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  1. Re:Will cause more headaches due to EXACTNESS on TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication · · Score: 1

    Legally change it. If you have a compound surname, no information is lost as Delahoya vs. De La Hoya, and if you have a compound given name, adopt the first for common usage, aka Billy vs. Billy Bob.

  2. Hammer in search of nail on CDC Reports 1 In 88 Children Now Affected With Autism In the US · · Score: 1

    Autism is the new ADD.

  3. Who does this guy think he is? on Notch Wants To Make a Firefly-Inspired Sandbox Space Game · · Score: 0

    Notch? One name capitalised, like Prince was before he went insane? Does the moron speak of himself in the third person as well?

  4. Re:Oh no! National interest trumping the Free Mark on Australian Gov't Bans Huawei From National Network Bids · · Score: -1, Troll

    stfu u moron

  5. What if on Dutch Artist Admits Faking Viral 'Human Bird Wing' Video · · Score: 1

    What would be cool would be power-assisted bird-style wings, something that detects flapping motion and compensates for the subtle positions to remain aerodynamic. If done smoothly the flyer would 'feel' stronger and would experience the actual sense of self-powered flight. How cool would that be.

  6. Exploit to exploit on Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow. That puts huge incentive on planting moles in projects with wide distribution simply for the aim of writing exploitable code.

  7. It has to have that classic feel on Atari Wants To Reinvent Pong · · Score: 1

    It won't be true to the spirit of pong unless it burns lines into the screen.

  8. Wrong day on 10 Ways To Celebrate Pi Day · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it have been at 9:16:33.600 on the 4th?

  9. Re:$60 games? Luxury! on Can $60 Games Survive? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What happened was the AUD was weak, so Aussies got used to paying a premium, even when what they paid was a higher percentage of earnings compared to Americans. Then the AUD got stronger, but they still pay the premium! 5 years after moving here, I still buy media content from the US and have it shipped for less than it can be bought domestically.

    I put it down to the same reason why it costs $2 for a candy bar in Australia (more than double what the same candy costs in the US): Because they're stupid enough to be happy to pay it.

  10. Re:Obvious omissions on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 1

    Ah of course :) Replace King Graham with You = RPG. Thanks.

  11. Obvious omissions on Computer Games That Defined RPGs In the 1980s · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sierra Games was big back in the day, and the Kings Quest series from memory were almost as big as the Leisure Suit Larry series.

  12. $2mil per corpse on When Are You Dead? · · Score: 2

    If I'm worth that much dead, there should be a market for selling organ rights, where what's successfully harvested yields a payment to my estate. That in turn would make the organ market more liquid and efficient, and bring down the cost of organs.

  13. And nobody cares on Australia's Telstra Requires Fibre Customers To Use Copper Telephone · · Score: 1

    The copper's in place and it's voice-grade communication we're talking about here. Oh and why is anything a population half the size of California does even /.-worthy?

  14. Rain man with wings on Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper · · Score: 1

    Parrots live very long lives, how tantalising to study what may have been a savant from another species that couldn't score with chicks but really great with maths.

  15. Editorial standards have gone to absolute shIt on US Research Open Access In Peril · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of boneheaded laws with no chance of passing are proposed by clueless legislators. The OP needs to learn a thing or three million about what constitutes NEWSWORTHY.

  16. Re:Who's fault is it? on Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts · · Score: 1

    Who is fault is it? I'm sorry but I keep staring at what you wrote and it makes absolutely no sense.

  17. How to be BUFH and get even on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 1

    Park an unsecured wireless router in a drawer and turn it on. Don't plug it into the network of course.

  18. Re:Now if only ... on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'd -1 you if I had any mod points. One of the more blatant reasons why Redundant and Off Topic are to be used.

  19. Re:The biggest problem with the movie industry... on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    What have you been smoking nubcakes? Have you ever tried to leach a b&w movie from the 40's??

  20. Re:The biggest problem with the movie industry... on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    This point is absolutely absurd. The release of a crap movie does nothing to diminish the quantity of previously-released quality films.

  21. Sad on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit sad that it's reported he was found dead in his home. Dying alone, even with a terminal illness, sounds... lonely.

  22. Rocket Man on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    How firmly was your tongue in your cheek when recording Rocket Man?

  23. Hindsight on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    In hindsight, do you wish you had been in better shape before allowing your shirt to get torn off in the 60's?

  24. This is newsworthy how? Does an ISP rollout in California, which has ******************DOUBLE******************* the population, get a /. post?

  25. Re:On Greatness on 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes · · Score: 0

    The country which ceases to laugh at it's own foibles ceases to be great.

    The same can be said for sciences.

    Cheers for a little levity in an often very dry field.

    its, idiot