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  1. Re:Download the internet on Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent · · Score: 1

    Could you print that for me?

  2. Re:OS/2 server "missing" for 2 years on Finding Lost IT With RFID · · Score: 1

    Someone forgot to turn it on?

  3. Cost too much. on 66% of All Windows Users Still Use Windows XP · · Score: 1

    $70 for an upgrade from XP. I might have considered it for $35, I definitely would have done it for $20 or less. There are features I like about Win7, but none that make it worth the price of admission.

    It's not that I'm cheep, it's that I'm broke. And frankly, if I could find a way to get iTunes to run consitantly on any other operating system* on my current hardware... I would have ditched Windows entirely long ago.

    *I tried many different solutions under Linux and couldn't find one I liked. I tried hackintosh, but it bricked my motherboard (no POST, even after a hard reset).

  4. Re:Units on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "arseload"?

  5. Re:Are they exact? on 5 Trillion Digits of Pi — a New World Record · · Score: 1

    I suck at drawing. Instead, plug it into the formula e^(i*x)+1 and see how close you are to 0.

  6. Re:This cocking around is stupid... on Gasoline From Thin Air · · Score: 1

    But how am I going to get the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need?

  7. Re:Buffer Copies? on ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates · · Score: 1

    The next logical step:
    Royalties for when a song gets stuck in your head.

  8. Re:This just reaffirms... on Hacking Automotive Systems · · Score: 1

    setmode=carnerd

    The most modern car that can survive EMP, is the 1992 turbo (not TDI) diesel golf/jetta. Mechanical fuel pump. The only wires in the car go to the starter, running lights, and glow plugs. IIRC, it does have a digital clock, but if you have experienced an EMP, you are unlikely to be over-concerned with the exact time.

  9. Re:Pepermint OS One == POO on Peppermint OS One Review · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for the version you can mount from a removable USB device. Peppermint OS One Portable.

    A good distribution.... for me to POOP on!

  10. Re:First one on Spoiler-Free Iron Man 2 Review · · Score: 1

    The only real weakness with the movie is that the villain was underdeveloped. But seeing as this was also an origin movie, there's only so much that can be shoehorned in.

    Does Iron Man really have an iconic archenemy? A Joker to his Batman? I'm not so sure.

  11. Re:Not bullet-izable on PowerPoint of Afghan War Strategy · · Score: 1

    Surgery, for example.

  12. Re:Brilliant! on iCade, an Arcade Cabinet Docking Bay For Your iPad · · Score: 1

    Every year, ThinkGeek has an AFJ that makes me think, "Yes, it's a joke... but I totally want one."

  13. Re:And for the rest of the world... on The Bloodhound Will Stay On the Ground At 1,000 mph · · Score: 1

    parsecs per fortnight

  14. Re:Obama likes the idea as well on Yale Law Student Wants Government To Have Everybody's DNA · · Score: 1

    YEAH!

    Next you know they will want samples when they come to take away your guns.

    THEN they will want a sample when they intern you in the FEMA camps.

    Finally, they will get everyone else when the brownshirt fifth column reveals itself and brings everyone in the WHOLE NATION before the death panels!!!1!!!

    Tinfoil is not enough people! You have to destroy your entire DNA sequence!!!

  15. Re:Wow, he really missed the opportunity on How the Internet Didn't Fail As Predicted · · Score: 1

    Precisely. Back in the day we used Gopher to find our pictures of women with onions on their belt. AND WE LIKED IT JUST FINE.

  16. Re:Hmmm.... on Disposable Toilet To Change the World · · Score: 0

    Sadly, there seem to be more Worthless Sacks of Shit.

  17. Re:Balance on 8-Core Intel Nehalem-EX To Launch This Month · · Score: 1

    I suppose it is possible to virtualize a CUDA processor in reverse and have, in effect, a low level Nvidia card. Output would be problematic...

  18. Re:Fill us in, please? on First Room-Temperature Germanium Laser Completed · · Score: 1

    And I thought it was only suitable for popping giant balls of popcorn.

  19. Re:repost from my comment on nyt: on Analysis of 32 Million Breached Passwords · · Score: 1

    Until you run into a site that does not accept your algorithm. Either not h4rd enough or does not support the right length/character type. So you figure out a "special" one for that. Then you find another one that doesn't work for different reasons.

    I agree with other commenters: The implementation (and possibly the concept itself) is broken on a fundamental level.

  20. Ha Ha, only serious! on The Nuking of Duke Nukem · · Score: 1

    The reason we are still talking about DNF is DN3D was a pretty damn good game at the time. The producers then allowed their fear that it would not measure up to expectations as an excuse to slowly kill the game.

  21. Re:Two clichés that apply to web sites... on Website Owner's Manual · · Score: 1

    measure with mics
    mark with chalk
    cut with axe

    and/or

    cut to size
    beat to fit
    paint to match

  22. Re:Redneck crap on $25,000 of Communications Gear In a $500 Car · · Score: 1

    car is not radioactive

    It's a joke, son. Radioactive. Radio-active. Radio. Active.

    He's got a lot of active radios. Try to keep up with me here.

  23. Re:my wife is an odd duck on Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex · · Score: 1

    my wife is an odd duck

    Where do I get one of those?

    Russia.

  24. Re:Rock, Scissors, Paper on Revisiting the "Holy Trinity" of MMORPG Classes · · Score: 1

    PBAOE Nuke.

    Though I guess in that case you are splitting tasks a little different. Either bubbling the nuker or splitting healer in the mana and health regeneration.

  25. Re:Evolution, suckers.... on Self-Destructing Bacteria Create Better Biofuels · · Score: 1

    Based on the reporting of the article, I don't think that is the case. Mature the pool, divide it into a harvest and a non-harvest, nickle the harvest pool, drain the oil-y goodness + muck, clean, introduce non-harvest pool, wait for population to recover, repeat. Survivors of the nickle-apocalypse are not given a chance to return to the non-harvest population.

    This is really cool because (if it can be scaled) neatly solves most of the issues with algal biodiesel. The only remaining problem is separating the oils from the water and non-oil bacteria bits.