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  1. Epic Fail on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One wonders if it wasn't just bait to get security to tip their hand for a more thought out caper.

  2. Practical Application on Cell Phones That Learn the Sounds of Your Life · · Score: 1

    OK, so jokes aside, could not this be used to build profiles of areas where you might be trying to hold a coversation and apply noise cancellation activily to the phone? blocking out all the background noise for the person you are talking too, perhaps even making it a bit eaiser for you to hear in the process?

  3. Re:Using Chrome now, but.... on Firefox 3.5 Benchmarked, Close To Original Chrome · · Score: 1

    I do occasionally find myself opening FFX windows while using Chrome. Mostly for links that are supposed to go to files for download. Chrome has an odd tendency to not like those. Other than that Chrome has pretty much taken over my browsing experience since within about week of the first launch. So it's nice to know that my back up is almost as fast as the original chrome...

  4. Re:He's a jock on John Hodgman Asks Obama, "Are You a Nerd?" · · Score: 1

    Not only did they make a big deal about it, but at one campaign stop when tossed a ball he shot an off the hip Swish from behind the 3 point line, while on camera...

  5. Re:what ads? on The Next Ad You Click May Be a Virus · · Score: 1

    It was SHOCK the monkey you insenstive clod.. Sadly one of the best web based games of the time.

  6. First on Seattle's Gum Wall, 2nd Germiest Attraction In the World · · Score: 1

    You've obviously never had to use the bathroom in the 1st street Starbucks in Seattle.

  7. Google Appliance on How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents? · · Score: 4, Informative
  8. Re:Why Worry? on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 1, Informative

    Erosion Requires an atmosphere doesn't it?

  9. Re:too much work on Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The idea you have to get up and move...and even get tired is actually a selling point, just look at the sells of the Eyetoy for play station...or even more to the point the Wii fit. There are a lot of gamers who could stand a bit more activity, and once you get past a certain point it's just embarrassing to go to a gym..at least some can get a bit of exercise in the privacy of their own home.

  10. Re:Watching movies? Really? on Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would think just about ANYTHING you could do in space would be a better use of your time that watching a stupid movie.

  11. Do what the guy before me did on Documenting a Network? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Use Post-its.

  12. Thesis on How To Help a Friend With an MMO Addiction? · · Score: 1

    Try to see the glass half full here..Surely there is a thesis in here about his gaming Experiences somewhere. Get him stared slowly..A treatment to present to a professor perhaps. Cutting off the internet to the house might be another solution...a number of "technical difficulties" might drive him to get his fix at a coffee shop or the like..where he might interact with real people..it's very easy to become a hermit when home has everything you need.

  13. Re:Idiot Police imho on Verizon Tells Cops "Your Money Or Your Life" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great so just send your billing information to Verizon and tell them anytime the police want to track someone with an overdue bill you'll glady pay. Police officers have bills too you know, and to get that $20 paid back would probably cost the average tax pay $60 in paper work alone.

  14. Re:Here we go again on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Missing Option. But I'm already using it you insensitive clod!

  15. In related news... on Duke Nukem For Never · · Score: 1

    The sequel which some had said would hit the market "when pigs fly" was rumored to have been only days away with many reports of Swine havening flew... wait...what? it's Swine FLU? oh well... Never mind.

  16. Re:So let me get this straight... on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You should see the list of chemicals or "product" some people put in their hair.

  17. Re:Tribes on Strange Glitches In Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There was/is a great glitch in tribes2 where you deploy an MPB and you with a bunch of buddies throw concussion grenades at it for a few minutes (since a MPB is a inventory station it's easy to throw many). After a while someone jumps in as if to move it, and the combined force of all the grenades having built up under the unmovable MPB finally take effect launching the thing miles into the air. Not something that ever effected game play as far as I know, but great for some giggles with teammates while having a drinks after a match.

  18. Re:A game I'd love to see on How Steam Revived a Dead Game · · Score: 1

    There are still new players coming to this game all the time. And the learning curve has always been steep on this game, but in a friendly atmosphere I would encourage anyone who wants to try possibly the best FPS game ever made to give it a few games before giving up. YES you will die, but in tribes you get to re spawn so it's not like counterstrike where your going to be sitting out waiting for the round to end. Also there are a variety of roles to play, all of them important you may not start out as a flag grabber but in Tribes2 you can have a really good time even helping expand the sensor net.

  19. Re:Master Servers Pulled on How Steam Revived a Dead Game · · Score: 2, Informative

    The work around really are not hat hard. If you want to play on Friday night fights it consists of registering your nick on a website, loading the game in LAN mode and then when listing the servers hitting "insert" and the valid IP of a server running it.(hint)208.101.7.64:28000 Complete Instructions can be found at http://www.elitewarriorsonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=137:t2-bouncer-authentication-via-lan

  20. A game I'd love to see on How Steam Revived a Dead Game · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Tribes 2. Those who played it know it was revolutionary, even to this day many games struggle to find the depth this game held. It's free now, and although Sierra shutdown the master servers a while back the community of die hard players stepped up and created several workarounds. I'm happy to report that on any given Friday night there is at least one server with close to (or up to ) 60 players picking teams and playing 3 maps. Friday Night Fights. The best part is gaming rigs have finally caught up to the task of running this game smoothly, when it first came out it was pushing the bleeding edge of machines to run it like it deserved.

  21. Re:Makes you wonder on Navigate the Linux Kernel Like Google Maps · · Score: 1

    OMG! no I mean it.... so your saying the Windows XP kernel is .... Fuzzy Spaghetti Monster!

  22. Re:Greatest moments from the action figure line? on G.I. Joe Game On the Way · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sure that was fun for you...but it was MY figure.

  23. Re:First penis on Comcast Apologizes For Super Bowl Porn Glitch · · Score: 1

    You can't stop the signal Mal.

  24. Re:Anyone care? on Technocrat.net Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I object that your statement seems to imply that Jessie Jackson was ever relevant.

  25. Re:Practicality? on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you tested it on a laser printer is it very unlikely that the "ink" spread out to fill the holes. laser printers use toner.