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  1. Adrenaline on Being Scared in Games is Needed · · Score: 1

    People love adrenaline. I'd think people pay more money for this drug then most others combined. Most of western cultures' pasttimes stimulate your body to produce adrenaline one way or another.

  2. You're a highly trained killing machine on Just Let Me Play! · · Score: 4, Funny

    but we're gonna start you out with this spork. Don't worry, in an ironic twist you won't be running into anything you and your spork can't handle.

  3. Congress.... on Congress Sets Sights on Videogames · · Score: 1

    meet the BFG9000

  4. Re:Wrong counter argument. on BSA Claims 35% of Software is Pirated · · Score: 1

    I agree. Software company lawyers will start suing for that extra productivity. They'll argue that the stolen software acted as a loan, said companies wouldn't be pumping extra into the economy without having stolen from them first.

  5. Everyone forgets on Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the most important thing lost from the original 3.

    We'll finally be able to dance to the Yub Nub song at the end of Jedi again

  6. Re:repeat in america please.... on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    So even if Canadas 30 million each had two guns, they'd take on the US with 300 million people and a gun count which may be as high as 235 million privatly owned guns?

    Hey, but people forget I think that Canada was one of the three countries to storm the beaches of Normandy.

  7. The one true constant in the universe on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 2, Funny

    is change.

  8. Re:Is this really a bad thing? on Microsoft's Security Disclosures Come Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I agree to an extent but someone who's going to exploit whats being patched can easily look at the patch and create their own roadmap, or at least a sketchy pirate map of what was wrong. Better to disclose the information in my opinion and let the naive suffer.

  9. I can only imagine on Useful Apps for First-Time Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    how redundant this is (as I haven't read any posts)

    But the most useful program for windows is format.com

  10. Re:Nothing Spiritual About Software on Software for Your Musical Instruments? · · Score: 1

    A tool is a tool I say. If you can wield it you can put your heart into it. Banging on the desk in tribal fashion or taking pen to paper and waving a wand in front of an orchestra - it's all expression. Electronic music is just a new tool for expression and it'll take awhile before more people embrace it as such.

  11. How come on Blue Ring Around Uranus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    we've never sent any probes to Uranus?

    Are we afraid of the results?

  12. Re:Something to remember on Domestic Spying Records Ordered Released · · Score: 1

    PNAC is evil

    EVIL!

    $0.02

  13. 15 per day? on Slashdot Index Code Update · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does that include dupes?

  14. Re:a step removed on MythBusters - The Lost Experiments · · Score: 2, Insightful

    somehow I doubt we'll ever see them stick a lit firework up their own ass or eat a snowcone flavored with their own piss

    their IQ is at least a double digit number, which puts them many a step from jackass

  15. Mvix on Building a Linux Home Media Center · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been running a linux home entertainment box for a couple years now. I use SuSE ( I think I have Suse 9.3 on there now) and a matrox video card with TV out. My sound I run directly into my stereo system. I use mplayer mostly to play my videos and I still use mp3blaster to play my tunes. Although I have a wireless mouse n keyboard hooked up to it, it's a pain because I still need to get up and turn on the monitor because the text is too hard for me to read on my TV.

    The computer I've been using recently for this task has kind of been overkill so I was happy to find today the Mvix Multimedia Player. As far as I know it runs linux. Just needs a harddrive installed and it's ready to run. I'm thinking of replacing my computer with it so I can use my computer for other tasks (I can always find something). Anyone heard of Mvix before?

  16. I learned on Windows, Linux 25 Year Old "Clunkers"? · · Score: 1

    I learned not to quit an IT job days before the bubble breaks.

  17. No tool on No More Internet Anonymity · · Score: 1

    is inherently evil or good. It's just a tool. A board with a nail through it can be the beginning of a house, or a deadly weapon. Based upon of course the hand that wields it.

    "That board with the nail in it may have defeated us, but the humans won't stop there. they'll make bigger boards and bigger nails. soon they will make a board with a nail so big it will destroy them all!"
                    - Kodos & Kang

  18. In related news on Zone-Spoofing Fixed for IE 7 Home Users · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft is coming out with another version of it's popular XP operating system that is the most secure OS to date claims Balmer "What we've done is limited the operating system from booting up at all! This leaves the computer nearly 100% safe from malicious attacks" Users will have to buy the Boot-Up(tm) upgrade in order to use their system which is available in both stand alone and upgrade packages.

  19. What people need to do on Sony's SunnComm DRM Patch a Security Risk · · Score: 1

    is to start voting agaisnt companies that screw over their market like this. Don't buy Sony. I've always found Sony to be in a favorable light, but this is just one huge bad call. Unless they recall all the CDs and replace them with clean CDs they will not fix this in my eyes.

  20. Isn't NASA on NASA Seeks Help Carrying Cargo Into Space · · Score: 1

    already in the private sector?
    I know they recieve my taxes, maybe im ignorant, are they an association? or a department of government?

  21. Re:Buggy Browsers on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    Why not ask yourself, what have other (read Microsoft) OS vendors done in the last 6 years? .... kindergarten themed GUIs on top an old NT kernel ...

    Thats the only thing I can think of.

  22. Philips on IBM And Sony Form Linux Alliance · · Score: 1

    Was Philips just not worth mentioning in the title? Or too hard to spell correctly compared to the other two?

  23. Re:Small price on Reining in Google · · Score: 1

    Google is the library in this scenario.

    Someone could photocopy every book in the library just like someone could 'download the internet' from google.

    Somehow the publishers are afraid that people will download whole books on google instead of going to the library to read them? I think this is an invaluable tool, to be able to search for a phrase, and come across any mention of that phrase in the history of writing! This would only drive people to the library or bookstores. Nowing google they'll tie in froogle to link to where you could buy the books and if these publishers smartened up they could be the top froogle choices for offering their works online.

  24. Small price on Reining in Google · · Score: 1

    I think downloading a new graphic during the holidays is a small price to pay to be able to search through all of mans literature with a single click. And if Google does charge a price (you mean they want to make money?) and we think it's unfair, competition will arrive to balance it out. It's not like once google absorbs all the info that our libraries worldwide will explode and google will have a complete monopoly on information.

    If publishers and authors have to spend all their time policing Google for works they have already written, it is hard to create more.

    Do publishers and authors currently spend time policing libraries, making sure no one is making 10 cent copies of their work?

  25. Re:To gain momentum on Windows and Linux User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Any linux kernel. You use a linux kernel, it's linux, right? wrong? If my embedded device uses a linux kernel then it is using linux right? regardless of the user interface or anything else that it may or may not have.

    I was just trying to say that there doesn't need to be any set GUI standards to calling something 'Linux'.