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  1. Re:And $20000 dollars to finish my robot on Meet Lucy, The Orangutan Robot · · Score: 1

    dude, it's from a commercial.

    $20 says you cried yourself to sleep on prom night.

  2. Re:And $20000 dollars to finish my robot on Meet Lucy, The Orangutan Robot · · Score: 1

    This is gonna be the best prom ever..

  3. Re:Standard Bending Unit? on Build a Robot out of a Car? · · Score: 1, Troll

    The site includes videos showing some impressive results

    Not any more! muahahahahaha

  4. Re:hrm on Overclocking Your Sega Genesis/MegaDrive · · Score: 1

    Another thing I don't under stand is why didn't emulator authors ever consider upping the speed or the emulated processor to fix these type of things?

    The point of an emulator is to emulate the behavior of a device, not improve on it. An emulator that mimics a device all the way to having the same clockrate can be very useful for game development.

    Most emulators have an option to run at an unrestricted or increased speed, however.

  5. Re:Hold on a second... on Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian Journeys · · Score: 1

    how in bloody hell is the parent offtopic?

  6. Re:The Site in Question: on Compensation for Bandwidth Costs is Extortion? · · Score: 1
    This site promises to be much more dashing than the old site!!

    Don't forget the dash!

    Ok, that's just painful.
  7. Re:Yes, but Darl McBride wants to know... on Adding Background Noise To Your Phone Call · · Score: 1

    I would just like you to know that that was the lamest joke I have read all day. No, all week.

  8. Re:1984 on Satellite Celebrates 20 Years Working in Orbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    I must say, 1984 sure was a double-plus-good year.

  9. Re:forget speed feed... on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 1

    forget outside the remit of HTML.. it's outside of HTTP. It would need a completely new protocol.

  10. Re:"Safety" can come at a price on Professor iPod Discusses Device's Social Impact · · Score: 1

    Problem is that there's no line. It's a radio adaptor; the iPod actually plays over a user-defined radio frequency, and then my car radio picks up the station. Or do you mean I should stick a ground loop isolator between the ipod and the radio adaptor?

  11. Re:"Safety" can come at a price on Professor iPod Discusses Device's Social Impact · · Score: 1

    I bought a radio adaptor for my iPod, and I wish I hadn't. I don't know if I just have very sensitive ears or something, but when I use the adaptor in my car I hear a very high-pitched, very noticable whine coming from my speakers. Doesn't happen with the normal radio in my car or with the cd player.

  12. OT:Re:"Safety" can come at a price on Professor iPod Discusses Device's Social Impact · · Score: 1
    However, it's great in the car, and I can't wait until I get an iPod compatible car stereo so I don't need to wear those awful earbuds


    If you live in USA, then FYI (so you don't get a ticket) in Washington it is illegal to drive while wearing headphones. The phone headsets are ok cause they only cover one ear as far as I know. Other states probably have similar laws.
  13. Re:Who knows on FSF: New Apache License not GPL-Compatible · · Score: 4, Funny

    For the love of god, use some line breaks! My eyes are bleeding

  14. Re:Somewhere in the middle... on Learning Computer Science via Assembly Language · · Score: 1

    My introduction to programming was similar to yours. I used some simple scripting languages (hypercard/javascript), then learned Basic. My first induction into assembly was through the TI-83+. Yes, the calculator :) I began programming z80 assembly for the 83+ over three years ago, and have since learned C/C++, Java, 68k assembly, PHP and a few other languages.

    I found that knowing an assembly language (even if it was for a relatively simple 8-bit processor like the z80) helped immensely when learning higher level languages (C++ especially).

  15. Re:Cha ching? on Microsoft, Yahoo Investigate Spam Solution · · Score: 5, Insightful
    but if spammer x sends a boatload of herbal viagra offers under bob's relay and bob gets a bill... then when they do catch spammer x he can be nabbed under wire fraud laws


    But until then, would you like to be bob?
  16. Re:Irritating poster - stop it on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    not to nitpick, but I just saw that episode again, and the list is actually:

    Step 1) Collect Underpants
    Step 2) ?
    Step 3) Profit

  17. High ebay bid on Slashback: Zip, Language, Opportunism · · Score: 1, Informative

    Wow. The highest bid on the cease and desist letter is currently $3,751.00. Not bad.

  18. Re:Hey, d00d! on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 2, Funny

    It was me!

    what do you mean? what "Post Anonymously" button?

  19. Re:Look at this: on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 2, Funny
    An $11,000 salary in India is about a $700,000 US salary


    Is anyone else thinking about outsourcing themselves?

    I figure I'll just get a tan, move over to india and live like a king.
  20. Re:I'm curious... on Mars Express Confirms Water on Mars · · Score: 1

    517.5

    The trick is to hit the penguin at a shallow angle so that it skips off the snow instead of lodging in it when it hits the ground.

  21. Re:Inverse overclocking... on Anti-Frostidigitation: Heatpipe Gloves · · Score: 1

    Its nogt as goodf as irt soiunds. you trryds tyopind with glovess oin.

  22. Re:"Mars needs men!" on One-Way Ticket to Mars? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Blue: I don't know what the technical military term is, but we're pretty fucked up down here! We need men!
    Guy in ship: .....Dude, how long have you been down there?
    Blue: Huh?... No, not like that!

    gotta love red vs blue. Season two's finally started.

  23. Not a monitor - a TV on Who Still Uses Old Monitors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just the other day I had a few friends over for a small starcraft LAN party. Turns out we were one monitor short, so we rigged my friends box up to an old 1983? 1985? Mitsubishi TV.

    The resolution was a little (ok, a lot) crappy, but it worked. And it was damned cool at the time, too.

  24. Re:It sucks. on USA To Return To Moon By 2015, Then Mars · · Score: 1

    you, sir, are now my friend.

  25. Re:This Just In on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    Dammit..
    I have enough fun with the shit during halloween.. just imagine the fun that could be had with an entire C02 'ice' cap ;)