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  1. Re:I have to return some videotapes on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 0

    Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

  2. I have to return some videotapes on Last Major Supplier Calls It Quits For VHS · · Score: 0

    I have to return some video tapes.

  3. Oh well "Who is John Galt?" on Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada · · Score: 0

    Oh well "Who is John Galt?"

  4. Skynet and Judgement Day on Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction · · Score: 0

    Farther out in time are risks from technologies that remain theoretical but might be developed in the next century or centuries. For instance, self-replicating nanotechnologies could destroy the ecosystem; and cognitive enhancements or recursively self-improving computers could exceed normal human ingenuity to create uniquely powerful weapons (Bostrom, 2002; Bostrom & Cirkovic, 2007; Ikle, 2006; Joy, 2000; Leslie, 1996; Posner, 2004; Rees, 2003).

    Farther out in time, I thought Judgement day was 8/29/1997.

  5. Re:It wasn't on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 0

    As absurd as 3 passwords would be, someone would just come out with 4 later on.
    Don't believe me, Perhaps you've never heard of Mach3 and/or Quatro.

  6. Re:They've got bigger problems than this... on Does Hacking Grades Warrant 20 Years in Jail? · · Score: 0

    They must be QB's at Ohio State

  7. Re:What else has changed in the last 30 years? on Crime Reduction Linked To Lead-Free Gasoline · · Score: 0

    Thank you these are now my go-to arguments for well everything.

  8. Re:Unfortunate naming on How PDAs Are Saving Lives In Africa · · Score: 0

    So,

      A. I'm not the only person to play Perfect dark

      and

      B. I'm not the only one that had that useless nugget of info stored in their long term memory

    OK I feel better now.

  9. Re:As an employer, I ask: who cares? on Don't Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I was just going to ask are you hiring?

  10. So do software developers on Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting · · Score: 0

    If gifted Children find Heavy Metal comforting it is also understandable that software developers find Heavy Metal Comforting. I mean didn't Serj from System of a Down finance the band with profits from a Software company he owned. That is amazing to me.

  11. Re:MacLeod? on Study Provides Compelling Evidence of Single Impact Extinction Theory · · Score: 0

    Obviously it was a single impact...There can be only one!

  12. Re:Just how broad is a concept? on Automatic Image Tagging · · Score: 0

    In my country categories would be:

    God
    Man
    Horse
    Dog
    Woman
    Rat
    Crustilly (like a beatle).

  13. It is not piracy on Boy Scouts Introduce Merit Badge For Not Pirating · · Score: 0

    I thought Piracy was when you took over a ship on the open seas, should we be talking about copyright infringement?

  14. Re:WTF? on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 0

    How much can you know about yourself, you've never been in a fight? - Tyler Durden

  15. I see this as the reason UFC is so popular on School Bans 'Tag' · · Score: 0

    With so many in America taking the route of wanting to put kids in padded rooms so they can not hurt themselves or each other, the backlash from what I would call "normal" America is giving rise to the popularity of the UFC.

    This can be seen from the following article.

    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bu ckheit/060905

    If kids are not allowed to play tag, where does it end?

  16. Re:Convert to TMC data would be nice. on Google Offering Live Traffic Maps via Cell Phones · · Score: 0
  17. Hand hurts after using Emacs all day on Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I have noticed when I use Emacs for extended periods of time my right hand hurts at the end of the day.

    I upgraded to a Microsoft Wireless Comfort Keyboard to try and aleviate the problem but it doesn't seem to be helping all that much.

    Any suggestions from the Slashdot crowd. Are their any emacs friendly keyboards?

  18. Re:IP and copyright laws are the future of the US on Critical Shortage of IT Workers in Coming Years · · Score: 0

    After reading this comment I realize it is from SnowCrash. I wonder how many comments on Slashdot go over my head due to book references I don't get.

  19. Re:hate of eps I and II was quite genuine on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 2, Informative

    You forgot when Obi Wan refers tries to use north as a direction in space.

  20. Re:I don't trust him on Kevin Smith Previews Revenge of the Sith · · Score: 0

    Afflek was the bomb in Phantoms

  21. Re:I read the first edition on Mapping the Mind · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    love the sig

  22. Re:Apple could make this irrelevant on AOL and XM Joining Forces for Online Radio · · Score: 0

    The XM Skyfi2 has a 1/2 hour buffer that you can skip forward and back to songs you have already listend to. Kind of like Tivo.

  23. The computer wanted to play chess but... on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 0

    I said "Let's Play Global Thermonuclear Warfare"

  24. Re:I like this line on Skunkworks At Apple -- The Graphing Calculator Story · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I remember some of the upper classmen telling me three things when I got to college as a freshman:

    1. Its not what you know its who you know
    2. Don't do coke
    3. Wear a rubber

  25. Acura RL already has Traffic Navigation built in on Automakers Working on Car-to-Car Ad-Hoc Networks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    While I have only seen commercials for the Acura RL it has the technology already built in. However the RL is getting the traffic information from those funny solar pannels on the sides of the road. It is actually pretty slick because the RL uses XM radio as the delivery method for the traffic information provided by Traffic.com. This is already a multi-million dollar project funded by the US Government.