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  1. Re:Obligatory quote, I suppose on Many Universities Spending $100K/Year Enforcing P2P Rules · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but hearing Carlos Mencia say the word "beaner" for the umpteenth time NEVER grows old. The man is a comic genius. Sort of like a hispanic Richard Pryor except without the talent or creativity.

  2. Re:What's "GA"? on FireFox 3.1 Leaves IE in the Dust · · Score: 1

    If that bothers you then I strongly suggest you avoid working for the Dept of Defense (DOD) or reading a text message (lolz!).

  3. Re:Time for a Faraday cage? on Compromising Wired Keyboards · · Score: 1

    Good luck to them if they try spying on my typing.

    "Backspace (bsp), bsp, hith, bsp, bsp, hi theree, bsp..."

  4. Re:Time for a Faraday cage? on Compromising Wired Keyboards · · Score: 1

    They need a reason to do that?

  5. Wireless? on China To Photograph All Internet Cafe Customers · · Score: 1

    I hope people in China don't get their hands on wireless internet gear. It would screw this plan up and that would be a shame.

  6. Re:WOW on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    Because I cut and pasted, that website which had bad punctuation.

  7. Re:A billion photons... on Schneier Calls Quantum Cryptography Impressive But Pointless · · Score: 1

    Nah, you'll just make them collapse.

  8. Gamers in the Sack on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    Sadly, according to this link on the same site, he may need help in pill form too.

  9. Re:Why stop at 36? on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 1

    He probably ran into that 24 hrs per day cap.

    It isn't the money that gets me, it is the time. WoW isn't THAT interesting. Just playing 1 char is enough of a time suck for me.

  10. Re:Money on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 4, Funny

    Female elves don't count as wives.

  11. Re:WOW on Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can you kill, that which has no life?

  12. I'd add one more language on 6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use · · Score: 1

    I really wish my boss let me use Pig Latin. Itway ouldway akemay orkway oremay unfay.

  13. Re:Language Independent! on 6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use · · Score: 1

    I tried programming in Lisp for a while but then my parenthesis keys broke.

  14. Re:Jeez you people... on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 1

    I have found such a cure. Please send $10 to...

  15. Re:Jeez you people... on International Spam Ring Shut Down · · Score: 1

    Ch33p m3ds! \/1@gr@!? I'm sold!!

  16. Re:Taking pictures of the sun? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you filter the sunlight before it enters the optics. Focused unflitered sunlight will cook it. Don't just aim a telescope at the sun and then filter the light as it leaves the eyepiece.

  17. Re:Taking pictures of the sun? on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    I used the exposed tab of a roll of film to look at an eclipse once. It worked very well. The sun was reduced to a dull, moon-like brightness.

  18. Re:I find volume is like a drug tolerance on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    The music business has some casualties of it: Pete Townshend, Roger Miller.

  19. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    The damage is spread out over enough time that people don't realize they are doing it. Sort of like heart disease. People respond to immediate threats much better, like touching a hot stove.

  20. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    My problem with miniheadphones by ANY manufacturer nowadays is that they use that crappy super thin wire now that has absolutely no durability at all. Get it caught in a draw, snag it, just look at it the wrong way and it will get damaged. I wish they'd come up with a slightly thicker cable or better yet some sort of reinforced layer for it.

  21. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Earplugs not only help save your hearing at concerts but I can actually hear the music better with them in.

  22. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Find other ways to mentally block out exercise fatigue (if you are in pain maybe you need to tone that down too) and road noise. No music player is going to be able to counter the tinnitus you're going to eventually get.

    By the way, blocking out road noise is a bad idea judging from the number of times I've seen joggers run out in front traffic, unable to hear car horns because they were blasting music into their ears and oblivious to the world around them.

  23. Re:Turn down the volume on Study Links Personal Music Players To Hearing Loss · · Score: 1

    Not sure if it is too loud? If you have your player cranked up so loud that it is actually annoying people around you on a train then it is too loud.

  24. Re:But what about the real scam? on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    So what you are recommending is a population pyramid scheme?

  25. Re:Interesting concept... on XKCD Improving the Internet ... Yet Again · · Score: 1

    I've always been amused by how American accents are frequently portrayed by British actors on the BBC. They are generally done with a barking Texas accent as if they had seen one too many episodes of Dallas growing up.