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  1. Re:Taking a class on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    I'm probably going to fire up Guild Wars 2, run a couple dungeons with either my Elementalist, Ranger, Guardian, or Mesmer, and try doing some recruiting for the Skrittsburg Foreign Legion.

  2. Re:mandatory on Is Europa Too Prickly To Land On? · · Score: 1

    Think Europa is prickly? Unless it's freshly shaven, how about Uranus?

    *badum tish* (gets his coat)

    Given the nature of the joke, would not dabum tush have been a better rimshot?

  3. Re:WTF is Azure? on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 1

    I have a TI-994A. Working. With an Extended Basic cartridge too!

    As do I, but also with the Expansion Box, disk drive, memory expansion card, and RS-232 card.

    However, in the words of Topper, from Dilbert, "That's nothing! I also have a lovely 48KB dual Disk drive TRS-80 Model III..."

    Ain't she a beauty?

  4. Re:WTF is Azure? on Microsoft Makes It Harder To Avoid Azure · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's Microsoft's implementation of MobileMe, only it doesn't work as well.

    You probably should have included a link to the Wikipedia entry on MobileMe.

  5. Re:TAS on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh. All this time, I figured that with only 22 episodes, that would have only been a single season.

    Still, despite the typical craptacular Filmation art and animation, it did have some decent writing to carry it where the visuals failed.

    And a big thumbs up to Roddenberry for refusing to let Filmation assign a kiddy cadet to each senior crew member.

  6. The hardest thing about mating with an alligator is not dealing with its bite, but lifting up its tail. I then made a wallet out of its vagina.

    -- Crocodile Dundee

    You earned a D- in biology, Mr. Dundee. A female alligator has a cloaca, not a vagina.

  7. Re:TAS on 5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus · · Score: 1

    Didn't The Animated Series finish off the last two years of the five year mission? With the original cast and everything.

    I always figured the Animated Series most likely covered the 4th year, still leaving the adventures of the 5th untold.

  8. Re:Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    You are most welcome to go plant your flag on Jupiter.

    You can even feel free to plant it in Uranus.

  9. Re:Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Shawshank?

    Either that or A&W Rootbeer.

  10. Re:What's this obession with EOL. on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 1

    Win2k? Crap.

    Win3.1 is all you need.

    Windows 1.0 is all you need. Now get off my lawn.

    As a rabid fan of GS/OS 6.0.1, I have naught but total sympathy for you poor schmucks upon whom Windows 1.0 was inflicted. :p

  11. Re:Peope use what works on Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Geniune Office 2003 has to be activated. Oh you mean you have the warez version of 2003, ok fair game.
    But the warez versions of office 2007 and 2010 also don't need activation. So I don't get your point.
    Yeah I do get it, you prefer to use pirate software istead oif paying for Office or using a 0 cost free software.

    Who is to say that the GP didn't actually purchase 2003? He could very well have purchased it, but opted to keep it sealed in its package and installed a cracked version instead due to the fact that having to go online and get additional permission to use what you have already paid for is USDA grade A bullshit?

  12. Speedy Conversations? on Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market · · Score: 0

    So as the fastest phone, does that mean when you talk on it, your voice is sped up for really fast conversations, so that you either sound like one of the Chipmunks or the FedEx Guy?

  13. Re:Unkillable? on Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    So we are taking a life form that already resists all forms of attack, and equipping it with cyborg enhancements?

    Gee, there's no way this could go wrong.

    I hope the first kid who shouts out as he is controlling a roach, "You've not seen the last of Kim Jong-Il!" gets an instant automatic A for the class.

  14. Re:Here's the real story on Fusion Reactor Breaks Even · · Score: 2

    Makes you wonder where we'd be now if we stopped pissing about on weapons research.

    We would have achieved the age of

    LIGHT

    without

    HEAT ... heat .. heat... (heat)

    And we would be so much more efficient at blinding our enemies before capping them.

    So does this mean we will soon have to deal with the following?

