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  1. Bellows sidewalks on Ramp Creates Power As Cars Pass · · Score: 1

    Obviously I think its a fabulous idea, except for the part about cars.

    I thought of this years ago. My character in a champions game created these...

    as documenented here (someone else in that game must've submitted this). You have to scroll down a bit.

  2. Re:Mind-Numbingly popular? on Review: Dragon Quest VIII · · Score: 1

    Shrug. I play RPGs all the time, about 95% of the time I spend gaming. Now, grant you, most of it is not on console machines, which I think I have finally deduced that this is one.

  3. In the years since the Patriot act was passed.... on Senate Fails To Reauthorize Patriot Act Provisions · · Score: 5, Funny

    The New England Patriots have won three superbowls and not lost a playoff game. Now the act is in trouble... and the Pats are banged up, and no one gives them any chances to repeat. Coincidence?

  4. Mind-Numbingly popular? on Review: Dragon Quest VIII · · Score: 2, Funny

    First I've heard of it. That is the game, not its mind-numbing popularity.

  5. Its too bad its solar, not nuclear... on Space Spiders to Assemble Satellites in Orbit · · Score: 5, Funny

    They tell us that nuclear stuff in space would be dangerous. Irresponsible.

    But if these spider robots were nuclear powered, they'd have greater power.

    And with greater power comes greater responsibility.

  6. Re:Ugh. PHB-speak ahoy! on Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't us... er.. actualize the word "leverage" word when I submitted the story. I cannot recall what word i used, but it was probably rewritten for the better.

  7. Re:Illegal Immigrants on Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they thought of that, hence its location in southern new mexico.

    It is not us, but the aliens, who will need to worry about illegal immigrants...

  8. doh on Nessus 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I mean poisoning herc, not herself.

  9. Why name product after a scumbag centaur? on Nessus 3.0 Released · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just curious... I mean, Nessus is a pretty despicable centaur, tried to rape Hercules' wife and then, after being fatally wounded, tricks her into poisoning herself with his blood.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)

    Perhaps it is named for the Pierson's Puppeteer?

  10. The time-honored way to deal with this problem... on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 1

    In the days of old, you would just kill the man (or people) who knew the secret when he was done. Ivan the Terrible did it, I'm sure many other rules did too. Nowadays it would be a bit harder to do this... hence the reason for outsourcing it to some third world country where such things are easier to do.

  11. If "Gates may be a big Kahuna in Africa".... on Microsoft to Invest $1.7 billion in India · · Score: 1

    I'd call him a really bad sailor.... no navigation skillz at all, he's way off course...

  12. Would AIM itself qualify as a social virus? on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1

    I mean, once some people have it they try to convince more people to get it....

  13. Now if the worm could just post on slashdot... on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 3, Funny

    and ilnk the site... well, it would be unstoppable until the site crashed. But I'm sure someone would mirror the virus so it could keep rolling...

  14. Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper... on New Worm Chats with Users on AIM · · Score: 1

    to just hire a third world sweatshop to chat with people and get them to download your virus? I mean in the $$/hour for the time it took to make something reasonable...

  15. (singing) One Care.... One Live.... on Microsoft Launches Anti-Virus Public Beta · · Score: 1

    Let's get together and feel alright.... I can see the commercials with the Marley soundtrack now....

  16. Wonder if SCO will threaten them... on Lockheed Martin Selects Linux for Missile Defense · · Score: 0, Troll

    I mean, with missiles, I'm just saying...

  17. More things that will change... on How Things Will Change Under IPv6 · · Score: 1

    We will be able to get GPS callback service for celphones to find out where that person who called you is... Duplicate articles will become a thing of the past on /.... The Houston Texans will win a playoff game...

  18. Teddy Rooselveldt tried this over 100 years ago... on Literature Teeters on the Edge of a 'Gr8 Fall' · · Score: 1

    Seriously, his attempted standrard of "simplified spelling" is not that different than leet speak. He even had all official whitehouse communiques done in this method for a time. But someone pointed out his name would end up butchered and he dropped it.

  19. The whole point of the patent system on Patents Chilling Effect on Science · · Score: 1

    is supposed to be that you would like, have an incentive to do research so that someone else couldn't screw you out of your work. If you don't develop it you should lose it.

  20. No screenshots? on LED-Based LCD Display Tested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    well I know the old adage about showing TV displays on TV, I guess that would apply here, but I'd still like to see a screenshot of the thing with a display on it.

  21. I41 on The Los Alamos Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    cmon, you know you want to bow down before them....

  22. There go blizzard's plans... on Violating A Patent As Moral Choice · · Score: 1

    to eliminate chinese loot farmers in world of warcraft...

  23. Amazing Grace on Mars Polar Lander Lost Again · · Score: 1

    A landing probe randomly tossed but leaving no debris it once was found but now is lost we're blinded and now can't see ..... No one down here knows how to work the brakes, but Uncle Sam's on Mars

  24. Re:Who could ask for anything more? on Toyota Develops New Plant Species · · Score: 1

    Oh, what a feeling!

  25. Spidey vs the multiple Sandmen.... on Spider-Man 3 Villains: Sandman & Venom · · Score: 1

    Here's the Sandmen lineup: - The guy made of sand (marvel sandman) - Dream / Oineros/ Sandman / etc, the Neil Gaiman Sandman - A couple of Logan's Run Sandmen - The Kirby-era Sandman guy with the mask and sleep gun hrm. who'm I missing?