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  1. Re:What about heredity? on Cold Sore Virus May Be Alzheimer's Smoking Gun · · Score: 1

    Lately it's not Guillain-Barré either.

  2. Re:To Oregon? on Amazon's Cloud Data Center To Follow Google To Oregon · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't have brought so many grandfather clocks.

  3. Re:I actually quite like the trackball on T-Mobile G1 Faster Than iPhone 3G · · Score: 1

    It can also scan QR codes. I suppose that's because you couldn't sell it in Japan without QR support.

  4. Re:Blocking owners? on Nintendo Blocks Homebrew Installation · · Score: 1

    No, because every Wii game has a partition that includes the firmware update required to run that game, along with quite a few others.

  5. Re:OK, I'll take the contrarian view... on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    Where I went to school, 50% was a pass.

  6. Al Gore also said: on What Gore Didn't Say About Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    "Finally I get to save the earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slideshows."

  7. Re:So long, "hardware gamers" on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    Particles I can see, since lots of flat shaded triangles is definitely a strength of the PS2, but lighting? Lots of GC games had better lighting than PS2 games--RE4 is the prime example.

  8. Re:So long, "hardware gamers" on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The PS2 is far more similar to the Will than the 360.

    PS2: 300MHz MIPS CPU with no L2 cache plus vector units; 32M RAM; transform unit has reprogrammable microcode; no single pass multitexturing support; fixed function texturing and lighting.
    Wii: 729MHz PowerPC with 256K L2 cache and SIMD extensions; 88M RAM; fixed function transform unit; up to 8 textures per pass (1 texture per clock) with programmable blending.
    So yeah, completely dissimilar.

  9. Re:Nice product on Wii Is the New US Console Leader · · Score: 1

    That's kinda like holding a grudge against modern Germany. The leadership behind the company at that time is no longer in charge.

  10. Re:Not Sure I'm Getting It on Intel Says to Prepare For "Thousands of Cores" · · Score: 1

    In ARM, any instruction (not just jumps like most CPUs) can be conditional. It's a more explicit form of 'do both', but your idea reminded me of it.

  11. Re:Smiling down. on George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure · · Score: 1

    At Isaac Asimov's funeral, Kurt Vonnegut said, "Isaac's in heaven now." He later remarked that it was the funniest thing he could have said to a room full of humanists, and he hoped that after he died, someone would say, "Kurt's in heaven now."

  12. Re:Wooden bat never fails on Fingerprints Recoverable From Cleaned Metal · · Score: 1

    Why not a frozen leg of lamb? Once the murder is done, it's a tasty treat for the officers investigating!

  13. Re:I wonder on Fingerprints Recoverable From Cleaned Metal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course the ability to find old fingerprints doesn't mean it's no longer possible to dust for prints the traditional way. You know, the way that does prove proximity in time?

  14. Re:WTF are you smoking on Wii Update 3.3 Defeats Twilight Hack, Freeloader · · Score: 1

    Nobody forced you to play Mario Kart.

  15. We knew a Wii Castlevania was coming on Castlevania Coming to the Wii? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Screenshots from the upcoming DS game revealed a menu item on the title screen for Wii connectivity.

  16. Re:It was bound to happen on Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack · · Score: 1

    Yes, an audio question about an image is a great way to adapt CAPTCHAs to the vision impaired. An audio question about the audio, on the other hand.

  17. Watch the skies on US To Employ Overhead Spying Domestically · · Score: 1

    Because the skies are watching you.

  18. Re:Don't be silly on T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can get a breast milk latte at Starbucks now? Why wasn't I told?

  19. Re:Well fuck on D&D 4th Edition Details Released · · Score: 1

    And the reason it's called a Hat Trick is because the bowler wins a Bowler Hat for accomplishing it.

  20. That's a terrible password on Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords? · · Score: 1

    because you told us all what it was.

  21. Lincoln had a mixed-party cabinet on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 2, Funny

    but it's not the same thing. Okay, how about Obama/Nader '08? Before you judge, say it out loud.

  22. Obama/Paul '08? on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    And to think, not too long ago I was joking about Clinton/Gore '08.

  23. Re:Bad tag on Finnish Patient Gets New Jaw from His Own Stem Cells · · Score: 1

    Maybe the jaw is played by Yul Brenner.

  24. If you can get there from here on Could We Find a Door To A Parallel Universe? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    isn't it part of the same universe?

  25. Re:learn on Failed Avionics a Possible Cause of BA038 Crash · · Score: 1

    You've got a leg up on me if you learned it even once.