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  1. Good Idea on Time Sharing Cars · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there anyone out there who'd like to share their Ferrari or Porsche with me? I'm not picky, either will suffice ...

  2. Re:Oh cool. on US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33 Million · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That Jeri Ellsworth chick is already selling exactly such a device through the home shopping channel

    From an earlier interview I believe she only acted as a consultant to the company that actually produces the device, so she should be rather safe from that perspective. The company that produces the device plus anybody using that Commodore name for profit will be sued into oblivion.

  3. Oh Damn! on The Coming Atlantic Mega-Tsunami · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and here I just bought a bungalow on the Jersey shore.

  4. What about the liquid or ice in this shot? on Opportunity Rover Encounters Its Own Heat Shield · · Score: 1, Interesting
  5. Re:Downhill After Sierra's Classics on Whippersnappers Bad-Mouth Old Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously.. I think I remember having to throw a midget once, but for the life of me I can't remember which game it was in.

    I think that might be Peasant's Quest

  6. Waitor! on Tiny Aircraft Feeds Itself With Dead Flies · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's a dead tiny-fly-eating-aircraft in my soup!

  7. Re:Doomed...? on 2004 MN4 Asteroid Odds Inching Up Again · · Score: 1

    His daughter will definitly still be alive since she's an elf.

    What the heck are you smoking?

  8. ... but the upload sucks on Caveats In Reselling DSL Bandwidth To Neighbors? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At 768 up you would need some way to cap their upload. Otherwise you'd risk a neighbor ruining it for everybody.

  9. HIPAA Violation! on Medical Students Profile Middle-Earth's Gollum · · Score: 5, Funny

    Revealing Gollum's private medical information constitutes a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

  10. Yes, the Earth's rotation was affected! on Quake and Tsunami Devastate South Asia · · Score: 1

    The quake was so powerful the shockwaves circled the planet.

    "All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, said Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute. Speaking on SKY TG24 TV, Boschi said the quake even disturbed the Earth's rotation."

    Source

  11. Re:Kinda makes you wonder, on Build Your Own Apollo Guidance Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Easy, they weren't bogged down with a GUI.

  12. Re:They Came from Innerspace on Top 100 Toys From The '70s or Thereabouts · · Score: 1

    Ohhh they were nice and heavy too, one of my favorite childhood throwing weapons.

    1. 4 slotted Lincoln Log - Wing them like a German potato masher
    2. Hotwheel/Matchbox - Not accurate, but plentiful. Vans and trucks for close range.
    3. Micronaut Torso - Guaranteed to leave a red mark!
    4. Superball - Collateral damage
    5. Improvosed Lego Mortar - Leave some pieces loose for a shotgun effect

  13. Impossible! on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hate to break the news to you Pat, but Wikipedia says your still ill.

  14. BWAHAHAHAHA!! on Examining Bittorrent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    LOL! legal torrents ... hehehe ... honestly you people slay me.

  15. Realtors Take Notice! on Report: Broadband In US Homes Nearly 20 Percent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm currently looking to move in to a house in a more rural part of my state, but one of my must haves is high speed access. Unfortunatly, realtors are clueless to the fact that broadband is a major selling point, and its up to me to do all the research in determining if an address is broadband available. Most do list CableTV as a selling point, but it'd be great if they'd just go a step further.

    For many a house without broadband is a worthless shack.

  16. Re:one of the greatest comics? on 'Bourne' Director to take on Watchmen · · Score: 2, Funny

    THE WATCHMEN is the "War And Peace" of the comics world.

    Who publishes this "War and Peace" series ... is it DC or Marvel? As long as it's not Image, their coloring sucks!

  17. Re:Fantastic game on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes, yes ... thank you Mr Obvious. I was referring to the version (aka Spear of Destiny) by ID in the early 90's.

  18. Re:Fantastic game on Review: Half-Life 2 · · Score: 1

    That would be my only critique of HL2 having played Far Cry myself. Most FPS games have that tracked "amusement ride" feeling; in that you don't have much freedom to go out and explore or approach a goal different ways. That's where FC was an eye opener, if they'd just would have worked on the story, character design and AI a bit more the game would have been perfect.

    Still I'll say HL2 is the best FPS I've ever played going back to the original Castle Wolfenstein.

  19. BREAKING NEWS: Soviet Battle Station Slashdotted! on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will not bode well for us geeks! Does anybody have a laser proof tin foil hat I can borrow??

  20. Oh man that thing is uber Cool!!! on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd bid at least $50 bucks for it on eBay

  21. Benchmarks Please? on Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much of a performance boost will this paint give me? Will it allow me to run Doom 3 in XGA??

  22. Re:Uh, wouldn't no laws at all be better? on Private Spaceflight Law Revived · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wouldn't a lack of regulation really allow private spaceflight to "take off?"

    As long as it doesn't "take off" into the flight path of a 747. There needs to be a designated unpopulated region where these people can go play space cadet.

  23. It's been done ... on Spies Riding Shotgun · · Score: 1, Troll

    Karma burn in 5..4..3..2..1...BOOM!

  24. Oh great ... on Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not looking forward to artificial fin chunks in my Tuna sandwich

  25. Re:The Oort Cloud Test on Ex-Britannica Editor Reviews Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    all these words from the encyclopedia brittanica synopsis would lead any discerning reader to the conclusion that the Oort Cloud is, as you say, a theoretical source of comets.

    Just to clarify, the Wiki article makes it clear that the Oort Cloud itself is a theory vs the Britannica's stating "Vast spherical cloud of small, icy bodies orbiting the Sun at distances ranging from about 0.3 light-year to one light-year or more...". It then states "is probably the source of most long-period comets." I parse that statement to mean: There is an Oort Cloud, here is what it's composed of, comets might originate from it.