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  1. If you are reading this... on Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts · · Score: 0

    you may be addicted to the internet.

  2. Re:help desk "personnel" on Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2 · · Score: 0

    NOTICE that the statement mentions no gender of the user. Being, this could be politically correct and include fit homosexuals, or it could just be a ploy to our imaginations of a sexy woman!

  3. Be like me... on Cellphone Drivers Drive Like Drunks · · Score: 0

    I don't really listen to anyone on the phone anyway...

  4. Re:The answer is easy! on Could Your Blackberry Be Damaging Your Thumbs? · · Score: 0

    Damnit! It's the kittens! Those poor fluffy kittens.

  5. Hah! I haven't changed. on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 0

    My love for the FPS (especially Wolfenstein:ET) genre has not changed me at all... I mean sure I can now shoot a penny at 60 feet everytime with my pellet rifle and 100 feet in 3 shots......

  6. Re:So what we're talking about on Straw Converted to Gasohol in Canada · · Score: 0

    No, alcohol is clear ;). All we have to worry about are drunk cars...

    But really, gasahol is great for improving performance from vehicles and reducing emissions if I remember correctly, but comes at a cost of degrading the engine faster and causing more wear on parts (want alcohol in your oil?).

  7. Ahem... on 'Something' Cleaning Mars Rover · · Score: 0

    ... where is cold fusion when you need it?

  8. Re:Ten Detrimental Problems in Education... on Technology Grants for Supporting Education? · · Score: 0

    In reply to governmental problems (again, in no specific order):
    1. Capitalism is evil.
    2. Communism is evil.
    3. Corruption is evil.
    4. Power is evil.
    5. Money is evil.
    6. All of the above are neccesary.
    7. 1-5 are always unbalenced.
    8. Citizens never have enough power.
    9. Corporations always have too much power from money.
    10. Mass murdering all politians would seem to appeal to the masses.

  9. Ten Detrimental Problems in Education... on Technology Grants for Supporting Education? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...from a STUDENT POV (and not in any specific order).

    1. Teachers (really) are underpaid for what must be put up with.
    2. Those outside of education do not have a grasp for what happens in the educational system.
    3. Students that don't care to be educated hinder the education process and cannot be removed from the environment.
    4. Technology courses are being cut, not limited to but including, automotive technologies, shop technologies, computer technologies.
    5. Very poor system for student feedback to those who make decisions.
    6. FUCKING TESTS SHOULD BE LIMITED. There are too many tests for accountability making education oriented for passing tests, ranking higher on TESTS. Education is detrimented and narrowed to these tests.
    7. Parents are not involved enough with education.
    8. Punishment systems have become moot, MOOT I SAY! (Tardy == lunch detention, and again detention, and again in school suspension, and again suspension. Suspension for being late...)
    9. High school diplomas are worthless.
    10. College tuition is constantly rising, putting college graduates in more debt.

    Education needs to be destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground up. There is no salvaging the current system. A nation-wide education system and qualification system MUST be established.

  10. Re:Reminds me of.. on Burn the CD on Both Sides · · Score: 0

    Or we could just test the whole process with free AOL CDs that just collect dust and degredate everything else in close proximity.

  11. Age? on The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel · · Score: 0

    This article is quite old.

  12. Gnome Office... on Nimble, Excel-Compatible Spreadsheets for *nix? · · Score: 0

    AbiWord, Gnumeric, and GNOME-DB comprise all of GNOME Office. This is listed at http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/

  13. Re:The real reason it's not a threat on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 0

    A Cisco VPN client broke with Windows 2000 SP4. My dad had to send his business laptop the the IT department and wait, and wait, and wait, and work overtime for a &#%(ing week. Thanks Microsoft.

  14. Re:hotmail OR popups on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 0

    Everyone knows gmail is more chic.

  15. NHS... on NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft · · Score: 0

    ...Made me think of the crackpot club, The National "Honor" Society. I guess making a database interface for an EMS department that allows faster access to vital information, and spending hundreds of hours fixing computers does not matter to them... all you really need to be is a joint smoking slacker.

