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  1. Re:New terminology on Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github · · Score: 1

    You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.

    Sorry. Had to. :)

  2. Re:Truly baffling on Hackers Nab Unreleased Michael Jackson Tracks From Sony · · Score: 1

    It's worse than that, the Captcha isn't even an image, it's a table with random vertical aligns (top, bottom). The letters are plain text in the source that Sony thinks disabling the context menu will protect.

  3. Re:Someone has never worked in corporate IT on Sony, Universal and Fox Caught Pirating Through BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Unless of course you work for someone like IBM, where every computer has a 9.x.x.x IP address. They may be behind firewalls, but that didn't stop Metallica from kicking me off Napster for having "One" in my shared folder.

  4. Re:Relinquishing Internet? on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Internet At-Home Access? · · Score: 1

    Just one final hit...

    "Zuckey! Can you help me out?"

  5. Re:rock star spider on Underwater Spider Spins Itself an Aqualung · · Score: 1

    Dammit, the one time I don't have mod points. The riff was the first thing to pop into my head when I read the headline, so kudos to you, sir.

  6. Re:2 Pines Mall/Lone Pine Mall on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    It's quite funny how many paradoxes there are in BTTF, and still they managed to put in some truly obscure consistency: http://www.thevrabec.com/2010/07/12/back-to-the-future-you-certainly-havent-noticed-this/

    I remember seeing that the first time I saw BTTF during it's first theatrical run in New Zealand. I'm surprised that people are surprised about this.

  7. Re:Not sure about the hype on Do You Have a Secret Immunity To 3D Movies? · · Score: 1

    What type of 3D projector also determines your experience. Because you watched in IMAX 3D, there was more 'popping-out' because that's what IMAX 3D is all about. I saw Avatar in Dolby 3D and everything stayed within the screen (or at the very least didn't pop-out into the audience).

    Before the screening they showed the trailer for Alice in 3D and I was going "oh, is that it? Why does everything look flat?" Didn't realise until the other day that the reason was because it was done in post, not in camera, which explains a lot. Does this mean we have to wait another ten years for the second proper 3D movie?

  8. Bourne Identity on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    So this person is responsible for the Windows NT Start Menu plastered up over Marie's fancy rap sheet

  9. Re:Using older versions of IE? on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    Probably not as down the page it says:

    Multiple IE is no longer maintained and there are no plans to continue maintaining it! Thanks and good luck!

    Never mind, you could always just have an XP VM with the IE8 blocker installed, running IE7 plus MultipleIE. That way you won't need to worry about having that extra cruft on your host.

  10. Copycat marketing on Ford Bets On Social Media For Fiesta · · Score: 1

    Down here in New Zealand they're doing the marketing in a manner very similar to Robert Llewellyn's "Car Pool". @bobbyllew as you should know is Kryten from Red Dwarf.

  11. Oblig: on Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker · · Score: 2, Funny

    A moose once bit my sister...

  12. Re:Worthy of Mordor? on MediaSentry & RIAA Expert Under Attack · · Score: 1

    Please god, send us a lawyer worthy of Mordor.

    I'm not sure that's the wisest thing to wish for. :D

    Yeah, but don't forget they were finished off by a bunch of trees...

  13. Oblig... on LHC Fully Documented Online · · Score: 1

    Now at last I can build my own Large Hadron Collider, with hookers! and blackjack!

    In fact, forget the LHC!

  14. I won my 2600 in a competition on A History of Atari — the Golden Years · · Score: 1

    It was my first console, courtesy of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The eight games that came with it kept me satisfied until I got my C64.

    Let me see if I can remember them: Ms Pac-Man, Galaxian, Bezerk, Missile Command (my Dad managed to roll-over the score), Haunted House, Yar's Revenge. I think my cousin had Adventure because I don't recall it much, but that freakin' duck gives me flashbacks. So that leaves one or two, but the list doesn't give me any ideas. Must have been the lame ones that I didn't play.

  15. Re:no photography policy on Photographers Face Ejection Over Lenses · · Score: 1

    I find it interesting that MoMA SF has a no photography policy, whereas MoMA NY lets you shoot whatever you like.

    I realise that most museums have a no photography policy, but when I visited NY the only museum that I couldn't take my camera was the Guggenheim, so of course the only photo I have from there is the atrium ceiling (like everyone else does).

    So I was able to freely use my camera at Natural History, The Met and MoMA. In fact, I remember being asked at the bag checking at The Met if I had a camera in the bag so I could take it with me. There were a couple of exhibits in The Met that had a 'no photography' sign, but everywhere else was fine as long as you didn't have the flash on.

    It was amazing being able to view works such as Starry Night, Water lillies (including the Tryptic), Persistence of Memory, Van Gogh's self portrait. There was so many, I was glad to be able to take photos to remind me of what I'd seen.

  16. Re:WHAT? on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 1

    Shove a slice of lemon in it's mouth, then cut it's head off

  17. Re:Video is currently available at... on Scientists Image an HIV Particle Being Born · · Score: 1

    Beware that this video (as opposed to the one linked in the article) requires the QuickTime plugin.

  18. Re:Brand recognition on Johnson & Johnson Loses Major Trademark Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    That doesn't bother me in the slightest - being Red/Green colour blind. Even if the medpacks are green, I'll see them as red because that's what I've already associated medpacks with. But if you tell me that the medpacks in a certain game are green, I'll take a closer look and then I'll see that they're green and will only see them as green from that point on.

  19. Already got the full slipstreamed version... on Vista Service Pack One Almost Here · · Score: 1

    Attended the Microsoft Launch Wave 08 event today (Win2k8 Server, SQL Server 2k8, VS2k8) and as part of the 'freebie' software pack giveaway was supposed to be Vista SP1, but as there was an issue with the CDs, they just gave us Vista Ultimate with SP1 already integrated.

    Plus I got a couple of Kingston 1GB flashdrives, so it wasn't all a loss... :)

  20. Re:Wouldn't Google Sky be more useful if... on Google Sky Now Available Through Your Browser · · Score: 2, Informative

    For a browser-based version: http://www.heavens-above.com/

    Do not forget the hyphen - I tried going there by trying to remember the URL, and ended up somewhere that is NSFW

  21. Re:10 More Years of Region Locked Movies on Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production · · Score: 1

    But IIRC, the region coding mechanism is available, they haven't switched it on yet (released region coded content). Now that the format war is over, what's going to stop them from doing so?

  22. Re:Linux & Murder on Live Blogs From the Hans Reiser Trial · · Score: 1

    Yes, and almost every time Microsoft is mentioned, chair-throwing inevitably creeps in.

  23. Re:Hotmail? on Hotmail Doesn't Work With Linux Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Yes there's an alternative - don't be a fucking tool, sucking Jobs'.

    Get your head out of the RDF.

  24. Re:Marketing Slogan on Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? · · Score: 1

    Buried in my lecture notes (that have long since gone to the landfill in the sky^W valley) I drew a little cartoon of a computer with a "Windows 4.1" splash screen (when it was still "Chicago"/4.0) with the tag "Because we fucked it up the first time!"

    The cycle continues...

  25. Re:Oh wow - an darker shade of black... on Nanotubes Form The Darkest Material Yet Created · · Score: 1

    Open Fireworks, Eyedropper tool, 5x5 Average sample....

    Reference standard: #282828
    New black: #000000

    The answer: "None. None more black"