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  1. $250k? Easy! on Help Solve the Mystery of the Pioneer Anomaly · · Score: 1

    Just design a space-glove, and NASA themselves will supply the quarter-mil.

  2. What if... on Information Overload Overblown, Says Gates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..."the thing that comes in the latest" is a warning of a gaping security hole in your browser?

  3. Re:Go see it in theaters on 'Sith' Already Found Online · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus, they'll occasionally splice a single frame from a porn film in there.

    "So just when the snooty droid and the pregnant princess have met with the fallen Jedi for the last time, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film. Nobody knows they saw it, but they did."
    "A nice big lightsabre."

  4. Re:Cat Problems on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    Touché, Sir.

  5. Re:Cat Problems on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 1

    Which is why I specified it as a thought experiment.

  6. Re:Cat Problems on How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unless you've a tale to tell about the time you tried to overclock your cat with dry ice, this thread isn't the place for your post.

    BTW, the thing about cats is that they have dignity. Dogs do not. You can tell from this simnple thought experiment:

    Kick a dog, and kick a cat. The dog will come back for more; the cat will rip your curtains to shreds, then leave, never to return. Now tell me, which is the superior animal?

  7. Re:Does it all come down to money on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1

    And whose fault is it that the kids aren't being raised properly?
    *drum roll*
    The adults!

    At least with the adults, the majority of the population cares about politeness.
    Clearly, you don't live in London.

  8. Re:Does it all come down to money on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 1
    They're unconsiderate, egoistic and rude, and for Pete's sake there's TOO MANY of them.

    So are adults, for whom I don't care much either.

  9. Re:Great opportunity for OSS on UK Schools Told to Dump Microsoft · · Score: 2, Funny
    What do you think schoolkids do on the computers? Everything I ever did in a school IT lesson I could have done in an out of the box linux distro at the time, even more so now.

    They look at online pr0n, IM each other incessantly, and race each other to "First post" as Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.

  10. Re:And now: My two cents... on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 1
  11. Re:So They Have Gone and Killed ... on No Need For Trek Anymore · · Score: 1

    I was just about to say that!

    Spooky...

  12. Better than Wrath of Khan? on Trek Producers Will Provide World A Break · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Blasphemer!
    Wrath of Khan was an utterly splendid piece of cinema. I can't think of another film that managed to generate such massive amounts of tension and drama between its main protagonists, and here's the real kicker, without them ever meeting.
    Plus, bonus points for Ricardo's Moby Dick death scene.

  13. Tales of Known Space! Now! on Trek Producers Will Provide World A Break · · Score: 1

    I'd love to sit down on a Thursday night, and watch the adventures of Louis Wu, Speaker-to-Animals, the Pierson's Puppeteers, and the rest of that whole bloomin' universe. Plus, think of the merchandising! I want a toy Kzin, I want it, I want it, I want it!

  14. Who corrects the correctors? on Running a Website from Your Prison Cell · · Score: 1

    You might as well start get in a fist fight with a five year old, man. You missed that it should be either, "You might as well start a fist fight," or, "you may as well get in a fist fight." To the antigrammarians, I say this: if someone had posted a snippet of Perl or C++ with misplaced, absent or redundant punctuation marks, then you'd be all over it like beagles on a fox. No grammar for you!

  15. I love this reading this thread on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    ...with the G-Man staring at me from the side banner ad, and the exhortation "BUY NOW" blinking away. I did buy it, and it's grand. Best £10 I've spent in a long time (thanks to Sainsbury's putting it on the shelves the night before release, and forgetting to update the barcode database).

  16. Not to state the obvious, but on Australian Counter Strike Shooters · · Score: 1

    Are we sure that they weren't *actual* C-T agents (officers, goons, whatever) on a raid?

  17. Re:1.35 million lines of code? on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 2, Informative

    " 'Keycheck space minus 0, keychecks off, safety space minus 0.' He's turning the safety systems off. He doesn't want anybody to see what he's about to do. Now, look at this next entry. It's the kicker. 'White rabbit object'. It did it all, but with the key checks off, the computer didn't file the keystrokes. The only way to find them is to go through the computer's lines of code one by one."
    "How many lines of code are there?"
    "About two million."
    "Two million?"
    "Yeah."

  18. 1.35 million lines of code? on Xbox Modchip Featuring Onboard Operating System · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's two-thirds of the Jurassic Park system! "This is an Xbox system! I know this!"

  19. Re:The problem is not the issue. on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    US Government keeps bike.
    North Korea openly admits to experimenting with blue ink and lids that whistle, but US ignores them because they don't have a bike. The lucrative Iraqi bike-security contract goes to Kryptonite, whose CEO is a member of the same golf club as Dick Cheney.