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  1. Re:HELLADS on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Kill the enemy pilots with hellish popup advertisment on their HUDs

  2. Re:HIV-AIDS on Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV · · Score: 1

    What I know, there are 2 strains of the HIV virus, the later discovered HIV2 strain a bit less invasive than the first one. What makes HIV so difficult to cure, is its mutability. The HIV virus mutates so fast, that about a week after the actual infection, when the immune system created antibodies against the infecting virus, they are allready obsolete. Every new "generation" of the HIV virus has a slightly changed surface antigens, what makes it very difficult for the immune system to catch.

    The HIV virus attacks and destroys T helper lymphocytes, that are crucial for the activation of the immune system. Without them, the immune system remains inactive. This makes the infected person susceptible to "petty" diseases, that are no threat to a person with a functioning immune system. It's like an uhm... unpatched Windows box.

    So AIDS = Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome, a set of symptoms caused by a malfunction of the immune system. In this case the malfunction is caused by the HIV {Human Immunodeficiency Virus}. AIDS is the disease, HIV is the agent that it causes.

  3. Re:great... on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, according to BMW, hydrogen fueled cars are actualy safer than common gas fueled ones.
    http://www.bellona.no/en/energy/hydrogen/report_6- 2002/22966.html

  4. Re:also on Flickering Curiosity? · · Score: 1

    Or you can simply blow your nose while looking on a CRT.

  5. Re:that's not the only issue on Alzheimer's Plaques Imaged in Living Brains · · Score: 1

    You forget the money factor. A special MRI is needed to do this test (and this is not cheap), and I don't think that an employer (unless it's NASA and you want to go to Proxima Centauri) is going to invest that much in every single candidate.

  6. Re:Beam ads ? on Craigslist to Beam Ads into Space (for Free) · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, any direction other than towards my inbox/TV/radio is OK and enjoys my support.

  7. Re:Spam the galaxy on Craigslist to Beam Ads into Space (for Free) · · Score: 1

    Vorlon Planet Killer? Pffft. Imagine they send us their spam, that would be a disaster!

    A chaeting Slimeball Jellyfish Woman wanting Snoo-Snoo with you within 250 lightyears. Call now and recieve an answer allmost immediately.

  8. Re:This is just dumb. on DRM for 1'3" of Silence · · Score: 1

    I met a guy, who wrote a book with the name "The sex life of a man past 50". It had a nice cover, and something about 150 blank pages.

    However, the autorship was refused to him, because it was simply too short to be considered as literature.

  9. Re:been seeing this a while on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 1

    Yes, the stuff, that plays sounds is really hideous. I spend some time on forums that help people infected with viruses or spyware, and on friday, there was an epidemy. Some users have heard strange sounds from their computers, like moaning or laughter, and wondered, if they were infected with something. The answer was much more stupid: the sounds came from a new advertising campaign from icq.
    It took me some time to realize this, as I don't use the "official" adds ridden icq client.

  10. Rock'n'roll on Beware The Rotundus Rover · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...all-terrain pendulum powered sphere...

    This gives the good old Rock'n'Roll a new dimension.

  11. Re:Next battlefield: Rise of inline popups? on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  12. Re:Next battlefield: Rise of inline popups? on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Yes, those mothers are blockable. Just 127.0.0.1 their source in the hosts file....well, if you're running windows.

  13. Re:"Volunteers"? on SARS Vaccine Developed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nothing melodramatic about that. It's most probably a subunit vaccine (no infectious particles, just selected antigens), so there is no threat of infection from the vaccine. Today, most antiviral vaccines are of this type.

  14. Re:I Prefer hijackThis on Anti-Spyware Products Don't Live Up to Promises · · Score: 1

    There is a newer version (beta) availlable at http://www.merijn.org/files/beta/hijackthis199_bet a.zipThis one also shows running processes and is able to kill them.

  15. Re:A Space Odyssey on Ion Rocket to Map Moon with X-Rays · · Score: 1

    That's 3 years too late. Our civilisation is doomed.

  16. Re:My favorite in game humor... Warcraft/Starcraft on Humor in Games? · · Score: 1

    my favourite WC3 joke: For the end of the world spell press Ctrl+Alt+Del (the Acolyte)

  17. In space no one can hear your sarcasm on Titan's Alien Thunder · · Score: 1

    ...that's all.

  18. Re:yikes! on Brain Controlled Computing a Reality · · Score: 2, Informative

    But on the other side...some quadruplegic men are able pleasure women. It requires a number of intact nerve strings and the hormones do the rest. Howewer, they are not able to "feel" the act. And the woman has to do all the "work".

  19. Re:haven't i seen this already? on Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed · · Score: 1

    I think Mars is a doomed place to make a movie. Can anyone remember a good movie that played on mars? Well, maybe Total Recall. But the rest?
    Mission to mars? Absolute horrorrr to anyone, who knows what DNA means.
    Red planet? Weak. Really weak.
    Ghosts of mars? The worst Carpenters movie ever.
    Species II? Well, they tried...but failed.
    Is there anything else?
    If the Doom movie will be good, it will be a double miracle. A good game movie a and a good Mars movie. I would really like to see something like that.

  20. Re:Doom the movie? on Doom Movie Scriptwriter Dave Callaham Interviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder...are they going to land on mars using Carmacks Armadillo spacecraft?

  21. Re:Nazi Germany on 60 Years Later: The V2 And The Space Race · · Score: 1

    Yes, and not only that.
    If the Nazi won the WW2, the most of us wold be launched straight to heaven.

  22. Re:Well, doh. on "E-Jihad" Exaggerated by Russian Media Spin · · Score: 1

    Hoax? Why do you mean? I think it's obvious, what is going to happen tomorrow.
    Some russian news agency is going to announce that the Internet Meltdown didn't happen, because they uncovered the story.

  23. Re:Intersting result ... on The Search Engine Belt Buckle · · Score: 1

    No, that are no death threats. That is German. A person who speaks german cannot be evil...

  24. Re:Messenger service is fun on FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I have to agree, it was fun.
    In school, we did some statistics stuff in excell, and the lesson was boring like hell. A guy in front of me played Doom 2 in a window and still kept on with the statistics. So I decided to make some fun of my own. I wrote something like:

    "System message: Out of memory, please close the application."

    The guy looked around a little stressed and closed Doom 2. After a while I have sent another message:

    "I SAID YOU HAVE TO CLOSE THE FUCKING APPLICATION!"

    This time the guy looked so scared, I couldn't hold the laugh.
    Yeah, the messenger was fun. I will take a minute of silence for him.

  25. Re:Yippie! on FTC Bars Popup Backdoor Ads · · Score: 1

    Isn't the legal community always the big winner? Either side of the legal struggle loseses, the lawyer wins (...looks a little bit like the AvP subtitle).