for the well-being of the country. Also, our taxes cover the fire service, which I have never had to call.

    So don't think the ONLY option in the UK is to use the NHS, there's private options, too.

  21. Re:Hidden easter eggs? on Bioware MMOG Likely Slated for 2009 · · Score: 1

    The Original Asherons Call had a very good Magic crafting technique.

    It involved between 4-6 components which you threw together then tried to create a spell. Each component had a specific job, like the scarab decided what level the spell was, another chemical component would decide what 'energy' the spell used. For example, cobalt would use frost/water, cinnabar would use fire. Then there was a herb which decided how the spell was fired. Hawthorne was used to create a "Ball", so if you used a bronze scarab with cinnabar and hawthorne, you'd get a Level 2 Fire Ball spell. It was pretty complex, and in the end most of the magic spells were mapped out on websites so people didn't have to figure them out etc, apart from the REALLY high level spells, where the use of candles was randomized per person.

    But Asherons Call 1 had the best skill/magic system of any MMORPG, ever.

  22. Anyone else see a hole in this? on Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds · · Score: 1

    I know this is an old thread, but if it really DID work, why would he need investment? Surely he could get himself to invest in a few choice stocks or bet etc.
    My logic is infallible!

  23. Re:probably NoScript on Gaping Holes In Fully Patched IE7, Firefox 2 · · Score: 1

    I've got the solution. Make a Sudo-esque command which means they have to enter a password to run a certain thing, such as Javascript, but don't accept any password they give. At all. Ever.
    Bam! Problem solved. People won't be able to mess up their computers that way.. bwahahaha.

  24. Re:Why on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 1

    I can't really think of a good argument that the Scientologists are any worse. And they're mostly harmless, which is more than you can say for those other guys.
    They've killed people. Let me capitalize on that - they've ended peoples lives, because they were a threat to them. They let a woman in their care die from severe dehydration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_McPherson
    They are anything but harmless. They swindle, lie and cheat. They oppress peoples rights to free speech with their gung ho lawsuits.
  25. Re:Total BS! on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    My Christian friend loves it. But then again, she's a bit more liberal than most. I think people do overlook Liberal Christians, and only hear the voices that cry louder than anyone else, the conservative Christians.