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  1. Re:Obvious reason on Closed Digital Cameras - Does Anyone Care? · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Corrections.... on World of Warcraft Suffers More Downtime · · Score: 1

    We can go a step further than this and place Lag at the center of all sensory perception. Remember, the speed of light, while small, is finite. There is a lag between the entire world and your eyes, and vastly more lag in the chemical reactions that detect that light and transmit the image through the optic nerve to your brain. Philosophy majors, please make yourselves useful by writing long treatises on the metaphysical implications of Lag. Lag is all.

  3. Re:Sounds reasonable... on iPods get Bluetooth, Remote Control · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Apple Mini? on Google Announces 'Mini' Search Appliance · · Score: 1

    Nope, just a blue 1U rackmount with the google logo on it. For $31,000 more you can get it in yellow.

  5. Re:Lawsuit World on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    So you also wouldn't have problems with me posting all your credit card numbers and medical records here?

  6. Re:Privacy or not on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 1

    Here in south carolina, if the car was kept in a garage, you'd probably be in the clear. As our attorney general said, "Invade a home, invite a bullet"

  7. Re:Premature post-mortem? on N-Gage No Longer Relevant · · Score: 1

    Mods! Please give parent "+1 obscure model railroad pun"

  8. Re:Lawsuit World on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    There's no cry for him to go to jail because he should be in front of a firing squad. At the very least CNN could have fired him on the standard broadcasting "morality clause", where's the liberal bias now?

  9. Re:Lawsuit World on Think Secret's Nick dePlume Revealed · · Score: 1

    Let her hang. This is one of the few cases where the label of "national security" is really justifiable. If you expose a CIA agent, you SHOULD go to jail.

  10. Re:No mention of HL2? on Getting the Girl · · Score: 1

    Nobody ever seems to mention Joanna Dark, either.

  11. Re:Department... on Getting the Girl · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They mean the boxes that "games for girls" come in don't have to be pink. And/or that "games for girls" is an inherently stupid concept.

  12. Re:WoW... on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Oh god, WoW... I've been careful about walking too close to people in the grocery store because I'm afraid I might body-pull aggro on them.

  13. Re:Oh yes, it's for real. on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    I strafed corners long before discovering the FPS genre in the form of Goldeneye64... it's just a good safety practice.

  14. Re:Offtopic on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 1
    What's even more fun is when you throw capitalization into the equation.

    Hitler polished the clocks of the Polish

  15. Re:Saturn V is good but we can build bigger on Saturn V Preservation Efforts · · Score: 1

    Blimey.

  16. Re:Saturn V is good but we can build bigger on Saturn V Preservation Efforts · · Score: 1

    Using the numbers here , I calculated each of the F1 engines as being class U on the model rocket scale, but that's probably wrong since I'm not a real rocket scientist. Anway, here's my figuring:
    (304.8 pound-seconds/lb of fuel) *4.44 = 1353 Ns/lb fuel
    4492 lbs of fuel for the entire first stage / 5 engines = 898lb/engine
    1353 Ns/lb * 898 lb/engine = 1,215,000 Ns/engine

  17. Re:Let's talk reality here on The Tin-Whisker Menace · · Score: 1

    I think CRT glass contains lead to make moving them take a prohibitive amount of effort and thus driving sales of flat panels

  18. It's those idiot greens again on The Tin-Whisker Menace · · Score: 3, Funny

    This probem is one of the reasons we use lead in solder, it's only reappearing now that the EU is pushing for all new electronics sold to be lead-free. Frankly, I'd like to see everyone keep using lead and just stop selling to europe. That'll teach 'em.

  19. Re:RDS Radio on Top 25 Innovations of the Past 25 Years · · Score: 1

    ah, you crazy brits and your "radio one" or whatever they're calling it these days. No, here in america every station in an area is a being unto itself, you'd never be able to find two stations playing the same thing close enough together for you to pick up both of them. On long car trips that take us outside the range of the stations we know, we'll just listen to CDs instead.

  20. Re:Shades of Tom Clancy on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for Iraq to get taken over by the Iranians and become the United Islamic Republic once we pull our troops out. Clancy is a fucking prophet. That said, Teeth of the Tiger is the first half of the worst book of all time.

  21. Re:No. It wasn't sarcasm. on LiveJournal Buyout Rumor · · Score: 1

    Of course, this is only for all values of so-and-so which are equal to Roland Piquepaille

  22. Re:For non-Brits on The Sun Misfires Against Disney Over Swear in Game · · Score: 1

    The best comparison to it here in the states in terms of wild sensationalism and terrible reporting would be the New York Post. Which is also a News Corp. Production. Hmmmm...

  23. Re:This is actually an interesting idea... on Learning a Foreign Language with The Sims · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't know, but running it to japanese and back through babelfish returned
    "In perplexity of the small road where bending it has wound, it is in the same way to everything"
    Deep man. Deep.
  24. Re:I need some magic glasses too on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 1
    Just this one time, everyone has discounted the accuracy of the quote for better flow. That said,

    Ze Goggles! They do nothing!

  25. Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 2, Informative

    probably not... most of the Socket A models have a 2-d barcode etched onto the top of the die itself but it would be pretty time consuming to try and decode manually.