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Comment Re:Not true (Score 1) 221

by hampton on Monday August 09, 2010 @12:37PM (#33190638) Attached to: Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade

I spent over a decade and almost $70,000 of my own money on personal growth.

Could you please elaborate?

Comment Got it (Score 1, Insightful) 381

by hampton on Thursday May 06, 2010 @11:04PM (#32121536) Attached to: CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada

So in otherwords prices for all Bell broadband customers are going up $22.50 a month.

Comment Re:If no one will say it, I will...... (Score 1) 237

by hampton on Thursday May 06, 2010 @01:17AM (#32108254) Attached to: Another Stab At a Canadian DMCA

you guy's are dangerous.

I'm not your guy, buddy!

Comment In other news (Score 1) 294

by hampton on Sunday March 21, 2010 @03:59PM (#31559572) Attached to: Switzerland Passes Violent Games Ban

In other news, piracy of violent video games in Switzerland is up 12000%.

StarCraft II Closed Beta Begins 268

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 17, 2010 @05:46PM from the rush-starts-now dept.

Blizzard announced today that the multiplayer beta test for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty is now underway. The client downloader is available through Battle.net for people who have received invites, and the system requirements have been posted as well. A list of known issues is up on the official forums. StarCraft II and the revamped Battle.net are planned for release "in the first half of 2010."

Comment Uh oh... (Score 5, Funny) 148

by hampton on Saturday January 16, 2010 @03:21PM (#30792326) Attached to: CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time

What happens when it discovers lolcats?

Comment Re:Yet another cloud? (Score 1) 366

by hampton on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:00PM (#30304610) Attached to: Intel Shows 48-Core x86 Processor

Because then it would just be vapor.

Comment Oblig (Score -1, Redundant) 306

by hampton on Saturday September 12, 2009 @12:33PM (#29398937) Attached to: Russia's New Official Holiday — Programmer's Day

In Soviet Russia, holiday celebrates you!

Comment Re:How does it aim? (Score 1) 287

by hampton on Saturday August 15, 2009 @11:38AM (#29076195) Attached to: Airborne Laser Successfully Tracks, Hits Missile

If it does not, how does it get pointed in the right direction fast enough?

Easy. Think of how fast a shark can turn!

Comment Re:It's like quitting smoking. (Score 2, Funny) 257

by hampton on Sunday August 09, 2009 @10:56PM (#29007217) Attached to: Shaw Cable Again Blocks Firewire On Canadian Set-Top Boxes

Obligatory Onion:

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

Comment Re:Why are they squatting robots? (Score 1) 216

by hampton on Sunday August 02, 2009 @02:05AM (#28914359) Attached to: Toyota Reveals A Humanoid Robot That Can Run

And where is the ASIMO Type R?!

Comment In otherwords... (Score 4, Funny) 281

by hampton on Thursday July 23, 2009 @07:48PM (#28801967) Attached to: The Rocky Road To Wind Power

If we don't solve the size problem it will lead to an erection problem.

Comment Re:Go with eleven years (Score 5, Funny) 539

by hampton on Thursday July 23, 2009 @01:08AM (#28791747) Attached to: Artificial Brain '10 Years Away'

No one would use eleven years in a cliche.

Spinal Tap would.

Comment This makes me sad (Score 1) 105

by hampton on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @09:40PM (#28448145) Attached to: Boingo Awarded a Patent For Hotspot Access

Sad enough to use a frowny. :-( (TM)

Comment Re:Unpopular (Score 5, Insightful) 836

by hampton on Thursday June 18, 2009 @02:36PM (#28377629) Attached to: Montana City Requires Workers' Internet Accounts

How are there even 2% that don't consider it an invasion of privacy?

They're the trolls who loudly proclaim "if you're not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to hide" regarding every privacy issue.

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