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  1. Re:Rebuild? on Workings of Ancient Calculating Device Deciphered · · Score: 1

    I get that no one reads the articles. Why don't people read the summaries they're commenting on, though?

    Inscriptions and small details weren't visible on the extensively corroded original, so weren't duplicated on the replica. It took this further effort to detect this stuff.

  2. Re:Cuil=Cool???? on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Right. This name, for instance, is in a language spoken in a couple small villages and a museum. The meaning in that language is not likely to be used in a complementary way while referring to it.

  3. Re:The best for them on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Your website must be useless. Mine is (for a few years now), and not only is it there, but an alternate version of it that should have died off long ago is there too.

  4. Re:Libel on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1
    Searched my name, first page had 4 actual relevant hits, including a page I thought had died, and a 6-year-old email in which I wrote:

    Women are just nicer to look at.

    Maxim cover: Good looking female model
    Cosmo cover: Good looking female model
    MaximumPC cover: Good looking female model

    (Since then, the third one has pretty much ended.)
    No pictures on the links that are right.

  5. Re:Huh? on Leaked Wolverine Origin Trailer Makes the Rounds · · Score: 1

    Of course, knowing how they write for wolverine, they've probably changed his story again to not have claws since I read comics back in like 2002.

    No, he has two kids (sort of), and both have claws, though in different configurations.

    First was a clone (not of the Spiderman variety) with changes: female, two claws each arm, one claw each foot. X-23 is hanging out with the good guys somewhere.

    Second was his actual son, thought (when he remembered) to have died unborn. Two claws overhand where Wolverine has three, and one more under. Daken has been trying to kill James Logan Wolverine Weapon X (maybe "ten") Howlett of late.

    Anyway, bone claws. Although when he regained his adamantium, the claws became flat blades again.

  6. Re:Doesn't look too great... on Leaked Wolverine Origin Trailer Makes the Rounds · · Score: 1

    That deserves insightfully funny modding, but I've no points today.

  7. Re:It's all Jane Jensen's fault... on Have Modern Gamers Lost the Patience For Puzzles? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .. as Old Man Murray points out. Some puzzles may have been great, but I remember plenty of horrible ones, such as the Gabriel Knight one above, where you had to construct a false moustache using cat hair and syrup, in order to hire a moped.

    Yes, and following the link to "the Gabriel Knight one" above, you would learn Jane Jensen had nothing to do with that particular puzzle.

  8. Re:Yeah, the bikes move like real bikes on Bootleg Tron 2 Trailer Is Out In the Wild · · Score: 1

    So much so, in fact, that it looks like a couple of guys riding bikes around a neon-lit soundstage. Woo-hoo.

    Maybe I'm just a bitter old fart, but one of my problems with a lot of modern video games is that the physics are kind of in the uncanny valley for me -- they're undeniably much more realistic than they were when I was a teenage gaming geek a quarter of a century ago (and we used real quarters back then, whippersnapper!) but they're still not quite realistic enough, so I find them constantly distracting. The light cycles in the original Tron moved like they could, in fact, exist only in a video game universe; the scenes with them were maybe the only part of the movie where you could really believe you were seeing a world completely different from that outside the machine.

    Seriously. Everyone knows you can pass through a non-cardinal line by just hitting it between pixels.

  9. Re:Editors on Spam King Escapes From Federal Prison · · Score: 1

    This is more sad than funny, I know many Asperger/grammar Nazi's who have no qualms about being this rude in real life.

    I suggest giving them pity rather than ridicule. They aren't even bright enough to figure out that grammar really doesn't matter in the big picture, at least vs. communicating with some manners.

    You them ridicule rathering pity suggest give? So why don't you log in? We need to know where to get this stuff.

  10. Re:Too bad it didn't apply to cigarettes... on Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks · · Score: 1

    Um... I'm pretty sure the cause of second-hand smoke is the cigarettes (or cigars, etc.) that are generating said smoke. I don't need more than the obvious plume of smoke to see that.

  11. Re:Overuse again... on New Rifle Tech Offers Variable Muzzle Speed · · Score: 1

    ALL class members MUST take an indirect spray of O.C.(he tells me it is available in different strengths and the stuff they use is 2x hotter then most commercial mace) in order to complete the course. The students have the option however to up the anty and take a full on direct spray which he is going to do so he ready for it if he should ever have his taken.

    They should get sprayed in the face with it. "Indirect spray" may as well be what you get when you use it on someone else.

