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  1. No big deal on Visitors To US Now Required To Register Online · · Score: 1

    FTA:

    He said travelers would not be required to give any more information than is already requested on the paper immigration forms, which are being replaced.

    I'm assuming the "paper immigration forms" are the green I-94 forms. Doing this online ahead of time just means that any potential problems can be found then (rather than in line at immigration, when you're waiting behind them and forgot to go to the bathroom first), and it saves DHS some money that they don't have to spend on data-entry.

    Assuming a whole bunch of assumptions, I don't see any problems.

  2. Re:Less than I'd hoped for. on Club Nintendo Goes Live · · Score: 3, Informative

    Coins don't reset every year. Gold/Platinum status resets every year. Coins expire between 2 and 3 years.
    From the FAQ, Coins and Status (Gold, Platinum):

    Gold or Platinum status is based on the number of Coins earned in a Club Nintendo year. Each Club Nintendo year begins on July 1 and ends on June 30. If you earn 300 Coins during a Club Nintendo year you will reach Gold status. Earn 600 Coins during a Club Nintendo year and reach Platinum status! [...] Your status will reset annually on June 30.

    Unredeemed Coins will expire two (2) full Club Nintendo years (July 1 - June 30), plus whatever is left in the current Club Nintendo year, after they are earned.

  3. Re:Pilot, Explain, Measure on Online Community For a Call Center? · · Score: 1

    It's INCREDIBLY difficult to get a call center manager to spend money on training agents how to better service their customers.

    Given that, any feature that reduces employee burn-out and turnover could potentially save the call center money.

  4. dominator on Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs · · Score: 1

    9-9-9-24 timings are "dominator" good? I thought 2-2-2-6 was good, with 5s being average and common. 9-9-9-24 sounds horrible in comparison.

    Not that I care, I'm just confused.

  5. Re:What is up with the tags recently? on Researchers To Build Underwater Airplane · · Score: 3, Insightful

    since when is "fuckofftags" a useful tag?

    Not useful. Popular.

  6. Re:How about . . . on Microsoft Updates Multiple Sysinternals Tools · · Score: 1

    I think you want Process Explorer for that. (right-click svchost.exe, Properties, Services tab)

  7. Re:RMS was right! on Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS · · Score: 1

    Good thing you didn't.

  8. wireless vision on Google Reveals Wireless Vision — Open Networks · · Score: 1

    Wireless vision. Wow. What will Google think of next? Wireless audio? Wireless scent?

    The future is now!

  9. Get a Wii on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Probably not what you're looking for, but one option is to get them a Wii. Each Wii has an associated email address of w[friend code]@wii.com, and you have to whitelist any addresses on the Wii that you want to be able to receive email from. Spam-proof, "child-safe", and you can play bowling on it!

  10. Re:Not the end of the world... on LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction · · Score: 1

    You posted that in the wrong thread. Let me help you.

    Just in case anyone else misread the headline, there's a vas deferens between the Large Hadron Collider and the Large Hardon Collider.

    Lipstick.

  11. Stright, you did not get it. on People On No-Fly List Can Sue In District Court · · Score: 1

    Let me see if I got this stright...

    No, no you didn't.

  12. Re:Hilarious. on 8 People Buy "I Am Rich" iPhone App For $1,000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ladies and gentleman

    Wow, optimistic! You must be new here.

  13. Re:Surprised? on DNS Flaw Hits More Than Just the Web · · Score: 1

    How does caching it make it smaller?

  14. How Do Geeks Exercise? on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    Very carefully.

  15. Divide and conquer on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For any enhancements you wish/are asked to make, break up the work into smaller sub-tasks and document these tasks somewhere. Then just have a free-for-all on the available work. Mark tasks as "in progress" and "done".

    If you want to learn from/about each other, review each other's work. If you want to live dangerously, don't.

    The best part of having a team is that you'll have multiple opinions on how to do something.
    The worst part of having a team is that you'll have multiple opinions on how to do something.

  16. Re:HOWTO install AVG without Search Crawling on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can also just turn it off in the options screen. If you can find the correct options screen. And if you don't mind a tray icon that says "warning, something is horribly wrong!" all the time.

  17. Re:This is a monumental and historic decision on Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals · · Score: 5, Funny

    How can you mess up "you must be new here?" like that?

    You must be new here.

  18. Re:Anti-DDoS TCP/IP additions? on Researchers Tout New Network Worm Weapon · · Score: 1

    Something like this? ICMP Source Quench

  19. "The video is quite long" on Great Preview Video of Mario Super Sluggers · · Score: 4, Funny

    3 and a half minutes is long? If your attention span when watching video is less than 3 and a half minutes, why are you still reading this comment?

  20. Re:QoS? on Why BitTorrent Causes Latency and How To Fix It · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nerd.

  21. Re:Grammar 101 on Frog Resembles X-Men's Wolverine · · Score: 2, Informative

    5) As a glottal stop.

    Ko'tal.

  22. Re:Business mistake on Street Fighter IV to Hit PS3, 360, and PC, Not Wii · · Score: 1

    No, they didn't.

  23. Re:Business mistake on Street Fighter IV to Hit PS3, 360, and PC, Not Wii · · Score: 1

    A controller that has multiple built-in accelerometers is not well-designed for controlling movement? Unless SFIV has moved far beyond the hard/med/soft punch/kick scheme, I can easily think of a way the wii controller would be perfect.

    Ofcourse this would mean that anyone playing SFIV on the Wii will have a much-more developed right arm. But chances are, they already do anyway.

  24. Re:Bricking on New 'Phlashing' Attack Sabotages Hardware · · Score: 1

    I propose we call it "phricking".

  25. next step on Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    next step: soylent fuel