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  1. Re:No. on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 0

    You missed the point in your jumping to rant: a fancy case doesn't make a good computer if the OS is sub-standard. Apple has done rather well with nice cases and spiffy OSes.

    As to living in the basement... I move out of my parents' house nearly 20 years ago.

  2. No. on Will Pretty PCs Make Vista More Attractive? · · Score: 4, Funny


    Prettying up a Windows PC is tantamount to spraying perfume on a pig.

  3. Re:what about the lucky sevens? on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 3, Insightful


    YYYY-MM-DD is the best. I keep logs, pics, whatever named like that so a date sort by name is simple.

  4. Re:How lame. on The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    [didn't preview and didn't add this, sorry]
    YES I know it's by sales but the century is young.

  5. How lame. on The Top 100 Games of the 21st Century · · Score: 1


    The 21st century is less than a decade old and already some pretentious hacks are lame enough to declare the top 100 games. Anything to suck in readership...

  6. Re:Only solves 50% of the problem on Solar Power Minus the Light · · Score: 1


    It's not radiating "cool", though. The walls and floor are drawing the heat energy from the warmer air.

  7. Re:I knew that already... on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 1


    In Genesis 2, God says that he will "greatly increase" woman's pain in childbearing. Clearly, children were being conceived and born in Eden.

    Not clearly at all. The myth is using itself as circular proof. First it needs to be proven that the foundation for the religion is based on fact then you can move up to snake myths and women in pain.

  8. Re:How to become a popular scientist on Fear of Snakes May Have Driven Pre-Human Evolution · · Score: 0, Redundant


    1) Publish papers
    2) Next fiscal propose a budget increase and refer to your previous publications
    3) ????
    4) PROFIT!!!

  9. Re:Comming soon to a theater near you.. on President Bush Blocks NSA Wireless Tapping Probe · · Score: 1


    "Thousands of times the deaths"

  10. Science-Creationism parser on Ancient Reptile Had Wings Like a Fighter Jet · · Score: 5, Funny


    A reptile that lived 225 million years ago had triangular-shaped wings

    You mean "6,000 years ago an all-powerful sky-wizard designed a miraculous flying beast and a mate for travel on Noah's Ark."

  11. Re:Useless indeed on Japan Plans 30-Year Supercomputer Forecasts · · Score: 1


    Is that you, Jesus?

  12. Re:I know what you're thinking on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1

    Any idea what journal it's in? I did a search through our library and can't find it.

  13. Re:this is not completely new on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1


    that also noted that companies with higher paid executives performed worse.

    Steve Jobs makes $1 a year as CEO... better buy Apple stock!

  14. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1


    Given the size and age of the universe I think it very likely (with friends I would say almost a certainty) that life, some intelligent perhaps, exists all over the place. However the distances involved cast a lot of doubt that we have visitors popping by for a peak.

    And why all the anal probes? Surely a species that could travel these distances would be able to examine us without sticking probes up our asses?! :)

  15. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1


    Shhhh... he's still convinced Yuri Geller bent those spoons he bought on eBay! :)

  16. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1


    I take it you've read some of Randi's proposals for testing. Have you found any to be unscientific?

  17. Re:Tax payer money at work on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1



    And when we stepped outside, all the boars would look up from their troughs behind the fence, the one we had selected would run off into the bush, and the others would continue eating.

    Could it be that the boar was scared because everyone was looking at him and saw what happened to other boars when that happened? And did it happen every time or are these anomalies that people remember better than the run-of-the-mill times you killed boars?

  18. Re:I know what you're thinking on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1


    Beleive what you want, but telepathy is a proven, replicable phenomenon.

    Really? Would you please provide links to any science journals which have published the proof?

  19. Re:Odd feeling on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1


    Randi's prize is offered for far more than just "ESP".

    I'd like to know how the vibes that neutralize ESP can also throw off water dowsers, remote viewers, communicators-with-the-dead, 'breatharians', homeopathists and other junk.

  20. Re:I agree on Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'? · · Score: 2, Informative


    Don't sell your System Shock 2! If you're unable to install it under Win2k or XP just enter "[cd drive]:\setup.exe -lgntforce" from the command line and SS2 (and Thief 1) will happily install.

  21. More MANHUNT! on Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'? · · Score: 0


    I just want a sequel to Manhunt (and, of course, more in the Thief series)

  22. Re:all he had to do on Deleted Screenplay Fails To Make Money · · Score: 1


    RE: your sig I'm making a Low Budget HDV Filipino Horror Movie in NY [griefmovie.com]

    Rumour has it that if you trash the only copy of your screenplay you can sue your ISP for millions!

  23. Re:Oh. on Does Sophos' Switch Argument Hold Water? · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Bah... GNAA and goatse trolls are the spice in my slashdot cuisine.

  24. So? on AOL To Be Free For Broadband Users? · · Score: 5, Funny


    I could get AIDS for free, too. That doesn't make it desirable.

  25. Re:Way to go Canada on Bone Marrow Cells Repair Heart · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    And many, many times, the parents still refused for religious reasons.

    If the kids died (many probably did) then the parents should be charged with willful negligence causing death. Damn I wish I was a judge sometimes, I've have jails full of superstitious idiots where they can't reproduce more kids into their cults of fear.