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  1. Re:Check out the sexism on the youtube video on Dropped Shuttle Toolbag Filmed From Earth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dangit fine. I tried to resist, but there wasn't enough time left on the countdown.

  2. Re:Let the lawsuits begin ... on Police Cars To Transmit Real-Time Video · · Score: 1

    That's basically what the GP was saying, that ISPs will just have to market to the /.ers wanting a fiber connection.

  3. Re:All the more reason not to buy an ipod/phone on Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project · · Score: 1

    Or just get a Cowon. :D

  4. Re:scantily clad people on New Star Trek Trailer · · Score: 1

    All we have is the trailer, that's all we can review.

    Exactly. That's what's happening.

  5. Re:too late, I won't buy nvidia now on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    I buy from Newegg, you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Show attached block devices on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    From what I understand from my forays into Perl and Bash scripting, yes. Yes it is. Though yours is almost too understandable to count.

  7. Re:Music authoring on Music Game Competition Heats Up · · Score: 1

    And let another group get sucked into the RIAA's machine? No thanks.

  8. Re:Fuel economy on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    Well there's also the amount of fuel going into the chamber each cycle.

  9. Re:Serial tautoloprone laminant curveoids on A 3D Curve Sketching System For Tablets · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, he'll just pity you. Pity you so hard you'll never see the light of day again. And then he will pity you even more for it.

    Mr. T's pity is second only to a Chuck Norris roundhouse.

  10. Re:Blender! on How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Agreed. I helped teach a one-week summer class for junior high kids using Alice, and I don't think there was a single one that didn't enjoy it. And it demonstrates Object Oriented programming well.

  11. Re:Why? on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we HAVE to pay this, or the economy will collapse in the same way it did when the banks went bust in 29.

    What, and no one has thought of *any* viable alternatives?

    They need to impose tight regulations again

    As I understand it, regulation was one of the causes of this trouble in that in the books they had to value the mortgage securities at a fraction of the actual value and later couldn't sell it for any more than that.

  12. Re:Disagree on White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page · · Score: 1

    ...instead of .5,1,1.5,6,9,about 2, kinda 4...

    I would love to see that RFC :)

  13. Re:job market on Don't Count Cobol Out · · Score: 1

    COBOL was a '60s fad.

  14. Re:only 640x480 on 3M Launches First Pocket Projector · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm imagining this projector combined with a Bluetooth Laser Keyboard. With a mini computer made out of Gumstix or something.

  15. Re:I run a software company on Successful Moonlighting For Geeks? · · Score: 1

    Running a company for a second job? Might be a bit much. I suggest checking out the bounties some Open Source projects are issuing. You get cash plus the warm fuzzies of helping out FOSS.

  16. Re:Misleading summary on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the 'fundamentalists' feel it is the other way around, starting back when the small, one-room American schoolhouses often included Bible scriptures in their lessons. Many people are still sore over Madalyn Murray O'Hair "taking God out of the schools".

  17. Re:Misleading summary on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It's the only position where you can actually get people on both sides to agree on something. Namely, hating you. ;)

  18. Re:Have you been approached?? on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Butterscotch Ripple.

  19. Re:The jury's still out on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a death ray? It's the only way to be sure.

  20. Re:More interesting title on TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans · · Score: 1

    Well, they are tired of these m*****f***ing customers on this m*****f***ing plan.

  21. Re:Players as enthropy on The Future of Persistent Worlds In MMOs · · Score: 1

    Well, just have a team of designers who watch what the players do and build the scenarios around them.

  22. Re:Precursor to more of Firefox being in JS on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Give JS some time. I had similar feelings when I first stepped into it, but now I've come to appreciate not having to worry about datatypes and the like.

    There are occasions where I would appreciate some basic support for classes. But I suppose they could be mimicked through function variables in some way.

  23. Re:As fast as C code??? on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    In theory, C could have an eval equivalent, it would be a library call to a built-in compiler or some such structure. And it might be possible to mimic a dynamic typing system using pointers, structs, and what have you. JS environments have to implement it somehow.

  24. Re:Compelling characters? on Ragnar Tornquist On Video Game Storytelling · · Score: 5, Funny

    We don't talk about High School Musical here.

  25. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And from a user's standpoint, the difference is academic semantics.