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  1. Re:Game Theory? on Game Theory at 190mph · · Score: 1

    Hehe, if you hadn't made the correction, I would. That's what comes of getting your education from Hollywood.

  2. Re:Take a cue from Randy Quaid in 'Vegas Vacation' on Game Theory at 190mph · · Score: 1

    I saw something better a while ago, and haven't been able to find it since... the Beer Bandolier. You can walk around with beers strapped crosswise over your chest and back. Perfect for any BYOB event. We wanted them for the dragstrip, since you do a lot of walking back and forth from the pits to the stands.

  3. Re:This study only concerns drafting tracks. on Game Theory at 190mph · · Score: 1

    If you really want to feel draft get on the highway on a bike. When you're close enough to a tractor trailer (err, we generally call that distance too close) you'll practically be sucked closer.

  4. Re:What the heck is going to happen? on Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I for one am not about to bet national security on whether or not MS can implement a bug free security procedure. As far as FuckedCompany goes, you can't trust the information on that site anyway, it's 90% fabricated. I worked for a company that ended up on the site, and the majority of the posts were from people who still worked there and were pulling the chains of those who read the site religiously.


    This is NOT way cool stuff. What happens in 10 years when documents that haven't been viewed in the past five revisions suddenly become relevant and can't be read? What happens when MS starts "extending" their DRM implementations with every service pack?

  5. Re:No Salary? on LGP Announces Game Development Project · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, also an unqualified statement


    That was the point, it's an opinion. Furthermore, no one said anything about working for free.

  6. Re:No Salary? on LGP Announces Game Development Project · · Score: 1

    Finding good Open Source developers is possible. Finding good artists is harder.


    Uh uh, un-qualified statement. I'd say not only are they of the same dificulty, they're one in the same challenge.

  7. Re:Law Enforcement on Bookseller Purges Records to Avoid PATRIOT Act · · Score: 0, Troll
    who want[sic] to be president
    has to have been an officer in the one of the armed forces.


    Yeah, I veto that right off the bat. I certainly don't want some dummy monkey military meathead in charge of the country.



    Well then you run the problem having to have an "advisor(s)" for the randomly chosen person. It's been in movies a million times the advisor is always corrupt


    And of course using movies as a basis for predicting the events of real life is a valid method of argument.


    Jesus Christ, no wonder this country is in a sad state.

  8. Re:Eva? on Giant Mecha News · · Score: 1

    Hmmm cut out the religious references... we're back down to five minutes: Shinji whines about something, Asuka bitches about something, Misato drinks a beer, and then Penpen looks at everyone and wanders out of the room, end of episode ;)

  9. Sooo... on Symantec Claims They Knew About Slammer In Advance · · Score: 1
    ... some jackass at Wired can't do timezone math. Has anyone used their feedback page to whack them with the cluestick? Of course the /. title is just as bad, "advance warning" implies that they knew about it before it's release.


    As far as moral obligations, I've seen a lot of comments about how they're a company and aren't under any obligation to notify anyone. That's a crock of shit, in the same way that if I witness a crime I'm under obligation to speak up about it, as soon as possible.

  10. Re:Hold on here on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention, you'd think a web developer would test the MAIN FRICKING PAGE against his code for a specific browser, ummm I don't know USING THAT BROWSER!?!?

  11. Re:Lemme get this right on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 1
    I agree, for the most part, it is a necessary evil. However, continuing to politically point out differences as if they matter is something that keeps division going strong. I have no problem with anyone of any race getting a quality education, but based on merit, not on skin color. It's demeaning and disrespectful; it's unfair to both sides.


    It's a touchy subject, one that tends to push people to argue one extreme or the other, a bad trait that I know I'm subject to. To be honest I've argued the extremes on both sides, only to balance out the extreme argument I hear from someone else.


    You're right, ignoring inequality doesn't make it go away, but highlighting it doesn't either.

  12. Re:Not just Pachinko (sexy) on Sega Merges With Pachinko Company Sammy · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'd really like to know what you did to build that, I was thinking of building one myself. What kind of machine are you using, how well does it run? Ect. ect.

