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  1. Higher Power on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let the Supreme Court decide.

  2. nostalgia on Looking Back At the Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    This made me feel so good I had to run downstairs and cut a notch into a single-sided floppy to make it a DS DD. And damn those disk-notchers. A pen knife is the tool of the true hardware hacker!

  3. Re:Sounds Like a Hoax Right Up Until You Read the on Paypal Orders Buyer of Violin To Destroy It For a Refund · · Score: 3, Funny

    Zombieland, the girls did it with a ring in the gas station.

    Two girls, one ring?

  4. Re:And, as usual... on Cleaning Up the Mess After a Major Hack Attack · · Score: 2

    As any c-level will tell you: emails or it didn't happen.

  5. Wrong Crowd on What's Keeping You On XP? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    No one on / still uses that as their main PC. To the companies that do: You must be stupid, stupid, stupid.

  6. Politics, over the wire on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    The internet has always had an important part in politics, but it would be difficult for anyone to say that the internet is a political machine.

    Jump forward to 2012 and we have a virtual doomsday, forced by politicians upon the internet, causing the machine to BE political, not just have a role. This Pre-Mayan apocalypse will be a revelation at first - a change of such massive proportions that everyone will be stunned by it - and then will morph over time to become part of the internet vs politics gamesmanship that is sure to follow for many years to come.

    This will be a truly awesome spectacle for some time.

  7. And then there was truth on Why the Occupy Movement Skipped Silicon Valley · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Homes over a million hold their value
    Companies can't offshore fast enough
    Young people can work hard and be fooled into thinking that they will make a fortune.

  8. Re:Reflection? on UK Police Test 'Temporarily Blinding' LASER · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure someone will figure out a way to reflect (mirror?) back to the source.

    Source the to back (mirror?) reflect to way a out figure will someone sure I'm.

  9. Re:TV ain't broken? on TV Isn't Broken, So Why Fix It? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Advertising has been the driver behind commercial TV for decades. Money still pours in non-stop to commercial networks and some are looking to capitalize even more with product ordering forms in case you thought it couldn't get any worse.

  10. Fast Reply on E-Mail Can Reveal Your Friend Hierarchy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My fastest reply is always to the person who will make me the most money. My friends can wait.

  11. great stuff on Free Software Activists Take On Google Search · · Score: 2

    It's hard to argue with "free" and "freedom", so I give it the thumbs up. But in this day and age it feels like going from a Ducati Panigale to a 1950's Triumph Bonneville.

  12. nice comments on More On Why It Stinks To Work At Zynga · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Companies display a big lack of management sklills when employees post things like:
    *Stop asking if Mark is a good CEO on a company survey that people fill out over their company-issued computers. Everyone assumes it can be tracked.
    * Expect to find yourself micromanaged by someone much less skilled than you, and who also has no skills in management.

  13. Re:We B OS on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 3, Informative

    The HP Universal is the default for all Ethernet HP printers. Try finding a different driver for anything built after 2009, even the $10,000 color laserjets.

  14. Re:We B OS on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 4, Funny

    webLos wobble but they don't fall down?

  15. We B OS on HP's Strange Obsession With WebOS For Printers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they finally realized that the "HP Universal Print Driver" is neither Universal nor a Print Driver.
    Discuss...

  16. Very important stuff on Bill Gates Takes the Stand In WordPerfect Trial · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nothing like having a defunct company bring a lawsuit 10 years after the fact, never settle, and force a trial over 15 years later. Not because Novell wasn't cool or anything, but they did manage to lose every single market advantage they had year over year until they died. Must have been some other company's fault.
    Very happy to see this judge refuse to throw this one out and make sure we all get to read about him in the press every day.

  17. weight and safety on Hybrids Safer In Crashes — Except For Pedestrians · · Score: 4, Insightful

    IIHS also found SUVs to be safer due to weight advantage. This study only looks at crashes and neglects the fact that lighter vehicles tend to stop faster and have better turn radius, which helps to prevent them from getting into accidents in the first place.

  18. harry? on Designers Build 35-Foot Robot Snake · · Score: 1

    Did they realize that unleashing this snake from the philosopher's stone has set off a chain of events resulting in the confrontation with Voldemort's final horcrux?

  19. oh snap on New Study Finds People Remember More Than They Think · · Score: 0

    I thought I forgot something but now I know I won't remember it.

  20. 90% geek on 2011 Geek IQ Test · · Score: 4, Informative
    Most of the questions actually dealt with brainy/smart/geeky stuff, however

    Question 8: In the TV series "Heroes," Hiro flashes forward

    doesn't seem to fit in the realm of truly geekworthy

  21. Re:More information on Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land · · Score: 3, Funny

    Data Update 13/11 – 12:20 UTC : - Joke reports ups and downs. NO jacuzzi, but a brownish stain coming up now and then. NO magmatic material (at least not visible) in the stain area. - The stain coloring cannot be seen on the webcam. Joke stands 150 meter above the sea level and has a better view over the sea.

    Data Update 13/11 – 12:15 UTC : Webcam live again (eruption camera not stable – wind instability or technicians working on it)

    Data Update 13/11 – 10:38 UTC : - Joke has arrived at the Naos viewpoint and reports that a new stain is forming approx. or on the location of the former jacuzzi. The new stain is brownish at the inside , green at the ourskirts and a layer of foam at the edge. - she also says that people currently in La Restinga are reporting a strong gas smell

    Data Update 13/11 – 10:27 UTC : - 10 (volcanic) earthquakes since midnight. The strongest one being a 2.7 magnitude earthquake. - The depth varying from 18 to 23 km (only -10 km depth would be a very important new event) - GPS deformation (the change of the surface because of the pressure of the magma) is relatively unchanged, which is one of the indications (in combination with harmonic tremor) that the eruption i probably still going on.

    Source

    I'm sorry but the whole thing reads like reporting from a flatulent fat man's bathtub.

  22. Re:In other words, on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    I liked all these responses to my question. Yes, very much on the Tetris level, a simple portable game for a few minutes of challenge here or there. How it came to be as popular as Tetris, is a whole other analysis for the next game examiner to dwell on.

  23. Re:In other words, on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    After playing for 20 minutes I was bored. Really, how does this compare to a truly great game? The fact that it is fun and caught on is about as important as Tetris. You aren't a world-minded guru because you do it better than someone else. And jealousy generated from my corner of the room is zilch.

  24. Re:There will be no pr0n in the .XXX domain on ICANN Begins "Land Rush" For .XXX Web Domains · · Score: 1

    But if you look for it in .xxx Frank Shilling is where you are likely to find it. Don't expect that the landrush opportunity isn't already locked up in full.

  25. qu8k on Derek Deville Answers Your Questions on Rocketry · · Score: 1

    With the name of the rocket I was wondering if your followers could call themselves qu8k3rz? That would be l33t!