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  1. And speaking of Custer's Revenge on Top Ten Shameful Games · · Score: 1

    Why isn't there more sex in video games? You would think that by now you might have some sex in the games, get through all of the levels and you get to fuck the beautiful maiden, lose and you get dragged into a corner and sodomized by the sore-encrusted, leprous penises of zombie orcs. But as far as I can tell the only game with a hint of sex is GTA III. Come on, we have violence, all we need now is sex.

  2. A Pentium 4 may be quite continental, on Japan Developing Diamond-based Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    but diamonds are a geek's best friend.

    OK, I'll stop now.

  3. Re:cable sucks, well sometimes on Cable TV A La Carte Part 2 · · Score: 1
    but I don't know if they're any better and I have heard your reception gets fuzzy in the rain. In this case legislation might be needed since it appears all the major cable companies are following the same price guidelines which leaves the consumer out in the cold.


    I live in Burien, Washington, south of Seattle and I've only had rain fade once, and that was when it was raining like the proverbial cow pissing on the proverbial flat rock and there was a 40 mile an hour wind coming off of the sound. The rest of the time my DirecTivo works great, I had to clear snow off of it one day, but other than that it rocks.

  4. Re:Good idea on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 1

    This impacts my life because it forces me to purchase an inferior product using unproven technology to satisfy the prejudices of the ignorant such as yourself. If you knew anything about firearms, which you manifestly do not, you would realize what a joke this technology is. Of course you can barely spell or write a coherent sentence, so given that mastery of the English language is beyond you I would hardly expect you to understand the issues here. Instead you bloviate about "saving the children".

  5. Re:Good idea on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 1
    and it is nice thet you are resonsable, BUT, there are many poor uneducated fools who leave a loaded weapon in a shoe box under the bed so that their kids can come across it and either have an accident, or if they are old enough, take it out gang banging with them.

    And exactly what does that have to do with me? I fail to see why bad or irresponsible behavior on the part of others should impact my life. Go after those stupid bastards and put them in jail and if their kids kill themselves just think of it as evolution in action.

  6. Re:Until then.. on Motorcyclists To Get Wearable Airbags · · Score: 1

    No shit. I just took the MSF basic rider's course and the statistics show that leather is the best anti-abrasive material on the market outside of certain specialized synthetics. You can slide around 80 feet on well built (i.e. designed for a motorcycle) leathers before they wear through.
    I haven't even bought my bike yet (damn Northwest winter weather) but I've already bought my helmet and riding gear, which, according to my MSF instructor, was the first thing you should buy.
    One thing that the MSF course did for me was to make me a better driver. I know use my turn signals religiously and double check to make sure that I am clear before changing lanes.

  7. Sure, I'd donate on Face Transplants On The Way · · Score: 1

    I mean they're like kidneys right? You have a spare to fall back on?

  8. Damnit! This is cool! on Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where can I get the four dimensional Lego tesseracts. I'm tired of all the Mindstorm and Star Wars crap.

  9. I've always wanted to see if I could take a Mac on Fun With Wine · · Score: 1

    Install VirtualPC on it. Install Linux under the VirtualPC environment. Install the PC version of VirtualPC in this environment running Windows XP, install VirtualPC on the Windows XP instance running Linux and see how far I could get. Of course I'd also like a girlfriend too so I wouldn't have time or motivation for projects such as this.

  10. What is the size boundary for quark stars? on Neutron Stars Partially Dissected · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that when a neutron star becomes too dense it collapses into a black hole. From this it would seem that the size boundaries for quark stars would be very tight, the star would have to be dense enough to liberate the quarks but not so dense as to collapse into a black hole. Or am I on crack here?

  11. OK, what's the point of this? on How Looks Your Geekroom? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a bunch of computer crap around my house too. I'm so 31337 that I have three flat panel displays on my desktop and another one sitting on a steel rack with three PCs connecting to it. Who cares? Oh, and I have two Herman Miller chairs, which makes me even 31337er.

