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  1. Re:A little OT... on Copyright Law Used to Shut Down Site · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, as everyone knows, Mining brings you Masonry and Bronze Working, which in turn gets you Metal Casting, Iron Working, Compass and Machinery. There's nothing about 'Life' in there at all.

  2. USPTO Peer Review Process To Being Soon on USPTO Peer Review Process To Begin Soon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could somebody please point to the verb in that title?

    I'm trying to make sense out of it but I can't.

  3. Re:Enlighten me please on Mass Market DS Homebrew Cart Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but it does come with not only a 25 game CD of the best DS homebrew games, but also 25 of the best homebrew DS games on a CD.

  4. Re:It's obvious. on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 1

    Well, that and being informed about US politics pretty much gave you away as being not from around here.

    At the very least it means you're not the Secretary of State.

  5. It's obvious. on Vanishing Honeybees Will Affect Future Crops · · Score: 4, Funny

    This whole "No Drone Left Behind" thing is a failure. The bees are heading out of the country for better educations, free health care and fewer 'reality' programs on the tele.

  6. Re:How to have a sucessful meeting on Meetings Make You Dumber · · Score: 1

    And I had a former boss who took all the donuts and coffee out of the room.

    Attendance at staff meetings when down from the whole department to three people.

  7. Re:Canadian stealth on James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada · · Score: 1

    Well, there was Jim Carrey. And Keanu Reeves.

    But that was just on a dare. We didn't think anyone would take that seriously.

  8. Re:oblig. on US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that's a good idea? He'll just send somebody up there with a big drill.

  9. Oh, man... on Don't Believe What You See at the Movies · · Score: 1

    Next you're going to tell me that the music I listen to _isn't_ all unretouched live performances.

    Who can you trust these days?

  10. Re:nope, you can't read this on No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release · · Score: 1

    That movie is what you need and I guarantee you'll see a sailboat, an ocean and maybe even some of them 3d accelerated mermaids doing some of that closed source binary stuff.

  11. Re:nope, you can't read this on No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's not a sailboat, it's a schooner.

  12. Re:It's not the software. on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 5, Funny

    He did warn us that if we struck him down he would become more powerful than ever.

    Maybe we should have listened.

  13. Re:Why is this a big deal? on Solaris Telnet 0-day vulnerability · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, according to TFA, nobody should.

  14. Re:Redundancy on Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos · · Score: 1

    You know, this _is_ The Internet. Such sites already exist.

  15. Re:Spoilers... on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, it looks like some of the fanfic writers were right.

  16. Re:Regardless of the release date on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    So you probably don't want to hear about the chapter where Harry and Malfoy wind up naked in the hot tub talking about whether they like to eat oysters or snails.

  17. Re:How many on Linux Kernel Devs Offer Free Driver Development · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the other hand, working with a competitor to Microsoft may not be a wise strategic decision.

    "Hi, good to see you again. I heard about how you were working with those Linux guys on giving away free drivers for your new card. That's a great move. But that has nothing to do with what I wanted to tell you, which was that there was an accident in the Vista certification lab and we lost the drivers you sent us. Until we can get a fix pushed out for this that means that everybody who buys your product from now on will be told that it has absolutely no support and that even if they download something directly from you it will be flagged as foreign code and won't run. The guys in the lab are really broken up about it and can't figure out how that kind of mistake could happen. Don't worry though, we'll get everything straightened out in the next big service pack. Honest."

  18. Misread headlines on At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies · · Score: 1

    While skimming the titles, I read this as:

    "At Least 25 Million Americans Like Pirate Movies"

    That sounds like good news for Johnny Depp.

  19. Re:Ignorance != Stupidity on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You don't have to know how to derive Maxwell's equations from first principles to turn on a microwave. You should, however, take enough of an interest to read the little book that came with it, or at least the stickers pasted all over the front of it, which explain what not to do.

    If you own a microwave and use a microwave, then you should know how to use one safely. Remaining ignorant of that is just stupid.

  20. Re:Coke for breakfast? on What Breakfast Gets You Going? · · Score: 1
    If you smoke enough, drink enough, and drive fast enough, then you don't have to worry about your metabolism taking a dive at 30.

  21. Re:Save me from my internets on Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives · · Score: 1

    This is obviously a definition of the word 'safe' with which I was not previously acquainted.

  22. You're all thinking it... on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 1

    Hi, I'm Troy Hurtubise. You might remember me from such films as "Project Grizzly" and "Mommy, What's Wrong With That Man's Face?"

  23. Re:Problem on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 1

    And just hope that he doesn't run into any bears or trucks who are trained in 14th century combat techniques.

  24. Re:WOW! Could it live up to his hype? on Inventor Slims Down Exoskeletal Body Armor · · Score: 3, Funny

    No worries. I just checked my email and I have been approved for five mortgages and sixteen unsecured credit cards this week alone.

  25. Re:YACCS -Yet Another Computer Corkup in Space on Software Error Likely Killed MGS Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay the operators helped by plugging in the wrong units but neither did the software catch the discrepancy in the values.

    "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

    Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.