    Source: Real Life Experience

  16. Re:noXMMS. on Simplest Ogg Streaming Clients for non-Unix Users? · · Score: 0

    BMP is a XMMS port in GTK2 that should be even more portable than XMMS... perhaps...

  17. Future of consoles on Resident Evil 4 for PS2 · · Score: 0

    Consoles are dwindling, it is true! Newer "consoles" are computers, some (Xbox specifically) nearly meet (if not exceed) PC specifications. In a decade, there will be no dedicated gaming machine, everyone will be playing games on Personal Computers, and if there are consoles, the'll be giftwrapped computers. Look at the GameCube, it is dying (as is Nintendo). Xbox and PS2 are prospering while they mimic computers.

    The bottom line is that Perfect Dark Zero shows the downfall of Nintendo's reign. THE KING IS DEAD.

  18. Re:Only on /. on Two New TLD's Near Approval · · Score: 0

    If the stills be with you, we'd have a moonshine.xxx :D

  19. The OTHER use for peltiers... on On-CPU Peltiers From AMD? · · Score: 1, Funny

    God save me from a hot beer.
    I read about peltiers in Popular Science, just want to spread the joy.

  20. Re:accident waiting to happen on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 0

    Depends, When the trailer you pull has its own brakes, the only weight limit is the 10000 law (and your hitch).

  21. Re:Obligatory on Will Your Next Car Run Windows? · · Score: 0

    Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) serve their purpose as named.

    I own a Jeep Cherokee, White, 4x4, Towing Package.
    I USE my Jeep Cherokee, for one, I pull trailers all the time, heavy ones, such as a 8'x16' trailer with a Dodge 100 on it. Besides the fact that the trailer and truck weighs more than my Jeep, I was able to pull it quite easily the 35 miles it needed to be moved across the county.

    I also use the off-road features of my truck, since I live in a rural area, I constantly have to go off road around muddy fields to go check some condition for someone, and just recently... a flagger let me go offroad around a construction site, and let nobody else follow. I was driving over piles of extra dirt and rock removed from the side of the road. I love my Jeep, and I use my Jeep, and therefore my Jeep could not be replaced my a minivan.

    Side Note: The Jeep Cherokee is a smaller SUV that is quite easy to see around.

  22. Re:Programmers with soldering irons on Hot-Rodding A Bluetooth Adapter · · Score: 0

    Even more scary, I'm a programmer, computer technician, mechanic, and a welder (I have a licensed trailer). Yet I still cannot vote!

  23. Re:NEC SX-8: Predecessor of M-5 on NEC Strikes Back With SX-8 Supercomputer · · Score: 0
    The good news is that the West (which includes the USA and Japan)
    West is a direction, if we were to speak of the western world, we assume west of a given point. If we talk about West relatively however (as looking at the included countries) we are all west of ourselves. This leads to a connundrum that leads that the most powerful supercomputer is always West from here.
  24. For the future... on Lessig: We Are Squandering Away The Future · · Score: 0

    I am a 17-year-old student, months shy from voting age.

    As a HUMAN, I care little about what I can do for my country, but what I can do for another HUMAN. I constantly think about what I can learn, and develop theory of what can be. What I want my life to do. What valiant effort I can assert with my knowledge, with my talents, and with my desires such that I can help the HUMAN race. I do say HUMAN because we are ALL HUMAN, regardless of nationalities, race, gender, or religion, survival and advancements of civilizations will depend on private citizens to get off their asses to donate their assets to the WORLD.

    I want to use my desire to be an engineer to learn how to create a device I would call an ONIB (Optic Nerve Interface Bridge) to rid people of blindness due to destroyed/dysfunctional eyes. I would like to see a transistion from fossil fuels to nuclear energy (fission or fusion) or perhaps a newer electrical energy source.

    I would love to become a true philanthropist, a person whom would have to abide by a budget to meet the economical demands of life (Net household income ~$70000).

    Alas, there is no foresight of an improvement in the world. There is no reason for an improvement if the HUMANS of the world are content to not have any collaboration, because those with power shall always abuse their power. The human nature itself is what creates a dismal future for my generation.

  25. Re:i wouldnt on If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch? · · Score: 0

    Smoking nothing, I am stating the facts that were left out. This is for an Athlon64 3200+.