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  1. Re:What was the point anyway?? on Domain Tasting "Officially Dead" Thanks To Cancellation Policy · · Score: 1

    Tasting, not testing.

    Say you got to Registrar A and ask them if example.com is available, and how much it is. Finding it available and being dissatisfied with the price, you go to Registrar B and ask the same, only to be told that the domain is owned by, guess who? Registrar A, who bought the domain because they knew you were interested. Now, you must buy from them or forgo the name. Registrar A would hold onto ownership until the last possible moment they could get a refund.

  2. Re:Interesting on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Initial research indicated that nicotine is not carcinogenic, but more recent studies are suggesting that may not be so.
    http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/79/1/1

  3. Re:Well the only fool proof way... on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 1

    it would work for his computer father.

    What?? His father is a computer? Then I bet the father is part of the botnet too! Oh noes!

  4. Re:No problem. So what's the alternative? on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 1

    Fear the web site pledge drive!

  5. Re:Peeling tape causes radiation? on Sticky Tape Found To Emit Terahertz Radiation · · Score: 5, Funny

    I prefer Office Depot.

  6. Re:Wrong benchmarks on Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution · · Score: 1

    Read the title again. This is not a Linux Distribution Benchmark. It is a Linux Benchmarking Distribution.

  7. Re:Frivolous Lawyer on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you'd read TFA you'd know she has no lawyer, none at all. Find a real case of irresponsible lawyerism to use when making your rant k?

  8. Bright Future For This Lady on Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable · · Score: 1

    The RIAA is gonna snap her right up, she's a perfect fit!

  9. Re:Take ball, go home on Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users · · Score: 1

    The millions of dollars spent by the electric company for the infrastructure to deliver the electricity in the first place.

  10. Re:Yet Another Chapter of Recession Porn on Nintendo, Sony Take Big Financial Hits · · Score: 1

    No, it will be a wave of Wiidundancies.

  11. With All New Features! on DARPA Builds Smarter Version of Microsoft's Clippy · · Score: 1

    It looks like you're trying to write a classified government document!

    Would you like to:

    Encrypt the information?
    Deposit into the archive?
    Forward to the NSA?
    Leak to the press?

  12. Re:That May Work as a South Africa Satire on District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can state, but that doesn't make you entirely correct. You do so have constitutional rights. The only constitutional rights you lack are the ones specifically granted citizens such as voting rights, or people born here, such as eligibility to be president, or a few age requirements. Everything else in there which applies to "the people" applies to you. Quoting the ACLU for examples because it's much easier than compiling myself:

    "every person in the United States has the right to due process and equal protection; to criminal proceedings that afford a right to counsel, a jury trial and freedom from double jeopardy; to freedom from cruel and unusual punishment; to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures; and to freedom of speech, religion and association."

  13. Re:Alien Nation on District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo · · Score: 1

    Thanks for saying it first.

  14. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    Cursive and printing are both handwriting. If the letters are connected to each other, that's cursive. If they are distinct, that's printing. Don't confuse the term with actual printing of for instance, newspapers and books. Cursive reduces the number of times you lift the pen off the paper and reposition, that's primarily what makes it faster.

  15. Re:Oh Noes! on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No one's talking about being unable to write. What's happening is the death of script. The advantage of cursive over printing is that it is faster and less fatiguing to the hand. Nowadays, for long composition typing is the preferred mode, while the most common use for manual writing is filling in forms... where cursive is undesirable anyway.

  16. I was very excited at first. on First New Nuclear Reactor In a Decade On Track · · Score: 1

    Until I found out that this is not a new design, but just a mothballed 1970's plant that was never brought online being finally finished and put to use. When we implement modern designs, let me know.

  17. Re:Any love for the old joystick? on Can New Game Control Schemes Hope To Match the PC Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I have my CH gear just waiting for when they make a game that can use them. Last one they were any good on for me was Battlefield: Vietnam.

  18. Mars Here We Come! on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    Hot damn, now we can make the trip alive!

  19. Re:Evolution or Intelligent Design? on Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring · · Score: 1

    It is now, but give it a few years and it will be a growth industry.

  20. Vista Pollution on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's getting impossible to enjoy the scenery there any more because of all the bloody signs!

  21. Not Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers on FDA Considers Banning Acetaminophen-Based Pain Killers · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are not. They are considering banning combination drugs that include acetaminophen, because there have been fatal overdoses when people additionally took acetaminophen.

  22. Re:Easy alternative on Cows That Burp Less Methane to Be Bred · · Score: 1

    Well, thumb monkeys would no longer be needed to get food, but they'd still be good for opening doors.

  23. Re:Thank you Minnesota Supreme Court! on Minn. Supreme Court Upholds City's Right To Build Own Network · · Score: 1

    Thanks a ton, now I don't have to make up something funny expressing that sentiment. I might not be late for work now.

  24. Re:Urban Transit on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    Should you have children, they will resent you for the kind of virtual social isolation that comes from not having the correct network access.

  25. Re:Low markup for a vending machine on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 1

    Volume!