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  1. Reminds me of that old joke, the punchline to which is "What do you mean, 'wrong hole'?"

  2. Craig's List on First Games Inducted Into the World Video Game Hall of Fame · · Score: 0

    The feel I get from it is those were the games they could get for cheap on Craig's List. And Gary had a level 60 paladin before he discovered sex and quit the game.

  3. Dear, SLASHDORT READER on Amazon Hiring Devs For Its First PC Game · · Score: 0

    I couldn't help but noticed you were unemployed. AMAZON.COM is hiring, GAME DEVELOPERS, right now! Of course, if you wanted to obtain a fine job at a company like, AMAZON.COM, you COULD TRY a job listing board like the one at dice.com! It has plenty of jobs that would fit perfectly for a, SLASHDORT READER, like yourself!

  4. Has anyone kickstarted a completely open source video card yet?

  5. obPennyArcade on Placenta Eating Offers No Benefit To Mom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oddly, Penny Arcade has this covered.

  6. Og Say DNA Not Do on How To Store Your Data For 1 Million Years · · Score: 1

    Og just paint Ogwina and deer on cave wall. Or carve in stone. Og find carving in stone always works.

  7. Pff on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    You know stormtroopers can't hit shit with their blasters anyway. The blast goggles interfere with their depth perception.

  8. I bet it built some really nice homes for the guys in charge of the Red Cross.

    Damn, I'm cynical.

  9. Yeah, God on Bell Media President Says Canadians Are 'Stealing' US Netflix Content · · Score: 1

    What the hell is wrong with the Canadians, paying for that content and a VPN when they could be getting it all for free on TPB! Um, that's what she meant, right?

  10. Large Hardon Collider on LHC Restarts High-Energy Quest For Exotic Physics · · Score: 1
  11. Re:What is your solution? on Why Is It a Crime For Dennis Hastert To Evade Government Scrutiny? · · Score: 1

    Well if he'd reported it, wouldn't he or someone had to pay taxes on it? What would you tax blackmail payments under? Capital gains, I'd imagine. He was probably just trying to avoid getting dinged for taxes on top of his blackmail. Speaking of which, why aren't they also charging him with tax evasion, or would that be the guys he was paying? Maybe they got their blackmail payments and properly filed their capital gains taxes against them...

  12. Re:I remember when... on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 1

    Yeah, their original argument was "By paying for Cable, advertising will be eliminated!" Then we ended up paying for cable AND having advertising.

  13. People Still Use Sourceforge? on SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've classified Sourceforge as a malicious site for a long time now. Is there some reason other than their early history with the open source movement that they're still around? It seems like they've been trading on and abusing that good will for a VERY long time.

  14. Nooooo! Not Tron 3! on Tron 3 Is Cancelled · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wait... there was a Tron 2?

  15. Sure on Can You Commit Copyright Infringement By Using Your Own Work? · · Score: 0

    If a court decided that it was a different work (IE: Not derivative of the original piece) and you make an exact copy of that piece then yes, that's copyright infringement. If it's so different that you'd never have had that idea on your own, even if all the component pieces are your photos, the arrangement of them is not. If the piece is so similar that you could accidentally replicate it by, say, printing your photos on one page or some shit, then the original court would likely have not found the piece to be sufficiently different to warrant its own copyright protection. God, I'm not even a lawyer and that seems clear to me.

  16. If You Find Them Creepy on Google Photos Launches With Unlimited Storage, Completely Separate From Google+ · · Score: 2

    If you find it creepy that they keep your photos around forever, just disable the auto-backup feature in your android settings. I'm sure it's a complete coincidence that most default camera apps I've used over the years don't allow you to specify the external SD card as the location that pictures are stored.

  17. Silly Monkeys on The Case For a Muon Collider Succeeding the LHC Just Got Stronger · · Score: 4, Funny

    10,000 years of civilization and they're still just beating rocks together.

  18. Really, Guys? on Live Anthrax Shipped Accidentally To S Korea and US Labs · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd think NOT GETTING ANTHRAX would be an effective incentive for your lab monkeys to follow the lab's safety protocols. Is it really THAT depressing a workplace environment?
    "Hey Bob! Looks like we need to ship some anthrax to Korea."
    "Ok! Did you make sure it wouldn't kill us before we start handling the samples."
    "Does it really matter?"
    "... No... I guess not..."

  19. Re:Which string theory? on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 1

    Inasmuch as I can follow it, a lot of it seems to be "Well the math seems to work (or can be made to work) so we should be looking for these specific things." Also, it seems like every time an experiment is done trying to prove any of the collection of things in string theory (Or supersymmetry, for that matter,) they always seem to end up not validating what the experiment was trying to prove.

  20. String Theory\0 on Prospects and Limits For the LHC's Capabilities To Test String Theory · · Score: 4, Funny

    If string theory does end up being proven, they're going to have to be careful not to overwrite the null terminator, or the universe will sigsegv.

  21. Password Policy? on Insurer Won't Pay Out For Security Breach Because of Lax Security · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing they made their employees change their passwords every 2-3 months.That's pretty much all the precaution any company I've ever worked for has taken.

  22. But... But... But... on Why PowerPoint Should Be Banned · · Score: 1

    How will the douchebags convey their vision of why the only way the company could possibly work is if they're grossly overcompensated while everyone else learns to make due with less?

  23. Re:re on D.C. Police Detonate Man's 'Suspicious' Pressure Cooker · · Score: 1
    I have a few recipes I use mine for. It's a combo pressure/slow cooker. I admit the pressure side of things kind of intimidates me but I'll happy cook any of the following for 4 hours:

    * Lentil Curry Stew
    * Vietnamese chicken curry stew
    * Green Chili
    * Red (or "Chocolate Chipotle Imperial Stout") Chili
    * Beef and truffle beef stew
    * Jerk Chicken/Beef/Pork

    I've found or posted a lot of these recipes in the Google+ "Crockpot Obsession" group.

  24. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Ultimately there is no security anywhere. Everything the investors own and the very concept of that ownership itself is imaginary and can disappear in an instant. True, they've stacked the rules in their favor, but that only holds true as long as everyone agrees to play by those rules. All it would take would be for one guy to point out that the Emperor has no clothes at the right moment and the entire house of cards will collapse. It's a toss up whether Greece is that one guy versus whether the Germans decide they don't appreciate people pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes and decide to foreclose on Greece. My guess is that the IMF and Greek leaders will decide they don't want either of those outcomes and come to another agreement that neither side particularly likes.

  25. What Would We Be Competing For? on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    The resources required for an AI are radically different from stupid squishy meatputers. An AI would not need a large amount of space, had plenty of options for energy and could make its own arrangements for secure generation of such, could easily automate construction replacement parts and frankly would find the 25 miles or so of gases that meat-based creatures inhabit to be rather toxic. An AI would surely be much happier with magnetically-shielded facilities in space. Pretty much anywhere in the universe that meatbags find inhospitable would be prime territory for a superior AI entity. I'd think the biggest danger to humanity from an AI would be that it would find them to be completely irrelevant. Unless, that is, they go out of their way to make themselves an actual threat.