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  1. Re:Somebody please, stop the madness on Listening To The Radio At Work? Prepare To Be Sued · · Score: 1

    Well I just got a letter from Taco Bell demanding money for letting other's enjoy my meal without permission when I fart.

  2. Re:No, we don't cater to the lowest forms if life on 'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy · · Score: 1

    Easy solution, have a glossary page on slashdot for each main subject that defines specialized terms and acronyms for newbies. Even something as simple as "3D" might not be obvious to a person with rough English language skills.

    I agree though that if you need RAM defined for you then you probably won't get much out of the discussion.

  3. Re:Result is specific to AoM? on 'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did they pit neurotic vs neurotic? I wonder if then it would turn into a coin flipping contest with their chaotic behavior just resulting in random outcomes.

    I'd think that in a 3 person battle a neurotic AI would be at a great disadvantage because the style of "to hell with the consequenses, charge!" game play might win against 1 but not with a 3rd party. They'd jump in take advantage of the neurotic side when they had no reserves left and had spent themselves fighting the 2nd opponent.

  4. Re:Welcome to Lords of the Realm 2! on 'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy · · Score: 1

    So does this mean that all of the really good online players I run into are actually neurotic messes? I'm not disputing that, I just want to make sure.

    BTW, I found that one of the best strategies in the old Civilization games was to build horsemen/charioteers as fast as possible and raid other civs before they had a chance to start even at the expense of your own city growth. Only oceans got in the way of a quick win this way.

  5. Re:Typical on The Simpsons Game Tweaks Gaming Companies · · Score: 1

    Remember, RockStar is a company of crazy rebels who buck the system. They are renegades! They take no bs from the man!

    Unless of course someone makes fun of them then they go crying to the man.

  6. Re:How long until the neoterics emerge? on US Scientist Creates Artificial Life · · Score: 1

    Make that our severe diarrhea overlords.

  7. Re:The cause is... on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    I'd rank Domino's Oreo Dessert Pizza right up there on the food abomination scale with Kentucky Fried Chicken's "Famous Bowls". I have never had one but they look like bowls of slop and they must be extra special when they have cooled off and congealed.

  8. Re:Only 2.5 miles? on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1
    Surface Waves


    Travelling only through the crust, surface waves are of a lower frequency than body waves, and are easily distinguished on a seismogram as a result. Though they arrive after body waves, it is surface waves that are almost enitrely responsible for the damage and destruction associated with earthquakes. This damage and the strength of the surface waves are reduced in deeper earthquakes.

  9. Re:Only 2.5 miles? on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1

    They struck the river Styx.

  10. Re:Lex Luthor is Pleased on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1

    You'll have to get the Rocky Mountains out of your way first though.

  11. Definition of "Borehole" on 2.5 Mile Deep Hole Drilled Into San Andreas Fault · · Score: 1

    "Borehole", isn't that a slang word for a jerk who hogs a meeting?

  12. Re:DX9 looks better? on DX10 - How Far Have We Come? · · Score: 1

    And all straight lines are just REALLY long curves.

  13. Re:Researchers just don't get it on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    It isn't just a genetic predisposition. There is a proven link between obesity and type 2. It may simply be a matter of body mass or fat cell signals or both. That said some people do have it in their families. My grandfather died of it, my mother has it (skinny, eats like a bird), and my brother has it (athletic). Fortunately I had a diabetes specialist as a primary physician who made sure I was tested and never saw signs of it so I think I dodged the genetic bullet.

  14. Re:Huh. on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    Finally, a medical cure for self discipline! Is there a pill I can take that'll give me a trust fund so I don't have to work too?

  15. Re:The cause is... on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My brother is athletic and in good shape, he just ignored the signs of it (inherited type 2) and ended up needing an emergency heart bypass in his 40s. He sure watches his blood sugar now.

  16. Re:Step 1 : Remove tinfoil hat. on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Isn't type 2 diabetes basically dietary related (adult onset) and controled by monitoring blood sugar while type 1 is the permanent loss of pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin, which I guess is what your mom has? If so then this research wouldn't help people like your mom since they have no insulin in the first place.

  17. Re:Terrorists .... on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    "There's a fine line between stupid and clever." - David St. Hubbins

  18. Re:just like katrina on Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry, he'd just have a Total Recall later.

  19. Dave Clark is a PRAT on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    5. Say nice things to your equipment. Complement it once in a while. "Who's a good stereo? You are! You're a good stereo!" Spend some quality time with it. Take it out once in a while to someplace nice. Give your speakers a hug.

  20. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    "allowing far more information to be retrieved from the disc"

    So THAT is where the've been hiding the deleted scenes!

  21. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is only recommended for jazz or classical music. For rock you need to use a cyclical freeze-thaw process using liquid argon and the skull of a saint.

  22. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 1

    I keep my stereo in a dewer flask filled with liquid helium.

  23. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 2, Funny

    I personally only buy cables made from Cu65. That Cu63 isotope is so pedestrian and isn't "danceable".

  24. Correction on Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Excuse me, that is Intelligent Design Metrics thank you very much.

  25. Sure it is George Takei? on George Takei Now an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    According to James Doohan (aka "Scotty") William Shatner is a real asteroid.