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  1. Re:Spoiiler Free ...HA! on Spoiler-Free Review of Indiana Jones · · Score: 3, Funny

    I so want to snigger... am I a bad person? Only for using the word snigger.
  2. Re:RIP Denholm Elliott on Spoiler-Free Review of Indiana Jones · · Score: 1

    Indy! Follow me! *I* know the way!!!

    -rides off into sunset

  3. Re:Print Version (and my Apple woes) on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    I foolishly installed realplayer so I could listen to NFL games that weren't on tv live. They can an exclusive deal with NFL.com and you couldn't get that feed without that, or an XM radio which I didn't want to buy.

    In hindsight it wasn't worth it of course, but the answer to your question is that they had corporate sponsorship.

  4. Re:Words of wisdom from Fight Club on Getting Credit for Programming Accomplishments? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are not your Linux distro. You are not your favorite editor. You are not your fucking Macintosh.

    You have to realize that someday you will die. Until you know that, you are useless.

  5. Wasn't Sony. on Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch a Step in the Right Direction? · · Score: 1

    Sony did not produce POTBS. It was produced independently from Flying Lab Software who then approached Sony for help with the platform.

  6. Re:Not An English Company on Shopping Centers Track Customers Via Cell Phone Signals · · Score: 1


    On the other hand, Hampshire is in England, a part of the United Kingdom, so it is correct to call them an English company in the same sense as it is correct to call Intel a Californian company.

  7. Re:Corn on Fat People Cause Global Warming, Higher Food Prices · · Score: 1

    Eating hydrogen based things is okay. We're talking about the subset of corn based things.

    No need to be pedantic.

    Your lunch probably had loads of HFCS in it. Bread and Pasta usually do, unless you make your own, but we're talking about typical people.

  8. Re:ridiculous on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    How the hell would you know if it did? How the hell would you know if it did? Time has never reversed or looped or anything crazy like that before so why would it now?
  9. Re:Come out again?! on Black Holes Don't Trap Information Forever · · Score: 1

    But yes if you are in a knife factory :)

  10. Re:dear air force morons: on Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot to clarify that the tactics in question must be immoral.

    Certainly you want to copy your enemy if the tactic is say, 'duck!'

  11. Re:They wouldn't do that... on Air Force Aims for Control of 'Any and All' Computers · · Score: 1

    No, Medical ethics and Business ethics are just supersets of basic human ethics.

    For example, forced labor is unethical no matter your profession.

  12. I believed when I was young on British "X-files" Released to Public · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When I was young I thought I had seen a UFO in our backyard. I was utterly convinced. I started to do research on it and couldn't understand why so many things (lochness monster, bigfoot) were not better explained and explored when man seemed to understand so many other things (elements of nature, physics, genetics). I though I was on to something big.

    As I matured it began to dawn on me. My experience, had it been real, would have been reported by somebody else. The memory was from my childhood, it could have been a dream before I understood the difference.

    The more I tried to relive the memory, the more an unnerving recognition hit me. Shit, I had seen the spaceship from ET in my backyard! It had been a dream created by my overactive imagination.

    I had wanted it to be true I swore that it was, because the memory backed me up, but my own memory betrayed me.

    Looking back I see that misconceptions are common human fallicies, and that is why scientific data, which is checked and doubled checked by many people is so critical in the search for truth.

  13. Re:Guys, we're talking about SYRIA here on Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    Wow! I didn't realize it was a republican paradise!

  14. Re:Order of the Arrow on Mormon Church Goes After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Hehehe, my friends and I took a nap during our ordeal in the tent we were supposed to be cleaning.

  15. Re:Does the research differentiate on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    The key is to read a book during the breaks.

  16. Re:Heart ? on Earthquake In China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only evidence of Pox blankets is from letters during the French and Indian war from a particular nasty guy who treated Indians like they were vermin. He certainly had the idea to do it, but there is no hard proof that he went through with it in any form.

    It's certainly possible he did since smallpox ravaged colonial and native populations in the area, but he could have just been brainstorming.

    I only mention it because you should base your arguments on the clearly proven offenses, and not the ones that may or may not have occurred. There was certainly no hard policy of this behavior set down.

  17. Re:swish and spit... on Using Microwaves To Cook Ballast Stowaways · · Score: 1

    I don't really think saltwater is a big problem. Ocean creatures can already get to any other part of the ocean.

  18. Re:All Too Often on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    Users change their minds a lot and aren't always available for comment. (depending on the industry, this wouldn't apply to open source.) Also, it usually hard for them to see what you're trying to sell them until you've coded it.

    If you run every change by fellow programmers you'll be in meetings all day, and sometimes you're the only one on the project.

  19. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Microsoft Helps Police Crack Your Computer · · Score: 1

    What if I don't want to simply want to read anything on your hard drive, but write anything.

  20. Re:Yes, I knew Hans and Nina on Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Wacky indeed!

    I remember that you had roast beef!

  21. Re:Role model? on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 1

    I tend to create personas that are very different from me, to kind of test out what those types of people might be thinking.

  22. Death to video on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing is worse than not being able to get the news beyond the headline because you don't want to stream video. I don't want to waste 5 minutes for a video, I want to waste 20 seconds skimming articles and making assumptions, like I do on /.

  23. Re:RTFA!!! on Effect of Virtual Avatars On Real-Life Behavior · · Score: 1

    I'm going to reply to truthsearch! I'm going to reply to truthsearch! I'm going to reply to truthsearch!

    *crosses fingers*

  24. Re:What If... on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 1

    If the police approach you just remain calm. Don't wig out and run. Talk to them, try and gel with their attitudes, they may be lenient and just upbraid you verbally.

  25. Re:How about anoher example? on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 2, Insightful


    You gotta go low tech for best analogies.

    "There are places where criminal voice communication is centralized: the post offices across the country. All letters and packages, legal and illegal, flow through these 'choke points,' and the feds, of course, are already tapping those points and siphoning off the letters. What Mueller wants is the legal authority to comb through the content of all the letters and packages, which are already being siphoned off by the NSA, in order to look for illegal activity."