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  1. Re:Stay away from the Kindle! on Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm · · Score: 0

    $DEITY = $joePesci; // There. Fixed it for ya!

  2. Re:What a Game! on US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years · · Score: 1

    Postal 4?

  3. The biggest *drop* you say? on US Videogame Sales Have Biggest Drop In 9 Years · · Score: 1

    I bet it was an EA game, wasn't it? ^^

    Quick! Flush it, before it starts to stink!

  4. Re:How to Jump Your Own Shark! on Build Your Own Render Farm · · Score: 2

    By the way: Does anyone know a replacement? Something with complete comparison charts on graphics cards, CPUs, etc. Something serious that is not bought by the hardware companies.

  5. I already have my render farm. on Build Your Own Render Farm · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called a botnet.

    TYVM.

  6. Re:Not just a cut of the Pirate Bay sale on Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    Hey, no problem. It's an imaginary sale, so I will pay it with imaginary money.
    Here: http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/idiocracy_money.jpg
    Get rich! ^^

  7. They want a cut of everything. on Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale · · Score: 1

    Doesn't mean they will get it. ^^

    Film at 11.

  8. Re:Only 7-12 years on New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage · · Score: 1

    They do. But with 7-12 years they still sound better than th 2-4 years a cheap CD-R gives you.

    Oh, and DVD-RAMs usually live 3 times as long.

  9. I hat to kill the party, but: on New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage · · Score: 1

    The plastic itself will not survive the 1000 years. ^^

    Also, I doubt that you will find a working reader.

  10. No *observed* side-effects? on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    Well, acid has to "observed" side effects too, if you close your eyes while jumping in. :P

  11. Re:Nice thing. on Navy Spends $33 Million For Hybrid of the High Sea · · Score: 1

    Well, the German 212 A submarine runs on hydrogen fuel cells (and diesel if required), so it essentially is a hybrid. From what I heard it is very successful and an impressive machine. So maybe this is why the Navy now wants something that cool too. ^^

    I wonder why they don't just buy them from the Germans? I though we were friends or something like that now.

  12. So the MPAA is planning for their... on New DVDs For 1,000-Year Digital Storage · · Score: 1

    1000 year Reich?

    I *KNEW* it!

    By the way: Why would anyone put a date on when their empire will die? I mean imagine the Nazis sitting together after winning. 1000 years went by. And someone goes: "Now what?" ;)

    Also: Instant Godwin'd! ^^

  13. Re:WTF on Firefox 3.5's First Vulnerability "Self-Inflicted" · · Score: 1

    No. The point is that security trough obscurity never works. If you hide it, only the bad guys will have it. If you show it, at least more people can do something against it.

  14. Re:Measure sharpness? on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    Uuum... I think he does not have the original. And I think that is the point. Because if he had the original, he could, you know, ...use that one! ;)

  15. I, as a game developer, feel insulted. on Why Game Developers Should Shut Up About Used Games · · Score: 1

    Developers do not equal distributors. And it's always the distributors who rant about such things.
    Because they are doing it mainly for the money. While we do it mainly for the fame. (Or why do you think we endure the crappy situation in those companies?) And even a copied game from BitTorrent adds to your fame.

    Ok, I'm the exception, because I see making games as a service. If you have done your service, and got what you deserved for it, the game is essentially free for all, and payment is optional. (You can't stop file sharing anyway, just as you can't stop ideas and rumors from spreading.)
    Also, the games that will survive and end up in the history databases of tomorrow, will be those that you can actually save, because they weren't under such a tight grip that they got lost.

  16. Re:Incredible on NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost · · Score: 1

    I would even say that the amount of money, in relation to it being some of *the* defining moments of the whole freaking 5 billion year old earth's history, is as close to irrelevant as you can get. (Heck it could just as much have happened, that money was never invented, or something like that.)

  17. Re:Found it a while ago on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    Pictures? In *my* porn collection? And they are not moving? What is this? 1999??

  18. Re:File size on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    Well, that's why you look at it first. If you can't tell the difference, and want the "best quality" anyway, you got the same disease an as "audiophile", and I recommend some Monster display cables to go with it. :P

  19. Maybe I'm thinking too simple here, but: on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    What about just, you know... looking at them?
    And if you can't tell the difference, does it matter then? (Just take the smaller one.)
    That is my approach.

    If you want the best one, even when you can't see the difference, just take the biggest one.
    If the codec is the same, the chance that a higher quality image is smaller, is zero.

    There, I solved it for you. :D
    Or as a funny advertisement for a newspaper said:

    [Image of a shiny pen.]
    Before the first manned flight to space, NASA developed a pen, that can write in zero gravity, without the ink leaking.
    The development costs amounted to $12 million.
    [Removes pen, and puts a pencil in its place.]
    That's... how the Russians solved the problem.

  20. Re:Easy on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    This can be scripted too. With imagemagick.

  21. Re:I object! on RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret · · Score: 1

    Judge Hank "The Hangman" BMW: "Shut up! Shut up! Now, prosecutor, why you think he done it?"
    Prosecutor: "Okay, number one, Your Honor, just look at him."
    *whole room laughs at him*
    Frito: "He talks like a fag too."
    Prosecutor: "And B, we got all this, pff... like... evidence of how, like... this guy didn't even pay at the hospital. And I heard that he doesn't even have his tattoo!
    *shocked audience*
    Prosecutor: "I know! And I'm all, 'You've gotta be shittin' me.' But check this out, man! Judge should be like... *bangs fist on table* 'GUILTY!'. Peace!"
    *whole room cheering*

  22. There is no reason to be quiet about that, ... on RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret · · Score: 2

    ...when you publicly state that you want the 3.5% that the artists get, to get down to 2.8%, while still expecting them to pay the studio from that.

    Because that is exactly what they tried to do.

    Those that they told another set of numbers are us. To justify the "piracy" inquisition. (Occam's razor!)

  23. Re:I would love to read the article, but... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    Protip: bugmenot.com

    There's a firefox plugin for it.

    Unfortunately, the retards at bugmenot thought it was a good idea to let domains block users from creating bugmenot logins. So sometimes you may go hunt for a bugmenot clone site.

  24. Re:Well Shit... on Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska · · Score: 1

    Hey, respect yo momma, and stop calling her a shoggoth! :P

  25. Re:To disable @font-face in Firefox 3.5 on Typography On the Web Gets Different · · Score: 1, Troll

    The point being?

    Let me guess: You also disabled cookies, JavaScript, plugins, images, CSS, and render stuff in plain text. By reading the HTML and interpreting it manually.
    Because someone could exploit a bug in any of those interpreters.

    But pay attention! Because I am developing an exploit for your brain. So you better shoot yourself in the head really quick to avoid being "hacked" (yes, that "hacking") ^^

    But before: Do you think goats.exe is a good name for it?