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  1. Re:Ridiculous on Illinois Gov. Seeks Violent Video Game Ban · · Score: 1

    The first violent game I remember playing was Doom, but that didn't make me want to go out and shoot people.

    Yeah, we're not all you, and I'm gunna murder the next room full of flying flaming skulls I see!

  2. Lets be REALLY safe! on U.S. Makes Plans for GPS Shutdown · · Score: 1

    Wire explosives to all street signs and landmarks. Next threat comes around and we kill GPS, there won't be much to fall back on!

  3. Re:work with open source software??? on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 1

    Epson is usually a good bet.

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/

  4. Re:does it matter? on PC Photo Printers Challenge Pros · · Score: 1

    Printers will never die.

    I'm looking forward to being able to print out my own functional circuits. :-)

  5. Re:The penalty for hacking is equivilant to murder on Hacker Sentenced To Longest US Sentence Yet · · Score: 1

    Point is nobody is dead.

  6. Re:Good on Neuros Audio Releases Its Hardware Schematics · · Score: 1

    Maybe you call it bad names and it hates you.

    With your problem description I can't offer more constructive help. Its not an inherent problem in the design of the Neuros.

    "Mine doesn't have that problem."

  7. Re:Baah...that's nothing on P2P In 15 Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    You think thats something...

    Heres an artificial intelligence program that will solve all the problems of humanity, then creat an off-world robot colony which will turn around and wage war against us. Its written in nulls, here it goes...

    ""

    And don't include the quotes when inputting this code.

  8. Re:Bom proof on Lego Logic Gates · · Score: 1

    They sure have an advantage of being immune to nukes.

    How much heat does a nuke put out?

    How hard is it to melt plastic again?

  9. Re:Clever, but not exactly practical on Lego Logic Gates · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone should make a Lego computer, and then run a CAD program on it, just for irony's sake.

    I'd be happy with an BF interpreter made out of Lego...

  10. Re:Competition on Lego Logic Gates · · Score: 1

    What's this new fangled "plastic" stuff anyway. Wood! that's the way to go.

    Kids these days, back in my day we didn't have the luxury of wood, all we had was volcanic ash that we molded after mixing it with the bodily secretions we used to drag ourselves around on!

  11. Re:The point? on XLiveCD: Cygwin and X For Windows On A Live CD · · Score: 1

    So, personally, I was thinking more of using this when I'm visiting family and friends.

    I wouldn't trust a friend's winbox to not be compromised...

  12. Re:Costs reduction & Market gain on Sony PSP Defects Reported · · Score: 1



    My guess is that their producing over-capacity to feebly try to compete with Nintendo.

  13. Re:Yeah... on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 1

    I RTFAd after posting.

    Still, if the US goes a little more crazy than it is, hopefully Galileo can be updated to not honor US GPS dickery...

    Good chance that hope will be dashed too?

  14. Yeah... on EU Presses Ahead With Galileo GPS System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It'll be nice to have a GPS system which won't be known for routine power-play dicking around.

    The US is too unstable to hold the keys to a globally relied on tech...

  15. Re:CELP==Joy on National Library Service Plans Next-Gen Audiobooks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mind you that MP3 is not a speech-only codec, and further that it is crap at low bitrates regardless of what you encode.

    Speex is a whole other beast, best not judge it based on your experiences with MP3...

  16. Re:Sorry to bust Your dream, buddy, on HP Sells Cheap FreeDOS PC in China · · Score: 1

    So Windows is basically free (as in beer) for everyone in China. So Linux and Windows are on par considering price. ..but consider the TCO of having to constantly rebuild windows systems whenever someone gets one of those Yuko Ogura (chinese equivalent I guess) screensaver emails.

  17. Re:torrents here!!! on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    Wondering where fan-produced Londo dolls can be found. It'd have to be hilarious...

  18. Re:Isn't all that new... on Pixar's Drawing Tool · · Score: 1

    ...and not allowing someone to delete the whole screen accidentally (not as obvious)? Didn't think so.

    A good number of Amiga drawing programs had a lock background layer function. I don't remember well, but I'd think theres a good chance TVPaint had it.

  19. Re:OT: Anyone know of an AVI/MPEG editor? on TheOpenCD 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Maybe Virtualdub...

  20. Re:Question ... on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    If only that series ran a full season. There was some cool stuff on the horizon...

  21. Re:torrents here!!! on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please buy the DVDs in support of decent television programming.

  22. Re:B5 went downhill... on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    And why couldn't he just *ask* someone else to take out Bester.

    Because he didn't merely hate him and want to see him dead. Garibaldi wanted to kill Bester. He wanted to pull the trigger, he wanted to avenge himself.

  23. Re:Why B5 sucked after season 4 on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ivanova, AND a Warlock class Earth ship, one in command of the other. Thats what will make a great movie.

    I've never seen her in command of that much firepower before. Thought a few screws fell loose when she fought Clark's "elite forces"?

    See what happens when she commands a pair of GOD cannons, a wad of railguns, two huge missile banks, and I forget what else...

  24. Re:why choose? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 1

    Its not funny, but genes aren't necessarily moral entities, and as long as the disharmonious gene carier steers clear of those beings that live past procreation that are actually looking after their spawn and dealing out negative reinforcement on behavior harming their genetic propogation...

    Well, forced mothers are likely inferior at defending spawn, and might even end up not letting it birth.

    So it counts, but not as well as most other options.

  25. Re:why choose? on Chimpanzees Shed New Light on Hand Preference · · Score: 1

    Genes that surpass that criteria and allow a creature to be a protective parent who increases the chance of its children mating also has a strong influence. :-)

    Also, if genes encourage a creature to kill competing creatures, might give those genes an edge too.

    There are lots of ways genes can maneuver themselves into a winning position that aren't all based on "survive long enough to get laid". (though it is a generally manditory criteria, unless you're a cute-enough-to-be-cloned pet or something)