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  1. Re:Who writes this stuff? on Reform Could Kill EFF "Patent Busting Project" · · Score: 2

    But then who would introduce legislation?

  2. Ow! My shin! on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 1

    I mean, does it offer translucency?

  3. Re:Sony did it on DS Games To Be Downloadable to the Wii · · Score: 1

    In the summary, they say they're doing it to drive DS business, rather than the other way around. I don't think Nintendo has to do anything these days to drive Wii business, except maybe make more of them.

  4. Re:Sur-replies? on RIAA Protests Oregon AG Discovery Request · · Score: 1

    Of course. That's what the Oregon AG is trying to prevent them from continuing to do!

  5. Re:Fuck Them on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 2, Funny

    and requested a read receipt

  6. Self-perpetuation on Games Industry Growth Outpacing US Economy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Games Industry Growth Outpacing US Economy A trend like this will continue until the economy stops growing at all, and all people do is either write games or play them.
  7. Overclocking? on Overclocking the AMD Spider · · Score: 1

    I was kinda enthused by the fact that he's an active member of the overclocking community, but to stop the video right before it actually starts with the overclocking, and then call it a video about overclocking the platform, seems...specious.

    From the first video, the platform looks interesting, but will it be able to do any of those things with just one video card (rather than FOUR)?

  8. Re:Well. on World of Warcraft Patch 2.3 Coming Next Week · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who's been HOPING that the patch wouldn't come before I hit 60? Leveling has been some of the most fun I've had in quite a while, going from my 70 lock to my 18 priest (who's now 35). It's nice to have a different skill set, but being almost full holy spec, doing all the quests has been an actual challenge, as opposed to grinding my affliction lock.

    I've decided that the game is what you make it, and as several other posters have mentioned, $15 a month is very cheap compared to a lot of other hobbies. It's a good diversion, and I personally think it's a lot of fun.

  9. Re:Silly gamblers on Tracking Online Cheaters in Poker · · Score: 1

    Football players are racing now? What is the world coming to?

  10. Re:Dear Mr. Jackson on New Hope for Jackson Hobbit Film? · · Score: 1

    So he's got a 15% chance of getting it right^WOK?

  11. Re: But... on One Less Reason to Adopt IPv6? · · Score: 1

    But you'll note that the leak is always at one end or the other...

  12. Re: Class Action Initiated Against RIAA on Class Action Initiated Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    Why would you think I was implying anything other than that?

  13. Re: Class Action Initiated Against RIAA on Class Action Initiated Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    Poll: Joke or shill?

  14. Re:Phones? on European Commission To Raise Camera Costs in Europe · · Score: 2

    It's probably because they've got all that extra space in them (where the cassette goes) that a digital camera just doesn't have. It doesn't take a large explosive to do a whole lot of damage on an airplane.

    I feel really bad because I worry a little about publishing the second sentence of that answer...

  15. Re:Why drop? on Six Minutes of Terror - Landing Humans on Mars · · Score: 1

    Or the muggings by aliens in a dark crater?

  16. Re:There's your perpetual motion machine... on Tiny Generator Runs Off Vibrations · · Score: 1

    Hrmm, I think there's a hole in your plan...

    Yes...the "mouth", through which energy enters the body.

    We _are_ closer to the world of The Matrix, though!

  17. Re:alternate theories on Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    No.

    REGARDLESS of whether it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, if it weighs as much as a duck, then it weighs as much as a duck.

  18. My favorite caption in a long time on Moore's Law for Motherboards · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the first picture of the motherboard:

    Via's mobile-ITX board prototype
    (Click to enlarge)
  19. Re:The Beauty Of Closed Systems on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    The filling station will refill your water tank, and/or your aluminum-gallium reactant tank.

    It sounds like the electricity inputs to do the reclamation of the aluminum are not a small matter (in fact they mention using a wind or nuclear power plant solely devoted to this task), so they don't speculate on whether the reclamation could be done at the filling station level, or whether it would have to be done by some collection/distribution agency.

  20. Re:What happened to robots.txt? on Google Wins Nude Thumbnail Legal Battle · · Score: 1

    Because the only difference is that the search engines would request that web servers ship with it opted-in by default?

  21. Re:Hyperscalar Reality Co-Engineering on Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New Power Source · · Score: 1

    Because it keeps you from doing more than skimming the page, and then your subconscious can start piecing a bunch of incomplete facts and opinion-babble together to make you...crazy?

  22. Re:Poor judgement on Teachers Fake Gunman Attack · · Score: 1

    I'd think the only thing they could reasonably do is require you to leave. It is "private property", after all. They're entirely within their rights to ask you to leave the property if they desire that you do so.

  23. Re:novel idea on CA Proposes Rigorous Voting Machine Testing · · Score: 1

    Hmmm...seems like a bad idea. We might find out just how right Futurama was:

    John Jackson: "It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates."
    Jack Johnson: "Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said."
    John Jackson: "I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far."
    Jack Johnson: "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."

  24. Awesome on Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a Good Thing®. I'm so tired of hearing about how people aren't being responsible enough, so we need to remove those responsibilities from them. Seems kinda counterintuitive to me.

    Community standards are not a good way to police a country that promises liberty and justice for all.

  25. No Waiting? on First Graphene Transistor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No problem...that just means somebody else has built the same thing.