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  1. Virus Name on First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild · · Score: 3, Funny

    How does one come up with a name like "SB/Badbunny-A"? Virus names never make sense to me.

  2. Re:Nikon D40X in 23rd on PC World 's Best 100 Products of 2007 · · Score: 1

    How can two Nikons rank higher than the one Canon they put on the list? They obviously forgot about the 1D MkIII. Seriously, a camera that shoots 10 10-megapixel pictures in one second deserves to be on the list.

  3. Re:EVDO is much faster on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 1

    EDGE is sub-dialup performance.
    Bandwidth
    EDGE
    200-270 Kbps real world downstream
    30-90 Kbps real world upstream I'm pretty sure dialup only goes up to the low 50s. I have no clue what dialup you had.
  4. Re:EDGE? on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 1

    Coast-to-coast coverage? Ok, technically there are cities on both coasts and cities in between with 3G but you would be hard-pressed to get 3G 5 miles outside the city limits. You want coverage? Take Texas, for example. Last time I check, Cingular claimed to cover 14 cities. Sounds impressive, right? It sounds like everybody is getting 3G, right? All it takes is a little brains to figure out that those 14 cities make up only 4 metropolitan areas and judging from the coverage maps, coverage does not extend beyond the city limits. That means the two cities I live in(college and hometown) with over 100,000 people each don't have coverage because neither is next to another large town or two. I am currently just a few miles outside of a city of 110,000 and two hours from 3G coverage(if I drive the speed limit). At college, I'm in a city of 200,000 and an hour away from 3G coverage. Do you call that coast-to-coast coverage? Because I sure don't.

  5. Re:Low tech phone on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    It only works on 850/1900 in the US because that is all that is used. It also supports 900/1800 according to Apple.

  6. Re:Important Points on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: -1, Troll

    Thank you, but I've been here for a little while. Maybe you accidentally replied to the wrong post? Your welcome is much more appropriate for the person I was replying to.

  7. Re:Important Points on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wish it was still modded flamebait. The very first statement was blatantly false and misleading and the last was "Lame". That looks like classic flamebait to me.

  8. Re:well-thats-not-very-exciting on FCC Approves iPhone · · Score: 5, Informative

    It does have 900/1800. The FCC didn't approve them because they aren't used in the US. It still got all the approval it needed to be sold.

  9. Re:Garaunteed Failure on Halo 3 Cinematics To Be Great Improvements on Halo 2's · · Score: 1

    Because every game should be mindlessly shooting anything that moves and nothing more, right?

  10. Re:Instead of cinematics... on Halo 3 Cinematics To Be Great Improvements on Halo 2's · · Score: 1

    You mean to say that if they work on a cutscene at all they are spending too much time on it? I've been reading the updates on the Bungie website and they spend most of the time talking about everything but cinematics. You must have been really young in 1996, I would have been blown away by Halo: CE's graphics in 1996.

  11. Re:Garaunteed Failure on Halo 3 Cinematics To Be Great Improvements on Halo 2's · · Score: 1

    What is this talk of prerendered scenes? They've said numerous times they will not use prerendered scenes.

  12. Re:Not hard to do on Halo 3 Cinematics To Be Great Improvements on Halo 2's · · Score: 1

    The new Halo engine is much more powerful than the old. That's why Halo 3 won't be on the Xbox. Obviously, you weren't paying attention when they said a long time ago that they wished they had better graphics and they would still be using the game engine to do the cutscenes. Have you seen the trailers(not the Superbowl ad) on the Bungie website? They are rendered with the game engine and they look incredible.

  13. Re:Lamest Slashdot Story In A Long Time on Halo Science - Ringworlds and Plasma Weapons · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's a reason this was posted by an AC. Please note the "Coward" portion of the name and start modding this shit down.

  14. Re:Yeah, that was a good one. on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    All those bits that make up the entry take up real-world space somewhere on a hard drive in a computer that costs money, so theoretically one could run out of "paper" but it is pretty unlikely.

  15. Re:This is stupid on A New Wireless Power Transmission Sheet · · Score: 1

    Oh, I did before I posted the first reply. The pad is still easier. Who wants to search for the wire and the the hole to plug it in when you can just set it down on the pad?

  16. Re:This is stupid on A New Wireless Power Transmission Sheet · · Score: 1

    While standardized plugs would be nice, you still need 4 chargers to charge 4 devices simultaneously. With the pad you'd only need to plug one thing into the wall.

  17. Re:This is stupid on A New Wireless Power Transmission Sheet · · Score: 1

    Not only is the GP right, I would contend that this is much less useful than Bluetooth. Bluetooth has a range often measured in meters, not centimeters. Wouldn't it look silly if your phone was almost dead and someone called you while it was charging on this thing? You wouldn't be able to pick up the phone so you would have to lay your head on the phone!

    Wireless charging is neat but the range needs to be vastly improved to be useful.

  18. Re:My Hope on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Nobody said God hasn't created life on other planets(unfortunately, nobody can claim He has, either). He is omniscient and omnipotent, so He is fully capable of running more than just the Human race. One of the first things I do in RTS games is start colonies. The starting people would be The Chosen Ones.

    I think it is entirely probably that we aren't alone in the Universe. This planet only 20 lightyears away could certainly help us prove that along with other unimaginable benefits.

  19. Re:When do tickets go on sale? on Earthlike Planet Orbiting Nearby Star · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, your account number only contains two different digits.

  20. Re:Oh, great on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    If I had mod points, I would mod every single one of your posts "Troll".

  21. Re:Oh, great on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    You could call it that but you'd have to start calling Lexus a rebranded Toyota.

  22. Re:It was trouble on Is Windows Vista in Trouble? · · Score: 1

    You should try going right to the source. Microsoft has a whole little website set up just to tell you about the things Vista has.

  23. Re:Advertisements on Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? · · Score: 1

    Don't you know that the "Printer Friendly" page has almost no ads, if any, and you don't have to keep clicking to the next page? You don't have to print it.

  24. Re:Spherical projection on Mapping the Blogosphere · · Score: 1

    That would be extremely difficult, but it does not appear that the links are represented by tunnels, just lines that follow the curvature of the sphere.

  25. Re:Advertisements on Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know about you, but with only 10 sentences, a single picture on the first page, and no printer-friendly page, I refuse to read the rest of the article.