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  1. Re:Meanwhile... on RealNetworks Releases Helix Source · · Score: 2

    Typo..cut a guy some slack.

  2. Re:Meanwhile... on RealNetworks Releases Helix Source · · Score: 4, Funny

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  3. Re:Next Week On Ask Slashdot... on Build Your Own PowerPC? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "I need an avacado, a snorkel, and a screwdriver."

    "But.."

    "Don't argue with me, man, I've made bongs out of less."

  4. Re:Shreve Systems on Build Your Own PowerPC? · · Score: 2, Troll

    That's the place next to Muddy May Suggin's Gator Farm, isn't it?

  5. Re:What about the latency? on Handshake via the Internet · · Score: 2

    I can't even BEGIN to tell you what's wrong with that code. For starters, trying actually writing some code for that subroutine and maybe do something with the $i variable. Just a thought.

  6. Re:electroic signture. on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 2

    Yeah, that idea is basically the thought process behind "Predator" style camoflauge. A great idea, but I think the processing power required would be unbelievable. Laying down on the desert floor is one thing, but imagine the same guy sprinting down a supermarket isle and the suit trying to keep up with the thousands of colors and shapes flying at it..some SERIOUS processing power would be needed to handle that kind of rapid changing.

  7. Re:The bigger question on Hilary Rosen Defeated at Oxford Union · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You don't need the distribution because you've found an illegal, alternative option. The morality of the law is moot in this arguement so let's not get into it. Bank robbers can't use the arguement that walking in to a Bank of America with guns was their chosen alternative to a job, can they?

  8. Re:Stop Crying Damnit on Burn A Song For 99 Cents · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a pessimistic view. I'm more realist. I really don't see the dark ages of computing just around the corner.

    And please, for the love of God please, no one respond with "well the DCMA got passed!". I get a massive laugh out of that.."Damn DCMA got passed..doesn't seem to have effected my download of 20 gigs of warez and mp3's a day, but it's still evil!"

  9. Oh my god..tears in my eyes. on Burn A Song For 99 Cents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They're actually changing their business model to coincide with modern times. I'd like to believe music companies generally care about their customers. This may be the first step to realizing that dream.

    Honestly, from this point on, if I want an mp3, I'll check to see if one of those labels are the labels that the artist in question is on, if so, they get my 99 cents.

  10. Re:Too funny. on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 2

    Depends. If you have a property pass, not much. If you didn't though, you could be arrested by security. Or shot, depending on much you tried to fight for the router.

  11. Re:Basement Server Rooms. on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 4, Funny

    As a long time Customer Engineeer for a major manufacture

    I'll take a blonde, 6 feet tall, please. Make her lippy, but only to a point. Oh, and she has to know how to cook. Nothing special, just the basics. Thanks.

  12. Too funny. on The Most Dangerous Server Rooms · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's all about removing floor tiles and then forgetting to set up warning cones. The clearance between our tiles and the concrete floor underneath is a good 4 or 5 feet; I would not want to fall stiff-legged into that.

    Interesting side note: apparently finding high-priced Cisco gear not connected to anything is not that uncommon. I've also heard horror stories of guy that traced a cable my hand(toner was on the fritz) that looped 4 times around the data center but wasn't hooked up to shit, on either end. Took him an entire afternoon.

  13. Re:Uh... What? on ECCp-109 Solved · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must sit still. Must...find...something...cogent...to...say...

    That wasn't it.

  14. Re:Dunno... on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 2

    During take off and landing? Last time I flew I was asked to put away my portable diskman(ever since watching Hackers, I need to play 'Halcyon' when I take off and land..)

  15. Re:A workaround, and a musing on Ebay vs. Musician · · Score: 2

    It's my understanding that silver-bottom cd-r's aren't even burned, they're stamped, and that the process is too expensive for a normal person to ever hope of doing it.

  16. Re:Reproducing robots.... on Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn, you went down like a syphalitic whore. Me, I'm keeping on.

  17. Re:Misleading. on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 2

    Damn, you're all over my nuts. Lemme get you a towel.

  18. Misleading. on U.S. Ranks 17th in Freedom of the Press · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder if this takes into account private interest groups attempting to censoring, and often succeeding, stories that speak bad of them, a la the scientologist?

  19. 83% on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: 2

    and from all the nothing you see out there, you would think that 83% is a bit high

    Yes, but you see the nothing. The article said "directly affected by human agency", it never said it was developed land. A 4 lane highway running through the desert is still human influence. Not to mention all the shit you can't see, such as military outpost, radio communications equipment, and ESPECIALLY all the dirt roads probably running through that, and every area of North American desert. Have you ever flown over the south western United States at night. I've done it quite a few times, and you can ALWAYS see some light down there, it's never completely dark. Be it a farm, a house, a ninja training camp, whatever. It's all developed, if even only slightly.

  20. Re:Hmmm on Humans Use 83 Percent of Earth's Surface · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but the article says "land area". Whenever I attempt to fish on land I don't get shit. Except land sharks, but that's a whole other story.

  21. Paper. on Anoto-based Pens From Logitech · · Score: 2, Redundant

    What's the point of the special paper anyway? What makes it special and how does it relate to the storing digitally of what you wrote? I dont' see why regular notebook paper wouldn't suffice for writing stuff down the old school way while the pen digitally stored that information.

  22. Re:So? on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: 1

    That yes, ants can be trained to assort tiny screws in space.

  23. Re:At seventeen.... on Music and the Internet Reprise · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, I have to do it, please forgive me:

    When I was seventeen,
    I drank a very good beer.
    I drank a very good beer I purchased
    with a fake ID.
    It said my name was Brian McGee.
    I stayed up listening to Queen.
    When I was seventeen.

  24. Re:Geek-Chic? on Geek-Chic Power Houses · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yes and no. True geek chicks, chicks that actually no their shit, usually aren't too hot. They are, however, freaks. Nothing is off limits. Mostly because of that whole "beggars can't be choosers" maxim. If you've seen it done in a porn flick odds are that one weird tech club girl will be down. Take advantage.

    The other side of the spectrum: The girlfriend's of geeks. 95% of the time they are balls to the wall hot. Cute chicks love dorks. Some guy in my LUG group took this girl he barely knew to ComicCon. Super fine chick. He walked around with a shirt on that said 'pedophile' while she wore one that said 'underage' and she was down with it. She also seemed very comfortable with making out with strange girls, something he and his camera didn't mind one bit. Remember: the hotties love the geeks, provided you know when to shut up about the geek shit.

  25. Re:"Wooden game pieces do not...immersive experien on MMORPG Economies Explored in Depth · · Score: 3, Informative

    Your last sentence is laughable. It's a countless hour thrill in a 4+ year world where everything is just beyond your grasp. That is Everquest.