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  1. Re:Wow. on Geekspeak Baffles Web Users · · Score: 1

    They probably picture the Apple equivalent of these.

  2. Re:Anonymity on Avatars Need Personal Space Too · · Score: 1

    The only difference between 15 year olds and 30 year olds is the price of their toys.

  3. Re:I think it is the guns, and it is the movies. on Fantasy Trumps Sci-Fi For MMOs · · Score: 1
    People accept a resistance to fire. They do not accept a resistance to hot lead

    Subdermal combat armor, or personal energy shields, or powered combat armor, or, or, etc... Its sci fi, remember?

  4. Re:Where are the parents in all of this? on Game Addiction Clinic Swamped · · Score: 1
    His parents were frightened of him because, weighing more than 130kg, he was too strong for them to confront. Eventually they threatened to kick him out unless he enrolled for a month of therapy.

    Yeah, that 130 kg (286 lbs) is pure muscle. The dude's totally ripped from sitting in his room, eating pizza for 5 years. Strong... yeah, strong smelling.

    Remember parents, what did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!

  5. Re:Fixes the wrong problem on Encrypted Ammunition? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I feel safer without a hyena, in fact most people around here don't own a hyena (Canada) - and lo and behold, we rarely see deaths from hyenas.

  6. The Inquisition (what a show!) on Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe · · Score: 1
  7. Re:I'd like fries with that on Human Genome Sequencing Completed · · Score: 1

    Bah, I clicked submit too soon. I wanted to add that 20/10 vs 20/20 vision could be seen as having more resolution. For example, go play an fps at 640x480, and then on the same monitor go play it at 2048x1024. The image itself is not magnified, and yet you can see far away things much better. Why? Because more information is being passed to your visual processing unit...

  8. Re:I'd like fries with that on Human Genome Sequencing Completed · · Score: 1
    20/10 vision could result from simply having "clearer", more precisely shaped corneas and lenses in your eyes. In this case eye strain would be a non factor, as the muscles would not be overcompensating.

    There's studies being done using adaptive optics to enhance human vision to far beyond even 20/10 accuracy. Here's a google search to get people started.

  9. Re:This works . 100% effective in killing off spam on Blue Security Gives up the Fight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pin a medal on their chests! Thats one less piece of shit filling my inbox.

  10. Re:Sinking Dollar to Blame? on Ken Kutaragi's Famous Last Words · · Score: 1

    Your vocabulary skills have been embiggened!

  11. Darkness quicker than light! on Light so Fast it Travels Backward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, basically, what scientists have shown is that reverse light (darkness) is faster than light!

  12. Re:I for one... on Cancer Resistant Mouse Provides Possible Cure · · Score: 1

    Actually, the mice are eaten by a certain type of lizard. These are then eaten by imported chinese needle snakes. To deal with the snakes, one releases a species of gorilla that trives on snake meat. The bitterly cold winters will deal with the gorillas.

  13. Re:That's good and all on Fake Scientific Paper Detector · · Score: 1
    Its rather interesting that now its come to mean brute forcing.

    This page does quite a nice job showing that even with 17 billion galaxies filled with 17 billion planets, each with 17 billion monkeys hammering away, the odds are so infinitesimally small that its safe to say its impossible.

  14. Re:Stupid Idiot? on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 2, Funny



    Stupid idiots have low WIS and INT scores. Smart idiots have high INT but low WIS.

    </nerd>

  15. Re:That's good and all on Fake Scientific Paper Detector · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, I'm sure the work of monkeys is quite easily identifiable.

  16. Re:More graphics, less gameplay on A Contrarian View of FFVII · · Score: 1
    Save the world bang the girl.

    Isn't that pretty much every red blooded male's fantasy? Ok yeah, I suppose you could replace save with enslave, but otherwise...

  17. Re:Did I get it right? on Running an ISP in a Warzone · · Score: 1
    Well, from what I've seen on tv, and read on the web and in newspapers, there are a good number of partisans/freedom fighters/insurgents/whatever you want to call em causing US soldiers grief in Iraq.

    Then you've got the Sunni vs Shia mini-war, which Hussein kept suppressed while he was in power.

    There's also a whole bunch of asshats streaming in from other countries so they can "pursue jihad against the infidel" or whatever they call it.

  18. Re:Wrong Side of Bed? on Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because everyone enjoys a good old fashioned jihad once in a while?

  19. Re:Ob. Farnsworth quote on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    Hogwash! The professor is obviously senile, as the ship cannot ever go faster than light, since the ship itself never moves. The Dark Matter Engine moves the entire universe around the ship.

  20. Re:Oh boy... on An Alternate Human · · Score: 3, Insightful
    where wackos cut other's throats simply because they are not worshipping the same deity*

    No, its even more fucked up than that. Muslims, Jews, and Christians all worship the same god. We slit eachother's throats because we don't worship the same god in the same way.

    Someone stop this planet, I want to get off!

  21. Re:Wait a minute. on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 1

    Four legs good, two legs better.

  22. Re:Yah, alcohol on Star Trek's Synthehol Now Possible? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For anyone who's a daytrip away from say, Vancouver, BC, then its also quite obtainable, and pretty much legal to consume. There's a number of "amsterdam style" cafes there that let people spark up. Not that I know this first hand, I err, heard it from a friend of a friend...

  23. Re:atomic? on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's five hours big.

    I had chinese buffet for lunch. It was 2 hours big!

    Hey! You might be onto sonmthing here!

  24. Re:Not forever. on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    Interesting analogy, but it falls flat considering just how damn reliable camrys and accords are. The typical walmart product would be more akin to some eastern european, soviet bloc, piece of shit that runs 200 hectares on a single litre or kerosene!

  25. Re:Should have stayed in Brussels on The Forgotten Apple CEO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silly you, Europe is a breakaway province of Germany. They tried to reel it in twice last century, but had a bad time of it!