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  1. Is there anything it can't do? on Escher Paintings with Lego Bricks · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Are all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to know you made from Lego?

  2. An intelligent question on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Are all things are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always are not always you need to know you learned from Dr McCoy?

  3. Re:You got me! on Taiwan Asks Microsoft To Open Windows Source · · Score: 1

    Hehehehe, didn't mean that seriously ;) That's what logging in as AC and doing a jeffk impression is for! It's Asian writing, it's unintelligble to most of us white folk, and it's in an image instead of some easily-manipulated text format. We get it :>

  4. Re:The Economics of RPGs on The Last Comdex? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In other news, linuxwrangler attends hi's first of what we're 'sure will be his fir'st of many grammar clas'ses.

  5. Re:Not easily translated on Taiwan Asks Microsoft To Open Windows Source · · Score: 2

    All of the kanji have been rendered to .gif files

    which would be singularly unhelpful for someone trying to read Japanese! Sub hanzi for kanji and try again.

  6. Re:Government will announce next.. on The Measured Effectiveness of Blocking Asian Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is, if they can spend 5 million dollars on the task they will confirm that it is indeed true that Canada is directly north of the USA. Next, Canada will spend 100 million on exactly the same task, only in reverse.

    Um, more like 200 million. Don't forget the study has to be done in both official languages.

  7. Re:Hmm... on Browse All You Want At Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did you read anything from the site?

    Hell no! If I had actually READ the article, there's no way I could've gotten that smartass comment in in time.

  8. Hmm... on Browse All You Want At Work · · Score: 0, Informative

    A good idea guys, 'cept a simple mouse gesture in standard Mozilla already allows you to miniimze or close the browser.

    Better luck on your new invention - a blueness detector that works only on the sky.

  9. Re:Tanatlum shortage on Taiwanese Capacitors Leaking, Exploding · · Score: 4, Funny

    It wasn't what I'd call a shortage exactly.... the suppliers definitely *had* the Tantalum, they'd just wave it in front of my nose & refuse to sell it.

  10. Units people! on Galileo To Commit Mechacide · · Score: 3, Funny

    Scientist Guy: So the satellite will pass within a few thousand metres of the planet, where it will then...

    (whispers)

    feet? What do you mean feet?

  11. Re:You already should be paying these taxes on States To Try Taxation Of The Net Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't try to rationalize. You're all thieves. Bow your heads in shame.

    (I have to make myself stop here. It's just too fun to spew out righteous indignation.)


    Well the LEAST you could have done is leave some righteous indignation for the rest of us! When you use the words "your" and "you're" in the same sentence, and use them correctly, you rob the rest of us of a valuable opportunity here!

  12. Re:"the wake" and "dead ringer" on England Salutes 150 Years of Eccentric Patents · · Score: 2

    My point was this: the OP didn't specify what temperature scale they were using.

    I didn't think it was necessary - the use of the word "chilled" next to the temperature reading should've implied that 33 degrees is a colder-than-normal state. Now I know better... that being an intermediate superlative to "good". Maybe I should say "Now I know more good." um.. "At this time, now I am aware..."

    aww screw it.

    (To the first person to bring up the Kelvin scale: One does not use the term "degrees Kelvin" or the symbol when referring to the K scale. Thanks though)

  13. Re:"the wake" and "dead ringer" on England Salutes 150 Years of Eccentric Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    After white folks discovered embalming this was no longer a problem. If whatever was supposed to have killed you in the first place didn't do the job, odds are that:

    - Having an artery in your shoulder exposed and used to pump formaldehyde and methanol through your system
    - Having a cannula stuck down your throat to aspirate the contents of your lungs and stomach and replace them with embalming fluid
    - Having that same cannula inserted into your rectum for the same purpose
    - Being chilled at 33 for a day or two

    would probably finish you.

  14. Re:Further studies... on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Next we'll see occultists studying Pacman.

    At least Pacman has a perfect solution. No fancy math required, just a good hot meal beforehand and a little patience.

  15. Beat up Martin on Anoto-based Pens From Logitech · · Score: 1

    Heat Up Martia?

  16. Re:Though i'm not stupid on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: 1

    True, provided that the solid object doesn't have any holes in it.