  12. Who cares? on Intel Pushes Pentium 4 Past 3 GHz · · Score: 2, Insightful
    OK, if you're running a big Beowulf cluster and doing computational fluid dynamics or something similarly intensive this is great news, but for the rest of us who cares?The linux shop where I used to work, which was one of the largest commercial operations in the US if not the world, rarely had problems with being CPU bound on our HP Netservers, instead we found that we were memory bound, because the applications we developed in house were memory leaking death hogs or I/O bound because of the limitations of the PC architecture.


    I recently purchased a laptop with a super duper 1.7Mhz Pentium 4 mobile processor. It's a nice box but it won't play GTA III worth a damn. Why? Well because the video hardware is crap. So I slapped together a cheap Athlon box, running at a lower clock speed but with a GeForce4 video card and all of a sudden I have high-res frame rates that leave my laptop in the dust. But both boxes have about the same performance for running Oracle.


    If you think about it these chips are somewhat ridiculous. How many of them are going to be installed in motherboards that still have an IEEE 1284 parallel interface on them? How many of them will be installed in motherboards that still have PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports? How many of them will be installed on motherboards that have floppy controllers? You've got all of this insanely great hardware being strapped onto motherboards that are loaded down and dragged down with a bunch of legacy technology from the 1970s. I for one would be a little more excited if Intel were to dedicate itself to eliminating the cruft in the PC architecture. This would do a lot to improve performance and ease of use and would probably improve performance more than just slamming in a faster CPU every six months.

  13. Re:Not a troll on Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmmmmm, yessss, multi-boot fetishism. Black leather stilettos that lace up to the crotch. Cowboy boots with spurs, Chrome studded biker boots, FreeBSD, Win98, OS/2, BeOS. Ohhhhhhhh, I'm so hard now.......

  14. Re:Tried in absentia? on Sklyarov Denied Visa to Return to U.S. for Trial · · Score: 1
    He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.


    "It's a pity that I've run out of ammunition" thought
    Dildo as he ran up the tunnel away from the cries of the screaming Goddam.


    from Harvard Lampoon's Bored of the Rings

  15. OK, am I the only person here who is bothered on Rabbits' Male Members Grown In Labs · · Score: 1
    by the phrase "test tube penis"? The mental image this conjures up for me is of a laboratory full of test tubes containing some disgusting looking growth medium and huge, fleshy penises in various states of development. And of course this is going to be tended by the most miserable grad students in the world.

    Grad Student 1: "Hey, where are you doing your research"

    Grad Student 2, (mumbled):"Errrrmmmm, test tube penis lab"

    Grad Student 1:"What, where are you working? I couldn't hear you"

    Grad Student 2 (losing it completely):"Test tube penis lab. Goddamnit, I'm working in the test tube penis lab, four fucking years of busting my ass as an undergrad, thousands of dollars spent on tuition, books and crystal meth for those last minute finals week studiy binges, studying for the GRE, debasing myself before admissions officials and I end up in the test tube penis lab. Why God? Why! Why hast thou forsaken me? Will not this cup pass from me?" breaks down in sobs

    Grad Student 1:"Test tube penis lab???? Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah

  16. Granted, these guys are a bunch of idiots on Gutted Apple Tower Powered By Athlon XP 2400+ · · Score: 1
    but they are onto something. Doubts about their own masculinity aside Apple's cases could be a lot more interesting. Apple already has the case design and ergonomics down pat, as someone who has worked with pretty much every UNIX system in existence and who has forgotten how many white box PCs he has built I have to say that the only box that even remotely approaches the Apple in terms of ease of maintenance is the HP LT6000R server, which is unfortunately a real piece of crap.

    But it would be cool if Apple would do some other colors. I like my silver Mac and I used to tote a clamshell iBook around but imagine how many boxes Apple could sell if they could come up with a means of allowing users to easily customize the case color. I'd love a black Mac with a bright red (or even neon-backlit) Apple logo on it. Or silver and navy blue, or black and green.