  12. Re:It's not the heat, it's the stupidity. on HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Paper recycling is pointless. It biodegrades...

    Theoretically. Practically, no, not once it goes into a landfill.

    Well then, all the better. As long as the stuff stays intact, the carbon in it is sequestered, and we have less of that evil carbon dioxide stuff.

  13. Re:It Makes Me Queasy... on To Stet Or Not To Stet, That Is the Question · · Score: 1

    The underclasses had and have their own dialects

    I'm certainly not going to fix up every instance of Aluminum [sic] and -ize [sic] that all these underclass Americans insist on using!

    Ey! Y'all changed your "z" to "s", not us t'other way! 'Sides, none o' yuz can even say "Thames" right. T'aint spelt "Temz", izzit?

    Well, in any case, I saw that picture of the "H.M.S. Enterprize" in the opening sequence of a certain Star Trek series... where we use an "s"... nevermind.

  14. Re:The database is incomplete on Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species · · Score: 1

    Hmm... I was imaging something more along the lines of a slash'd otter....

  15. Re:Yes but... on Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species · · Score: 1

    It says they're EA's customers?

  16. Re:First look on Live Giant Squid Dissection Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    What, and add a word? No way! Besides, "live dissection" could still be vivisection.

    "Giant Squid Dissection Live Tomorrow"

  17. Re:Intentions of the Founders on MSM Noticing That Patent Gridlock Stunts Innovation · · Score: 1

    When the FoundingFathers postulated on freedom of speach, equality and guns they were not thinking of the inernet/TV, women and blacks, nor automatic weapons.

    Wrong, wrong, and wrong.
    At least several of the people who put it together intended eguality to mean everyone (well, maybe not women), but slavery was not specifically banned because that would have prevented ratification.
    As for the other two, they were meant to apply to whatever was available. In the third instance, specifically, the Second Amendment was meant to apply to whatever weapons were in common military use at the time (hence the one "anti" decision concerning a sawed-off shotgun, which had not seen military use).

  18. Re:Shut down before it could damage itself? on Mars Lander's Robot Arm Shuts Down To Save Itself · · Score: 2, Funny

    Been done. This mode consists mainly of flipping over, and possibly changing LED colors-- I can't recall.

  19. Re:It's not the power efficiency... on Notebook Storage SSDs and HDs Compared · · Score: 1

    Very loosely paraphrased, indeed. Looks more like The Trees, which were "all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."

  20. Re:Nathan Fillion on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    ...Waiting to see if there were more episodes, to be released on DVD....

  21. Re:Nice coincidence... on Makemake Becomes the Newest Dwarf Planet · · Score: 1

    ...that the name for their creation deity as written is automatically read by English speakers as make make. (even though it's pronounced makimaki)

    Which English speakers? Not me. Though I thought it was some sort of food....

  22. Re:More than one conclusion. on Language May Have Evolved Earlier Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    ...And the sounds made by humans before whatever you choose to define as speech would be in the most... comfortable vocal range, causing, again, hearing to develop before speech.

    We were not running around shooting our mouths off about the weather and where we were going go to get a bite to eat before we could hear what we were saying.

    But then, most animals have far more complex languages than we generally give them credit for; we just aren't able to hear all the differences in the calls they make. Many species have distinct (to them) calls for recognized individuals of other species, so a groundhog can communicate the difference between "the kid that throws food on the ground" and "the guy that shot at us the other day."

  23. Re:This is why Blizzard is so seuccesful on Warhammer Online Sees Massive Content Removal To Make Launch · · Score: 1

    If I had had any intention of buying this game, I would now wait until they had released patches that brought it up to the level it should have been released at. If there were any additional cost involved in getting them, or if they never materialized, they wouldn't get my money for this game.

    Because of the EA connection, however, they won't be getting my money anyway, until I get a patch for SimGolf that makes the rewards you get, like Dinosaur Tarpits, actually available for placement again. (Not that I'll ever play the game again, but I have to stand by my principles.)

  24. Re:Where are the marines? on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    If you don't know how to use an M16, stay home. They're easier to use than stretchers and snack bags. Well, stretchers, anyway. You slam in the magazine, pull back on the T-shaped handle bit, push it back in, flip the safety, and go to town^Wprison.

  25. Re:"Obama (D-IL), Yea" on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    So then you're voting for McCain? And keep in mind that in this race, voting for a third party is voting for McCain.

    For him personally, yes, but voting for a third party is half a vote for the guy that's further from your own opinions on most matters. If you're conservative or republican, a third party vote favors Barry.