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  1. News Just In on Gamers Gain Political Voice · · Score: 0

    Duke Nukem fails to arrive on time for election debate. Critics claim Mr Nukem is consistantly late. Mr Nukem is unavailable for comment, as "he is too busy running out of chewing gum, and having to kick ass", according to his secretary.

  2. Police cars, ambulances and the like on Device Stops Speeders From Inside Car · · Score: 0

    While this is a great idea, such items wouldn't be installed in police cars, for instance.
    This makes polices chases much more boring, sadly, as the criminal would be better off running.
    But this also makes the emergency services' various vehicles much more lucrative car-jacking targets.
    The last thing we want to see is a police car chasing an ambulance down the motorway.

  3. Convictions on Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out · · Score: 0

    It's nice to know Microsoft can trust companies with 'strong' convictions.

  4. Re:Robotic Patients? on Robotic Patients Used to Help Train Doctors · · Score: 0, Informative

    I'm sure you know that Frankenstein was in fact the doctor, not the monster.
    Having not read the article, I can imagine this robot being somewhat like the Medical Reward in The Sims 2, complete with buzzing noises, squishy unnecessary organs and red alarm light.

  5. Ach, meine Augen! on News Corp buys IGN for $650M · · Score: -1

    aquired
    No,wrong. It's acquired.
    Submitters: Please learn to spell. Editors: Please edit.

  6. Re:Odd... on Blu Ray Drive Will Cost $100 Per PlayStation 3 · · Score: -1

    [I] really can't justify spending that much on a console.

    Er, you did say you own a PS2?

  7. Re:Really Virtual Reality on Is This the Holodeck? · · Score: -1

    "Cold Fusio" could be a great band name.
    Seriously, I do very much hope that we'd see this kind of technology within a reasonable timeframe. Hopefully before the original researchers have died off.

  8. Re:SuSE Pronunciation on Beginner's Guide to Linux Distros · · Score: -1

    I would have thought the German pronounciation is "zu-zah" because 's' is pronouced like a 'z' in German. That would make English-speakers pronounce it "su-sah." Although, myself, pronounce it 'Suzy'. Heh.

  9. Re:Woo! on RFID: The Next Internet? · · Score: -1

    So I will be able to google for my keys? I always seem to misplace them...

    Not only that, but other people will be able to Google for them too!

  10. In other news.. on Playstation 3 Not A Video Game Machine · · Score: -1

    .. Nintendo say that the Gamecube isn't a gaming machine, it's just something to keep kids quiet.

  11. If they bring this back.. on Futurama May Strike Back (on DVD) · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. the Simpsons can kiss my shiny metal ass.

  12. Oui on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: 0

    I am sure ze french are very 'appy about dis.

  13. Over-sized? on A Pistol Mouse for Your Fragging Pleasure · · Score: 0

    This product, rather than calling it's feature 'super-sized', chooses to describe it's scroll wheel as 'over-sized'. Obviously compensating for something?

  14. Re:So is microsoft not evil on Microsoft Reverses Stand on Discrimination Bill · · Score: 0

    google is evil now?

    And in this bizzaro world, Google has a goatee, that's how you know they're evil. "Do No Evil", hah. Gonna get bizzaro (goatee-less) General Zod on to them!

  15. Er.. on Copy-and-Paste Reveals Classified U.S. Documents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not of a legal profession or anything, but couldn't distributing "unclassified" classified information be illegal? Just a thought.

  16. Re:Modelling != understanding on Preventing Epidemics with STEM · · Score: 1

    "Of course I didn't RTFA ..."

    ... but then again, who the heck does? ;)

  17. Can you smell.. on Linux Cookbook · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .. what Carla Schroder's cooking?

  18. Re:So I guess that means... on Tabula Rasa Undergoes Massive Overhaul · · Score: 1

    Ok, so when Origin went ahead and split UO in two (both in their new Trammel/Felucca system and the playerbase, heh), they did so because they had strong demand from the players.
    With Tabula Rasa (another Richard Garriot thing, heh again) it would seem like it's more like Half-Life's development than UO's sudden change (I believe Half-Life was practically scrapped and then started again from scratch alomst?). Still, the parent makes a good point when put in to context with all the EverQuest/UO clones.

  19. Well.. on Paramount Says Enterprise Cancellation Is Final · · Score: 1

    Maybe, just maybe, it'll be like TOS. Or maybe, just maybe, we'll all go watch reruns of Farscape.
    Either way, I'm good.

  20. Re:I'm taking all bets on Xbox 2 To Be Unveiled on MTV May 12 · · Score: 1

    Actually, this isn't unheard of. Albiet, Media Center BSODed, but the XBox got a system memory error..
    At CES no less..


    *snicker*

  21. Re:DART Acronym on NASA Schedules Robotic Spacecraft Launch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, I was confused by this. Reading the fine article however:
    "Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology"
    Yeah. So. There.

  22. Phew on ThinkGeek ThinkGeek ThinkGEEK! · · Score: 2, Funny

    [Posted at]11:59pm

    YES.

  23. Re:Crash Landing on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1

    Unless this is an obscure reference to a mistake I made, the song is indeed HAL's final words in 2001: A Space Odyssey. "It's called 'Daisy'."

  24. Re:Crash Landing on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where does the computer's "mind" go when it "crashes"?

    It uses it's last remaining CPU cycles to sing a song.
    "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..
    "I'm half-crazy, all for the love of you,
    "It won't be a stylish marriage,
    "I can't afford a carriage,
    "But you'll look sweet, upon the seat
    "Of a bicycle built for two."

    Either that, or display the BSOD on Windows.

  25. Re:Where are all the FF7 geeks? on Kid Named After Everquest Character · · Score: 1

    I just hope it doesn't mean she's destined to die by the hand of a 20-foot-long katana...
    It's funny: You always hope that by naming a child, you don't doom it to a certain fate. But with loaded names like 'Turok' and 'Firiona Vie Ayers', I can the child in question either being a security guard or a company spokesperson. ... Or an elf.