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  1. Re:BOOOOOOOOOH! on Wii Now Confirmed to Not be Region-Free · · Score: 1

    The number of dead US soldiers is somewhere around half of the number of deaths in 9/11. But the number of dead Iraqis has exceeded the number dead in 9/11 at least thirtyfold.

  2. The solution would require a major rewrite on Hack Mac OS X With Installer Packages · · Score: 1

    The solution is to make it so that nothing, not even kernel upgrades, can ripple out and effect things they shouldn't. The only way to reliably do that is to make them unable to see the things they shouldn't.

  3. Re:Not really; Verizon is failing on Verizon Steps in to Fix Microsoft's IPTV · · Score: 1
    Myself, I'm simpler than that - I just prefer the words I read to make some sort of sense...
    Which is why I use the term "honor". I'll bet most people don't know this, but the Latin word is honor, honoris.(Ergo the so-called cursus honorum of Roman government.) Honour is a bastardization of the French word honeur(I might not be spelling the 'hon' part right but I know it ends in 'eur') and is the one that makes no sense whatsoever.
  4. Re:Russell's Paradox strikes again! on PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Russell's Paradox would be a list of links to all websites which do not link to themselves in their links page.

  5. Re:Elitism Foiled. on PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites · · Score: 1

    MySpace looks bad because the creators had the stupid idea of letting their users choose the colors. MySpace-age people have absolutely no color sense.

  6. Re:Myspace... on PC World's 25 Worst Web Sites · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they just hate the fact that it's chock full of chain letters.

  7. Re:The engines canna take it no more! on Plastic Batteries Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    I thought dilithium crystals were just storage mechanisms for antimatter...

  8. Re:But... on Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    It'll still be GFDL so Wikipedia can just take articles from Citizendium and copy them over to Wikipedia.

  9. Re:Who do you trust more, Einstein, or astronomy? on General Relativity Is At Least 99.95% Right · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Hitchhiker's Guide is always right. Reality is often inaccurate.

  10. Re:Who decides who is an expert? on Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia · · Score: 1
    Einstein turned the world upside down
    A bigger debate than even that was phlogiston versus oxygen.
    Egypt didn't have iron tools to make the pyramids
    The pyramids were built by Jaffa with naqadah, duh.
  11. This isn't new on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 1

    Samantha Carter has inexplicably used a Dell for years!

  12. Re:Good thing... on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 1

    Why not just buy the DVDs at that rate?

  13. Re:Wow on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 1

    Minus the recalls, of course.

  14. Re:Don't bother-laissez faire on Household Technology Rules for Kids? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the Columbine shooters was a psychopath by the clinical definition and that's why he ended up doing the shooting.

  15. Re:The FCC was right to do so on FCC Orders Anti-Monopoly Report Destroyed · · Score: 1

    The guy who pushes crap into the parts of the spectrum that belong to his competitors, or, as an extension, the whole frackin spectrum.

  16. Re:Wow on Advertising Comes to DVR Owners · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Books are great but sometimes you just don't want to read. I don't know why that's so hard to understand for some people.

  17. Re:Don't feed the troll on Bruce Schneier Blasts Politicians, Media · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately it's not as easy to move to a new country as it is to move to a new 'Net board.

  18. Re:Possibly. on Bruce Schneier Blasts Politicians, Media · · Score: 1

    Quod Erat Fornicanter Demonstrandum. (By the way, fuck doesn't stand for "Fornication under the Consent of the King".)

  19. Re:Not necessarily on Bruce Schneier Blasts Politicians, Media · · Score: 1

    Symbiotes? I thought it was the Wraith that fed on people and not the Goa'uld!

  20. Re:Get a graphing calculator! on David Brin Laments Absence of Programming For Kids · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Although it doesn't actually boot up into BASIC--you can't enter in control structures from the command line IIRC.

  21. Re:God damn it all to fucking hell! on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 1
    Would you go back to "The Scarlet Letter" and update it so Hester Prin had her clothes updated to the Scarlet Letter had a higher threadcount?
    I would update the book so that it wasn't so damn boring.
  22. Re:Please God, NO! on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 1

    Babylon 5 looked fake because it was the very first sci-fi show to use CGI. Look at Firefly to see what good models actually look like.

  23. Close the iris! on Star Trek - Special Edition · · Score: 1

    ooops, wrong star thingy again.

  24. Re:Adam & Jamie - Friendship? on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    The "a" would be pronounced as the "a" in "father". I can't remember how the "e" would be pronounced though. Either as "eh" as in "pet" or as "ay" as in "day".

  25. Re:I can tell you when Slashdot will cover Survivo on The Mismatched 'MythBusters' · · Score: 1

    Actually, they did cover the guy who originally made Survivor about the game theory of his game.