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  1. Re:What's with the nationalism on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 5, Funny

    You all have it wrong, technically he apologised.

  2. theregoestheinternet? Not so fast! on SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    FTFA:

    Most, if not all, major web applications have implementation level protections against CSRF, such as random nonces in web forms that must be submitted along with any request. Those protection measures are effective against this new SSL man in the middle attack. Therefore, this vulnerability has minimal security impact for most websites and Internet users.

    I know this is /., but come on and at least check when it's a claim as big as "theregoestheinternet."

  3. Re:This was news 3 weeks ago? on Element 114 Verified · · Score: 1

    you must be new here. half the stories on here end up like that

  4. They've had this for a long long time. on Texting Toddlers, How Young is Too Young? · · Score: 1

    It's called a Speak & Spell. See Wikipedia for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_%26_Spell_(toy)

  5. Re:Windows 7? on XP Users Are Willing To Give Windows 7 a Chance · · Score: 5, Informative

    They arrived at 7 for the version number in this way: Windows 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 lines are self-explanatory. The NT4 and Windows 95/98/ME family were all part of the 4.x version of Windows. Win2000 and XP were 5.x, so naturally Vista was 6.0. That leaves us at 7 for the new Windows.

  6. When it works, it's actually pretty good. on America's Army 3 Has Rough Launch, Development Team Canned · · Score: 1

    I managed to get in a few servers and get a half hour of combat in. It's very intense and really a good tactical shooter. If the auth server had any stability or capacity there would be no story here aside from a few bugs that can be eliminated quickly. (Such as having two main menus up at the same time in-game, a few minor animation bugs, etc.)

  7. Mortal Kombat, anyone? on When Does Gore Get In the Way of Gameplay? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Mortal Kombat.

    I can't think of a single game that was successful to such a high degree based only upon the amount of violence in it. Not only that, but for the first 3 or so titles the only differences between characters were their 2-6 special moves and their finshers. They were still wallowing in awful, shallow gameplay and raking in millions while 3D fighters were coming in, and didn't even get things right on the 3D front for a long time.

    Oddly enough, the only place (apart from gore) that Mortal Kombat shines is in the story department. Those guys at Midway actually try to make a decent comic-book-ish plot out of things.

  8. Re:No on The Survival of Survival Horror · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree on the lack of scare in these newer games, but I'd like to have my scares while having some semblance of decent controls. The genre essentially says "Here's the game, here's the archaic and awful controls with which we cripple you in order to make the game scarier."

  9. Yeah, but... on Mechanical AI Made In LittleBigPlanet · · Score: 0

    ...wait until the level gets taken down by Sony with no explanation!

  10. Re:What's the point? on Aussie Censorship "Live Trials" Won't Be Live · · Score: 1

    You've never tried Censoring the Internet until you've tried Australian-Rules Censoring!

  11. Knew it wasn't just me on USPS Server Meltdown · · Score: 1

    I work at a small used bookstore and we use USPS's own Shipping Assitant program for labels, and I had to do weverything by hand the past two days because the program was whining about some connection error. Lol.

  12. Re:1968 science fiction on Resurrecting the Mighty Mammoth, Cheaply · · Score: 1

    on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

  13. Re:Space age materials? on Oil-Immersion Cooled PC Goes To Retail · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but compare that to air cooling. Air is HOW old?

    Older than dirt...I mean John McCain?

    (On that note, do HTML strikethrough tags not work? I couldn't get the deprecated or working, or the proper either.)

  14. Re:IT Wins? on IT Vs. the Permanent Energy Crisis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if the New Green Paradigm is Web 2.0 friendly.

  15. Re:I wish the dev would.. on Developer Praises Complexity of Time-Based Puzzles In "Braid" · · Score: 1

    so 2038 is the year of the linux desktop?

  16. Re:more importantly on Two-Player Pong Homebrew Arrives On PS3 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    piracy-enablers?

  17. Re:wow PC?!? on Street Fighter IV to Hit PS3, 360, and PC, Not Wii · · Score: 1

    Don't hold your breath. Capcom is notorious for terrible PC ports.

  18. Re:Marvel vs Capcom 3 plz. on Street Fighter IV to Hit PS3, 360, and PC, Not Wii · · Score: 1

    Won't happen because EA is Marvel's partner at the moment...at least I think they still are. The SEGA-made Iron Man game might throw a wrench in my theory.

    And Mortal Kombat sucks.

  19. Re:So... this means... on Gaze Gaming Tech Promises Faster Eye-Controlled Interaction · · Score: 1

    Si. :)

  20. Where's the oblig. tag? on VR Study Says 40% of Us Are Paranoid · · Score: 1

    You know, the "ohnoitsroland" one. In fact, I'm paranoid that there's some sort of conspiracy to silence his detractors...

  21. Re:Wireless on Increased US Broadband Adoption Could Create 2.4 Million Jobs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you saying a 128k connection should be enough for anybody?

  22. Re:Arcades were still operating in Japan? on Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures · · Score: 1

    If you're saying he's biased against Mortal Kombat, you're mistaking bias for good taste.

  23. Re:Arcades were still operating in Japan? on Namco Blames Wii for Arcade Closures · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Arcades in America closed because almost all but the largest were terribly maintained and many games took more quarters than they were worth. Bad management and little retarded kids breaking in the buttons till they don't work anymore is what killed the Arcade in the U.S..

  24. Re:RealPlayer on Yahoo Music Shutting Down, Users Going to Real · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would have loved to read your post, but I waited five minutes for it to buffer and I got bored...

  25. Oblig. on Multitasking Makes You Stupid and Slow · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always ask my students, "What will you do with the abilities and opportunities you are given?" The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!