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  1. Re:Not accurate. Consistent. on Timing Technology Behind Olympic Record Results · · Score: 4, Informative

    also track (maybe on the blocks to see who actually is leaving first)

    This is already done - they no longer rely on human judging to determine false starts

  2. Not sure I'd trust this system on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    How do I know that the artist(s) I like will participate in the blanket license? How do I know that a current artist won't jump ship and I'll miss out on future albums? How does this account for people who "consume" more or less music than others?

  3. Re:Old fashioned way on Open-Source College Textbooks Gaining Mindshare · · Score: 1

    what college did you go to where you found a steady flow of idiots to pay "about the same price" for a used textbook?

    DMCAU?

  4. Re:Where's the lego minitiature on Beijing 2008 In Lego · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you sponsored terrorists to attack our land, burn our shops, and kill our people.

    Dude ... put the kool-aid down and back away slowly. Re-read your posts in this thread. Take a few deep breaths. Ask yourself whether it's even just slightly possible that the state-run media has planted a few ... let's just call them exaggerations in your head?

  5. Re:Where's the lego minitiature on Beijing 2008 In Lego · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ummm ... I'm pretty sure it wasn't monks who were burning shops and killing people ... and there is even some debate as to whether it was everyday Tibetan householders targeting the Han Chinese, or whether it was the work of agents provocateurs sent in to create justification for the ensuing crackdown.

  6. Re:Wait a minute... on Grokking SCO's Demise · · Score: 1

    Honest mistake. You simply failed to ask the right questions before making your purchase. If anybody else has questions about the SCO Source licensing program - any questions at all - you can simply use this handy online form to ask.

  7. Re:Fahrenheit? on How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since TFA is actually about smashing things into the moon rather than landing softly, I'm gonna pick the USSR as my winner.

  8. Fahrenheit? on How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water · · Score: 2, Funny

    temperatures close to minus 300 F

    1850 called. They want their unit of measure back.

  9. Re:"favour"? on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    You missed birchbark canoes, the Trailer Park Boys, real beer, Timmy's, the CBC, and back bacon eh?

  10. Re:we are all doooomed on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll bet there's actually some element of truth in this!

  11. Re:Hmm on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously though ... if spammers started turning up dead where would the police even begin their investigation? There's only a pool of what, half a billion suspects?

  12. Re:Anyone else... on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 5, Informative

    When did Slashdot do funny April Fools?

    OMG Ponies!!!

  13. When do we get a $99 PsiPhone? on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet it's the size of an office stapler and sounds like a jet plane at takeoff, but still ... maybe the 3G will actually work.

  14. Re:Generalized, or just well-known, static objects on Photosynth Team Does It Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    goatse

    Awwwww Christ ... now you've put zooming and panning into my head at the same time as goatse.

    Thanks.

  15. Re:Use consistent fakes on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I suppose they could, but they'd be able to do the same thing if I used consistent "real" information in those fields too ... and at the end of the day I guess I just have to hope that I'm simply not that interesting of a target.

  16. Use consistent fakes on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    I have a fake mother's maiden name that I use for online forms (as well as offline forms where I feel the organization in question has no fucking need to know the correct answer). I have a fake first car answer, a fake best friend answer, and a fake city where I was born. I use the same ones consistently for all my password reset questions.

  17. Re:LOVE the misspelling on Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually GP is correct ... he is referring to People for the Insensitive Treatment of Animals.

  18. Re:Euro/Japan envy is getting stupid on US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    the US system encourages people to work hard, whereas laziness is often seen to be rewarded in the UK.

    I am so totally moving to the UK.

  19. Re:Latest game on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just want to take this opportunity to point out that the Wikipedia article on Bukkake explicitly states that it "may require cleanup" to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.

    That is all.

  20. Re:Erste gepostung on Inferring Personality From Email Addresses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Germans have a sense of humour ... it's just that it's painfully unique to Germans.

  21. Re:Latest game on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Give it time ... the audience is out there.

  22. Re:There comes a point... on What Should I Do With My Tech Junk? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    throw it all to the curb, and let the garbagemen take it away

    ... and once it is securely buried in a nearby landfill, it will leach toxic metals into your groundwater for centuries.

    Please take whatever steps are necessary to ensure your e-waste is properly recycled ... even if that costs you a few bucks.

  23. Re:Bring it to a recycling centre on What Should I Do With My Tech Junk? · · Score: 1

    So it's better for those children to starve then to make money getting copper and gold out of old e-waste?

    e-waste materials recovery, as it is practiced in the 3rd world, results in serious damage to the local environment. Poisoned aquifers, contaminated land, toxic air pollution ... all of which create serious health impacts in the community. It's kind of like asking "So it's better for children to starve than to let them make money by selling their harvested limbs and organs?"

  24. Can't start processes? on Massive VMware Bug Shuts Systems Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    any processes with a start date of today would refuse to run? Supposedly a fix will be available... in 36 hours.

    Good thing the fix will be available tomorrow, because if it was available today nobody would be able to run the update process

  25. Re:KDE? on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unfortunatly once it approximates version 3.14.159 ...

    Fixed