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  1. Re:Who The Hell Would Want A 360? on Wii Outsells 360, PS3 Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Got it. PS2 is for people with no friends who have plenty of money as a result of not getting out all that often. Wii is for people who like to hang out with their friends and be goofy.

  2. Re:$385!? on "Lifesaver Bottle" Filters Viruses Out of Water · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it "wants" to migrate *away* from New Orleans, but the canals and dredging prevent its building up enough silt to escape.

  3. Re:I'm not sure how big of a deal this is. on Time Running Out for Public Key Encryption · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...His velocity, however, is known precisely.

  4. Re:$385!? on "Lifesaver Bottle" Filters Viruses Out of Water · · Score: 1

    Well at least they've learned from those mistakes. The new levee system will easily be able to perform up to the level of the existing one. Any storms with the old one would survive, the improved one will be even equally able to withstand!

  5. Re:not evil? how about global warming? on A Coveted Landing Strip for Google's Founders · · Score: 1

    Though neither you, nor your car are ever at full capacity, the plane is going to be fuller in general. An airliner is going to average over 60% for the simple reason that if it averages below that, they'd either switch to a smaller plane or fewer flights for that route.

    You're going to average less than 40%. Probably quite close to 20%.

    But it all goes out the window for considering private 767s, of course. There's no way that it'd be outfitted as a commercial airliner with full seating capacity for use as a corporate jet. I'll bet it has closer to 30 seats and resembles a luxury yacht more than anything else.

  6. Re:Environmentally Freindly? on Russia Tests World's Largest Non-Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    The same reason Bin Laden cares about the environment all of a sudden.

  7. Re:People actually shop at Gamestop/EBGames? on Casual Gamers Forcing Gamestop to Rethink Store Layouts · · Score: 1

    Hey, gimme some love, mods. This was clearly more trollish than off-topicish. I mean, the topic is what gamestop needs to do to increase sales, and in my case, changing whatever they use to clean the floor (or getting rid of that stupid carpet altogether) so it doesn't upset my olfactory sense would get me to browse more often.

    After that, not cramming the PC games onto a few shelfs on an island so they get all crushed and dog-eared would be a good start. If I'm going to pay $50-$60 for a brand new game, I'd like to box to look like something I'm not afraid to touch. Although, again, losing the urine smell would do wonders for making those nappy boxes look less unappealing.

    If you're going to put boutique in the name, be a little boutique-like. And a little less "dungeon for greasy-haired angsty goth-kids to hang out"-like.

  8. Re:its all about hurd on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Emacs has many features. Towers of hanoi for instance is quite fun.

    But how the f*ck do you just change the font size for all the displayed fonts? 8-pixel high terminal fonts are just so CGA.

    There is definitely something wrong with a word processor / operating system where the easter-eggs are easier to access and less cryptic than the screen font controls.

  9. Re:People actually shop at Gamestop/EBGames? on Casual Gamers Forcing Gamestop to Rethink Store Layouts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Further, why does every Gamestop & EB smell like someone peed on the floor?

  10. Re:Anybody bought a hard drive in the last 10 year on Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again · · Score: 1

    Could be, I guess. Since I just made it up right there as a placeholder for a term describing the equivalent inches of perceived IQ points.

  11. Re:Anybody bought a hard drive in the last 10 year on Inventor of GMR Bids To Shake Up Storage, Again · · Score: 1

    What the hell is a zeitgeist? Does repeating it make you smarter?

    We need to establish some kind of rubric for evaluating the efficacy of nomenclature repetition in craniophallic compensation.

  12. Re:UK consumer protection laws on Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiosity, Mr. AC, that disclaimer at the end there: are you sure it covers you? I mean, did you at least get it from a lawyer?

  13. Re:Raising the question... on Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords · · Score: 1

    Um.. just use good ol' AES-256 or whatever? I mean, it's not like the host country is going to be suspicious of communications directed at your home country, so there's not really any reason to disguise the destination.

