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  1. A burning question. on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 5, Funny

    They didn't explain why I have to get 5 kills to get an airstrike :(

  2. Re:Truecrypt on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 0

    Even better yet you could put the Firefox profile inside the Truecrypt volume. Edit C:\Users\your_name\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\profiles.ini to look something like this: [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=0 Path=F:\Firefox\Profiles\pg4u527p.default In this case the F: drive was the mounted Truecrypt drive with the path to the Firefox profile.

  3. Screwattack.com Hard News on EA Comes Under Fire for Shady PR Stunts · · Score: 0

    Cool guys over there. No bullshit.

  4. Re:javascript whitelisting ? on Chrome 4.0 Vs. Opera 10 Vs. Firefox 3.5 · · Score: 0

    The lack of NoScript and Adblock Plus are the only things keeping me from using Chrome. They allow for quick and easy permissions to be allowed, there is no editing a text file or reading the source code of a page to find domains, just a couple clicks.

  5. They forgot Adobe Reader/Acrobat. on Mozilla To Protect Adobe Flash Users · · Score: 0

    Everyone is using ancient versions of that also.

  6. I started file sharing in 1986?! on How 136 People Became 7 Million Illegal File-Sharers · · Score: 0

    I have not purchased any music for myself since 1986 when I was a kid. MP3's first started to appear in 1994, Napster in 2000. I do not live in the UK, I am in the US, but I think it's safe to say that the majority of people even in developed countries do not purchase music at all anyway. Our numbers are growing I think. The record companies are so up their ass in how awesome they are that they forget most people don't give a shit. More and more people find other ways to entertain themselves. I do listen to music and the sources I use do not require money or illegal activities.

    PS Check out Ronald Jenkees for some good music. About the only stuff I might end up buying since 1986, it's good.

  7. Or wait 5 years and buy it at newegg for $280 on Build Your Own $2.8M Petabyte Disk Array For $117k · · Score: 2, Funny

    and save $2,799,720.

  8. Easy answer. on Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet · · Score: 0

    Clearly the orbit is artificial, the planet has been moved by an Alien race hiding under the thick atmosphere.

  9. Re:Running out of cats? on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 0

    Apple OSX Tabby 10.17.0

  10. The portable gaming genius on A History of the Shrinking Game Console · · Score: 0

    This guy will tell you all you need to know about the Gameboy. Demonstrating an addon and mod you probably didn't know about, as well as showing a portable game system for drug dealers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgN2Rtgt9Vg&feature=channel_page

  11. Re:i wonder ... on Looking For a Link Between Sci-Fi UFOs and UFO Reports · · Score: 0

    I thought I was the only one who realized this!

  12. Re:Obligatory on The Problems With Porting Games · · Score: 0

    Originally I stopped playing console games at the n64/ps1 generation because the graphics were so bad I couldn't see wtf was going on. I could not understand why they would want to go away from pretty 2d to butt ugly 3d. This is when I started PC gaming. Then I got a ps2 cause it looked decent again but by this time I had become weened off of console controllers and was deep into PC gaming. Ever since I simply prefer PC games and cannot bring myself to use a console controller. This is the only reason I don't game on consoles. If console makers ever get with the program and allow mouse and keyboards for appropriate games then I will get a console again.

  13. Re:My electricity bill was $375 last month. on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 0

    Well the house is made of concrete blocks with insulation all around inside. The roof is new as well as the insulation because the hurricane blew all our old 1970's insulation away lol We did put new windows and glass doors on too, the super heavy double pained impact resistant stuff for hurricanes.

    As for going underground, you can't here in south Florida, you will hit water after 4-15 feet of digging. Many rural homes here each have their own well instead of city supplied water.

  14. I use R-wipe to delete flash cookies/etc. on Adobe Flash Cookies Raising Privacy Questions Again · · Score: 0

    Got it scheduled to run periodically and it never causes a problem. Of course I also use ABP and Noscript so most the flash objects I do get are ones that are safe anyway. For those interested Flash stores it's crap in: C:\Users\nicon\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects Probably somewhat similar on other OS' user home directories as well.

  15. My electricity bill was $375 last month. on Chevy Volt Rated At 230 mpg In the City · · Score: 0

    South of Miami Florida, with AC on 78F 24/7 because of health problems, 1 computer+network equipment on 24/7 drawing 264W, 1 computer on 8hrs a day drawing 120W, and two TV's on intermittently. What will my electricity bill be when I have to plug in my car driving a total of 350 miles/week. I only spend about $32/week on gas.

  16. Blame Nintendo and Rare software. on Times Are Tough For Nigerian Scammers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine being tricked by a con artist named Banjo. I wonder if he has a friend Kazooie.

  17. Re:Please don't on Will Mainstream Media Embrace Adblockers? · · Score: 0

    YouTube has ads in their flash videos?

  18. possibly vegetation?????? on NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth · · Score: 0

    They must have detected the huge tree in my front yard, it's the only vegetation on the planet besides a few trillion other plants.

  19. Stunts you say. on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 0

    If blowing people up into space isn't a stunt then I don't know what is.

  20. Re:Great! on Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel · · Score: 0

    Agreed, it's as if someone forgot that time goes forward instead of backwards. We want to know what happens *next*.

  21. 1/10th lightspeed? lol on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 0

    The reason why nobody wants to talk to us is because we make statements like this: "Various analyses suggest that using spacecraft that travel at a tenth of the speed of light, the colonization wavefront could take some 50 million years to sweep the galaxy." Other civilizations don't talk to us for the same reason most people don't want to go to the jungle and hang out with cannibals. We are backwards and dangerous. I would venture to say that we are blockaded and travel to Earth is considered a crime.

  22. I wanna be a TiTTY inspector. on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll take the job!

  23. Re:Space Quest on Which Game Series Would You Reboot? · · Score: 1

    Yes! Space Quest 7!

  24. I thank my 8th grade teacher for illegible writing on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 1

    My handwriting is literally illegible to anyone but me however I can write extremely fast. I literally have my own alphabet now. Why you ask? All thanks to my 6-8th grade private school teacher Mr Boyette. I have no idea how many thousands of pages of hierarchical outline notes I must have taken from those damn classes. He graded solely by the notes we take in his class and we were forced to write down every single thing he said. He was insanely organized and I think he might have been schizophrenic.

  25. Re:The end is nigh on Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    True, but do you wanna be the one to tell NASA they have to stop playing with model rockets and develop a real method of space travel.