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  1. Re:Sexist and trivializing characterization. on Solar Cells — Made In a Pizza Oven · · Score: 1

    So we should expect all males in stories from now on to be referred to as "studs" or "beefcake"?

  2. Re:Forwarding this to my wife... on Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The catch here is that polygamy implies marriage. Now if they just changed it to "hot group action" or "friends with benefits" then I'd be demanding that this longevity effect be covered under health insurance.

  3. Just Ask Pat Benatar on Brain Will Be Battlefield of the Future, Warns US · · Score: 1

    According to Pat Benatar love is already a battlefield, baby!

  4. Re:Ow ow ow. on A Good Reason To Go Full-Time SSL For Gmail · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its a waist of time to corect peoples gramar and speling. Your simply not going to brake there bad habits irregardless of how you feal.

  5. Re:Bees don't help detectives on Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers · · Score: 1

    I look forward to a string of unsolved murders as people kill thier annoying neighbors. "Well detective, the murder occured on this street in Albany NY so I suggest we start looking in Fairbanks Alaska."

  6. NASA Sends George Clinton To Bomb The Moon on How NASA Will Bomb the Moon To Find Water · · Score: 1

    NASA has released more information on their plan for finding water on the moon, "We are sending in George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic Mothership to the moon where he will be DA BOMB!". NASA expects Mr Clinton to kick it out and lay down a funk so powerful that any water hidden in the moon's crust should be revealed. "He is gonna kick it like he's never kicked it before." said chief NASA engineer Richard Bogus. Mr Clinton later said "I don't forsee any problems unless I get a last minute request from the citizens of Alpha Centuri. That is the center of hypergalactic soul funk!"

  7. Re:Of course, but when? on NVIDIA Shows Interactive Ray Tracing On GPUs · · Score: 1

    Maybe the best course would be to selectively use ray tracing. Use rasterization for backgrounds and other low visibility or undynamic images and use ray tracing for the focus of the viewer's attention. That dragon you are fighting may benefit from ray tracing but the tree behind it in the far distance could just be rasterized.

  8. Re:Finally! on Diablo 3 Developer Explains Health and Potion Changes · · Score: 1

    Oh yah? Well in WOW you can carry 6 backpacks at once. I'm going to try that next time I go hiking.

  9. Re:True or not, one of my favorites... on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 1
    Great!

    Reminds me of this book, and this one.

  10. Re:It is most munificent of you, on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 4, Funny

    Make sure it is a good rant.

    By the way, thanks for making the comment box about 2 inches by 2 inches large. I guess it is a form of text compression.

  11. 2020 Medal Winners on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    And the gold goes to Merck, the silver to Wyeth pharmaceutical, aand the bronze to Novartis. Congratulations!

  12. Re:Sure, and then.... on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1

    I agree. Lets start with woman's beach volleyball and gymnastics.

  13. Re:A Greater Truth on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    I think you mean democracy functions in spite of general ignorance. The problem is when, for example, you have people approving a big increase in using food (something you require to live) for auto fuel (something you don't need to live) based on bogus economics.

    Even democracy has a breaking point.

  14. Re:lets just hope on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if his hobbies are running around Tokyo carjacking, beating up ho's, and shooting wildly?

  15. Future Ideas are at Stake on Miyamoto 'Banned' From Talking About Hobbies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Clearly Nintendo is looking to base their future games on his personal interests:

    "Super Eating Out Mario Bros"
    "Wacky Workout"
    "The Chronicles of Shopping"
    "Watching Reruns on TV Fiesta"
    "World of Internet Porn Surfing"

  16. Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they are in a rush to pull pro-China videos on copyright grounds.

  17. Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    But without the Olympics how will nations and cities spend themselves into the poorhouse to create a venue for advertising and propaganda?

  18. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Maybe if you RTFA you would've seen that the issue wasn't his interest in chemistry. The problem was that they came to put a FIRE OUT and found ~1500 bottles of chemicals that could've posed a major fire hazard. This was in a residential neighborhood (e.g. close houses), not an industrial park.

  19. Re:Scientific community? on The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us · · Score: 1

    The flat-earthers get all their information from an indisputable source, the voices coming from the fillings in their teeth.

  20. Re:An honest answer on Game Developer Asks To Hear From Pirates · · Score: 1

    I only copied games that I never had any intention of buying in the first place. I usually got them out of curiosity or just out of oppurtunism. There was never a lost sale there. Every game that I've actually enjoyed I've paid for.

  21. Re:So what? on Olympic Opening Ceremony Fireworks Were (Partly) Faked · · Score: 1

    Well if they are going to ok the use of CGI then why bother with something as mundane as fireworks? Why not have spaceships buzzing the city and Jedi nights swinging light sabres on the rim of the stadium?

    I think the issue isn't what you saw but the impression that you were seeing something real that required amazing effort, cost, and creativity. To find out it was just some guys sitting in front of a workstation is a bit of a dissapointment.

  22. Re:Out on a limb on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 1

    I'm glad that you don't just rent your hookers and sorry to hear that you blow in your community.

  23. Re:Meanwhile... on Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sys Admins and networking folks probably get lumped in with "unskilled" until something breaks.

  24. Re:First hit is free... on Blizzard Beefs up World of Warcraft's Recruit-a-Friend · · Score: 1

    There are quite a few things in there that are total pointless time-sinks.

    Blizzard likes to refer to that as reputation scales, thank you very much.

  25. Re:I got lucky. on Blizzard Beefs up World of Warcraft's Recruit-a-Friend · · Score: 1

    Sounds like my guild. Best thing to do is make sure everyone agrees on the looting process before you go a single foot. We do need before greed with people stating at the start what they will probably need on (and saying why they are before they go need later). Everything else we go greed on. We almost never have more than a brief justification request and I've never seen hurt feelings.