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  1. Seriously? on WordLogic Patented the Predictive Interface · · Score: 3, Funny

    The I-Phone? Does it work with MACS?

  2. Holes for Tubes on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    Everyone is just misunderstanding what was going on here. Bullets were the easiest way to make holes for the new tubes L3 was going to use to expand their intertube structure.

  3. Nerds on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    So...nerds don't get laid much. Who'd'a thunk it?

  4. And the *real* WTF is... on Intern Loses 800,000 Social Security Numbers · · Score: 1

    Wait, whoops, wrong website.

  5. Re:US Patent office should pay compensation on U.S. Bans Some Cellphones For Patent Reasons · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If not for someone working-around the Wright Brother's patents, jets would be using "wing warping" instead of "flaps." I hate to nitpick, but wing warping in a biplane controls the roll of the aircraft. Flaps provide additional lift and reduce the stall speed of an aircraft. The word you were looking for was "aileron". See: Wing Warping vs. Aileron vs. Flaps.
  6. No Howard Shore Soundtrack? on Lord of the Rings Online Review · · Score: 1

    I think the lack of the instantly-recognizable soundtrack from the Peter Jackson films will be a turn-off for many. Its presence would add greatly to the sense of familiarity and belonging that helps beginners get used to the game and coax players of other games to try it.

    Of course, I realize that for a game, the Shore soundtrack alone would be insufficient to cover all situations and nuances of gameplay, but its complete absence is, I must say, rather astonishing.

  7. Re:Real concern on Google Street View Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    See, this is bogus. If it was me in that window, dowing something I didn't want anyone to see, I'd have shut my blinds. Problem solved.

  8. Re:Onions make me teary... on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: 1

    Well, crap. I read TFA but not TFThread. I've been beaten to the lawsu^H^H^H^H^Hpunch.

  9. Onions make me teary... on RIAA Seeks Royalties From Radio · · Score: 1

    It's kind of sad, I would say, when life imitates The Onion.

  10. Re:FireFox is a huge resource hog on Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way? · · Score: 1

    I agree with you completely on the "kids these days can't code" notion.

    Spinning Pizza of Death, though? Where on earth can I get a pizza that looks like that?

  11. Efficiency? Pshaw! on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    Oh, forget CFL's or even incandescent lights. I have recently discovered the awesomeness that are oil lamps. Incredibly dim, incredibly wasteful, and they make me feel oh-so-1700's. It's the kind of lighting the Founding Fathers would have chosen!

  12. Re:Yes, exactly - limit WoW on Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds · · Score: 1

    That whooshing sound was the sound of you missing the joke.

    Regardless, blindly flailing about and arbitrarily restricting or throttling certain types of traffic is simply not the correct manner in which copyright protection should be pursued. It's throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

  13. Re:Simply limit bittorrent? on Congress to Fight Piracy with Education Funds · · Score: 1

    Shut off BitTorrent and you'll seriously aggravate all the WoW players on campus when Blizzard releases an update. Their update downloader uses torrenting to increase speeds.

    Blocking protocols is a wrongheaded way to approach this kind of issue.

  14. Re:540 kilograms of rain... on Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can. Evidently you don't know your own metric system, or just wanted to be "cool" by taking a potshot at the Slashdot crowd, but 1 kilogram of water takes up 1 liter of volume. The two are effectively interchangeable in this instance and given that we're dealing with rocketry here, qualifying quantity by weight rather than volume is more relevant.