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  1. gcc on What is Your Desert Island Game? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you want to talk about infinite replayability, gcc is the way to go. You would be able to create as may games as you want! After all, you're on a desert island, so you'll have lots of time on your hands to make these games. You could create any genre/style you needed.

  2. Re:Remember De-CSS? on Censoring a Number · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not sure if these benefit the EFF, but you can get it on a T-shirt:
    http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/30/09-f9-11-02-t-shi rt/#more-1482
    http://www.cafepress.com/nonlogic.100812817

  3. Re:DMCA?? on Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thought there was a compatibility-exemption for reverse-engineering. Riiiiight. Tell that to the makers of bnetd.
  4. Re:Play by their rules, or else on Sony Blackballs Blog Over PS3 Rumor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That is exactly what I was going to say. After all:
    1) Site does interview with Company
    2) Company says don't publish this story or there will be these consequences
    3) Site publishes story anyways
    4) Company follows through with said consequences

    And this is news?

  5. Re:Irony of it all on $25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix · · Score: 5, Insightful
    True, but he launched Virgin Fuels to research alternative fuels:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2862 259

    FTA:

    Branson, whose business interests include Virgin Atlantic airline and Virgin Trains, rejected charges that it was hypocritical for him to sponsor the prize. He reiterated a commitment made in September to invest $3 billion toward fighting global warming, saying he would commit all profits from his travel companies over the next 10 years.

    As part of that pledge, he launched a new Virgin Fuels business, which is to invest up to $400 million in green energy projects over the next three years.
  6. Moniker.com on Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? · · Score: 1

    After hearing about the GoDaddy/MySpace fiasco, I looked around for a new registrar. Moniker seemed to have really good marks for customer service and the price is just a little more expensive than GoDaddy at about $10/year for each domain. Everything online says they change $18/year, but not according to their website, they must have recently lowered their rates.

  7. Also on Digg on Home Theater Transformed Into Star Trek Bridge · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here are some links posted from the digg page:

    Original Digg link: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/star_trek_t heater/
    Digg story: http://digg.com/mods/Really_Cool_Homemade_Star_Tre k_Theater_(slideshow)

    From comments:
    The Larger image: http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/5278/bridge20p2 byb1.jpg

    The Rest of the Images:
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/359998062_55e90 27569_o.jpg
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  8. Bad road to take on Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of Free Will · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If we believe that we do not have free will, that would imply that all of our choices are determined by our past environmental exposure. If all of our choices and thought processes are only determined by our environment, then that would imply that we don't have the capacity for truly original thought and reason. If we do not have reason and original thoughts, that would imply that all ideas we come up with are actually a result of our societal environment. Thus, all original thoughts actually belong to the society since they were a product of the society. This, of course, would mean that all ideas such as intellectual property, patents, trademarks, etc do not actually exist because they were not the product of a persons reason, but instead of society as a whole. This means that we would have to abolish these concepts since an individual is not the true owner of their ideas.

    If an individual does not own their ideas, our capitalistic society will basically fall apart since there would be no way to leverage ones unique ideas and processes against someone else, since those ideas belong to society and everyone should be able to benefit from them.

    If you're curious how this would play out feel free to read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It starts from the premise that there is this idealogical shift from thinking that we have free will and reason to thinking that we don't and everything else logically follows from that.

  9. Re:they've pretty much proven.. on FCC Won't Release Cell Carrier Reliability Data · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why would the Bush administration care who wins and who loses? Maybe one of the lesser reliable carriers made large campaign donations?

    I don't see the big deal since if the report said that carrier Z had the best quality and tons of customers migrated to carrier Z, it would add additional strain to their system and they would end up with lesser reliablity. Of course, the people leaving carriers A through Y would leave those carriers with a lighter load and probably better service, so it would all balance out in the end.

    The point is that people should be able to get a reasonable idea of what they are getting into when they sign 2 year contracts, and I imagine that these stats will change wildly over time and whoever is at the top now won't stay there forever.
  10. Rename the files on How Do You Handle New MS Word Vulnerabilities? · · Score: 1

    Tell the users to rename the files to .dat. That's what we do for sending files around that our mail server blocks. The content of the e-mail would tell the user to rename the file back to .doc. We often send vbs scripts around that we rename to .txt to get around our mail server.

  11. Alternate solution on Nintendo To Replace Wiimote Wrist Straps · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have already implemented this solution so I should be safe.