  17. Re:Finger print? no. Something else? Maybe. on Police Ask Stores to Take Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Too late, if they have your signature they can identify you. Quick, put on your tinfoil hat!

  18. This could be a cool steganography hack too. on Ripping Vinyl Via Your Scanner? · · Score: 1
    Have a picture of an album, at sufficiently high resolution the tracks of the album can be resolved and this algorithm can be used to extract the sonic information. Of course in order to do this you have to have an LP pressing plant to create the original, but hey, 31337 HAX0rs love to purchase gear.

    Of course if this technique ever caught on you would end up with the high end audio voodoo magazines including scanner reviews along with their reviews of turntables and tube amps. I can see it now...

    Yes, the HP 6350C had a warmer sound than the Canon scanner, but the Canon bought a certain joie de vrie to the reproduction that the HP couldn't match. Played through a Pentium 4 connected to a set of Mark Levinson tube amps and Quad Electrostatics the Canon brought a new life to old recordings

  19. This is the part that really gets me on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 0, Troll
    This car is a one of a kind original, NOT a kit. It was not used in any of the Star Wars movies but definitely could have been! This beauty is almost BRAND NEW with only 880 miles and it is THE ONLY ONE OF ITS KIND FOR SALE IN THE WORLD. If you are the lucky person to get it you have a unique driving experience like no other. No matter where you are, when you pull up to a car show, a grocery store, a gas station, a restaurant...you will be the center of attention. My friends and I pulled up to the opening of the recent new Star Wars movie just to see what reaction we would get and we were SWARMED!

    Yeah, that's what I want. A car that will attract Star Wars geeks. Yes indeed this car does make a statement, unfortunately that statement is "I live with my parents and regularly masturbate over a life size cardboard cutout of Carrie Fisher from Return of the Jedi". If you want to make sure that you'll never reproduce buying this car will work better than anything short of castration.

  20. Yes. I must purchase this automobile. on Ever Wanted Your Own Land Speeder? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then and only then will I be able to complete my transmogrification into the Comic Book guy from The Simpsons.

  21. Re:What's next? on Exploring Diffie-Hellman Encryption · · Score: 1

    Goddamnit! This is brilliant and it just goes to show you how fucking cool UNIX/Linux is. I've been using bc for years for simple math problems and I never had any idea it could do stuff like this. Do you get tools such as bc with any version of Doze? Fuck no. Hell, I just ran these programs on my Mac with MacOS X, which has bc available from the command line. Damn! I love UNIX!

  22. Is God so big that he can make a rock so big on Tech-Interview Riddles · · Score: 1

    that even he can't lift it? Oh wait, that was for my interview for entry into the Comparative Religion department, not Computer Science.

  23. Re:Tinfoil hats in now in! on Spheral Solar Technology Approaching Reality · · Score: 1

    Cool. Now I can power my PDA, cell phone and iPod and keep the government mind control rays out of my head!

  24. Re:KStars on Serious Home Observatories · · Score: 1
    Yes, and you can download pictures of beautiful naked women off of the internet and spank your monkey in the privacy of your home without ever having to pay money to escort services, worry about meeting up with a transsexual or dealing with humiliating, bone crushing rejection. OK, sorry, I just couldn't resist.

    I got my second telescope when I was 15 years old, it is a 3.2" refractor with a 1200mm focal length. I used to get up at O dark early and take it out behind our stable to look at the stars. I don't know how many mornings I went out and froze my ass off until I had to go back inside to get ready for school, but I have to tell you that nothing I have ever seen on a computer monitor matches the thrill of looking at the Pleiades or Jupiter on 3am on a cold winter morning in Kitsap County Washington.

  25. The security implications of this are interesting. on More PlayStation 3 Grid Computing Details · · Score: 1

    Would hackers figure out how to suck up unused cycles from other people's game machines while not sharing any cycles on theirs? If this does work, and if enough people buy into it you could have the makings of an interesting doctoral dissertation in political economy on the collective action problems that could arise.