Comment Re:Fat cash (Score 1) 66
The same crowd that thinks phone calls are obsolete.
Comment Re:Pity (Score 1) 97
Are you calling Mr. T a giant African rat?
Comment Re:Why the sex offenders registration? (Score 1) 584
Um, actually, by most accounts he IS a pedophile. RTFS. He expressed physical intimacy to the victim family's 4-year-old son. They called the cops on his pedo ass, and his continued acts were in retaliation.
I assure you it is far, far from normal for a grown man to go around planting smooches on 4-year-old boys.
Comment Crackers call to arms (Score 1) 535
If ever anyone was unsure that the 3DS would be fully cracked for flash cartridges etc., the existence of this game should make it absolutely sure that will happen.
Comment Re:Are we assuming (Score 1) 492
That Miss USA isn't a geek just because she is a girl, or is it because she is attractive?
I haven't met her myself, but isn't it actually quite possible that she is a history geek?
If she was Miss America, THEN it would be safe to assume. Miss USA? Naaaah.
Comment Controllers look VERY pricey (Score 1) 330
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet. What the heck happens when one of your [kids, douchey semi-friends, drunken evil twins, etc.] drops and breaks one of these controllers?
If you ask me, these controllers look like a VERY bad idea, if only for this reason. I'd imagine the controllers alone are going to be $100 a pop. I don't think I'll be buying this, if only to prevent assault charges on myself when I rage after one inevitably gets broken by somebody being careless.
Comment Article fail. (Score 3, Insightful) 335
Quirky non-conformity is NOT the same as social retardation.
From the way I see it, most "non-conformists" conform quite well to their smaller, alternative cliques.
Comment Re:Daycares (Score 1) 615
Just because you telecommute doesn't mean you can suddenly take your kids out of day care. Unless you aren't actually working, or aren't actually supervising your kids.
Comment Re:The usual. (Score 1) 393
Funny how the party that sells themselves as adhering to the constitution always seems to be the ones that do everything possible outside the bounds of the constitution...
It's not funny. It's sickening.
Comment Re:the trolls are out in force (Score 1) 693
No, I'm not a troll. I had Google SafeSearch turned on to the Strict setting. I turned it off and got the expected results.
Try turning it on then repeat the searches. You'll get the same result as I previously did.
So maybe Google's search engine is fine, but their SafeSearch is broken. Either way, it's a fail.
Comment Google is failing (Score 1) 693
That Google would need to set up a sting makes one wonder if they are not a little insecure about their engine. In the past week I have run into a couple of situations where Google absolutely failed.
Try searching Google for "Martin Guitars" or "Jet City Amps". The official sites aren't even on the first page of results on Google. On Bing? They're both the first result.
I hate Microsoft as much as they deserve (which is a lot) but whenever I am unimpressed with Google, I try Bing and am getting more and more impressed with it. I can't blame them for using their competition to their advantage.
Comment Re:Best graphics update (Score 1) 518
They need to release an updated graphics package for Adventure. I can't wait to play this game as a high definition square block.
Someone was working on a very promising Quake 3 mod to do just this:
http://www.ataritimes.com/article.php?showarticle=268
Looks like you can download the map, but not the unfinished mod.
Someone was working on a very promising Quake 3 mod to do just this:
http://www.ataritimes.com/article.php?showarticle=268
Looks like you can download the map, but not the unfinished mod.
Comment Diebold machine improvements (Score 2, Interesting) 1530
I was glad to see this time around that the Diebold machines did a great job of allowing me to quadruple-check my vote, AND created a paper trail right before my eyes.
Looks like they finally got it right, at least in my precinct.
Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule 97
Dog owners can sleep easy tonight because physicists have discovered how rapidly a wet dog should oscillate its body to dry its fur. Presumably, dogs already know. From the article: "Today we have an answer thanks to the pioneering work of Andrew Dickerson at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and a few buddies. But more than that, their work generates an interesting new conundrum about the nature of shaken fur dynamics. Dickerson and co filmed a number of dogs shaking their fur and used the images to measure the period of oscillation of the dogs' skin. For a labrador retriever, this turns out to be 4.3 Hz."
Comment You might be a redneck if... (Score 1) 386
You might be a redneck if you've ever had sex in a satellite dish.
