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  1. Re:They have no right on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    For a guy who claims to never have used Steam, you sure do have a lot of opinions on it.

    Some Steam games will run without a network connection. Some (all 3rd party ones, so far) will not, and insist on authorising themselves every time. Unfortunately, Valve don't exactly go out of their way to tell you which is which before you 'purchase' them.

  2. Re:And this... on Valve Locking Out Gamers Who Buy Orange Box Internationally · · Score: 1

    closed source does not fucking mean that you're going to get bent over by every company that makes a program, stop pretending it does.

    I do not think that word means what you think it means. I think that you meant "should". The evidence seems to be trending against "does".

  3. Re:When will creationist realize? on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they just like picking mean spirited fights for no good reason. If you weren't such a 'tard, you might have figured that out yourself.

  4. Re:Why did he do it? on '55 Science Paper Retracted to Thwart Creationists · · Score: 1

    I'd quote the unambiguous evidence from the readily available article, but I'm afraid that being presented with facts would just enrage you.

  5. CORRECTION: 755K *names*, not *people* on Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do we get the significance of that? The list is of names, not individuals. Remember Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy's little problem with the list?. Or how about this vicious 4 year old terrorist?

    God help you if your name is John Smith, but it's probably even worse if your name is Mohammed or a variant of it. Oh, wait a second; most Islamic men's legal birth name is Mohammed.

    If you want to fly without hinderance, you should probably just go ahead and change your legal name to your social security number, as it's the only way you're likely to get a unique one.

  6. Re:Does this not screw Novell? on Investment Firm Bids to Buy SCOs UNIX Operations · · Score: 1

    Tune in next week to find out!

    Seriously, if this were fiction, it would be a breakout show. I was thinking maybe Heather Graham as PJ, and (bear with me) Casper Van Dien as Darl. I think he's got serious slimy bad guy potential.

  7. Re:Critical thinking on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    How big is your 'girl'friend's Adam's apple?

  8. Re:fmm. on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    I have some vacation time coming up; is the weather on your planet nice this time of year?

  9. Re:Critical thinking on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 5, Funny

    Geometry teachers drive '95 Corollas; marketing executives drive this year's BMW.

    Using geometric principles, calculate the magnitude of the hotness of the women that each can attract.

  10. Re:Generation Why? on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I was going to read that story, but then I thought, meh, what would it achieve?

  11. Hey! You Gen-Y kids! on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Get off my Second Life lawn!

  12. Re:No love for Socal? on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 1

    To my knowledge, Mel Gibson has never fellated a baboon, but I'm not clear on how espousing my ignorance contributes anything to thread.

    Well, I know for a fact that he has, so any point that you were trying to make is nullified.

    My point is that absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, a point which your shocking-to-nobody baboon-fellating evidence has just vindicated.

  13. Re:fmm. on Project Gutenberg Volunteers Partial IMSLP Hosting · · Score: 1

    It is about money, but indirectly.

    If OmniCorp Music can whip up some outrage by pointing at people breaching their 90 year copyrights (regardless of medium or profit), then when Omnicorp Film want to buy a hundred or hundred and fifty year duration law, they'll be able to hire less expensive lobbyists and give smaller 'campaign donations' to fewer Senators.

  14. Re:Yeah but what's the service level? on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 1

    You'll care when they shitcan you for using more than 12Mb/1Mb.

  15. Re:No love for Socal? on Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service · · Score: 4, Funny

    To my knowledge, Mel Gibson has never fellated a baboon, but I'm not clear on how espousing my ignorance contributes anything to thread. Perhaps you could explain that to me.

  16. Re:huh? on Turbolinux Is Latest To Sign Microsoft Pact · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And the good news for them is, they'll be among the last to be sued by Microsoft.

  17. Re:conductivity of space elevator cables on Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given that the materials required to make them are completely conjectural, you can imagine any conductivity you like. From all the sparkling, I think that fairy wings must be pretty conductive, so let's make space elevators out of them.

  18. Re:Why can't they be self powered? on Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Meesa wanna haul fuelsa insteada payload. Takesa twicea longa!

  19. Re:Incredible space-age technology... on Space Elevator Teams Compete for NASA Prizes · · Score: 1
    ...that doesn't work if it's windy or wet.

    The more I hear about the current state of the art, the more I think that we'll be using quantum teleportation to get things into orbit long before we have a workable beanstalk.

  20. Re:They already use it! on Neuro-Reckoning May Reduce MMOG Time Lag · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hahahahaha, nine people died! Rate me +1 Funny!

  21. Re:Uh. on Neuro-Reckoning May Reduce MMOG Time Lag · · Score: 1

    Indeed; one day soon, Chinese goldfarmers will be freed from the slavish burden of even running their own scripts. Instead, the server will simply predict what speeds hacks they would have run, and award them the gold without the tiresome necessity of actually having to receive packets from them.

    Ultimately, our own machines will be able to predict the actions of everyone else, and we will be able to play multiplayer games together completely on our own. The circle will be complete.

  22. Re:Bush Win = Constitutional Loss on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's apparently 'reasonable' to monitor everyone in time of war. Luckily, we're always at war.

  23. Re:Bush Win = Constitutional Loss on White House Wins On Spying, Telecom Immunity · · Score: 1

    Remind me; which Article explicitely guarantees your privacy?

  24. Re:Lying under oath isn't required on Yahoo! Accused of Lying to Congress about Chinese Journalist · · Score: 1

    No, we're talking about this Congress, and this set of US Attorneys. What, exactly, are they going to do about it?

  25. Re:Supermassive black holes on Monster Black Hole Busts Theory · · Score: 1

    If theory says that black holes beyond 10 solar masses cannot form, how do they explain the conjectured supermassive black holes [wikipedia.org] at the center of our and other galaxies?

    A wizard did it.