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  1. Re:To reach a customer support representative... on Get Out of Voice Menu Pergatory · · Score: 1

    That code gives you 30 extra lives in the NES game Contra. Too bad it doesn't work in real life. Given the wait times for tech support these days, you will need those 30 lifetimes.

  2. Re:upside down car on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 2, Informative

    The answer is "true" according to the official F1 site.

    http://www.formula1.com/insight/technicalinfo/11/4 68.html

  3. Own myths? on Ask The Mythbusters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Was there ever a myth you guys created be it intentional or by accident. As such, have others had to debunk this myth?

  4. Re:Racist on Swahili Wiki-Dictionary? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is it racist? Be honest with yourself. How many people thing "high tech" when Africa comes to mind. Untill their ecconomy changes, I will still see the vast portion of Africa as tribal. Even as such, that does not make then any less human. So again, I fail to see how this story is racist. Sounds like your just walking on eggshells when it comes to political correctness crap.

  5. Re:Holy shit! - Do the math on Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Hey, what do you know. I guess Bush found a way to pay off the national debt after all. What a brilliant idea! And he comes out smelling like a rose too... :-p

  6. Ritalin is EVIL on The Prodigy Puzzle · · Score: 1

    When I was about 7 years old (in 1985), I was diagnosed with ADHD and thus immediately put on Ritalin. I didn't get off the medication until 1994. In 1999, I was diagnosed with major depression. At this point, I was 23 years old. Though I've always suspected I had depression starting around 19 years of age. Being that depression never runs in the family bloodline, I've always suspected that it was Ritalin that physically affected my brain during development. Now after an article was released in Dec 2004, I feel my worst fears are validated.

    Folks, I think my brain is fried on legal (and encouraged) medication. If so, I have Ritalin to thank for me being stuck on Paxil to prevent suicidal thoughts due to waves of depression and despair. Even worse, Paxil has a nasty chemical addiction property to it so I will not be getting off it soon. I'm suspecting that my "cures" are nothing more then civilized version of a crack habit in that my mental state is going down a downward spiral.

    Now don't get me wrong, I may not be the sharpest knife on Slashdot, but I feel I've proven myself more than brilliant on occasions. But fact is, I will never get over myself thinking what my life might have been like had I've never taken Ritalin and just let nature take its course. So here I am my life and my mental health shaped and molded into a perceived vision of how humanity should conduct itself

    I now present myself as product of medical hubris. Mentally, I'm raped and I didn't get the pleasure of feeling fucked either.

    For more information, check out this google search link. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=adhd+link ed+to+depression

  7. Re:The children will ask themselves on The Prodigy Puzzle · · Score: 1

    ...and make 6 figures...

    Congrats on your achivement. But what I'm scratching my head over is, why do you often rant about "the rich" on Slashdot or at the very least insinuate the topic of high income when the opportunity arises ? I'm a regular reader on Slashdot and your post comes accross as an enigma to me. Please, do tell...

    Note: My apologies to the new readers who feel left out.

  8. Re:OK on Prepping For The 360 · · Score: 1

    That's no feature, it's a bug. Don't worry, this is one patch Microsoft WILL fix. :-p

  9. Re:Attacks on The World of Competitive Gaming · · Score: 1

    Even if he the best player, it won't last more then another 10 years at best. As your get older, you're mind becomes smarter but also slower. In most FPS games, it's the reflexes that earn you points. I'm sorry, but his biology clock is running out of time. Soon, he will have to take all his earnings and invest it.

    Basically, "Pro" gamers are like a white hot flame. They burn the brightest, but also the fastest.

  10. Re:Mario bros. on Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer · · Score: 1

    It was modded "informative" because the parent was making a point that anything and everything these days can get you sued regardless how silly the motive is. Sad, but true.

  11. Re:safety warnings on Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer · · Score: 1

    How about a safety warning label that is always floating two feet in front of every man, woman, and child that reads...

    Warning, everything you interact with CAN KILL you.

    Let preempt stupidity to avoid lawsuits. Better yet, lets give everyone a gun and tell them point it at their heads and pull the trigger. That way, only the smart will survive.

  12. Huh?! o_0 on Grass Grazing In Dinosaurs Confirmed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We've found fossilized plants and animals on this planet. Yet, blades of grass numbering in the trillions throughout history are just NOW being found in our fossil record? Am I missing something? Is grass that really hard to fossilize in comparison to other plants on Earth?

    I'm shaking my head now thinking "WTF"!

