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  1. Re:Dangerous book w/ incomplete instructions on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    What did you do with that? Shoot a Gorn?

  2. only reasonable if on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    This is only reasonable if you consider bugs to be meat.

  3. Re:11,000 times on 700 volunteers on Heat Ray Gun Fails Final Test; Nixed From War · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Really, they needed to invent the orgasmatron ray gun. Then there would be no issues with testing and it would always be declared a success.

  4. Better overeducated than not on Too Many College Graduates? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All things considered, I'd rather have people overeducated than undereducated.

  5. Re:Student Interest Does Not Equal Employer Intere on Students Flock To GMU For a Degree In Video Game Design · · Score: 1

    I imagine that graduates of this program would have portfolio of work that they did in and outside of class, just like architecture and art students have. Those industries can evaluate people on that work, why can't the game industry?

  6. OS/2 was great on Old Operating Systems Never Die · · Score: 1

    Given the options at the time, windows 3.10 (not even 3.11), NT (expensive), solaris (even more expensive), VMS (What, am I made of money?), linux (you HAD to compile your own kernel and use insmod manually), OS/2 was a great way to get 32 bit computing. It was cheap. You could run multiple DOS instances with different memory configurations. It was marketed horribly, windows 3.11 was 'good enough' and windows 95 made it irrelevant for the common user.

  7. Fight back with outlook on Manager's Schedule vs. Maker's Schedule · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I schedule 'programming time' into outlook.

  8. I'll watch it if... on Sam Raimi To Direct World of Warcraft Movie · · Score: 1

    Leroy Jenkins is the protagonist.

  9. Not really a scientific idea on Introducing the Warpship · · Score: 1

    This is really no better fleshed out than any idea bandied about in your favorite sci-fi novel.

  10. interesting and strange and possibly useful on Google Labs Offers Table-Based Search Results · · Score: 1

    "planets" gives you the results you might expect, but not nine or even eight rows. "english queens" leads off with Edward VII. Poor Edward, I did not truly know ye. On a related note, the above query failed to include Queen Victoria, although I see at the time of posting she now appears in the drop down box. Related queries got Victoria confused with the current Crown Princess of Sweden and Victoria's Secret. A surprisingly complete result is "stargate atlantis characters". I think the way to use this is to not consider the initial result definitive, but as a starting point that can be refined.

  11. brilliant. where's my credit card? on Sony Pondering Downloadable Game Rental Service For the PSP · · Score: 1

    I would sign up for this. Most games I play have little to no replay value, such as RPGs, action/adventure. Even Loco Roco I thought I would go back to, but I don't. For me game rental is cheaper per game and per unit time. The download bit is even better since the main disadvantage with Gamefly is availability and the real mail round trip.

  12. aikido bots on Soccerbots Learn How To Fall Gracefully · · Score: 1

    In aikido, we call falling in that way "ukemi".

  13. DOD has great solutions on US Military Looks For Massive Spam Solution · · Score: 1

    Predator UAVs with Hellfire missiles. Fabulous antispam solution. Ask Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. SEAL snipers have recently proved themselves to be an amazing solution as well, providing antispam protection ship-to-ship at night.

  14. Re:buy it from North Korea or Iran on NASA Running Low On Fuel For Space Exploration · · Score: 1

    That sounds like a Star Trek episode

  15. what about the microwave pain gun? on Mariners Develop High Tech Pirate Repellents · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sounds like a perfect application. No one is really concerned about the comfort of pirates.

  16. Vortalgate? on Portugal's Vortalgate — No Microsoft, No Bidding · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that some direct to video Dolph Lundgren sci-fi action movie?

  17. Re:How come it's only in Japan on Why Japan Hates the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Dude, you need to go back home. You have too-long-time-expat-itis.

  18. Victor Electronic Rat Trap on How To Keep Rats From Eating My Cables? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This, baited with peanut butter, is irresistible death. Place one at known rat entrances or run ways. I could catch dumb rats within an hour of placing the trap. Some smart rats took a day or two to give in to the temptation. Also, eliminate any other sources of food. A fat rat is an unmotivated rat. There is no blood, nobody dying in your walls.

  19. question on Interviewing Experienced IT People? · · Score: 1

    I'm on your lawn. How would you get me off of it? (the legal comments elsewhere are very very pertinent. If you actually asked the question about the 23 year old in CA you would face disciplinary action from your company and possibly a lawsuit from the candidate.)

  20. This is science? on The Science of the Lightsaber · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A lightsabre is a magic sword. How about an article on the science of the One Ring.

  21. architecture on Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    it has to look good, make the client happy, and stand up.

  22. glassdoor on Job and Internship Salary Comparisons? · · Score: 5, Informative

    glassdoor.com gives pretty transparent information. You do have to read between the lines (i.e. suckage at one campus/group is not necessarily a problem at another, poor statistics gamed by shills) but it is useful information. But networking with people is much much more useful.

  23. These are parts of the country... on ACLU Creates Map of US "Constitution-Free Zone" · · Score: 5, Funny

    that are not the real America. Only in pro-America America does the Constitution apply. The rest of America hates America.

  24. Re:Linux is great, but... on Linux On Brazilian Voting Machines, the Video · · Score: 1, Interesting

    By forcing elections to be a laborious, manual process, it becomes much much harder to create and run a conspiracy to hijack an election.

    Once elections are heavily automated, then a much smaller group can take over and decide the outcome. Open source doesn't necessarily help since the attacker needs to introduce a run time systematic bug.

  25. Re:Without porn?!? HOW??? on YouTube Passes Yahoo As #2 Search Engine · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "I'm inclined to doubt this. Youtube doesn't host any porn. That's easily 70% of the internet right there.

    You mean to tell me that people are now more interested in videos of people getting hit in the nuts and TV clips that are not SNL or daily show than they are in sex? LIES!"

    Please don't suggest this. I wake up every day pretending that I don't live in "Idiocracy" and you are making harder and harder to maintain that illusion.