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  1. Re:I really love Fallout. on Fallout 3 Launches Amidst Controversy · · Score: -1

    The original fallout games were predecessors of Baldurs Gate. If you like them keep playing them. However the original fallout 3 (Van something or other) was canceled because it was too crap.

  2. Re:Uh ... on Towards a Wiki For Formally Verified Mathematics · · Score: -1

    I thought the continuum hypothesis stated the opposite. The wikipedia article states: "There is no set whose size is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers."

  3. Re:Encryption makes this somewhat moot. on Cloud Computing May Draw Government Action · · Score: -1

    Presumably you would store an encrypted file in "the cloud" but keep the key to yourself. This might be useful if you live in a universe where writable DVDs don't exist and there is plentiful net bandwidth.

  4. Re:Full disclosure? on 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge Teams Announced · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think you mean a semantics nazi.

  5. Mouse brain at half speed? on Cell-based "Roadrunner" Tops Elusive Petaflop Mark · · Score: 0

    The previous model was able to simulate a mouse brain at quarter speed IIRC

  6. Olympics 2016? on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 0

    We should hold the next Olympics there. Politically non-controversial and the likelihood of setting a lot of new world records.

  7. Re:(cue piano music) on Would You Rent a Song For a Dime? · · Score: 0

    Do you often laugh when you think you know more than 14 year olds?

  8. I can't believe this crap is +5 insighfull on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: 0

    It's just the usual Joe-Sixpack conspiracy theory crap.

  9. Please mod political crap down on Mass Website Hack Compromises 200,000 Sites · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will someone mod this political crap down please?

  10. Re:1) Microsoft allowed piracy. 2) WP owners quit. on Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward · · Score: 0

    Yeah but you would have to take your shoes and socks off to do that. Yes - I am drunk.

  11. Re:Sorry to say... on Novell's 2004 Case Against Microsoft Moves Forward · · Score: 0

    So why not continue using the superior products? Couldn't go save to MS format when you needed to supply docs to your customers?

  12. Re:Pathetic.... on UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts · · Score: 0

    I'm English and I have to say I'm embarrassed by the Beagle II fiasco. NASA has done the real science there. We seemed to be going for - look for life on Mars or bust.

  13. Re:UK is already an Orwellian Society on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Keep working on that thesis! I'm sure you'll be able to wipe your arse and tie up your shoelaces soon.

  14. Re:Well, as Lewis Black would no doubt say ... on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 0

    There should be an "ironic insightful" mod. Although as as self-proclaimed fascist the English are your greatest enemy

  15. Re:Awesome on Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 · · Score: 0

    Naaw, they should get more strippers in.

  16. Re:What should get precedence? on Google Announces Summer of Code 2008 · · Score: 1

    My vote is for a linux blue-ray player.

  17. Not likely on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 0

    This seems to me to be the flip side of the "Broken window fallacy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window Any jobs wont be created in the US

  18. Re:Good luck on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 0

    In everywhere but the USA, there it will take several years.

  19. Looks fake and it is on Cassini's Best Images · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Totally unimpressive

  20. Re:Same old same old on Microsoft Developing Console Chips · · Score: 1

    Free microsoft hardware? Where do I sign up?

  21. Re:False presumption on The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines · · Score: 1

    >> And if you think that all computers are Turing machines, you're wrong about that, too. I thought this was well established by the Church-Turing thesis, apologies if you are a computer :)

  22. Re:Chinese Room on The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines · · Score: 1

    You could apply the same argument to your neurons and conclude that your brain doesn't think. I think the philosophers are flailing around in the dark here and a breakthough is needed like Newton in physics.

  23. Re: is the brain a digital computer? on The Semantics Differentiation of Minds and Machines · · Score: 1

    Haven't they outsourced John Searles brain to China yet?

  24. Re:Beaten? on Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns · · Score: 1

    Why mod this as troll? It seems a fair response to the parent post, though I'm an atheist myself.

  25. Re:VI can't we have this thread without someone... on Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition · · Score: 1

    Alt-x viper-mode works better