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  1. Re:Has a bright future? not in my house. on Compact Disc Turns 26, Has a Bright Future · · Score: 1

    MP3 DVDs are almost as obsolute as picture CDs. Just get an in-dash receiver with a USB input and use whatever sized flash drive you need. I ran my USB header from behind the receiver down into my center console stowage bin, so there's not even anything visible.

  2. Re:Amateur Scientists Seek Perpetual Motion Device on Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction · · Score: 1

    "Lisa! In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"

  3. Re:The occult, really? on id, Raven Developers Discuss New Wolfenstein · · Score: 1

    "That and Nazis were actually tied to Occultism. This theme has been done before in other areas and it the whole basis behind the Indiana Jones movies."

    Only the GOOD Indiana Jones movies.

  4. Re:DRM is a pretty lame excuse on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    Then they just assume you weren't interested.

  5. Re:DRM is a pretty lame excuse on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    It's actually a very good excuse. If you buy a product with DRM, you are explicitly telling the producer that you do not object to the inclusion of DRM in the product.

  6. Re:Private jets and old biz models. on Airline Cancels All Flights Booked Through Third-Party Systems · · Score: 4, Funny

    But... What about the great in-flight food? You're missing out on that too!

  7. Re:What about the top side? on Effective Optical Disc Repair? · · Score: 1

    If you've scratched through the reflective layer on the top (label) side, you've destroyed the data. It's gone. Period.

    Find another copy of the disc.

  8. Re:Vacuum tubes and floppy disks. on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    What's an IMCB?

  9. Re:Duh on SpaceX Conducts Full Thrust Firing of Falcon 9 · · Score: 1

    Apollo's LM ascent stage? :p

  10. Re:With GMs luck. on GM, Utilities Partner To Advance Plug-In Hybrids · · Score: 1

    True, but if you stuck a windmill on there, you'd be unstoppable!

  11. Re:So, which is more efficient again? on Making Strides Toward Low-Cost LED Lighting · · Score: 1

    He uses gas for everything other than lighting. Well, his ancient 386-based computer burns coal, but everything else is gas.

  12. Re:storage? on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Depending on what other research projects may be underway, milk may not be a good choice either.

  13. Re:Automate CAPTCHA attacks? on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 1

    Oh no, the customer service voice recognition system actually works perfectly. It also just happens to have a perverse sense of humor.

  14. Re:Television not behaving? on Digital TV Foreshadows Erosion of Net Rights · · Score: 1

    A "phosphorescent screen"? How quaint.

  15. Re:Tough lesson learned... on Man Fired When Laptop Malware Downloaded Porn · · Score: 1

    When I needed my government-issued notebook reimaged, I had to take the hard drive out and connect it to my own computer so I could delete some key OS files to make the drive non-bootable. As long as it still worked at all, they wouldn't touch it.

  16. Re:Slight Differences on Register, Others Call Plagiarism in "Limbo of the Lost" Game · · Score: 1

    The people responsible for sacking the artists who were supposed to be sacked, have been sacked.

  17. Formally referred to as... on IP Traffic To 'Double' Every Two Years · · Score: 1

    Gore's Law

  18. Re:Windows Home Server on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    And as a bonus it randomly eats your data!

  19. Duh... on Gaining System-Level Access To Vista · · Score: 1

    If "Step #1" of any hacking scheme is "Gain physical access to the hardware", it's really not worth mentioning here.

  20. Re:Glasses on Screen With 180 Degree Field of View · · Score: 1

    I don't think that people who wouldn't benefit from it would be part of their intended target audience at all.

    I wear glasses too, but I'm not going to say it's pointless to invent something just because I personally won't find it to be the greatest thing since sliced bread, even though a far greater number of people would.

  21. Re:Good article, explains the 400MB... on Data Recovered From Space Shuttle Columbia HDD · · Score: 1

    WHAT current hard drives of similar capacity?

  22. Re:Isn't it a crime? on Cell Phones, Missing Persons, and Privacy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm worried about you, but I don't know where you are. Report your current physical location immediately or prepare to be arrested.

  23. Re:Civilian use? on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    Just for clarification, the Navy guy is the one saying they are NOT the same thing. :p

    While I have heard the term "secondary radar" used a few times in the past, usually by people not intimately involved in aviation or avionics, I always correct them when I get the chance. Tom Clancy is one that I'd like to correct, if I ever get the chance to meet him, because of a line in one of his books that confuses this issue. He lives pretty close to my in-laws, so I'm hoping for a run-in one day. ;)

  24. Re:Still a long way to go on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    And to think... I had no idea they were Bene Gesserit.

  25. Re:Civilian use? on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    That is correct. A submarine is normally referred to as a boat. We call their crewmembers Bubbleheads, too.

    As a side note, did you know the US Army owns more ships than the Navy? How about that the Navy owns more airplanes than the Air Force? Maybe we should rename all the services!

    Am I nitpicking on the whole radar thing? Sure. But this is /. We're supposed to nitpick over highly technical things that don't matter to 99.9% of the population.