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  1. Re:False sense of security on Rear-View Cameras On Cars Could Become Mandatory In the US · · Score: 0

    your story is sexist.

  2. finally! on Microsoft To Charge Phone Makers a Licensing Fee · · Score: 1

    without concern for infringing on intellectual properties, i can finally create that simpsons soundboard app.

  3. the terrorists have won. on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 2

    And with that, the terrorists have truly won. Luckily the next round starts in 30... 29... 28...

  4. OK, here we are.. alt.nerd.obsessive on Comcast Discontinues Customers' USENET Service · · Score: 1

    NEED KNOW STAR RM PIC

  5. Re:This is old news on Building the World's 4th Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1
    "What most people don't know is that this project is funded by the Tata Group"

    You mean this tata group? http://www.savethetatas.com/

  6. Getting an NES cartridge to work on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    Blow in it. Push it as far back as you can or let it teeter where the connectors are barely touching. Shift it from side to side when it's pushed in and down before turning the system on. Stick another cartridge in the space once the cartridge is pushed down to keep it a little further down than it sits naturally. Swab the connectors with a q-tip. Swab the connectors with an alcohol soaked q-tip. Last resort: buff the connectors with your mom's fingernail file (not because you'll damage the cartridge, but because you'll have to explain to your mom why her file has green dust on it). HTH.

  7. Re:Especially technophobes and the visually impare on Web Ads Work Better Than TV Ads · · Score: 1

    Haha, just last week I e-mailed my mom a link on how to restore iPod factory settings on about.com. Half an hour later, she called and asked if she had to install the program that the page told her to install. The page I sent her had no such instructions. She had clicked on an ad on the site thinking that it was part of the instructions.

  8. The Future of IT on Bees Can Optimize Internet Bottlenecks · · Score: 1

    IT Support Guy 1: Well, sure is quiet in here today. IT Support Guy 2: Yes, a little too quiet, if you know what I mean. IT Support Guy 1: Hmm...I'm afraid I don't. IT Support Guy 2: You see, bees usually make a lot of noise. No noise -- suggests no bees! IT Support Guy 1: Oh, I understand now. Oh look, there goes one now. IT Support Guy 2: To the Beemobile! IT Support Guy 1: You mean your Chevy? IT Support Guy 2: Yes.

  9. Re:Whimsy on Japan's Melody Roads Play Music as You Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Jumping jacks are an exercise. You're thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacks. And they're called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapod_(structure). Take a look at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_death_toll#Tsunamis and tell me you wouldn't be afraid of some waves if you lived in Japan.

  10. schrodinger's tiles on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Could BestBest just claim that they weren't tiles until the consumer opened the box?

  11. Re:But on Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" · · Score: 1

    that's the funniest damned thing i've read/heard in a long time. thank you.

  12. Males vs. Females on Scientists Map the Human Metabolome · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does this project specify which are male or female specific?

  13. Re:My idea on Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    oh yeah! and in Soviet Russia, doesn't car drive you?

  14. Re:My idea on Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the snopes' article about "Sing a Song of Sixpence" being code for pirates, which was completely false, but used as reference by the television show Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed on TLC. http://www.snopes.com/humor/mediagoofs/sixpence.as p
    Similarly I remember hearing a story of old map makers who would include fake landmasses or watermasses so that they could tell if another map maker was copying their maps.
    So it's not really your idea, now is it?

  15. Warflying? on Boeing Drops Wireless System For 787 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could probably just warfly some wireless connection from the ground if you really needed wireless in a plane, right?

  16. Actually, is legal on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "In the United States, U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 331 prohibits "the mutilation, diminution and falsification of United States coinage." The foregoing statute, however, does not prohibit the mutilation of coins if the mutilated coins are not used fraudulently, i.e., with the intention of creating counterfeit coinage. Because elongated coins are made mainly as souvenirs, mutilation for this purpose is legal." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongated_coin#Legali ty

  17. What am I going to spend a dollar squishing, then? on US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, make them smaller, and render souvenir penny squishing machines, in museums and zoos across the nation, useless.. And what about penny slots? You clearly haven't thought this through.

  18. Re:Have Fox got.... on Fox Subpoenas YouTube Over Content · · Score: 1

    Hutz: I didn't win. Here's your pizza.
    Fox: But we did win.
    Hutz: That's okay. The box is empty.

  19. Re:Licensing, licensing, licensing on The Insanely Great Songs Apple Won't Let You Hear · · Score: 1

    There is probably an obvious answer to this, but why is it that I can go to an importing site such as http://www.yesasia.com/ and buy that Japanese dance album? Is yesasia doing something illegal by selling me, in the states, a Japanese album licensed only to Japanese territories? This seems more comparable than the 'walk into a record store' comparison.