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  1. Re:ps3 exclusive on Heavy Rain Gameplay Explained · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Shadow Of The Colossus shows how line of horn headed boys began- the ones they lock up in the castle in Ico.

  2. Newsflash! on Penguin Poop Seen From Space · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Object within the resolution limit of space camera is observed! Gasp!

  3. Re:ps3 exclusive on Heavy Rain Gameplay Explained · · Score: 1

    Last Guardian (Project TRICO) from Team ICO (best game ever)

    Almost everything else vanished for me when I saw that. A new game from the creators of Ico and Shadow Of the Colossus? *AND* it's considered to be one big trilogy now? Why, yes, please! :-) The big creature in the trailer even had the perfect combination of cute and creepy.

  4. Re:Great... on UK Police Want Plug-In Computer Crime Detectors · · Score: 4, Funny

    Officer: I pushed the button, and the computer told me to arrest him.

    Pffft! You think too small, and will never take over the world.

    Corrected version follows.

    Attorney: How do you know he had illegal material on his computer?
    Officer: The computer called us and informed on its owner.
    Attorney: It called you?
    Officer: Yeah. And so did yours. You still want to question me, Mr. 500Gig Chubby Porn Collection?

  5. Holy xbox-mote, Batman! on Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 · · Score: 1

    That sounds really amazingly, fantastically, wonderfully, beautifully horrible.

  6. Re:New casing? New UI? on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 2, Funny

    SLASHDOT, FFS, GET SOME NEW ICONS!

    (QD slaps sootman)

    Get a grip, man! It's tradition. Without tradition we are nothing! Do you undertsand!? NOTHING!! ARGH!!!!!

    (QD slaps self)

  7. We miss you, Moltz! on Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities · · Score: 1

    The rumor I heard flying is that the new iPhone can, in fact, fly. It's a full levitation device and can allow a 250 pound man to hover. The TV ads will feature Criss Angel.

    I read it on Crazy Apple Rumors so I know it must be true. It transforms into a bisexual ninja sexbot that serves pudding and other snacks on demand. It will telepathically extract that hot new tune stuck in your head to use as a ring tone.

    If you order one now, the man, the legend, the *god*, Phil Schiller himself will deliver it to your home personally and give you a foot massage.

    Note: the above claims are true only for certain values of true.

  8. Re:Czar fetish on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    Fetish? Nonsense. You're just imagining things, comrade.

  9. I nominate... on Who Would Want To Be Obama's Cybersecurity Czar? · · Score: 1

    ...Leo Laporte!

    He'll show them crackers what for!

  10. Price is not relevant on On the Expectation of Value From Inexpensive Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I never had the original XBox, but when I saw it was compatible with the X360, I found a used copy of Morrowind for $2. GOTY edition, no less, with the expansion packs. Yes, $2 at my work's monthly swap meet (it's an engineering outfit, so the swap meet has all sorts of computer stuff, test equipment, great for the mad scientist in your house) Must have gotten a couple hundred hours of enjoyment out of it. I wish Bethesda would port Daggerfall and Arena over to XBox Live Arcade.

  11. Gasp! on Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    But it could have been weaponized cancer! Ha! Didn't think of that one, did you!?

  12. Old on 45-Year-Old Modem Used To Surf the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    what is the oldest working piece of equipment fellow Slashdotters have out there?

    There's this rock I use as a paperweight next to my computer. I figure it's anywhere between 100 million and 2 billion years old.

  13. Welcome to the PreCrime Bureau on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The time to take control away from someone is -before- they abuse the power, not after.

    So innocent until assumed to be guilty at some unspecified later date? Awesome!

    UN was suggested, and while they are weak, they are the strongest international organization I know of that is supposed to be impartial.

    The UN? Home of the Human Rights Council lead by Yemen that wants to globally censor any criticism of Islam (see the anti-blasphemy resolution 62/154)? The same UN that elected Sudan, home of the Darfur ethnic cleansing, to a human rights commission?

    Weak? You jest! Why when the specter of genocide appears on the Earth, the UN rushes in an observer who stridently and immediately issues a report! Take that, evil doers!

  14. Re:Seriously? on An Argument For Leaving DNS Control In US Hands · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean the guy who created HTML (based on a lot of previous work by many others) and had complete boo to do with the hardware side, which came from ARPANet?

    Look, nothing against Tim Berners-Lee, but I keep seeing this growing meme that he somehow fathered the entire blessed Internet.

  15. Re:It's Kelvintastic! on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you should realize that *I* wrote the title as well, and that I was joking.

    Not even close and very, very far.

  16. It's Kelvintastic! on Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change · · Score: 1

    can cool down LA by an average of 2-3K

    Holy crap! Two to three thousand degrees of cooling? Wait! Won't that take use below absolute zero? Augh!

  17. Re:ObSteveMartin on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 1

    Hey, don't look at me. I don't get the Insightful mod either, and it's my post. :-)

  18. ObSteveMartin on Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but there are always a few hapless romantics who like to see the world as it once was.

    An arctic region covered with ice.

  19. Re:wait, didn't he get the analogy memo? on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    i mean, the internet isn't a big truck.

    But... but... he said we smash the windows in stores! There's stores on the highway? Or did the truck hit the store? I'M SO CONFUSED!

  20. What what WHAT!? on Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Michael who? Is this guy insane? Online bill pay, online shopping and online muckraking are worth the price of the intertubes alone. Not to mention the lovely, tasteful pictures of women wearing various amounts of no clothing. Hot food, hot water and hot porn are the three pillars of modern civilization, after all.

    Michael Lynton is Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment

    Oh.

  21. Fabtastic! on Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years · · Score: 1

    So now the intelligent cockroaches of the far future can read our Twitters[tm]! That's stupendilicious! LOL! BRB! :-)

    Or Slashdot posts! Hey, bugs! How ya doing!

  22. misapplied movie quote club on Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find · · Score: 1

    Anyone who says slashdot isn't a game isn't paying attention.

    "It was never meant to be a game!"

  23. Goodbad on Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find · · Score: 1

    The good news is that, although Urey heats its samples, it does so in water, so the organics cannot burn up.

    The bad news is that Urey is in San Diego, and not Mars.

  24. Re:Pay more attention to comics and movies... on Virus Tamed To Attack Cancer, Cancer Drugs To Treat Alcoholism · · Score: 1

    If I were religious, I would hope for a special place in Hell for screenwriters who demonize a new technology before it even has a chance. When I saw I Am Legend, the first thing I thought was, "This movie will be brought up in every discussion about medically repurposing viruses from now on."

  25. Re:Jesus Christ! on Sedate Your Kids While They Play · · Score: 1

    If you can't handle a child acting like a child, the answer is NOT to modify the child!!!

    Unless it's the "off switch for children" that Douglas Adams mentioned.