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  1. Re:What Does "Han Shoots First" Mean? on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well if you truly love Star Wars, to the point that you've refused to see Special Edition, I can only encourage you to cease your inquiries into this matter before you learn the truth and kill yourself. If you insist though, I've encoded the horrible horrible answer below in ROT-1.

    Mvdbt dibohfe uif dboujob tdfof tp uibu hsffep, uif cpvouz ivoufs uibo Ibo xbtufe xjuipvu b tfdpoe uipvhiu gjsfe gjstu.

  2. Wow... on Remote iChat Exploit Patched · · Score: 5, Funny

    This sounds exactly like the away:// hole in AIM from a few weeks ago. Has anyone audited the UNIX talk command for similar bugs?

  3. Re:Solaris Vs Linux? on Solaris 10 to be Open Source · · Score: 1
    there's currently no way to get Solaris for free.

    er... Free (Beer-style) Binary Licensing Program

  4. Re:I like it on AMD Desktops Outsell Intel · · Score: 1

    The sempron is a real performance dog, have you considered one of the athlon mobile line instead? Unlocked multiplier and minimal power consumption = yummy. ~$75

  5. Re:Can't someone just tell 'em to shut up?!? on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 1

    No, just trying to work in a gratuitous reference to the Sumner - Brooks affair. A further decay in the civility of public officials is just what's needed to bring public attention back to government. Just imagine what would happen if C-SPAN became "X-SPAN to the MAXXXXXTREME!!!!

  6. Re:How is this not nice? on Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized · · Score: 1

    Thank you for your clear, well thought out explaination. Editors, please archive the thread now.

  7. Re:Can't someone just tell 'em to shut up?!? on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 1

    As a South Carolinian, I encourage the liberal use of canings.

  8. Re:Parallel port on When Emulation Isn't Enough · · Score: 1
    Ah man, I didn't even use a soldering iron.

    OK, I eventually came around when hacking an original NES power/rest/LED assembly into an extra drive bay on my gray PC case. You just can't get crimp-on pins for everything, I guess :-(

  9. Re:On maintaining old NES gear on When Emulation Isn't Enough · · Score: 1
    There is still someone out there who sells replacement cartridge connectors, but I can't say as that's a soldering job I'd want to volunteer for.

    Actually, the cartridge connector makes a 180 degree bend and slides onto an interface on the mainboard which is identical to the cartridges, although a much snugger fit since it never suffered the constant in & out like the cartridge side did. (Learned this while gutting a NES with a blown cap in the video-output assembly for the power/reset buttons & LCD. They look great in the extra CD drive bay that was going unused in my gray case)

  10. Re:Components on When Emulation Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    In fact, it's been done over the parallell port with no special chips by writing a driver that emulates the original signals from the system. I made a couple for my buddies at school last year with some old SNES pads and $3 connectors I got from Radio Shack. The only tricky part was getting power to the controller, most sites reccomend tapping the power supply directly but I've been running it through the parport with a few diodes and haven't blown up my motherboard... yet. You can get the pinouts and drivers from here

  11. Re:Hmm... on The Changing Face Of Campus Tech · · Score: 1

    Oh I know, I've ridden CAT before while visiting friends up there, those bike racks and subtle purple lights are Sweeeeeet. If I were ever looking to rice out a bus, a used CAT unit would be the first thing I tried to get my hands on. But anyway, the important thing is that Clemson's sprawling campus justifies a bus system, whereas USC is tightly packed into a few blocks just south of downtown. Not only do I fail to see the utility of this intarweb boondoggle, there's really no reason for them to have the buses at all. Worst of all, this shiny technology is being tied to rusted out hulks of buses that most 1-A high schools would reject.

  12. Hmm... on The Changing Face Of Campus Tech · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear University of South Carolina - Columbia:
    I know you just blew 100k on a completely useless GPS tracking system for your shuttle buses that don't leave campus. Next year, could you please consider supplying Nikon D70 packages to your returning sophomores?

  13. Re:Only 15 minutes to put hardware together? on Step By Step: Building a MythTV PVR for $635 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And that's why I only buy Antec.

  14. Re:wearable device on Port-A-Nuke · · Score: 1

    I remember when I was little my local library used to have a quite thick book called "Ten projects for the amateur scientist" or something similar. One of the chapters gave instructions on how to build a proton accelerator out of an old canister-type vaccuum cleaner, you might want to try and find a copy.

  15. Wow on Three Minutes With Mark Cuban · · Score: -1, Redundant

    A dupe of a story that was fully castigated the first time around, and then continued to be mocked in several subsequent ones about high-capacity optical storage. Since nobody else has said it yet... Bigger Video Files != Harder To Pirate.

  16. Well, that's technically correct... on The End of Encryption? · · Score: 1

    but I think you're either a bit behind the times, or making an incredibly subtle joke, but either I should bring to the attention of the less-informed readers that Fermat's theorem, which states that there are NOT any such powers n>2, has been proven. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/

  17. Re:Should have known on Bikes Against Bush Creator Busted · · Score: 1

    They'll get my vote for a promise to be eaten first...

  18. Re:sounds like an easy way... on GlobeTrotter: Mandrake-based 40GB Linux Mobile Desktop · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the old maxim holds true yet again: Once an attacker has physical access to the target, all you can do is sit back and watch the pwnage. Or trigger the halon. It kinda depends on your situation.

  19. Re:It's not ever going to be 100% on Florida Ruling May Lead To E-voting Paper Trail · · Score: 1

    Well, originally the electors were supposed to vote their conscience and serve as an elite group that was better informed, better educated and thus better able to choose the president than the unwashed masses. Unfortunately, with the rise of party politics and the various electors making it very clear who they'd vote for beforehand, it's become nothing more than a horribly broken proxy system.

  20. Two Words For You... on The Search Engine Belt Buckle · · Score: 1

    "Seppuku hentai"

  21. Re:Smaller Planets? on 4-inch Telescope Finds New Planet · · Score: 1

    But that's because those are the only ones we're able to find. The method used looks for "wobbling" of the star caused by the planet's gravity, so if it doesn't sweep in close at some point, the effects just aren't detectable from this far away.

  22. Gee on Mark Cuban on the future of HD Media · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, because compressing 1280 x "whatever" video is so much harder than standard NTSC. *cough drop every other line cough* seriously, people download 600 mb divx rips because the quality is "good enough", making a bigger, badder original file isn't going to change anything.

  23. Re:It's not aluminum, it's alumina. on Transparent Aluminum Is Here · · Score: 1

    Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

  24. One in four chance of being searched... on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    Is a three in four chance of passing unnoticed. So just get 5 guys instead of 4 and make sure they don't all stand next to each other.

  25. Re:Homer, hmmmm patents. Yum on Nintendo Patents Online Console Gaming · · Score: 1

    considering that the number refers to the chest size Underneath teh b00bx0rs, that would be pretty hideous.