    Aye, as most objects of uniform density do :)

    Now according to the rules of social karma, the penalty for pointing out someone else's misstatement is to make a doubly foolish error of my own.

    "I have a penchant for bowlegged women who can waterski and sport tattoos of the feet of Russian historical figures."

    There we go.

  17. Re:Though i'm not stupid on A (Correct) Poincare Proof!? · · Score: 2

    So in other words, what you're saying is that the Poincaré conjecture is the supposition that any n-dimensional solid object of uniform density can be deformed by some reversible mathematical translation into an n-dimensional sphere?

  18. Re:Cheap on Hardware Manufacturing in China's 'Hot Zone' · · Score: 2

    We want cheap computers, but don't care for politics. Lets use (next to) slave labour in a communist contry!

    Does this not remind you of the stink Craig Kielburger kicked up a few years back about rug weavers in India? He started this great campaign involving world leaders, showed pictures of four and five year-old kids tying knots in rundown shacks and brought up sob stories about how parents rented their children out so they could pay for a few years' food.

    Apparently Mr. Kielburger belives that children in those countries don't deserve to weave rugs, and should instead be garbage-pickers or prostitutes.

  19. Thank you, Sony! on Portable CD-RW/DVD Player · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now when I'm stranded on a lonely bus or subway in desperate need of a coaster, I need only to fire up my portable CDRW with the half-dead batteries and voila! A handy place to set my coffee cup down in under eight minutes. Thank you Sony Man!

  20. Re:Any article that has a flaming PSU is good. on Tom's Hardware Compares Power Supplies · · Score: 2

    I hope a few of those people who pay $400 for the latest and greatest video card and $15 for a power supply read this.

    I work at a computer store in Ottawa, Canada. At least two people come through our store in the space of a week who buy all of the components except the case, which they found cheaper elsewhere..... one of these $30 (Canadian!) wonders with a miscellaneous power supply in it. To lift one of these babies you'd swear it was hollow ;)

    Strangely enough, I also see a number of people come back with burned Athlon XPs hiding under 200W "Deer Company" power supplies mislabeled as 300s. Funny coincidence that.

  21. Re:Previous Art, Anyone? on British Columbia Bows To Breast Cancer Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It seems that the Canadians just don't want to pay for an easy test, just as the Socialists in the USA did not want to pay for Cipro for Anthrax treatments. Remember the arguements that "it costs too much because of the patent, so ignore the patent and pay less? Same same here.

    No, this is NOT the same thing. Cipro is a product; a pill - it's something you can hold onto. The patent in question involves a genetic sequence... basically they're claiming a specific sequence of genes as their own, and suing anyone who dares to use it. True, work did go into discovering the sequence that causes the disease, and I see no reason why they could not charge money to anyone who wants to use their test to do the same thing. That part I'm cool with. What fries me is the idea that they could patent the underlying idea behind the test and prosecute (persecute?) anyone who emulated it for their own purposes.

    What would happen if Intel claimed IP over the microprocessor?

    Tune in next week when I copyright a mechanism for the use of alternating muscle contractions and relaxations to fill fleshy bags of air.

  22. Download my consciousness into a machine? on Downloading The Mind · · Score: 2

    Wonderful, that's all I need is a computer that comes out of sleep mode two hours after you press the spacebar, plays video games for five hours at a stretch and masturbates at 8 GHz. Who'd pay for that?

  23. Re:Empowered patients... on More Evidence of Increase in Profound Autism · · Score: 2

    Yeah, MMR. Definitely MMR. Yeah. It was... it was 1993, April 30 1993. Of course that was a Friday. Yeah, MMR stopped on Friday. Yeah.

  24. Rumour has it.... on Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa · · Score: 2

    With internet access becoming more common, it'll only be a matter of time before viruses start to propagate across the airwaves. Never fear though, all you need to do is put a floppy into an machine that isn't online yet and the virus will be cured! Honest!

  25. Re:I'd comment, but on New RedHat Kernel Patch Illegal to Explain to U.S. Users · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will NOT vote for anyone that voted for DMCA

    Awww! But I really had my heart set on voting for Hillary Rosen again this...um... wait a minute...