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  1. Multi-boxing on Blizzard Beefs up World of Warcraft's Recruit-a-Friend · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know, honestly, I wanted to multi-box WoW (ie: play as two or more characters at once). And this is just the thing I needed to actually have an incentive to start doing so.

  2. Re:ugh god on Interview With an EVE Pirate · · Score: 1

    So endless masses of spreadsheets and gameplay so slow that a sloth swimming through molasses makes it look "fast paced"?

  3. Re:Better Living Through Chemistry on Towards an Exercise Pill · · Score: 1

    The price of making a drug, and the cost, have nothing to do with one another. AIDS medicine costs maybe 20 cents per day for it. It costs upwards of 100x that per day.

  4. Re:Better Living Through Chemistry on Towards an Exercise Pill · · Score: 1

    It was meant as a joke, but if this pill really is as great as it sounds, they can probably make it 100$ per-day worth of dose, and make a ton more money than its production cost of probably 2$ per day of dose (or less).

  5. Re:Better Living Through Chemistry on Towards an Exercise Pill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know. Maybe because the "Rich And Wealthy" would be the only ones who could afford it, and thus we'd have an upper-class composed of bodybuilder supermen, and a lower class consisting of only the frail.

    Kind of like today, but in reverse.

  6. Re:I second that! on AT&T Could Cut Off P2P Users · · Score: 1

    More important question: when did it start?

  7. Re:Obama's shady dealings? on IOC Admits Internet Censorship Deal With China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, he knew a guy who had a company that had one big financial issue, and did 5 hours of work for him in the 6 years he was in office. And this suddenly makes him a huge criminal?

    Borderline illegal is the way of saying "it is legal, but I don't like it"

    Actual quote from the article: Watch Burns describe how Obama used the rules to his advantage

    Real fair and unbiased. Really...

    So he went out there and checked to make sure that their signitures on the ballots were taken in a legal method? This is somehow "dirty" or "underhanded"? Granted, one guy didn't get to run because he was 67 signitures away from having his required number, but then it was his fault for not double checking to make sure he was following the law. I have no problem with a potential president who wants rule by law.

    How does that make him dirtier than a guy who takes openhanded bribes and hides them in his freezer?

  8. Re:No wonder it's cheap on "World's Cheapest Laptop" Available in Bulk Only · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can browse, run most OpenOffice products at a useable speed (and all of them if you don't mind some lag). And use connection software to tunnel into your work machine from outside the office. And use chat software. What more do you want with a mobile machine?

  9. Re:Damaging a new find on Spelunkers Explore Crystalline Cave In New Mexico · · Score: 1

    Yet.

  10. Re:Posterity will condemn us... on NAO Humanoid Robot Set To Hit the Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    To be fair, even natural-born humans have a price, 5.1 million dollars if I remember right, according to the US government.

  11. Re:The only question that really matters on Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" Due In September · · Score: 1

    Ouch, that is a scathing review, and sadly, kind of accurate to the kind of batshit craziness that is Neil.

  12. Re:I just don't understand. on World's First Custom Firmware For Wii Released · · Score: 1

    Because, you know, the summary didn't link to a place where they had an adapter for this program, that specifically lets you run gamecube iso images. And making an app for it that loads up an ISO image, wouldn't be really that hard. Just the fact that it can do this, means that is around the corner.

  13. Re:I just don't understand. on World's First Custom Firmware For Wii Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because if you get this, then you can "patch" your wii, and download games for the wii. So you don't have to pay for them.

  14. Re:Wifi radio? on HD Radio Recording In the US? · · Score: 1

    Roku Radio. Wish I had put it in my origonal post.

  15. Re:Liberate the Spectrum. on HD Radio Recording In the US? · · Score: 1

    I use a Roku soundbridge radio. It is perfect, easy to set up, and comes with a handy remote control. http://www.roku.com/

  16. Re:Liberate the Spectrum. on HD Radio Recording In the US? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just got a wi-fi radio, with over 100k stations, and a easy to use search function and favorites function. Now, even when I'm not at my computer, I can listen to whatever I want. So who cares about the "dinosaur" radio stations?

  17. Re:What percentage are... on Spore Creatures Now Outnumber Known Earth Species · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, seriously, who wants to read CAD. That comic is awful (and the author is a bit of a dick too).

  18. Re:Louisiana a land of believers? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    My link states multiple hypothesises, I did phrase it as absolute truth, but it really is more of a theory.

  19. Re:When did we PROVE evolution to be true??? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    Smallshot, you consistently miss the point. Science is a hypothesis that can be proven correct or incorrect, based upon data and evidence.

    It is "technically" science if I go outside and say "humm, the sky is blue, it isn't raining" one day, and the next day "humm, the sky is grey, it is raining" and make the hypothesis that the color grey causes it to rain. That is a theory that can be proven correct or incorrect, and it is based on evidence (it is wrong, but that is beside the point).

    Saying "it is complicated, god did it" isn't science, because it is based on no data, and is impossible to prove.

  20. Re:Louisiana a land of believers? on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, yes, they did. It was a small inland lake that people lived around, and a large storm caused the barrier between it and the sea to erode, and the sea came into the lake. It flooded everything for 20 miles from the shore of the lake. The survivors of this made the great flood origin story.

    They found huts and such 20 miles out from shore, and the geological evidence backed this up, which is why they think its true.

    Link for the interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(mythology)#Hypotheses_of_origin_of_Flood_myths/

  21. Blu Ray on Pioneer Promises 400GB Optical Discs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good thing we all updated early to the blu-ray player, when something is about to come along to blow it out of the water, right at about the time when DVDs are reaching the point where people need more than 2-3 DVDs for games/movies (which is the point at which CDs were phased out, and floppy disks).

  22. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    Yeah, except the ENTIRE POINT OF THIS ARTICLE is that it would become a felony, punishable by 5 years of prison time, if they catch you.

  23. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 1

    Five years per count, 3 instances of fraud, 15 years. Not that complicated.

  24. Re:What the.... on User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You will also have to give out all of your personal information to every 2 bit site on the internet to spam you with. Also, god help you if you visit microsoft's website with firefox, violating their terms of use and getting 5 years of prison time for that.

    Because, you know, signing up to a website under a fake name is entirely justified with 15 years of prison time. Maybe you'd like the death penalty to anyone who steals a snickers bar or crank calls you as "I P Freely".

  25. Re:Don't worry... on Blizzard Announces Diablo 3 · · Score: 1

    Obviously, you didn't actually follow the WoW or WC3 releases. Their servers were overloaded due to popularity, but there wern't many technical bugs on the user-end.