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  1. Wait a second, or rather, 200ms on Software Tweak Makes Linux Boot In Under 200 ms · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought linux never crashed? So what's the point of booting in under 200ms?

    Well, Goodbye karma.

  2. Well then, on Turn Your GBA Into A Game Console · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would have imagined hooking up the dead GBA to an external LCD screen would have been on the top of your list of priorities. Or are you one of the people who has that "common sense" thing everyone's talking about, and threw out/had professionally repaired/exchanged that GBA.

  3. What would've been cooler in my opinion, on Baldur's Gate Mod Lets You Play Original On Sequel · · Score: 1

    Would be a version of this for Planescape:Torment. A set of portals, some for BGII, some for BG, some for IWD, some for IWDII. It is Sigil, after all.

  4. Other Issues on New Pentium 5 Details - 5-7ghz? · · Score: 4, Funny

    'The Pentium V is likely to fly along at between 5GHz to 7GHz, have 2MB plus of level two cache, be built on a 90 nanometer process, and have a stackable design. ' And raise the temperature of the room it's in by 50 Celsius.

  5. Truly? on Nintendo Announces Wireless GBA Adapter · · Score: 1

    I was another device like this made by some guys from Norway about a year ago or so. So you're saying you're some kind of robot? Could you connect my GBA please? Oh, and happy first birthday.

  6. Re:Taxation is theft on Protests, Politics And Parties In MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    I believe they tried this "less taxation on the wealthy than on the poor" thing in France. It was followed by the French Revolution. Sure, try it elsewhere. I always wanted to decapitate rich people. And poor people.

  7. Why is it on Yahoo Shutting Out Third-Party IM Clients? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That "to continually enhance the overall quality" almost always translates to "to make it so that you can't save money by switching to another brand" or "to screw you over by offering less service for the same price"?

  8. I hvae ohetr isuses on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    I hvae acute dyxlisea. Plaese driect me to the narseet nurgloeoy cnilic.

  9. Re:If you have problems.. on UK RIP Bill Reintroduced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is the problem in itself. Most of us have nothing to fear. It's the issue that the gov't DOES NOT TRUST US. How can one have a positive relationship with anything if there is no trust? And if your personal life is monitered, you have everything to fear. Politics is like a sewer, the bad stuff floats to the top. If you have corrupt officials, you can't throw them out of office, they can blackmail you into voting the crooks back in, because they have your every slight morally grey act on file. This is no way to run a democracy, but a demoncracy.

  10. Re:whatever happend.... on The Hacker Behind "Hacking the Xbox" · · Score: 3, Funny

    They "achieved the power of invisibility" for keeps. You ain't gonna hear from them again.

  11. Shouldn't it be this way? on Initial Half-Life 2 Benchmarks Released · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If a user wants to take a screenshot, shouldn't it be at the highest available resolution? If they can do it with a low overhead, they should. It's the lying on the benchmarks that's the problem here.

  12. Re:Why are you dissapointed? on Good Guys 2, Spammers 0 · · Score: 1

    Being forced to fill out paperwork, and to live with no dreams nor hopes is a hell. I may have exaggerated, but it is still a hell.

  13. Why are you dissapointed? on Good Guys 2, Spammers 0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Litigation is a fate worse than a thousand deaths. Lawyers have powers to destroy that far exceed anything mere torturers have available. Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can be used to forever dissolve your sense of security, seal away prosperity, call down imprisonment, tortures, and exile, and to confuse you, and kill you in installments, wasting your time away with convoluted garbage. Being flayed alive to death doesn't quite match being nickel-and-dimed to death. One torment lasts hours, another lasts decades.

  14. Re:From this moment on... on WebSense Patents Censorware System · · Score: 1

    Well, I have U.S. Patent 6,666,666, which states that I own the exclusive rights to evil. I now own MS, SCO, Amazon, et.al.

  15. Re:word "amnesty" on EFF Warns Against RIAA Amnesty Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like Amnesty International? It sure has some ugly pictures on it, like of human rights abuses. So I guess it does deserve a warning.

  16. Re:greenhouse gasses? on World Nuclear University Launched · · Score: 1

    I live in a very windy area. A large windmill project has been put up on the hills there. Construction time is less thatn a year. The projected power generated is .1 Nuke plant, I believe. The company building it is throwing around money like they don't care. I think this is a working wind concern, as the company expects a large return to be throwing around this much money. And this is in Pennsylvania!

  17. Re:(-1, used "effect" instead of "affect") on Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound · · Score: 0

    Like -1, Grammar Nazi? Or just an auto-spellcheck that penalizes for grammar and spelling mistakes off the bat.

  18. Re:But did they check properly? on FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research · · Score: 1

    Yes, and when the filings ripped through the paper and were suspended in the coil, they knew they had a working magnet.

  19. Re:Football? on FSU Sets 7 World Records In High Magnetics Research · · Score: 1

    Yes he is! He hates the football jocks, and wants them to freeze to death! They're always beating up on the geeks!

  20. Re:Not really news... on Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound · · Score: 1

    It can effect only one side if you use wave effects to make a sound laser.

  21. A problem? on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blocking all other ports will just mean worms and virii will have a permanent effect. Each wave of them will kill off a port. When we run out of ports (because something will be written for each one) then the internet must shut down. Some redundant system.

  22. Re:Casting call on Star Wars Kid & Episode III? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Metachlorian-challenged! At least be a geek properly!

  23. WWMLD? on Congress Again Considering Database Protection Bill · · Score: 1

    I wonder which side Matthew Lesko (the guy wearing the question mark suit on TV commercials) would be on? I assume pushing the bill, since his business is selling publically available data. And looking like the Riddler. I always think he's about to do something terrible to the Capital building when he's in front of it in a commercial.

  24. Re:Sigh... on America's Broadband Dream Is Alive-- In Korea · · Score: 1

    The utilities that control the lines are just as bogged down in bureaucracy. You expect anything else from a monopoly? Government, or monopolies, either way we're screwed.

  25. Re:How to use for computers? on Light-Producing Nanotubes Could Mean Faster Chips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obviously, you use the light, run back through nanotubes, to turn into electricity. See also: LED's and Solar Panels (which are also essentially diodes) Every $%@ physical process is reversible.