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  1. We've found the cure! on MIT Team Creates Cancer Stem Cells · · Score: 4, Funny

    Eureka! All we have to do to cure cancer is take this machine and reverse the polarity!!!

  2. The Real Link on The Call On Lord of the Rings Online · · Score: 1

    It's still the top entry on http://tobolds.blogspot.com/

  3. HEY!!! on What Does Your Dead Man's Switch Do? · · Score: 1

    My "man's switch" isn't dead, you insensitive clod!

  4. Why not both? on If Next-Gen Is Too Pricey Go Retro · · Score: 1

    Why make the decision between next-gen and retro when you can have both at the same time?

  5. Re:Legs? on Everything Old is Old Again · · Score: 1

    Pac has no legs!

    Of course he does! Doesn't anyone RTFA anymore?

  6. So let me get this straight... on Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain" · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The way I read it, you get addresses that use your domain name (e.g. user@xyz.com), but use the GMail system, including storage space and search capability. Sounds nice, but I think I'm already doing that, without some special program:

    1. Set up user@xyz.com
    2. Set up copy@gmail.com
    3. Auto-forward all mail from user@xyz.com to copy@gmail.com
    4. Have copy@gmail.com "Send mail as" user@xyz.com
    5. Read and send your email using copy@gmail.com (with all its abilities), and everyone thinks you're user@xyz.com

    Is there a difference between this and the service that I'm just not seeing?
  7. I find their choices suspect. on Games Take Away the Pain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Boxing is a separate category from both sports and fighting? RPGs left out because of low-impact, but puzzle games were included? These choices alone lower their credibility in my eyes.

  8. Is it just me? on The Power of Portable Gaming · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or have others also never even heard of some of the games listed as "essential"?

  9. I can see it now... on GMail Drive Shell Extension · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just wait until someone invites themself for 120 GMail addresses... then 1000... then starts SHARING terabytes of copyrighted data... eah, this may not last long.

  10. Obligatory plug on You Don't Know Jack about VoIP · · Score: 1

    Skype Is working very well for me. Free, VERY high quality calls to other people who have the program installed, and cheap, local rates to any land line/cell phone in the world!

  11. Re:(OT) Re:Oops. on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    See my reply to hawkeyeMI

  12. Re:Oops. on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1
    It's not as simple as you think; I had to go look it up. Here is one of the many sites that I found, and almost all agree with what it says.

    We use an apostrophe to create plural forms in two limited situations: for pluralized letters of the alphabet and when we are trying to create the plural form of a word that refers to the word itself. Here we also should italicize this "word as word," but not the 's ending that belongs to it. Do not use the apostrophe+s to create the plural of acronyms (pronounceable abbreviations such as laser and IRA and URL*) and other abbreviations. (A possible exception to this last rule is an acronym that ends in "S": "We filed four NOS's in that folder.")
    • Jeffrey got four A's on his last report card.
    • Towanda learned very quickly to mind her p's and q's.
    • You have fifteen and's in that last paragraph.
  13. Re:Oops. on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. That's.

    B-b

  14. Oops. on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 1

    My mistake. That one of those hazy rules that makes me hate the English language so.

  15. "Infected Windows PC's" on Infected Windows PCs Now Source Of 80% Of Spam · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which translates into Geekish as "PC's Infected with Windows."

  16. Next on the tour... on Engineering An End to Aging · · Score: 1

    And to your left, laides and gentlemen, you can see the End of the World!

    Seriously, if this is actually possible, then tons of people will take advantage of it, less people will be dying, just as many WILL be born, and we will EAT THE PLANET. To support that kind of population will take more natural resources than are at our disposal, and soon anough there will be none left.

    Unless we find another planet like Earth to move to, this could possibly result in the end of the world as we know it.

  17. Oh, great. on Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now they'll come out with a whole line of holistic tech support.

    "Coming Soon -- a new Ginko Biloba extract to double your RAM!"

  18. 10 metres at best? on Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition · · Score: 1

    This is far better than existing systems can manage. GPS satellite positioning is accurate to 10 metres at best...

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought GPS units were now much more accurate than that, to the tune of within a few centimetres...

  19. test link on 'Ice Highway' To Open Earth's Last Frontier · · Score: 1
  20. So what's the connection? on Those Eureka Moments · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What is the common word between pine, crab, and sauce? (RTFA if you don't know what I mean)

  21. Quick calculation on Personalized Moon Crash · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, Bill Gates does weigh more than 10 kilograms...

  22. http://tinyurl.com/stop on Microsoft Clips Longhorn · · Score: 1

    http://tinyurl.com/stop TinyURL.com is psychic!

  23. Hey! on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 1

    Today is MY birthday! I'm 21 today!

    Does this mean that color television and I have a cosmically significant relationship?

  24. Re:voice recognition on The Future PC as a Set of Pens? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll come out with a separate microphone pen add-on, as opposed to replacing the keyboard one.

  25. Re:oh my.. the high-school friend one.. on Detecting Patterns in Complex Social Networks · · Score: 1

    Incorrect. Quote: High school dating: Data drawn from Peter S. Bearman, James Moody, and Katherine Stovel, Chains of affection: The structure of adolescent romantic and sexual networks, preprint, Department of Sociology, Columbia University (2002). ... High school friendship: James Moody, Race, school integration, and friendship segregation in America, Am. J. Sociol. 107, 679-716 (2001).