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  1. Re:more on Living Earth Simulator Aims To Simulate Everything · · Score: 1

    http://qntm.org/responsibility

    Your comment reminded me of this short story that was posted to Slashdot a while back.

  2. Re:Old ads. on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 1

    I really hope it's just patent protection. Its probably cheaper to patent something like this than to have someone else do it, and then pay your army of lawyers to fight off the lawsuit and get the patent overturned.

  3. Re:Great Job Valve on Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base · · Score: 1

    Serious Sam HD The Second Encounter also offers co-op and is mostly a run and gun game. It's a minimum of story, and a lot of blowing shit up. Not sure if the first encounter has co-op as well, I only have the second because it was on sale after a free weekend.

  4. Re:Why the sudden outrage? on Verizon Droid Tethering Comes At a Hefty Price · · Score: 1

    Just curious, when you log into the Verizon wireless website, under your data usage, does it list your monthly allowance as unlimited or as 5GB? After reading this story, I logged in to see what was listed, and for my Droid it has an unlimited cap.

  5. Re:I don't get it.. on The Orange Goo That Could Save Your Laptop · · Score: 1

    Fun fact. A Ford F150's trailer hitch is at the right level to go over the bumper, but under the hood, of a Ford Focus. This has the effect of hooking the radiator and putting it on top of the engine, instead of in front of the engine where it belongs. This makes a low speed crash (under 15 MPH) cost well over a thousand dollars to fix.

  6. Re:Sucker punch on Dirty Coding Tricks To Make a Deadline · · Score: 1

    Posted anonymously due to being John Romero, who is going to make us his bitch?

  7. Re:the next lost generation of koreans on StarCraft II Single-Player Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    That's why you don't add them directly to the game. The flesh beast plays the role of the glorious Overlord, who is playing as one of the lesser races. It'll keep the batteries occupied for a while while they generate the delicious electricity to power the world.

  8. Re:Nuclear Power on the Moon FTW! on NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars · · Score: 1

    "Pull the pin, throw the reactor"

  9. Right there it is! on Researchers Debut Barcode Replacement · · Score: 1, Funny

    You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where the book you're looking for is.

    ...Somewhere on the shelf.

  10. Re:For once ... on US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux · · Score: 1

    In South Korea, only old people use the US Postal Service. ...Wait, I call a do over.

  11. Re:Just wait! on NASA's Skylab $400 Littering Fine Paid By DJ · · Score: 1

    ISS will exit Earthly orbit and head off into space

    HAH! They're learning how to spend their money wisely. Not only do we no longer have to support the ISS, we also get to take credit for the first ruskies on Mars AND we get a good laugh at Russia's expense.

  12. Re:Yes, yes, all very impressive on VLC 1.0.0 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know Winamp was (is?) like that. When you adjust the volume, it adjusts the Wave output in Windows. This is fine if you're using Winamp all the time, but if you switch to another media player (I used to be a big fan of The Core Media Player until it died), you're left with turning your volume to max and still not being able to hear anything.

  13. Re:Carpets are safer ... on Revisiting the Five-Minute Rule · · Score: 1

    Weren't there studies done that show most bathrooms (maybe not public ones...) had less bacteria than most desks in people's offices?

  14. Re:Amazon, here I come! on The Technology of Neuromancer After 25 Years · · Score: 1

    I just got into reading Zelazny after someone posted a link in another /. discussion to "For a Breath I Tarry". There is some author background in the first book his collected works. In it, it is detailed that a lot of the fight sequences are detailed and realistic because he was physically awkward growing up, so he spent time fencing and doing various martial arts (details are fuzzy, and I don't have the book on me at work). This lead to him giving a bit too much attention to detail on some fight sequences.

  15. Extension of a "scam"? on Gold Sold From Vending Machines In Germany · · Score: 1

    Is this the next level of the Cash For Gold commercials that seem to be everywhere? Buy gold off of people at a ridiculously low price,s melt it down, resell it at a stupidly high price, and the keep repeating the cycle.

  16. Re:CapsLock on Fifteen Classic PC Design Mistakes · · Score: 1
  17. Re:like every other sales demo on Allegedly Rigged Product Demo In SAP Suit Goes Missing · · Score: 1

    Me.

    Only because I want one too...

  18. Re:Updated hardware? on Original Cast On Board For Ghostbusters 3 · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll do a money grab like the start of "I Am Legend" where they hotrod around in a Mustang for the first five minutes and then you never see the car again for the rest of the film.

  19. Re:Wireless Version on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    That's true. With the new strips that have circuit breakers it might be a lot less likely for any of them to short out and cause a fire.

    Fire code, however, still frowns on the practice. Stringing together powerstrips, or powerstrips with extension cords are a good way to fail a fire inspection. I suppose they keep the law that way either due to lack of initiative to change it, or because there's no guarantee that the breakers will always function correctly (either due to a defect or poorly aging), leaving you in the same situation as having the old timey strips.

  20. Re:Wireless Version on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 2, Informative

    It could easily kill you if you start chaining power strips together trying to set up a beowolf cluster of these. Chained power strips is a fire hazard.

  21. Re:Wow Slack is still around? on 64-Bit Slackware Is Alive · · Score: 1

    I've got to ask about your clipboard comment. I can agree with your other comments about Linux/Unix (or at least agree on them enough not to argue, since things like ease of use vary from person to person), but the comment about the clipboard got stuck in my head.

    Just a brief rundown on Windows versus Linux, since I never considered the clipboard as anything more than a convenience that usually doesn't get in my way.

    Thanks.

  22. Re:In the US ... on For Building DIY Droids, It Helps to Live In Japan · · Score: 3, Funny

    They can check my credentials all they want. They just have to fight their way past my legions of lesser robots, my eight larger robots (they command other robots, so I'll call them Robot Masters). At that point, they'll be inside the shop, and they'll have to fight a giant robot, copies of the first eight robot masters, and then me in my robot suit.

    Only then, can justice be served!

  23. Re:Dethroning WoW on Spurned Chinese Publisher May Create WoW Knockoff · · Score: 1

    If this is true, I can finally play my Night Elf Mohawk on my Sorny computer system?

  24. Re:Buh-bye gold farmers! on Spurned Chinese Publisher May Create WoW Knockoff · · Score: 1

    American WoW in China has nothing to do with China in American Wow.

  25. Re:Honest Question on The Manga Guide to Databases · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Probably because the easiest way to get your dose of Japanese culture was via computer (ten or fifteen years ago). Around that time, computers were not still widely available.

    I'm not sure which came first. The love of Japan turned people into nerds so they could get their fix, or if nerds turned into Japanophiles when exposed to Japanese gamma radiation (manga, etc).

    Online is still the easiest way, but you can also find anime or manga in stores or (in the case of anime) on TV. So in the younger kids, you'll see less of computer nerd/Japanophile combinations.