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  1. English? on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 1

    Seeing as how the games seem to be in German, why is the game machine named (and prominently so) in English? (Or is "Poly Play" also German?)

  2. Re:Depends... on Ask Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales About Online Collaboration · · Score: 1
    general-purpose encyclopedias are widely cited in scholarly works. That's not done; even if they are expertly written and fact-checked, they are usually many years behind the latest research in an area.
    I thought that was one of the big advantages of Wikipedia over tradition encyclopedias: timeliness. It's updated continuously -- minute by minute.
  3. Paintball? What a bunch of wussies. on Modding Laser Tag Gear? · · Score: 1


    Sodium Tag.
    1. Super Soaker water gun or equivalent
    2. One-ounce chunk of metalic sodium strapped to chest
    3. ???
    4. Hilarity!
  4. Citations are a two-way street on Ask Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales About Online Collaboration · · Score: 1

    Will scholars snicker at me for citing thusly?

    "...are gay lovers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren_and_Stimpy, 23:30, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC))"

    All seriousness aside...

    Do people cite Wikipedia seriously and get taken seriously? My hope is that the answer is yes, but my fear is that the answer is no.

  5. Better naming = better jokes on Unix To Beef Up Longhorn · · Score: 1

    "Services For Unix" = SFU (San Francisco University?)

    "Service Technology For Unix" = STFU

    STFU, n00b!

  6. Unneccessary qualification in article headline on The History Of Pentium · · Score: 1
    The Pentium: An Architectural History of the World's Most Famous Desktop Processor
    Delete "desktop", I would think.
  7. Their real email address is amusing too: on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 1

    "jklsemicolon@asdf.com"

    (I am not making this up.)

  8. Re:So What? on THX-1138: The (Digitally Enhanced) Director's Cut · · Score: 1
    Please don't mod the parent down just because you disagree.
    Then can I mod him down because he's a troll? Attempting to get people to reply with "you're an idiot" and "you make a valid point, but..." posts?

    Oh wait. I just posted. So I guess I can't.
  9. Reverence on The Man Who Knew Too Much · · Score: 1

    "Wow! Check out the conniving on her!"

  10. Not a direct quote, I hope on Monty Python's Spamalot Musical Gets Cast · · Score: 1
    He's part of it because he loves the whole Python experience.
    I hope he didn't say it in those words. "I love the whole Monty Python experience" is just not something a Python fan would say.
  11. Learn more about Tesla on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 1

    Go here and poke around
    Go here and read

    Oh, and while you're at it, check out this movie about a guy who was a lot like Tesla, except he was saddled with living in the Soviet Union.

  12. Re:Rapidly Diminishing in Edison's Day on On Afghanistan's Thomas Edison · · Score: 1
    AC is indeed dangerous, but more likely to burn you than stop your heart
    Yep. In fact, after awhile you hardly notice the ACs around here.

    (Funny how some statments are true whether or not you take them out of context.)
  13. *USA is dying on New Generation of MP3 Players, New Features · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it, huh?

    Listen, if tacking on a lot of crappy gimmicks makes you technologically superior, I'd say the US auto market was eviscerating the Japanese one in the mid 1970s.

  14. Someone explain to me. on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. Someone out there keeps voting for this lunatic. Who? And for the love of all that is sane, why?

  15. There is a mechanism to handle this on Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles · · Score: 1

    If you have concerns along these lines, then you may wish to consult (or contribute to) this page.

  16. The question bewilders me on Large User Groups Cause Spontaneous Greying · · Score: 1

    As far as I ever knew, all calculators do it this way. Not a checkbox, but a button that simulates one, but still. I'd think anyone who would need to to calculations along these lines would have done so on any number of calculators which have the exact same functionality.

  17. Don't forget your scanner at home on iPod: Your Portable Corporate Hellraiser · · Score: 1

    You'll need it to use some of the things a quick Googling reveals.

  18. Re: quote on EFF Begins Digital Television Liberation Project · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was referring to the Broadcast Flag as the "simple, neat, wrong" solution.

  19. Salient quote on EFF Begins Digital Television Liberation Project · · Score: 1

    "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."
    H.L. Mencken

  20. Who said "Slashdot is too US-centric"? on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Exhibit A: An article entirely about government censorship in China instantly turns into a contest to see who can say "the US is worse" most convincingly.

  21. Results may be flawed on Dial-Up Audio Public Listening Test Opened · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...since I'm liable to vote for whichever one sounds most like the Centurions from Battlestar Galactica, or the voice communications from THX-1138. Not best quality, not most understandable, just coolest.

  22. I would prefer... on Use an iPod Mini to Broadcast Pirate Radio · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...a directed EM pulse. Advantages:
    • Permanently disables audio system, thus providing relief to not only yourself, but others down the road as well
    • Effective against playback devices as well as radios (when was the last time you heard obnoxious idiots like this playing the radio?)
    • You might be able to take out their engine electronics as well, thus stranding them while you take off, smiling quietly to yourself
  23. Possible solution: on Use an iPod Mini to Broadcast Pirate Radio · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ingredients:
    • MASH-style Public Address horn speaker on your eaves (or possibly pole-mounted in your yard)
    • Large, power-hungry amplifier
    • Barry Manilow CD
    Writing the procedure is left as an exercise to the reader.
  24. Didn't RTFA? You missed out on Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets · · Score: 1

    There's a great photo of Hubble firing its death beam into some hapless cluster of stars. Get some, suckers!

    (No, really! Look at the article! BBC has the most amusing illustrations...)

  25. Hardware on New Radar Sees Through Walls · · Score: 1

    Finally, the future arrives!

    Now excuse me while Shades and I go robot-hunting.