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  1. All their measures were for naught however. on China Races To Clean Up Olympic Air · · Score: 1

    All that work was wasted when a butterfly flapped its wings in Texas and a hurricane hit.

  2. Re:5 years? on Computer Mouse Heading For Extinction · · Score: 1

    theoretically such a screen would be positioned differently, and could be made to work in many different ways.

    I thought the same thing about my DS and it's stood up to quite a bit of punishment, especially when Brain Age can't understand the word "blue" or brain age 2 gives me one of those damn scrambled word problems that I can't figure out - and then tells me that over 3 months I've never scored high enough on the chart to warrant showing my top score as anything other than a flat bar at the bottom.

    Touchscreens will replace mice, and soon. the only barrier to this happening right now is the high cost associated with being one of the first to own it.

    Not only would I buy a laptop with a touchscreen (and linux support) in a heartbeat, I've already ordered my own neural actuator so that I can see just how effective that really is. The demos I've seen are amazing.

  3. Re:and on Diebold Patch May Be Evidence of '02 Election Tampering · · Score: 1

    How could you not understand it? it's so simple.

    Obama is left, and therefore evil.
    Bush is right, and therefore evil.

  4. ha. on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 1

    If his name is Null, that's the least of his problems.

  5. Re:A dumb question: on Fallout From the Fall of CAPTCHAs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Howcome /. is so spam free?

    You must be new here.

    and blind.

  6. Re:Core pron on IBM's Eight-Core, 4-GHz Power7 Chip · · Score: 3, Informative

    I...

    KHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaNnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. Re:Does anyone actually use Second Life? on Second Life Faces Open Source Challenges · · Score: 1

    You do realize that there are furries on Earth?

    Are you posting from the International Space Station? if so, hi.

  8. Re:Hoist on own petard on Viacom Looks For Google Staff Uploads in YouTube Logs · · Score: 1

    Hi, Mr. Rove!

  9. Re:Spoilers eh on Movie Review, Hellboy II · · Score: 1

    engraving messages into your corneas has been known to cause cancer.

  10. Re:Greenies don't like nuclear on Tesla Motors Is Delivering Cars · · Score: 1

    All of those technologies can work in certain areas very well. You don't build a hydroelectric dam in a land of huge, spacious areas, for example, as what has happened in Canada shows. Lots of Mooses (Meese? Moose?) were killed in floods, among other critters. at that point you simply can't justify the hydroelectric technology.

    Location, Location, Location.

  11. Re:Take my Hummer Out for a Ride on Two Powerful Blows Against Air Pollution Controls · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Technically you're not far from the truth - Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy allowed (among other things) all business owners to purchase a $100,000 hummer h2 and write it off completely.

    That could, in a sense, be considered forcing people to drive them if it was the only affordable option.

  12. Re:"Consummate geek" on Michael DeBakey, Consummate Medical Geek, Dead At 99 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Clearly you didn't read enough of the article.
    When he died, his hair was purple and he was wearing a shirt that said "+1 Shirt".

  13. Re:purism is pragmatism on Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" · · Score: 1

    The "if the code works, use it" attitude is what gave us the computer as a standard household object and introduced billions of people into our world. To say that this is somehow less than desirable does a great disservice to our world.

    Today I can have a discussion with someone who has a computer, anywhere in the world, and can't be judged by the color of my skin, my gender, my nationality, or any other feature of my appearance. There were poets who lived long ago who would call this their heaven.

    If it works, it works. It just so happens open source works a lot more often, because it taps into a resource that wants to be used: the free time of a lot of intelligent geeks.

  14. Re:Interesting... on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 1

    They never will.

  15. Re:Seems like this would be trivial... on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'll let your argument stand, but only because Federer lost.

    You're getting off easy.

  16. They'll change the law on Follow-up On Texas PI Law For PC Techs · · Score: 1

    They'll change the law because it doesn't enforce the death penalty.

    I kid, I kid, y'all.

  17. Re:Seems like this would be trivial... on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 1

    Dude, the point of the game is not to score first, but to score more times.

    if the most points you can score period is around 5, then you're fucked and it's unbeatable.

  18. Re:Remember in November. on Senate Passes Telecom Immunity Bill · · Score: 1

    Which she would LOVE on tax day.

  19. Re:The electric car you want is ready now: on Mercedes To Phase Out Gasoline By 2015 · · Score: 1

    Well, you save that on the first trip to the gas station.

  20. Re:It flew under the radar on Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    What else is money for?

  21. Re:In related news on The Handwriting of Type Designers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Helvetica can rot in hell...vetica.

    Arial uber alles!

  22. Re:Lost Art on The Handwriting of Type Designers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is that supposed to be "bread" or "breast"?

    I ask because it's on the same line as milk, rammin', condoms, and beer, and it could go either way.

  23. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I think you've already had enough.

  24. Re:The language of engineers on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's what I thought too, but then I found out, all they say is "hey!"

    But I think my universal translator may be busted.

  25. Re:Suggestions... on Learn a Foreign Language As an Engineer? · · Score: 1

    That stems from the old adage that the grass is always greener on the other guy's wife.

    If you lower your standards of "hot" you can score with a hot chick much easier!

    *disclaimer* Please do not drink alcohol until you die.