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  1. No half measures on Web 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I'll just skip all the way to Web 40,000. At least then I can use Space Marines for site security against Chaos-bred spamworms.

  2. End of The Quiet Earth on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 1
    The main character blew up the installation that was causing the reality reconfigurations, and killed himself just as another reconfiguration happened, and so got he carried over into the new world just like the last time he died right on the previous reconfiguration (or "revision" for you Supreme fans). His ex girlfriend and her new boyfriend are gone. The installation is gone, too, so he's stuck with whatever world he's in now.

    The fact that he still has his little tape recorder at the end is supposed to imply that.

  3. Re:Mad Max style world on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 1

    Heck, I *own* a DVD of Zardoz. That movie fricken rocks.

  4. Re:Mad Max style world on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 1
    Does this mean we're all going to turn into Mel Gibson and Tina Turner lookalikes?

    And do we get to choose which one regardless of our gender? Please?

  5. Lasting books on Forecasting Doomsday · · Score: 1
    He suggests we should be writing a practical guidebook printed on long lasting paper

    Wouldn't plastic be better for that?

  6. Re:CN Lineup GITS:SAC-2nd GIG and FullMetal Alchem on Review of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex · · Score: 1

    I've been watching GITS:SAC(1st and 2nd season) and FullMetal Alchemist (both seasons) perfectly in order, recorded on Saturday night, from the start. The Saturday night anime block was first. What are you talking about?

  7. Feh on Sci-Fi Channel to Pick Up John Doe · · Score: -1, Troll

    It was good for about five episodes, then it just plummeted like a rock. Although they did kill off theannoying girl. That was ppretty cool. Oh, was that a spoiler. No big loss.

  8. Re:I've always wondered on The Future of Nanobiotech Predicted · · Score: 1
    Why do we humans keep trying to predict our technological future?

    It's a precise combination of slow news days and journalistic deadlines.

  9. Sonofusion != Cold fusion on Desktop Cold Fusion Reconsidered · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The temperature inside the bubbles is at the levels of traditional fusion.

  10. Can I get FM *and* AM? on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    There's funny talk shows I like on AM. Why this FM only? Music? There's radio stations that play music worth hearing?

  11. Huh? on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 5, Informative
    Unfortunately, the product [apple.com] looks less like an Apple product and more like a laptop from a company that rhymes with "Hell"

    It looks just like my G4 Powerbook. What's so different?

  12. Re:Stupid name on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    I'm ambivalent. What can possibly be offensive or computer illiterate about it? Please explain. is "Bluetooth" computer illiterate? It's just a product name.

  13. Re:So now when you buy an Apple... on MacWorld Keynote Announces x86 iMac & Laptop · · Score: 1

    Gee, I dunno... my Macs do all sorts of computery things. :)

  14. Re:Typical on conspiracy stories on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 1
    See above response. It's just black budget military stuff- planes, lasers and the usual suspects. If you read the right periodicals you can figure it out. No aliens or ancient magic.

    I just find all this conspiracy crap on Slashdot embarassing. The geek community used to be on the forefront of skepticism on this goofy crap. Now it laps it up like a born again Christian eats of the words of Jerry Falwell.

  15. Re:More info, please on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 1

    Obviously they could tell me no detials, but it's just typical black budget stuff. Advanced aircraft and some snti-missile stuff is what I've been told. There's no UFOs or magical mind control devices or whatever the conspiracy of the week is.

  16. Typical on conspiracy stories on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 0

    The truth is rated a troll. Fuck you, mods.

  17. Piffle on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 2, Informative

    I know people who have worked at Area 51. Let me just say you conspiracy freaks need a more productive and useful hobby. Put down your Art Bell "end of the world" book and go out and get some sun.

  18. X-Files already did it on The Skylab-Area 51 Incident · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mulder got into some secret base in disguise (long story), and the military commander of the base didn't even know where the aircraft they were testing came from, and quietly asked Mulder if they had alien technology in them.

  19. Re:My C64 floppy could do that! on Scanjet Music · · Score: 1

    I hear ya about being old. I remember that program. The folks in my Atari user group figured it was written by an Atari advocate to break Commodor floppy drives. :)

  20. Re:I hate to drop the bomb, but... on The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1

    That's why I like X-Play. Their reviews are near continuous game footage with voice over, and pretty detailed. I can even tell if I will like a game despite their opinion.

  21. I hate to drop the bomb, but... on The Pointlessness of Current Videogame Journalism · · Score: 1
    ...*videogames* are pretty pointless.

    I enjoy playing them (quite a bit, in fact), but worrying about the state of the journalism surrounding them, well, I just can't see why anyone cares.

  22. Re:The "Hubble Syndrome" on 365 Nights of Skywatching · · Score: 1
    I stopped showing people anything after showing a friend and his wife Mars during one of the recent close passes. You could make out the polar cap and a few surface features.

    "Oh... I thought you'd be able to see the storms," said his wife.

  23. I was a huge amateur astronomer on 365 Nights of Skywatching · · Score: 1

    I used to be able to take a simple Dobsonian scope outside and find most of the Messier catalog without star maps. I don't know if that was a good thing or bad thing. :) And I seemed to have an innate sense of where each planet was at any given moment.

  24. Oh, the temptation... on 365 Nights of Skywatching · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...to sneak into work on a Saturday morning and print this whole thing out on one of the fancy color printers.

  25. Re:Apple on Behind a Steve Jobs Keynote · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I think describing Steve Jobs as a rock star of the business world is fairly accurate.

    In the modern lexicon, maybe, but it's still annoying. The Discovery Channel was running promos for their King Henry VIII special, and some historian was calling him a rock star. Bleah...

    It's OK if once in a while something in this universe *isn't* hip, folks.