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.
Comment Ebola (Score 4, Funny) 157
There once was a man from Angola
Who contracted a case of Ebola.
He puked out his guts,
Not excluding his nuts,
Then died as he cried out, "Ricola!"
Comment Re:Is This A Bad Phobia To Have? (Score 1) 126
This is NOT a myth! I spent some time in Central America, and I had a friend who was having issues with one of his ears. After some failed attempts at medicating, a doctor took a closer look... and pulled a small cockroach out of his ear canal.
Comment Re:They forgot the beeping interfaces (Score 1) 874
Mod parent up. I was going to mention this but he beat me to it. Nullsoft beep + your PC = instant Hollywood computing.
Comment I say... (Score 1) 193
Photos or it didn't happen!
Comment Re:Ten years from now - "WoW killed Blizzard" (Score 1) 397
Yes, and it was terribly unbalanced. Humans dominated orcs.
Comment Re:So from what I can gather... (Score 1) 454
Mod parent down. The point he made doesn't apply to the assertion that males evolve at a faster pace than females due to the Y chromosome.
If what you are saying were the reason, then both males and females would be evolving at the same pace, because sperm cells can contain either an X or a Y chromosome.
Comment Re:I can't take girl gamers seriously (Score 1) 284
You completely missed my point. I don't need or want to know if/that other gamers are girls. I would rather not know. I fail to see how it is important for me to know. No, I don't need to celebrate any gamer's femininity. No, I am not looking for female attention as I play. To the contrary, I think the attention whoring of girl gamers and those who would give them that attention detracts from the gaming experience as a whole.
You make the argument that just "being a girl in a game gets you a LOT of attention". But why, then, must girl gamers make sure that everybody knows they are girls? If they didn't want all the attention, they'd just play, just being gamers. Not "girl gamers".
That said, it sounds like I am playing different games than you. My online gaming is primarily in the realm of FPS games and parlor/card games. I don't play MMORPGs, and I think voice chat in games is silly.
