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  1. Re:video games are NOT physically harmful! on Illinois Gov. Seeks Violent Video Game Ban · · Score: 1
    Garcia wrote:

    "video games are NOT physically harmful!"


    I suppose you've never been clubbed upside the head with an NES cartridge?

  2. In other news... on Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spinning newspaper injures reporter.

  3. In other news... on GEICO vs Google Ads: Google Wins · · Score: 1

    Ben Affleck, star of such films as Gigli, recently sued AFLAC insurance, claiming that their ads implied that he was a duck.

    Affleck lost the case to AFLAC, 4 to 2.

  4. "comprehensive plan" on New iPod Firmware Locks Out RealNetworks Music · · Score: 4, Funny

    It turns out that this "comprehensive plan" involves a free screensaver download that DDOS's the iTunes store.

  5. efficient viruses? on Desktop Search Tools Will Help Virus Writers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "more efficient malware"

    Do virus writers really care that much about efficiency? It's not their PC that's gonna run the thing. They could just as easily make the thing continually grep for documents containing 16 digit Luhn-validated numbers and send them off someplace when they're found.

  6. In other news... on Evolving Swarms with Swarmstreaming · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, the inventor of swarming was attacked by killer bees.

  7. Geez... on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Windows CE does not want you installing any software, you can not get to the BIOS settings,"

    It might as well not even have a keyboard or monitor port. Yeesh.

  8. Re:How they become? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Given that the Nazi party was defeated in 1945, I'd say that most surviving Nazis are likely Grandmas or Grandpas.

  9. Language evolves... on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1, Informative

    Get over it. Over time, the writers of this broken English will develop a sense of what sounds right and what doesn't and it will be a recognized dialect of English.

    Perhaps this is just language becoming more efficient, closer to total information entropy.

  10. Slide projector on Professional Photographers Using Linux? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why not just project them onto a flat surface in a dark room and take a picture with a digital camera?

  11. Detailed results of the survey on Musicians on Internet & Filesharing · · Score: 4, Funny

    23% of respondents were not home.
    54% of respondents pretended like they were not home.
    20% of respondents were undecided.
    6% of respondents had no front door.

    There was a 3% margin of error.

  12. Re:Thinking small on Open Source Word-of-Mouth Advertising · · Score: 1
    From My First Mall Reader

    Lesson 4. The clothing stores
    See the clothing stores.
    See the posters in the window.
    See the people in the posters.
    See how thin they are.
    Later they eat a lot.
    Then they throw up.
    See the people shopping there.
    They all look the same.
    See the clothes in the store.
    See the name on the shirts.
    It is the name of the store.

  13. Re:Traffic Calming on Self-Adapting Traffic Lights · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the main road in front of Wright State University, there is a series of traffic lights that are perfectly out of phase. I don't if its to annoy students who drive to fast or what, but I feel like a bit in a shift register whenever I drive through there.

  14. Yes, but... on New Treatment Helps Cure Spinal Injuries · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but, does it work if you are paralyzed from the neck up?

  15. Can't sleep on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    Can't sleep, robots have guns.
    Can't sleep, robots have guns.

    Oh, and in Korea, only old robots have guns.

  16. I'm sorry on DOE Report on Cold Fusion · · Score: 4, Funny

    DOE!
    Oh dear!
    Cold fusion here! /ducks

  17. Re:Mixed feeling on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 0

    Actually, given that making medicine is a matter of mixing and heating and distilling various chemicals, it is a process that is highly open to automation and can be made cheap real easy. The high cost is from the drug company trying to recover the money it invested in figuring out how to make the drug.

  18. FDA approval? on HIV Vaccine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much you wanna bet that it won't be approved for use because, I don't know, say, it causes liver failure in 1% of the recipients or something.

  19. Re:The best laws on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA · · Score: 1

    Probably not much money, as Washington is not the capital of Pennsylvania.

  20. Voyager one better... on GlobalFlyer Aims To Go Voyager One Better · · Score: 0

    He's going to fly around the world on half a tank of gas.

  21. Re:What I wanted... on Things To Do Before You Die · · Score: 1

    "I want to chat with an Artificial Intelligence before I die..."

    Use Emacs.

    > M-x Doctor

    -I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice.

    > You suck.

    -What makes you believe that I suck?

    > Because you do suck.

    -What makes you beleive that because I do suck?

    > Fuck off

    -Earlier you said that I suck?

    > Go away!

    -My secretary will send you a bill.

  22. The boot on Kazaa Trial In Australia Underway · · Score: 3, Funny

    As I understand it, a common punishment for criminal offences in Australia is to be kicked with a large boot. Can anyone in the know enlighten me as to whether this is also done in a civil trial? If Kazaa wins, do they get to boot the execs of the record companies? Their lawyers? The artists?

  23. Re:What a Downer! on MS Seeks To Patent Education-Feedback Software · · Score: 1, Informative
  24. Ahhh, IRC on CIA Researching Automated IRC Spying · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where men are men,
    Women are men,
    13 year old girls are FBI agents,
    and that guy who never says anything is a CIA bot.

  25. Gnome + spyware? on How Much Harm Can One Web Site Do? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Particularly amusing was that the article mentioned a proposal to bundle spyware into Gnome 2.0. I bet that went over like a strip club in the Vatican.