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  1. Re:Hmmm... on LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake" · · Score: 1

    How long do we have before it goes further back and destroys humanity?

    Too long.

    [There is a smirk, after which the petting of the white cat begins.]

  2. Re:False analogy. on Professors Banning Laptops In the Lecture Hall · · Score: 1

    Not to mention it's also a creative endeavor of some sort, as opposed to mindless absorption of memes and various related drivel.

  3. Re:90-110 WPM is fast on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Never been less important on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 1

    The futre of lnguage is going 2 b a lvly place, lol.

  5. Re:I'm ok with my poor typing technique... on Correcting Poor Typing Technique? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doing it the right way is very important. Well, that's what a typing teacher I had back in high school used to tell me, anyway. She'd give me bad grades because I pressed certain keys differently than I was "supposed" to. For whatever reason, despite this, I still typed much faster than she did.

  6. Re:It's the freeloaders time on Ars Technica Inveighs Against Ad Blocking · · Score: 2, Funny

    I won a few of those plush boxing monkeys from Treeloot a long time ago, if that's what you were referring to by the boxing monkey. MORE BOXING MONKEYS.

  7. Re:Hydrophopic on New "Hairy" Material Is Almost Perfectly Hydrophobic · · Score: 1

    Sure, but in the end, society has to foot the bill.

  8. Re:It should have been phased out... on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Penny-fraction-pinching? Sir, that figure you've mentioned is fifty pennies! Why, with those, I could buy...

    ...

    ...those are FIFTY WHOLE PENNIES, SIR, AND I INTEND TO KEEP THEM!

  9. Re:Final Fantasy 7 on PC on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 1

    I've had an eye out for the best current experience for FF7 for a while now, and after checking out the PS3 version of FF7, I can say it does look very nice on an HDTV. The only thing an emulator probably has on it are thing such as anti-aliasing and additional texture filtering. The pre-rendered backgrounds did look a bit better on the PS3 though; they were somewhat pixelated for me in ePSXe, regardless of what options I changed, or plugins were used.

  10. Re:Awful ports? on When PC Ports of Console Games Go Wrong · · Score: 1

    I... I thought I was the only one! There are others like me! Oh, joyous day!

  11. Re:Not helpful on Aussie Internet Censorship Minister Censors Self · · Score: 1

    A big fat "I told you so" from the entire IT industry would be in order.

    LOL THOAS DUMB NERDS, I BET THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY KIDS, LOL! GIT SUM PUSSY!

    (Note: Though I agree with you, this is the likely response. I'm convinced the only thing a human being truly understands, in this type of situation, is violence.)

  12. Re:Welcome to the future! on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 1

    I should clarify then that I think the point is mostly no one should be able to say, "no one can have this, ever." In reference to media, mostly, since I'm not sure why someone would need to go to the Pharma-Mart and pick up a flask of hydrofluoric acid.

  13. Re:Welcome to the future! on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my question was mostly rhetorical. Unfortunately, I'm already aware that my problem is that other people have problems. =*(

  14. Re:if everyone ignored the quacks... on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    I say we just wait, justice may come in on a wing and a prayer.

  15. Re:Yeah sure... on DirectX 11 Coming To Browser Games · · Score: 1

    Where can I download one of these new-fangled "Web Browsers?" I've heard something about this Fox Fire, can you share some more information?

  16. Re:For some... on The Grown-Up Video Game · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered how lunatic nutjobs like that fellow come into power, or at least popularity. It doesn't make any sense to me. So far as I can tell, it encompasses only screaming insensibly, whilst simultaneously flailing ones appendages in a delirious fashion.

    Those things, I wish I were good at them. Then I could be influential, too. Perhaps some day, in dreams...

  17. Welcome to the future! on AU Internet Censorship Spells Bad News For Gamers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why can't we simply accept that this is the 21st century, and nothing should be censored? Ever. Don't want to see the content within a particular video game? Great, don't look at it. That's your right. It is also mine to masturbate to bloody, mutilated appendages if I so choose. Please replace "video game" above with any applicable form of media.

  18. Re:Russian mob was doing this in the 1990's on Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers In Gas Pumps · · Score: 1

    When this is the only choice, as should be the case, yes. This would require someone to own only seventeen yachts as opposed to forty-two, however, so quite clearly this will not be happening.

  19. Re:Great on Criminals Hide Payment-Card Skimmers In Gas Pumps · · Score: 1

    I suppose if I were to insert some sort of device between my keyboard and computer, in order to facilitate the capturing of keystrokes, that typing would then "feel weird," too.

  20. Re:Window analogy on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 1

    So, let's see if I understand this correctly. There is a house, with windows, and these windows are not covered by curtains. If I am looking through the window and reading an important document, I am stealing information. You're right: that is incorrect.

  21. Re:Lock, what lock? on Newspaper "Hacks Into" Aussie Gov't Website By Guessing URL · · Score: 1

    The affected government minister said that the website was accessed 3,727 times, and that this is 'akin to 3,727 attempts to turn the doorknob of an insecure office and kindly stick its head in the sand highly confidential documents like an ostrich, which then bleats, choking itself to death.'

    There, fixed that for you, Mr. Minister.

    There, fixed that for you.

    I think we can finally settle on this one.

  22. Re:This is absurd on Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks · · Score: 1

    "It's not the size that matters, honey, it's that it shoots $100 bills is what's important!"

  23. Re:Women don't know what they want on Researchers Say Women Secretly Desire Hairy Geeks · · Score: 1

    It is, just not to women.

  24. Re:Just so you get the pronunciation right... on Time Bomb May Have Destroyed 800 Norfolk City PCs' Data · · Score: 1

    No, Norfolk isn't in New Jersey.

  25. Re:The guy's right on Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs · · Score: 1

    No, because you suggested that the reason he had not received threats from biker gangs was because he had not previously supported legislation against them. However, that is completely, irrefutably incorrect.

    Hur dur.