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  1. You might not need it, depending. on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    I hated math and was not that good at it but I did love solving complex problems and puzzles. I've enjoyed a very lucrative 15 year career in computer programming.

  2. I once had had 60 seconds... on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    ...to break "the code" while John Travolta's thug held a gun to my head and some chick gave me a blow job!!

  3. Re:Anti-vaccine crowd? on Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun · · Score: 1

    You have obviously done a bast amount of research on this subject. People like you are scary.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus

  4. Re:stupid, confusing war on terror... on SCOTUS Grants Guantanamo Prisoners Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    moot

  5. Re:Have these people never taken an economics cour on EBay Pressured To Block Sales of Ivory Products · · Score: 1

    What if I only mug little old ladies when I'm happy? Do we then outlaw happiness?

  6. Crashed FF 3.0 on my Mac on Microsoft Demos "Deep Zoom" Technology · · Score: 4, Informative

    It crashed Firefox 3.0 on my Mac Book after installing the plug in and viewing the demo.

  7. Re:sniped domain on Dell Suit Reveals Lucrative Domain Name Trade · · Score: 4, Informative

    The name servers being used on your domain are hosts of OREGONNAMES.COM which I believe are SnapNames.com name servers. You may be able to get your domain back if you contact them directly. They were recently acquired by DomainSponsor.com / Oversee.net / Revenue.net (same companies) so that may be an avenue to try as well. Good luck.

  8. Re:What needs to change on Drop-Catching Domains Is Big Business · · Score: 1

    Chances are the domain you let expire went into the redemption grace period. This is a registry imposed period, NOT registrar, that a domain goes into after deletion if it is past the five day free grace period. It's a 45 day period where only the original registrant is allowed to get the name back. It costs a registrar $60 to get a domain out of the grace period and not the same price as a standard registration. It's also usually a manual process where a service rep has to log into the registry's site and perform the redemption operation.

  9. Re:How they make children on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1

    You had me at HELO

  10. Re:I always wonder. on Data Centers in Strange Places · · Score: 1

    Possibly hookers? Come on! You know damn good and well it WILL have hookers.

  11. Hmmmmm on Data Centers in Strange Places · · Score: 5, Funny

    "No one gets in without passing though the 4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process." Sounds like a lot of women I know.

  12. Re:Picasa on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    I love Picasa. I can make a ton of images look good and get them into a gallery in no time. If I need to do fancier things to a specific image I'll load up Photoshop, but 99% of the time I can do everything I need to in Picasa. Everything you see at http://www.owenborseth.com/ was processed in Picasa.

  13. Re:My Son Plays WOW and He's 6 on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 1

    He's not too young. He has actually learned a lot of math and reading skills playing the game. Because of playing he can take a number like 20 (get me 20 plain strider beaks or whatever) and as he gets them he can calculate how many he has left to acquire. I see him apply in real life the math and reading that he learns in game all of the time. However, I know what you mean about players like that being a pain in the ass. But that is the nature of the MMORPG, especially in a random PUG. You might get people that don't speak your language, young players, etc. He has also been kicked out of numerous groups because of the fact that he cannot communicate well yet.

  14. Re:My Son Plays WOW and He's 6 on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 1

    I assure you it is not made up. Kind or ridiculous that I would make something like that up. If you are ever in Denver CO feel free to stop by and you can partake in the glory that is the epic six year old raiding adventure. They are low level instances and almost always below his level. So, your wager is wrong.

  15. My Son Plays WOW and He's 6 on Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He has a level 31 Blood Elf hunter and to my amazement he is always getting into instances. He can't really read what is being said in party chat and he can't really communicate with them but he'll go an entire instance. I often wonder what the other people in the party must be thinking about him. I assume they think he doesn't speak English. If they check out hi character they have to be thinking WTF. He's got a cloth piece with spirit and healing and some odd leather pieces that don't belong on a hunter. Although, he is able to determine if something is leather or cloth now. He does lots of runs without a pet and at times without arrows so he has to use his sword, dagger, or whatever random weapon he happens to be using at the time. So, moral of the story is you just never know who you might be playing with online. It could be a 6 year old kid.