    1: Little green men about 4 foot 1, maybe they want to have some fun.
    2: Little green men about 4 foot 2, maybe they want to mate with you.
    3: Little green men about 4 foot 3, maybe they want to be set free.
    4: Little green men about four foot, maybe they want to kick some butt!!!

  15. My Proposed Solution on Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website · · Score: 1

    I propose we round up all the individual dealers responsible for this reprehensible behavior, line them up, and one by one, deliver to them a good swift kick in the jimmies.

  16. Re:Idiot? on Researcher Spots a Drug Buy In Bitcoin's Blockchain · · Score: 1

    What kind of idiot buys drugs over the Internet? That is truly, profoundly, deeply stupid. What kind of sad, pathetic shut-in can't just hand money to an actual human being?

    Yeah. Better to buy your weed locally and support your local off the grid economy.

  17. Major Misread on Changing a Single Gene Allows Mice To Live 20 Percent Longer · · Score: 1

    Talk about a gray moment here. For some reason, I thought the headline said Makes Mice 20% Cooler.

  18. Re:To bad it wasn't the trailing Trojan Point on First Asteroid Discovered At Uranus's Leading Trojan Point · · Score: 1

    This post wins the entire discussion.

  19. Re:Misleading... on UW Researchers Demonstrate First Direct Communication Between Human Brains · · Score: 4, Funny

    All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

  20. Here It Comes... on Solar Eruption To Reach Earth Soon · · Score: 1

    It could be worse. At least it wasn't an eruption from Uranus.

  21. Re:Dear Comcast, fuck off on Comcast Threatens TorrentFreak For Posting Public Court Document · · Score: 1

    Yes, we need both. But we also need DMCA takedowns that make sense (this one did not since it lacked detail), and we also need DMCA takedowns that are not abused. Add to that, we need DMCA takedowns that can be verified (there must be a real person that can be immediately contacted about it).

    So do we have your support in making a law that counter balances the highly abusable DMCA?

    But, can you name any corporations that are actually willing to front the money to purchase such a revision to a law that is in their best interests to keep as is?

  22. What is Breaking Bad? on Despite Global Release, Breaking Bad Heavily Pirated · · Score: 0

    Should I be ashamed to admit that I am unfamiliar with this show completely? Saw brief mentions of it on Facebook, but figured it was some new movie coming out soon.

  23. Re:Where there's a will, there's a way on The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' · · Score: 1

    You're right. Gray moment for me there. But it has been a long long long time since I read the second one. not remembering what the big spoiler is that happens in the second one then. Thought it had something to do with something really serious that happened to Ned Stark, but that was in A Game of Thrones. Ah well, guess I should at least skim through the first two again for a refresher before reading the third after all.

  24. Re:Where there's a will, there's a way on The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' · · Score: 1

    That works fine with Game of Thrones, since you've read the books already. That's the same way I decided I wasn't really into the show.

    But what if you hadn't known what was coming? It was still months after airing that the DVDs showed up for sale. Would it still have been worth buying them if you weren't already aware of that certain event in Clash of Kings, which spread like an unavoidable memetic wildfire starting the moment it aired?

    Had I not already been familiar with the series, then I probably would have either checked out a few clips on YouTube first, or waited until I could rent the first couple discs through Netflix before buying the set.

    And so far, as far as the books go, I have still only read A Game of Thrones and A Storm of Swords, and have done well at avoiding any spoilers. So thank you for so gracefully not revealing that certain event in A Clash of Kings.

  25. Re:Where there's a will, there's a way on The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' · · Score: 1

    Then let us pay for it, without paying for the other 99.99% of the shit we don't want.

    Since I don't have HBO, and don't even have cable, and didn't want to wait for it to come up on NetFlix, I solved that problem by purchasing the first season at Best Buy.

    Still haven't finished it though, due to getting busy with so many other things. Last episode watched was the one right before Visrys (or however his name is spelled) was to be crowned.

    Having read the book back in 2005 or 2006, I know full well what is coming, and I am hoping they made the scene as cringeworthy as it was described in the book.