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  1. Re:Why is this so hard?! on Flaw in Florida E-Voting Machines · · Score: 5, Funny

    int main(void)
    {
    int candidate1 = 0;
    int candidate2 = 0;
    ing tmpCan = 0;
    while(electionon == true)
    {
    cout << "Press the red button for candidate1" << endl;
    cout << "Press the blue button for candidate2" << endl;
    cin >> tmpCan;
    if( if tmpCan == RED)
    {
    candidate1++;
    }
    else
    {
    candidate2++;
    }
    }
    cout >> "Candidate1 got " >> candidate1 >> " votes" >> endl;
    cout >> "Candidate2 got " >> candidate2 >> " votes" >> endl;
    return 0;
    }

    Obviously not THAT simple, but come on.

  2. Re:lightning.. on When Lightning Strikes · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have been hit by lightning and it is a surreal experiance, essentialy it goes like this:

    A split second before your hit you know something is up, your hair starts to stand on end and you get goosebumps.

    Then it hits. You feel torn towards the lightning stream almost as if it attracts you to it. All your bodies muscles and tendons constrict, your fingers tighten so hard your nails cut into the palms of your hands. Its like licking one hell of a 12volt battery.

    Then you collapse and pass out for a bit. When you wake up your "exit point" in this case my foot is burning beyond belief, due to the fact that it is quite seriously burnt. Your mouth tastes of copper and you can smell electricity everywhere.

    Afterwards your hair stands on end for HOURS and doesn't go down.

    At least that is my experiance.

  3. Re:Schools not teaching assembly anymore on Why Learning Assembly Language Is Still Good · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself, I'm currently studing for my Computer Architecture and Assembler exam on tuesday... damn you stack!!

  4. Re:moving friends... ugh on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 1

    How precisely is this a troll? How? Do the mods even read what they are moderating? Sure it may not be that funny but its not like he is seriously insulting anyone.

  5. Re:loading, please wait... on Valve Announces Half-Life 2 Code Theft Arrests · · Score: 1

    Can someone please tell me why anal rape is so funny to Americans? Jesus Christ think about it for a second.

    Imagine being raped in the arse repeatedly for "Stealing" some source code... doesn't seem like fair punishment to me.

  6. Re:I think I speak for many when I say on First 16x DVD+R Recording Tests Available · · Score: 1

    Never been to a lan party huh?

  7. Re:Messaging Abuse? on 80,012 Text Messages In One Month · · Score: 1

    Whether he was abusing the system or not the provider shouldn't have sold something it couldn't have provided. Its realy as simple as that. You either sell something you have or not sell anything at all, this is the same as unlimited Internet connections, either you sell it and provide no limits, or limit it and stop calling it unlimited, there is no grey area.

  8. Re:Duh...? on Mandatory Banknote Detection Code? · · Score: 1

    Australia has had plastic money since 1996. Before then it was definitly paper, but those notes sucked. They had a short lifetime of about 6 months compared to plastics 40 months and you churned through the trees to make them, now with plastic notes it costs less to maintain our currency and when we're done with the notes they are turned into milk cartons and rubbish bins.

    As an aside when the notes first came out there was a problem with the pictures rubbing off. There is a famous picture somewhere with the queens head replaced with Bart Simpsons somewhere.

  9. Re:The secret... on Playing Games While Not Ruining Your Relationship? · · Score: 1

    Two words my friends "Chips Challenge" girls love that game to bits, my girlfriend wouldn't even consider playing The Sims, or FPS type games. RPG's are just to nerdy for her. HOWEVER Chips Challenge was a magic bullet, her friends play it constantly now, its the magic bullet of female gaming.

  10. Re:Blame it on Linksys on The 3Com Saga · · Score: 1

    My Billion router is just aces, and It was cheaper then the netcomm, d-link and smc options.

  11. Re:its all about the accessories on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    Your whole look is important. If I've learnt anything from computer games the best course of action would be to paint your body green, dye your hair bright red, walk around in cropped cargo pants tattered at the legs and no shirt. Also remember to grow your finger and toe nails long and jagged.

