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  1. Re:Snake? on Smash Bros. Delayed Until March 9th · · Score: 2, Funny

    SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!?! /sorry, had to do it.
    Mushroom mushroom...?
  2. I know I said take you time on Smash Bros. Delayed Until March 9th · · Score: 1

    Take you time to make a good time I said, but now I'm kind of regretting those words. Wasn't this suppose to be a launch title? I guess I can take solace in the fact that it's announced to be released near my birthday (hint, hint!)

  3. Re:Why not Interpol? on 'War on Terror' Allies Form Information Consortium · · Score: 1

    I wonder why this isn't done through Interpol.
    I don't know why a Rock Band would be any more suited for this than any one else...
    Or you mean who Inspector Clouseau and Inspector Zenigata work for?
  4. Re:Agenda on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    Nuke Earth.

    Nuke Earth? I guess it's the only way to be entirely sure...

  5. Re:Couldn't do it. on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What would you do as King?"

    It's good ta be da King!

  6. Re:If I was president on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    President Harrison still has you beat...

  7. Make sure laws are enforced on What Would You Do As President? · · Score: 1

    President is head of the EXECUTIVE branch. Aside from appoint people to positions and try to influence legislation they do nothing more than sign paperwork, ensure that laws are being enforced and try to keep us out of military trouble.

    People make all these broad claims about what they'll do as president. What about "surround myself with people who know what to do in the role in which they are placed and make sure my pencil is sharp"? The Congress makes laws, the courts make sure they don't go against the law of the land. All I would be doing is make sure things are running smoothly.

    Much like a Senor SysAdmin?

  8. Re:Dangerous precedent on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    Now, imagine what it's like if you have to get permission to put *any* product in *any* picture.
    I know! Most graphic "artist" majors would actually have to come up with original work! I kid you not, a lot of these kids take something like the Nasonex Bee! throw it in photoshop and put a filter or two on it for a grade.

    Isn't that what copy writes are for? To ensure artists to create their OWN works? Not copy each other and I'm sure it's not to let corps milk them till the cash cow is dead.
  9. Re:Rubber on 10 Strange Computer Keyboards · · Score: 1

    Huh? The kitchen is generally considered (when doing renovations, etc.) to be one of the rooms where people spend most of their waking time in a house. In many modern houses the kitchens are built specifically to serve as large, multipurpose 'family spaces' rather than as small, specialized food-prep areas.
    Okay, I don't remember if this was in some remodeling magazine or one of those "when we have the money I want to design this!" things but I remember seeing plans for a computer built into a kitchen island. The monitor under a Plexiglas counter top and the tower, keyboard, and a trackball mouse all would roll out of drawers.

    Kind of the next stage of the hide-a-way computer hutch designs. With wireless connectivity it made the idea a bit more reasonable in my mind at least for a computer in the kitchen. Yeah, you had to look down at it like an old pac-man machine but maybe that's why I liked the idea.
  10. Re:No more Optimus stories, please! on 10 Strange Computer Keyboards · · Score: 1

    Yeah! No more Optimus stories! More Megatron stories... Wait...

  11. Re:Rubber on 10 Strange Computer Keyboards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's also the Flexible Rubber Keyboard, which is not only easy to roll up and carry around with you
    Actually, we found a use for them on a factory shop floor because of all the dust and junk that flies in the air kills a normal keyboard in no time flat. We found that the solvent thing was true but it's pretty true with ANY chemical/keyboard combination. They are not the best for gaming because their response time sucks and they have to be on a hard flat surface... Then again, maybe someone has fixed the response time issue because they'd make a wonderful LAN party keyboard because of portability. But the sheer unbreakability and ease to clean them sold us for the factory.
  12. What about the Wii browser on Most Home Routers Vulnerable to Flash UPnP Attack · · Score: 1

    It's Opera browser that Runs an OLD version of flash on a Wireless network. I mean, do we need to worry about this when we go to the wrong site from our Nintendo? I hear they update it from the connect24 but not that often...

