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  1. Some awfully black humour on Badgers Digging Up Ancient Human Remains · · Score: 1

    Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger CORPSE CORPSE badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger OOH SPINE OOH IT'S A SPINE

    OK, this wasn't funny at all. Mount your rotten tomatos.

  2. Re:"Quaker guns" on Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quaker guns?

    The only such guns I know of are shotgun, double-barrelled shotgun, chaingun, grenade and rocket launchers and of course the shaft.

  3. Straight? on Boeing Gets $89M To Build Drone That Can Fly For 5 Years Straight · · Score: 1

    What if turns out that the drone is making some certain wrist gestures and painting itself in pink/violet/rainbow colours before it reaches five years "straight" flight?

  4. Meanwhile in Yahoo on Apple Announces New iPods, iTunes 10, Social Network, AppleTV · · Score: 1

    Accordng to Yahoo, "Apple unveils new box for streaming movies, TV". First Steve claimed to have revolutionised telephony by -- OH WOW -- video calls (FaceTime) and now they have found the way to stream movies to homes: Television!

  5. Win95, an infamous computer virus on Windows 95 Turns 15 · · Score: 1

    Windows 95 is commonly regarded as the most dangerous computer virus known. Once installed, it will crash the victim's computer in only matter of minutes.

    Reference: 08:25 at Star Wreck V: Lost Contact

  6. Re:It's not a Guru Meditation Error, but it is clo on AmigaOS Twenty-Five Years of Check-Ins Visualized · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're obsolete, it's now known as Software Failure. Anyways, prepare to press left mouse button to continue. And don't forget to update your Kickstart and Workbench either!

  7. Re:Obesity? on Should Cities Install Moving Sidewalks? · · Score: 1

    When there's enough cars (in cities), it's actually a lot faster to use your feet or a bicycle to get from A to B. Especially if the distance is below, say, 2 miles / 3 km.

    On longer trips the traffic problem is best solved with rapid transit, ie. light and heavy rail.

  8. This is why iPhone battery can never be replaced on iPhone 3G vs. Solar Death Ray · · Score: 1

    You know, you can never really turn iPhone completely off ('coz BB-Apple needs to know where you and your iPhone are every moment).

    And by never I really mean NEVER.

  9. Famous words on Japanese Consortium Projects a Humanoid Robot On the Moon By 2015 · · Score: 1

    "This is a small step for an android, one giant leap for the robotkind"

  10. AppleNokia! on Apple Seeks To Ban Nokia Imports To US · · Score: 1

    It'd help a lot both companies and their shareholders if they just merged their smartphone businesses instead of this stupid vendetta. Just think of an AppleNokia smartphone with the sleekness and UI of an iPhone 3GS and customability, Linux and the keypad from N900.

  11. Re:Swedish! on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1

    In Swedish (spoken by approx. 6 % of finnish population): "Första posten!"

    In Finnish (spoken by some 91 %): "EKA!!111 lolol".

  12. It's subtitled, seen it. on Star Wreck 6 Finally Complete · · Score: 1

    I guess they do not want that arrogant viewers anyway. It has ENGLISH SUBTITLES, just stick in reading them and listening to our crazy moon language. I've seen the movie in the premiere, and hell it was good. Better than anything I've seen this year, at the very least.

  13. Re:I think id should break the mold this time on The Art and Design of Quake 4 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Quaker IV?

  14. 30s gui? now i know what those win32*.* files are. on A Non-Dogmatic History of the GUI · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd want to see 'Windows 32' up and running. I have these win32* files on my computer, I'm pretty sure they are reminiscents of that ancient 30's GUI. But on what computer hardware would that have been running on?

  15. Re:Date of impact on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    As I learnt from the aforementioned motion picture, the biggest problem in that kind of a mission is to keep them from quarreling with each other.

  16. Oh noes! on Finnish Firm Claims Fake P2P Hash Technology · · Score: 1

    What's next, fake P2P magic shrooms?

  17. Re:Enterpise: Greatest Hits Vol II: Wrath of Berma on More On Shatner's Possible Return To Trek · · Score: 1

    Star Trek: C.O.P.S? o_O
    Wow, that'd be hilarious.

