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  1. What happens if.... on New CASMOBOT Lawnmower Controlled By a Wiimote · · Score: 1

    What happens if you don't have the Wiimote condom on and the Wiimote goes flying out of your hands? Anyone remember the lawn mower scene in "The Happening"?

  2. The solution to hardcore WoW Raiders on Japanese Astronaut Tests Stink-Free Underwear · · Score: 3, Funny

    This will become a hot commodity with hardcore raiders in Warcraft.

    "Bathroom breaks are for pansies. Pee in your undies. lol"

  3. Re:Yup on Apple and AT&T Sued, Again, Over 3G · · Score: 1, Informative

    The iPhone has absolutely destroyed AT&T's network.

    Except I can go back to 2003-2004 when I was an AT&T wireless customer and their coverage in major cities was terrible. Their coverage and network issues are not because of the iPhone (IMHO), they've been having problems longer than that.

  4. Re:For $6.5b on Sun In Talks To Be Acquired By IBM · · Score: 1

    So you are admitting on an Internet forum that you gained from stock trades due to insider information (after all your friend cited the "exact" reason why the stock would do well). Hey, someone's knocking on your door.... what do the initials SEC mean? :)

  5. Re:Water? on Using Lasers and Water Guns To Clean Space Debris · · Score: 1

    But it's perfect. As the polar ice caps melt, the oceans rise and will one day flood out coastal cities. So, we start now by exporting salt water into space thus saving the world! (Or at least coastal cities from flooding.)

  6. Re:Selfish Slashdot on The CDA Is Dead, But States Are Trying To Revive It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My question is, how can you be sure that the information that Google provides is actually about the person you searched for?

    When performing a Google search on my name (first and last in quotes) I can make out at least three different people on the first page. Which one is me? Which one is the chemist? And which one is the guy who died on a passenger ship in the first half of the 1900s? I know the answer, but how would anyone else?

    So, maybe there is a Heide Iravani who has an STD and slept her way to the top. But it may be about a different Heide Iravani than the one who is filing a lawsuit.

    You can't trust Google to provide you the information on an exact person.

  7. Re:Will it fly? on Dell Selling Dual-Boot Laptops · · Score: 1

    Ummmm... LPARs have been part of the System z line of IBM Mainframes for some time now. So the ability to run multiple operating systems concurrently on a single piece of hardware is not new.

  8. Re:Considering the Rush Job... on Major Spike in Security Threats To Online Games · · Score: 1

    Yup, the big money being made from WoW is to steal a person's login information. Log into the compromised account and 'trade' the characters property and gold to another character, friendly with the attacker. The gold is then sold for real life money through a third-party website.

    I'm sure someone can come up with the step-by-step directions on how to profit, but I'm feeling lazy atm.

  9. Re:Nobody... on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm not going to say nobody gets fired from IBM. However, from the perspective of a non-IBMer who has friends and contacts with IBMers around the country getting told your position is being cut isn't the same as turn in your badge on the way out. You usually get a couple weeks to a month to slide into a different job. The project you may be working on now may not be important enough to keep it staffed the way it is. But go find another project to work on and you can do a lateral move and keep on working. That's why (IMHO) IBM doesn't want to talk about how many jobs they are cutting because not that many people may really be out of a job.

  10. Networks want to delay on US House Kills Proposed Delay For Digital TV Transition · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the Houston Chronicle this morning there was an interesting blurb about the delay. Basically, the networks want to delay the switch-over because they don't want it to happen in the middle of the season. They are afraid of losing viewers (and thus advertising dollars) from people who aren't ready for DTV. They'd rather wait until spring/summer when they are airing re-runs.

  11. Why pay per text message? on What Carriers Don't Want You To Know About Texting · · Score: 1

    Can someone tell me why people pay per text message still? Verizon doesn't charge me per txt regardless of how many I send or receive or who I send them to and who their provider is. I'll admit, it's wrapped up into my $99 data/phone plan I have. But still, if people are worried about getting charged out the wazoo because they like to text people, get on a plan that includes unlimited text messages.