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  1. Re:So what? on Pirate Bay Gets a 4,000-Page Complaint · · Score: 0

    but I don't think there's any debate here that what they're doing is illegal...

    Well you see thats where your partly wrong. Your right that there is zero debate about the legality of what there doing but that's becuase distributing torrent files is perfectly legal in Sweden. It's distributing copyrighted music files that's illegal but of course TPB doesn't do that.
  2. Re:Freerange/Organic more important imo on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 0

    You could genetically enginner them so that they can speak then psychologically condition them into telling you its okay to eat them.

  3. Re:That's where we're heading on Filming an Invasion Without Extras · · Score: 0

    Scored 9/10 As far as I could tell as an amateur photographer they got the DOF right in the BMW image and as a 3d modelling hobbyist I know that proper DOF is pretty tricial to implement, as for the diamons becuase of the IOR of diamond and the way its cut it should actually reflect light back out the way it came so you don't get caustic effects on the surface ( again caustics are pretty simple to implemnt these days but do add horrendously to rendering time. ) The biggest hint I went for on this is that the CGI images are too perfect in any actual photos there will be small imperfections and unintended light whereas a CGI image has nothing but what the artist explicitly put there.

  4. Re:Possible outcome. on US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris · · Score: 0

    *cough*JDAM*cough*Tomahawk*cough*F-16*cough*
    Sorry got something stupid stuck in my throat. Anyways as I was saying the US has plenty of weapons sytems that use GPS systems and would either become completely ineffective or seriously crippled without it.

  5. Re:Target audience on Linux-Based PMP Features Head-Up Display · · Score: 0

    After the mal-practice lawsuit you can afford a bag full of corneas... so yeah I guess so.

  6. Re:What's that? on Sony Announces Skype For PSP, Homebrewers Respond · · Score: 0

    Well the difference here is that the PSP has already demonstrated itself as a good portable game and music player. (In my not so humble opinion as a PSP owner) so anything else is just added value, granted though this one doesn't really appeal to me but it is just one more nifty thing that the PSP can do thanks to the rather incredible community behind it.

  7. Re:Specific scenarios? on Vista SP1 Guides for IT Professionals Released · · Score: 0

    Well you see in Microsoft world where everything is 20 years in the past this is bleeding edge stuff, plenty of the technologies being used in Vista really are very old concepts such as: ACls, non root user accounts, multi-user support. So of couse finally being able to move and copy files at a reasonable speed rather then something comparable to a tape reel from the 50s is a pretty significant event.

  8. Re:So maybe you are a prick? on Scammers Continue to Wreak Havoc in MMO's · · Score: 1, Funny

    By do whatever you want you of course mean I can either kill a boar, kill a bear or get one shot killed by a rogue?

  9. Re:Military robots on Military Robots from 2007 to 2032 · · Score: 0

    EX-TERM-IN-ATE!

  10. Re:You insensitive clod.. on Jingle Bells Played With Graphics Card, Santa Wonders Why · · Score: 0

    You get Jingle Bells, it'll jsut be a few octave lower as you pluck away on those large heat sinks of yours. Maybe you can even make a xylophone out of the heat pipes.

  11. Don't Click the link! on IBM Finding Business Uses for Virtual World · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't click the link, it's that goddamn myminicity thing again.

  12. Re:Just another example on Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols · · Score: 0
    The PFIF did something that the EU couldn't do and the US (DOJ) wouldn't do on behalf of anyone.

