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  1. Standards? on Should JavaScript Get More Respect? · · Score: 1

    Considering the differences between the implementations, you could say that JavaScript is the most important half-dozen or so almost identical languages on the web.

  2. Re:Flash is expensive on Wii Weather Channel Up, Browser Coming · · Score: 1

    If they bought Flash before they were between school and work, they could have got the educational discount.

  3. I don't think OLPC means what you think it means on Opera Running on the OLPC · · Score: 2, Funny
    Opera Running on the OLPC
    The PC in OLPC does not stand for Personal Computer. If it was
    Opera Running on the One Laptop Per Child
    the problem with this title would be obvious. It's bad form to rearrange other peoples' acronyms, so
    Opera Running on the One-Per-Child Laptop
    is right out. I suggest:
    Opera Running on $100 Laptop
  4. Re:What about our fine feathered friends? on World's Largest Wind Farm Gets Green Light · · Score: 1

    One article I read noted that people who used to be NIMBYs are now BANANAs: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. Rolls off the tongue better than Not In Anyone's Back Yard, too.

  5. Re:melodrama on Chess Grandmaster Kasparov Versus President Putin · · Score: 1

    Try it again with HTML named entities. A quick Google for cyrillic html entities yielded a site to do the conversion for you: http://jotpuree.com/utils/encodeCyrillicInHtml.php

  6. Re:Emergencies Demand Morse Code Knowledge on FCC Drops Morse Code Requirement · · Score: 1

    You've just given me a great idea: Using a gun to signal in morse code!

  7. Obscure Onion reference? on How Do You Handle New MS Word Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    I only run MS Word in my hermetically sealed house, which I never leave.

  8. Re:Is nerdcore going to become a legitimate subgen on The Dueling Nerdcore Documentaries · · Score: 1

    How about Jonathan Coulton? One one album he has a song about the Mandelbrot Set and a love song from an evil genius to his captive. In fact, since his songs are Creative Commons, there are many legitimate fan-made music videos for his songs on YouTube. One example.

  9. Re:Is nerdcore going to become a legitimate subgen on The Dueling Nerdcore Documentaries · · Score: 1

    Have you tried They Might Be Giants?

  10. Re:Hard Reset on New Animated Star Trek In The Works · · Score: 1

    Considering the success that a hard reset had with the 007 franchise, I see no reason to doubt that doing the same for the Star Trek series would succeed.

  11. Re:Good news, everyone! on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 2, Informative

    Okay, how about this one?
    Farnsworth: Good news, everyone! We were supposed to make a delivery to the planet Tweenis 12, but it's been completely destroyed.
    Leela: What's good about that?
    Farnsworth: They paid in advance.

  12. Re:Good news, everyone! on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 1

    He has used it to give actual good news before. For example:
    Farnsworth A: Good news, everyone! We've consulted the scriptures, and it turns out nobody is evil!
    Farnsworth 1: Yes, the bible is the real good news.

  13. Re:Paper? on Melting Coins Now Illegal In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    Even if not, you could still use Issue #1 of Detective Comics, or a string of pearls.

  14. Good news, everyone! on David X. Cohen Interviewed on New Futurama · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great Zombie Jesus, how can you submit a news story about new Futurama and not use Prof. Farnsworth's catch phrase?

  15. Re:Online Wii killer app... on Wii Games Go Online, Lose Happy Clouds · · Score: 1

    Can't you do voice chat in Metroid if playing against only friends? Also, if there's two places you can successfully plug something into something else, a large number of people will plug it in wrong. By putting one kind of video/audio cable on the back of the console, you dramatically reduce the number of wrong ways of plugging things in.

  16. Re:ummm on Nintendo Sued over Wiimote Trigger · · Score: 1

    But if Nintendo revealed the N64 controller before Sept. 5, 1995, then that would be prior art, even if you couldn't buy one yet, right? Also, do the shoulder buttons on the playstation controllers count as triggers because of the shape of the controller (where the SNES controller's shoulder buttons might not have)?

  17. Re:Online Wii killer app... on Wii Games Go Online, Lose Happy Clouds · · Score: 1
    Nintendo Wii won't have an online killer app unless they develop voice chatting capabilities first.
    Wii uses Bluetooth to talk to its controllers. Where are you going to get a Bluetooth headset in this day and age? I mean, who makes those?
  18. Re:So... on Wii, DS, Not Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Sony and Microsoft's games divisions have dug such debt holes that it will take a long string of profitable quarters to make it all back. Nintendo has never had an unprofitable quarter in its 100+ year history. I think that's what he was really getting at.

  19. Re:Maybe it's just early... on Wii, DS, Not Cannibals · · Score: 1

    You really read it that way? What were you smoking.
    ...oh, right.

  20. Re:Microsoft continues to hide online subscribers on Xbox Live Sees Surge in Usage · · Score: 1
    Yeah, great system.
    It is if you're trying to prevent people from using your online service to find children to molest.
  21. Re:I'm unique! on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    All none of them?

  22. Re:Give me some meaningful numbers on Wii, PS3 Sell Big In First Week · · Score: 1

    How many angels can dance on the head of a Wiimote?

  23. Re:No business case for TV on No Business Case for HDTV? · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's no business case for theft.

  24. Re:What colour is energy? on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or perhaps the glowing red that gets associated with COMMUNISM!

  25. Re:Power will not a system make on NY Times Review of PS3 · · Score: 1

    If people are pausing in the middle of your super strike, stop inviting them over.