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  1. Re:Enormous Negative Reaction on Newton's Ghost Haunts Apple's iPhone · · Score: 1

    It's better to be talked about than not talked about.

    I know a certain former Iraqi dictator that might disagree with that.

  2. Wii-heater on The Next-Gen Consoles and Power Consumption · · Score: 0

    That explains why the left side of my Wii is 90 degrees when it's been off all day. And when you take the disc out of the unit it's fairly warm to touch. At least it's been keeping the living room warm.

  3. Step one.. on Interstellar Ark · · Score: 4, Insightful

    .....might be to determine if Epsilon Eridani has any terrestrial planets to live upon. Boy would our ancestors 700 years from now be upset if they got there only to find no place to land.

  4. Can someone smarter than me... on Pillars of Creation Destroyed · · Score: 2

    .....explain how they can determine something like this if light from that event hasn't even reached us yet? Like, say who now? I assume it just an educated guess based on other activity in the area, but what exactly is it that they look at for clues like this?

  5. Flash video playback on Wii's Opera Browser Now Downloadable · · Score: 1

    So this would be rad, perhaps it already exists. The browser is known to play flash videos (ie youtube)...what would be hot is if you could install a application that would index and share videos out of a (or a bunch of) directories on a local machine in which you could browse to via the Wii webbrowser and playback xvid/divx files full screen in a flash player. Something like gnump3d for video playback in a flash player. Get on it, smart people.

  6. Re:FINALLY on S Korea & China Mandate Common Chargers, Data Cables · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You'd be pretty pissed if you could only use a GM-approved fill neck for your car. Why is your phone any different?

    1. I don't drive my phone.

    2. A charger for a phone only costs $10, and I can buy it...and take it places with me. There dosen't *have* to be a standard for the industry to survive. It's inconvenient for people, but they *can* deal with it.

    3. The Gasoline industry would have a seizure if car manufactures made different sized gas tank receptacles (of whatever they are called), so their industry dictates a standard. Cell phones and mp3 players and the like have an industry where selling more accessories (uh, like non-standard power bricks) equals more revenue.

  7. Re:Compass first, GPS second; always. on Hans Reiser in Court Today · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's on/by rivers?

    Bears?

  8. DNS redirection on Wii Internet Connection Reverse Engineered · · Score: 5, Informative

    Using DNS redirection you can get the Wii to any website you wish. Video

  9. My walmart story! on Wii Launches, Sells Out Peacefully · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Got to Walmart @ 2:30pm. Was #17 out of 20 in line. My friend Chip was #13. #8-12 was a family (father, mother, 2 sons and a daughter) all in line. They had done a few days in line earlier this week and gotten three PS3's. They were really really nice people. At 8pm walmart handed out 20 vouchers and once we had them a few of us went to Bob Evans for some dinner. Back to Walmart and at 10 they let us inside to get warm. That was nice of Walmart. At 11:45 these two doofy looking guys come up and offer $500 for a VOUCHER. No Wii, just a VOUCHER. The family in front of us took them up on the offer and also sold the doofy guys a PS3 they had for $1800. Got my Wii, headed home. Also, it is amazing.

  10. Target. Fredericksburg Virginia. on Launch Weekend Insanity · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ok, so this is hilarious. There is a PS3 line outside the local target that formed yesterday morning. Today we had a HUUUGE storm. Look at the water flowing off the roof of my building after the storm had passed. To make matters worse for the people in line at Target, last night Target's management had all their cars towed while they stood and watched, everyone afraid to lose their spot in line. My question is....if they are too afraid/stupid to stop their car from being towed...where are they going to the bathroom for 3 days?

  11. No pig for me on Robot Identifies Human Flesh As Bacon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is seriously why I don't dine on swine. Back on the farm I grew up on from time to time we'd have to cut up a pig for whatever reason and the way pig's flesh looks when being cut open looks EXACTLY like human flesh being cut, and it's haunted me for years. Pigs are just too close to people in my mind.

  12. Ethan Allen? on Bug Pushes Vista Out to November 8th · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Are they selling overpriced couches now?

  13. Sorta cool.... on Veeker Makes Video Instant Messaging a Reality · · Score: 1

    But what I'd like to see is a service that allows me to just send a video from my cell phone and have it automagically appear in a flash embedded web video I could link to on the internets. Anyone know anything of that manner?

  14. Re:Not the first incident on Britain's First "Web-Rage" Attack · · Score: 1

    It's Britian's first incident, you idiot. What, you wanna do something about me calling you an idiot? Come and get me.

  15. Re:what else can you do? on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    Dude, shut off the spam filter to her email address for a day to show her what you are doing for her. She might understand once she seems how many you actually stop for her.

  16. I work right next to a Gamestop on Wii Pre-Orders at EB Games and Gamestop · · Score: 1

    ....And I just walked over there. They had given out 18 vouchers to the first 18 people to "guarantee" them a Wii. A quick count showed I was number 25 or so, and we have like 4 gamestops in town. So to those on the west coast....get there early if you want a voucher that guarantees you of getting a promise to get a gamesystem that will probably come out in late November.

  17. Re:Seriously... on Youths No Longer Predominant on MySpace · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They are starting to realize it's uselessness and dangers.

    Comeon. Give me a break...as annoying as a lot of myspace users may be the service sure isn't useless, and it's only as dangerous as the user will allow it to be. It *is* a good way to stay in touch and find people you may have been friends wtih in the past but don't have any other means of communication between...and being in a band (I am) you cannot do *anything* anymore without a myspace account. It's very very handy to promote directly to people that want to know about you, provided you don't just blanket add everyone you can. Used correctly Myspace is a very good tool for a number of things.

  18. Lunch Lady on PS3 Controller Officially Called 'Sixaxis' · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In high school there was this lunch lady that was so fat she had two sets of belly rolls upon which her boobs sat. We called her SixTits. She should think about suing sony.

  19. Re:N64! on The Decade of the N64 · · Score: 0

    Sorry, Majora's mask is unplayable man. Time limits in Zelda games are horrid.

  20. Re: GSM text messaging on Space On a Shoestring · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, to be fair Flight 93 was pretty close to the ground compared to your average flight.

  21. Lightning? Phht. I know the fix... on Space Shuttle Atlantis Delayed Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    SCE to Aux.

  22. Re:We do NOT need to send 300 tons to Mars! on Lockheed Martin Wins Contract to Build Mars Lander · · Score: 1

    and fly back

    Who said anything about flying back?

  23. Re:The Theater Experience is Dead on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The theater experience isn't dead, you're just old. Trust me, I'm old too.

  24. Re:Joke... on NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program · · Score: 1

    What was the last thing said onboard the Challenger?

    "...whats this button do?"

    Ba-dump.

  25. Re:Space Cowboys on NASA Learns Anew From the Apollo Program · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, Velcro too.

    Actually...

    "The hook and loop fastener was invented in 1948 by Georges de Mestral, a Swiss engineer. The idea came to him after he took a close look at the Burdock seeds which kept sticking to his clothes and his dog's fur on their daily walk in the Alps. De Mestral named his invention "VELCRO" after the French words velours, meaning 'velvet', and crochet, meaning 'hook'."

    ...from Wikipedia


    But hey....I agree with your fundamental argument that NASA pushes development in general, plus I'm a huge Apollo dork so this is all cool news to me.