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  1. Re:any more room at the top? on Life Inside a Cell · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are always enough business majors that could not get into History of Music that have to take Biology as an elective instead. They would probably do 50% better with a power point on the subject.....

  2. Re:One question before I try this out... on Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives · · Score: 1

    Yep. they exist in different directories.

  3. Re:No thanks, Vex is more fun. on New Lego Mindstorms Dissected · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I have a Lincoln log House attached to a Ti-85 calculator running Doom hooked up over Ultra Wide Band.....

  4. Re:Uh yeah. on The Top 10 Gaming Colleges · · Score: 2
    So this is a reason I shouldn't go to UVA?

    no, you shouldn't go to UVA simply because it is UVA. And no this isn't a biased opinion. GO Hokies!

  5. which can then be coneected to.... on Ultra Wideband Hub Coming in October · · Score: 5, Funny

    the leg bone. The leg bone is connected to the... thigh bone.....

  6. Re:Total Crap on Possession of Violent Pornography Outlawed in UK · · Score: 1
    No, only talking dogs. :p

    and the baked beans they hawk on TV......

  7. Re:What a defense! on Wikipedia Wars -- Lake Express Ferry · · Score: 1
    yet I have no clue on how to operate a high speed ferry that runs across lake michigan.

    Cant you can just read a wiki to learn how.......

  8. Re:Headline incorrect. on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    yes, the cracking tools are great, until they alter the DRM. As long as its playable on your computer though, this program will be able to catch it. Thats the benefit. The quality loss is very minimal. It is never analog as it creates virtual sound cards to "play" and capture the audio. I am extremely hard pressed to tell teh difference between the original 192 WMA and the converted VBR MP3 (lame standard) that I go to. YMMV.

  9. Re:damn dude... on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    yeah, and with muvaudio you can queue more than 1000 songs, convert them while retaining all the tag info of the file, all while doing 10 songs at the same time since they are virtual sound cards that are created. with the click of one button. But yeah, your way sounds just as good....

  10. Re:Headline incorrect. on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    This will convert the DRM WMA to anything else, even non DRM WMA should you prefer. I prefer MP3, because for example my car CD player will play CD's loaded with MP3's, any DVD player and they can be played on any portable music device ipod, zen, whatever. You cant say that about WMA.

  11. Re:Headline incorrect. on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    and even more unfortunately even after you strip out the DRM from the WMA file, its still a WMA file. You can use something like this to convert anything played over your computer to MP3 or other format. And while it is real time like tunebite and the ilk, it will do 9 at a time in "real time"

  12. Re:What did you expect? on New Alienware PC an Overpriced Underperformer · · Score: 2, Funny

    perhaps they forgot to check all the free upgrade boxes when checking out.....

  13. Interesting eh..... on Core 2 Duo Notebooks Reviewed · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "It's interesting since one machine has the entry level 1.66GHz CPU while the other has the top end 2.33GHz chip."

    Wow, thats crazy. I never would imagine that TWO machines would be benchmarked in one article, at different performance levels no less. Times are a changin.....

  14. Re:SoaP on Discussing a Private Buyout of Microsoft · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...said the man with no karma

  15. Re:Episodes a few times a year......... on Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    my girlfriend/wife and I had sex regularly for more than 7 years. Doesn't mean that it continued like that :) Past performance isn't always an indicator of future returns......

  16. Re:Episodes a few times a year......... on Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced · · Score: 3, Funny

    since 6/20/06 that is. They made 4/5, 4/12/ 4/20, got me hooked, then made 6/20 then nothing. ALmost like they are operating on some sort of Log scale.....

  17. Episodes a few times a year......... on Penny-Arcade Videogame Announced · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I wont hold my breath. I'm still waiting for the next installment of their regularly scheduled podcast......

  18. What hasnt been a blow..... on Battery Recalls A Blow to Sony's Recovery · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Root Kit, PS3 price vs features, Blu Ray delays and cost, Battery recall, pretty much every comment from ken regarding the PS3. You can only go up from here right?

  19. Heres what I would do.... on How Do You Punish a 16-year-old Spammer? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make him write out each email he sent on a blackboard, all 5 million of them.

  20. Re:So only $245,000? on Company to Pay for Election Problems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You get what you pay for. It is only Indiana.......

  21. Re:Does it have the horsepower for Ogg? on SanDisk Releases New iPod rival · · Score: 1

    heh. I stand corrected. I would say touché, but because of those damn Mac commercials, I'm afraid I might not be using it in the right context.....

  22. Re:Does it have the horsepower for Ogg? on SanDisk Releases New iPod rival · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, it is truly amazing that major electronics manufacturers haven't taken the time to adopt a format that a minuscule percentage of their target audience uses to encode their music. I also cant believe no one make a wheel chair accessible treadmill. Bastards.

  23. Re:I'll save you all the trouble on Snakes on The Net Fail to Put Butts in the Seats · · Score: 5, Informative

    apparently there are snake in the Mother F***in Theater as well

  24. Re:Only a problem on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: 1

    and note that before we can even be the one to sit down with a subject and go over the consent form, we need to "certified" by the IRB (institutional review board research ethics)

  25. Re:Only a problem on World's Largest Medical Experiment · · Score: 3, Informative
    I don't know how it is in Europe, but for us (NY metro research facility) to even gather blood samples for randomized testing (say to establish a reference range for cholesterol) the amount of paperwork we go through for each donor is quite extensive. There is about a 10 page disclosure that we go through page by page, have them initial each point about what we are going to do with the sample, what there rights are about the storage of the sample, how long we keep it, who will see the data etc. After they sign it, we encourage a witness to be with them for signing we then sign and date in presence of a witness. They receive a copy in person, and mailed to the address they provide. All this for just a random blood sample, run totally unidentified. This all happens before we can take a sample. If they don't go through and sign, we don't take a sample.

    Mind you, many people that respond to the ads for medical research studies aren't the most educated folks, or even care about what we do with the sample as long as they get the 15 bucks, But we try our best to inform them