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  1. Re:SELL! on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone buy your stock if the world was going to end? Just go and take what you want. Since world is going to end anyway, feel free to kill anyone who gets in your way...get back to nature.

  2. Re:Better than ours? on Mayan Plumbing Found In Ancient City · · Score: 1

    That's actually a sign of shoddy/lazy plumbing. If you have 3/4" pipe come into the bathroom, then split off to the toilet and shower using 1/2" pipe, you won't have that problem.

  3. Re:Ok, honestly on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Conduct all your debauchery in the privacy of your own home and you'll be OK.

  4. Re:How To Put Apple Out Of Business on The End of the PC Era and Apple's Plan To Survive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There have been plenty of phones for a while now that have a USB port. The most popular form factor is micro-USB, but it's still USB. It's up to the manufacturers to put compelling software on the phones and for the wireless companies (I'm looking at you, Verizon) to not ruin the experience.

  5. New York City won't be around in 500 years on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 1

    It will be under water. Then again, they do propose putting it on a big boat.

  6. Re:Samples? on Treasury Goes High-Tech With Redesigned $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    If you get yourself into enough financial difficulty, they're practically giving it away nowadays.

  7. Re:Find a new site on Website Mass-Bans Users Who Mention AdBlock · · Score: 1

    I've always questioned this self-destructive behavior of Slashdot to disable advertising. This isn't 1997 and Taco has a family to feed.

  8. This isn't new... on An Animal That Lives Without Oxygen · · Score: 0

    There's a joke in this somewhere about somebody's mom breathing through her ears, but I'm just way too busy to figure it out now.

  9. This could work if done right on Star Wars To Air As Animated Sitcom · · Score: 1

    If you have a sitcom that happens to take place in the Star Wars universe, it could work as long as the story doesn't try touch the events of the films too much. I'm thinking a bunch of guys, in the spirit of the humour found in Red Dwarf, but in the Star Wars galaxy.

  10. Re:People never cared, really on Grounded Russian Nuclear Sub Photographed With Sonar · · Score: 1

    The rules for pronunciation can be documented. Also, considering modern German isn't too far off from old and middle English, you don't have to look too far. People don't throw in silent letters for the fun of it, they used to be pronounced.

    I'm curious about the future pronunciation of the word "ask." Futurama jokingly pronounces it as "ax," as an homage to certain urban uses today. Before you get all tussled up about it, consider how modern speakers today pronounce the word "only."

  11. Re:Using a computer on company time? on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 1

    If engaging current and new customers on Facebook isn't a part of your company's marketing plan, you've done a very good thing.

  12. Re:So Many Questions on Gaming in the 4th Dimension · · Score: 1

    A lot of what you're describing is entropy, not the passage of time. I've become convinced that what most of us perceive as time is simply entropy. Being physical beings subject to such rules, it would figure that we'd see things this way. In the end, maybe Douglas Adams was right: "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

  13. Re:How could you not link the pics? on Is Mimas Hiding Pac-Man? · · Score: 1

    That's Travis' baby alright.

  14. what a coincidence on Is Mimas Hiding Pac-Man? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The long-lost backstory on Pac-Man has its origins in space, too! Of course, every geek probably knows this already:

    In 1976, Cosmonaut Nikolai Peckmann was sent alone to an orbiting space station for what would be called Mission Six- to study the radiation levels and strange circumstances that killed all four crewmen of the last research mission.

    By the third day, Peckmann's broken transmissions were coming back to ground control filled with increasing paranoia and delusion. He claimed that the spirits of the dead cosmonauts were coming to claim him, and that he had to keep moving to evade them. He shouted that if he could capture consume these spirits himself while he still had strength, he could move to the next level of consciousness...Truly the rantings of an insane man.

    Indeed, video recovered later would show Peckmann running around the confined but maze-like station, downing emergency sedatives like a madman....pausing in a corner momentarily, only to throw back vitamin pills and give chase to his invisible demons.
    He had exhausted the entire cargo of vitamins, pills, and fresh fruit well ahead of schedule. There was no way another crew could be assembled to rescue him before he starved. After one rather violently garbled transmission, the static cleared and the last live image on record is that of Peckmann's empty, wilted spacesuit on the cabin floor.

    It was determined that another mission to recover any remains or gather any more research would be a waste of the people's money, and the station was allowed to drift out of orbit and into space- a failure never to be mentioned again. It was ordered and assumed that all video and paper evidence had been destroyed.

  15. Re:Not to sounds like a video snob ... on Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii · · Score: 1

    Most of their stuff is SD with a few "HD" videos coming in at 720p. Chances are you didn't buy a Wii for its media center capabilities. That's what the 360 and PS3 are for. I use my 360 more as a media box than a gaming console.

  16. You're doing it wrong on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    Most guys I know, me included, go on Xbox Live to get away from girls. Hell, if there's a boy playing in a MW2 match that even sounds like a girl, we taunt him until he gets the fsck out.

  17. Re:First psot on MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada · · Score: 1

    I could go for some poutine (with squeaky cheese) right about now...or a kebab...it's one of those mornings.

  18. Re:and ... on The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    "...while watching an episode of The Outer Limits inspired by an earlier short story somewhat similar to the premise of The Terminator."

  19. Re:Perfect for those really long WoW raids. on Disposable Toilet To Change the World · · Score: 1

    You must have very slim movements.

  20. Re:So that's ... on Real Settles Lawsuits, Will Stop Selling RealDVD · · Score: 1

    I'd also like to recommend DVDFab Platinum. It's very easy to use for the less tech-savvy and is kept up-to-date on a fairly consistent basis. You can do bit for bit copies, compress DVDs or convert the movie to a variety of file formats, with presets for AppleTV, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, etc.

  21. Re:Add the USA to the list too on Use Open Source? Then You're a Pirate! · · Score: 1

    And hasn't IBM invested about a billion dollars into Linux, among other companies?

  22. Re:Humph! on Sony Joins the Offensive Against Pre-Owned Games · · Score: 1

    Since I have an Xbox 360 and prepay for Xbox Live for a year ($3 to $4 a month if you get a prepaid card on sale), this doesn't effect me, either.

  23. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 1

    Up here, it's called the War of Southern Pwnage.

  24. Re:There's a leak? on Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game · · Score: 1

    This would also explain why Ron Jeremy is the most popular male pr0n star.

  25. Re:This means ... on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 1

    In some societies, cousins are considered the same as brothers and sisters.