  13. Blasphemy on 12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions · · Score: 1

    This is going to going over as well as a fart in church...
    In the end the kids always lose out when adults do things "in their best interests"

  14. scary genius on 14-Year-Old Turns Tram System Into Personal Train Set · · Score: 1

    It's fun to hear about these kinds of events if no one got hurt. But, at th same time it's rather frightening the though of someone with an intellect like that with a lot of time on their hands and no productive outlet to use it.
    Think what could be accomplished if people like this where given access to what they needed and had the same motivation when it came to curing cancer.

  15. Re:Papers please on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend and her family went on vacation to the Bahamas so I had her do a little experiment for me. I had her just see which was harder, moving between the states for her connecting flight or flying back INTO the country.
    When they landed back home she called me and told me I was right, they basically waved them onto the plane from the Bahamas but for the flight out it was torture dealing the TSA.

    The most humorous thing was a day later finding out she had her lighter in her jacket pocket the entire flight home, so even on the connecting flight up from Florida it was on her and she didn't know and no one checked for it.

  16. Re:Helmet Society on McDonald's UK CEO Blames Video Games for Childhood Obesity · · Score: 1

    I know I think of the crap we pulled as kids behind our parents backs (and even with our parents watching). And all I can think now is "Damn, someone's going to call social services on my ass and get me arrested and my children taken away" It's not that the toys/games are getting more advanced and more engaging... It's that that rusty piece of metal in the dirt is now seen as something that will kill you instead of the sword that slays the dragon (read: younger sibling). In our quest to "think of the children" we're shot ourselves in the foot because you can't run around too much in a plastic bubble.

  17. Re:Where the hell are the fundies? on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    I really dislike people taking Revelations as a prophetic view of the world. At the time Christians/Jews where prosecuted for their beliefs by the Romans and I like the stance that 3:16-18 hold to political stance againstNero rather than some future anti-Christ.

  18. Re:And if you DON'T have a driver's license...???? on National ID Cards Mandated in the US, If You're Under 50 · · Score: 1

    There are state ID's that are NOT drivers licenses. You can get them as a form of "official photo ID" At least in the state of Ohio

  19. Re:How can I... on Legalize File Sharing, Say Swedish MPs · · Score: 1

    now they will (hopefully) legalize file-sharing...
    I'm lost... Did that criminalize file transfers? As in I cannot sent you a .JPG file I created?
    Or as you hopping they're legalize copy write infringement using file-sharing protocols?
  20. Title is akward then on 12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007 · · Score: 1

    You're kidding, right?
    No, it reads as though only 12 companies where caught in the whole of 2007. I'm sure more than 12 companies where caught stealing, but these are just top 12.
  21. Just had to slip one in? on Chemical Reaction Changes Color Over and Over · · Score: 2, Funny

    Like Mitt Romney speaking on social issues, the undulating brew just can't make up its mind.
    did they HAVE to take a political jab in the science blog?
  22. slightly misleading title on 12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007 · · Score: 1

    12 Companies Caught Stealing Software in 2007? It's the TOP 12 fined... I'm pretty sure more than 12 companies stole...

  23. Re:These things happen on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    Is it possible that people can refuse to use the Diebold machines when they get to the poll? Can't we just say, "give me the paper ballot?"
    In the state of Ohio... YES

    Dibold has plants in Canton, Ohio. So, that's a double slap.
  24. Re:Steal Wi-Fi? on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 1

    I know TFA is about dodging responsibility by maintaining an open WAN. But, dispite you ID you must be new here... This is Slashdot, We don't RTFA before we comment...

  25. Re:Steal Wi-Fi? on Schneier Says 'Steal this Wi-Fi' · · Score: 1

    You've already paid for it, now you're letting someone else use it.
    The same argument can be made for music in an odd way, but, that didn't stop DRM from going into effect.