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  1. LotR Topic on More on LoTR Special Effects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Star Wars has a topic, why not LotR? Steve Jackson's already rubbed the Linux community's collective johnsons hard enough because of the special effects developed on your beloved operating systems and for the simple fact that nearly every "nerd" has read Tolkein's saga.

    Isn't this enough to merit a topic already or will LotR continue to play second fiddle to the increasingly mediocre Star Wars franchise?

  2. Re:Step 3 on Beyond Contact: a Guide to SETI · · Score: 1

    2. Send Periodic_Chart.jpg
    3. Wait 40 years to hear "RUMORF???"
    4. Send message of "UR 0wn3D d00d"
    5. Begin interstellar war

  3. Re:Danger can be controlled better than it is now on The Dangers of Nanotech · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nano technology will be as simple as writing a computer virus,

    Oh great, I can see it now. Someone gets a cold and suddenly starts sprouting penises everywhere on their body followed by a nasty rash that spells out "n@n0-d00d 0wnz j00!!!!!!"

  4. Re:Uhhhh on Dark Matter Measurements · · Score: 1

    First the term you're looking for is "fuck" not "f*ck". Secondly there's evidence that the universe is open and not curved which implies a heat death instead of a "big crunch". Then again heat death isn't as dramatic or Hollywood as everything starting with an explosion and everything being crushed into something beyond infinitesimal.

    I think it's awfully funny that one of the great debunkings of modern science was the disproving of the existence of ether but now there's "dark matter" which is just a non luminiferous version of ether. Think of all the trouble astronomers could've saved themselves by simply changing the ether model instead of trying to revive a dead concept with a nifty new name.

    That's the fun thing about science, one can prove anything with numbers if there are enough people who will stand behind you rather than your data.

  5. Harvey Dunkirk on MIT To Release Next-Generation OS "Cesium" · · Score: 1

    For those who are interested, the only hit for "Harvey Dunkirk" on google is at a Civil War veteran website

  6. Re:Huh ? on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 1

    How many /. users boast about their personal pages using any of hundreds of methods to deny access to IE?

    How many of these sites get more than 20 hits a month to read about a linux box named after their cat or some anime bitch?

    When Amazon, CNN or Slashdot starts doing this on a regular basis then I'm sure other sites will sit up and take notice.

  7. Re:It's the right of other browsers to compete on WWW Inventor On Microsoft's Browser Tricks · · Score: 1

    I'd actually be worried if Microsoft started including browser detection code by default on Notepad.

    I don't know of anyone (or any business) which creates relevant or informative web sites on the internet using any iteration of FrontPage.

  8. Re:Not a real world case study on A Strategic Comparison of Windows Vs. Unix · · Score: 1

    I call it Slowaris and I'm using Internet Exploder but sometimes I use Netscrape! Later I'll alter all this in Muckromedia Crash. Join the tired cocksucker webring today!

  9. Re:The Salary of the Beast on Microsoft Du Jour - Talks, Upgrades, Salaries · · Score: 1

    I thought 001101100011011000110110 was the binary of the beast.

  10. Re:Klingon anatomy changed again on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    Vulcan blood is yellow, Spock's blood was green because he is a halfbreed.

  11. Re:Continuity on Star Trek: Enterprise Reactions? · · Score: 1

    The primary enemy of this series is made up of humans from the Mirror Mirror universe's far future who are trying to guide this Earth to become the great empire they were back in their first appearance in TOS.

  12. Re:A Relative Number on Flare Sends A Gigaton Of Solar Detritus Toward Earth · · Score: 1

    1 billion tons == half the readership of slashdot

  13. Re:well .US is a mess, that's why the PD did it on No One Wants The Not-Coms · · Score: 1

    Yay! Another member of the tired cocksucker webring!!! I like to use Nutscrape!!!

  14. Re:What do cartoons have to do with terrorists? on Cartoon Network Dropping Gundam and Bebop? · · Score: 1

    Of course they never played Quake, they were too busy playing Microsoft's Flight Simulator with the opening scene of:
    The game introduction shows two people using the software, who say, "John, you just about crashed into the Empire State Building! Hey, that would be cool."
    Check this out for the whole story.

  15. Re:Damned straight they have a point! on Lego and the IP Conundrum · · Score: 2, Funny

    I remember ThermOS, it's that early operating system that could iterate over beverages, mark them as cold or hot and then run a script to keep them that way.

  16. Re:your face could easily hold a bar code on Your Face Is Not a Bar Code · · Score: 1

    The government wouldn't care about a few false positives. They acted in good faith and therefore are beyond reproach and do not have to apologize to the parties involved with the situation. The courts have been using the good faith argument a lot in favor of the government for shoddy police work.

  17. Re:how do you filter Katz? on Review: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back · · Score: 1

    Meh, I don't want to see him at all nor do I want to see his name or anything he writes in my eye space. That's why I have him checked under "exclude stories from homepage". It didn't work this time, I hope it doesn't happen again or I'll... I'll... complain again.

    Yeah, that's it.

  18. Re:how do you filter Katz? on Review: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Come on, I've had Katz filtered for months because I can't stand his self-important and dreary writing. Practically ruined my whole Sunday.

  19. Re:Some people love to make things complicated on Florida County Asks Students To Crack Elections · · Score: 1

    America isn't a democracy, it's a republic.
    Florida was the only state out of fifty that had serious problems with the election. Many other states used a punch card ballot and had no troubles whatsoever.
    Florida's filled with the incompetent, the elderly and folks who refuse to learn English. Now that communism is barely a threat we should secede it to Cuba.

  20. Re:What ever happened to being happy? on George Lucas Wields Light Saber · · Score: 1

    Funny, whenever I see MS I think Multiple Sclerosis. Not Microsoft.

  21. duh on Bionic Human: 1st Fully Implanted Human Heart · · Score: 1

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! I can get fatter than my wildest dreams!

  22. Laws of Robotics on Review: A.I. · · Score: 1

    Oh, how tiresome. Yet another geek posting their dismay at someone NOT using something like Asimov's laws of robotics. His laws of robotics weren't that great in the first place because his novels were about robots BREAKING those rules rather than following them and he made up another rule to round out the laws of robotics. Go back to writing about imagining beowulf clusters and masturbating to Cowboy Neal.

  23. Re:Anti-progress vs. anti-culture on Star In A Jar · · Score: 1

    Copernicus developed the heliocentric model. Galileo was just persecuted for it.