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  1. A Dolphin By Any Other Name... on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would be called "Gamecube"

  2. Re:Way to go Slashdot crowd on Star Wars Kid Cuts a Deal With His Tormentors · · Score: 1

    Most of us would never be in his shoes, since we're not stupid enough to videotape outselves doing such stupid shit in the first place. However, if we fail that WIS check, the DC to prevent ourselves from taking the video to school and leaving it in a relatively public place is almost impossibly low. We're talking a 1 or a 2 here.

  3. Re:Overreaction on Star Wars Kid Cuts a Deal With His Tormentors · · Score: 1

    Or maybe he could stop being a giant pussy and grow a skin.

    He made the video. He took it to school. He left it unattended. The only person at fault for the video is him.

  4. Re:Why pass what you know is flawed? I'll tell you on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    "Perhaps some of you don't remember 9/11. But don't you remember the March 11th train bombing in Madrid or the attacks just this last summer in London?" Perhaps you don't remember the Reichstag Fire Act and the Enabling Act.

  5. Re:"Why pass what you know is flawed?" on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    What changed? The Soviet Union fell. Without the godless commies to rally America against, we had to choose a new "evil" to use as a scapegoat. Terrorism is the new Communism.

  6. Re:"Why pass what you know is flawed?" on Senate Passes Patriot Act Renewal · · Score: 1

    He'd probably be more likely to get time for reading Animal Farm than Mein Kampf. We have a facist government, after all.

  7. Re:my love/hate with nintendo and the DS on Nintendo's Busy Week · · Score: 1

    The DS was never intended to replace the Gameboy line any more than the Super Gameboy cartridge for the SNES or the Virtual Boy was. It's simply another handheld on the market and a platform for Nintendo to do all the bizarre shit that they can think of doing.

  8. Re:So if I understand this correctly..... on Red Cross Condemns Misuse of Emblem In Games · · Score: 1

    How many people get shot in real life by people camping the health packs?

  9. Re:A Third Portable? on Microsoft to Enter Handheld Market? · · Score: 1

    Fourth portable. The DS is -not- the new version of the Game Boy, nor is it the Game Boy's replacement.

  10. Re:For any other company, it would just be a gimmi on Nintendo To Dominate Next Generation? · · Score: 1

    You forgot the D-Pad. Game & Watch, anyone?

  11. Re:Well, guess its a good thingq on Moon Shadows Frustrate Astronauts · · Score: 1

    I think we better fire up a gov. contract spending billions though on figuring out how to manage SHADOWS on the moon.

    Flashlights.

    Where do I go to collect my government grant?

  12. Re:You know... on Sega to Release New Dreamcast Bundle? · · Score: 1

    If that's the Revolution's big secret, then Nintendo has won the battle of the consoles this round. It's one thing to be backwards compatable with your own hardware and emulate software from days past, but to be compatable with software written for a former competitor is simply awesome.

  13. Re:Uhh... on How Zombies Work · · Score: 1

    What could be more important than preparing for the upcoming undead apocalypse?

  14. Re:Need help. on How Zombies Work · · Score: 1

    Fire. Lots and lots of fire.

    Trust me.

  15. "Pay up or we disrupt your business..." on Level 3 and Cogent Reach Agreement on Peering · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it just me, or does Level 3's ultimatum sound alot like an old fashioned protection racket? How is this any different from the Don sending someone to smash up someone's shop after the owner misses a payment?

    Is there any way to get law enforcement involved? What about a class action lawsuit?

  16. Re:Oh Really? on China Going Up and Coming Down · · Score: 1

    But then I realized, I agree. Their track record at honest reporting of events isn't so good.

    And America's is?

  17. Re:OLD STORY!!!!! FUCKING SLASHDOT IDOTS! on Four Millennia Old Noodles Found In China · · Score: 1

    So are the noodles.

  18. Re:Against Who's Torpedoes? on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    In WWII, they had conventional long range torpedoes that could sink destroyers and aircraft carriers easily.

    The carrier USS Wasp was sunk by two 21" torpedoes launched from the Japanese sub I-19. My guess was that they were Type 92s with a 661 lb warhead and a range of 7,000m at 30kts. Now look at the 24" Type 93. It had a 1,080 lb warhead and a range of 40,000m at 36kts.

    Meanwhile, the modern US navy's standard torp, the 21" Mark-48, only has a range of 8,000m at 28+ knots with it's rather pathetic 650 lb warhead. For a comparison, the standard US fish of WWII was the 21" Mark-15, which had an 825 lb warhead and a range of 9,150m at 33kts.

    So really, I wouldn't say that torpedo technology has improved at all in the past seventy years.

  19. Re:marine life? on Sonic Torpedo Defense · · Score: 1

    Except that the only fuel that a carrier carries is jet fuel. So unless they're sending JP-8 to another carrier, no, they cannot realisticly transfer fuel to another ship.

  20. Re:No kidding? on RIAA Goes After Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    No. The RIAA. We don't need to be giving them any more ideas!

  21. Re:No kidding? on RIAA Goes After Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    Shut up! They might hear you!

  22. Re: How about three? on Army Eyes Anti-Sniper Robot · · Score: 1

    And then they just deploy two snipers.

  23. Re:I hope to one day be fossilized on 20 Million Year Old Spider Found · · Score: 1

    Thanks. I just spit iced tea all over my laptop. Fucker.

  24. Re:ISS Orbit on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 1

    JSC is in Houston, not Florida. You're thinking of KSC. Trust me, I live about two miles from JSC.

  25. Re:Imagine if... on NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes · · Score: 1

    But if they'd spent that much on cocaine, they wouldn't need Space Ship One to enter LOE.