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  1. Duke Nukem on Dormitory Turned Into Huge Color Display · · Score: 1

    Given the low resolution of the games and the other games they were playing, I was expecting the original Duke Nukem.

  2. Re:How should I know? on Replacing New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain · · Score: 1

    I suppose it would make sense that Treves would make something that looks like an elephant.

  3. The selfish sin of silent reading on Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal · · Score: 1

    Silent reading is a very new concept, and I'd much rather see people encouraging public reading than silent reading.

    That said, it looks like Kindle may need headphones to do TTS. Boo!

  4. Re:Wrong Premise on Why Sustainable Power Is Unsustainable · · Score: 1

    See the BBC documentary "The great global warming swindle"
    Only after that you should be allowed to may any kinds of public comments regarding global warming.

    OK. So I just watched it. Does that mean I'm now allowed to comment on what a transparently deceptive program that was?

    Also, I've read a few peer-reviewed journal articles in my time, and I know that they're pretty persuasive about global warming being caused by humans.

    (As an aside, if we ever need to kill Edward Tufte, I think that film would be sufficient to do it)

  5. I always liked MIT's Bloom County naming scheme on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    lying-naked-in-the-periwinkle
    anxiety-closet
    mary-kay-commandos
    old-steve-dallas
    senator-bedfellow

    Just add .mit.edu

  6. Re:Umm on Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability · · Score: 1

    The Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics "stipulates"[1] that the universe is a super-position of "possible worlds".

    Go read up on the Copenhagen Interpretation. Many Worlds is not necessary (and is not generally accepted) to explain superposition.

  7. Not quite time for the Munchkin Coroner on SCO Receives Nasdaq's Delisting Notice · · Score: 1

    Ding dong, is the wicked witch finally dead yet?

    It ain't over `till it's over, and the Munchkin Coroner is not yet ready to aver that SCO's not merely dead, but really most sincerely dead.

    But I hear he's ordering new parchment.

  8. Adobe Notes or, (write the) Help Yourself on Adobe to Unclutter Photoshop UI · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did anyone else see the Adobe Notes thing? John Nack basically admits that Adobe's help system is useless and wants you to write notes to remind you how to do things in Photoshop.

    Here's a practical example. Let's say you go into Photoshop's Unsharp Mask dialog box. "Amount" is straightforward, but what the hell do "Radius" and "Threshold" mean, exactly?

    I don't know, but you know what should be able to tell me? The help system.

  9. What about DVD detector vans? on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 1

    Didn't the MPAA consider using detector vans, like when the BSA rolled out its pirate software detector vans? I hear you can get them real cheap from the Ministry of Housinge.

  10. Re:Spam king is Sanford Wallace on Spam King to Sing For Feds? · · Score: 1

    Ralsky did some fraud, but I don't think he even touched spam until Wallace had come and gone.

  11. Re:Spam king is Sanford Wallace on Spam King to Sing For Feds? · · Score: 1

    I beg your pardon?

    Sanford Wallace was a scourge on the internet in 1995. He sued AOL in 1996. He tried to make a pro-spam backbone for the internet in 1997. He was heavily involved in junk faxes, presumably before 1991, when they were outlawed.

    Ralsky is a major spammer, yes, but the King of Spam? Sanford.

  12. robby, sorry on Spam King to Sing For Feds? · · Score: 1

    Robby Todino, not Roddy. Sorry about that.

  13. Spam king is Sanford Wallace on Spam King to Sing For Feds? · · Score: 1

    Who is Alan Ralsky? The Spam King is, was, and forever shall be Sanford Wallace. With the Duke of Crass being Scott Richter and the Earl of Insanity being Roddy ``Time Traveller'' Todino.

  14. I did vote Libertarian on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    I did vote Libertarian. Doesn't make me feel any better about this bill.

  15. Re:Douglas Adams talked about this on When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? · · Score: 1

    Meant to say, this is from Chapter 1 of Mostly Harmless.

  16. Douglas Adams talked about this on When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know? · · Score: 3, Funny

    The higher level supervising program went to consult one of its own look-up tables to find out what the low level supervising program was meant to be supervising.
    It couldn't find the look-up table.
    Odd.
    It looked again. All it got was an error message. It tried to look up the error message in its error message look-up table and couldn't find that either. It allowed a couple of nanoseconds to go by while it went through all this again. Then it woke up its sector function supervisor.
    The sector function supervisor hit immediate problems. It called its supervising agent which hit problems too. Within a few millionths of a second virtual circuits that had lain dormant, some for years, some for centuries, were flaring into life throughout the ship. Something, somewhere, had gone terribly wrong, but none of the supervising programs could tell what it was. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.

  17. My review on Aeon Flux, Talk Amongst Yourselves · · Score: 1

    Here's My review. It's more balanced. Bottom line: it was a fun film, but it wasn't stellar filmmaking.

  18. Obligatory Monty Python reference on King Kong Lived? · · Score: 1

    100,000 years humans did not walk in asia

    And did those teeth, in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains green.

  19. XFree86 or XOrg? on NetBSD 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    It looks like they're still using XFree86. Are they planning to change?

  20. Obligatory on Geeky Gadgets for Halloween Parties? · · Score: 1
  21. No, there isn't enough information... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    So there isn't enough information.

  22. Re:One I like on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    They're not tourists. The problem states that there's only one reason why *you* would be there. You cannot assume that the same is true for the other people, who have come from neighboring islands.

  23. Re:Yes, there really is enough information... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Hint: you're told the hole is exactly 10 inches long.

    No, you're not! It's ``A ten-inch hole.'' That typically means ten inches in diameter.

  24. Re:Yes, there really is enough information... on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Beg pardon? If I take my Craftman drill and an infinitely long bit and drill it through the center of the Earth, certainly the remaining volume will be different than if I take the same drill and bit and run it through Jupiter.

  25. Re:One I like on Your Favorite Math/Logic Riddles? · · Score: 1

    Oh, forgot to mention--got this from Discover Magazine.