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  1. Brilliant! This is going to fix all their problem on Leaving a Comment? That'll Be 99 Cents, and Your Name · · Score: 1

    This should work out wonderfully, you see in real life I've never met a person who was mean or spiteful so this is totally the solution to getting rid of the anonymous menace on message boards. My hats off to the newspaper for figuring out such a great solution! /end sarcasm

  2. Re:Hyperbole much? on The Ignominious Fall of Dell · · Score: 1

    Can anyone here name a computer manufacturer with a 97% failure rate of a computer line and then try to cover it up and continue to sell them? Sure there's the margins where every company will have some (hopefully small) percentage bad hardware and turn out a few crap products, but Dell has been circling the drain for the better part of the last decade when it comes to most people's opinion of them. Mainly due to the poor build quality and cheap parts that keep causing problems. I worked for a state agency where we had to replace nearly every single motherboard on our GX620's over the course of about 18 months as the originals kept failing like clockwork.

  3. Re:That's silly... on Unique ID In India Causes 'Fear of the Beast' · · Score: 1

    Having more than one "loyalty card" is akin to taking out a second mortgage on your soul.

  4. Re:Let me Google that for you on Modern Day Equivalent of Byte/Compute! Magazine? · · Score: 1

    Sweet another lmgtfy.com user. I work in IT, and I have used LMGTFY.com a lot in the last year or so after discovering it. People constantly ask how did you find that out!? Well, now I send them the lmgtfy.com link. It's called google people, ya know the entire world of information at your fingertips? Learn how to do some basic research and be inquisitive.

  5. Re:Kinect Is Exciting? LOL, You Have To Be Joking. on Microsoft Unveils Smaller Xbox 360 Model, Kinect Details · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Awww come on now! Look at the history of overpriced peripherals and how well they take off. I'm sure this one will do just as good as all the others have in the past. The SEGA CD was a huge success (don't look it up, just trust me) The 32x breathed new life (**cough**) into cartridge games. Sony's EyeToy (a.k.a. a freaking web cam) changed the world with it's "interactive, you're in the game" fun, at least Sony and the 15 people that bought it did. overpriced peripherals do one thing, and one thing only. Fracture a market. Is it sad to say I'm more excited to see what the hacking community comes up with once they've got drivers for the Kinect running on a PC.

  6. To my evil nemesis Dr. Balloon on Set Free Your Inner Jedi (Or Pyro) · · Score: 1

    With this tech I'll finally be able to stand on even ground with my evil nemesis Dr. Balloon. Those balloon animals don't stand a chance now!

  7. .will be canceled in front of a cancellation squad on Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated · · Score: 1

    The way the synopsis read before RTFA, it sounded like they had confiscated his passport, after reading the article it's not nearly as crazy, they just canceled his passport and gave it back to him after about 15 minutes... The canceling of Assange in front of a cancellation squad will be later in the week, unless it too is canceled.

  8. Re:interesting concept on Wake Forest Researchers Swap Skin Grafts For Cell Spraying · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, it would be a little disconcerting if during the meeting where they were trying to figure out an impartial way to decide who gets that job of burning the mice and the new lab tech jumps up furiously waving his hands saying "oh, me, me, choose me, pretty pretty please, choose me!" If that ever does happen I'd have a 2 part questionnaire for him to fill out. Question 1, do you like horribly violent movies like Saw or Hostel? (Y or N) Question 2, do you like musicals? (Y or N) if he says yes to both... serial killer. thank you venn diagrams.

  9. Re:No communication is no communication. on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    All the freaking time, I just put webmaster@DOMAIN.com then I uncheck all the solicitation boxes. If they're honest they shouldn't get any SPAM, if not it all goes to the webmaster... This used to work really well, but in the past 5 years or so you see less webmaster@domain.com address... did I do that?

  10. Re:Don't like it? Too bad on Working Off the Clock, How Much Is Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Extortion, blackmail I live in Alaska and the solution we always joke about is dumping someone overboard in a crab pot as crab bait. I used to think it was funny until a couple years back they busted some dude in Anchorage for doing just that to people that didn't see eye to eye with him. Moral of the story is... don't blackmail your boss, or even ask for time off if he has the crazy eyes.

  11. Re:This may seem obvious to some, but... on Google Wave Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Perhaps all they meant was that Google has a crack team of scientists working on the project, and that got mangled into a group of crackhead scientists working on the project. Just a thought.