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  1. Re:Uh, guys? on Cook Your Breakfast With MacBook · · Score: 1

    Ever since I saw it in the "Mysterious Future" it has had the Monty Python foot next it. Its Funny. Laugh.

  2. Re:hmm on Cheap, Open-design Humanoid Bot - Runs Linux, Too · · Score: 1

    I would welcome them just yet. I hear they come with Genuine People Personality. Sulking ensues...

  3. Re:So.... on Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing · · Score: 1

    Yep. That was my first thought. So in addition to all the other inanities the hoax nuts bring, we now have 698 missing tapes. *sigh*

  4. I have that already on An AI Coach for Bad Gamers? · · Score: 2, Funny
    Its called "kids."

    "C'MON! We have to go this way! What're you trying to do? Its not XYYBYAXYYB, its XYYBYAXXYYB." ;-)

    Yes I am exaggerating, but nothing motivates you to learn a game like Halo or SSBM like having your kids pound time and again.

  5. Noo.... on The Sharpest Object Ever Made · · Score: 1

    That would be my wit.

  6. Re:The birth of a new acronym: on The Sharpest Object Ever Made · · Score: 4, Funny
    SCAT-CAFE

    That plus it adds the punchline to, "Where do dung-beatles go for a light meal?"

  7. Easy. on Stephen Hawking Asks The Internet a Question · · Score: 1

    Let Mother Nature sort it out. She'll thin our ranks as needed and then its merely left to the survivors to try and do better the next time around.

  8. Yes, but the larger question remains... on Bacterial DVD Holds 50TB · · Score: 1

    Will Sony add it to the PS3 so they can finally push the price to 4 digits?

  9. Re:Are you fucking kidding me? on Other Game Bundles For the Cost of the PS3 · · Score: 1
    Well, if you look through the past of /. articles on the Next-Gen products I think you'll find that they are fairly neutral, if not biased against Nintendo and towards Sony. Back when the Cell was the greatest thing ever, folks were drooling over getting one. Since then, and especially since E3, it seems that Sony has taken a lot of misteps while Nintendo and MS have been making solid if not good decisions. I think that's the difference.

    Being able to get a 360 and a Wii, then that makes a lot of difference.

  10. Java Redux on Microsoft's Open XML Project A Short-Term Fix · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Didn't MS do something similar with Java? Basically have their own "interpretation" of it which is almost, but not quite, compatible. How difficult would it be to make MS' version just off from everyone else's?

  11. The Big Issue on Making Virtual Sports More Like the Real Thing · · Score: 1

    Is that 90% of the people will want to be either the QB or RB. Granted you can make the line be computer controlled (you'd likely need to to have any type of cohesive blocking scheme) but who wants to play receiver if every other play is a hand-off?

  12. Q: Does it still suck? on AOL To Be Free For Broadband Users? · · Score: 5, Funny

    A: Yes, but it sucks 10 times faster.

  13. Wow on Nanotube Lube Replenishment for Massive Drives · · Score: 1

    So telling users that they have to change their Hard Drive fluid isn't so flippant anymore. Bummer.

  14. Re:Another e-mail anecdote: Lots of crow to eat on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    I had a partner at my law firm once demand that a fax be sent faster. We were on the receiving end.

  15. Re:How about a "Reader Discretion Advised" warning on Futurama Star Billy West Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    Sure, but do you really want them to be still living with you in their 40s? Every action indeed...

  16. Maybe I'm missing something... on FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent · · Score: 1

    They haven't released anything in 12 years and its that lack of "recent" progress that's hurting them. What is it that I'm missing?

  17. Not to mention the various arrests on The Making of Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 1

    Carefully attributed to "research."

  18. Re:Perhaps you should read up on case law on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1
    So at the end of the day, I'm not as far afield as I think you thought I was I was, and I misinterpreted your last post as being far more extreme than it was. Guess that makes us both moderates;-)

    I would encourage you to get an account, too. I'd like to read more of what you have to say.

  19. Re:Perhaps you should read up on case law on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1
    Quoting the SUpreme COurt and understanding them are different. I will try again. Schools have the capability to discipline a student who threatens the life of a teacher. Do you honestly think that the SC is going to rule otherwise? The Constitution is a living document. It's power and longevity derive from it being allowed to evolve over time. Saying that what is written in the Constitution is the same logic that leads to Young Earthers. You're right that Schools can not be totalitarianistic enclaves, but that doesn't mean that students within them are granted the right to say whatever they please whenever it pleases them any more than you can threaten you neighbor and claim free speech.

    If you understand nothing else, please understand this: The Constitution does NOT live in a vacuum.

  20. Re:Sounds about right on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1
    Also, the public schools ARE an arm of the government, and are constitutionally prohibited from abridging the rights of ANYONE.

    SO students shouting "NO BLOOD FOR OIL" in class cannot be disciplined? Hardly. How racially imflammatory t-shirts or curses? You're saying the schools can't do anything about that? Its political speech after all. The limits on a police officer on the street are different fromt he limits of a school administrator.

    Check out the text of the constitution sometime.

    I have many times. I've also read the ways in which the Constitution has been applied by the SUpreme COurt as well as the intention of the Founders based on their writings. Maybe you should try a couple extra steps yourself.

  21. Re:Sounds about right on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1

    That plus minors do not have the same Constitutional rights as adults and the fact that Public Schools are not the same as a Government Agency enforcing such rules against the general populace. Schools do have the authority to enforce whatever standards they decide are appropriate.

  22. Re:Nedulous Definitions on Casual Gamers Not So Casual · · Score: 1

    I was speaking of the little games that seem to be defined as the "Casual Games" like the bubble games and the Tetris variants. That ilk.

  23. Oh, its R *S* A... on EMC Buys RSA Security for $2.1B · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was wondering what was going to happen to the dog. Never mind.

  24. Re:What the.... ? on The Best Product Designs of 2006 · · Score: 2
    It's like old technologies put together to make new buzzwords.

    Like the synergistically barried implemention of the MaxZip-8 BetaTracker component? It was way too scalar for the mod '06 vectories, anyway. Talk about your heuristically esoteric maloprop via constructurally ubiquitous metatyping. *pfft*

  25. Data Wasn't Accessed on Stolen VA Laptop Recovered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to the FBI as reported by Reuters. The FBI said that the DB hadn't been accessed since the date it was stolen. Keep in mind, too that laptop thefts are no different than any other and the vast bulk are crimes of opportunity. So it most likely that the laptop was just at the worng place at the wrong time and the tweaker responsible had no idea as to its value.