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  1. Re:Crimes in space on Whose Laws Apply On the ISS? · · Score: 1

    You know, an astronaut weighs the same as a duck in space.

  2. Re:Why Does Puzzle Pirates require unlimited acces on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    Cause its a full-fledged application, not some applet or flash object. Quite frankly, given the amount of graphics & sound files the game involves, you really don't want to be downloading this thing every time you play; it would take 10 minutes to load up on a good connection, and who knows how long on a slow one.

  3. Re:More Portal needed!!! on The Orange Box Review · · Score: 1

    Buttons that are too heavy for you to open-- only a block will do Wow, thanks. I used a block on every switch except the one with the double doors on the weighted companion cube level, but that line made me think of a good timesaver, provided you can see a portalable surface through the doorway while you stand on the switch. No more mucking about with cubes for me!
  4. Re:Comcast on Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering · · Score: 1

    Well you could take me to the BBB or you could blame yourself or assuming that you could get Channel 62.

    Go reread the grandparent:

    Suppose you rented me a TV and told me it picked up all the off-air stations just fine. (emphasis mine.) Its kind of taken as read that unless they are specifically selling you high speed part-of-the-internet service, you get the whole thing.
  5. Re:No. on Games All Downhill Since Pong? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the PC version of TF2 has the highest player cap (24 out of the box, 32 possible with some tinkering on the server.), and isn't lagtastic.

  6. Re:Heh on A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions · · Score: 1

    Didn't Soviet Russia have a Yak aircraft company?

  7. Re:Farscape and Galactica are great for this on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 1

    Scuppering Puzzle Pirates left me swearing like some barrelstopper pirate or a cheap trollop.

  8. Discworld becomes Sphereworld, is it? on Brain Heatsink Could Reduce Epilepsy · · Score: 1

    In one of Pratchett's Discworld novels (The Fifth Elephant, maybe), Sargent Detritus, a troll, who, like all Discworld trolls, have silicon-based brains, starts wearing a helmet with fans built into it. The fans help cool his brain, allowing him to think faster. Lock him in a freezer for a few hours, he'll figure out the answer to the ultimate question, assuming he doesn't freeze to death first.

  9. Well, I always thougt AOL was a black hole on Despite AOL's Claim, AIM Worm Hole Still Wide Open · · Score: 1

    I mean, unless they're near a black hole or are pumping an insane amount of power into it, the wormhole should have taken care of itself and collapsed in 38 minutes. In other news, a new season of Stargate, sans SG-1, starts tonight.

  10. Re:typo in summary on PC Makers Offering a Bridge Back To XP · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing most of the five years and $6 billion went towards pipe weed. Could explain why the OS has the memory munchies.

  11. Re:Risk of never completing your thoughts... on Fantasy Author Robert Jordan Passes Away · · Score: 1

    Parts of nine, especially the Perin and the Tower threads, also fall into the skim category. (And, for the record, I loved Perin's scouring of the Shire in book 5, so its not the character, its the inaction and angst.)

  12. Wait, there's an NID? on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait, there's really an NID? I thought it was just something they made up for Stargate and staffed with former Star Trek cast members.

  13. Re:Women scare what percentage of /.ers shitless? on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 3, Funny

    Zero, but thats the answer any night.

  14. Re:The car retains a following on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, even with a six cylinder, it could still get up to 88 miles per hour without to much trouble, provided you had gas.

  15. Re:None of you understand... on Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math · · Score: 1

    Am I correct that if the Star Wars copyright expired tomorrow, you could only derive works from the content in A New Hope? I would assume that as Empire, Jedi, and the expanded universe are latter works, they would still have time left on copyright.

  16. Re:Idiots, Make them in Springfield.... on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Oblig. Dr. Who quote on CBC News Interprets GPL - Poorly · · Score: 2, Funny

    As opposed to Futurama's Leela, who eats the babies of the people of Omicron Persei VIII (who's parents aren't what you would call friendly).

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

    I think the GP's point is that if you are trying to define your base mass unit, then there's no such thing as known mass.

  19. Re:Ob on Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl · · Score: 3, Funny

    All glory to the hypnotoad.

  20. Re:New operating system on Microsoft To Dump 32-Bit After Vista · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also depends on what your definition of "operating system" is...

  21. Re:If it works, it works on More Advertising in Your Next Xbox Game · · Score: 1

    GTA is loaded with advertising. Billboards all around two, radio stations with commercials every five minute. Its just that every last bit of it is some sort of spoof intended to make you chuckle rather then make you buy.

  22. Re:Paradigm shift on Golf-Ball Sized Hail Damages Shuttle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about, say, something like this? Though I don't know how early in the countdown then need to roll back the building.

  23. Re:Welcome on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 4, Funny

    But does it run Linux?

  24. Re:1,000,000 + PS3 systems on Wii Outsells PS3, Blue-ray Outsells HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Netflix has BluRay and HDDVD discs.

  25. Re:I much prefer... on Apple Turning Cell Phone Market Upside Down? · · Score: 1

    All cell signals sooner or later have to come back to earth in the form of "land lines".
    What about Nextel's push to talk features? I was under the impression that was a direct handset to handset signal.