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  1. Obviously he's not a fan of computer games on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone knows it's a good idea to stick around when an NPC is talking. You might learn something interesting, or get a side-quest.

  2. Re:Vikings come to Jurrasic Park on Authentic Viking DNA From 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Hägar is an unfunny abomination and has very little to do with real vikings. Check out some real (& mythical) shieldmaidens.

    For instance Leif Eriksen's sister Freydis Eriksdatter who attacked the Skraeling (Indians) while pregnant.

    Freydis came out and saw how they were retreating. She called out, "Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle? Let me but have a weapon, I think I could fight better than any of you." They gave no heed to what she said. Freydis endeavoured to accompany them, still she soon lagged behind, because she was not well [pregnant]; she went after them into the wood, and the Skrælingar directed their pursuit after her. She came upon a dead man; Thorbrand, Snorri's son, with a flat stone fixed in his head; his sword lay beside him, so she took it up and prepared to defend herself therewith.
    Then came the Skrælingar upon her. She let down her sark and struck her breast with the naked sword. At this they were frightened, rushed off to their boats, and fled away. Karlsefni and the rest came up to her and praised her zeal.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freydís_Eiríksdóttir
  3. Re:The guidelines on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    perhaps the removed videos were the ones with beheadings and the ones that are still there are the ones with i dunno terrorist training camps & osama bin laden speeches & other anti-american propaganda.

    kinda hard to tell without a list of them, but if this is the case, i dont see a problem at all.

  4. Re:I'm in. on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 1

    Ya. That's why I said "at least". It wouldn't surprise me if it was earlier, just couldn't find any evidence of it.

  5. Re:I'm in. on NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't believe I researched this. It goes back at least 15 years. I tried searching in Google Books & IMDB quotes as well, but the only citations prior to 1993 were in different contexts.

    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.beer/browse_frm/thread/66eb379b321b2433/11e668a230018072?lnk=st&q=%22rub+one+out%22#11e668a230018072
    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tasteless.jokes/browse_frm/thread/1299b8d6d59e0f1e/45022260920fd617?lnk=st&q=%22rub+one+out%22#45022260920fd617

  6. Re:Not the last nail in the coffin by far... on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these spammers should opensource their captcha-crackers so we can get better OCR engines.

  7. Re:You MORONS. on Satellite Abandoned Due To Orbital Patent · · Score: 1

    with an individual of the opposing sex..."
    Limit your profits, why don't you? Same-sex reproduction isn't quite on the market yet, but I guess there's no harm in patenting it just in case, if you're profit-minded.
  8. Re:How much on Imperial Storm Troopers Skirmish in Latest IP Battle · · Score: 1

    She looks like a bobble-head.

  9. Re:Don't worry about that gene on Scientists Discover Gene For Ruthlessness · · Score: 3, Funny

    We'll get around to 'fixing' people's 'bad' genes. That's a pretty ruthless thing to say!
  10. Re:too late on Acid3 Race In Full Swing, Opera Overtakes Safari · · Score: 3, Informative

    Webkit is also up to 98/100 now. It'll probably be there within a day.

    http://webkit.org/blog/

  11. Re:This is just Subscription model 2.0 on Apple Mulls Flat-Rate "Unlimited Music" Option · · Score: 1

    I could part with a hundred bobs for unlimted access to the iTunes store, that's chump change.

    Who cares if it's DRMed? It's not like Apple is going under, and for a one-time fee of 100 dollars, I wouldn't have to buy any other music (aside from the stuff I would want to truly own, without DRM, which isn't that much).

    This is all ridiculously academic, though.

  12. Re:Real Telepathy on Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat · · Score: 1

    > A mother can produce enough force to lift the back end of a car off her kid

    Citation needed indeed. Since when was that anything but an urban legend?

  13. Re:It's a serious art form on Reading Comics · · Score: 1

    Those are both written by Brits :)

  14. boxcutters on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 1

    I had a box cutter in my pencil case in 2002 while boarding a plane. Apparently that didn't matter, but they took my nail clippers & my aunt's knitting pins. They also went through my luggage as their explosive resin check machine went off.

  15. Re:You don't even need a proxy on Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker · · Score: 2, Informative

    or hosts file editing, or a million other ways. DNS blocks are notoriously useless and though I don't know the internal decision process of Tele2, it almost looks like an empty gesture to satisfy the courts while not changing anything for real.

  16. Re:lol @ Second Reality fanboys on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    fist bump

    you are correct in every way imaginable.

  17. Re:It's easy... on The True Cost of SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    What's scary are those 5000 "free" SMSes per month deals. I write about 2000 per year (1000 from May 1 to Dec 1) and I don't even worry about sending SMSes, I just send them whenever I feel like it. Costs me about 70 bucks per year in SMS alone, whereas the 5000 "free" offer would run up 700.

    Now, there are minutes included as well, but that still doesn't begin to compare.

  18. 20 meg harddrive chiming in on Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard · · Score: 1

    it even took years to fill up

  19. Re:How long will it take... on Specs For the New KITT · · Score: 1

    Apparently it took 20 minutes, but close enough, I guess.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=397256&cid=21788994 and its child

  20. Re:Counting shows nothing on More Mac Vulnerabilities Than Windows In 2007? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An improved metric would be the duration between announcement and fix for each vulnerability, totaled in some fashion. It doesn't take into effect severity, though.

  21. Re:Source criticism on Jimmy Wales Says Students 'Should Use' Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Honestly you're right. Just teach kids source criticism.

  22. honestly on How to Turn Your PC into a Mac · · Score: 0, Troll

    this is pretty dumb. i dont have a tolerance for this right now, im way too hung over

  23. Re:If that is true... on The Universe Damaged By Observation? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm doing my share of shortening the life of the universe by increasing entropy. Right now I'm rubbing my hands together, both in glee, and to create excess heat. Muahahaha.

  24. The Herbaliser - Goldrush on Japanese Probe Returns First HD Video of the Moon · · Score: 1

    was playing on my computer. It fits really well.

  25. Re:Well, you know the next step... on Genetic Modification Produces Mighty Mouse · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tex Avery already explored the possibilites of the ever escalating war of ever-growing mice & cats, cf. King-Size Canary (1947). It doesn't bode well for us if we go down that line.