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  1. Re:I'm missing something on The Tech of Burning Man · · Score: 0

    They played Dance Dance Revolution in full fire protection suits and got flames blown at them for mistakes... that's just awesome.

  2. What's going to happen to Gamefly prices? on Xbox 360 for $300 · · Score: 0

    I only rent games so I'm more than happy to see the game prices rise as the console prices remain loss leaders. But I doubt Gamefly is quite so pleased. I wonder if a next gen price jump is in the cards for them.

  3. Nice, but slows load time too much on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 0

    Google classic loads in under a second, the customized page takes a second or longer. Believe or not thats too long for me. Besides I already have firefox extensions with the dow jones and weather on my status bar and gmail notifier in my tray. But, hey it's nice to know that it's only an /ig away if I ever get the urge to see all that stuff at once.

  4. Re:The question begged... on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    semantics nazi

  5. The question begged... on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 1

    How much money are US companies making off of spam?

  6. Happy Slapping on Google Moves Into Video · · Score: 1

    Doesn't come up with any videos of the new British craze dubbed, 'happy slapping' where unsuspecting people are slapped across the face and their reaction is videotaped.

  7. Re:A Victory on Stan Lee to be Paid Millions for Spidey · · Score: 1
    it was in his contract, so I don't see how Marvel can appeal.

    That doesn't make much sense. If no one could appeal a judgment just because something was in a contract don't you think we'd have a lot fewer contract disputes? Contracts is it's own class in law school just to address the numerous arguments that arise over contracted terms

    Marvel's lawyers are probably drafting the appeal as I type.

  8. Space Flight: the new millionaire hobby on Paypal Founder's Merlin Rocket Engine Fires Up · · Score: 1

    Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, John Carmack, and now this PayPal dude... Is there any super rich person who doesn't have his own pet space project going on somewhere?

  9. First Y2k solution on Google's 20-Year Usenet Timeline · · Score: 5, Funny
    "In 1978, when I was working in banking, I ran across a curious date storage format. It seems that transaction dates were coded with the last digit of the year in one nibble, the month in hex in the next, and the date (in packed decimal) in the next two

    "Good grief!" said I. "What happens in January of 1980?" She turned pale and admitted she had considered that before but managed to put it out of her mind. "So why not go ahead and fix it now?" I asked.

    She pointed out that fixing it would require expanding the demand deposit master record format, a mammoth undertaking. About a billion COBOL programs would have to be recompiled. At this shop we were still on cards and a rush compile took about a week. "You want to do that?" she inquired. This time I turned pale. We onsidered our options, knowing that one or the other of us would be called upon to fix the problem. And you know what we did?

    First, I modified the daily demand deposit program with code that checked for the date and about mid-1979 started printed warnings on the console of what would happen come new year. Then the systems analyst and I got new jobs. This is known as stepwise interactive development."