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  1. Re:Lots of commas on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    I can stop anytime I want.
    That's the first warning sign. Don't worry, guy. We'll get you the help you need.
    Wait, I think i'm going, into,remission,,,NOOO!!

  2. Re:No. on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    your insurance rates will go down, possibly way down, because now the insurance company has a way of knowing the truth about how you drive

    You're running on a very thin assumption, however, and that is that I drive like someone who does not drive a Camaro.. That makes you incorrect.

  3. Re:Lots of commas on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why must the poster, include commas, all over, the place?

    Comma abuse is something that afflicts lots of high-school to college grads. I went to rehab for 2 years, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  4. No. on Insurance Companies Try Out Auto Black Boxes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought this was a good idea, but then I remembered: "I'm in my 20's and I drive a Camaro". Bad news.

  5. Re:FAA & FCC Want it to be safe... on Cellphones Usable on Airplanes in 2006? · · Score: 1

    I care, because I hate cellphones enough as it is, and in such a small, enclosed space, it'd be even worse.

    "Hey, get this! Yeah, I'm on a cellphone! Yeah! On the plane! What? Yeah! I'll be there in about 3 hours, I'll call you again before we land." The end is near. Be afraid.

  6. Reality Check on Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is this:
    Why didn't anybody think of this sooner?
    How long has Florida and the East Coast been having hurricanes that are potentially dangerous and destructive? Although Florida may be an optimal place for shuttle launch, it's not the best place to build...anything.

  7. Re:Am I understanding this correctly? on Model Of Mummy's Head Made Without Unwrapping · · Score: 3, Informative

    I work in a medical imaging department, so I have a pretty good understanding of how it works.
    For the most part, you hit the nail on the head. What probably happened is they took a very precise CT of his head, and then reconstructed a 3-dimentional image from the axial CT.

    It's really interesting, because it's actually very accurate...This probably gives us a very good idea of what he looked like.

  8. Re:Grr... on Linux Now Top Choice Of Embedded Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And yet, if I went out to try and buy a mobile phone which runs Linux for the geek value, I wouldn't be able to find one. Maybe it's in the wrong embedded marketsHowever, many are programmed in Java...Personally, I'd like to hack mine for the geek value.

  9. Re:New generation Console on Tapwave Zodiac Owners Celebrate the Release of LJZ · · Score: 1

    Anyone know of a good place to download ROMs anyways?

    You know, that's a question that I ask myself every day when I get out of bed...well, not really. But I do wonder about good places to get roms...Most of the best ones, the small sites, with just the ones you were looking for were shut down/faded away; which could have been because of the crackdown on pirate software circa 99/00.

    On another note, I've seen emulators for PSX/N64, but they ran so slow, it wasn't even worth it. I'd like to see one that has real time capabilities for consumer level processing power.

  10. We get an award, too! on IOCCC Winners Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the Lifetime Acheivement in Server Destruction Award goes to...Slashdot!!! Congratulations!

    Seriously, I can practically smell the server melting from here.

  11. Re:Just one? on Hamster-Powered Night Light · · Score: 2, Funny

    One hamster may not be much, but imagine a building full of hamsters each running on its own wheel!

    I'm sorry, but we're on slashdot. Any post like this needs to be in the format: "Imagine a beowolf cluster of....". Thanks for playing.

  12. Re:martianbuddy.com on In-Game Advertising Breaks Out · · Score: 1

    Wow, almost a half a million. Those poor people.

  13. Re:Image mirror on What is this Strange Gadget in My Car? · · Score: 1

    It's obviously a flux capacitor.

    It can't be, it's a 97 Thunderbird! Flux capacitors were only available in 1981-up DeLorean cars.

  14. Re:This thing has separate hardware for DVD/MP3s? on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What a waste of money to have to buy all that extra crap when the notebook is easily able to do it in software. It's an even bigger waste in a notebook where space for internal peripherals is at a huge premium.

    What are you talking about? This is software, blockhead. It's just committing resources at startup to another os(Linux)so less resources can be used to play media. It's not hardware at all. Except that it's on a laptop.

  15. Dual boot-like! on Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great idea! Think of all the RAM you'd save...If only more hi-mem apps would do this, rather than run in RAM-hungry Windows.

  16. Re:Obligatory Yakov Joke... on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    What temperature exactly does Mack Daddy Cold begin?

  17. Re:Obligatory Yakov Joke... on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    I think it can be said that pretty much everything's cold in Russia, comrade. Especially soda. So everything in Russia chills you.

  18. Re:Everybody always remember on MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    From the genius film Bowling for Columbine:

    "Love my gun....Love my gun."

  19. Re:is it just me... on Virtual Girlfriend · · Score: 4, Funny

    is this the most pathetic thing ever?

    No, it really is.
    All virtual girls will look the same - but each girl will behave differently - depending on how much money is spent on her.

    Wow, it's realistic, too!!

  20. Re:Don't think so on How Google Could Overthrow AIM · · Score: 1

    Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect.

    Funny, I always thought Hotmail was a bad habit...
    But really. I think it's safe to say that everything that is google is not neccecarily great. To me, this looks like a ploy to sell stock.

  21. Re:Not true on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    So? I don't believe the article said the number Queen Amidala's in your brain didn't change over time.

    I understand, becuase we're on Slashdot, that you have to make a Natalie Portman/Star Wars reference, but really...what the hell are you talking about?

  22. Re:blaming it on brain chemicals huh? on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    does this mean that we can develop a psychoactive drug that will rid us of those pesky conservatives.

    We did. It's called weed.

  23. Re:Not true on Red Brains vs. Blue Brains? · · Score: 1

    I don't think this is true... I think political views can develop, and change. It's not something that you have when you're born...

    I agree. This is something that a psychologist would call a characteristic of personality, which everyone knows can be changed. Personalities and ideas change with experience.

  24. Re:interesting modpoint distruíbution. on Independent Adventuring Leads To New Horizons · · Score: 1


    Perhaps they should have had two articles to cover the two different topics?


    How about this: "Simoniker's New Adventure" on the main page, and "Independent Adventuring..." on the Games page. That way, there's no confusion.
    simoniker, you will indeed be missed. Thanks for a year and a half of good stories and good fun.

  25. Cross platform...promise? on Can Infinium Compete In The Game Console Market? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that this would work great, if it was in fact cross-platform. But if it only plays PC, then it's just as good as a PC with a cable modem.