  13. Re:Movies available on P2P on NBC To Offer On-Demand Movies Via P2P · · Score: 1

    The P2P system Blizzard used to distribute its World of Warcraft patches seems to work rather well...and fast. I honestly don't see how this could be a problem for NBC. :/

  14. Re:Movies available on P2P on NBC To Offer On-Demand Movies Via P2P · · Score: 1

    You would be uploading at the same time as downloading. With P2P, you do NOT have to finish the download to start an upload.

  15. Re:A shortlist of conversations on Computer Translator Ready for Testing in Iraq · · Score: 2

    It's a sad day for most liberal as it shatters their world view of freedom and how it's obtained using military actions against those that hate freedom and democracy.

  16. Re:What ya need is...MORE POCKETS!!!! on IT Workers Worst Dressed Employees · · Score: 1

    Why am I getting visions of Michael Jacksons jacket from the music video "Beat It"? :p

  17. Re:Heh, the dirt is piling up. on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Oooh, shiny PS3 !

    You're damn right! I'm sure as ever that I WILL buy a PS3, but not for playing games. You see, sony will be taking a hit for every PS3 sold in hopes to make up for the cost with selling games. Well tough shit Sony. I'm going ot buy a PS3, and mod the fuck out of it so I can run Linux on it and use it as a server or something.

    That's right, payback is a bitch huh?

  18. Bust a Move on Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles · · Score: 1

    That video of color bubbles along with the music really makes me think of the game Bust a Move. If you played it, you know what I'm talking about.

    http://gr.bolt.com/oldsite/games/ps2/puzzle/super_ bust_a_move_24.jpg

  19. Re:Wow big suprise US spending billions on defense on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Thank you for admitting that you are a war pig for the sheer bloodlust. How long do your erections last when you hear about dead arabs?

    No, I'm admitting SOME humans embrace bloodlust, but MOST (if not all) are survivalists. In fact, it's genetic through evolution.

    Think about this. You have someone pointing a gun at you. Do you...
    1. Wait and see if they will pull the trigger.
    2. Pull your trigger before they pull theirs.

    I choose option 2. To choose option 1 sets me up for darwin award.

  20. Re:Wow big suprise US spending billions on defense on HAARP Amping It Up · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. That is, sometimes you have to start a fire in one direction to prevent a wall of fire comming at you from the other direction.

    War is the same thing. Sometimes we have to kill those that wish to kill us. Now what would your rather choose? Islamic facist killing the inocent over and over again in the name of a perversion of Islam the believe? Or, would you rather put them down like the sick dogs they are so as to have them kill anymore.

    You can take humans out of nature, but you cannot take the nature out of humans.

  21. Re:Duh! on Gaming Fanatics Show Hallmarks of Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    The question is just how much do they let that enjoyment interfere with their lives and possibly the lives of others?

    I will just put it this way...

    Government will never be the answer to any addiction problems, nor should it ever be.
    I'm tired of these spineless people that want to label everything fun as a "danger" and pose solutions for "our own good". I tell you what, I will hear what you have to say, but TELL me what I fucking can and cannot do with my own life so long as it does not directly effect another person own persuit of happiness.

  22. Re:Sounds like nasty nitros on Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nitrous Oxide in of itself is not hard on the engine. What makes it hard on the engine is the amount injected into it. Being that speed and performance is an addiction most street racers, they often get greedy on the Nitrous shots. Ever more and more, they crank up the mixture. And for the really clueless idiots, burn a fucking hole in the piston head.

    Point being, it can be safe for everyday use so long as its computer controlled automatically. But, let the user control the amount injected...and you will end up with a short lived engine.

  23. Re:I thought... on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: 1

    Article XIV

    Section 1.

    All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    The POWs at "gitmo" are not US citizens, and as such are not offered protections governed by the constitution. in otherwords, they fall outside US legal jurisdiction. Basically, "any person" does not implicitly apply to foreigners by default.

    Section 5.

    The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

    Congress has the power to enforce the denial of constitutional protection to foreigners as they explicitly fall outside US jurisdiction.

    Even if you wanted too, why would you want to offer these thugs protection from the very constitution they wish to destroy as it defines the America they hate so much?

  24. Re:Obligatory... on Meet the Man Who Will Save the Internet · · Score: 1

    Gore is a political nut. However, he is by far the most trustworthy in regards to the future of the Internet when you even THINK about having the UN run things.

    Fuck the UN. Bunch of filthy thieves they are!!

  25. Re:I thought... on Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million · · Score: 1

    The US Constitution does not apply to foreigners in a foreign land. "Gitmo" is a US navel base in Guantanamo Bay located in Cuba.

    There IS a reason they are held in Cuba and NOT in the US. We explicitly do not want to give these thugs Constitutional rights as they do not deserve it.