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  1. New Slashdot meme? on Carl Sagan Sings · · Score: 5, Funny

    (Jostles for microphone) I'm sorry Carl, but Beyoncé had the best music video of all time!

  2. Re:Big News? on FDA OKs First Human Trial of Neural Stem Cell Therapy · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call the FDA at fault. I would call the massively ignorant christian right in the United States at fault.

  3. The real question is on French Deputies Want Labels On Photo-Altered Models · · Score: 1

    How will the users of 4chan respond to this?

  4. Streissand It on TI vs. Calculator Hackers · · Score: 1

    The keys are here http://diomedes.phear.cc/~chronomex/keys.shtml Download at your will!

  5. Duke Nukem on Production of Boeing 787 Dreamliner Delayed Again · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I heard the 787 was going to coincide with the release of Duke Nukem forever.

  6. Re:Romeo and juliet on Turning Classic Literary Works Into Games · · Score: 2, Funny

    Or even 1984! Have Stanley run around finding his ever elusive razor blades. The best part is you can have a legitimate hot coffee moment in the woods followed by a "shot the hidden microphone" mini game.

  7. Re:Oh Geeze on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    Stop teaching cursive and start teaching typing. Both on Qwerty and Dvorak. That'll be fun for the kids :-P

  8. Oh Geeze on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cursive was one of the most useless things taught to me in school. When I hit 6th grade I realized typing my assignments was much faster. All through out middle school I had teachers telling me to handwrite my assignment and would down grade me for not doing so. I would write in the most illegible cursive ever imaginable! I think I was the one who got the last laugh. I had one of those teachers in 8th grade that would consistantly lose my assignments. I believe it happened at least 8 times. 7 of those times it was a matter of reprinting the last assignment!

    I hate handwriting anything. I regularly can reach 60-70 wpm which is consistent with how fast I can think up what to say. My little brother is in 3rd grade and is sadly being taught this useless skill. I say trim it out of the curriculum and fill it with some more reading.

  9. Re:Sense of humor? on Facebook Lets Advertisers Use Pictures Without Permission · · Score: 1

    I say vote with your feet and switch to Myspace or the even older classic Xanga!

  10. Re:Slight Correction on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    It's the Life of Pi island that doesn't eat Lemurs. Hopefully this only has an appitite for bad books that mystically made it onto the NY Times best sellers list.

  11. This information is useless. on Testing 3G Networks Across the US · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This information is useless unless we as consumers can get to use our service to its fullest. I don't care if I have 5 solid meg wireless connection up and down if I fill up my monthly quota of 5gb data transfer. If the carriers were more transparent about the softcap I think everyone would appreciate it. Say something like "We have a 5gb limit on our service. This means that if you exceed 5gb of data consumption in a billing cycle your internet speed will be slowed down to 200kbps." To seriously believe this is still going on today confuses me to whits end.

  12. Re:In case anyone is puzzled as I was on FreeDOS Turns 15 Years Old Today · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because of one of my favorite star trek games won't run correctly in 64 bit Windows 7 :-P http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation_-_A_Final_Unity

  13. Re:Which Toyota? on DoE Considers Artificial Trees To Remove CO2 · · Score: 1

    Also please forgive my terrible spelling.

  14. Re:Which Toyota? on DoE Considers Artificial Trees To Remove CO2 · · Score: 1

    They're talking about Priuses which equals about .5 that of a highlander.

    On the flip side these tress cost 3.50 Camrys.

    For the Europeans this will cost 2.844 Peugots or 922.622 Jaguars.

    In India this equals -4.32 Tatas.

  15. Blackberry's problem on An Experiment In BlackBerry Development · · Score: 5, Insightful

    RIM needs to open the platform up. Nothing more nothing less.

  16. Xscale? on Intel Eyes Smartphone Chip Market · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously what happened to Intel's Xscale processor? After they sold it to Marvell it went into the abyss of forgotten tech. That ARM processor had the entire Palm and Pocket PC market by the balls a couple of years ago since every device worth its weight was using it! They left that market and now want to reenter it? Last I checked every smartphone still uses ARM.

  17. Re:Why Why Why?! on Swine Flu Vaccine In Production · · Score: 2, Informative

    The drug you are referring to is Lariam, the trade name for Mefloquine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lariam. There are many many more drugs available to combat against malaria then this that do not have this type of dangerous side effect.

  18. Re:Why Why Why?! on Swine Flu Vaccine In Production · · Score: 1

    Why was this modded flamebait? The OP has a valid point!

  19. Re:Not just AT&T, folks on Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering? · · Score: 1

    You need that plan in order to use tethering on the phone. Granted nearly everyone here is smart enough to enable tethering without paying their tax, but 99% of businesses won't do this and will gladly write it off as an extra expense. If you try and add tethering on a standard data plan you will be greeted with a 30$ charge.

  20. Re:Sounds great... if you can justify the cost on A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi · · Score: 5, Informative

    On a side note, WMWifirouter has been able to do this on Windows Mobile smartphones for a while now. It's constantly being worked on and the speeds are definitely acceptable. The link for it http://www.wmwifirouter.com/

  21. OH MAN! on A Real-World Test of the Verizon MiFi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Think of all the funny man-in-the-middle pranks you can play on desperate business travelers in airports with "free public wifi"!

  22. Re:Lawyers Rules, Sadly on Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others · · Score: 1

    So did the agreements explicitly deny the use of said product in nuclear missiles?

  23. Re:Elderly don't use computers. on Voting Drops 83 Percent In All-Digital Election · · Score: 1

    I had a 7th grade teacher who was staunchly conservative. Mind you she couldn't use a computer very well. This might not be such a bad thing...

  24. Google bot on Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you think they will still allow Googlebot to crawl their web pages? If so I see nothing wrong with changing my user agent. Then again for the most part I listen to NPR and read the articles on their website. Support public broadcasting!

  25. Re:Child porno? on What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For · · Score: 1

    I'm going to burn some karma, because this type of worker completely irritates me.

    Your "friend" better get his act together. Nothing can ruin a person's career more than a child pornography accusation. As a network admin he should be raising hell up and down the bureaucratic ladder and using his resources as network admin to remotely block access to those machines. . When one of those "files" gets discovered, I hope he gets hauled in for aiding in the trafficking of child pornography when Professor Sixpack gets caught.

    Network security can work. It bugs me to whits end that someone knowingly lets that type of junk in.