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• Commented on Your World of Warcraft toon on a poster
  *facepalm* SOE owns Everquest... been a long day. sigh....
• Commented on Dumpster, wrong color
  ZING! Nicely done. I'm unsavvy codewise enough to also have not gotten it off the bat. Few things are funny when they're explained, this is one of them. Awesome....
• Commented on Your World of Warcraft toon on a poster
  Cease and Desist from SONY in 5...4....3......
• Commented on Void Watch
  Curse you, Rob! I have too many watches as it is, and now I'm lost and drooling over at Watchismo again... as if having bought 2 watches in the past 2 months isn't bad enough. Does that mean I'm due...
• Commented on Camels terrorize Australian outback town
  I agree with the lobbyists... eat them. Change their status from "invasive" to "tasty" and a liability becomes a resource. Problem solved. Eventually. I could eat camel without a second thought. I'm pretty much omnivorous, only drawing the line at...
• Commented on The Glenn Beck Party?
  I'm appalled that my favorite website would stoop so low as to use the term "spokesdouche". Such crass name calling, when Real Americans (TM) know that Beckerhead is the leader for right-thinking, decent people....
• Commented on Redhead 12-year-old assaulted over Facebook message citing South Park episode?
  I've just gotta ask... what kind of assault are we talking about here? From the article it sounds very much like the typical stuff that I and anyone smaller than their peers had to endure in middle school. I feel...
• Commented on YouTube's new 3D showcase
  I much prefer the cross-eyed method as it works with images larger than the distance between your eyes, while the parallel method is limited in size... unless you're a chameleon. Or Marty Feldman. Easy 3-D trick I use on road...
• Commented on Police officer tasers a 10-year-girl who resisted being taken to a youth center
  Geez, folks... quit jumping to conclusions. This is Ozark, Arkansas we're talking about here. A cop, a tazer, and a 10 year old girl can only mean one thing there: foreplay. Sheesh. Both the cop and the mother aughtta be...
• Commented on All-in-one ectoplasm measurement device
  I hadn't caught Edmund's name til you mentioned it. They've always dealt in such pseudo-sciencey things, as far as I can remember. They were selling plastic pyramids in the 70's to sharpen your razors and make.. umm.. mummy-jerky or something....
• Commented on Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot
  Yeah, it's making me want to start the whole fractal exploration thing again. I taught my stepson how to generate the set (trying to get him into math, which he used to hate) then passed him a copy of Turbulent...
• Commented on Mandelbulb: 3D Mandelbrot
  Ooooooohhhh...... Nerdgasm! Since the first time I ever wrote code to construct the Mandelbrot set I've dreamed of it in 3D. Note to self: follow more dreams...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  So, if we're going to use the fair housing example and apply it to gaming, this would mean that Sony does not have to make their games more accessible, but they WOULD have to allow the use of third party...
• Commented on Is Sony legally required to make its games accessible to disabled people?
  I'm with others here who have pointed out that the authors arguments are off in the weeds, so I'll stick to SONY. I can't see that they are under any legal or moral obligation to unwillingly incorporate additional suitability into...
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  Now THAT is a very real concern, but one would hope that the importance of maintaining something like a nuke plant would be self-evident, even to our appallingly uneducated electorate. The thorny issue of fission really isn't the plants themselves,...
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  "Humans can't be trusted to run nuclear plants. Nuclear plant operation requires attentiveness and intelligence, which are in short supply... just like common sense." Ya know, they don't just take some guy bored with his job at Mickey D's and...
• Commented on Tickling the Dragon: Nuclear accidents in the US and Russia
  I'm an ex-Navy nuke operator, in case anyone wonders about the following. It's interesting hearing mention of meltdown-proof designs. The old pressurized water design is still in use for 2 main reasons: safety and relative ease of construction. Three Mile...
• Commented on Europeans! Call your MEP today to block net surveillance proposal!
  I'd be all over this, but I live in the states. Keep plugging these issues. I think more people realize their importance than you think....
• Commented on The Lost Art of Cable Lacing
  Definitely not lost. I work for ATT in whatever central office needs me to beat up stuff and all wiring, new and old, is laced this way. The guys who do the installation work are quite proud of their lacing...
• Commented on Walkman NW-A84
  I like. Depending on specs, it might actually tempt me to buy a sony product after 10 years (I got tired of the proprietary batteries, formats etc and put them on my do-not-buy list)...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  @7 Cicada: I'd like to formally nominate your sheepfucker statement for "Comment of the Decade". I will be doing my part to make sure the entire world is familiar with that statement. Thank you for making my year. (and you...
• Commented on Internet addiction camp inmates wave signs pleading for help
  WTF? I mean, seriously, WTF? If this were somewhere in the civilized world, I'd be thinking prank. But we're talking China, where not being a Loyal Party Member is tantamount to crime. Anyone wanna explain to me why we buy...
• Commented on Adobe: Once you license software in France, you can only use it in French
  For you folks suggesting GIMP, CSx has the ability to work in greater than 8-bit per channel color depth. Depending on what you're doing, this can be an issue. I'm an astrophotographer (hobbyist) and I simply have to work in...
• Commented on Unexplained space phenomena captured in photo of Saturn's rings
  Looks more to me like it's an icy body on the ring plane, as opposed to something moving through the ring plane. Notice that the debris trail is directly in line with the shadow. Saturn's rings are almost directly edge...
• Commented on Review: Vivitar Vivicam 8025 and T328
  Skint Cat, for a couple hundred bucks you can't go wrong with any of Canon's Powershot cams. Easily pocketable, great pic quality and enough settings to make it versatile....
• Commented on Review: Vivitar Vivicam 8025 and T328
  Wow, everyone missed the biggest selling point? Come on, folks! This little beauty has a digital lens! That's a bargain at any price!...
• Commented on Blue Food Coloring Un-Paralyzes Rats
  Not gonna bash the innate cruelties of research, it's a necessary evil IMO. That said, The first thing I thought of when I saw the pic was how hopelessly sad that poor thing looked....
• Commented on Hammer as "cure" for constipation?
  Geez folks... I woke up my wife reading these comments. Youse are in some rare form tonight....
• Commented on Fujifilm's FinePix S200EXR: Like An SLR, Only Not
  Wow, one comment when I get here, and it's spam. Sad. Neat camera, but not likely to compete at that price point. I can spend that and get a full-function DSLR with similar resolution. Oh well....
• Commented on New black spot on Jupiter -- from comet, asteroid?
  dculberson, I've been in this hobby for over 30 years, and I can most certainly assure you that $10K is considerably more than most amateur astronomers have tied up in a mirror and mount. And those of you looking for...