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  1. Portable? on XBox 360 Designed for Portability? · · Score: 1
    So that means we'll have people wrapping their cords around the box and breaking the AC jack on the back, just like with the original Xbox?

    I guess Nintendo wasn't so stupid to still be using bricks after all.

  2. Just defraggle it! on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1
    Defraggle your motherdisc!

    (You can substitute a Brillo pad if Svinto isn't handy.)

  3. Re:Multiple options. on Secure Hard Drive Deletion Appliance? · · Score: 1
    Failing space for that, disassemble the drive down to just the bare platters.

    If you have the time, and you like taking things apart, this can be really fun. Just get yourself a set of T-5 thru T-10 Torx bits and have at it.

    The real fun part is getting the magnets off of the metal mounts that they're glued to. I like to repeatedly drop them onto concrete from six feet up until the magnet cracks off. They make great fridge magnets. The platters and spacer rings make nice shiny toys, too.

  4. Re:Time is, after all, always in flux on BBC Apologizes To Who Star · · Score: 1
    god knows mirrors aren't that common in alternative times/universes

    And you expect me to believe that there isn't a single mirror in all the rooms in the Tardis?

  5. Re:Time is, after all, always in flux on BBC Apologizes To Who Star · · Score: 1
    and realized that the doctor could very well have recognized Rose from previous interaction with her.

    You didn't notice how Eccelston's Doctor was clearly behaving as if he was just recovering from a regeneration? Not that a previous Doctor couldn't have met with Rose, but when you thread your way through time and space, anything like that can happen.

  6. Re:Illiteracy rampant at /. - 'tards rule on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    Where do you think Best Buy gets its cashiers from?

  7. Re:Not quite arrested, but close on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    There goes the blinky light, and over comes the manager.

    I can't help but be reminded of that Star Trek episode. "Norman, coordinate." Bunch of freaking droids.

    They're the product of our wonderful education system, by the way.

  8. Re:There is such a thing as bad publicity... on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    At least Best Buy didn't try to sabotage the DVD format with heavy DRM and the absence of widescreen transfers.

    This is why Circuit Sh*tty is a place I only go every couple of months when I'm looking for $5 video game closeout deals or when their competition is not available. Yes, still, after all these years.

  9. Re:So... when's MY turn ? on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    I'd rather be paid with a dozen $2 bills than 24 $1 bills; it's that much easier to count.

    Okay, Einstein, where's the $2 slot in the cash register drawer?

    /if there isn't a slot for it, it can't be real money

  10. Re:Reminds me of the $2 Taco Bell Story on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    Just keep in mind that Funny apparently no longer gives you karma.

    P.S. mod me down

  11. Re:It's been happening for a long time already on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1
    and they are very portable souvenirs of a journey to a far away land.

    What far away land would that be? Redmond?

    I use 'em for tips. But any Susan B's immediately go back into the post office vending machines, to buy regular lickable stamps.

  12. Re:Water spectacular?! on Water Spectacular in Episode III? · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd hit it... with red wine and tomato sauce.

  13. Re:Obligatory on Water Spectacular in Episode III? · · Score: 1
    more like... It's a tripe!

    This has the promise of being totally surreal. Unlike Jar Jar who was just plain stupid. It still doesn't make it a good idea.

  14. Geez on Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Someone has to find the bad in everything. First we get people complaining about C*Os and their multimillion dollar salaries and comparable golden parachutes. Now we get some who reduce their salary to $1 (not the first to do this, by the way) meaning that their income is totally defined by the performance of the company, and someone whines that they're dodging taxes.

    Quit your whining, people. Oh, and look up the "Minimum Alternative Tax" while you're at it. It may have been a good idea at first, but it's getting to be a real mess these days.

  15. Re:Ah, but then..... on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 1
    Ah, but then, how do you actually know that they suck? I mean, not that I'm saying you're wrong or anything.

    Two words: Jar Jar.

