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  1. Re:Could somebody please enlighten me? on Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales · · Score: 4, Informative

    Depending on how a fidelity recording you want to make, a usb turntable is a viable option. It even uses Audacity as it's software side, which includes good plugins for removing clicks/hiss.
    http://www.ion-audio.com/ittusb.php
    Alternatively, you can buy a nice sound card something with a 24-bit 96khz input and use a turntable with appropriate cabling to connect to the jack.
    http://www.smarthouse.com.au/How_Stuff_Works/Real_ Hi_Fi/G7S9C4H6?page=1
    This site goes over some options.

  2. huh? on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 1

    Can't phishers spoof the domain name anyways? Besides, I doubt the average phishing victim
    even looks twice at the address if it's at least a semi-official looking page.

  3. Re:Shenanigans! on Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence · · Score: 1

    Millions of people *do random activity* but some of those people *activity we don't like*, conclusion why should we be worried again?
    *stupid formatting problems*

  4. Shenanigans! on Videogames Really Are Linked to Violence · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Millions of people but some of those people , conclusion why should we be worried again?

  5. Issues with Copyright on Paizo to Discontinue Dragon and Dungeon Magazines · · Score: 1

    Supposedly they're unable to release the collection due to copyrights held by various content creators. Again, supposedly this is how Kenzer got the rights to publish Hackmaster. Usually this set sells for insane amounts on ebay as well, I can only recommend that you find it on emule and be extremely patient.

  6. Re:Wait...? on Dungeons & Dragons and IT · · Score: 0, Troll

    In my experience, they're more than likely psychologists, or the children of psychologists.

  7. Hrm on Best & Worst Decisions Starting Companies · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds like they might have mentioned how to get free advertisement....

  8. Wth? on Valve Pens In-Game Ad Deal for Counter-Strike · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Where can I sign up to get my money back?

  9. Uniforms on New Animated Star Trek In The Works · · Score: 1, Funny

    Are the uniforms still made out of real velour?
    On a serious note, this sounds like it might actually
    make me interested in Star Trek again. I never really
    identified with anything after TNG.

  10. Free Versions for Online Computer Play on Catan on Live, PopCap on Steam · · Score: 3, Informative

    There have been a variety of open source implementations of Settlers for
    a while. Pioneers is my current favorite.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/pio

  11. Re:ok... on Millions of King Crabs Turn Sea to Desert · · Score: 1

    What's unnerdy about marine biology?
      "..biology is like a bad horror movie. Your sitting around doing those little things like breathing and being a fuzzy bunny and along comes a biologist. *Slash* you're dead and being dissected for some practical exam. And you don't get a complimentary version of the home game."
    Chris Petrie, Oceanography
    Brevard Community College, Titusville, FL

  12. Vaguely Familiar on African Catfish Hunts On Land · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That sounds like one of my friend's ex-girlfriends....

  13. Here I come to save the day! on Scientists Produce Fearless Mice · · Score: 1

    You could almost call them....Mighty mice....

  14. D'oh on Homer Becomes Omar · · Score: 5, Funny

    D'oh has now been changed to lâ ilâha illâ allâh

  15. Quark! on The Art of Particle Physics · · Score: 4, Informative

    Little bit of humorous background.

    The name "quark" was taken by Murray Gell-Mann from the book "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce. The line "Three quarks for Muster Mark..." appears in the fanciful book. Gell-Mann received the 1969 Nobel Prize for his work in classifying elementary particles.

  16. Wait a second on Linux Instant Messengers · · Score: 1

    I'm a twenty-something college student and not a single one of the people I know uses MSN. Coupled with the
    fact that AIM still holds market dominance this guy seems off the deep end. GAIM can do nearly anything that
    the major IM clients can sans some of the more bizarre video chat.

  17. Oh yes, Complex on Dissecting Songs Down to Their 'Musical Genome' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Complex like the lacing of bruises left after a full frontal lobotomy with an ice pick.

  18. Soma on The Science Of Happiness · · Score: 2, Insightful
  19. HHGTTG on Hurricane Relief - What Would You Bring? · · Score: 1

    "A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta...wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat...wrap it around your head to ward off noxious fumes...any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the Galaxy, rough it ... win through, and still know where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
    I second that, they really are that useful.

  20. Windows update.... on MS Upgrades To Be Smaller And More Frequent · · Score: 5, Funny

    For some reason windows update will be replaced by the commands.
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get upgrade

  21. Obligatory Space Quest 4 reference on 13.1 Surround Sound Coming to a Home near you? · · Score: 1

    Roger: "Real-Rustic, Dodecaphonic, AroundSound Processor. Ever notice how flat and unexciting normal stereophonic, quintophonic, and octophonic recordings are? With the Real-Rustic, Dodecaphonic, AroundSound Processor, your music will seem to come from twelve directions: In front of you, behind you, either side of you, four midpoints above you, from below you, from inside of you, and from the upstairs neighbors! 877 buckazoids." Discontinued? I wanted that!

  22. Re:Dalek Beam on Greatest Beams In Movie History · · Score: 1
  23. Re:At LAN parties.... on First Shareable Interactive Display · · Score: 1

    Depending on how scary Carmack wants to make the next Doom game....there might not need to be two different screens.

  24. At LAN parties.... on First Shareable Interactive Display · · Score: 1

    This would definitely help me screw over my cheating bastard friends at our semi-annual LAN party. I'm not sure I could set my box to run two versions of any recents games. However, that copy of Wolf ET should do nicely.....

  25. Band of Brothers on Star Trek XI In Two To Three Years. · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Band of Brothers screenwriter Erik Jendresen"
    Hrm, perhaps I'll go and see this if I get to watch Picard kill some Nazis while dodging machine gun fire. On a more serious note, exactly which cast/era will the movie feature?