  18. one-two-seven dot zero dot zero dot one on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    You could try this:
    [whatever]@warez.ton.tut.fi

    Guess where that one points ;)

  19. They have already done it... on Invisible Cloaks, Translucent Walls · · Score: 1

    ...in Half-Life. You know, the fast-running chicks wearing a tight black suit, silenced 9mm handgun, NV goggles and this invention?

  20. Napster support on Windows Media Player 10 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    If only they had added that Napster support in WMP 7 back in 2000. World could be better place now. :/

  21. Re:The problem is... on Strategy Videogame Upsets Chinese, Gets Banned · · Score: 1

    I have been told they have even banned Maoism as well as USSR banned Stalinism after ca. 10 years after Stalin's death.

    The situation in Russia is not superbly good -- Russian mafia and such entities are making Russian Federation really corrupted. My fatherland Finland is ...ahem... the most uncorrupted country in the world, so the leap across our eastern border is shocking... you can bribe the guys in customs with vodka if you want to smuggle something. :) But you should remember that Soviet Union was deeper shit than present Russia, they were forced to vote ... and there was only one option to choose. :/

    Russia has always been more or less dictatorship since Ivan the terrible. And I guess it will remain so, Russians love to have a powerful leader.

    But back to China: they have indeed westernized a lot even if the government has tried to stay as Chinese as possible and avoid westernization. Just look at the past few years for any /. news concerning China -- Red Flag Linux, their own internet protocol (?), what else? They are really trying to remain communist but it seems to be a worthless attempt: social democracy is a much better synthesis of liberalism and socialism, if spoken in Hegel's dialectics... I believe that China will make a powerful opponent to the USA in the 21st century (perhaps it will ally with other far east states to make a contra-superpower to replace USSR, like ECON or Eastern COalitioN from Star Trek VIII perhaps?)

    (if my grammar is lousy and this message is full of typos, I must say I have drunk today quite a few shots of booze. Also, apologize my light swearing, this isn't PG-13 after all... right? >:I)

  22. Re:Millennium on Tales of the Future Past · · Score: 1

    Sounds like Front Line Assembly. I wondered a couple of secs why this is familiar to me. :)
    Anyway, I love Cyberpunk and Industrial.

  23. Re:No, it's the way the human brain works. on Why Mobile Phones Are Annoying · · Score: 1

    Eh, I don't mind if someone speaks to their cell phone when I'm on a bus (and yes, I go to school by bus daily), but I think that has something to do with Finnish culture anyway. It is completely OK to talk to cell phone on the bus. If someone says "Haloo?" (that's Finnish for "Hello" and is mainly used in telephone), I don't mind because I know they are speaking to their phone anyway, not to me. It is indeed more difficult in the Anglo-Saxon countries because "hello" is a common greeting in face-to-face conversation.
    What people should really do is to say "Howdy, John [Smith] here", even when cell phones show the speaker's name!
    I have to admit, I laugh internally sometimes at people (mainly elderly) who respond to their cell phones in bus articulating very clearly and speking slowly like in the old days "Good morning, it is John Smith speaking / on the phone."
    But whenever I answer to my phone and someone I know calls, I just say my nickname (Sakke, from my first name Sakari). No one seems to be concerned about that anyway. And whenever someone speaks to their phone, I might peek who is speaking but never get annoyed ... except when he/she is too near and unexceptionally speaking loud.
    And I have hardly ever thought anyone is talking to me when they are speaking to their cell phone. I might have been startled a bit and perhaps coughed something but then stopped instantly.

    But anyway, this is Finland.

  24. Re:Hilarious... on Star Wreck Trailer · · Score: 1

    I've seen Spaceballs and yes - it is absolutely magnificient!

    As for the trailer, the team said that they made it like a serious movie. The movie itself will be filled with humour, but probably with more mature jokes than the school-boy level jokes in the earlier Star Wrecks.

    I'm afraid that SW will never see the light on the big screen - without counting the world premiere where only the people participated in the movie in some way (like me as a statist ie. extra ie. mass rioter in the riot scene seen in the trailer). Although it would probably raise Finnkino ticket sales. :)

  25. Re:Satire? on Star Wreck Trailer · · Score: 1

    If you don't have a sense of humour like every good grown-in-parents-basement-/.er has, no one is going to force you watch Star Wreck VI. Go and get a life instead. =)

    Otherwise, if you're planning to be no-life, use the word "parody" and enjoy the trailer. :)