  16. Re:Nerd on Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater · · Score: 1
    This must be the highest concentration of nerd on earth. 11 grade A StarWars nerds...20 feet...My god, they are going to bend the space-time continum or something!

    If they dropped a bomb on that site... the explosion would run away in fear. And I don't think that's any kind of space-time effect, just extreme BO.

    /as someone else said, the prequels suck anyhow - I'm so hardcore I haven't seen either of them

  17. Re:Feh on Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series · · Score: 1
    Theres a big difference between what CN shows and what any self respecting mecha fan would watch.

    Thanks for pointing out that not mech shows are created alike. I actually liked Patlabor, but in that show the mechs were little more than props in a police anime. They were police cars with legs. I loved Nadesico and its mech parody Gekiganger. But Evangelion bored me long before I could get to the fscked-up half dozen episodes at the end.

    And I understand that some Gundam is good and some is awful, even to Gundam fans, but I've got little interest in mechs. I don't mind a show that has mechs, but one that focuses on mechs I can't get into. Especially when the mechs and their Battle of the Week are an excuse for no plot, at which point I don't think you'd be watching anyhow.

    This new show sounds to me like "race complication of the week". Or "opponent with special powers of the week".
    With MECHXS!!@!2!@ONE!!!!1!!

  18. Re:Feh on Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series · · Score: 1
    It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other

    That's G^HBeyblade, and I see the stupid cheap plastic arena thingies show up at thrift stores every now and then. It's such a lame idea it's actually scary.

  19. Feh on Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series · · Score: 1, Troll
    In IGPX, the year is 2048 and the "IGPX" has become the world's most-popular sport. It's so big that an entire city was built for the racing industry where competitions take place on a huge, 60-mile track called "The Big Eye." In the "Immortal Grand Prix," two teams of three Mechs, high-tech fighting machines driven by humans, race at speeds greater than 350 mph.

    Gah. Mechs. Before I clicked on the link I knew there would be mechs in there somewhere. I could care less about damn gun mech-centric anime.

  20. I'm sorry, Jeeves... on Ask Jeeves to Introduce Jeeves9000 · · Score: 1

    I can't let you do that.

  21. Re:Good for him on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1
    You play one eccentric, British Time Lord, and central casting want you to play them all.
    --
    Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton.

    Hmm... I wonder if we have any actors around here with television experience looking for work who could be the next doctor? I hear he gets to work with spiffy toys, and nobody will be telling him to shut up! :-)

  22. Re:Well atleast its not computer games this time on D&D Blamed For Stabbing Deaths · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the shooting last month at a hotel where an apocalyptist christian group was having a conference. Six plus the shooter himself. Yep, religion turns people into mass-murderers. Never mind that the guy was crazy to begin with.

  23. Fired? Or fired upon? on Culprit of Leaked Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 5, Funny
    The BBC has denied rumours claiming that they sacked him while chanting "EX-TER-MI-NATE! EX-TER-MI-NATE!"

    /planning to download and watch the official broadcast version too

  24. Re:The next big thing... on Re-Imagining Apple · · Score: 2, Funny
    That is why there is no FM tuner in iPods.

    That's okay, I only listen to AM radio anyhow.

    <rant>So why isn't there an AM tuner in iPods?!?!?!! I'm not going to ever buy one until they include an AM tuner!!!!1!!1!!@@!!one!!!</rant>

  25. Re:As an IT person who is deploying OS X on Symantec: Mac OS X Becoming a Malware Target · · Score: 1
    In my experience (as support staff for the Humanities Div of a university), far and away the most common virus issue with Macs is that they can be a carrier for Word macro viruses.

    Whoop-de-do. So can a web server on a Sun box with an infected Word file on it, or a Cisco router passing the download session for the infected Word file.

    Q: What do Word macro viruses and Microsoft Windows have in common?

    A: Microsoft

    Guess who didn't write OS X. And I don't run that MS bloatware, so I'm not spreading any macro viruses. Other than by possibly forwarding an already infected Word doc without even opening it.