  16. My wife thinks I'm a pussy. on Your Lord of the Rings Online Questions Answered · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I buy LTRO. WOW was getting a little boring and I'm ready for a change. My wife and I both play WOW, both have level seventy characters, yada, yada, yada. So I'm rolling through the shire with my minstrel hobbit. I roll a healer class because I know how needed healers are in these games and I just knew I'd get into fellowships all the time and be all kick ass. So I got the sound turned up and I come across a boar. I attack! "Bada ling bada ling bada ling", goes my guitar. With each strum of my guitar I viciously take life from my opponent. Squeal piggy piggy. Squeal! Feal the burn! "Bada ling bada ling bada ling". Oh ya, he's feeling the hurt now. "What the fuck are you doing?" My wife is now looking over my shoulder with a look of bewilderment. "Are you killing that pig with a mother fucking guitar? You know, when I kill shit with my shadow priest I shoot kick ass spells and bolts of shadows that that look like flying skulls. You playing a fucking guitar! Your hobbit is a pussy." She goes back to her desk and continues playing WOW. I was cut deep, real deep. "Bada ling bada ling bada ling" Oh ya, feel it.

  17. Re:Follow the money! on 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted · · Score: 1

    Are you all fucking stupid? His allowance come from his mother does it not? Take the damn computer away. It's sad that you and his mother are being owned by a 14 year old and seem mentally incompetent to come up with a solution on how to deal with him. Sad. I mean give me a break. Parenting 101 for the mother and a set of balls for you. Take the CPU out of the computer and tell him you'll only replace it if he gives up the goods. Start taking stuff he likes away. If all else fails its time for some heavy handed physical punishment if you ask me.

  18. Re:I'm not surprised. on 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted · · Score: 1

    To that mother I would have to say L2P (learn to parent). Seriously though, mother is a retard. If I felt my son was addicted to a game and I didn't want him to play, he would not play. End of story. And yes I have kids, 3 boys. In a future post it says that the mother gave the DSL back after 2 days because the child had become unruly. His behaviour becomes bad so you give in and give him what he wants? There is a shining example of great parenting and discipline there. The main problem is that she tried to go cold turkey on him and took the entire game away. What she should have done was limited his play time. Any parent should be able to have that kind of control over their child. If not, get counceling for both of you. Ever seen those commercials about the mother being the enforcer? It's true. A parent needs to be a dick (or a bitch depending on gender) from time to time.

  19. Re:The usual response on Cell Users As Bad As Drunk Drivers · · Score: 1

    "Just like many people who have been drinking, the cell phone users did not believe themselves to be affected, the researchers found."

  20. Re:Old news but welcome on Review of GMail for Your Domain · · Score: 1

    And this is why using those black listing services is retarded. One guy sends spam from an IP and 1000's of people loose their email service. Even if you remove the spammer the second you find out about it, you're probably already blocked and just have to wait to get removed.

  21. Re:My guess: Microsoft paid GoDaddy to change. on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Not sure if this applies to your situation, but there is a registry imposed 60 day hold on transfers when you first register a domain. If your domains were in the first 60 days of registration the transfer could not go through at the registry level and has nothing to do with GoDaddy. That, of course, does not explain why thy would hang up on you or not explain the situation if that was the case.

  22. Re:My guess: Microsoft paid GoDaddy to change. on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Rewarding Effort on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that their tax affairs are probably in order.

  24. Re:Human greed knows no bounds on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return · · Score: 1

    "When the day comes, you'll be buying this water from Mobil/Exxon refilling stations. Why would they bother with difficult oil extraction from the planet when they could just tanker in sea water to their filling stations?"

    Eh? I just looked in my back yard. Behold! There is a water refilling "station" right there. I call it a hose.

  25. Re:I don't get it on US ISP Terminates Iranian News Website · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because there is lots of money in the US and you don't have to like a countries government to want to do business with its citizens.