    I can't think of any good reason to use TOR from an embassy unless you are keeping secrets from your own country. In which case, maybe you ought to consider not committing treason.

  14. Re:1990 called... on Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" · · Score: 1

    Individually, perhaps. But in aggregate, the secondary market provides price support for the primary market.

    Which reminds me, I need to think about getting rid of some DVDs before the price bottoms out, so I'll be ready to reestablish my collection in HD.

  15. Re:1990 called... on Music Industry Set To Introduce the "Ringle" · · Score: 1

    That's Ok, they're still sort of getting money from you.

    Why do you think people "sell" their disks to the used disk stores? Because they're tired of them, and the money offsets the cost of a new disk.

    So, since more disks are bought because you're supporting the secondary market, the labels are richer for your purchase.

  16. Re:For Sale -- Cheap! on French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites · · Score: 1

    A statue that was originally intended for the French themselves. We basically got their trash.

  17. Re:Headline on French Threat To ID Secret US Satellites · · Score: 1

    Indeed, however then the headline has no verb at all. "To ID" is an infinitive.

    I guess a headline doesn't need to have a verb, but it's sloppy, unnecessarily passive-voice and, most importantly, looks wrong in this case.

    At any rate, if you're going to put an infinitive in an article title on a nerd website, you should really split it with the word, "boldly."

  18. Re:A Great Camera? on Entry-Level Astronomy? · · Score: 1

    Having worked in the American tourism industry, in a particularly photogenic place, I can assure you that Americans are not the group one would expect to have quality photographic equipment. Most of the Americans had a super-high megapixel small-lens sony cybershot or worse.

    There was a national group predisposed to having high quality cameras and expensive video devices. Perhaps not coincidentally the nation was one known for producing those devices.

  19. Re:That looks about right on Method of Reading Discovered · · Score: 1

    I think this is important, because one model will let you pass a standardized test under scrutiny without being a good reader or understanding what you're reading, while the other will let you consume vast amounts of written material with great speed and comprehension but sound a little funny in conversations about obscure subjects with experts on those subjects.


    How convenient for you that the superior of these methods of reading comprehension happens to be the one which validates your own intelligence.

    I happen to read a bit like you for words I recognize, and upon reaching a word I haven't heard spend a pass or two coming up with audioglyphs if it's not immediately apparent. If there's more than one, I tend to alternate on subsequent viewings of the same word until either one pronunciation makes the most sense (sometimes a etymologically similar word gets used elsewhere and provides insight) or I get fed up and stop caring and just recognize it visually.

    So does that put me at the level of half- mouth-breather or does it mean I'm just more aware of my internal process than you (thus validating my own intelligence!)? I'll note that neither of us appears to have the presence of mind to crack open a dictionary...
  20. Re:lol on Solar Craft Flies Through Two Nights · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Autonomous overhead overlords?

  21. Re:The 85% SOLUTION on New Wonder Weed to Fuel Cars? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that a solution that really only covers city driving is worse than useless, as it's more efficient and less frustrating to use mass transportation in cities.

  22. Re:Back to school for you! on AMD NDA Scandal · · Score: 1

    Free Society is like a Jerry Springer episode?

  23. Re:Sue the police? on Police Busted When Tracking Device Found On Car · · Score: 1

    There's no need for "female" judges to admit inadmissible evidence.

    That's what "Police Psychics" are for. To give them an excuse to follow up leads they get from illegally gathered evidence.

    At least, that's what my scam would be if I were taking money from taxpayers under the pretense of spooky mystical crime-solving powers. I see no reason that no one else would've thought of such an obvious (and "plausibly deniable") scam.

  24. Re:However on Help Find Steve Fossett · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the question is, has anyone been reported missing in the area before to warrant a search, and the slightly lesser followup question, did they find them right away and call off the searches?

  25. Re:Are we late to the party? on Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor · · Score: 1

    Surely they are also using their compromised TOR nodes for some nefarious deeds. Like de-anonymizing...