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  1. Fallout 3 on The Best Games of 2008 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm an avid gamer, and Fallout 3 was the best game hands down this year. Bionic Commando: Rearmed was pretty great too, for a Xbox Live title. But beyond those two, this was actually a great year for games: GTA IV, Mirror's Edge, Far Cry 2, Gears of War 2...man, I wish I didn't have to go to bed now! :/

  2. The XM/Sirius Merger sucks on iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio · · Score: 1

    I can't say I'm too happy with the result of the merger - I was originally an XM subscriber. They really pared down some of the channels I enjoyed, like XM Fungus (punk rock) and 3 out of the 4 Mexican music stations. Another shitty thing is that now all the channel names are mixed up on my Honda Element's dashboard display; for example, Air Musique (French Canadian rock music station) is now displayed as "World/Latin" for some reason. They're all out of whack.

    Basically, this merger made the service less varied and worse off than before. Still beats regular radio, though...NPR excluded of course.

  3. Re:Disabled does not mean "Better off Dead". on Down's Symptoms May Be Treatable In the Womb · · Score: 1

    Actually, Stephen Hawking was born healthy. He developed Lou Gehrig's disease in his 20s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#Illness

  4. warcart? riiight on The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking · · Score: 1

    That thing is pretty fuckin rad...he shoulda called it t3h z0rcart

  5. Typical NASA on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's probably a covert drug test.

    *puts on tinfoil hat*

    Have you ever see the earth from space...on weed???

  6. posters on Computer Art For a CS Dept Office? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If your school just spent a lot of money making the building look nice, you might want to go with something a wee bit more classy than posters on the walls. Just sayin'.

  7. The Easy Solution on Anti-Keylogging Recommendations? · · Score: 1

    Don't use a keyboard. Duh.

    For extra points you gotta flip them bits manually.

  8. Croc Dundee on Laser Pointers Classed as Weapons in Australia · · Score: 0

    I thought the Aussies were all like, "Mate, that's not a knife. Now *this* (pulls out a massive machete), this right here is a knife."

    I wonder if they'll start confiscating boomerangs next.

  9. Bad Sign #1 on Hunting Bad CIOs In Their Natural Environment · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pointy hair

  10. How does I play videa gaems???? on Xbox DRM and the Red Ring of Death · · Score: 0, Troll

    "This new replacement console has a different serial number and as a result all of my downloaded content only works now when the purchasing profile is signed into Xbox live. Additional profiles on the system can no longer access the content. I can no longer access the content when I'm not signed into Xbox Live."

    Booyah, if you RTFA you see he CAN access all the stuff he bought/downloaded, albeit if in a somewhat more limited way than before. Sucks, but still.

    Anyway I thought whiny retards only bought PS3s (lol jk)

  11. Melty on Is the Game Boy the Toughest Product Ever Made? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It may not be a nuke, but there's a gameboy in Nintendo's NYC store that survived a barracks bombing (no clue as to which side's barracks it was, though.) It's on display there, still playing Tetris to this day.

    here's a pic and a flash video of it:
    http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/video-fully-functional-gulf-war-gameboy#more-6645

    Pretty badass...

  12. Meeting strangers online on Online Parent-Child Gap Widens · · Score: 1
    Regarding the 36% of kids who apparently meet strangers online - I know that sounds scary at first blush but does it not make sense that this would happen, given the rise of social networking sites in the last 5 - 8 years? I mean, "meeting strangers online" use to mean kids were meeting up with weirdos from shady IRC chat rooms in McDonald's parking lots. Nowadays so many more kids are active on these sites, would you think that they would naturally want to meet up with each other?


    "Meeting a stranger online" could also refer to answering a Craigslist personals ad, for instance. I'm not saying kids are/should be doing that, but I think that the phrase might be broader than you might think.

  13. Easier Solution on How to Win on Ebay: Snipe · · Score: 1

    eBay just needs to ban the AWP n00bs.