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  1. Re:The only reason I got a SoundBlaster. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 1

    And then some games wouldn't let you do that... I ended up building a little switch panel for my SB16 to change the irq and dma quickly. And then there was always the one friend who would move the switches while the PC was on...

  2. Re:Beat nightmare mode on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story? · · Score: 1

    I recorded a belching contest we had at a BBQ and replaced all the gibbing sounds with snippets from it. It was hilarious at the time (hey we were teenagers). The notion of being able to put our own content inside a videogame was really liberating.

  3. Re:Power WILL be abused on The NYPD Was Ticketing Legally Parked Cars; Open Data Put an End to It (tumblr.com) · · Score: 1

    I got one of these. Fight $120 ticket, waste all day, win, pay $105 court costs. I billed the DMV for my time at minimum wage but they never replied.

  4. Too late on 'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Every time any newsworthy science is generated about this vessel, the Boaty McBoatface story will be referenced.

  5. according to this documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. it's LOGO turtles all the way down.

  7. Here, use mine on Is the $400 Billion F-35's 'Brain' Broken? (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
  8. Translation on Utah Governor: 'Porn Is a Public Health Crisis' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Utah Governor: "I've decided to make the Internet hate me for the rest of my life"

  9. Re:a vital protein known as the 'Sonic hedgehog ge on Human Limbs Evolved From Shark Fins Thanks To Sonic Hedgehog Gene (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... This protein is named after a 1990s Italian TV character that would video-bomb various shows by hitting himself in the nuts with a plastic bottle. So, be glad it's "just" Sonic.

  10. http://boards.4chan.org/pol/th... here's the self-congratulatory thread.

  11. Pratchett's Woodpecker on Once Thought Safe, DDR4 Memory Shown To Be Vulnerable To 'Rowhammer' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I know it's a problem, but love how this works. Wonder if it was around when Going Postal was written.

  12. Re:How about one law to eliminate handguns? on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    That's because they have katanas and monofilament wires and wrist rocket launchers.

  13. Re:No middle ground on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that this would disqualify me from owning a firearm because I can't aim for beans.

  14. Re:Expanded BG checks impractical on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    standardizing and mandating weapons to be distributed to citizens so that they could be conscripted in case of an armed conflict is kind of what the Swiss did.

  15. Re:Expanded BG checks impractical on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you protect yourself against the wildlife?

  16. No middle ground on Study Finds 3 Laws Could Reduce Firearm Deaths By 90% (meta.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My position on guns has me yelled at by both sides. I would like something like a driver's license to be required for buying guns and ammo. The license is earned (ideally at no cost or at a very nominal fee) by demonstrating that you can shoot what you are aiming at, clean a gun safely, and store it properly. You can lose this license by committing a violent crime with a firearm, being drunk or high with a firearm on you, or leaving your firearm unsecured where small children can get to it. Apparently this stance makes me a horrible monster to both sides of the debate.

  17. Re: What SEO spam? on No More Public Access To Google PageRank Scores · · Score: 1

    Same here. I added a header that says, with a bit of ascii/unicode steganography, "the password to edit all the pages is DERP" and it went mostly away.... for now :)

  18. Looks like it's 1234 on How Common Is Your PIN? (datagenetics.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    incredible! it's the same PIN as my luggage!

  19. Re:I don't think NYC will like this on Scientists To Drill Into 'Ground Zero' of the Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    If they turn into the Koopa Towers, then we definitely have a problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  20. Fox: Reasonably good chance of grapes being sour on San Bernardino Police: Reasonably Good Chance Nothing Of Value On Shooter's iPhone (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    n/t

  21. Terrorist organization going after a billionaire on ISIS Makes Direct Threats Against Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You know, if you put Robert Downey on it, it'd make for a good movie.

  22. Can we donate? on Cox Stands Pat, Won't Spy On Customers To Appease Copyright Holders (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, they should do a gofundme.

  23. You must construct additional pylons on Porsche Builds Photovoltaic Pylon, Offsetting Luddite Position On Self-Drive (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
  24. My 8 month old laptop has a VGA port on In Memoriam: VGA (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    it's a gaming laptop, which works great for gaming and GA stuff. It has VGA output and HDMI output. With a bit of love, they can even output different images.