    Then should someone unruly approach you just have to crouch down and hammer punch.

    Se here if you need some further inspiration.

  12. Re:Carry a gun on The Urban Geek As A Mugger Magnet? · · Score: 1

    In civilised countries there is something called excessive force. If you blow someones brains out for pushing your shoulder your most certainly in trouble.

  13. Ob. SA on The DDR Workout - It's Official · · Score: 1

    Obligatory SA misunderstood tech terms:
    DDR Ram

  14. Re:Genuine Panorama photo equipment was similar! on When 8 Megapixels Just Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    At my school what all the "cool kids" would do is stand at attention for the photograph, and as soon as the camera had passed by you ran to the other end of the kids (behind them so you wouldn't be seen) and pose at the end of the line.

    Aside from being a surefire way to get in trouble it was a great way to get in the same photo twice and was a talking point from then on.

  15. Re:What about solar towers? on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    Call me naive but I hardly think plastering a desert with towers that, by design, pump hot air out into the atmosphere will reduce global warming.

    That said I used to live near there and I think its a wicked cool idea

  16. Re:So on Cell Phone Ringtones Give Music Industry Another Headache · · Score: 1

    Jesus H Christ have you Americans never heard of silent mode and pockets? You activate it, you get an incomming call, your phone vibarates.

    I'm not trolling here but seriously I don't know a single person at my university that has it making noise unless they are expecting a call they don't want to miss.

  17. Re:Fuck you America on What's Your Terrorism Quotient? · · Score: 1

    Hold on just one second there sparky.

    The British DID invent the first computer in world war 2 to crack the enigma code. Granted the US made them practical but don't go around claiming that they were invented by Americans!

  18. Re:HFS+ defrag source on Measuring Fragmentation in HFS+ · · Score: 1

    You must be new here, all lists must end with:

    6. ???
    7. Profit

  19. Re:Huh? on The Logic Behind Metric Paper Sizes · · Score: 1

    Count your fingers! You have 10. So lets see how many different states we can have. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11

    Whats that? Yes your fingers are actualy base 11.

  20. Re:Turing was gay and mistreated by society on Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software · · Score: 1
    Actually there are about 1,400 special rights our government grants married couples (1000 Federal and an average of 400 in each state). I won't list them all here


    No? Realy? I was fully expecting you to.
  21. Re:eBay on Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs? · · Score: 1

    I think ebay should be cracking down on people selling stuff at retail prices, ie. palm hardhelds... nothing is more annoying then seeing something on ebay for the same price as I can get it at a shop. Why the hell wouldn't I just go buy it at the shop? Auctions are about getting stuff for cheap.. also why get into bidding wars if there are 10 more copies of the same DVD comming up, if people waited their turn everyone would get it dirt cheap... some people.

  22. Re:Not the whole story on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    Question, if the foil comes off older CDR's can you just paint over the holes with a chrome paint?

  23. Re:Hey here's a semi-on-topic question on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    All I know is I have Cassette Tapes for my Commodore 64 that work fine even today, the floppy disks though.... not so lucky, the disks are fine but the data is long gone.

  24. Re:The real question is on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't, if you want to change the configuration you just pick it up, throw it out and buy a new one with the service enabled. Couldn't be more simple.

  25. Re:Language shouldn't matter! on First Java AP Computer Science Exam Complete · · Score: 1

    Damn straight, however I wouldn't mind writing C++ on an online exam nealy as much as I mind writing it on my Uni exams, that is to say by hand.

    Let me clue all you educators in who are reading this. C++ was NEVER made to write by hand, it's hard and it takes ages, lots of people I know had never realy had a need to draw an ampisand or "curly" braces before C++, now they need to and without practice, its slow. Ending a line with a semi-colon makes sense if a compiler was reading the exam but they are not, its just unintuitive.

    I don't have a problem writing C++ and I understand the need to remember the language in C++ however the programming should be left to the keyboard.

    So says the straight high-distinction student...