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  1. Beware on First NetHack Cross-Variant Summer Tournament · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Anybody but the British! on If ET Calls, Who Speaks For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    You're just jealous that we'd have them talking English within the week, and have built a call-centre around them in two.

  3. Re:I think it depends more on what you want to ach on Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I got to 'void main' and stopped reading.

  4. Re:WoW combat table on On Luck and Randomness In Games · · Score: 1

    Well that's more of a band-aid for certain mechanics more than a general rule. I could of course be pedantic and say those are 3 roll attacks, due to damage ranges, at the risk of collapsing my original argument.

  5. WoW combat table on On Luck and Randomness In Games · · Score: 4, Informative

    Example 4 - A player of World of Warcraft shoots accurately and delivers a Critical Strike. (Once a strike is successfully inflicted on an opponent within World of Warcraft, it has a probability-based chance of inflicting double damage; any such Critical Strike that occurs is reported to the player by an on-screen text message.)

    Except that isn't true. The result of an attack is derived from a single roll. It gives rise to the property of defense being able to 'push' critical strikes off of the combat table by raising the chance to be missed, as the roll needed to score a critical cannot occur.

    Yes I have no life.

  6. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    You know you actually have to teach it, right?

    Hit s, scroll to the thing you DO want, pick that.
    As long as you haven't taught it that s really does mean ebay it should adapt within a few goes, done.

  7. Re:Age-controlled vending machines have a place on Magazine Photos Fool Age-verification Cameras · · Score: 1

    That's completely not true.
    I coughed and gagged on my first drag, but it wasn't because I wasn't "tolerant of the practice". It's because I damn well didn't know how to smoke!

    Just sucking on a cigarette *will* make you gag.

    Try drawing the smoke into your mouth first :)

  8. Re:Battery Life on Acer Bets Big On Linux · · Score: 1

    Not just a badly misconfigured (generic) kernel?
    Go tickless at the very least.

  9. Re:human nature's not so different... on Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site · · Score: 1

    Disregard that, too much weed. Astrology.

  10. Re:human nature's not so different... on Stonehenge As a Royal Family's Burial Site · · Score: 1

    I could add that astronomy isn't a science too if you like. It was invented by Nostradamus.

  11. Re:Need invite on Demonoid Tracker Is Back Online · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No.

  12. Re:huh? on SimCity Source Code Is Now Open · · Score: 1

    It was a design choice to make sure it wasn't bug for bug compatible. Thusly making sure there will be save files that refuse to load correctly if saved on the original version.

    Don't rewrite what can be ported, it's 10x the effort wasted that could have been spent making it work 10x better and faster.

  13. Re:I have a dream! on BBC Rules That Wi-Fi Radiation Findings Were Wrong · · Score: 5, Funny

    A bed made from plutonium would be awesome infact.
    Nice warm bed to get into every night? Yes please!

  14. c#? on C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't see why they just didn't write it in C.
    They were using massive cooling systems and having very thorough code reviews, sounds like a perfect reason to use C over C#.

  15. Let it go on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    Yes, OOXML might not be great enough to be the end of all our problems; but look at it for what it is. More interoptability with Microsoft software than has ever been given to us before, if we destroy this we'll be back to looking at .xls files in a hex editor. Take this one for the team, we can get a properly documented and designed spec to win the war later on when the depandancy on Microsoft has been weakened by OOXML.

  16. A defense? on Record Company Collusion a Defense to RIAA Case? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yep, it sure is *a* defense.

  17. Re:Internet in Sweden on ISP Guarantees Net Neutrality, For a Fee · · Score: 1

    It's the ISPs doing the packet shaping not the backbone owners, they rent the same resource as your ISP but that's for them to do as they please with.
    They can't touch stuff they don't own but local loops etc. are fair game.

  18. Re:Hang on for a second... on Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller · · Score: 1

    The spam is usualy from compromised accounts (If anybody says 'hacked' I will beat them with a dictionary). So even though a payment is required, which deters 99.9% of spamming, they aren't the ones losing the money.

  19. Anti-spam on Blizard Sues Virtual Gold Seller · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who don't know what measures they took, there is now a report spam button and the servers filter out most of the messages.

  20. Lay version on Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories? · · Score: 1

    A lot of the articles assume you know what you are looking up already and just want a refresher of the details. Not always the case though. Good example would be something like the doppler effect; perfectly simple to understand, but the wikipedia article might only talk about the math to get really spot on calculations of it, rather than what the doppler effect acctualy *is*.

  21. Security on A Chip on DVDs Could Prevent Theft · · Score: 1
    This is a totaly useless piece of 'security' if I ever saw one. Despite being totaly fallible, there is a totaly impractical way of making this work as well as it ever could:
    • Each store gets a unique ID
    • Each DVD is locked to a specific store
    But even then, an RFID sniffer is all you need to break it for your chosen store.