    There fixed it for you. :D

  13. Re:Laws != Justice on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 0

    Not necessarily. When the article says they were flying at 500 ft, it is most likely quoting the official report which came from the pilot. To a pilot, "flying at 500 ft" means flying at 500 ft above sea level (altimeters measure altitude using barometric pressure, which indicates altitude above sea level, and therefore can't possibly know where the actual ground is). So, if, for example, ground level was actually at 200 ft above sea level, the helicopter would only be 300 ft above the ground. This is probably not an unrealistic altitude for a patrolling police helicopter. Well yes and no. Pilots below 10,000 ft tend to refer to their altidude as distance from the ground, perhaps not exaact distance from the ground but charts should be accurate to within a good 50-100 ft and knowing these things is important to anyone flying around near ground, especially a helicopter pilot where is may be flying extremely close and focusing on following a suspect rather then say a mountain or a nearby radio mast. Also alot of helicopters have transparent cockpits so you look almost straigt down and see what your doing while trying to land so I suspect that shining a laser through the floor wouldn't be too hard of a task, combined wit the shaking of the laser and helicopter it's quite likely that this beam flashed infront of his eyes or at least close enough to confuse and disorient him which would not be a nice thign to happen to someone piloting a heli, can you imagine the consequences if the pilot had crashed? nIhe middle of a residential area no less. anyways thats just my $0.02 CAD worth.
  14. Re:Worst... on Adobe Opens Up AMF Spec · · Score: 0, Insightful

    It's called a summary for a reason, perhaps you would prefer an article? there are a few handy links provided for your benifit in just such a scenario and if even those fail to fulfill your thirst for knowledge you may even type names and acronyms into a rather handily provided web search box placed next to the adress bar in many modern internet browsers. I bid you good day sir and happy trolling.

  15. Re:Videolan has ascii output on Is Shawn Fanning's Snocap melting? · · Score: -1

    You can absolutely perform all of those things, you can "perform" tech support on the software you've created often times for significantly more then you would have received from just a sale of the product, you can perform a lecture on the new drug and techniques and science that went into it or even perform research for new drugs for various companies. You can even perform book readings that will pack entire stadiums, unless of course you have a rather bad voice in which case perhaps you can be like Stephen King who labours constantly to create over a hundred books, rather then attempting to get rich off of one book.

  16. Re:Well on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: -1

    Well given the current statre of drivers an Intel isn't that bad of a chip to use, a bleeding edge ATI chip is probably the worst you can get. PS. Don't get me wrong I like ATI its jsut that the drivers need some^H^H^H^H alot^H^H^H^H an enormous amount of work.

  17. Re:An understatement on Flying Humans · · Score: -1

    Oh dont worry about the landing, there has yet to be a plane that has failed to land yet, I'm more concerned with whether the plane is usable afterwards.

  18. Re:What's the problem? on ISP Inserting Content Into Users' Webpages · · Score: -1

    Just as a small point that may shed some additional light on your situation, by the time a TCP packet reaches wireshark the CRC checks were handles way down the stack by the NIC so very often those values are corrupt and perfectly valid packets get flagged as invalid. The best way to check is to see if other protocols TCP data get through fine or just by disabling TCP checksumming and assuming all packets are valid.

  19. Re:call scotty on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: -1

    I voluntter myself to go around turning the worlds supply of dilithium crystals upside down, for a fairly significant annual salary of course.

  20. Re:No energy is free on New Wave Power Research Rising Off Oregon Coast · · Score: -1

    Sure it will, your using up the moons energe and imperceptibly lowering it's orbit. Over a few thousnd years of realyl extensive use of these technologies you could pull the moon right into the earth, at least with the old tidal generators. These new ones are powered by waves which is caused by winds and currents which is caused largely by solar heat so your probably only going to cool the ocean by about 0.01e-1000 degrees. Remeber kids theirs no such thing as a free lunch, entropy increases and for ever action their is an equal and opposite reaction.

  21. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong.. on Nanorobots for Drug Delivery? · · Score: -1

    NERD!

  22. Re:come on... on Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP · · Score: -1

    distributing MS sourcecode with the OLPC? Might as well distribute the Necronomicon on lizard skin pages ofr all the evil you'll be sending out.

  23. Re:won't protect the contents on Blast-Proof Fabric Resists Multiple Explosions · · Score: -1

    Only if he's suicidal or standing a few miles back with a remote trigger, any idiot knows that a lasgun hitting a shield causes a feedback in both creating a massive explosion, It also attracts worms like crazy assuming you managed to miss your target.

  24. Re:I remember reading about this... on The Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault · · Score: -1

    Well since all the sheep will likely be dead if this thing is ever actually needed I think Hemp would probably make a pretty solid addition to the vault.

  25. Re:Did they consult their customers? on MTV Takes on P2P by Making South Park Free · · Score: -1

    The rest of the world happens to think that Americans don't have a grasp of any language.