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  1. Re:ever heard of parody? on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 1

    the kid is absolutely in the right and he has a unanimous supreme court to prove it.
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but this case hasn't gone to the supreme court. Yet.
  2. The trouble with Platinum on The Platinum Age of CRPGs · · Score: 4, Funny

    The trouble with Platinum is, where do you go from there? It's like an amp that only goes up to 10.

  3. Re:Ob ituaray on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 1

    Well if you think E.J. Thribb thinks "Bonfire of the Vanities" wasn't written by Michael Crichton, then you have no idea who E.J. Thribb is. Hope that clears things up.

  4. Re: Where to start? on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 2, Funny

    your conception of an asterisk will never be the same.
    He was a slashdot subscriber?
  5. Re:Sad news.... Kurt Vonnegut, dead at 84 on Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Dies At 84 · · Score: 1

    At least he wasn't eaten by wolves. Senselessly.

  6. Re:Dunno about Europe. on Can CDs Be Recycled? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It annoys me so much that in a little flat country such as Denmark we can't figure out how to sort our waste
    Maybe you could drop it in the sea, or pile it all up somewhere into a kind of artificial hill? Then at least your country would be a little less little and a little less flat.
  7. Re:Straw poll: on Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    My bad. I should have written "that thing you used to have every four years".

  8. Little git on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This student, Justin Layshock, then filed suit against the school district. He admitted that what he'd done was wrong and stupid but argued that the profile had been created from home and that the school had no right to jeopardize his academic future by placing him in an alternative program for something he'd done after hours.
    So he posts knowingly fake allegations that can (and probably will) ruin someone's career, and then he cringes because he's put on report? I think he got off lightly.

    He should be thankful he wasn't expelled. I don't know if the relevant jusrisdiction has criminal libel - if not that's another thing the little jackass should be grateful for. Finally, what if some vigilante had acted on this false information?

  9. Re:Remember.. on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 1

    Or cover their house/car with bog roll.

  10. The water that gets stripped off on Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    Where does all the water go after it gets blasted from the planet? Imagine there was a small rocky world further out, gradually sweeping it all up...

  11. Re:Straw poll: on Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere · · Score: 1

    You've actually observed tens of millions of people?
    Indirectly, yes. Via that thing that you have every four years.
  12. Re:Trolling headline on In EU, Internet Use From Work May Be Protected · · Score: 1
    My understanding is that they could have monitored her if they'd notified her. A technicality perhaps, but that's how it works.


    Reading between the lines it seems the supervisor had some kind of grudge against her. Maybe this was the right result, even if the reason's wrong.

  13. Re:thank-god-they-got-something-right on Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    Switzerland - that's the place where you can (and will) be fined for flushing the toilet at the wrong time, isn't it? Perhaps you only got as far as the fact that everyone has a gun at home before deciding that it's a libertarian's paradise.

  14. Silly question on Publishers Scrambling for Wii Titles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Couldn't they have started developing the games a bit earlier, and have them ready more or less when the console ships?

  15. I for one on In EU, Internet Use From Work May Be Protected · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I for one am welcoming our new internet monitoring overlords, isnit.

  16. Re:really? on An iPod For Every Kid In Michigan · · Score: 1

    Well the kids could simply copy what's written on the board onto a piece of paper. Just don't let the RIAA find out!

  17. Re:110 wins? on Mathematician Predicts Yankees To Dominate · · Score: 1

    I was working on a version for that game too, but I found all those twos, threes, sixes, sevens and eights too complicated.

  18. Re:Holy shit you're nuts. on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 1

    American culture is certainly an export
    you misspelled "oxymoron".
  19. Office voicemail? on EFF Patent Busting - Prior Art Needed for VOIP · · Score: 1

    What about office voicemail? I also had a personal one I rented for a few months while travelling - this was before mobile phones were affordable. Unless there was a chap listening to the bleeps and changing tapes I assume that when I dialled in it was a computer playing the calls back to me.

  20. Re:110 wins? on Mathematician Predicts Yankees To Dominate · · Score: 1

    One of the most accurate gauges of how many games a team will win is by estimating 1) the total number of runs the team is expected to score over the course of the year, and 2) the total number of runs the team is expected to allow.
    You're infringing on my patent for predicting the success of football teams. It goes along the lines of this: the team that wins the league generally 1) scores a lot of goals 2) allows the opponents to score very few goals (ideally none) and 3) minimises the number of individual games in which it breaks rules 1 and/or 2.
  21. Re:Big economic boom, but LOTS of violence on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    air ships as big as cities that have cities in them
    I'm fascinated by your theory of nested conurbations and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
  22. Re:Lego isn't copyrighted? on The Modern Ease of 3D Printing · · Score: 1

    If he'd been using lego bricks he might be in trouble. Luckily, there's no such thing as legos so he should get away with it.

  23. Re:Actually it is that old. on China's Earliest Modern Human Found · · Score: 1

    nor do many actual philosophers of religion recognize Dawkins as one of their own.
    They wouldn't, would they? Even those who search for the underlying truth care about job security.
  24. Re:What a lot of Americans don't realize.. on Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK · · Score: 1

    Legal advice, fom an Australian. It's like the pope giving lectures on contraception.

  25. Re:Just look a bit further on Talking CCTV to Scold Offenders in UK · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's just a pilot scheme. Phase 2 will see the loudspeakers supplemented by machine guns.