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  1. Re:well yeah on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    No, but I would like a date with Mosh Girl (Not Tub Girl, though.)

  2. Re:Despite the hype on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1

    with all the bombs lately, maybe they are waiting for word of mouth to see if it is ANY GOOD?

    If the movie companies are hoping for this to happen, they are idiots since the answer is always "no".

  3. News flash on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 1, Informative

    Crappy boring movie does marginally well at the box office despite having been laughed at by people on the internet for quite some time now.

  4. Re:mr pedantic on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    No. That's not what I meant. I meant you are supposed to have all the numbers entered into your computer, sync them to your phone with blue tooth, and pick them from a list. Actual pushing the buttons of the phone number on the actual phone itself should be a very rare operation.

  5. Re:All that sounds pretty cool, on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    What's so great about it?

  6. Re:Cheap+one use on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I'd be all for it having a slimmer profile in my pants.

    Obviously a slashdotter...

  7. Re:Snaking buttons on a phone. on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    If you are actually dialing numbers on your phone, then you probably aren't using it right.

  8. Re:Call recording on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Funny

    ou can prove to them over the phone what SOB's they are

    You don't need to use this when you call me, though. I already know I am an SOB.

  9. Re:misfeature on Tomorrow's Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Talking, to a girl, at a club?! You must be new here.

    Don't worry. We will soon have him cured of such things!

  10. Re:I know Iknow!!!!1111! on Wozniak to Judge American Idol-Inspired Mac App Contest · · Score: 1

    There are a million dating sites out there. Oh, but all the women are fake phising scams.

  11. Re:I wonder... on Wozniak to Judge American Idol-Inspired Mac App Contest · · Score: 1

    Yes, users will always be able to rm -rf ~. It's their user space, they can do what they want with it. You can't protect people from stupid.

    Obviously you didn't see the WWDC announcement about Time Machine.

  12. Re:heads and tails on Wozniak to Judge American Idol-Inspired Mac App Contest · · Score: 1

    If you are a programmer and have a great idea, why not just implement it yourself? (Perhaps the idea is for a huge app that would take one person too long to implement...)

  13. Re:Why the hostility? on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 5, Funny

    viola. Virtually free energy.
    Ack! I hope we don't have to get free energy from violas! Those things sound awful!


    Look, it depends on how its played. If I *have* to have someone play a viola in order to power my car to get to work, then perhaps I could chip in for lessons. Or else we could design a soundproof chamber for them to play in, possibly. You have to think creatively - that's what free energy from violas is all about.

  14. Re:Why the hostility? on Irish Company Claims Free Energy · · Score: 1

    Read "The Martian Way" by Issac Asimov.

  15. Re:Who will use it? on Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux · · Score: 1

    I expect you would see the same bug ridden, slightly behind version that you see on Mac OS.

    You misspelled "better".

  16. Re:Who will use it? on Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux · · Score: 1

    How exactly do you deploy software for Linux again? Most people give out the source code and make the user compile it themselves. Others support some small set of distros. They would have to solve this problem before they could deploy an Office for Linux.

    I don't see this happening. It would take them a lot of time and resources just to bring office for Linux to maket. I don't think they could do it.

  17. Re:U.S. Navy: Dolphins are Damned Smart on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    I guess it is impossible to dock a navy ship in freshwater (such as Lake Michigan).

  18. Re:What's your point? on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    So does Eisenhower.

  19. Re:Sounds like nonsense on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    Many Muslims can be quite rational if you are discussing things other than the right of Israel to exist.

  20. Re:Whale meat again, don't know where don't know w on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    "Flipper" and "Star Trek IV" did more to uneducate people than any amount of rational science.

    "Rational science" uneducates people?

  21. Re:U.S. Navy: Dolphins are Damned Smart on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    How much money has the navy spent training goldfish? None. Without resources, what do you expect the goldfish to do?

  22. Re:Smart is one thing... on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    If I had a dog that could catch a frisbee, I'd throw it for him all day. But I've never had a dog that was able to do such a thing. My last dog was very old and had arthritis (he died recently).

  23. Re:Costs don't matter. on Viruses the New Condiment · · Score: 1

    Why would you care about costs if you are dead or going to die? You should spend ANY amount of money to test your food and water.

    Everyone is going to die. It is not the case that I am willing to spend an infinite amount of money on testing food and water. First, crazy spending priorities are a recipe for being ripped off. Obviously everyone wants clean water to drink and food that is healthy. But most people have other priorities in life as well such as having a place to live and education for our children.

    Would you be willing to pay 90% of your income for you entire life in order to live for an extra 2 days? Probably not. Therefore, staying alive for as long as possible isn't infinitely important to you.

  24. Re:Hire someone on Viruses the New Condiment · · Score: 1

    Yes, I am aware that royalty had food testers. If it was only a matter of having someone take a few bites and then keel over (or not), I would just make sure my wife took the first bite at dinner.

    However, that was only feasible because of the type of poisoning that was being attempted. A food tester would not have died quickly enough from slow poisoning or food additives that merely questionable. It is not the case that a person will die immediately from eating this virus. The problem is down the road when the cancer rate goes through the roof, or birth defects emerge, or some other bad consequence that will take a long time to link back to this particular food additive and then it will be a hard political fight to get it back out of the food system.

    Also, do you have any idea how much it would cost to test food for unknown substances. I have no clue what I'm testing for, just "bad stuff". You can't test for things economically that way. It is far easier for the food companies simply to disclose what they put in our food.

    I realize that you are some kind of insane extreme libertarian, but I don't think it is too much to ask that people operate businesses in a manner that is regulated by law. Otherwise, everything becomes a scam and it is that much harder for honest people to run innovative businesses because everyone thinks everything is a scam and won't try anything new.

  25. Re:Yep, burn in dooms plasma on Are Plasma TVs the Next BetaMax? · · Score: 1

    It is possible to create thing panel DLP. Here's an example of a thin panel DLP. They quit making them because DLP is too expensive to compete in that market.