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  1. Amazing on Battlestar Galactica Feature Film Confirmed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Brought to you by the same minds that thought Syfy was a good name change......

  2. Re:nothing new on Gardeners Told to Give Exhausted Bees an Energy Drink · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. I'm vaguely appalled on Will Your Credit Report Disqualify You For a Job? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole idea behind credit reports being used for anything other than whether or not you should be extended credit leaves me sickened. I've known too many hard working people who've had tough times for legitimate reasons who have been horribly screwed by this crap. Even the government mandated free credit reports are kind of bizarre, I had to forcibly tell these scum to cancel an account at one of the "bureaus" three times over the phone for an apparently ongoing reporting service that I didn't have a way to op out of and I still didn't get all the charges back.

  4. Re:One of my favourites. on A History of Robotron · · Score: 1

    I can recommend wahcade
    http://www.anti-particle.com/wahcade.shtml
    Either compile from source or install system packages and use wahcade for a frontend.

  5. Or maybe... on A Hypothesis On Segway Hate · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We just don't see the need for a personal transport device that costs too much for people who are perfectly capable of either walking or biking.

  6. Re:For the love of... on From Doom To Dunia — the History of 3D Engines · · Score: 5, Informative

    To avoid having the reader click through the quite annoying normal article split across a million pages.

  7. Unless... on Middle-School Strip Search Ruled Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless the district had a policy that made this a requirement of the officials, they should be held personally accountable for these horrid actions.

  8. Re:Pictures of Memories on First Images of Memories Being Made · · Score: 1

    I was almost tempted to break out with some Andrew Lloyd Webber....almost.

  9. Re:Shark jump? on Fallout 3 DLC Coming To the PS3, New Content Announced · · Score: 1

    SPOILER WARNING

    In Fallout 1 and 3 you can find an alien ship crash landed.

  10. Re:Farmers Markets on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    You're insinuating that the manufacturers and not drivers are responsible if someone is killed when a car hits a pedestrian? Frankly that's insane, also I as a pedestrian in a large city known for such accidents try to keep up my vigilance to avoid putting myself in vulnerable situations.

  11. Farmers Markets on External Airbag Designed to Protect Pedestrians · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess this means I can start going back to farmers markets that don't already have protection from being massacred by elderly drivers.

  12. Re:Photo Sniper on Tactical Camera · · Score: 1

    Err. slightly more inconspicuous.

  13. Photo Sniper on Tactical Camera · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was done a long time ago during the cold war, it's slightly less inconspicuous than a tripod, though much more likely to get you shot by the police.

    http://shop.lomography.com/zenit/fotosniper/

  14. Re:Fun Read? on The Biggest Cults In Tech · · Score: 1

    You spelled semantics wrong.

  15. Re:Otter Porn! on Parrots Can Dance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Otters are the rats of the ocean. Specifically the behaviors of the males during child rearing are atrocious. An adult male will actually hold his own children hostage until the female provides food.

  16. Re:Very useful on Elderly To Get Satellite Navigation To Find Their Way Around Supermarkets · · Score: 1

    How else are they supposed to protect themselves from the hair thieves?

  17. Re:Once upon a time on A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm from San Jose, I remember when all the semiconductor and tech company buildings were orchards.

  18. Re:Seems like the Swedish know what to do. on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a side effect of having a parliamentary system in Sweden that this is possible or even influential. Your options are pseudo-majority rule in the US system versus having smaller political groups being used as swing votes. I'm not really sure what I'd prefer in the long run, read up on E.U. politics sometimes. Their farmer subsidies are almost as ridiculous as our own.

  19. Re:Not so sure on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    I have a PhD from Tongue Firmly in Cheek U.

  20. Not so sure on A Vision For a World Free of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Assuming you could write an algorithm to determine humanistic behavior, it stands to reason that you could write a bot to fool the initial algorithm.

  21. Oh dear god on Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine · · Score: 4, Funny

    My own personal grade wrecker is back, awesome. I always enjoyed how Sierra made the death sequences so humorous, I'd spend hours trying to kill myself in inventive ways. Monkey Island's parody of creative avatar murder was hilarious.

  22. Re:Please.... on Ubuntu 9.04 Released · · Score: 1

    They mentioned this in the release notes, along with some other new fun behaviors.
    http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904
    "Change in notifications of available updates

    Ubuntu 9.04 introduces a change to the handling of package updates, launching update-manager directly instead of displaying a notification icon in the GNOME panel. Users will still be notified of security updates on a daily basis, but for updates that are not security-related, users will only be prompted once a week.

    Users who wish to continue receiving update notifications in the previous manner can restore the earlier behavior using the following command:

    gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
    "

  23. Re:Offtopic on Battle For Wesnoth Version 1.6 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah, you fail to know about the awesomeness of the Thrustmaster Hotas Cougar, it's an exact replica of the flight controls on the F-16
    http://www.thrustmaster.com/product.aspx?ProductID=11&PlatformID=5

  24. Darn on Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess this means my sweet 386DX with the 2400 baud modem is going to be hacked the next time I dial into Prodigy to access Mad Maze.
    I wonder if this will simply end up with companies using Wine over linux to run their legacy apps?

  25. Burrowing mole or Burrow Owl? on Study Shows Worm Grunters Imitate Moles · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know that Johnny Werzner kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
    neighborhood? He's a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes
    crack, but I don't believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he
    wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow
    owl. I'll never ask for anything else as long as I live". So the guy
    breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I
    go out into my yard and there's the Werzner kid looking up in the tree. I
    said, "What are you looking for?" He said, "I'm looking for my burrow
    owl." I say, "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a
    burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they
    call it a burrow owl, anyway?!" Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that
    is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?

    *bad musical reference, not actually bashing homosexuals*