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  1. Re:Already exists on BrainPort Allows People To Reclaim Damaged Senses · · Score: 2, Funny

    A two-electrode version of this device exists in the form of licking 9V batteries, to give users the sense of whether 9V batteries are dead.

    Yes, but if unreliable internet sources have taught me anything, it's that 3 people die each year from trying this! That's almost as scary as this hydrogen dioxide problem!

  2. Re:Questions on TiVo to Sell Your Fast-Forward Button · · Score: 1

    The total amount of advertising-loaded time during each show will rise.

    And since people obviously want to avoid the ads, they will then stop watching the show until the ads are reduced to acceptable levels. If they do lower their levels, great, I'll start watching again. If not, I don't NEED tv to entertain me, it's an attractive option sometimes, but not necessary. I'll do something that doesn't annoy me.

  3. Re:Not clear? on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 1

    immagine what it could do the the Secret Service's ability to investigate real crimes if I posted some pictures of Sara Michelle Geller nude

    One problem I forsee is that one person sharing won't be enough initially, you should send the pictures to me so that way we have a larger sharing base. Yeah, and I'll also use them for...other research projects...

  4. Re:Big fucking suprise on 2004 Election Weirdness Continues · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your statement implies there is/was/will be a government you trust. That thought is just plain scary.

    Yeah, I was going to trust a government that was run solely by me, but that was because I paid myself off...little do I know I'm double crossing myself, and won't really support myself when it comes time to vote.

  5. Re:I'll be the first to say it... on Working iPod Halloween Costume · · Score: -1, Troll

    He went as a TI-85, back when they were "new."
    ha! beat that!


    I've had sex.

  6. Re:Usefulness on Physicists Finally Solve the Falling-Paper Problem · · Score: 1

    Of course, if you could do that you could probably do without the parachute.

    Actually, I'd probably still go with the painless method of a parachute. Even if I could be unflattened, I doubt they could make it no longer hurt when every part of me meets every other part of me.

  7. Re:If only... on XM Portable Satellite Radio Receiver with Hard Drive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ahh, if only one of the new iPods and this XM device were one and the same

    Give me $5 and some duct tape.

    iPod and XM device not included. Offer not valid in KY and ME. 10 cent cash refund in MI. Included sales tax if ordering from WI. Other fees may apply. Caution: Contents may be hot and contain peanuts.

  8. Re:This is fine and well, but... on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's beneficial to get your ass as high as you can as fast as you can

    This is also true when in a college dorm room.

  9. Re:In Other News... on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1

    In other news, it has been found that eating food can be addictive. Studies show that some humans who start eating food shortly after they are born are unable to stop until their death.

    Actually, I just read they found a new treatment for food addiction by analyzing young, female models! This new treatment, called anorexia, will help lessen food addiction and someday, with God's help, mankind may finally be able to kick this food addiction!

  10. Re:Aim You Sing Ate Write How on Open Source Speech Recognition - With Source · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ate lurks barry wall.

    Who ate my wall?

  11. Re:Major erratum in article on AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found · · Score: 1

    Basically unless you run as a regular "User" or other restricted account in Windows, the AIM fix is only good for one session of AIM.

    What if you right click on the key, go to permissions and choose deny for all? Wouldn't that stop it?

  12. Re:Is it over? on Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    "Linspire - Where do you want to go today?"

    That's obviously a rip off, it's more likely to be "Linspire - To which place would you like to go within the next 24 hours?"

  13. Re:Grammar Nazism... on Besieged Movie Industry Suffers Record Takings · · Score: 1

    I'd be doing myself and this thread a disservice if I didn't moderate the hell outta this post!

    And how exactly do you go about that if you posted in this discussion?

  14. Re:*sigh* Here we go again... on Microsoft Patents Grouped Taskbar Buttons · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunatly I patented posting about how you patented posting about abolishing the patent system...I think...that's a lot of patenting posted...potents pasted? Wait, now I'm really mixed up...

  15. Re:actually the question I always ask: on Playing Nice: Reviews of CrossOver Office, WineX 4 · · Score: 1

    "Will I have to deal with annoying dependency problems that take me hours to install the most basic of programs?" So far that answer is still yes :(

    You should switch to Gentoo and trade your hours of dependency problems for hours of compile time :) It's what all the cool kids are doing...come on, you know you wanna. You don't want all the girls in our class to think you're chicken, do you?

  16. Re:T-shirts on Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? · · Score: 1

    Unless you've got an extremely flat abdomen, the positioning will get screwed up

    What about on the back of the t-shirt?

  17. Re:even if you don't register on Cell Phone Directory Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I work for a survey center, and if you just say you're on the Do Not Call list (which doesn't apply to surveys - esp. since most of them are actually sponsored by the government), you're likely to get marked down as a callback instead of a refusal. Let them tell you what they're about, and then tell them that you're not interested and to not call back. Explicitly telling them not to call back is the key part - otherwise call back is okay. Just saying you're on the do not call list isn't enough because the dnc list doesn't apply to surveys.

  18. Re:Do Not Call List on Cell Phone Directory Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    The DNC does NOT allow for 'survey' calls.

    Actually, it does. I work for a survey center and the do not call list does not apply to us. The key thing is that you have to actually NOT be selling or advertising anything. Most of the studies at the call center I work for are paid for by the government (usually the Department of Health and Family Services or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), so we're for sure not breaking the laws relating to the do not call list.

    And it's not just my state, either, BRFSS is a telephone survey (about health issues) conducted in all 50 states (even Puerto Rico and Guam) for the DHFS and CDC.

  19. Re:It will take care of itself... on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    Scotty will find a way.

    I'm not supposed to tell you this, but the secret to breaking encryption is to reverse the polarity. Shhhh.

  20. Re:Blaming the user on Infected PCs for Rent · · Score: 1

    A duck is a duck.

    Or is it?

  21. Re:Be more specific on Synthetic Life In The Lab · · Score: 1

    Slip someone a dose of 3mg/kg ketamine HCl

    I would like to test this theory, please send me enough ketamine for several trial runs. Science/Theology depends on it!

  22. Re:Names? on People Feel Loyalty To Computers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I name my computers...BARRY

    You named one after me? I feel so honored. And I thought that one night stand meant nothing to you.

  23. Re:People like sitting in the same place on People Feel Loyalty To Computers · · Score: 5, Funny

    The human does this, naturally.

    And the human speak the English in the person of the third.

  24. Re:and the merchant verification process? on Biometric Voice Recognition Credit Cards · · Score: 2, Funny

    how do I, the merchant, prove I 'heard' the squawk?

    I'm glad you asked that! Merchants can buy a Deluxe Squawk Verifier from us for only $39,999.99! Act now and you'll recieve the Deluxe Juice-O-Matic at half price! Hurry! Supplies are limitied.

  25. Re:Another sort of question on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    be sure to take a least 1 history and one philsophy course

    I couldn't agree more - try things out, you may find something you like more than IT. Ever since I was eleven I thought I'd be a CS major - computers were my life, now 3 years into college I'm a philosophy major because I liked it THAT much more. I may not know what I'm going to do with a philosophy degree, but I know I've grown more on this track than I would have otherwise.