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  1. Re:A cheap and embarrassing Republican stunt on House Dems Turn Out the Lights On the GOP · · Score: 1

    Didn't you hear about the time ScuttleMonkey turned the lights off on Jamie? Ever since then they've been doing nasty stuff just like this!

  2. Re:Not Unreasonable on AT&T Could Cut Off P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Sure, when our cell phones are much more advanced and p2p applications make sense I'll think they need to rethink their stance, but for now, it's pretty reasonable.

    This is exactly what I was thinking, but will they really rethink their stance? Somehow I doubt it.

  3. Re:Codename? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Shiretoko Peninsula is pretty much the most northeastern point of Japan on the island of Hokkaido. It's an Ainu word that means earth's end or something similar (the Ainu are an indigenous people that still live there).

  4. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I actually love it, being able to type just an 's' to go to slashdot, or an 'x' to go to xkcd. But I know you're just trolling so whatever.

  5. Re:Bike to work on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    I've been biking (not to work, too far still) for the past six weeks and have lost more than 10 pounds. Smaller food portions have helped too, and drinking tons and tons of water (don't know if that does anything but I enjoy drinking it).

    I was 205 for the last two years when I was at most 160 for about eight straight years (I have the stretch marks to prove my quick weight gain). I'm 6'2'' so that weight wasn't horrible, but being 195 now feels really nice, plus I'm getting used to biking and going for longer and longer rides. It feels great.

  6. Re:Byzantine failure on Amazon Explains Why S3 Went Down · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they should have bought a book on it from half.com or something.

  7. Re:He's got a point - why nuke the asteroid? on Nukes Not the Best Way To Stop Asteroids, Says Apollo Astronaut · · Score: 1

    Obviously the meta-meta modders didn't like the way you meta modded.

  8. Re:Yes but on SETI@Home Adds New Search Method · · Score: 1

    Read the Rama series by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee, crappy fiction after the first one, but they examine things just like this.

    And personally, extra-terrestrial life doesn't contradict my personal Christian beliefs.

  9. Re:No place to go. on Sirius, XM Merger Gets FCC Approval · · Score: 1

    Why would someone drop XM/Sirius because of Howard Stern? According to their respective wiki pages, Sirius has 135 channels and XM currently has something like 150 channels. Does Howard Stern play on all channels at once or something? I still listen to radio even though I could still potentially hear Rush Limbaugh on it. I still watch TV even though I could potentially see Nancy Grace on it. Sometimes people's logic escapes me.

  10. Re:Huh? on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Since the villains were announced I always thought that this movie was setting up Two Face for the third one, I honestly thought I read that somewhere months ago. I was really surprised when he died and I'm kind of on the fence on if he's really dead or not.

  11. Re:Great Movie! on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    I thought the "Scarecrow" at the beginning of the film was just someone pretending to be the Scarecrow, kind of like the guys pretending to be Batman.

  12. Re:This quote says it all on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    You sure quote me to saying "farm system" a lot when I never mentioned the second word once.

  13. Re:Hai Guise on Craigslist Forced To Reveal a Seller's Identity · · Score: 1

    Meh, who pays for tickets? Get paid to fill in the stars' seats, Kramer style.

  14. Re:Great hardware company on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 3, Insightful

    My guess is because when making the hardware, they don't have to deal with the last 25 years of legacy code and support. With the Zune, the Xbox, their mice, etc. they're generally just free to go crazy and not care about whether MS Works '97 will work or not.

    Of course the 360 was backwards compatible with the original Xbox and users are experiencing widespread problems with that. Probably more of a coincidence than anything though.

  15. Re:Microsoft's niche on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    More anecdotes, the first Xbox I ever owned was broken out of the box. Displayed a "call customer service" on first boot up. The problem was, it was a special edition Halo (green) Xbox so it took about a week to replace.

    The replacement works awesome though and we use it everyday as the center of our media center.

  16. Re:They also make really good mice on Microsoft Engineers Invent Displays That Top LCDs For Efficiency · · Score: 1

    I bought a wireless Microsoft mouse about five years ago, I loved it so much I bought a second as a backup about two months later (it was super cheap). I'm still on the original, I love that thing.

  17. Re:This quote says it all on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The guy was in a minimum security farm prison, if you ask me it had a lot more to do with social rehab than vengeance. The guy wasn't going to be able to access an uncontrolled computer in the two years he was there, if they wanted vengeance they may have sent him to a maximum security prison for longer than two years.

  18. Moonwalker on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've seen Moonwalker and I would definitely agree with this notion.

  19. Hemorrhoids on Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live · · Score: 2, Funny

    All I know is that I was able to read the Hemorrhoids article without seeing a bunch of "action shots" like on Wikipedia. They've won me over.

  20. Re:Why are you expecting this? on Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We do tons of agile development in Java where I work. Being agile doesn't mean you can't use strongly typed languages.

  21. Re:Floating cities on Floating Cities On Venus · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Keep it simple! on Best and Worst Coding Standards? · · Score: 1

    Even Eclipse can do it, just found that feature the other day.

  23. Re:If we can't play it with real light saber Wii on Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm assuming you never played the original Knights of the Old Republic, a d20-based role playing game. Yeah, I don't know how that couldn't be fun online without waving around a wiimote.

  24. Finishing the quote on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

  25. Re:Canyons? on Rockets To Race Over Wisconsin Skies · · Score: 1

    There are glacier formed gorges aplenty in Wisconsin, but not really near Oshkosh. But EAA has been there for a long, long time and Air Venture is the largest airshow in the world. More airplane enthusiasts there during the event than any other time.