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  1. Re:Uhm, not the appropriate response, but on Flying By Brain · · Score: 1

    Stop shitting around Mr. Hanky!

    (No really, excellent response!)

  2. Don't bring USB watch on dates. on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    Dude,

    At this juncture, I'm more concerned that you even own a USB watch. No matter how functional you may believe it to be, there's nothing a USB watch can do for you that can't be canceled out tenfold by the fashion statement you, intentionally, or unintentionally, put forth by wearing a storage device.

    It's quite elementary (which is the grade you should've picked up on this lesson): What you wear says a lot about you. Wearing a USB watch says nothing good. Sell the USB watch (preferably to the geek friend who's hitting on that cutie pie in the steno pool you've got the hots for), buy an analog watch for your wrist and a USB drive for you key chain.

    End of discussion!

    -=- cpopin

  3. Re:I'm ready for it on A Black Box for People · · Score: 1

    ...And carrying 20 lbs. of hash through an Turkish airport. Don't drop the soap while riding the Midnight Express!

  4. Takes weight off the spine! on Scuba-Doo Underwater Scooter · · Score: 1

    It's not silly at all! It take the tremendous weight of gravity off the spine while under water, much like the Segway takes the unnecessary strain on the leg muscles that walking incurs.

  5. Dude 1: What happened to your hair? on Recharge Batteries in 30 Secs · · Score: 1

    Dude 2: Rapid Discharge Syndrome.

  6. Meg Ryan's voice in my head... on Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries · · Score: 1

    "Yes, Yes, YES, Yeeeeeeeees!"

  7. Re:What about other carbon arrangements? on Buckyballs Kill Fish · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're wrong there Dr.: it has a devistating effect on finacial well being of the male homo sapien.

  8. Kepone music on Buckyballs Kill Fish · · Score: 1

    I thought Kepone was a band?

  9. Are Buckyballs attracted to themselves? on Buckyballs Kill Fish · · Score: 1

    I'm not a chemist, just asking stupid questions. From what I've read, C60 is the most stable form of Buckyball, but yet it's works as an oxidizing agent. Do they tend to attract to other Buckyballs or more often to other elements?

  10. Real soon? on Nuclear Fusion Real Soon Now · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't you mean really soon? Date an English major.

  11. ...non-integer frame rate? on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    Can you provide a link to this "non-integer frame rate" please? Sounds interesting. Thanks!

  12. You are all different! on Always Look on the Bright Side of Life · · Score: 1

    I'm not.

  13. DirecTV Commercial on Demo of Free Software Voter-Verifiable Voting · · Score: 1

    "...It's better than great! Is there a word better than great? No, there isn't...it's GREAT!"

  14. Re:Fashion & the Beige Box on Wooden Computer Accessories · · Score: 1

    Speaking of beige, I just yesterday visited a pottery store that was using an old Apple ][gs for their bookkeeping. And they had an Apple Image Writer!

  15. Not 70%, 33% savings on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 1

    You've got to love Marketing Math (I should copyright that). Yes, it's 70% over re-registering it year-to-year, but their next step down from $9.99/yr. for 100 yrs. is $14.99/yr. for 10 yrs. That's only a 33% savings. So, your break-even point is 67 years. And you're going to go to your boss and say,

    "Hey, I just save the company $500.00 by the year 2071 by paying twice that much up front!"

  16. Re:Twice?! on NASA Finds Critical Assembly Fault in Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Two out of six Orbital Vehicles ain't bad either, right? N.Y.A.S.A. (Need Yet Another Seven Astronauts.)

  17. Re:Let's brush those Japanese skills off.... on Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan · · Score: 1

    One damn small conspicuous security robot.

  18. A multi-billion what? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    AutoZone is a multi-billion what? Parts, employees, dollars? What?

  19. Re:What does human advancement require? on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: 1

    Good point about telecom satellites. Without cellphones, we might not have a White House (9/11/2001 attacks).

  20. How to install cable? on Space Elevators Going Up · · Score: 1

    Always me with the stupid question, but how do you install a nanotube cable in space? This seems much more difficult than the installation of the Transatlantic Cable, and that didn't work the first time. They never addressed this technological issue in the article. I mean, do you rocket a spool of cable to a geosynchronous orbit and let it out in opposite directions, one towards Earth and the other away? As the spool satellite gets lighter, it's going to have to fly lower...it's just complicated!

  21. Mine is failing bad! on More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I have the IBM Deskstar 75GXP DTLA-307075 (76.8 GB) and am getting Delay-Write errors all the time on Windows 2000 Pro. I'm going to try the software upgrade listed by a /. reader located here.

    I'll let you know if it works.

  22. DON'T see a doctor! on Cyberchondria · · Score: 1

    Even doctors are bad for you.

    It has been estimated that at any given moment, 3-5% of doctors are unfit to see patients, and the Public Citizen's Health Research Group has established a data bank of 20,125 doctors who have been disciplined for their mistakes.

    I was operated on a month ago for a broken leg and kept thinking about medical errors everytime someone (the nurse, doctor, anesthesiologist, etc.) asked me, "So, which leg are we operating on today?"

  23. Re:Vancouver! on New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted · · Score: 1

    You live in Vancouver and you don't know where are they shooting the movie? How pathetic!

    Oh, that was one sentence. Forget it!

  24. Polaroid film batteries on Linux Duracell CPU Load Monitor · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the days when I would religiously save all the spent Polaroid instant film containers. They had a flat 4" x 6" (size of Polaroid pictures) 6v battery. They've got to have enough voltage to take ten flash photos, but not all photos use flash, so they're often underused. Take them apart and you can use them for just about any DC voltage need. With ten of them you can have a very strong 6v battery for RC cars and planes, or put them in a series for higher voltages.

  25. Re:Plasma is for sucks. DLP is the way to go. on CES 2004 Coverage · · Score: 1

    I've got a 50" Samsung DLP and I love it! One thing you failed to mention though is that they're a lot less expensive than LCD or plasma.