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  1. Re:CD-cheat? on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    Then you would have downloaded and installed via steam, which has no cd, and thus no cd copy protection. I don't understand how / why a legit user would want / need to use a keygen anyway...

  2. Re:Oblig Quote on Half-Life 2 Ship Date Confirmed · · Score: 1

    give me bot support damnit!

  3. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reichstag fire anyone?

  4. Re:Leaving the Garden of Eden on Astronaut Wants Space Program With No Frills · · Score: 1

    Yeah lets exchange one gravity well for another. Granted that hole isn't as deep but still... If you really want to get things going, a moon base would be a better first step.

  5. Re:Conversion on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 1

    my suggestion to you: drink heavily. oh and move to tokyo. beer vending machines =)

  6. Re:Escapism at 36MPG on Ford Launches First American Hybrid · · Score: 1

    notice how they're carefully saying 36 in the city only? I wonder how well that little 2.3 liter v4 does chugging along on its own on the freeway. I'll have to keep wondering since I didn't see it listed anywhere.

  7. Re:35 new models? on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 1

    I _hate_ clamshell phones. Haven't seen one yet that isn't a flimsy piece of crap

    And that my friend is exactly why Nokia took so damn long to make them. They are flimsy and break easily, but damned if people don't like em anyway.

  8. Re:35 new models? on Nokia Losing its Cell Phone Dominance · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It does when one of those choices is the 6255. To quote the meat of the link

    Nokia released its most advanced CDMA handset, the 6255, at the recent CTIA show in Atlanta. Unusually for Nokia, the 6255 is a clamshell phone and introduces many features previously unseen in any of their phones. Dual color screens, MMC memory card support, a camera with flash and digital zoom, video player, streaming media capability, an MP3/AAC player and FM radio are among the features that make the 6255 one of the most powerful clamshells on the market.

    Unfortunately for Nokia, a large flood of choices might not help them. They really need to drive the next innovation. Being so late to the flip phone party as well as supporting crappy components even on their high end, has burned them badly. They needed flip with mega pixel on the market 6 months ago. Unfortunately the phone linked above isn't slated to come out until the end of this year (according to the link), and it isn't even mega-pixel. I think this one model will do quite a bit of good (above is the CDMA model, but I believe theres a GSM version as well). OTOH, flip isn't everything. Its been a hole in their product lineup, but that doesn't mean every phone they release from now on should be a flip. Nokia's got pretty deep pockets, and plenty of innovative ideas. I'm sure they'll weather this little storm.

  9. Re:This looks cool, however.... on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 3, Insightful

    its also a way for them to help target marketing

  10. Re:Well on Good Online FPS Games/Servers For Beginners? · · Score: 1

    actually i've been tk'd on purpose =) i've had people switch from opfor to my team just to tk me. talk about flattering ;-)

  11. Re:The Da Vinci Code on The Golden Ratio · · Score: 1

    And you should read Holy Blood, Holy Grail and see where Mr Brown got his ideas from =)

  12. Re:Better search results than Google? It will happ on Better Search Results Than Google? · · Score: 1

    You just need a system that doesn't rely so much on heuristics, and relies more on humans.

  13. Re:WTF are you talking about? on Apple Claims Ownership of Shareware · · Score: 2, Informative

    I believe this doesn't hold in California.

  14. Re:Degrees? on Ph.Ds in IT - Good or Bad for a Career? · · Score: 1

    Yup. This is how I got my previous job. They were interested in what I knew, but REALLY interested in how I dealt with not knowing an answer. I guess too many people are used to being in school, where even an attempt at an answer, however lame, is the accepted and expected action when being "tested". In the real world, people need to admit when they're wrong, or when they don't know something. Alot of students just don't seem to understand that.

  15. Re:Post-Google Searching on Search Engine Learns From User Feedback · · Score: 1

    add netnose to your list!

  16. Netnose! on Search Engine Learns From User Feedback · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not trying to steal the show too much from whittlebit, but theres another new search engine recently released. Netnose lets the users decide which keywords a web page should be listed under. The search results also include handy identifiers about the page content like whether it has popups, or contains adult material (as decided by the raters).

  17. Re: what a mess on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    no... see the difference is that these guys actually have a case =)

  18. Re:Um, right on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    I feel the need to plug netnose. We do things a little differently.

  19. Re:Newsflash: on DirecTV Sues Anyone Who Bought Smartcard Reader? · · Score: 1

    theres a plethora of legit uses for a smart card programmer... how could they attack so broadly?

  20. Re:There's this really cool site called "Yahoo!" on A Search Engine For The Slower Net · · Score: 1

    Yahoo isn't ever changing. Its pretty static. What you want is netnose. Its sort of a hybrid search engine / directory. Data is processed like yahoo or dmoz, where content is rated/ranked by human editors, but theres no paid editors, and no signup/registration... so anyone can do it. Yet the "catagories" aka keywords, are more dynamic and without a heirarchy. The most important thing though, is that we rate the relative significance of the keywords to the content, not just rating the content itself. We aren't as concerned with how good content is... we just want people to be able to find it.

  21. Re:Embed it into the Service on Star Wars Galaxies Auctions Afoot · · Score: 1

    I think if they make the auctioning an "official" part of the game, they start getting into territory where the SEC is going to start asking questions. Suddenly credits in game X has a certain identifiable exchange rate with cash. Perhaps this is similar to why casino chips can no longer be used outside the casino?

  22. Re:Not the worst, but... on Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided Ships · · Score: 1

    GIVE IT TIME.

    Right now, its all about how you play really. You can chose to (once you advance a little) do a dive roll attack, switch to standing postion to pop off a few rounds, then go to prone, take advantage of cover, and aim carefully to zero in for the kill. But no. Most people do the optimal kiting while using their best special attack move over and over on autorun. Its not sony's fault. Its how you play. You could group and go after bigger things (even the newbies) that have more than a snowball's chance in hell of actually killing you. You do the group interaction thing, gain xp very quickly, and you can actually focus on up'ing your skill in more than one weapon. The people attacking the small critters right outside of town represent just one part of the playerbase.

    As to flying around in a speeder, or travelling to yavin IV in your x-wing... its coming. Of course, you'll probably have to have an advanced character to do these things, but you can do them. Its not all about dancing wookies and building campsites with bone and hide. If you really want to get into the universe, find a good RP server and get into it. There are plenty of people willing to work together to make it happen, are you one?

  23. Re:because it's just a fucking game on Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues · · Score: 1
    at last you understand =)

    ...there is no security.

  24. Re:Does anyone even pay attention to SCO anymore? on SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code · · Score: 1

    yes he did... and RMS didn't even come close.

  25. Re:that'll never happen on Quantum Computing Programming Language · · Score: 1

    This could be good for windows. They'll be able to blame all the bugs on heisenburg.