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  1. Re:Still not a PADD on Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD · · Score: 1

    yea, in fact just started over from the beginning. Last night watch TOS ep2 where Kirk takes a security force to a researcher that just wanted to be left alone. Instead he ended up dead along with his alien companion and a few pre-redshirts. (ie they weren't actually wearing red shirts)

  2. Re:Jumping to conclusions on New "Last Dinosaur" Find Backs Asteroid Extinction · · Score: 1

    Just like a loose correlation between atmospheric carbon and temperature rise doesn't mean SUVs are killing the earth.

  3. Re:extinctions on New "Last Dinosaur" Find Backs Asteroid Extinction · · Score: 2

    how dare you deny the impact theory. Just because there's valid questions to it doesn't mean it's not true and we should blindly believe everything that is said about it. Raise taxes and fund steps that may or may not do any good.

  4. Re:Still not a PADD on Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD · · Score: 1

    So, two people that have been drinking their respective brands of koolaid having a conversation is then total reality within the imagined universe?

  5. Re:BSoD will be replaced on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    It is always fun to shack the shitter enough to give someone smurf butt.

  6. Re:Are You Telling Me ... on Why SOE Decided To Cancel Star Wars Galaxies · · Score: 1

    I don't know about your car, but mine pays of daily. Sure the cars resale value may go down, but it gets me back and forth to work daily, takes me to the store, drops my son of at school, drives to my parents or out of town on vacations. It's value to me is much higher than it's resale value.

  7. Re:Still not a PADD on Turn Your iPad Into a Star Trek PADD · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Star Trek was very Orwellian, other than it just stared the people that got the benefits of the oppressed rather than the people that were oppressed.

  8. Re:Freaks and Wackos on Technology and Moral Panic · · Score: 2

    Actually they are adapting quite well to the entitlement society we have. It seems the more we use public funds to support incompetent people the more incompetent people we get.

  9. Re:Wow, talk about version inflation on Firefox 8 20% Faster Than Firefox 5 · · Score: 1

    It'd be amusing to see Chrome switch to a X.x versioning scheme and see if the fallout is the same.

  10. Re:In My Opinion, More So a Lack of Understanding on Technology and Moral Panic · · Score: 0

    I don't mean to embarrass you by pointing out your mistake, but you said "tea party" when you meant "progressives."

    Or perhaps you could have posted both.

  11. Re:I've read the proposed treatment on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 2

    Sounds like my general review of most porns

    The pacing starts out a little slow, but by the ending it really flies with a back-and-forth recklessness that is thrilling. Then I lose interest.

  12. Re:Problem on Fitness Site Accidentally Shows Sexual Activity · · Score: 2

    "Your tone suggests that you think your opinion has a deeper truth behind it. I hate it when people take that kind of superior attitude."

    Ohh, the irony.

  13. Re:There's a point when... on Are You Too Good For Code Reviews? · · Score: 2

    Ohh, and it does what the customer expected...or was that part optional?

  14. Re:So what ? on NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink · · Score: 1

    " You do realize that what you flush down the toilet goes to a large tank where the solids settle out then the remaining liquids are drained into the ground water and sent right back to your faucet, don't you?

    there is that better?

  15. Re:That is one beta test I am glad I am not part o on NASA's New Bag Turns Urine Into Sports Drink · · Score: 3, Funny

    taste tester: "which of these three samples taste the least like piss?"

  16. Re:Say waht you will about MS on Bill Gates On Energy · · Score: 2

    The problem Bill Gates is outlining is that all the subsidies are going to deployments which means that solar companies can sell what they have right now with no need to increase efficiency. The government is stagnating the solar industries research and development because of this. In 10-15 years, if trends continue, we'll have a bunch of rich solar companies that got rich of of government money deploying existing, old tech and not bothering to develop anything new.

  17. Re:Windows Phone on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Accepting that software patents exist and are considered real property. Also assuming their claims are valid.

    How can it be any form of anti-trust for them to sell licenses of their patent for what ever they wanted to?

  18. Re:Example please on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    We paid a bunch of people to do a job. When the job was done they were so pissed we didn't continue to employee them that they decided to blow up two buildings in New York, part of one near DC and attempt of one in DC?

  19. Re:Enough with the "Fake" Flying Cars Already on Star Wars Landspeeders Are Here · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry these flying cars and jetpacks don't live up to your standard. Can we see your flying car and jet pack prototypes? I'd be very interested.

  20. Re:Microsoft becoming a lawyer company à la S on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    Yes, but they are very nice Lawyers.

  21. Re:The line from Corporate America on China's Coal Power Plants Mask Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Obviously with that kind of pay difference we should all be working on becoming a CEO. I'd be much more curious to the actual numbers compared to all categories: unskilled labor, skilled labor and technical labor. CEOs are just the top of the sales staff, of course they drive most everything as the most productive person in labor is useless if you can't sale the product.

  22. Re:Turrorists. on America: Like It Or Unfriend It · · Score: 2

    "...most of us know a couple people from High-school who ruined their lives with drugs. "

    I also know people that didn't amount to anything and were never on drugs. As well as some who still do drugs 20 years later who are quit successful, well adjusted, productive members of society. I've always thought there may be a strong a correlation not equal to causation issue with this.

  23. Re:"Failed to take off" on Police Vulture Training Not a Success · · Score: 1

    how long are you going to carrion like this?

  24. Re:Lying to Congress on Climate Skeptic Funded By Oil and Coal Companies · · Score: 1

    You must be really freaking old.

  25. Re:The obvious question on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 5, Informative

    Right in main.c

      Crafty, copyright 1996-2010 by Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D., Associate Professor
      of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

      Crafty is a team project consisting of the following members. These are the people involved in the continuing development of this program, there are no particular members responsible for any specific aspect of Crafty.

      * Michael Byrne, Pen Argyle, PA.
      * Robert Hyatt, University of Alabama at Birmingham
      * Tracy Riegle, Hershey, PA.
      * Peter Skinner, Edmonton, AB Canada.
      * Ted Langreck

      All rights reserved. No part of this program may be reproduced in any form or by any means, for other than your personal use, without the express written permission of the authors. This program may not be used in whole, nor in part, to enter any computer chess competition without written permission from the authors. Such permission will include the requirement that the program be entered under the name "Crafty" so that the program's ancestry will be known.

      Copies of the source must contain the original copyright notice intact.

      Any changes made to this software must also be made public to comply with the original intent of this software distribution project. These restrictions apply whether the distribution is being done for free or as part or all of a commercial product. The authors retain sole ownership and copyright on this program except for 'personal use' explained below.

    Personal use includes any use you make of the program yourself, either by playing games with it yourself, or allowing others to play it on your machine, and requires that if others use the program, it must be clearly identified as "Crafty" to anyone playing it (on a chess server as one example). Personal use does not allow anyone to enter this into a chess tournament where other program authors are invited to participate. IE you can do your own local tournament, with Crafty + other programs, since this is for your personal enjoyment. But you may not enter Crafty into an event where it will be in competition with other programs/programmers without permission as stated previously.