  12. New Wii games on Downloadable Game News For All Three Consoles · · Score: 5, Informative

    That article has some old information. New games were posted just yesterday:
            * Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Kirby's Super Star (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
            * Starfox 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
            * Super Metroid (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
            * Excitebike (NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Ice Climber (NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Dr. Mario (NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Mario Brothers (NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Ice Hockey (NES; rated E for Everyone)
            * Soccer (NES; rated E for Everyone)

    Source: IGN http://wii.ign.com/articles/744/744751p1.html

  13. Re:I make mad money with RAC, and my skillz be 133 on RentACoder Losing Street Cred? · · Score: 3, Funny

    20 GOTO 10

    Glad I could help. That'll be 50% if your revenue please.

  14. Re:Language on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 3, Informative
  15. Re:Wahoh! on Wii to Launch Nov. 19th for $250 · · Score: 1

    According to http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732669p1.html:

    Nintendo's Wii console will come packaged with one Wii remote, one nunchuck attachment, an AC adapter, an audio/video cable, a sensor bar, sensor bard stand, a Wii console stand and two batteries. The US package will also come bundled with a copy of Wii Sports, a compilation sports game that best shows off the mechanics of the system's unique controller. Wii Sports features tennis, baseball, golf and previously unannounced bowling and boxing games.

  16. Re:Two questions: on Possible Virtual Console Titles for Wii Launch · · Score: 1

    If it came out on Sept 31st, that would be highly unfortunate as that date does not exist.

  17. Re:SETI's a waste... until we find them on Is SETI@home Where Your Cycles Belong? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the alien life forms we encounter with SETI will already have the cure for cancer, AIDS, and anything else we seem to have epidemically infected our society with.

    Or maybe they will have the same problems we have and are hoping we will solve their problems.

  18. Still useful on Is SETI@home Where Your Cycles Belong? · · Score: 1

    According to http://www.alienvideo.net/seti-makes-contact.php, SETI has made contact, they are just not publishing it yet. This was on digg earlier, but it has since been removed so take with appropriate lump of salt.

  19. Not just for cell phones on The Opportunity of Mobile Linux in Danger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Currently, there are 6 different initiatives and alliances, all completely incompatible between them, and in my opinion this kills a great opportunity for a unified 'Linux platform' that can compete with Windows Mobile and Symbian S60

    Now, if only we had this unified 'Linux platform' for the desktop, then maybe we could compete with Windows XP.

  20. Re:This is what we need, but named horribly on Pirate Party Comes to the U.S. · · Score: 1

    I agree. When I heard that they were called the Pirate party, I immediately thought they should be called something more like the Freedom Party, the People Party, the Consumer Party, etc, something more positive.

  21. Re:Won't start until 10 minutes before game. on ASCII World Cup · · Score: 1
  22. Cross Platform not related to language on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The choice of language does not determine if something is cross platform. It has more to do with the choice of toolkits. If you are using GTK or wxWidgets you are pretty safe for being cross platform. C/C++ are cross platform languages, but if you use MFC and COM, they're not.

    Even if I use Java or C#, but don't use a cross platform toolkit (e.g. Windows Forms would not be cross platform), the application won't be cross platform.

    It doesn't matter if the language compiles to byte code, if that byte code doesn't use a cross platform toolkit, it won't be cross platform.

  23. 802.11 + Firewalls on Wireless Network Solutions for a Metropolitan Area? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since you control both sides of the network, your setup should look something like:
    Network0 -- Firewall -- AP -- [AIR] -- AP -- Firewall -- Network1

    Setup a VPN/Encrypted tunnel between the two firewalls, to secure the traffic. To secure the wireless network, your options are limited something with WPA/WPA2 as long as it has AES encryption would be a good start as long as you have good passwords on the AP and on the PSK (or use RADIUS instead of PSK for even better protection). This will prevent people from connecting to the APs and changing their passwords or something malicious like that.

  24. EFF has an RSS feed on ESRB Our Last Defense Against Game Censorship? · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the EFF Action Page You can subscribe to an RSS feed of all the latest bill/issues before congress that affect our digital rights. Things like the broadcast flag, NSA wiretaps, e-voting, etc. Each individual action page has a form letter you can send your representative or senator to show your opposition or support.

  25. Solution: Vote on Don't Blame The Games, Blame The Parent · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seriously, if we have law makers passing this kind of legislation, it is our responsibility to vote them out of office. The article speaks of a generational gap between us (the under 35/40 crowd) and the older crowd. Not surprisingly, it's the older crowd that has the most active voting population, and they vote people in that have their views, which are usually anti-video games. They also have a well organized group (AARP) that feeds them the propaganda that they want to hear so they will write their congressperson and let them know they think violent video games are bad.

    If we want to change this situation, we, as a generation, need to take action and vote out the people who are making these laws. This problem can only be addressed by doing something. We need to vote on election days and write on congressperson every time this issue comes up to let our voice be heard.