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  1. Re:What do you call .... on Anti-Game Violence Lawyer Profiled · · Score: 1

    I didnt know anti-game lawyers played shadobane.

  2. Re:Let's try an experiment... on What The RIAA Gets Out Of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    Try this!

  3. Re:Nintendo is doing fine... on Has Nintendo Lost Its Edge? · · Score: 1

    Try Cubivore, it's kinda short but quite fun.

  4. Re:whoa on Wario Ware GameCube Craziness Explored · · Score: 1

    Before nintendo Colecovision had one for I think it was mousetrap.

  5. Re:Research vs not researching on Spider Robinson And The State Of Science Fiction · · Score: 1

    Yah, all the folowups sucked so much ass. I had to cross the room to pick them up again several times.

  6. Re:What? on The Innovators' Ball · · Score: 1

    OS/2 had a better GUI and was out before.

  7. Re:Who pays? on Self-Parking Car Available In Japan · · Score: 1

    Ohio has no fault insurance as a minimum requirement.

  8. Re:Bad? on The Unstoppable Shift of IT Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    Want an "American" car get a Honda. Most of them are made in the midwest. Many of the parts are also made in the US.

  9. Re:Please... on Statistically Optimal Music · · Score: 1

    Mine wants to go see Jason vs. Freddy not Hugh Grant.

  10. Re:Some thoughts on future virus and worm attacks. on Blaster Writer Caught · · Score: 1

    There are a few virus toolkits. I seem to remember one circulating usenet called VCL (Virus Creation Lab) or something like that.

  11. Re:Oh no! They're attacking... slowly... on New Low Bandwidth Denial of Service Attacks · · Score: 1

    That would be the Jason Voorhees Law of Inverse Travel.
    The faster you run away from the slow moving attacker the easyer it is for them to catch up with you.
    I speculate that by running directly at Jason he will get exponentialy father away, but have been unable to test this in real world conditions.

  12. Re:Shodan? on Walking Animatronic Dinosaur At Disney Park · · Score: 1

    Have you tried the replacement hi-rez graphics that a recent /. article covered?

  13. Re:I had no idea the Sims was so popular... on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 1

    Bust a Move as in Puzzle Bobble, or Bust A Move the dancing game?

  14. Re:Case of the Mondays on MIT Robot Walks On Water · · Score: 1

    And they will.

  15. Re:Sophomoric pet peeves on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    Along with certain other things like plasma conduits and a good cup of tea.

  16. Re:Your command is my wish. on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    Try reading the Godwhale and Half Past Human 9cant remember what one is first) for a diferent take on the Hive.

  17. Re:Alien warships use AppleTalk! on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they hate the Greys as much as they hate the Vogons?

  18. Re:The Matrix on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    "Turtles"?
    Like Sea Turtles?
    Like the aliens described as such in the Lathe of Heaven?

  19. Re:The Matrix on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    So the Matrix is just a re-telling of Red Dwarfs "Better then Life".

  20. Re:In Space No One Can Hear You Nitpick on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    "calling the enemy pilots mom nasty names"

    Kiz da yuo-meen, Shizumaat!

    I cant remember the naming but shizumaat could have been the Dracs great great great great great great grand mother(and father).

  21. Re:In Space No One Can Hear You Scream on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    I'm 30. I notice and enjoy effective use of quite and no music in films.
    Sadly to make things more hip and american a number of great films are haing soundtracks re-done to remove all those quite moments.

  22. Re:Sort of goes hand in hand. on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was added in for the Special Edition.
    i have the THX version on Laser Disc that was released before the SE and it had the old style spherical explosion. I would not that he started adding CGI droids to an establishing shot of Mos Eisley, in this version. At least Han shot first.

    For the Special Edition they could have at least made the ring effect line up with the trench and maybe I could buy that.

  23. Re:In other news... on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1


    "*swings away*"

    So your a teenage baseball player living on a country farm?

  24. Re:Gee on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    "Good science? No. Of course not. Good science would have our man Banner dead from radiation sickness and buried in a lead lined coffin. "

    True, but Rick Jones (was he in the film?) would have lived on to tell people of the horrors of gamma radiation.

  25. Re:Gee on Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science' · · Score: 1

    Only read the first Rama book, great story of exploration and what not. Do it now, it's good stuff that makes you want more, sadly see below.

    All the others that have some other name on them as well as Clark are total crap and should be avoided like a long vacation in the 8th dimension.