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  1. Re:Not lifeguards on UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link · · Score: 1

    If you called a lifeboat crewman a lifeguard he'd smack you in the face.

    But would he then save you from drowning in the 2 feet of water you were standing in beforehand?

  2. Re:Cool on Gene Therapy Causes Blind Woman To Grow New Fovea · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But are the problems caused by the brain or just bad eyesight? I can imagine anyone 'regaining' their sight probably doesn't have the same quality eyes as someone that has never lost their vision.

  3. Re:Terms of Service on Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many people do you know that actually ready the TOS before they purchase the product?

    How many products do you know, that have a TOS you can read before purchasing?

  4. Re:Right... on US Tests System To Evade Foreign Web Censorship · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean you haven't realised that the rest of us on here are actually just chatbots?

  5. Re:Sounds promising, but... on Why the UK Needs the Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    1188877, is that us?

  6. Bugs? on Carnivorous Clock Eats Bugs · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won't be buying a first generation one of these, it's bound to have a tonne of bugs.

  7. Re:Low-slung... on 13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week · · Score: 1

    The kid is 13 - to put that in perspective he was only 10 in 2006, only 5 in 2001, and 3 in 2009.

    Was the kid called Benjamin Button?

  8. Re:No, the technical term is "Dead Time" on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    Especially since respawning is hard for most people.

    Yeh, it's one of the racial attributes of Buddhists.

  9. Re:Automated transportation on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    IIRC running more than 1 copy of World of Warcraft per PC isn't allowed (but isn't enforced), I'm pretty sure this was pointed out in the Blizzard vs. Glider Bot lawsuit.

    I highly doubt that guy has 36 computers, and without using some sort of software mechanism to spread keypresses among them (which also isn't allowed).

  10. Re:No, the technical term is "Dead Time" on Why Don't MMOs Allow Easier Transportation? · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that something exciting is only exciting in comparison to what happened before, a rose is only especially beautiful because of the boring dandelions everywhere.

    A game that is constantly "exciting" will get exhausting quickly.

    Valve has done a great job with Left4Dead where they manage how "stressful" the situation is, and makes sure it has peaks and troughs.

    This doesn't really apply to these travel times, especially if they are ridiculously long (say 10-20 minute), I'd presume they are mainly there for pacing reasons. You don't want players being able to get to everywhere instantly, especially if you're getting payed the longer they play.

  11. Re:Ballistics on The State of Video Game Physics · · Score: 1

    Surely we've advanced far enough to be able to 'trace' curved lines?

  12. Re:Explosions on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Free Typosquatting Scan Tool With Screenshots on Domain-Name Wars, Rise of the Cybersquatters · · Score: 1

    I think Google bought a few of them up, they have http://gooogle.com/ (There's 3 Os).

    I guess it's probably not worth the hassle of buying up so many when usually people have you homepaged or as a search bar, I don't know anyone that manually types google in anymore.

  14. Re:That's just dynamite! on Sun Kills Rock CPU, Says NYT Report · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Zombies? On my Slashdot? It's more likely than you think.

  15. Re:Primates on Scientists Wonder What Fingerprints Are For · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well the main route for evolution to occur (survival of the fittest) is pretty much dead.

  16. Re:A$$ kickin' time on Camara Goes On Offense Against the RIAA · · Score: 1

    You mean anti-music.

  17. Re:Doesn't make sense on DIY 18-ft.-High Robotic Exoskeleton · · Score: 1

    Wireless is hardly known for it's fast latency times; lag is bad enough when you're playing a video game, let alone a multi-million dollar mech.

  18. Re:One laser actually on Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility · · Score: 1

    The Germans also killed a couple million people to accomplish that task...

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but killing people doesn't really help the creation of jets or rockets.

  19. Re:The Wii on Maingear Touts New Rig As "Planet's Greenest Gaming PC" · · Score: 1

    But can it run Crysis?

  20. Re:Sigh... on Left 4 Dead 2 Announced For November · · Score: 1

    The match making system is also still terrible for a quite a large percentage of the player base.

    They finally fixed it so that players can join my lobbies, but it still can't find a dedicated server when I want to start the game. Bear in mind that I have 15 empty servers between my different steam groups, and I could easily just go into my history and join a server myself in about 10 seconds flat.

    Oh and they broke the 'sv_search_key' functionality, that would allow you to find a server with a specific tag, so if you had your own dedicated you could join it from a lobby.

    And then there's the annoying fact that once you're in-game, people will leave, and servers either have the spot taken instantly or will never have a single person join for the whole game; consistency would be nice.

    The match making system was a nice idea, but whoever implemented needs slapping with it's current usefulness.

  21. Re:let me guess on Apple Plans $1 Billion iDataCenter · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, no, no, you've got it wrong. These are APPLE geeks, they're cool and get laid all the time... Right?

  22. Re:Am I the only one... on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    If it helps, trying to imagine a Beowulf cluster of them isn't any easier.

  23. Re:Millimeter waves? on Freshman Representative Opposes "TSA Porn" · · Score: 1

    Well if flashes are death-rays, just tell someone they're a celebrity and the paparazzi should finish them off quick enough.

  24. Re:Have a look at the age pyramide on Extrapolating the Near Future of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Something can burn bright but for not very long; take Portal for example, probably one of my favourite games of all time and yet I completed it in 1 day.

  25. Re:Whaaa on Extrapolating the Near Future of Gaming · · Score: 1