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  1. Re:Social games on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does it make it less enjoyable for her? I'd say she probably is happy it isn't as complex and she can just poke around for a few minutes a day and be done with it.

  2. Re:News: Most Americans. . . on Most Americans Support an Internet Kill Switch · · Score: 2, Informative

    The people saying the government should be able to knock out sections of the net are the probably some of the same people who own zombie systems because they can't be bothered to install patches or like to click on every file sent to them.

  3. Here is your report... on Data Miners Scraping Away Our Privacy · · Score: 1

    After spending millions on data miners, surveys, demographic analysis, consumer panels, and consultants we've come to the conclusion that the target market for beer is young men.

  4. My Proposal on Chertoff Advocates Cyber Cold War · · Score: 5, Funny

    I propose ignoring Chertoff.

  5. Re:I'd rather make peanuts telecommuting on IT's Last Hope — a Job In the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    As long as I'm near some mountains and decent hiking I'm game.

  6. Re:Well, I Owe My Friend an Apology on Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits · · Score: 5, Funny

    The old bacon-cheeseburger insulated wires were an even bigger problem.

  7. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Robots Guarding US Nuclear Stockpiles In Nevada · · Score: 1

    Guards that scream "Exterminate!"?

  8. Gen Turgidson on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 1

    Gentlemen, we must not allow a balloon gap!

  9. The Original APB on APB To Close Mere Months After Launch · · Score: 1

    No worries, you'll still have the orginal APB.

  10. Re:Features Are The Mind Killer on Intel CTO Says Future Phones Will Sense Your Mood · · Score: 1

    It will turn blue if you are calm and red if you are upset. Groovy!

  11. Re:really? on Police Publish 'An Introduction To PEDO BEAR' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Their next pamphlets will be titled "Warning Parents! Ceiling Kitty Is Watching Your Family Masturbate!" and "Are Your Kids Getting Rickrolled?"

  12. My Religious Fundementalist Search Engine on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm working on a religious fundementalist search engine. No matter what you enter it always comes back with the same result "You already know everything!".

  13. Re:Doesn't understand on Lawyer Smokes Pages From the Koran and Bible · · Score: 1

    What, no smoking a Torah also?

  14. Re:Previous condition on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    They still don't know what exactly is the cause of autism and they sure don't know what triggers it so it is good to see that courts are now scientific labs. We can close down biomed research now, just file lawsuits and let the lawyers do the science.

  15. Re:Bad idea on World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia · · Score: 1

    Or they lose two-way communication and don't realize their commands aren't being received until there is a crisis.

  16. Cooking for Geeks? on Cooking For Geeks · · Score: 1

    How about just following the recipe?

  17. Re:Maybe on Another Gulf Oil Rig Explodes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Looks like oil rigs are bursty too. Big yellow fireball bursty.

  18. Re:Virtual babies? on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    I killed three of them in the 80s when I neglected my Tamagotchi.

  19. Re:Japan's primary export on Resort Attracts Men With Virtual Girlfriends · · Score: 1

    ...wrapped in a Hello Kitty tortilla.

  20. Re:Missing Contents on The Misleading World of Atari 2600 Box Art · · Score: 2, Funny

    I could say the same about album covers back in the lp days. "Hey, hot chicks, fire breathing demons...omg this album is awful!"

  21. Re:Rights of company versus rights of individual on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the PC/religious mentality that basic human behavior can and should be legislated out of existance. It only makes lawyers happy.

  22. Re:Some other tidbits from his browsing history on HP CEO's Browsing History Used Against Him · · Score: 1

    Even worse...
    www.slashdot.org

    Now he is on www.monster.com

  23. Re:Because the Article Breaks Down the Claim Fully on Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand the Brain · · Score: 1

    It is also timing. For instance, during fetal development the pace of cell growth and cell death are critical to the final structure. Signal strength from neighboring cells influences where cell growth and migration takes place. The interaction between the genes is frequently implicit.

    The environment that these processes take place in is as crucial as the genome itself also. You can't just pull the genome out of a fertilized egg and plop it into another cell and expect it to form an embryo.

    Here's how that math works, Kurzweil explains: The design of the brain is in the genome. The human genome has three billion base pairs or six billion bits, which is about 800 million bytes before compression, he says. Eliminating redundancies and applying loss-less compression, that information can be compressed into about 50 million bytes, according to Kurzweil.

    This is like saying there are 92 or so elements that occur in nature so I can model the universe with 92 lines of code and a few for the basic forces.

  24. Re:LOL on Volkswagen Creates Sewage-Powered Beetle · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Wow, your car is a shitbox."

    "Yes, yes it is"

  25. Re:This is an appropriate use. on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    Just put your child in there naked and then you can charge the satellite controlers with downloading kiddie porn.