  13. Re:Lemme get this right on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, can they vote now? Yes. Is there slavery now, yes. Slavery ended how many years ago? Any woman that couldn't vote in the 20's when she was 18 is well over 90 now. So no it's no cosolation. White males suffer through higher qualification criteria for a host of things, simply because they're white males.

  14. Re:Lemme get this right on Junkyard Wars Wants You! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you've always had the right to vote, never been someone's property or indiscriminately hung from trees


    Hmmm, just like everyone else in the U.S. Nope, no consolation.

  15. Re:Atari games? on Finally, A Working NES! · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, that sucks, I'm using my game box for emulation ... i.e. windows, and my USB gamepad works. Shouldn't be too hard to get it working under BSD.

  16. Re:And the source code for it? on Linux to Power Most Motorola Phones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not so sure. For starters, modifying GPL'ed software does not require you to make the source available, distributing it does. The software isn't, strictly speaking, being distributed, the phone is. I'd imagine that this would still count as distribution for licensing pruposes, but I can see the potential for Motorola to claim that it's not necessary. Obviously, the right thing for Motorola to do would be to make the source available, I guess we'll have to wait and see.

  17. Re:Atari games? on Finally, A Working NES! · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately the DC doesn't run games as well as a pc, the NES games are ok, but SNES and above tend to be hit or miss and usually spotty at best. It was disapointing really, I liked playing the games I used to love on the DC.


    One of my unfinished projects is to go over some SNES emulators for DC and see if they're optimizable. I wouldn't be suprised if it's poor (should probably say average) coding that's causing these games to run so choppily. For now though a pc and a Sidewinder seems to be the way to go.

  18. Re:Need? on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's all a matter of choice, although the killing yourself bit on the bike is a bit of a myth, I've laid mine down, before, once my fault once not, all I walked away with was a little road rash. All it takes is the right gear. Sounds like a bike is perfect for you though.

  19. Re:Boundary of the Charging Zone on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1
    Hmmm, I see the word seemed in there. That's the problem. And it's not even close to every other Monday. In fact it's rare for everything to close down for anything but the seven days listed above.


    I'm trying to think of how it could seem that every second monday is a holiday where everything closed down, it's like a logic or lateral thinking puzzle right? Oh I've got it... you only worked here for two weeks and the second monday happened to be a holiday. That's the only answer possible.

  20. Re:Getting Around It on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    Hehe, you four-wheelers have to invent ways around it, bikers just need to high wheel it past the camera and we're golden.

  21. Re:Need? on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    I recommend saving the $300 and $50 a month till you can afford a used R6, f4i, ect. Then you're not limited in any way to mass transit, you can use the roads just like a car, and you'll spend hardly anything in gas each month. Plus it's cooler ;)

  22. Re:Wrong, wrong, and wrong... on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that your taxes pay for the trucks, but they do pay for the maintenance of the highway infrastructure that you benefit from. Some of those include the goods and services that are cheaper or that exists at all because of the highway system. Additionally add in the defense of the country, which is what the highways were originally designed for, rapid troop movements.

  23. Re:Better than cars on London to Introduce Traffic Congestion Charge · · Score: 1

    SF is onlly 7.5 miles across east to west? And it takes more than 10 minutes to get there? Traffic must be awful. Thank god for motorcycles and lane splitting.

  24. Re:Does that mean... on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 1

    This is getting tiresome, especially since you persist in putting words into my mouth. Worse case scenario, since Linus is the whiner, the OS is distributed as GNU, with a small bit of text in the corner of the box that says "using the Linux kernel". I'm done with you.

  25. Re:Does that mean... on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 1

    He doesn't HAVE TO AUTHORIZE THE NAME. Jesus fucking christ how simple are you? You have the right to distribute Linux in anyway you want, pursuant to the GPL. The operating system is not Linux, it is GNU/Linux, Torvalds didn't write an operating system. Get it through your head. A slash is a common and accepted notation for separating names for descriptive purposes. Thus GNU/Linux the name of the operating system. Linux the name of the kernel. Case closed.